Information display system for displaying specified location with map therearound on display equipment

• US 20030201914A1
• Filed: 05/07/2003
• Published: 10/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kozo Nakamura, Kurata, Ken?apos;ichirou, Mariko Okude, Toshio Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Gunji, Yasushi Fukunaga, Yoshinori Endo
• Original Assignee: Kozo Nakamura, Kurata, Ken?apos;ichirou, Mariko Okude, Toshio Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Gunji, Yasushi Fukunaga, Yoshinori Endo
• Inventors: Kurata, Ken?apos;ichirou, Endo, Yoshinori, Nakamura, Kozo, Okude, Mariko, Gunji, Yasuhiro, Fujiwara, Toshio, Fukunaga, Yasushi
• Application Number:
  US10/430,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20030201914A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/995.24
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map

Abstract

In order to provide a navigation system intelligibly providing various information which contains information to vary with time and is expected by the user, without increasing quantity of the information to be transmitted to a terminal mounted on a car, a navigation system is constituted with an information offering equipment and an information display system, and said information offering equipment has an individual information reception means to obtain individual information through a network and a data transmission means to transmit the received information to the information display system, and said information display system has a data receiver receiving the data from the information offering equipment, a map display means, an icon display means displaying the receive data on a map, an icon select means, and a detailed information display means which displays the detailed information of an icon selected.

Claims

1. A navigation display method comprising the steps of:

setting up a retrieval condition in order to display a retrieval result as an icon on a map display;

transmitting said retrieval condition to a server;

receiving said retrieval result transmitted from said server corresponding to said retrieval condition transmitted; and

displaying said retrieval result as said icon at a corresponding position of said map on said map display according to said position information included in said retrieval result received;

wherein

detail facility information corresponding to said icon is displayed corresponding to said icon based on said retrieval result transmitted from said server when said icon is selected on an image plane of said map display.

2. A navigation display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when said detail facility information is displayed on a plurality of image planes on said map display, a code which is common to said icon is displayed on an upper part of each said image plane.

3. A navigation display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said image plane is divided into a plurality of areas, and said map is displayed on one of said areas and said detail facility information is displayed on at least one of other of said areas.

4. A navigation display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when said icon is selected on said map display, said detail facility information corresponding to said icon received from said server is displayed corresponding to said area displaying said icon.

5. A navigation display method as claimed in claim 4, wherein, when said icon is selected on said map display, said detail information of facility corresponding to said icon received from said server is displayed corresponding to said area displaying said icon, and said icon selected is displayed on a center of said area displaying said map.

6. A navigation display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said detail facility information is displayed in a graphic image having a shape corresponding to said icon.

7. A navigation display method comprising the steps of:

setting up a retrieval condition in order to display a retrieval result as an icon on a map display;

transmitting said retrieval condition to a server;

receiving said retrieval result transmitted from said server corresponding to said retrieval condition; and

displaying said retrieval result as said icon at a position of said map on said map display corresponding to said position information included in said retrieval result received;

wherein;

detail information corresponding to said icon is displayed corresponding to said icon based on said retrieval result transmitted from said server, when said icon is selected on an image plane of said map display, and

an indication domain is displayed on said detail information for indicating a reservation of said facility corresponding to said detail information and said reservation of said facility is accessed to said server by selecting said indication domain.