Audio interactive navigation system, mobile terminal device, and audio interactive server

• Main Authors: NIIE, MANABU, SHIOYA, MAKOTO, KAMIWAKI, TADASHI, KUJIRAI, TOSHIHIRO, MORIOKA, MICHIO, KUZUNUKI, SOSHIRO, OHTSUJI, SHINYA, OKUDE, MARIKO, AMANO, AKIO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 31.03.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ACOUSTICS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; NAVIGATION; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SPEECH ANALYSIS OR SYNTHESIS; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SURVEYING; TESTING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

The present invention is characterized in that the car navigation system for, at the time of desiring map information, traffic information, and other required information in a car, inquiring an information distribution service provider (106) for distributing the information is composed of a moving terminal device (100) which can be operated to input and output voice, a communication device (111), an audio interactive server (105) which can input and output voice and data, is connected to an external device and the Internet (107) on the basis of audio interactions by the voice recognition process and voice synthesis process, and executes information transfer, and one or a plurality of information distribution service providers (106) connected to the Internet (107) for distributing information such as map information and traffic information.