Information display system

• US 20040100460A1
• Filed: 04/25/2003
• Published: 05/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Kunihiro, Shibata, Yumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,161,502 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/204
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

An information display system for displaying a map that covers an area around a pre-registered point relevant to a date or a date and time. The position of the pre-registered point on the map is readily and accurately identified using the operator'"'"'s selection of the date or the date and time. The information display system, include a map information storage in which map information is stored; an input device to input a designated point relevant to a date or a date and time; a schedule information storage unit in which the designated point is stored relevant to a date or a date and time; a display device on which a calendar and a map are displayed; and a display control device by which a map covering a point relevant to a date, or a date and time, either of which being selected from the calendar, is displayed on the display device.

Claims

1. An information display system, comprising:

(a) a map information storage in which map information is stored;

(b) an input device by which a designated point is inputted relevant to a date or a date and time;

(c) a schedule information storage in which said designated point is stored relevant to a date or a date and time;

(d) a display device on which a calendar and a map are displayed; and

(e) a display control device by which a map covering said designated point relevant to a date or a date and time, which either selected from said calendar, is displayed on said display device.

2. An information display system according to claim 1, comprising:

(a) a server in which said map information storage, a schedule information storage, and a transmit/receive unit are included;

(b) a first information terminal in which said input device and a transmit/receive unit are included; and

(c) a second information terminal in which said display device, a display control device, and a transmit/receive unit are included.

3. An information display system according to claim 1, comprising:

(a) a server in which said map information storage, a schedule information storage, and a transmit/receive unit are included; and

(b) an information terminal in which said input device, a display device, a display control device, and a transmit/receive unit are included.

4. An information display system according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein said calendar and said map are simultaneously displayed on said display device by means of said display control device.

5. An information display system according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein a route to said designated point is displayed onto a map drawn on said display device by means of said display control device.

6. An information display system according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein a next closest schedule item relative to a present date and time is displayed on said display device by means of said display control device.

7. An information display system according to claim 6, wherein a point of said schedule item is displayed onto said map by means of said display control device.

8. An information display system according to any one of claims 1-7, wherein a schedule item relevant to a date or a date and time, which either selected from said calendar, is listed on said display device by means of said display control device.

9. An information display system, comprising:

(a) a map information storage in which map information is stored;

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(b) an input device by which a designated date or a designated date and time is inputted;

(c) a traffic information storage in which information relevant to said designated date or said designated date and time is stored;

(d) a display device on which a calendar and a map are displayed; and

(e) a display control device by which said information relevant to said designated date or said designated date and time, which either selected from said calendar, is displayed on said display device.

10. An information display system according to claim 9, wherein said information represents traffic information relevant to said designated date or said designated date and time, which either selected from said calendar.

11. An information display system according to claim 9, wherein said information represents weather information relevant to said designated date or said designated date and time, which either selected from said calendar.

12. An information display system, comprising:

(a) a map information storage in which map information is stored;

(b) an input device by which a designated point is inputted relevant to a date or a date and time;

(c) a display device on which a calendar and a map are displayed; and

(d) a display control device by which traffic information relevant to a route represented on said map is displayed on said display device.

13. An information terminal, comprising:

(a) a display device on which a map is displayed;

(b) a present position detective device by which a present position is detected;

(c) a display control device by which said present position is displayed on said display device;

(d) wherein, if a schedule item relevant to a present date and time is registered, said present position is corrected in accordance with a point of said schedule item.

14. An information terminal according to claim 13, wherein if a distance from a present position to a point of said schedule item is below a predetermined value, said present position is matched with a point of said schedule item.