Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080306686 | Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs - Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs store plural types of speech guidance information, each of the plural types of speech guidance having an indication of success and an assigned priority level. The apparatuses, methods, and programs identify a guidance branch point along the route and provide speech guidance for the guidance branch point according to one of the plural types of speech guidance. The apparatuses, methods, and programs determine whether the vehicle traveled through the guidance branch point. If the vehicle traveled through the guidance branch point, the apparatuses, methods, and programs increase the indication of success for the provided type of speech guidance information. However, if the vehicle did not travel through the guidance branch point, the apparatuses, methods, and programs decrease the indication of success for the provided type of speech guidance information. The apparatuses, methods, and programs change the assigned priority levels of the stored types of speech guidance information based on the indication of success for each of the stored types of speech guidance information. | 12-11-2008 |
20090043488 | Navigation system, server, method, and program - Navigation systems, servers, methods, and programs for a vehicle store a plurality of nodes representing branch points and guide the vehicle along a travel route. The systems, servers, methods, and programs detect, at a branch point where the travel route branches off into another route, that the vehicle abandoned advancing along the travel route after trying to advance, and store a result of the detection in the memory. | 02-12-2009 |
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 |
20100245068 | Vehicle operation diagnosis device, vehicle operation diagnosis method and computer program - Vehicle operation diagnosis devices, methods, and programs diagnose a driver's vehicle operation determine whether to provide advice relating to the vehicle operation if a result of the diagnosis has met a predetermined provisioning condition. If the predetermined provisioning condition is met, the devices, methods, and programs provide the advice. The devices, methods, and programs compare the driver's vehicle operation before the advice was provided with the vehicle operation of the driver after the advice was provided. The devices, methods, and programs determine whether to provide the advice based on a comparison of the driver's vehicle operation before the advice was provided with the vehicle operation of the driver after the advice was provided. | 09-30-2010 |