| US 7,546,202 B2 | ||
| Navigation apparatus and method for searching for point of interest using the same | ||
| Jun-Suk Oh, Gyeonggi-Do (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to LG Electroncis Inc., Seoul (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 02, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/365,923. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2005-0017972 (KR), filed on Mar. 04, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0200304 A1, Sep. 07, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G08G 1/0969 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 701—200 [701/201; 701/210; 340/995.19] | 28 Claims |
| 1. A navigation apparatus comprising:
a control unit configured to:
access a preset driving route including a group of consecutive route points that begin at a start route point and end at a
destination route point,
for each route point in the group of consecutive route points, identify a POI that is nearest to the route point and store
the identified POI in association with the route point in a first storing unit,
determine a current position of a moving object,
after storing the identified POIs, select a current route point corresponding to the current position from among the group
of route points,
select, based on the current route point, the POI stored in the first storing unit that was identified as being nearest to
the current route point, and
access information associated with the POI identified as being nearest to the current route point;
the first storing unit configured to store the identified POIs, and
an output unit configured to output the accessed information associated with the POI identified as being nearest to the current
route point.
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