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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2001
Kenjiro Tanaka, Kariya, JP;
Yoshihiko Sugawara, Obu, JP;
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A navigation system for vehicles has a rewritable memory, which stores data of a plurality of locations, and searches the rewritable memory for a target location for use in guiding a travel route. When a user inputs a new location for registration, data of an input new location is stored in the rewritable memory in addition to original data of the plurality of locations. This data of new location may be stored by updating the original data or by adding separately from the original data. When a user requests a search for the target location by a name of the target location, the navigation system searches it alphabetically by referring to both data of the plurality of locations and the new location. The navigations system may be designed to conduct the location search by a facility type.