Weather information notification apparatus and program for the same
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsSatoru Muramatsu, Yoshihiko Sugawara
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Abstract
A weather information notification apparatus mounted to a vehicle is disclosed. The weather information notification apparatus includes: an acquisition section that cyclically acquires information about weather at a point; a record section that stores the acquired information about weather at the point in an external storage medium unit; and a notification section that causes an external notification unit to notify information about non-latest weather at the point, the information about non-latest weather at the point being a piece of the information about weather at the point stored in the external storage medium unit.
Claims6
A weather information notification apparatus mounted to a vehicle, comprising:
- an acquisition section that automatically and cyclically acquires information about weather at a plurality of memory points, each memory point being specified and registered by a user such that the information about weather at the each memory point is to be stored;
- a record section that records and stores the acquired information about weather at the plurality of memory points in an external storage medium unit;
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- a notification section that causes an external notification unit to notify information about non-latest weather at the plurality of memory points, the information about non-latest weather at the each memory point being a piece of the information about weather at the each memory point stored in the external storage medium unit.
A machine readable program for allowing a computer of a weather information notification apparatus to function as:
- an acquisition section that automatically and cyclically acquires information about weather at a plurality of memory points, each memory point being specified and registered by a user such that the information about weather at the each memory point is to be stored;
- a record section that records and stores the acquired information about weather at the plurality of memory points in an external storage medium unit;
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- a notification section that causes an external notification unit to notify information about non-latest weather at the plurality of memory points, the information about non-latest weather at the each memory point being a piece of the information about weather at the each memory point stored in the external storage medium unit.
An in-vehicle navigation apparatus, comprising:
- a storage medium unit;
- a notification unit;
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- a control circuit including:
- an acquisition section that automatically and cyclically acquires information about present weather in multiple areas respectively containing memory points of interest, the memory points of interest being previously selected by a user, and the information about present weather in the multiple areas being provided from an external weather information provider apparatus;
- a record section that records the acquired information about present weather for the multiple areas in the storage medium unit, so that a weather history at the memory points of interest is stored in the storage medium unit;
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- a notification section that causes the notification unit to provide the user with the weather history at any of the memory points of interest stored in the storage medium unit, thereby to assist the user to select a navigation destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.