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Article: Japanese Inventors Vehicle Navigation System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 20 -- Daisuke Manabe of Kariya, Japan, and Takamitsu Suzuki of Okazaki, Japan, have developed a vehicle navigation system.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle navigation system includes a computer-based control unit with a display unit. A group of regions or spots on a given map are designated beforehand as on-map targets. A judgement is made as to whether a predetermined condition for each on-map target, having been set beforehand, is fulfilled or not based on vehicle traveling conditions. The result of judgement is memorized."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "A user is informed directly or indirectly of ...