US 12,140,433 B2
Apparatus and method for route planning
Jun Yamabayashi, Sayama (JP); Takatoshi Morita, Nishinomiya (JP); and Masato Okuda, Kyoto (JP)
Assigned to FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Nishinomiya (JP)
Filed by Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., Nishinomiya (JP)
Filed on Jul. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/875,416.
Application 17/875,416 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/000479, filed on Jan. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-021623 (JP), filed on Feb. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0364865 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G01C 21/00 (2006.01); B63B 49/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); B63B 79/40 (2020.01)
CPC G01C 21/20 (2013.01) [B63B 49/00 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A route planning apparatus for planning a navigation route of a ship, comprising:
a display;
an operation interface configured to receive one or more user inputs;
a storage configured to store plural base points to be used for navigation; and
processing circuitry configured to:
set a waypoint on a chart displayed on the display in response to a first input that is received by the operation interface;
extract potential base points from the stored plural base points that an within a predetermined range of the set waypoint;
display the extracted potential base points on a screen of the display; and
in response to a second input that is received by the operation interface, select one base point from among the potential base points to be a base point for navigating with resect to the set waypoint.