IP Library Granted Patent US 8,315,801
Granted Patent B2
US 8,315,801 · App. 12/281,737 · Granted Nov 20, 2012

Information terminal device, method for controlling information terminal device, recording medium on which program for controlling information terminal device is recorded, and communication network

Assignees: Pioneer Corporation; Increment P Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,315,801
App. No.
12/281,737
Granted
Nov 20, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An information terminal device that clearly displays routes and directions to be taken is provided. A method for controlling the information terminal device, a program for controlling the information terminal device, a recording medium on which the program for controlling the information terminal device is recorded, and a communication network are also provided. An information terminal device displays surrounding area information including a display of the destination and a symbol representing the street leading to the destination from an exit of the nearest station, and image information formed by adding an arrow representing the direction toward the destination to a photograph of the street leading to the destination from the exit of the nearest station.

Claims (30)

1. An information terminal device which transmits and receives information to and from a server device via a network, comprising:

an input device which inputs destination information indicative of a destination by a user,

a transmitting device which transmits the inputted destination information to the server device,

a receiving device which receives, from the server device, image information indicative of a three-dimensional image viewed from a station exit of public transportation, and

a display device which displays the received image information,

wherein the receiving device receives the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image which includes a road directed to the destination among a plurality of roads connected to a station exit in a surrounding area of the destination designated by the destination information, and in which an arrow indicative of a direction to the destination is superimposed on the road, and

the display device displays the received image information indicative of the three-dimensional image in a case where a present position is at the station exit in the surrounding area of the destination, and

wherein the three-dimensional image is an image indicative of a direction away from the station exit along the road from one of a plurality of positions in proximity to the station exit which correspond to a plurality of the roads connected to the station exit, the image being associated with one of a plurality of the positions, and

the receiving device receives the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image associated with a position which a road directed to the destination includes, and wherein the three-dimensional image is an image which directs a user from the station exit to the destination.

2. An information terminal device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image is photograph information.

3. A method for controlling an information terminal device which transmits and receives information to and from a server device via a network, comprising:

inputting destination information indicative of a destination by a user,

transmitting the inputted destination information to the server device,

receiving, from the server device, image information indicative of a three-dimensional image viewed from a station exit of public transportation, and

displaying the received image information,

wherein the receiving the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image viewed from the station exit of public transportation comprises receiving the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image which includes a road directed to the destination among a plurality of roads connected to a station exit in a surrounding area of the destination designated by the destination information, and in which an arrow indicative of a direction to the destination is superimposed on the road, and

the displaying comprises displaying the received image information indicative of the three-dimensional image in a case where a present position is at the station exit in the surrounding area of the destination, and

wherein the three-dimensional image is an image indicative of a direction away from the station exit along the road from one of a plurality of positions in proximity to the station exit which correspond to a plurality of the roads connected to the station exit, the image being associated with one of a plurality of the positions, and

receiving the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image associated with a position which a road directed to the destination includes, and wherein the three-dimensional image is an image which directs a user from the station exit to the destination.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium where a program for controlling an information terminal device which transmits and receives information to and from a server device via a network is recorded,

the program causing a computer in the information terminal device to function as:

an input device which inputs destination information indicative of a destination by a user,

a transmitting device which transmits the inputted destination information to the server device,

a receiving device which receives, from the server device, image information indicative of a three-dimensional image viewed from a station exit of public transportation, and

a display device which displays the received image information,

wherein the receiving device receives the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image which includes a road directed to the destination among a plurality of roads connected to a station exit in a surrounding area of the destination designated by the destination information, and in which an arrow indicative of a direction to the destination is superimposed on the road, and

the display device displays the received image information indicative of the three-dimensional image in a case where a present position is at the station exit in the surrounding area of the destination, and

wherein the three-dimensional image is an image indicative of a direction away from the station exit along the road from one of a plurality of positions in proximity to the station exit which correspond to a plurality of the roads connected to the station exit, the image being associated with one of a plurality of the positions, and

the receiving device receives the image information indicative of the three-dimensional image associated with a position which a road directed to the destination includes, and wherein the three-dimensional image is an image which directs a user from the station exit to the destination.

Assignments (6)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 24, 2022
From: INCREMENT P CORPORATION
To: GEOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Reel/Frame 060883/0889 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 25, 2022
From: PIP HOLDINGS K.K.
To: INCREMENT P CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 059099/0246 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2021
From: PIONEER CORPORATION
To: PIP HOLDINGS K.K.
Reel/Frame 058359/0292 →
MERGER Recorded Aug 18, 2021
From: PIONEER CORPORATION; INCREMENT P CORPORATION
To: PIONEER CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057213/0675 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2010
From: DOAN, DAVID WAYNE, MR
To: PELLITECH L.L.C.
Reel/Frame 024123/0429 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 9, 2009
From: TAKAGI, TETSUO
To: PIONEER CORPORATION; INCREMENT P CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022083/0817 →
Priority Claims (1)
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Continuity (1)
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