Method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location and related personal navigation device
AssigneeMitac International Corp.
InventorRichard Stanton
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Abstract
A method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location includes receiving instructions from the user to create navigation instructions to the destination location, determining that the destination location is in an urban area, querying whether the user requires parking, and presenting a plurality of nearby parking areas to the user when the user requests parking, receiving the user's choice of a selected parking area from the plurality of nearby parking areas presented to the user, and planning a route to the destination location using the selected parking area as an intermediate destination.
Claims14
A method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location, the method comprising:
- receiving, through a user interface of the personal navigation device, instructions from the user to create navigation instructions to the destination location;
- determining, with routing software executed by a processor of the personal navigation device, if the destination location is in an urban area, wherein determining that the destination location is in the urban area is performed by determining that a number of streets within a predetermined radius of the destination location is greater than a threshold value;
- querying, with the user interface of the personal navigation device, whether the user requires parking only when the destination location is in the urban area, and selecting a parking area when the user requests parking;
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- after determining that the destination location is located in the urban area and the parking area has been selected, planning, with the routing software executed by the processor of the personal navigation device, a route to the destination location using the parking area as an intermediate destination.
A personal navigation device for assisting a user with parking nearby a destination location, the personal navigation device comprising:
- a map database comprising map and address data;
- routing software for receiving instructions from the user to create navigation instructions to the destination location and determining if the destination location is in an urban area, wherein determining that the destination location is in the urban area is performed by determining that a number of streets within a predetermined radius of the destination location is greater than a threshold value;
- a user interface for querying whether the user requires parking only when the destination location is in the urban area, and selecting a parking area when the user requests parking;
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- a processor for controlling operation of the personal navigation device, and after determining that the destination location is located in the urban area and the parking area has been selected, executing the routing software for planning a route to the destination location using the parking area as an intermediate destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.