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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Philippe Kaplan, Le Rouret, FR;
Georges-Henri Moll, Villeneuve-Loubet, FR;
Xavier Nodet, Antibes, FR;
Olivier Oudot, Vallauris, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A navigation system which includes a central processing unit; a nonvolatile storage for storing digitized map data; a road sinuosity S(R) of a route including a plurality of digitized road segments calculated from a starting point to a destination point to be traveled by a user by summing the rotation angle of each of the road segments divided by the distance of each of the road segments; a module to determine an estimated travel time of the route; a module to determine a corrected travel time using the road sinuosity S(R); and a display to display the corrected travel time.