System and methodologies for visual relevancy-grading of a navigation map
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1. A system for outputting a relevancy-graded navigation map, comprising:
- a transceiver to receive map data, vehicle location data, and road data, the map data being indicative of a navigation map configured to be output to an operator of a vehicle inside the vehicle, the map data comprising map elements, each map element indicating a feature of interest to the operator of the vehicle on the navigation map, the location data being indicative of the current location of the vehicle, and the road data being indicative of one or more changeable road conditions;
means for determining a relevancy parameter for each map element based on the map data related to the map element, the location data, and the road data, and creating a relevancy-graded navigation map using the relevancy parameters;
a graphical user interface coupled to the vehicle for controlling the output of the relevancy-graded navigation map to the operator of the vehicle and dynamically displaying the relevancy of each map element as the relevancy parameters change in real-time, the dynamic displaying of the relevancy including changing at least one of the an opacity, a saturation, or a color of each map element in response to a real time-time change in relevancy parameter, wherein the relevancy parameter and resulting display of relevancy is determined, at least in part, based on the relevance of each map element to operating the vehicle anda trigger module to generate trigger data after detecting an occurrence of one or more conditions in the vehicle, wherein relevancy parameters are not determined for each map element until the trigger data has been generated,wherein the one or more conditions includes whether the vehicle is moving at or above a certain speed.
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Abstract
An in-vehicle system and method for presenting a relevancy-graded navigation map to a driver of a vehicle. The relevancy-graded navigation deemphasizes map elements that are not relevant to driving the vehicle. The relevancy-graded navigation map allows the driver to focus more on controlling the vehicle by reducing the amount of time it takes to interpret a navigation map.
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1. A system for outputting a relevancy-graded navigation map, comprising:
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a transceiver to receive map data, vehicle location data, and road data, the map data being indicative of a navigation map configured to be output to an operator of a vehicle inside the vehicle, the map data comprising map elements, each map element indicating a feature of interest to the operator of the vehicle on the navigation map, the location data being indicative of the current location of the vehicle, and the road data being indicative of one or more changeable road conditions; means for determining a relevancy parameter for each map element based on the map data related to the map element, the location data, and the road data, and creating a relevancy-graded navigation map using the relevancy parameters; a graphical user interface coupled to the vehicle for controlling the output of the relevancy-graded navigation map to the operator of the vehicle and dynamically displaying the relevancy of each map element as the relevancy parameters change in real-time, the dynamic displaying of the relevancy including changing at least one of the an opacity, a saturation, or a color of each map element in response to a real time-time change in relevancy parameter, wherein the relevancy parameter and resulting display of relevancy is determined, at least in part, based on the relevance of each map element to operating the vehicle and a trigger module to generate trigger data after detecting an occurrence of one or more conditions in the vehicle, wherein relevancy parameters are not determined for each map element until the trigger data has been generated, wherein the one or more conditions includes whether the vehicle is moving at or above a certain speed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for outputting a relevancy-graded navigation map, comprising:
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a navigation map module to receive map data and road data, the map data being indicative of a navigation map configured to be output to an operator of a vehicle, the map data comprising one or more map elements that indicate features of interest to the operator of the vehicle, each map element comprising data indicative of a map element type and data indicative of a graphic related to the map element, and the road data being indicative of one or more changeable road conditions; a location determination module to determine location data of the vehicle, the location data indicative of the current position of the vehicle, the current rate of travel of the vehicle, and the current direction of travel of the vehicle; a relevancy parameter determination module to determine a relevancy parameter for each map element based on the map data related to the map element, the location data, and the road data; a relevancy map module to generate relevancy-graded map elements by modifying the data indicative of the graphic of each map element based on the relevancy parameter of each map element, and control the generation of a relevancy-graded navigation map using the relevancy-graded map elements; a graphical user interface coupled to the vehicle for outputting the relevancy-graded navigation map to the operator of the vehicle; and a trigger module to generate trigger data after detecting an occurrence of one or more conditions in the vehicle, wherein relevancy parameters are not determined for each map element until the trigger data has been generated, wherein the one or more conditions includes whether the vehicle is moving at or above a certain speed.
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11. A method of displaying a navigation map on an in-vehicle system comprising:
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receiving map data and location data, the map data being indicative of a navigation map configured to be output to an operator of a vehicle, the map data comprising one or more map elements, each map element comprising data indicative of a map element type and data indicative of a graphic related to the map element, and the location data being indicative of a current position of the vehicle; determining a relevancy parameter for each map element based on the map data and the location data; for each map element, generating a relevancy-graded map element based on the relevancy parameter by modifying the data indicative of the graphic for each relevancy-graded map element; controlling the generation of a relevancy-graded navigation map using the relevancy-graded map elements; detecting whether a triggering condition exists, wherein determining a relevancy parameter only occurs when the triggering condition exists, and wherein the triggering condition includes whether the vehicle is moving at or above a certain speed. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A road relevancy mapping module embodied in one or more non-transitory machine accessible storage media, the road relevancy mapping module comprising instructions executable by one or more processors to cause an electronic device to:
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receive map data and location data, the map data being indicative of a navigation map configured to be output to an operator of a vehicle, the map data comprising one or more map elements, each map element comprising data indicative of a map element type and data indicative of a graphic related to the map element, and the location data being indicative of a current position of the vehicle; determine a relevancy parameter for each map element based on the map data and the location data; for each map element, generate a relevancy-graded map element based on the relevancy parameter by modifying the data indicative of the graphic for each relevancy-graded map element; control the generation of a relevancy-graded navigation map using the relevancy-graded map elements automatically once a triggering condition is met, the triggering condition includes whether the vehicle is moving at or above a certain speed; and output the relevancy-graded navigation map to a graphical user interface associated with the operator of the vehicle.
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