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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2008
Koji Sengoku, Minato-ku, JP;
Aiko Sugawara, Minato-ku, JP;
Masakuni Tsuge, Minato-ku, JP;
Masayuki Arai, Wako, JP;
Yoshitaka Kinoshita, Wako, JP;
Koji Sengoku, Minato-ku, JP;
Aiko Sugawara, Minato-ku, JP;
Masakuni Tsuge, Minato-ku, JP;
Masayuki Arai, Wako, JP;
Yoshitaka Kinoshita, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A navigation device and the like capable of appropriately alleviating an amount of communicating information between the navigation server and a navigation device, from the viewpoint of guiding a user to a destination point via the navigation device, on the basis of a support route which is set by the navigation server. Of the links constituting a support route R which connects the current position pand the destination position pof the user, the links satisfying an extraction condition set according to a changing pattern of a road type are extracted as target links. Also, the target links, that is, the link having high necessity from the viewpoint of guiding the user, with regard to the changing pattern of the road type, is recognized by the navigation deviceon the basis of communication between the navigation serverand the navigation device