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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G09B 29/00 (2006.01); G09B 29/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G09B 29/00 (2013.01); G09B 29/006 (2013.01); G09B 29/10 (2013.01); G09B 29/106 (2013.01);
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique by which a desired search can be performed even without any polygon data. An administrative district area is defined by collecting mesh areas in each of which a POI is located, for each administrative district, among mesh areas obtained by sectioning an area on a map, and an extended administrative district area is defined by extending the administrative district area. Then, the data storage stores therein data in which a name of an administrative district is associated with a POI within the extended administrative district area related to the administrative district, as search data.