| US 7,617,044 B2 | ||
| Apparatus and method for displaying route in personal navigation terminal | ||
| Jae-Myeon Lee, Suwon-si (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 20, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/312,144. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0115411 (KR), filed on Dec. 29, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0178822 A1, Aug. 10, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 701—209 [701/208; 701/25] | 23 Claims |
| 1. A route guidance apparatus of a personal navigation terminal, the route guidance apparatus comprising:
a road structure information storage unit for storing information related to road structures, the road structures including
at least two of crosswalks, uphill roads, downhill roads, viaducts, underpasses, railway crossings, tunnels, construction
zones, and alleys with no sidewalks;
a user preference information storage unit for storing at least one road structure preference representing a preference of
a user related to the at least one road structure; and
a controller for determining a current location of the personal navigation terminal, computing routes to a destination from
the current location, and selecting a user-preferred route from among the routes based on the at least one road structure
preference.
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