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US 2016/0102991 A1Published application
Navigation apparatus and mapping system using personal contacts
AssigneeEsther Abramovich Ettinger
InventorEsther Abramovich Ettinger
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Abstract
A navigation apparatus and method which uses personal contact-based route guidance. A route guidance generator receives information about personal contacts including a location, a description and a rating value for route guidance and generates route guidance suitable for navigation applications. The personal contacts based guidance can be combined with normal street and maneuver based guidance.
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A navigation apparatus comprising:
- a route guidance information generator, operable on a computer processor, configured to receive a plurality of personal contacts that comprise one or more of:
- a location information,
- a description, and
- a route guidance criteria;
- and
- further configured to generate and store, in a computer memory, route guidance information for each personal contact to be used for route guidance for routes that traverse near each personal contact.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computer processor, a plurality of personal contacts comprising:
- a location information,
- a description,
- a route guidance criteria;
- and
- generating a map, on a display device, including a plurality of indications corresponding the location of the personal contact's location within the bounds of the map.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.