Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090030599 | Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs - Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs store a plurality of destinations, each destination being associated with a plurality of types of search items. The apparatuses, methods, and programs input a first search character and retrieve the destinations in which the input search character exists in one of the associated search items. The apparatuses, methods, and programs temporarily store the retrieved destinations in association with the search item in which the input character exists. The apparatuses, methods, and programs input a second search character and narrow down the temporarily stored destinations by deleting the temporarily stored destinations in which the second search character does not exist in any of the associated search items. The apparatuses, methods, and programs display the narrowed down destinations as candidate destinations, permit selection of one of the displayed candidate destinations, and provide route guidance to the selected destination. | 01-29-2009 |
20090043492 | Information guidance systems, methods, and programs - Information guidance systems, methods, and programs search for a route from a departure point to a destination and identify a facility used for performing guidance for a guidance location on the searched route. The systems, methods, and programs determine whether a name of the facility has been changed. When the name has been changed, the systems, methods, and programs perform guidance notifying that the name has been changed. | 02-12-2009 |
20090150065 | Search devices, methods, and programs for use with navigation devices, methods, and programs - Search devices, methods, and programs input a plurality of search terms that are associated with search objects and set a search condition for the input search terms. The devices, methods, and programs calculate an approximate number of the search objects that correspond to the set search condition and output the search objects that correspond to the set search condition as search results. The devices, methods, and programs display the calculated approximate number of the search objects until the search results are output. One or more of the output search objects may be used as a destination by a navigation device. | 06-11-2009 |
20090150354 | Search devices, methods, and programs for use with navigation devices, methods, and programs - Search devices, methods, and programs input a first search term and acquire a category of the first search term. The devices, methods, and programs input a second search term and acquire a category of the second search term. The devices, methods, and programs, determine a logical operator for the first search term and the second search term according to a relationship between the first and second categories, and output search objects on a display that correspond to a logical operation performed using the determined logical operator. One or more of the output search objects may be used as a destination by a navigation device. | 06-11-2009 |
20090164463 | Destination input systems, methods, and programs - Destination input devices, methods, and programs that store a plurality of destination data items and a plurality of related terms related to the destination data items, a plurality of generic names associated with each of the related terms. The devices, methods, and programs select at least one of the destination data items that are stored in a memory based on an ordinary search of the character that is input as the search key, extract one of the related terms, the generic names, and the destination data items based on a fuzzy search of the character that is input as the search key; and display in list form, search results that correspond to the character that is input, the generic names that are selected by the fuzzy search and the at least one of the destination data items that is selected by the ordinary search. | 06-25-2009 |
20090265093 | Destination search support device, methods, and programs - A navigation device, when a destination candidate is deleted, postpones the deletion by providing a deletion deadline for the destination candidate. This makes it possible to search for the destination candidate even if it is eligible for deletion. If a user sets as the destination a destination candidate whose deletion has been postponed, then the destination candidate is displayed differently to make the user aware that the deletion has been postponed. If a destination candidate for which the deletion deadline has been set is set as the destination, then the navigation device compares the deletion deadline to a date that is m months after the current date, and if the m months later date is later than the deletion deadline, the navigation device extends the deletion deadline by updating it to the m months later date. This postpones the deletion of a destination candidate that the user considers necessary. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271376 | SEARCH DEVICE AND SEARCH PROGRAM - Where destination candidates that are selected by a search are arranged in a specified display order, the candidates are divided into two subgroups, based on a median value, and a first destination candidate, a median destination candidate, and a last destination candidate are displayed. Where a desired candidate is included among the three displayed candidates, a user chooses the desired candidate. Where the desired candidate is not displayed, the user selects one of a first subgroup button and a second subgroup button to display the destination candidates in the subgroups before and after the median value, respectively. If two-hundred-fifty-three candidates are displayed in a sequential list in five candidate display spaces, a maximum of fifty operations are required to view all of the candidates. In contrast, the divided display arranges the two-hundred-fifty-three candidates into six levels, so the desired candidate can be selected in a maximum of six operations. | 10-29-2009 |
20090327881 | Facility information display systems, methods, and programs - Systems, methods, and programs for displaying facility information receive an input letter string representing a search condition, refer to stored facility data, and search for facilities including the input letter string. The systems, methods, and programs acquire facility information of facilities returned by the search, and compress the facility information to be displayed on a search result display screen in a display unit, the compression being based on the input letter string. | 12-31-2009 |
20100004851 | Navigation devices, methods, and programs - Navigation devices, methods, and programs accept an input of a character, acquire a stored keyword that corresponds to the input character from a storage unit that stores keywords, and display at least one acquired keyword on a display. The devices, methods, and programs accept a selection of one of the displayed keywords, set a search term based on the input character and the selected keyword, and search location information items stored in the storage unit using the set search term. The devices, methods, and programs store a character string representing the set search term as a keyword in the storage unit, acquire deletion information that designates a location information item to be deleted from the storage unit, delete the location information item to be deleted from the storage unit, and delete a stored keyword that is included in a search term for the deleted location information item. | 01-07-2010 |
20100106740 | Search device, search method, and computer-readable medium that stores search program - Search devices, methods, and programs store information that pertains to a search object in association with a first character string and a second character string that are used to search for the search object. When a search for the search object is performed, the devices, methods, and programs read from the first storage portion the first character string and the second character string for the search object and store the read first character string and the read second character string. The devices, methods, and programs receive the input of a character string for searching for the search object. When the character string is input by the input portion, the devices, methods, and programs search the second storage portion for and present one of the first character string and the second character string that begin with a character string that matches the input character string. | 04-29-2010 |
20100138434 | Search device, search method, and computer-readable medium that stores search program - Search devices, methods, and programs accept an input of a first character string for searching for a search object and store second character strings. The devices, methods, and programs search among the stored second character strings for a second character string who's beginning matches the input first character string. The devices, methods, and programs display the found second character string, excluding from the display any of the found second character string for which a number of subsequent input operations that equals the difference between the number of characters in the found second character string and the number of characters in the input first character string is less than or equal to a number of operations to select the found second character string. When one of the displayed second character strings is selected, the devices, methods, and programs a display a search object that corresponds to the selected second character string. | 06-03-2010 |
20100325104 | LOCATION SEARCH DEVICE, LOCATION SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING LOCATION SEARCH PROGRAM - A location search device, in which when one of buttons in a character input portion is repeatedly pressed, a plurality of characters assigned in advance to the one button is displayed in an input character display portion in a predetermined cyclic sequence. When one of the buttons is pressed, and then, another of the buttons is pressed, the character displayed in the display portion immediately prior to pressing of the other button is set as an input set character. When the character is input through the character input portion following the input set character, a character string is input. A plurality of compound character strings are created by combining the input set character string with the plurality of characters that is pressed next, and search object character strings that partially match the respective compound character strings are acquired from a character string storage portion, as input candidate character strings. | 12-23-2010 |
20110010376 | LOCATION SEARCH DEVICE, LOCATION SEARCH METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING LOCATION SEARCH PROGRAM - A location search device including: an input portion that inputs a search term; a storage portion that stores keywords and attributes in association with one another; an attribute acquisition portion that acquires an attribute of an input keyword that is a part of or all of a character string that constitutes an input search term that is the search term input by the input portion, from the storage portion; a search function setting portion that selects a first search function for searching for location information on a location corresponding to the input search term, from among a plurality of search functions, based on the attribute of the input keyword; a search portion that searches for the location information on the location corresponding to the input search term, using the first search function; and a display control portion that performs control such that the location information is displayed. | 01-13-2011 |
20120136897 | SEARCHING DEVICE, SEARCHING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A searching device that includes an input string acquisition unit that acquires an input string input by a user; a predicted candidate string extracting unit that extracts a predicted candidate string that begins with the input string; a deleted character determining unit that acquires a deleted character deleted from the input string, and that determines a deleted character position that is a character position of the deleted character in the input string; and a changing unit that, on the basis of the deleted character and the deleted character position, changes a priority of the predicted candidate string that begins with the input string from which the deleted character has been deleted. | 05-31-2012 |