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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1995
Shigeki Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Kouji Kagawa, Osaka, JP;
Ryuji Mimura, Osaka, JP;
Mitsunobu Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle navigation apparatus for producing navigation information about a set of road maps, the starting position, current position and destination of a vehicle, a first optimum travel route having the vehicle travel to the destination from the starting position with a shortest driving time interval, and a second optimum travel route having the vehicle travel to the destination from the current position with a shortest driving time interval. The second optimum travel route includes a return travel route having a leading route end junction connected to the first optimum travel route and a trailing end point representative of the current position, and a detour travel route having a detour starting point where the vehicle starts to detour from the first optimum travel route and a detour ending point where the vehicle returns to the first optimum travel route.
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