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Information providing method and information providing device

  • US 7,130,743 B2
  • Filed: 08/05/2002
  • Issued: 10/31/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An information providing method for providing information to an occupant of a vehicle, the method comprising the steps of:

  • detecting position information on the vehicle with information equipment installed in the vehicle;

    accumulating, as a travel information history, routes of the vehicle obtained from the detected position information;

    predicting a destination of the vehicle by referring to a route along which the vehicle has traveled to the current time and to the accumulated travel information history, when detecting the occurrence of a given event; and

    providing information regarding the predicted destination to the occupant via the information equipment,wherein the travel information history is accumulated in the manner of transition among nodes,the method including the step of defining, as a node, an intersection which is located on the routes and through which the vehicle has passed in at least two directions.

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