Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinichirou Gotou

Takeshi Imai

Masayuki Ikegami

Hideshi Sawada

Toshihide Youfu

The system for transmitting and receiving electronic mail of the present invention, comprises: a text input means for entering a text of the electronic mail to be transmitted; an extracting means for extracting a character string to specify a place from the text inputted by the text input means; an adding means for adding information to the electronic mail, the information corresponding to the place specified by the extracted character string; a text display means for displaying the text in the electronic mail; and a map display means for displaying map information indicating the specified place corresponding to the information added to the electronic mail.

System for transmitting and receiving electronic mail containing location information

An information retrieval system is provided, by which necessary information can be easily and accurately obtained from among a large number of information items by using a communication terminal which is mounted to a movable object or is fixedly disposed. In the system, a communication terminal accesses a host server and sends the server the present position of the terminal so as to retrieve desired information stored in information servers connected to a network. The host server stores summary information, categories, and positional information on the information stored in the information servers, and the communication terminal identifies an information server according to the above information stored in the host server.

System for retrieving information based on position of communication terminal

A vehicle mounted unit has a WWW browser for analyzing and discriminating HTML files obtained from the Internet. The HTML files are provided with a tag for the navigation apparatus (extension tag) in addition to a normal tag. The normal tag includes a descriptive statement which is now widely used on the Internet. The extension tag includes a descriptive statement newly defined for the navigation apparatus, and controls the operation of the vehicle unit . The vehicle unit discriminates the normal tag and the extension tag at the time of receiving the HTML file, and in the case of a normal tag, executes normal operation (screen display such as characters), and in the case of an extension tag, executes functions for the navigation apparatus.

Navigation apparatus and medium recording program therefor

A head lamp device for a vehicle capable of moving a lighting region of a head lamp in front of the vehicle in rightward and leftward directions. This device comprises steering angle detecting means for detecting a steering angle; displacement quantity setting means for setting a quantity of displacement of the lighting region based on the steering angle detected by the steering angle detecting means; vehicle speed detecting means for detecting a vehicle speed; maximum displacement quantity setting means for setting a maximum quantity of displacement of the lighting region based on the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detecting means; and control means for controlling displacement of the lighting region in accordance with the quantity of displacement set by the displacement quantity setting means when the quantity of displacement is less than the maximum quantity of displacement set by the maximum displacement quantity setting means, and controlling displacement of the lighting region in accordance with the maximum quantity of displacement when the quantity of displacement is more than the maximum quantity of displacement.

Head lamp device for vehicle

A head lamp device for a vehicle in which a lighting region in front of the vehicle in a traveling direction can be adjusted in rightward and leftward directions comprises: a direction indicating signal outputting mechanism 11 for detecting an operation of a winker device and outputting a direction indicating signal; a steering signal outputting mechanism 12 for detecting a steering angle of a steering device and outputting a steering angle signal; a map information outputting mechanism 30 for outputting map information including road data; a present position detecting mechanism 32 for detecting a present position of proper vehicle on the map; and a control mechanism 10 for inputting the said direction indicating signal, steering angle, map information and information of the present position and adjusting the lighting region of the head lamp. The control mechanism 10 selects a first control mode when the direction indicating signal is outputted; a second control mode for adjusting the lighting region in response to the steering angle when the first mode is not selected and the present position is not found on the road data of the map information or a steering angle of the steering angle signal exceeds a predetermined range; and a third control mode for adjusting the lighting region in compliance with an expectation of forward road shape in a vehicle traveling direction in reference to the map information and the present position when the first and second control modes are not selected.

A head lamp device for a vehicle in which a light distribution can be properly adjusted in response to a state of a road or a running environment and visibility can be improved is provided. The head lamp device for a vehicle capable of adjusting a lighting region in a forward direction of the vehicle comprises proper vehicle position sensing means for sensing a proper vehicle running position in a lateral direction of a road, and control means for calculating a distance from the proper vehicle running position to a center line on the road and adjusting a lighting region of the head lamp in such a way that the lighting region is expanded more and more toward the center line as the calculated distance is longer and longer.

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Wako, Japan

Shinichirou Gotou