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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2002
Ichiro Hatano, Tokyo-to, JP;
Ichiro Hatano, Tokyo-to, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo-to, JP;
Abstract
A navigation terminalloaded in a vehicleis provided with a wireless communication device connectable to a movable communications networkand a present position detection device and instructs implementation of a predetermined navigation function. The gateway apparatusconnects the movable communications networkand the Internetand implements protocol conversion and charging processing. A navigation serveracquires positional data of the vehiclefrom the navigation terminalvia the Internetdiscriminates map data to be a distribution object to the navigation terminaland generates navigation information based on the instructed navigation function to provide it to the navigation terminalA map search serverreads map data discriminated as the distribution object from a map data baseaccumulating map data and distributes them to the navigation terminalvia the Internet