Information display system

• US 7,161,502 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2002
• Issued: 01/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Kunihiro, Shibata, Yumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass; Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): Walk; Samuel J.
• Application Number:
  US10/415,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20040100460A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,684 Days
• Field of Search: 340/995.1, 340/995.12, 340/995.13, 340/995.19, 340/995.23, 340/995.27, 701/200, 701/201, 701/208
• US Class Current: 340/995.1
• 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 used to input a designated point relevant to a date or a date and time;

(c) a schedule information storage that stores the designated point relevant to the date or the date and time;

(d) a route search device that, in advance of the date or the date and time, selects a route to the designated point based on the date or the date and time;

(e) a display device that displays a calendar and a map

(f) a selection device that allows the selection of either the date or the date and time; and

(f) a display control device that, upon selection of either the date or the date and time;

controls the display of the map, the map covering the designated point relevant to the date or the date and time, either of the date or the date and time being selected from the calendar and displayed on the display device and the map being displayed based on the date or the date and time;

simultaneously displays the calendar and the map on the display device; and

displays, on the map, the route to the designated point.

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

(a) a server that includes the map information storage, a schedule information storage, and a transmit/receive unit;

(b) a first information terminal that includes the input device and a transmit/receive unit; and

(c) a second information terminal that includes the display device, a display control device, and a transmit/receive unit.

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

(a) a server that includes the map information storage, a schedule information storage, and a transmit/receive unit; and

(b) an information terminal that includes the input device, a display device, a display control device, and a transmit/receive unit.

4. An information display system according to claim 1, wherein the route search device selects the route to the designated point based on predicted traffic information for the date or the date and time.

5. An information display system according to claim 1, wherein the route search device selects the route to the designated point based on predicted meteorological data for the date or the date and time.

6. An information display system according to claim 1, wherein the route search device selects the route to the designated point based on traffic regulatory information for the date or the date and time.

7. An information display system according to claim 1, wherein, if a there is no selection of the date or the date and time, a next closest schedule item relative to a present date and time is displayed on the display device by means of the display control device.

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

9. An information display system according to claim 1, wherein a schedule item relevant to a date or a date and time, which either selected from the calendar, is listed on the display device by means of the display control device.

10. An information display system, comprising:

(a) a map information storage that stores map information;

(b) an input device used to input a designated date or a designated date and time;

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

(d) a display device that simultaneously displays a calendar and a map;

(e) a selection device that allows the selection of either a date or a date and time; and

(f) a display control device that, upon selection of either the date or the date and time, displays the traffic information relevant to the selected date or the selected date and time on the map.

11. An information display system according to claim 10, wherein the traffic information represents weather information relevant to the designated date or the designated date and time.

12. An information terminal, comprising:

(a) a display device that displays a map;

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

(c) a display control device to control the display of the present position on the display device;

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

13. An information terminal according to claim 12, wherein if a distance from a present position to a point of the schedule item is below a predetermined value, the present position is matched with a point of the schedule item.