NAVITIME JAPAN CO., LTD. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130103306 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, NAVIGATION SERVER, NAVIGATION APPARATUS, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A navigation device providing an operation screen that enables a user to select an arbitrary place that is present in a photographed image as an input unit of data search conditions and accurately performing a data search for a place selected on the operation screen in an easy manner. The device specifies map data that corresponds to the photographed image based on the display content identified from the photographed image, generates an operation screen, on which display areas of name information included in the map data are set as selectable areas, used for selecting a specific place by using the specified map data, extracts guide information that coincides with name information based on the set name information that corresponds to the selectable area that is selected out of selectable areas on the displayed operation screen on the display unit, and displays the generated guide screen on the display unit. | 04-25-2013 |
20130090849 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, NAVIGATION SERVER, NAVIGATION APPARATUS, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A navigation device presenting guide information based on a photographed image of a boarding guide display item, such as a station name signboard, a roll sign, or a route map, that can be photographed in a station yard. The device acquires a photographed image of a boarding guide display item by controlling the photographing unit, identifies display content from the photographed image of the boarding guide display item of a transportation device acquired and specifying a route, station name, and traveling direction of a current position based on the identified display content and traffic network data stored in the storage unit, extracts station names present in the traveling direction from the traffic network data based on the route, station name, and traveling direction of the current position, and generates guide information including at least part of the extracted station names, and outputs at least part of the generated guide information. | 04-11-2013 |
20120130638 | ROUTE GUIDING SYSTEM, ROUTE GUIDING SERVER, ROUTE GUIDING MEDIATION SERVER, AND ROUTE GUIDING METHOD - When there exists a plurality of route guiding servers designating a predetermined area as a service provision area, a terminal device ( | 05-24-2012 |
20120036229 | ROUTE GUIDING SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH SERVER, ROUTE GUIDING MEDIATION SERVER AND ROUTE GUIDING METHOD - An area which may be en-route from a departure place to a destination is specified, and when a route which passes through the specified en-route area is an optimal route, a guidance for the optimal route is given. Route search servers ( | 02-09-2012 |
20120016584 | ROUTE GUIDING SYSTEM, ROUTE GUIDING SERVER, AND ROUTE GUIDING METHOD - In a route guiding system equipped with a route guiding server ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120010816 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH SERVER, ROUTE SEARCH AGENT SERVER, AND NAVIGATION METHOD - In a navigation system, that finds routes and provides navigation extending across countries or regions, navigation is performed for cases in which languages differ in the countries or regions being navigated. The navigation system is equipped with first and second route search servers ( | 01-12-2012 |
20110301833 | ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH SERVER, AND ROUTE GUIDANCE METHOD - A route guidance system comprises first and second route search severs, which are provided with first and second areas as service providing areas, and terminals. When the terminals request route search, the first route search server determines the second route search sever, determines whether or not the terminals can perform roaming in the second area, transmits to the second route search sever point information and information as to whether or not the roaming is possible, and requests the route search. The second route search server searches for an optimal route which satisfies a route search condition. If the roaming is determined to be impossible, the second route search server determines a data format in which data can be outputted, creates guidance route information by editing the information on optimal route into the data format, and transmits the guidance route information to the terminals ( | 12-08-2011 |
20110282579 | SYSTEM WHICH MEDIATES PROVIDING OF MAP INFORMATION, SERVER WHICH MEDIATES PROVIDING OF MAP INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MAP INFORMATION - When a map acquisition judgment means judges that the acquisition of map information is required, a terminal device transmits spot position information calculated by a spot information calculation means to a server which mediates providing of the map information, via a first map information providing server where the terminal device is positioned. The server causes an area judgment means to judge according to the spot information an area of providing map information including the spot, identifies a map information providing system on the basis of the judgment, and requests providing of the map information including the spot to a second map information providing server in the area according to the spot position information. The terminal device synthesizes map information held by the terminal and map information provided by the second map information providing server by a map synthesis means and displays the synthesized map information on a display means. | 11-17-2011 |
20110246063 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system stores street information obtained by associating a house number located at the boundary of a map area with each street included in the map area with respect to each segmented map area constituted of predetermined unit areas, receives a location identification signal to acquire spot information including the present location, judges a map area corresponding to the present location out of the map areas on the basis of the acquired spot information, acquires street information included in the judged map area, judges a street which is the nearest from the present position on the basis of the acquired street information and the spot information, refers to house number information associated with the street information, and judges the house number at the present locations as location identification information on the basis of the street information corresponding to the nearest street and the spot information. This enables the information providing system to display the location identification information (address) by use of the map data. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246054 | ROUTE SEARCHING SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCHING SERVER AND ROUTE SEARCHING METHOD - It is an object to provide a route searching system that can easily carry out the search processing of a route covering different time zones. A route searching system is provided with a time zone data memory means that stores information of a time zone which is associated with each node composing a traffic network and to which a node belongs, a reference time table data memory means that stores reference time table data made out by using a predetermined reference time irrelevant to the time zone to which the node belongs, a time zone determination means that determines the time zone to which the starting point or destination point belongs and a time conversion means, wherein a route searching means searches for a route from the starting point to the destination point based on the traffic network data and the reference time table data, the time conversion means converts the time data of the searched route into guiding data based on the time zone to which the starting point or the destination point belongs. | 10-06-2011 |
20110219027 | ROUTING GUIDE MEDIATION SYSTEM, ROUTING GUIDE MEDIATION SERVER, AND ROUTING GUIDE METHOD - A routing guide mediation system is equipped with a routing guide mediation server, establishing cooperation between a plurality of routing guide systems having map data by country and region and network data for route search. When a departure point and a destination are points in different areas, a first route search server extracts a candidate contact point which will be the boundary between the different areas, and transmits it to a second route search server via the routing guide mediation server. Then, the first and second route search servers search for an optical route from the departure point to the candidate contact point and an optimal candidate route from the candidate contact point to the destination, individually, and the first route search server acquires the amounts of time required for these routes and link data via the routing guide mediation server. The first route search server determines a recommended route with the smallest total amount of time required out of the candidate routes connected at the candidate contact point, and provides the data on the recommended route including the link data to a terminal device. | 09-08-2011 |
20110144906 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND NAVIGATION PROGRAM - A navigation device performs a route guidance based on a route from a current location to a destination, the navigation device being connected to a server for searching the route. A navigation method for the navigation device includes sending a request for searching the route to the server and receiving information on the route from the server. The method also includes measuring an elapsed time from a start of the route guidance, and performing the route guidance based on the information received. The method further includes cutting off a communication with the server and coming into a standby state, upon a determination that the elapsed time measured has reached a predetermined time and when the route is being guided or a current location is being checked, to decrease a bandwidth usage between the navigation device and the server and to reduce a communication charge associated with the bandwidth usage. | 06-16-2011 |
20110137768 | TRAVEL EXPENSE ADJUSTING APPARATUS AND TRAVEL EXPENSE ADJUSTING METHOD - According to the present invention, a route covered by travel expenses and satisfying a route search condition input by a member of a group who wishes an adjustment of travel expenses is created, and greenhouse gas emissions emitted at a time of using the created route are calculated. The greenhouse gas emissions are offset by subtracting the calculated greenhouse gas emissions from an amount of emission credits stored in a storage unit, and it is determined whether the greenhouse gas emissions have been offset. When it is determined that the greenhouse gas emissions have not been offset, a display unit is caused to display a travel-expense-application rejection notification indicating that an application for an adjustment of travel expenses applied by the member is rejected. | 06-09-2011 |
20110099100 | ROUTE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND ROUTE SEARCHING METHOD - According to the present invention, at least one route that satisfies a route search condition received from an information processing terminal and information distributor identification information for identifying an information distributor is created, greenhouse gas emissions emitted when the route is used are calculated for each of the routes, a route search result including the route and the emissions are transmitted to the information processing terminal, a route selection request is received from the information processing terminal, the emissions are offset by subtracting emissions corresponding to the selected route from an amount of emission credits stored in a storage unit, corresponding to the information distributor identified by the information distributor identification information, and an offset result is transmitted to the information processing terminal. | 04-28-2011 |
20110040479 | ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH SERVER, ROUTE GUIDANCE METHOD, AND TERMINAL - First and second route guidance systems provided with country or region-specific map data or route search network data are linked. If the departure place and the destination are in different areas, a first route guidance system (A) extracts a candidate connection which is the border between the different areas to transmit it to a second route guidance system (B). The first and second route guidance systems search the optimum route from the departure place to the candidate connection and the optimum candidate route from the candidate connection to the destination, respectively and provide the required time and link data to their respective route guidance systems. The first or second route guidance system determines a recommended route with the smallest total of the required time out of candidate routes connected at the candidate connection and provides the recommended route data including the link data from the first route guidance system (A) to a terminal ( | 02-17-2011 |
20110022527 | ROUTE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND ROUTE SEARCHING METHOD - In the present invention, at least a single route is created that satisfies route search conditions received from an information processing terminal, an amount of emissions caused by following the created route is calculated on a route-by-route basis, an emission credit purchase amount required for compensating the calculated amount of emissions is calculated, a route search result including the route, the amount of emissions, and the emission credit purchase amount is sent to the information processing terminal, emission amount compensation is performed by subtracting, from the quantity of emission credits stored in a storage unit, the amount of emissions equivalent to the emission credit purchase amount specified in an emission credit purchase order received from the information processing terminal, and a compensation result at least including the compensated amount of emissions and the corresponding emission credit purchase amount to the information processing terminal is sent for display. | 01-27-2011 |
20100235085 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, MAP DISPLAY, AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - Even if a detailed map being displayed is continuously scrolled, the place of the detailed map being displayed is kept to a wide-area map. A map display system having a map display for displaying a plurality of maps and an information distribution server which is connected to the map display through a communication means and distributes map data to the map display comprises a display means for displaying a first map capable of being scrolled and a second map including the scope of the first map, a scroll control means for scrolling the first map, a condition judging means for judging whether or not to control the display form of the second map according to the result of the scroll of the first map by the scroll control means and a condition for controlling the display form of the second map set in advance, and a reduced scale control means for controlling the display form of the second map. The reduced scale control means controls the display form of the second map according to the result of the judgment of the condition judging means. | 09-16-2010 |
20100235082 | ROUTE SEARCH SYSTEM, ROUTE SEARCH SERVER, TERMINAL, AND ROUTE SEARCH METHOD - A route search system for simply searching for a guidance route for participating in one of the events of the same kind held within time zones at places. The route search system comprises route search network data for searching for a route on foot and by public transportation, route searching means, network data editing means, and event data including the event holding place and the event holding time. The network data editing means connects the event holding place as an event site node involving position information to the route search network data, registers the event as an event virtual node not involving any position information, and connects the event site node to the event virtual node through links according to the different event holding times. The route searching means searches for a guidance route from the departure place to the relevant event virtual node as the destination when search for a route from a desired place as a departure place to the place of a specific event among the events is requested. | 09-16-2010 |
20100232405 | INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION REGISTRATION SERVER, INFORMATION COLLECTION METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE - A public wireless LAN accessible area collection system includes a mobile terminal device having GPS means, wireless LAN communication means, and data communication means and a server which has storage means and accessible area map generation means and performs data communication with the mobile terminal device. When the wireless LAN communication means recognizes that the mobile terminal device exists in the area in which the mobile terminal device can be connected to the public wireless LAN, it obtains access information in the area. The data communication means transmits location information and access information to the server. The server associates the location information with the access information that are received from the mobile terminal device and stores them in the storage means. The accessible area map generation means applies the location information about the area in which the mobile terminal device can be connected to the public wireless LAN to the map data according to the location information stored in the storage means. | 09-16-2010 |
20100199213 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - When a map display system acquires first map data on an area of a predetermined range with a first display scale, the map display system also acquires second map data on an area of a larger range including the predetermined range with a second display scale at the same time. When the acquired first map data on the area of the predetermined range becomes insufficient since a first map displayed on a display means is scrolled, a map obtained by changing the display scale of the second map data to the first display scale is displayed. This provides the map display system which is controlled so as to efficiently acquire map data suitable for a communication type navigation system. | 08-05-2010 |
20100168997 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, MAP DISPLAY, AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - Navigation-related information such as a road name or guidance is allowed to be dynamically displayed along a road on a map displayed on the display screen and the road displayed on the display screen, its road name, and the moving direction are also allowed to be made easy visual identification. A map display system for displaying the road name or the navigation-related information together with the road on a display means according to map data including data on the road and data on the road name comprises a display area determining means, a display direction determining means for determining the direction in which the display of a text displayed on a road image moves, a road-name extracting means, and a text data display control means. The road-name extracting means extracts the road and its road name which are to be displayed from the road data to display the road image in the display area determined by the display area determining means. The text data display control means moves the road name on to the road image at predetermined intervals to display it according to the display direction determined by the display direction determining means. | 07-01-2010 |
20100153004 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, ROUTE RETRIEVAL SERVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND ROUTE GUIDING METHOD - A mobile terminal device has a display means for indicating a guidance of a route retrieved by a route retrieval means and a GPS receiver means for detecting the present location. A route retrieval server has an operation service information database for collecting and storing the present location of each bus running on bus lines and an alternative route guiding means for evaluating alternative bus route to provide a guidance. When the guided route includes a walking route block, the route retrieving means makes reference to the operation service information database in accordance with the present location of the mobile terminal device to identify bus services which a user of the mobile terminal device can use for retrieving a route alternative to the walking route block, while the alternative route guiding means compares the route data between the alternative route and guided route. When the alternative route is more favorable than the guided route, the alternative route guiding means sends alternative route information indicating presence of the alternative route to the mobile terminal device, displays the guided route on a display means, and indicates the presence of the alternative route. | 06-17-2010 |
20100070173 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND PERIPHERAL-IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A navigation system constructed from a portable terminal device having a route search server provided with route search means for searching for a guidance route from a start point up to a destination; GPS receiving means for positioning a current position; imaging means; and display means for displaying, along with a peripheral image captured by the imaging means, a guidance route, a guidance image in the direction of advance, or an image representing a place of interest. The portable terminal device further has display control means for controlling display of the peripheral image displayed on the display means. The display control means controls the position of display of the peripheral image, captured by the imaging means, so that the center of optical axis of the imaging means is below the center of the display screen. Even if the direction of the optical axis of the imaging means is directed downward from a horizontal line, the horizontal direction of the peripheral image is displayed on the display screen. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070162 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, AND ROUTE GUIDING METHOD - Provided is a navigation system comprising a route searching server and a mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device includes posture detecting means for detecting the posture of the mobile terminal device at the time when imaging means took a peripheral image, and image layout means for determining the display position of a guide route or a proceeding direction guide image on the basis of the posture of the mobile terminal device detected by the posture detecting means. The mobile terminal device stores the guide route distributed from the route searching server. In case the image layout means discriminates that the guide route is not contained in the peripheral image displayed in display means, drawing control means displays an imaging direction guide image for guiding the direction, in which the imaging means takes the image, on the peripheral image. | 03-18-2010 |
20090282323 | Window display system - A window display system has a text acquisition section for acquiring text of an original window in a superimposed region; a text transmitter for transmitting to a predetermined server the acquired text, the coordinates of the superimposed region, and the coordinates of each part of the text; and a display processor for receiving a screen generated in the server, and displaying the screen in the overlapping window, wherein the server has a screen generator for determining whether a predetermined keyword is contained in the text received from the user terminal, extracting the keyword and the URL if the keyword is contained in the text, and generating and transmitting a screen in which a link to a URL is embedded in the position of a keyword contained in the text on the basis of the coordinates of the text received from the user terminal. | 11-12-2009 |
20090271745 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP DISPLAY METHOD, AND MAP DISTRIBUTION SERVER - A map display system having display means for displaying a map image and object display control means for displaying object images on the map image according to the location of the objects, wherein, when a cursor is moved to a desired object image and operated to select it, information on the object is displayed. The map display system has target object determination means for calculating the distances between the cursor and the individual object images and determining an object of the smallest distance to the cursor. The object display control means re-draws an object image of the target object determined by the target object determination means and displays the result on the uppermost surface of an image displayed. When a large number of object images are displayed on a map image, in areas close to each other, the user can simply recognize a desired object image and can click the object image accurately and reliably. | 10-29-2009 |
20090207170 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, MAP DISPLAY METHOD FOR MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - When a bird's-eye view map showing roads, the roads are emphatically displayed. A map display system comprises a database storing map data and display means for displaying an image of a planar map or a bird's-eye view according to the map data acquired from the database storing map image. The map display system further comprises image data creating means for creating image data on a planar map or image data on a bird's-eye view map created by projection transformation of a planar map with a predetermined display width coefficient, drawing means for drawing a map on basis of the image data on the planar map or the bird's-eye view map, and display width coefficient control means. When the image data on the bird's-eye view map is created, the display width coefficient control means controls image data creating means so that the roads shown on the planar map undergo projection transformation with a display width coefficient larger than the predetermined display width coefficient, and the display means displays the map of the image data drawn by the drawing means. | 08-20-2009 |
20090204321 | Communication type information distribution system, information distribution server, and program - There are provided a communication type information distribution system, an information distribution server, and a program capable of assuring profitability considering the cost required for creating a content to be provided to a mobile terminal and protecting the copyright. The information distribution server ( | 08-13-2009 |
20090143081 | Information distribution system, information distribution server, mobile terminal, and information distribution method - There is provided an information distribution system capable of distributing a content to a mobile terminal in a predetermined area, distributing content guide information to the mobile terminal, and distributing the content selected by the mobile terminal, within the area. The information distribution system includes an information distribution server, a mobile terminal, and a content DB. The content DB contains content information to be provided to the mobile terminal and information on the area to which the content is provided. The information distribution server distributes the content guide information to the mobile terminal. According to this content guide information, the mobile terminal performs a content distribution request. The information distribution server judges the position of the mobile terminal according to position judgment means. When the mobile terminal is in the distribution area of the content requested, the content is downloaded. | 06-04-2009 |
20090046093 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - A map display device and a map display method, in which a building in a map is formed as a pseudo three-dimensional figure and arithmetic processing to display the figure as a bird's-eye view is simplified. The map display device | 02-19-2009 |
20090037101 | MAP DISPLAY SYSTEM, METHOD OF INPUTTING CONDITIONS FOR SEARCHING FOR POI, METHOD OF DISPLAYING GUIDANCE TO POI, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - A map display system has a terminal device having display means for displaying a map image and also has a route search server having a POI database. The map display system has operation/input means for performing predetermined operation on an object image including a POI category or POI information, object image operation detection means for detecting operation on the object image, and POI search means for extracting the POI category or the POI information from the operated object image and searching for a POI while referring to the POI database. The display means displays on a map image the POI searched by the POI search means. | 02-05-2009 |
20080288166 | Portable Navigation Terminal and Program - A portable navigation device where a map being displayed on a display section is fixed by performing map stop operation at a portable navigation terminal where an appropriate map is selected and displayed so as to correspond to the speed of movement. A portable navigation terminal ( | 11-20-2008 |
20080201070 | Communicative Navigation System, Information Distribution Server, and Mobile Navigation Terminal - There are provided a mobile navigation terminal and an information distribution server that includes a geographical database for route searching and a mesh database storing therein meshes into which images produced from aerial photographs have been divided. The mobile navigation terminal includes GPS means; matching means for matching a measured location with a route to determine a current location; and a mesh data requesting part for calculating mesh data for which to request the information distribution server anew in connection with the current location. The mobile navigation terminal transmits a route search request and/or a mesh data distribution request to the information distribution server. The information distribution server, which includes a route searching part and a mesh dada distributing part, uses the geographical database to search for a route. If there exists a guide route in the mesh data as requested for, then the information distribution server adds the guide route data to the mesh data and distributes them to the mobile navigation terminal. The mobile navigation terminal displays the guide route on the distributed mesh data. | 08-21-2008 |