Route guidance system

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20090201176A1
SERIAL NO

10333677

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Provided is a route guidance system that provides a route in premises in order to perform service of route guidance in the premises, which includes: a route guidance apparatus, which is comprised of visible region calculation means that calculates a range where a user can see, signpost extraction means that extracts a signpost to be guided from a visible region, route search means that searches the route from a starting point to a destination, route information generation means that comprises guidance map generation means that generates a map for guidance and guidance sentence generation means that generates the guidance sentence, route leading means that obtains current positional information to send appropriate guidance information to a portable terminal, and position determination means that performs coordinate conversion to information from a position detection apparatus of the user; a portable terminal apparatus including a user interface, which displays an image or a route guidance sentence; a position detection apparatus that obtains current positional information of the user; a map DB that stores data/signpost information regarding the route; a guidance sentence DB that stores basic data for generating the guidance sentence; and route information data that stores guidance data output from the route information generation means.

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PANASONIC CORPORATION1006 OAZA KADOMA KADOMA-SHI OSAKA 571-8501

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Furukawa, Yoshiyuki Tokyo , JP 4 97
Shimada, Takanori Tokyo , JP 13 475

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