Patent ID: 8126644
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G01C,G08G,G09B

Abstract:
1. A travel support system, comprising: a terminal; and a server connected to the terminal in a manner capable of communicating information with the terminal via a network, the server controlling the travel support system to notify information concerning an intersection through which a traveling body is allowed to travel, the terminal comprising: a location state information acquirer that acquires location state information concerning a state of a predetermined location; a location state information display controller that controls a location state display to display the location state information having been acquired; a detailed guidance intersection information generator that, when the detailed guidance intersection information generator recognizes that a predetermined one of the intersection indicated by the location state information is set, based on an input manipulation, as a first intersection for which detailed guidance information concerning detailed guidance is notified, generates detailed guidance intersection information telling that the predetermined one of the intersection is set as the first intersection and sends the detailed guidance intersection information to the server; a current position information acquirer that acquires current position information concerning a current position of the traveling body; a destination information acquirer that acquires destination information concerning a position of a destination to which the traveling body travels; a traveling route related information acquirer that acquires traveling route related information concerning a traveling route including the current and the destination and sends the traveling route related information to the server; a detailed guidance information acquirer that acquires the detailed guidance information of the first intersection sent from the server and included in the traveling route of the traveling route related information; an existing guidance information acquirer that acquires existing guidance information concerning the guidance of a second intersection that is included in the traveling route of the traveling route related information and set in advance to notify a more simplified guidance than a guidance of the detailed guidance information; a traveling state determining unit that determines a traveling state of the traveling body based on the current position information and the traveling route related information; and a terminal notification controller that controls a terminal notifier to notify the detailed guidance information when the traveling state determining unit determines that the current position of the traveling body is in the vicinity of the first intersection, and controls the terminal notifier to notify the existing guidance information when the traveling state determining unit determines that the current position is in the vicinity of the second intersection, and the server comprising: a first server information acquirer that acquires the detailed guidance intersection information sent from the terminal; a second server information acquirer that acquires the detailed route related information sent from the terminal; a server storage that stores the detailed guidance information; and a detailed guidance information selector that, when the detailed guidance information selector recognizes that the first intersection that corresponds to the detailed guidance intersection information is included in the traveling route of the traveling route related information, selects the detailed guidance information of the first intersection from the server storage and sends the detailed guidance information of the first intersection to the terminal.