Method of determining driving routes

• US 6,988,035 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2003
• Issued: 01/17/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Slickers, Dirk
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Behncke, Christine M.
• Application Number:
  US10/452,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20040032344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 960 Days
• Field of Search: 701/200, 701/209, 340/995.19
• US Class Current: 701/209
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3611 using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs character input methods in general G06F3/0233
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures

Abstract

A method of determining the driving route of a vehicle using a navigation system, a method of entering a destination on a navigation device, as well as a device to perform the methods, using which the destination input is simplified. Approaching infrastructure facilities through input using predefined keys or touch-sensitive fields, the driving route being established as a function of the automatically determined, instantaneous vehicle position. Entering the administrative area in which the infrastructure facility is located is no longer necessary.

Claims

1. A method of determining a driving route of a motor vehicle using a navigation system, comprising:

inputting a close destination;

automatically determining an instantaneous vehicle position;

making an assignment to an administrative area in which the vehicle is located, as a function of the vehicle position;

subsequently ascertaining the driving route to the close destination in the assigned administrative area; and

making a query regarding a final selection, when a clear destination is not precisely entered, wherein the query prompts for a direction in which a desired close destination is located.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the close destination is input using one of symbol keys and selection fields of a menu structure, by specifying at least one of a street name and a designation of an infrastructure facility.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining the driving route for one of a nearest and a most rapidly reachable close destination.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, in a boundary area of an administrative area, making a query regarding a desired administrative area.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the driving route is ascertained, which is located along a stretch having a plurality of parking facilities.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising setting a closed destination input mode, prior to inputting the close destination.