Navigation system for land vehicles that learns and incorporates preferred navigation routes

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 6505118
APP PUB NO 20020111736A1
SERIAL NO

09769898

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An adaptive navigation system for a land vehicle is provided that incorporates learned segments of preferred routes into adaptive calculated routes. The navigation system preferably includes a global positioning system or other sources of locator system data and a data processor that may be programmed with destination data and current location data. The data storage apparatus is capable of recording current location data as the vehicle travels to a destination. The system automatically develops a database of a plurality of segments of preferred routes where those segments are different from the route normally calculated by the data processor. On future occasions when the navigation system is used, the data processor is able to incorporate segments of preferred routes in an adaptive calculated route determination when the segments are within a predetermined degree of similarity to the calculated route.

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  • FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chowanic, Andrea Bowes Farmington Hills, MI 14 356
Hermann, Thomas Joseph Troy, MI 25 602
Porter, Mark Edward Dearborn, MI 6 284

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