Navigation system

• US 8,447,507 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Issued: 05/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): MANCHO, RONNIE M
• Application Number:
  US12/662,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20100205630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,131 Days
• Field of Search: 701/211, 701/214, 701/215, 701/213, 701/208, 701/207, 340/995, 340/988, 348/9, 715/740, 342/357.09, 342/357.03, 395/200.47, 725/32
• US Class Current: 701/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence

Abstract

A navigation system comprising a receiver module that receives a stream for a broadcast content and a control unit in communication with the receiver module. The control unit determines whether the stream for the broadcast content contains information that matches to a keyword from a stored list of keywords, identifies a landmark that is associated with the keyword, determines whether a position information for the landmark resides with a map area to be displayed by the navigation system according to a detected position for the navigation system, and prompts a map area display of the map area having a landmark display for the landmark that is superimposed within the map area display.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

a receiver module, which receives a stream for a broadcast content;

a memory, which stores a keyword library having a plurality of predetermined keywords; and

a control unit, in communication with the receiver module, which accesses the keyword library after the stream for the broadcast content is received to identify a matching keyword by determining whether the stream for the broadcast content contains a received keyword that matches to a keyword from the plurality of stored predetermined keywords, automatically identifies a landmark that is associated with the matching keyword, determines whether a position information for the landmark resides within a map area to be displayed by the navigation system according to a detected position for the navigation system, and prompts a map area display of the map area to have a landmark display for the landmark, the landmark display being superimposed within the map area display, where it is determined that the position information for the landmark resides within the map area.

2. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the control unit scales the map area such that the position information for the landmark resides within the map area where it is determined that the position information would not reside within the map area.

3. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the broadcast content is a commercial message.

4. The navigation system of claim 3, wherein the landmark corresponds to a sponsor of the commercial message.

5. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the information that matches to the keyword is a character string.

6. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the broadcast content comprises an audio program.

7. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the broadcast content comprises a video program.

8. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein the stream comprises a data transport stream, and the predetermined keyword that matches to the keyword is a character string residing in the data transport stream.