Device for editing and outputting information for a motor vehicle driver

• US 5,933,094 A
• Filed: 03/27/1997
• Issued: 08/03/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Goss, Stefan, Kell, Dietmar
• Primary Examiner(s): SWARTHOUT, BRENT
• Application Number:
  US08/765,501
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: 340/988, 340/990, 340/995, 340/905, 364/449.3, 364/449.4, 701/208, 701/209, 701/210, 701/211
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/093 Data selection, e.g. prioritizing information, managing message queues, selecting the information to be output

Abstract

A device for editing and outputting information for a motor vehicle driver, comprising a receiver for digitally coded traffic messages and an auto navigator, which is designed to determine the instantaneous position of the vehicle and to calculate route recommendations, linked by a data transmission device.

Claims

1. A device for editing and outputting information for a driver of a motor vehicle comprising:

a receiver for receiving at least one digitally coded traffic message;

an auto navigator for determining an instantaneous position of the motor vehicle and at least one route recommendation;

a data transmission device coupling the receiver and the auto navigator; and

at least one output device;

wherein the auto navigator determines at least one criterion for selecting at least one digitally coded traffic message to be transmitted to the auto navigator from the instantaneous position and an entered destination and transmits the at least one criterion to the receiver wherein the at least one criterion for selecting at least one digitally coded traffic message to be output is transmitted by the auto navigator to the receiver, and wherein the at least one criterion is used to select at least one digitally coded traffic message relating to a first route recommendation determined by the auto navigator when the auto navigator can determine no other route recommendation.

2. A device for editing and outputting information for a driver of a motor vehicle comprising:

a receiver for receiving at least one digitally coded traffic message;

an auto navigator for determining an instantaneous position of the motor vehicle and at least one route recommendation;

a data transmission device coupling the receiver and the auto navigator; and

at least one output device;

wherein the auto navigator determines a first criterion for selecting at least one digitally coded traffic message to be transmitted to the auto navigator from the instantaneous position and an entered destination and transmits the first criterion to the receiver, and wherein the at least one traffic message to be sent to the at least one output device is selected using a second criterion that is entered independently of the auto navigator and the first criterion.

3. A device for editing and outputting information for a driver of a motor vehicle comprising:

a receiver for receiving at least one digitally coded traffic message;

an auto navigator for determining an instantaneous position of the motor vehicle and at least one route recommendation; and

a data transmission device coupling the receiver and the auto navigator;

wherein depending on a selection by the driver the at least one digitally coded traffic message is selected using at least one of a first criterion that is entered by the driver independently of the auto navigator and a second criterion that is determined by the auto navigator.