Content providing area presentation system

• US 7,054,740 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2003
• Issued: 05/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chinomi, Satoshi, Ishiwaka, Takuo, Takagi, Toru, Fujita, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): Camby, Richard M.
• Application Number:
  US10/645,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20040059498A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 701200-213, 455/12.1, 455/13.2, 455/18, 455/412.1, 340990-996, 34235701-35713
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence

Abstract

A content providing area presentation system is configured to present content providing area candidates to enable a user to readily select an appropriate content providing area when at least one of the content providing area candidates is presented to the user. The content providing area presentation system comprises a user inputting section and a displaying section. The user inputting section is configured and arranged to request content providing area candidates for presenting at least one of the content providing area candidates to a user based on a selection criterion. The displaying section is configured and arranged to display the at least one of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section.

Claims

1. A content providing area presentation system comprising:

a mobile device including

a user inputting section configured and arranged to request content providing area candidates for presenting at least one of the content providing area candidates to a user based on a selection criterion selected by the user, and

a displaying section configured and arranged to display the at least one of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section based on a current position of the mobile device.

2. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the selection criterion of the user inputting section is based on traveling route information.

3. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the selection criterion of the user inputting section is based on vehicle information.

4. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the selection criterion of the user inputting section is based on time information.

5. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the selection criterion of the user inputting section is based on content providing area information related to the content providing area candidates.

6. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 5, wherein

the content providing area information is parking lot vacancy information.

7. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 5, wherein

the content providing area information is a processing capacity at each of the content providing area candidates.

8. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the selection criterion of the user inputting section is based on a distribution preparation time for the content at the content providing area candidates.

9. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the selection criterion of the user inputting section is based on a download time for the content.

12. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 3, wherein

the vehicle information used as the selection criterion of the user inputting section includes weather conditions.

13. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 3, wherein

the vehicle information used as the selection criterion of the user inputting section includes fuel level of a vehicle equipped with the mobile device.

14. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 4, wherein

the displaying section is further configured and arranged to display at least one time accommodating facility associated with the at least one of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section.

15. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 9 wherein

the displaying section is further configured and arranged to display at least one time accommodating facility associated with the at least on of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section.

16. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the displaying section includes a display screen of a vehicle navigation system.

17. The content providing area presentation system as recited in claim 1, wherein

the user inputting section and the displaying section are part of a vehicle navigation system.

10. A method of presenting content providing area candidates on a mobile device, comprising:

inputting a content request for content providing area candidates for presenting at least one of the content providing area candidates to a user based on a selection criterion selected by the user; and

displaying the at least one of the content providing area candidates in accordance with the selection criterion established by the content request based on a current position of the mobile device.

11. A content providing area presentation system comprising:

user selection means for inputting a content request for content providing area candidates for presenting at least one of the content providing area candidates to a user based on a selection criterion selected by the user; and

a displaying means for displaying the at least one of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user selection means and a current position of a mobile device including the user selection means and the displaying means.

18. A content providing area presentation system comprising:

a mobile device including

a user inputting section configured and arranged to request content providing area candidates for presenting at least one of the content providing area candidates to a user based on a selection criterion; and

a displaying section configured and arranged to display the at least one of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section and a current position of the mobile device,

the user inputting section being further configured and arranged to provide a user choice between the at least one of the content providing area candidates displayed by the display section in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section and a straight-line route to one of the content providing area candidates that is closest to a vehicle equipped with the mobile device.

19. A content providing area presentation system comprising:

a mobile device including

a user inputting section configured and arranged to request content providing area candidates for presenting at least one of the content providing area candidates to a user based on a selection criterion,

a displaying section configured and arranged to display the at least one of the content providing area candidates in response to the selection criterion established by the user inputting section and a current position of the mobile device;

a center system including

a management server being configured and arranged to receive a request for the content providing area candidates from the user inputting section, create a list of the at least one of the content providing areas based on the selection criterion and the current position of the mobile device, and send the list to the mobile device; and

a vehicle mounted terminal including the mobile device.