Navigation apparatus, facility information searching method, program thereof, and a recording medium with the program recorded therein
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorsKouichi Ono, Kazuyoshi Kamiyama
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Abstract
The input operation recognizing section 13 recognizes an input operation to execute re-search in the operating section 4. The facility search control section 10 makes the facility search section 9 execute re-search. The re-search by the facility search section 9 is carried out by searching, from facilities belonging to the same group as that of those detected in the previous search, facilities other than those detected in the previous search. With the present invention, when the re-search as described above is to be performed, user's operation for specifying a facility is not required, which improves the convenience in facility search.
Claims14
A navigation apparatus comprising:
- a facility information fetching section for fetching facility information including group information concerning a plurality of groups of facilities, each group including a plurality of facilities belonging to a category and positional information concerning positions of said facilities;
- a facility search section for searching facilities belonging to a specified group based on said facility information;
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- a control section for controlling said facility search section so that, when re-searches the facility, said facility search section searches, from the same group of facility as that of selected in the previous search, facility other than previously selected.
A facility searching method for searching facilities with a computing unit comprising the steps of:
- searching searches facilities belonging to a specified group based on the group information concerning a plurality of groups of facilities, each group including a plurality of facilities belonging to a category, and the positional information concerning positions of said facilities by the computing unit;
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- searching facilities other than those searched previously from the same group as that of the facilities detected in the previous search, when re-searches the facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.