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Route guide apparatus and guidance method

  • US 6,526,350 B2
  • Filed: 11/16/2001
  • Issued: 02/25/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A route guide apparatus for finding a route to a destination and supplying the route to a user terminal, comprising:

  • landmark storage means for storing information regarding facilities which are landmarks;

    route search means for searching for a route that reaches the destination and that passes near at least one of the facilities which are landmarks;

    route supplying means for supplying the route found by the route search means to the user terminal; and

    advertisement storage means for storing advertisement information regarding at least some of the facilities that are landmarks, wherein the route search means searches for a route that passes near at least one of the facilities which is a landmark and whose advertisement information is to be supplied to the user terminal and if there are a plurality of facilities which are landmarks and whose advertisement information is to be supplied to the user terminal, the route search means searches for a route based on a weight assigned to each facility in accordance with a significance of each facility.

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