Facility-around-route retrieval device

• US 8,504,298 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2009
• Issued: 08/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Trammell, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Marc, McDieunel
• Application Number:
  US13/320,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20120072113A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,490 Days
• Field of Search: 701/23, 701/25, 701/409, 701/410, 701/411, 701/428, 701/426, 701/431, 701/437, 701/438, 701/454, 701/455, 701/457, 701/465, 701/532, 701/533, 340/439, 340/576, 340/988, 340/990, 340/995.1, 340/995.2, 340/995.11, 340/995.14, 340/995.15, 340/995.19, 340/955.23, 340/995.24, 342/457, 731/78.R, 345/581
• US Class Current: 701/533
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A facility-around-route retrieval device includes a map disk 3 for storing map data and facility data, a route calculation unit 13 for calculating a route to a destination by using the map data stored in the map disk, a facility retrieval condition setting unit 16 for setting a facility retrieval condition, and a facility-around-route retrieval unit 17 for retrieving, in a case where a facility around the route calculated in the route calculation unit is retrieved in accordance with the condition set in the facility retrieval condition setting unit, the facility present only on a side of a traveling lane of a vehicle of a divided road from the facility data stored in the map disk when the route includes the divided road.

Claims

1. A facility-around-route retrieval device, comprising:

a map disk for storing map data and facility data;

a route calculation unit for calculating a route to a destination by using the map data stored in the map disk;

a facility retrieval condition setting unit for setting a facility retrieval condition; and

a facility-around-route retrieval unit for retrieving, in a case where a facility around the route calculated in the route calculation unit is retrieved in accordance with the condition set in the facility retrieval condition setting unit, the facility present only on a side of a traveling lane of a vehicle of a divided road from the facility data stored in the map disk when the route includes the divided road,

wherein the facility-around-route retrieval unit determines whether or not the route is the divided road based on a road type included in information defining a link constituting the route calculated in the route calculation unit.

2. The facility-around-route retrieval device according to claim 1, wherein the facility-around-route retrieval unit determines whether or not the route is the divided road only when the route calculated in the route calculation unit is not an express way.

3. A facility-around-route retrieval device, comprising:

a map disk for storing map data and facility data;

a route calculation unit for calculating a route to a destination by using the map data stored in the map disk;

a facility retrieval condition setting unit for setting a facility retrieval condition; and

a facility-around-route retrieval unit for retrieving, in a case where a facility around the route calculated in the route calculation unit is retrieved in accordance with the condition set in the facility retrieval condition setting unit, the facility present only on a side of a traveling lane of a vehicle of a divided road from the facility data stored in the map disk when the route includes the divided road,

wherein in a case where the facility around the route calculated in the route calculation unit is retrieved, the facility-around-route retrieval unit retrieves the facility present only on the side of the traveling lane of the vehicle of the divided road from the facility data stored in the map disk when the route includes the divided road and, when the facility which meets the condition set in the facility retrieval condition setting unit is not present within a specific distance ahead the vehicle, the facility-around-route retrieval unit retrieves the facility present on a side opposite to the side of the traveling lane of the vehicle of the divided road, from the facility data stored in the map disk.