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Guiding route generation device and guiding route generation method

  • US 8,670,922 B2
  • Filed: 01/18/2006
  • Issued: 03/11/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A guiding route generating device comprising:

  • storage means for storing a route generated based on specification of a position as a guiding route to be used for route guidance;

    display means for displaying on a screen the guiding route stored in the storage means with roads in the periphery of the guiding route;

    specified road specifying means for specifying a predetermined road among the roads displayed with the guiding routes as a specified pass-through road based on a user'"'"'s operation tracing the surface of the screen by the user'"'"'s finger;

    intersection specifying means for specifying the presence and the number of intersections of the specified pass-through road and the guiding route stored in the storage means;

    user-specified route generating means for generating two routes between the specified pass-through road and the guiding route and generating a user-specified route which is the specified pass-through road extended with the generated two routes, when the intersection specifying means specifies that there is no intersection, and generating a route between the specified pass-through road and the guiding route and generating a user-specified route which is the specified pass-through road extended with the generated route, when the intersection specifying means specifies only one of the intersections;

    updated guiding route generating means for generating an updated guiding route by connecting the user-specified route with the guiding route stored in the storage means at their intersections.

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