18900886. NAVIGATION APPARATUS (TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA)
NAVIGATION APPARATUS
Organization Name
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor(s)
Ryusaku Yamamoto of Itabashi-ku JP
Kohei Watanabe of Adachi-ku JP
Takehira Ota of Inazawa-shi JP
Shinya Hirosawa of Nisshin-shi JP
Shintaro Matsutani of Kariya-shi JP
NAVIGATION APPARATUS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18900886 titled 'NAVIGATION APPARATUS
Original Abstract Submitted
A navigation apparatus of the present disclosure is a navigation apparatus to be mounted in a vehicle and configured to provide guidance on a route that the vehicle is to travel, and includes a positional information acquisition interface, a memory, an output interface configured to output information to a user, and a controller. The positional information acquisition interface is configured to acquire a current position of the vehicle. The memory is configured to store map information. The controller is configured to extract a guidance location on the route based on the current position and the map information, estimate a predicted time taken until arrival at the guidance location, and cause the output interface to output the predicted time.