Vehicle route planning system
First Claim
1. Vehicle route planning system, comprising:
- route planning means located in a vehicle for receiving trip data, including at least one destination, and calculating at least one desired route for the vehicle to the destination via fixed road paths, andmeans coupled to said route planning means for providing said trip data to said route planning means;
wherein the improvement comprises said trip data providing means including data entry means located external to said vehicle for actuation by a person outside said vehicle, said data entry means, when actuated, receiving said trip data from said person and subsequently supplying said trip data to said route planning means, whereby said person can determine said trip data external to said vehicle and subsequently load said trip data into the route planning means.
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Abstract
A vehicle route planning system (10) has an in-vehicle route planning computer (12) which receives trip data, including at least one destination. Trip data is provided to the computer either by a wireless communication link between a remotely located radio transmitter (44) and an antenna (20) on the vehicle (11) or by a remotely located media writer device (46) writing the trip information on a removable storage media device (30) which is then provided to an in-vehicle media reader device (31). In this manner a vehicle operator may enter trip data into a remotely located apparatus (at 40) which translates this trip data into electrical signals that are then subsequently coupled to the in-vehicle route planning computer (12) which then uses this data for calculating at least one desired route for the vehicle to the specified destination via fixed road paths. Preferably the route planning system (10) is part of a vehicle navigation system (10). Preferably the system (10) utilizes radio receiver apparatus (20, 21) for transmitting the trip data to the in-vehicle route planning computer (12) wherein some of this radio receiver apparatus (20, 21) is also utilized to couple dynamic route traffic information, other than information specified by the vehicle operator, to the in-vehicle route planning computer (12).
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20 Claims
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1. Vehicle route planning system, comprising:
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route planning means located in a vehicle for receiving trip data, including at least one destination, and calculating at least one desired route for the vehicle to the destination via fixed road paths, and means coupled to said route planning means for providing said trip data to said route planning means; wherein the improvement comprises said trip data providing means including data entry means located external to said vehicle for actuation by a person outside said vehicle, said data entry means, when actuated, receiving said trip data from said person and subsequently supplying said trip data to said route planning means, whereby said person can determine said trip data external to said vehicle and subsequently load said trip data into the route planning means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. Vehicle route planning system, comprising:
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route planning means located in a vehicle for receiving trip data, including at least one destination, and calculating at least one desired route for the vehicle to the destination via fixed road paths, and means coupled to said route planning means for providing said trip data to said route planning means; wherein the improvement comprises said trip data providing means including data entry means located external to said vehicle for actuation by a person outside said vehicle, said data entry means, when actuated, receiving said trip data from said person, encoding said trip data as electrical signals external to said vehicle and subsequently supplying said trip data to said route planning means, whereby said person can determine said trip data external to said vehicle and subsequently load said trip data into the route planning means. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. Vehicle navigation system, comprising:
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route planning means located in a vehicle for receiving trip data, including at least one destination, and calculating at least one desired route for the vehicle to the destination via fixed road paths, and means coupled to said route planning means for providing said trip data to said route planning means; and navigation means coupled to said route planning means for providing verbal/visual navigation instructions to a vehicle operator for implementing said calculated route for said vehicle; wherein the improvement comprises said trip data providing means including data entry means located external to said vehicle for actuation by a person outside said vehicle, said data entry means, when actuated, receiving said trip data from said person, encoding said trip data as electrical signals external to said vehicle, and subsequently supplying said trip data to said route planning means, whereby said person can determine said trip data external to said vehicle and subsequently load said trip data into the route planning means. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. Vehicle route planning system, comprising:
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route planning means located in a vehicle for receiving trip data, including at least one destination, and calculating at least one desired route for the vehicle to the destination via fixed road paths, and means coupled to said route planning means for providing said trip data to said route planning means; wherein the improvement comprises said trip data providing means including trip data receiving means internal to said vehicle for receiving said trip data in the form of signals created external to said vehicle and subsequently supplying said trip data to said route planning means, whereby a person can create trip data signals external to said vehicle and subsequently load said trip data signals into the route planning means. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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