Navigation system

• US 6,747,597 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2002
• Issued: 06/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Yong-Ik
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Theodore M.
• Application Number:
  US10/139,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20020196189A1
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 342/357.1, 342/357.09, 701/209, 701/211, 701/213
• US Class Current: 342/357.31
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3688 Systems comprising multiple parts or multiple output devices (not client-server), e.g. detachable faceplates, key fobs or multiple output screens
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096811 where the route is computed offboard
• 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

Abstract

There is provided a navigation system. In the navigation system, a navigation device determines route guidance time points using comprehensive route guidance information and sensor information and generates specific route guidance information, a portable terminal provides the comprehensive route guidance information and displays the specific route guidance information received from the navigation device, and a connector connects the portable terminal to the navigation device.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

a first unit comprising a navigation device for determining route guidance at successive points of time using comprehensive route guidance information and sensor information and generating specific route guidance information;

a second unit comprising a portable terminal separate from the first unit for providing the comprehensive route guidance information to the first unit and displaying the specific route guidance information received from the first unit; and

a connector for connecting the first unit to the second unit.

2. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal includes a display for displaying the specific route guidance information received from the navigation device.

3. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal transmits information about the present position and a destination to an external information center and receives back from the external information center the comprehensive route guidance information generated by the external information center.

4. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device transmits the specific route guidance information to be displayed at each point of time to the portable terminal for display.

5. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device transmits a summary of the comprehensive route guidance information to the portable terminal to be displayed.

6. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal requests position information to the navigation device.

7. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device also transmits position information determined from sensor information to the portable terminal for display.

8. The navigation system of claim 7, wherein the portable terminal receives position information repeatedly from the navigation device.

9. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device also transmits position information determined from sensor information to the portable terminal so that the portable terminal can notify an external party of an emergency state.

10. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device transmits voice information to the portable terminal.

11. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device transmits information generated from internal sensors to the portable terminal to be displayed.

12. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal transmits sensor error correction information to the navigation device to correct errors in the sensors.

13. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the sensor information is generated in a GPS sensor and a gyro sensor in the navigation device.

14. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device also transmits car status information to the portable terminal to be displayed.

15. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal transmits guidance control information to the navigation device to control a guidance status of the navigation device.

16. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal transmits information for playing voice information to the navigation device.

17. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device transmits status information to the portable terminal so that the portable terminal knows a route guidance status of the navigation device.

18. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal serves as an external processor for the navigation device for autonomously generating the comprehensive route guidance information.

19. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the portable terminal receives the comprehensive route guidance information from an external information center over a wireless network and transmits the comprehensive route guidance information to the navigation device.

20. The navigation system of claim 1, further comprising a monitor set that interfaces with the navigation device, for displaying the specific route guidance information received from the navigation device.

21. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the navigation device provides hands-free input for functions of the portable terminal.

22. A navigation system comprising:

a first unit comprising a navigation device for determining route guidance at successive points of time using comprehensive route guidance information and sensor information and generating specific route guidance information;

a second unit comprising a portable terminal separate from the first unit for providing the comprehensive route guidance information to the first unit;

a monitor set for displaying the specific route guidance information received from the first unit; and

a connector for connecting the first unit to the second unit.

23. The navigation system of claim 22, wherein the monitor set is connected to the navigation device via a UART 1 port, for inter-processor communication and exchanging navigation information with the navigation device, and to the portable terminal via a UART 2 port, for communication with the portable terminal.

24. The navigation device of claim 23, wherein the navigation device includes a connection and disconnection sensor for sensing connection to and disconnection from the monitor set and controlling connection to the UART 1 port and the UART 2 port.