Navigation system with easily learned destination selection interface
First Claim
1. In a navigation system for use with a moving object, wherein the navigation system includes stored potential destination location information, an improvement wherein:
- A) information for each potential destination location is comprised of a plurality of information fields; and
B) the navigation system further includes means for specifying desired destination information in conjunction with a user, comprising;
i) display means for displaying information;
ii) first input means responsive to the user for receiving user input and for causing the display means to display selected information regarding one of the information fields;
iii) second input means responsive to the user for subsequently receiving different user input and for causing the display means to subsequently display selected information regarding a different one of the information fields;
iv) control means responsive to both the first and second input means, for limiting information that can be selected for display on the display means by the second input means from a first set of information item stored within the navigation system to a smaller second set of information items contained within the first set of information items as a function, at least in part, of information selected by the first input means.
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Abstract
A navigation system having a destination selection input mechanism that can be readily and rapidly used by an inexperienced user. The display (103) and user input (102) are physically configured and controllably intercoupled to support the conveyance of an impression to the inexperienced user that the information displayed can be selectively altered one field at a time in a precessing manner through appropriate use of the input unit (102). In one embodiment, selection of information for one field as pertains to a particular desired location destination will limit the information values that can be selected for remaining unselected information fields.
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16 Claims
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1. In a navigation system for use with a moving object, wherein the navigation system includes stored potential destination location information, an improvement wherein:
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A) information for each potential destination location is comprised of a plurality of information fields; and B) the navigation system further includes means for specifying desired destination information in conjunction with a user, comprising; i) display means for displaying information; ii) first input means responsive to the user for receiving user input and for causing the display means to display selected information regarding one of the information fields; iii) second input means responsive to the user for subsequently receiving different user input and for causing the display means to subsequently display selected information regarding a different one of the information fields; iv) control means responsive to both the first and second input means, for limiting information that can be selected for display on the display means by the second input means from a first set of information item stored within the navigation system to a smaller second set of information items contained within the first set of information items as a function, at least in part, of information selected by the first input means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of selecting a destination in a computer based navigation system, wherein the navigation system includes a stored first set of information items including potential destination location information, and location information for each potential destination is comprised of a plurality of information fields;
- the method comprising the steps of;
A) displaying on a display at least some of the information fields; B) selecting a specific information value from the first set of information items for one information field; C) in the computer, automatically limiting, for at least one other information field, information values that can be subsequently selected from the first set of information items to a smaller second set of information items contained within the first set of information items as a function, at least in part, of the specific information value so selected; D) selecting a specific non-limited information value for the at least one other information field. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
- the method comprising the steps of;
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