Navigation system and method of displaying quasi-three-dimensional map information
First Claim
1. A navigation system comprising:
- a map data storage medium that stores map data having a uniform reduction scale factor for drawing map information;
a drawing memory corresponding to a display screen; and
a map drawing unit that reads map data from the map data storage medium, draws map information in the drawing memory with regard to a first area including a screen center and a lower part thereunder, and draws map information in the drawing memory with a smaller reduction scale factor than that in the first area, with regard to a second area surrounding the first area.
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Abstract
In displaying map information, a map drawing unit generates map drawing data with an equal scale factor and a coordinate conversion unit does not execute coordinate conversion to an area a including the screen center and the lower area thereof, and writes in a VRAM the map drawing data that maintains the scale factor as it is. Further, the coordinate conversion unit writes in the VRAM map drawing data reduced with a specific reduction scale factor only in the horizontal direction as to each of the areas on the left and right of the area a; map drawing data reduced with a specific reduction scale factor only in the vertical direction as to the area directly above the area a; and map drawing data reduced with specific reduction scale factors both in the horizontal and vertical directions as to each of the areas located obliquely left above and obliquely right above the area a. Thus, the navigation system of the invention lightens the burden of calculation processing, displays detailed information of the most important area surrounding the vehicle position, and provides a seemingly bird'"'"'s-eye view display, namely, quasi-three-dimensional map information, that gives a user an extensive view.
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1. A navigation system comprising:
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a map data storage medium that stores map data having a uniform reduction scale factor for drawing map information;
a drawing memory corresponding to a display screen; and
a map drawing unit that reads map data from the map data storage medium, draws map information in the drawing memory with regard to a first area including a screen center and a lower part thereunder, and draws map information in the drawing memory with a smaller reduction scale factor than that in the first area, with regard to a second area surrounding the first area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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12. A method of displaying quasi-three-dimensional map information, comprising:
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reading map data corresponding to an area wider than an area required for displaying the map information with an equal scale factor;
drawing the map information, as to a horizontal reduction scale factor for a display screen, by setting a reduction scale factor for a first area to a first reference value, setting a reduction scale factor for areas on the sides of the first area to a first value smaller than the first reference value, and as to a vertical reduction scale factor for the display screen, by setting a reduction scale factor for a lower area to a second reference value, setting a reduction scale factor for an area above the lower area to a second value smaller than the second reference value; and
displaying the drawn map information on the display screen.
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17. A method of displaying map information, comprising:
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reading map data for an area to be displayed, where the map data are defined with respect to an X, Y coordinate system;
identifying a first area within the area to be displayed;
drawing map information based on the map data, where map information for the first area is drawn in accordance with a first scale factor in at least one of the coordinate directions, and map information for at least part of a second area within the area to be displayed that is outside the first area is drawn with a scale factor smaller than the first scale factor in the at least one coordinate direction; and
displaying the drawn map information for the area to be displayed.
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