Information display system for vehicle navigation

Claim 2

A navigation display system as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said receipt information analyses means outputs at least one part of said individual information as an icon, and said individual information display means displays said at least one part of said individual information as said icon.

Claim 3

A navigation display system as defined in claim 1, further comprising an icon setting means (62) for setting up an icon corresponding to said individual information output from said individual information memory, wherein said individual information display means displays at least one part of said individual information with an icon from said icon setting means (62).

Claim 4

A navigation display system as defined in claim 1, characterized in that said special location is a car's position.

Claim 5

An information display system, comprising a map display domain setting means (53) to set a display domain of a map, a map memory means to store a map data, a map display means (54) to read out and display said map data corresponding to a domain set by said map display domain setting means from said map memory means, a retrieval range setting means (60) to set a retrieval range including at least a retrieve object property in order to retrieve a needed information from retrieved objective data, a data transmission means to transmit said retrieval range set by said retrieval range setting means, a data receiver to receive data sent from outside, said data including at least one individual information retrieved according to said retrieval range transmitted by said data transmission means and an information relating to at least position on said map contained in said individual information, a received data analysis means (61) to discriminate said individual information contained in said data received by said data receiver, an icon setting means (62) to set an icon decided by said retrieve object property according to said every individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, an icon display position setting means (63) to set a display position of said icon set by said icon setting means (62) based on said information of said position on said map contained in said individual information and said map display domain set by said map display domain setting means according to said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, and an icon display means (64) to display said icon set by said icon setting means (62) according to said every individual information discriminated by received data analysis means (61), on the map displayed by said map display means (54), at said position set by said icon display position setting means (63), whereby said information display system characterized by displaying said icon on said map corresponding to said individual information retrieved in a range of said set retrieval range.

Claim 6

An information display system as defined in claim 5, further comprising an icon property setting means (65) for changing a display form of said icon set by said icon setting means (62), according to said icon property information contained in said individual information sent from the outside, wherein said icon display means (64) displaying said icon set by the icon setting means (62), corresponding to said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means (61), on the map displayed by said map display means (54), at said position set by said icon display position setting means (63), according to a display form set by said icon property setting means (65), thereby said display form of said icon is changeable according to said icon property information contained in said individual information.

Claim 7

An information display system as defined in claim 5 or 6, further comprising a retrieval range display means for displaying a domain showing a retrieval object area contained in said retrieval range and set by said retrieval range setting means (60) on the map top, thereby said retrieval object area is indicated on the map.

Claim 8

An information display system as defined in claim 7, further comprising a temporary memory means for memorizing said retrieval object area of said data received by said data receiver and a receipt time displayed by said retrieval range drawing means when receiving said data, thereby a range of said data already received and stored in said temporary memory means and said receipt time are displayed by said retrieval range drawing means.

Claim 9

An information display system as defined in claim 5 or 6, further comprising an icon store means to store plurality of said icons, thereby said icon set by said icon setting means (62) are selectively provided from said icon store means.

Claim 10

An information display system as defined in claim 5 or 6, wherein said individual information sent from outside contains an another icon furthermore and said icon setting means (62) sets said another icon contained in said individual information.

Claim 11

An information display system as defined in claim 10, further comprising an icon store means to store plurality of said icons, and an icon presence judgement means to judge presence of a needed icon in said icon store means and to provide an icon request command to said data transmission means when said needed icon does not present, thereby an icon transmission request is transmitted using said data transmission means when said icon presence judgement means judges no presence of said needed icon.

Claim 12

An information display system as defined in claim 5 or 6, further comprising an icon overlap judgement means to judge overlap between said icons from size of an icon and position of said icon set by said icon display position setting means (63), and to generate a resetting command to said icon display position setting means (63), said map display domain setting means (53) or said icon property setting means (65) when said icons are overlapped, thereby when said overlap between said icons is judged by said icon overlap judgement means, said display position of said icon is changed by said icon overlap judgement means, said map display domain is changed by said map display domain setting means (53), or said size of said icon is changed by said icon property setting means, so that said overlap between said icons is controlled to be less than half of said size of said icon.

Claim 13

An information display system, comprising a data receiver to receive data sent from outside, said data including at least one individual information containing an icon information capable to at least set icon, a received data analysis means (61) for discriminating said individual information contained in the data received by said data receiver, an icon setting means (62) to set said icon according to said icon information contained in said every individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, an icon display position setting means (63) to set a display position of said icon set by said icon setting means (62) based on said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means (61), an icon display means (64) to display said icon set by said icon setting means (62) according to said every individual information discriminated by received data analysis means, at said position set by said icon display position setting means, a received data / position memory means to respectively store said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, with said display position of said icon set by said icon display position setting means an icon select means (67) capable to select one of said icons displayed by said icon display means, and a detailed data display means (69) to retrieve said individual information corresponding to said icon selected by said icon select means (67), from said received data / position memory means and to display detailed data relating to said individual information taken out, thereby said individual information sent from outside is displayed by using said icon, and said icon is provided capable to be selected, and when said icon is selected, said detailed data of said individual information are displayed furthermore.

Claim 14

An information display system as defined in claim 13, further comprising a map display domain setting means (53) to set a display domain of said map, a map memory means to store map data, and a map display means (54) to read out said map said domain set by said map display domain setting means (53) from said map memory means, wherein said individual information sent from outside contains information relating to said position on said map furthermore, and said icon display position setting means (63) sets said position to display said icon set by said icon setting means (62) based on information about said position on said map contained by said individual information, and display domain of said map set by said map display domain setting means (53), according to the every individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, thereby when said icon is selected, an information about said individual information is displayed corresponding to said icon.

Claim 15

An information display system as defined in claim 13 or 14, wherein said individual information sent from outside contains added information furthermore, said detailed data display means (69) displays said added information contained in said individual information corresponding to said selected icon, and when said icon is selected, said information about said individual information is retrieved from said received data.

Claim 16

An information display system as defined in claim 13 or 14, further comprising an inside data store means to store said detailed data, and an inside data retrieval means (68) to retrieve said information related to said individual information from said inside data store means based on said individual information which comes under an icon selected provided by icon select means mentioned above, thereby said detailed information relating to said individual information selected is retrieved from said inside data stored beforehand, and said detailed information is displayed relating to said individual information corresponding to said selected icon.

Claim 17

An information display system as defined in claim 16, wherein said individual information sent from outside contains said added information furthermore, said detailed data display means (69) displays said detailed information provided by said inside data retrieval means (68) and said added information contained in said individual information, said detailed information relating to said corresponding individual information taken out from said inside data stored beforehand, and said added information contained in said corresponding individual information are displayed as an information relating to the individual information corresponding to said selected icon.

Claim 18

An information display system, comprising a map display domain setting means (53) to set a display domain of a map, a map memory means to store a map data, a map display means (54) to read out and display said map data corresponding to a domain set by said map display domain setting means (53) from said map memory means, a retrieval range setting means (60) to set a retrieval range including at least a retrieve object property in order to retrieve a needed information from retrieved objective data, a data transmission means to transmit said retrieval range set by said retrieval range setting means, a data receiver to receive data sent from outside, said data including at least one individual information retrieved according to said retrieval range transmitted by said data transmission means and an information relating to at least position on said map contained in said individual information, a received data analysis means (61) to discriminate said individual information contained in said data received by said data receiver, an icon setting means (62) to set an icon decided by said retrieve object property according to said every individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means (61), an icon property setting means (65) to change a display form of said icon set by said icon setting means according to an icon property information contained in said individual information, an icon display position setting means to set a display position of said icon set by said icon setting means based on said information of said position on said map contained in said individual information and said map display domain set by said map display domain setting means according to said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, an icon display means (64) to display said icon set by said icon setting means according to said every individual information discriminated by received data analysis means, on the map displayed by said map display means, at said position set by said icon display position setting means, a received data / position memory means to respectively store said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means (61), with said display position of said icon set by said icon display position setting means, an icon select means (67) capable to select one of said icons displayed by said icon display means (64), an inside data store means store said detailed data, an inside data retrieval means (68) to retrieve said information related to said individual information corresponding to said icon selected by said icon select means from said inside data store means, and a detailed data display means (69) to display said detailed information retrieved by said inside data search means, whereby said icon is displayed on said map corresponding to said individual information retrieved in a range of said retrieval range set by said retrieval range setting means (60) so as to be capable of being selected said icon, and when said icon is selected, said detailed information is displayed relating to said individual information corresponding to said selected icon stored beforehand in said inside data store means.

Claim 19

An information display system as defined in claim 18, further comprising a select icon emphasis means (70) to emphasize said icon selected with said icon select means (67) by changing a display form of said icon which is displayed, and said icon selected by said icon select means (67) is displayed to be easily distinguished from said icon which is not selected.

Claim 20

An information display system as defined in claim 18 or 19, further comprising a detailed information display domain setting means to set a display domain of said detailed information taken out by said inside data retrieval means, a display configuration change means to change configuration on a screen of the display when said icon is selected by said icon select means or said detailed data display means finishes to display said detailed information, thereby said display configuration on the screen is changed when said detailed information relating to said individual information selected by said icon select means is displayed and said map displaying said icon selected by said icon select means and said detailed information are displayed on the same screen.

Claim 21

An information display system as defined in claim 18 or 19, further comprising a detailed data display domain calculation means to calculate a display domain of said detailed data taken out by said inside data retrieval means from said display position of said selected icon obtained by said received data /position memory means, wherein when said detailed information relating to said individual information selected by said icon select means is displayed, a map displaying said icon selected by said icon select means and said detailed information are displayed on a same screen by displaying said detailed information at a domain that doesn't cover said selected icon.

Claim 22

An information display system, comprising an individual information receiver to obtain data transmitted from information offering servers connected through a network, an information memory means to store an information provided by said individual information receiver, an individual information updating means (81) to store said information provided by said individual information receiver in said information memory means, a data receiver to receive a retrieval range of said individual information, a data retrieval means to retrieve data stored in said information memory means according to said retrieval range of said individual information provided by said data receiver, a data processing means to process one or more said individual information taken out by said data retrieval means, a data transmission means to transmit a retrieved result of said data retrieval means processed by said data processing means mentioned above, thereby said individual information provided from said information offering servers on a said network is obtained and is stored, and an information conforming to said retrieval range is retrieved from said stored individual information and is transmitted.

Claim 23

An information display system as defined in claim 22, wherein characterized in that said information sent from said information offering servers (3) connected to through said network contains different information whenever being sent, and said individual information stored in said information memory means is renewed by using said latest information sent from the information offering server (3).

Claim 24

An information display system as defined in claim 22 or 23, wherein characterized by further comprising a server information store means memorizing kind of said information, address, and access method offered by said information offering servers according to said respective information offering servers, a retrieval object server setting means to set a server to offer said individual information from said information offering servers registered in said server information store means, and an individual information request means (87) to request offering of said information by accessing said information offering servers set by said retrieval object server setting means, thereby a latest information is obtained by accessing said information offering servers (3) and said individual information is renewed by storing said latest information in said information store means.

Claim 25

An information display system as defined in claim 24, wherein characterized in that whenever time set beforehand passes, said individual information request means obtains said latest information by accessing said information offering servers (3), and said individual information is renewed by storing the latest information in said information memory means.

Claim 26

An information display system as defined in claim 24, wherein characterized in that said retrieve object server setting means (86) sets said information offering server (3) for obtaining said individual information on the basis of said retrieval range of the individual information received by said data receiver, said individual information request means (87) obtains said individual information by accessing the information offering server (3) which responds a case that said retrieve object server setting means (86) sets the information offering server for obtaining said individual information so as to offer said latest information, and said individual information is renewed by using said latest information.

Claim 27

An information display system as defined in claim 22, wherein characterized further comprising a conventional format setting means to set a format to be stored in said information memory means, and a selected object data setting means to limit property of said data stored in said information memory means, whereby when said individual information updating means (81) stores said individual information from the information offering server which is obtained by said individual information receiver into said information memory means, and said individual information is changed into a format set by said conventional format setting means so as to be stored, or said information memory means only stores property set by said selected object data setting means, thereby quantity of said individual information is controlled to be optimum.

Claim 28

An information display system as defined in claim 22, wherein characterized in that data to receive a message by data receiver mentioned above contain amount of information reduction request presence information furthermore, and when an information amount reduction request is ordered, said data processing means reduces said information provided from said information retrieval means by a method determined beforehand so that communication complexity is controlled to be optimum.

Claim 29

A navigation system comprising: an information display system comprising: a map display domain setting means (53) for setting a display domain of a map, a map memory means to store map data of said map, a map display means (54) to read out and display said map belonging to said domain set by said map display domain setting means (53) from said map memory means, a retrieval range setting means (60) to set a retrieval range containing at least a retrieval object property for retrieving an information from a retrieve object, a data transmission means to transmit said retrieval range set by said retrieval range setting means, a data receiver for receiving data sent from outside including one or more individual information retrieved according to said retrieval range transmitted by said data transmission means, said individual information containing at least an information about position on said map and an icon property information, a received data analysis means (61) for distinguishing said individual information contained in the data received by said data receiver, an icon setting means (62) to set an icon decided according to a retrieve object property of said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means, an icon property setting means (65) to change a display form of said icon set by said icon setting means (62) based on said icon property information contained in said individual information, an icon drawing position setting means to set a display position of said icon set by said icon setting means from said information about said position on said map contained in said individual information and said display domain of said map set by said map display domain setting means (53) according to said individual information discriminated from by said received data analysis means, an icon display means (64) to display said individual information discriminated from by said received data analysis means (61) and said icon set by said icon setting means (62) at said position set by said icon drawing position setting means on the map displayed by said map display means, a received data / position memory means to respectively store said individual information discriminated by said received data analysis means (61), with said display position of said icon set by said icon display position setting means, an icon select means (67) capable to select one of said icons displayed by said icon display means (64), an inside data store means store said detailed data, an inside data retrieval means (68) to retrieve said information related to said individual information corresponding to said icon selected by said icon select means from said inside data store means, a detailed data display means (69) to display a detailed information retrieved by said inside data retrieval means (68), and an information offering equipment comprising: an individual information receiver to obtain data transmitted from information offering servers connected through a network, an information memory means to store an information provided by said individual information receiver, an individual information updating means (81) to store said information provided by said individual information receiver in said information memory means, a data receiver to receive a retrieval range of said individual information, a data retrieval means (68) to retrieve data stored in said information memory means according to said retrieval range of said individual information provided by said data receiver, a data processing means to process one or more said individual information taken out by said data retrieval means, and a data transmission means to transmit a retrieved result of said data retrieval means processed by said data processing means mentioned above, and a communication means to receive a said data transmitted from said information offering equipment with said information display system mentioned, whereby a necessary information is retrieved based on a latest individual information provided by said information offering server, said provided individual information is displayed on said map, and said latest individual information is simply displayed with a little communication complexity by storing said detailed information related to said individual information in said information display system.