Navigation apparatus for dynamically displaying multiple frames of house number and method thereof

• US 9,052,213 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2011
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.), MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd. (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.), MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd. (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Meng, Jing-Shi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cuong H
• Application Number:
  US13/243,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20130054140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,355 Days
• Field of Search: 701/468, 701/426, 701/438, 701/E17.018, 701532-533, 715/771, 715/837, 715/864, 715/834, 715/810, 707/919
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3673 Labelling using text of road map data items, e.g. road names, POI names
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3874 Structures specially adapted for data searching and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A navigation apparatus for dynamically displaying multiple frames of house number and its method. The navigation apparatus comprises a road information temporary storage module, a frame information temporary storage module, a processing module and a display unit. The real-time road information is temporarily stored at the road information temporary storage module; a house number information, a point of interesting or user customized information is temporarily stored at the frame information temporary storage module. Furthermore, the processing module updates the real-time road information and the house number information, the point of interesting or the user customized information corresponding to real-time road information according to a global positioning system signal. The display unit displays real-time road information and plays house number information, the point of interesting or user customized information by turns.

Claims

1. A navigation apparatus comprising:

a road information storage module storing at least a real-time road information;

a frame information storage module storing at least a house number information or a point of interesting or user customized information;

a processing module updating the real-time road information and the house number information or the point of interesting or the user customized information corresponding to the real-time road information based upon a Global Positioning System signal (GPS), wherein the processing module calculates a plurality of frames based upon the house number information, the point of interesting or the user customized information, wherein each of the frames has a set of the house number information; and

a display unit displaying the real-time road information and alternately displaying the frames.

2. The navigation apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the road information storage module stores the real-time road information of an area around a user'"'"'s current location.

3. The navigator apparatus as recited in claim 2, wherein the road information storage module stores the house number information of the real-time road information of the area around the user'"'"'s current location and the house number information of the real-time road information about house numbers which have been passed by the user.

4. The navigation apparatus as recited in claim 1, wherein the processing module comprises a fluctuation unit and a frame calculation unit.

5. The navigation apparatus as recited in claim 4, wherein the fluctuation unit performs fluctuation calculation based upon the real-time road information and the house number information or the point of interesting or the user customized information corresponding to the real-time road information.

6. A method for dynamically displaying multiple frames of house number applied to a navigation apparatus, the method comprising the following steps:

storing at least a real-time road information through a road information storage module;

storing a house number information or a point of interesting or a user customized information through a frame information storage module;

using a processing module to update the real-time road information and the house number information or the point of interesting or the user customized information corresponding to the real-time road information based upon a GPS signal;

calculating a plurality of frames through the processing module based upon the real-time road information and the house number information, the point of interesting or the user customized information, wherein each of the frames has a set of the house number information; and

displaying the real-time road information and alternately displaying the frames through a display unit.

7. The method for dynamically displaying multiple frames of house number as recited in claim 6, wherein the processing module comprises a fluctuation unit and a frame calculation unit, and the method further comprises the following steps:

performing fluctuation calculation through the fluctuation unit based upon the real-time road information and the house number information or the point of interesting or the user customized information corresponding to the real-time road information.

8. The method for dynamically displaying multiple frames of house number as recited in claim 6, further comprising the following step:

utilizing the road information storage module to store the real-time road information of an area around a user'"'"'s current location.

9. The method for dynamically displaying multiple frames of house number as recited in claim 8, wherein the road information storage module stores the house number information of the real-time road information of the area around the user'"'"'s current location and the house number information of the real-time road information about the house numbers which have been passed by the user.