Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110063132 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING INFORMATION - A navigation device and a method of determining parking information are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a server, journey information from a plurality of navigation devices, the journey information indicating one or more journeys made by each navigation device and determining, by the server from the journey information, parking information indicating a geographical location of one or more parking areas. | 03-17-2011 |
20110087429 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS USED-IN VEHICLE - A technique is disclosed for enabling collection and/or refinement of digital map information for aiding navigation route planning for vehicles larger than ordinary cars, such as goods-vehicles, buses, and car+caravan combinations. In at least one embodiment, a profile of a vehicle's characteristics, and one or more routes followed, are logged by a navigation device, and fed-back to a server that supports the navigation device with map data updates. At the server, or an alternative processing centre, the fed-back data from plural navigation devices is analysed to observe statistically the patterns of roads used by these vehicles, and to categorise these by the type of vehicle. | 04-14-2011 |
20110106425 | NAVIGATION DEVICE & METHOD FOR PROVIDING PARKING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a navigation device including a parking place notification module. In at least one embodiment, the navigation device is arranged to wirelessly receive a message indicating a location of a parking place and, in response, the parking place notification module is arranged to either display on a display device an indication of the location of the parking place, or to select as a destination location the location of the parking place. | 05-05-2011 |
20110109480 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PARKING PLACE AVAILABILITY - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a device including a processor, a location determining device to determine a geographical location of the device and a communication device to wirelessly transmit data. In at least one embodiment, the processor is arranged to determine when the device is located in a vehicle which has vacated a parking place and, in response, to transmit a message via the communication device indicating a location of the parking place. | 05-12-2011 |
20110112764 | NAVIGATION DEVICE & METHOD FOR DETERMINING ROAD-SURFACE FEATURES - A navigation device includes a processor, a memory accessible by the processor, and a device to determine at least one physical parameter applied to the navigation device and to output information indicative of the at least one parameter to the processor. In at least one embodiment, the processor is arranged to determine a road-surface feature based upon the received information and to store road-surface quality information in the memory indicating the location of the road-surface feature. | 05-12-2011 |
20120185163 | NAVIGATION ROUTE PLANNING - A technique is disclosed for calculating a sightseeing route from a start location to a destination location. The start location and the destination location may be the same as each other or different. The route is calculated to pass one or more attractors each representing a sightseeing attraction. A digital database resource ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120306923 | MAP RENDERING FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS - When map data is to be processed for display in a mapping or navigation apparatus, the application processor ( | 12-06-2012 |
20120310964 | MAP STORAGE FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS - When preparing a representation of map display information for use by a navigation device,a set of source map data ( | 12-06-2012 |
20130173159 | NAVIGATION DEVICE - There is provided a navigation device, the navigation device operable to calculate routes to one or more destinations, the device further operable to provide a navigation instruction together with an alternative navigation instruction. There is also provided a method of providing navigation instructions for a navigation device, the method comprising the steps of (i) calculating routes to one or more destinations, (ii) providing a navigation instruction together with an alternative navigation instruction. There is also provided a computer program product operable to execute on a navigation device, the computer program product operable to calculate routes to one or more destinations, the computer program product further operable to provide a navigation instruction together with an alternative navigation instruction. | 07-04-2013 |
20140313060 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PARKING INFORMATION - A navigation device and a method of determining parking information are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a server, journey information from a plurality of navigation devices, the journey information indicating one or more journeys made by each navigation device and determining, by the server from the journey information, parking information indicating a geographical location of one or more parking areas. | 10-23-2014 |