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Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2013
Applicant:

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Martin Knobel, Munich, DE;

Josef Schumann, Munich, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3682 (2013.01); G01C 21/3476 (2013.01); G01C 21/3614 (2013.01); G01C 21/3617 (2013.01); G01C 21/3679 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a navigation method, coordinates and additional information concerning several places, so-called places of interest, are stored as data in a memory. Surrounding-area parameters are predefined by which, with respect to arbitrary places, one surrounding area respectively is defined which surrounds the place. During a traveling movement with a navigation device, one pertaining surrounding area respectively is acquired by use of the surrounding-area parameters and the respective current location of the navigation device. By way of the stored coordinates, at least one of the stored places of interest is determined which is situated in the acquired surrounding area. The additional information stored with respect to the determined place of interest is outputted by way of a user interface.


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