Electronic diary with navigation destination output

• US 5,654,908 A
• Filed: 01/20/1995
• Issued: 08/05/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research, Kabushikikaisha Shinsangyokaihatsu
• Original Assignee: Kabushikiaisha Shinsangyokaihatsu, Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Inventors: Yokoyama, Shoji
• Primary Examiner(s): ZANELLI, MICHAEL J
• Application Number:
  US08/375,791
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 364/444, 364/449, 364/424.04, 364/705.05, 364/705.06, 340/995, 345/173, 345/179, 342/357, 342/457
• US Class Current: 708/109
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096861 where the immediate route instructions are output to the driver, e.g. arrow signs for next turn
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096872 where instructions are given per voice
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096894 where input is assisted by the navigation device, i.e. the user does not type the complete name of the destination, e.g. using zip codes, telephone numbers, progressively selecting from initial letters

Abstract

An electronic diary stores information for a schedule of a user, information of a business card binder, a telephone director and an address book into a schedule supervision table, a telephone number supervision table, an address supervision table and a business card supervision table. When the user specifies an item in the schedule as a destination, for example a visiting company, the electronic diary retrieves the address or the telephone number of the visiting company and transmits them as destination data to a navigation apparatus. The navigation apparatus sets up the destination based on the received destination data.

Claims

1. An electronic diary for maintaining a schedule and for outputting to a remote vehicle navigation apparatus destination data of a desired destination wherein the navigation apparatus has means for receiving the destination data, means for determining coordinates of the desired destination and means of retrieving a route to the desired destination, said electronic diary comprising:

input means (a) for inputting schedule information including a plurality of names of destination groups and corresponding destination data which comprise at least one of an address and a telephone number and (b) for selecting one destination group from the plurality of destination groups;

schedule information storage means for storing the schedule information input by the input device;

information retrieval means responsive to the selection of the one destination group for retrieving said corresponding destination data from said storage means; and

destination data output means for outputting said destination data retrieved by the information retrieval means to the navigation apparatus for use by the navigation apparatus to determine the desired destination coordinates and to retrieve the route to the desired destination.

2. An electronic diary according to claim 1, wherein said input means includes a screen and a touch-panel for inputting information displayed on the screen.

3. An electronic diary according to claim 1, wherein said destination data output means transmits the destination data to the navigation apparatus via radio waves.

4. An electronic diary according to claim 1, wherein said destination data output means transmits the destination data to the navigation apparatus via infrared rays.

5. An electronic diary according to claim 1, wherein said input means includes user command means for a user commanding transmission of the destination data to the navigation apparatus, and said destination data output means is responsive to the user command means for transmitting the destination data to the navigation apparatus when the user commands the transmission.

6. An electronic diary according to claim 1, wherein said destination data output means transmits the individual information to the navigation apparatus via an IC (integrated circuit) card.

7. An electronic diary according to claim 1, wherein said schedule information includes starting point data, and said destination data output means transmits said starting point data to the navigation apparatus together with the destination data.

8. An electronic diary for maintaining a schedule and for outputting to a remote vehicle navigation apparatus destination data of a desired destination wherein the navigation apparatus has means for receiving the destination data, means for determining coordinates of the desired destination and means of retrieving a route to the desired destination, said electronic diary comprising:

a display for displaying an information image and inputting schedule information and for selecting a desired destination group;

a control means for controlling the input from the display and information image of the display;

schedule information storage means for storing the schedule information input through the display;

said input and stored schedule information including a plurality of names of destination groups and at least one of an address and a telephone number corresponding to each of the destination groups;

information retrieval means responsive to selection of the desired destination group for retrieving said one of an address and a telephone number corresponding to the desired destination group from said schedule information storage means;

a destination output device for outputting the retrieved one of an address and a telephone number as destination data to the navigation apparatus for use in determining the coordinates as the desired destination and retrieval of a route to the desired destination.

9. An electronic diary according to claim 8, wherein said display displays that a retrieval is impossible when the information retrieval means can not retrieve the destination data corresponding to the selected destination group from said schedule information storage means.

10. An electronic diary according to claim 8, wherein a scheduled time is included in said input and stored schedule information;

the diary includes second storage means for storing a time required to travel from a starting point to a destination;

said control means retrieves the stored required travel time and calculates a starting time based on said scheduled time for display on said display.

11. A method for setting a destination to a navigation apparatus by an electronic diary comprising the steps of:

inputting schedule information including a plurality of names of destination groups, and at least one of an address and a telephone number corresponding to the respective destination groups;

storing the inputted schedule information including storing the plurality of names of destination groups with the corresponding at least one of an address and a telephone number;

selecting one of the plurality of names of destination groups;

retrieving said at least one of an address and a telephone number corresponding to the selected destination group; and

outputting the retrieved at least one of an address and a telephone number as destination data for the navigation apparatus which sets up coordinates of the destination and retrieves a course to the destination.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein said inputting step is carried out via a touch-panel overlying a screen.

13. A method according to claim 11, wherein said outputting step is carried out by transmitting the destination data to the navigation apparatus via radio waves.

14. A method according to claim 11, wherein said outputting step is carried out by transmitting the destination data to the navigation apparatus via infrared rays.

15. A method according to claim 11, including a user commanding step for a user commanding transmission of the destination data, and wherein said outputting step is carried out only in response to the user commanding the transmission in the user commanding step.

16. A method according to claim 11, wherein said outputting step is carried out by transmitting the destination data to the navigation apparatus via an IC card.

17. A method according to claim 11, wherein said schedule information includes starting point data, and said destination data outputting step is carried out by outputting said starting point data to the navigation apparatus together with the destination data.