Navigation apparatus and program of the same

• US 7,969,328 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2008
• Issued: 06/28/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kanematsu, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Bugg; George A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Labbees; Edny
• Application Number:
  US12/232,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037090A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,013 Days
• Field of Search: 340/995.1, 340/995.11, 340/995.13, 701/117, 701/118, 701/210, 701/200, 701/209
• US Class Current: 340/995.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries

Abstract

A navigation apparatus of a vehicle includes: storage means for storing information about the vehicle and a road area; and guide route calculating means for calculating a guide route on the basis of the information stored in the storage means. The navigation apparatus determines whether to avoid an entry of the vehicle into the road area on the basis of the information about the vehicle and the road area.

Claims

1. A navigation apparatus of a vehicle comprising:

storage means for storing information about the vehicle and a road area; and

guide route calculating means for calculating a guide route on the basis of the information stored in the storage means, wherein

the storage means is a storage medium for storing an entry history of the road area,

the guide route calculating means calculates the guide route avoiding entry of the vehicle into the road area in accordance with the entry history of the road area, and

the guide route calculating means calculates the guide route avoiding the entry of the vehicle into the road area when the vehicle has not entered the road area during a predetermined period from a past time to a current time so that the entry history is reset at every predetermined period.

2. The navigation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the past time is a last interval timing in periodical interval timings.

3. The navigation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the interval timing starts at 0 a.m. on each day.

4. The navigation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the storage means sets a flag as the entry history when the vehicle enters the road area, the storage means resets the flag at the interval timing, and the guide route calculating means calculates the guide route avoiding the entry of the vehicle into the road area when the flag is reset.

5. The navigation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the past time is prior to a predetermined time before a current time.

6. The navigation apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the storage means stores an entry time of the vehicle as the entry history in the storage medium when the vehicle enters the road area, and

the guide route calculating means calculates the guide route avoiding the entry of the vehicle into the road area when a last entry time of the road area in the entry history is prior to the predetermined time before the current time.

7. The navigation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the guide route calculating means calculates the guide route again when a date of the past time is changed as time advances so that the entry history of the road area during a period from the past time to the current time is changed.

8. The navigation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the guide route calculating means calculates the guide route again on the basis of a prediction that a date of the past time is changed as time advances so that the entry history of the road area during a period from the past time to the current time is changed, if the vehicle travels on a calculated guide route, since the time advances before the vehicle enters the road area.