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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2006
Hidekazu Arita, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Ohi, Hyogo, JP;
Hidekazu Arita, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Ohi, Hyogo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A route search system includes a map data storing meansstoring a roadmap data containing, as the attribute of a road, whether the road is a road located within a flat-rate pay area where a fixed fare is charged on a mobile unit regardless of the number of times the mobile unit enters the area if the entries are made within a fixed time period; a flat-rate pay area transit recording meanswhen the current position detected by a position detecting meanscomes to a road in the flat-rate pay area represented by the attribute of the roadmap data stored in the map data storing means, storing that the mobile unit has transited the flat-rate pay area; an input meansinputting whether to permit transit across the flat-rate pay area; and a route calculating meanswhen it is inputted by the input means that the transit thereof is not permitted, if the flat-rate pay area transit recording means stores that the mobile unit has transited the flat-rate pay area, calculating the optimum route to the destination within routes also containing roads located within the flat-rate pay area on the basis of the roadmap data stored in the map data storing means.