Navigation system

• US 20050102100A1
• Filed: 10/07/2004
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Norimoto, Masatsugu
• Application Number:
  US10/959,396
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102100A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/209
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635

Abstract

A navigation system includes: a map data storage device that stores map data including a not-yet-checked area having roads not yet checked for navigability; a path search processing block that searches a path to a destination based on the map data stored in the map data storage device; a map display block that does not make roads in the not-yet-checked area objects to be displayed when the path searched by the path search processing block does not pass the not-yet-checked area, and that makes only roads constructing the path of the roads in the not-yet-checked area objects to be displayed when the path passes the not-yet-checked area; and a screen display device that displays the roads, which are made the objects to be displayed by the map display block based on the map data in the map data storage device.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

a map data storage device that stores map data including a not-yet-checked area having roads that are not yet checked for navigability;

a path search processing block that searches a path from a predetermined position to a destination on the basis of the map data stored in the map data storage device;

a map display block that does not make roads in the not-yet-checked area objects to be displayed when the path searched by the path search processing block does not pass in the not-yet-checked area, and that makes only roads constructing the path of the roads in the not-yet-checked area objects to be displayed when the path searched by the path search processing block passes in the not-yet-checked area; and

a screen display device that displays the roads which are made the objects to be displayed by the map display block on the basis of the map data stored in the map data storage device.

4. The navigation system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the roads constructing the path of the roads in the not-yet-checked area are displayed in a manner different from a manner displaying roads constructing the path of roads that are not included in the not-yet-checked area.

2. A navigation system comprising:

a map data storage device that stores map data including a not-yet-checked area having roads that are not yet checked for navigability;

a path search processing block that searches a path from a predetermined position to a destination on the basis of the map data stored in the map data storage device;

a map display block that does not make roads in the not-yet-checked area objects to be displayed when the path searched by the path search processing block does not pass in the not-yet-checked area, and that makes only roads constructing the path of the roads in the not-yet-checked area and roads which are connected to the roads constructing the path and exist within a predetermined range, objects to be displayed when the path searched by the path search processing block passes in the not-yet-checked area; and

a screen display device that displays the roads which are made the objects to be displayed by the map display block on the basis of the map data stored in the map data storage device.

3. The navigation system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the roads which are connected to the roads constructing the path of the roads in the not-yet-checked area and exist within a predetermined range, are one or a plurality of road links further connected to all road links connected to roads constructing the path and exist within a predetermined distance from the roads constructing the path.

5. The navigation system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the roads constructing the path of the roads in the not-yet-checked area are displayed in a manner different from a manner displaying roads constructing the path of roads outside the not-yet-checked area.

6. A navigation system comprising:

a map data storage device that stores map data including a not-yet-checked area having roads that are not yet checked for navigability;

a vehicle position detection block that detects a present position of a vehicle;

a map display block that does not make roads in the not-yet-checked area objects to be displayed when the present position detected by the vehicle position detection block is outside the not-yet-checked area, and that makes only roads which exist within a predetermined range from the present position where the vehicle exists, objects to be displayed when the present position detected by the vehicle position detection block is inside the not-yet-checked area; and

a screen display device that displays the roads which are made the objects to be displayed by the map display block on the basis of the map data stored in the map data storage device.

7. The navigation system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the roads existing within a predetermined range from the present position where the vehicle exists of the roads in the not-yet-checked area are one or a plurality of road links further connected to all respective road links connected to a road link where the vehicle exists and exist within a predetermined distance from a road where the vehicle exists.