US 7,593,810 B2
Interactive route guide device
Nobuyuki Nakano, Osaka (Japan); Ryotaro Iwami, Hyogo (Japan); Tomohiro Terada, Osaka (Japan); and Takeshi Takahashi, Fukuoka (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/584,624
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2005, PCT No. PCT/JP2005/002703
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 26, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/085760, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 15, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-064820 (JP), filed on Mar. 08, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2009/0143970 A1, Jun. 04, 2009
Int. Cl. G08G 1/0969 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 701—200  [701/201; 701/210; 340/995.23] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An interactive route guide device comprising:
a storage unit operable to store at least one table which defines a type of guide information to be provided for a route from a departure point to a destination point;
a guide information generating unit operable to generate guide information in accordance with the table in the storage unit;
an output unit operable to output the guide information generated in the guide information generating unit;
an input unit which a user operates in order to request guide information;
a request management unit operable to manage a content of a request inputted into the input unit and a number of times the request is inputted; and
an editing unit operable to edit the table, which is stored in the storage unit, to add additional information to the guide information to be provided for the route in accordance with the content of the request inputted and the number of times the request is inputted, which are managed by the request management unit.