SEARCH DEVICE, SEARCH METHOD, SEARCH PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20100293186A1
• Filed: 12/27/2006
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Nambata, Ippei, Chiba, Takao, Kusumoto, Yuuki, Kodaka, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US12/521,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20100293186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3685 the POI's being parking facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096866 where the complete route is shown to the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A search apparatus includes an input unit that receives an input of search-object information indicative of facilities to be searched for; a designating unit that designates, among combinations of facilities indicated by the search-object information, a combination of the facilities that are located on the same premises; a generating unit that, using location information concerning the facilities constituting the combination designated by the designating unit, generates search result information; and an output unit that outputs the search result information generated by the generating unit.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A search apparatus comprising:

an input unit that receives an input of search-object information indicative of facilities to be searched for;

a designating unit that designates, among combinations of facilities indicated by the search-object information, a combination of the facilities that are located on the same premises;

a generating unit that, using location information concerning the facilities constituting the combination designated by the designating unit, generates search result information; and

an output unit that outputs the search result information generated by the generating unit.

17. The search apparatus according to claim 16 further comprising:

an extracting unit that extracts, from map information depicting an arbitrary search area on a map, the location information concerning the facilities indicated by the search-object information received by the input unit;

a calculating unit that, using the location information extracted by the extracting unit, calculates one or more inter-facility distances between the facilities indicated by the search-object information, wherein

the designating unit designates, among the combinations of the facilities indicated by the search-object information and having inter-facility distances at or below a threshold, the combination of facilities that are located on the same premises.

18. A search apparatus comprising:

a storage unit that stores information concerning complex facilities that each have a plurality of facilities;

an input unit that receives an input of search-object information indicative of facilities to be searched for; and

a searching unit that, based on the information concerning complex facilities, searches for a complex facility having the facilities that are indicated by the search-object information.

19. A search method comprising:

receiving an input of search-object information indicative of facilities to be searched for;

designating, among combinations of facilities indicated by the search-object information, a combination of the facilities that are located on the same premises;

generating, using location information concerning the facilities constituting the combination designated at the designating, search result information; and

outputting the search result information generated at the generating.