Mobile information processing system, mobile information processing method, and storage medium storing mobile information processing program

• US 6,675,089 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2001
• Issued: 01/06/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Uchida, Norihiko, Hirabayashi, Shigefumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Camby, Richard M.
• Application Number:
  US09/897,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20020022923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• Field of Search: 701/200, 701/204, 701/206, 701/208, 701/213, 701/117, 701/118, 701/119, 340/989, 340/990, 340/994, 340/995
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• 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 21/3492 employing speed data or traffic data, e.g. real-time or historical traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• 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 1/096844 where the complete route is dynamically recomputed based on new data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096866 where the complete route is shown to the driver
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096872 where instructions are given per voice
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968

Abstract

In order to make better use of personal information manager data and to improve the convenience for the user, in cases where such personal information manager data is used in a vehicle V, the personal information manager data including position data and time data and traffic information are input from outside the vehicle V so as to guide the user using the vehicle V along a travel route based on the personal information manager data and in association with the position data, whereby it is possible to appropriately guide the user using the vehicle V along the travel route according to the position data of the personal information manager data.

Claims

1. A mobile information proceeding system, comprising:

a computer for setting personal information manager data including position data in association with time data; and

a navigation device for receiving traffic information and guiding a mobile object along a travel route,

wherein the navigation device is configured so as to guide the mobile object along the travel route based on the time data and the position data of the personal information manager data which has been set through the computer and the traffic information and in association with the position data, to determine whether the mobile object can arrive at a scheduled position by a scheduled time, and to give a predetermined notification either via calling by voice or via e-mail when it is determined that timely arrival is not possible.

3. A mobile information processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the navigation device is configured so as to set a predetermined extra time when determining whether the mobile object can arrive at the scheduled position by the scheduled time.

4. A mobile information processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the navigation device is configured so as to update the traffic information by receiving current traffic information in response to a switch operation.

5. A mobile information processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the navigation device is configured to set an alternative travel schedule when it is determined that the mobile object cannot arrive at the scheduled position by the scheduled time.

6. A mobile information processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the computer is provided outside the mobile object and is configured so as to transmit the personal information manager data which has been set through the computer to the navigation device.

7. A mobile information processing system of claim 6, wherein the computer is configured so as to set a travel route of the mobile object and to transmit data of the travel route to the navigation device.

8. A mobile information processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the navigation device is configured so that an item of the personal information manager data associated with a current navigation control operation is selected and reported by a predetermined switch operation.

9. A mobile information processing system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the navigation device is configured so as to update the traffic information stored therein by receiving current traffic information at regular intervals of a predetermined time period.

2. A mobile information processing system, comprising:

a computer for setting the personal information manager data including position data in association with the time data; and

a navigation device for receiving traffic information and guiding a mobile object along a travel route,

wherein the navigation device is configured so as to guide the mobile object along the travel route based on the time data and the position data of the personal information manager data which has been set through the computer and the traffic information and in association with the position data, to determine whether the mobile object can arrive at a scheduled position by a scheduled time, and to give a predetermined notification via a portable terminal carried by a user of the mobile object when it is determined that timely arrival is not possible.

10. A storage medium for storing a program for controlling a computer, the storage medium storing a mobile information processing program for guiding a mobile object along a travel route based on personal information manager data including position data and time data which have been input in advance, and received traffic information and in association with the position data, and determining whether the mobile object can arrive at a position corresponding to the position data by a time corresponding to the time data in view of a detected current position of the mobile object and the traffic information, and giving a predetermined notification either via calling by voice or via e-mail when it is determined that timely arrival is not possible.

11. A storage medium for storing a program for controlling a computer, the storage medium storing a mobile information processing program for guiding a mobile object along a travel route based on personal information manager data including position data and time data which have been input in advance, and received traffic information and in association with the position data, and determining whether the mobile object can arrive at a position corresponding to the position data by a time corresponding to the time data in view of a detected current position of the mobile object and the traffic information, and giving a predetermined notification via a potable terminal carried by a user of the mobile object when it is determined that timely arrival is not possible.