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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2010
Applicant:
David J. Holsinger, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventor:
David J. Holsinger, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Navteq B.V., Veldhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of operating a navigation system to provide a route guidance message for traveling a route is performed by a navigation system. A preferred name of a feature visible from a road segment is obtained in a native language from a geographic database associated with the navigation system. The parts-of-speech of the preferred name are identified and converted into a target language text providing the preferred name in a target language. A guidance message includes the target language text in the target language.