Navigation device and program product for displaying magnified intersection view

• US 20060178826A1
• Filed: 01/17/2006
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Gomi, Akihiro
• Application Number:
  US11/332,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20060178826A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3644 Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects

Abstract

A navigation device for a vehicle selects, as facilities for displaying with a magnified view of a guidance intersection on a recommended route to a destination, only facilities along an entering road through which the recommended route goes just before entering the guidance intersection and facilities at the corners of the guidance intersection. Then the navigation device displays the magnified view and the selected landmarks together.

Claims

1. A navigation device for performing, when approaching an intersection on a route to a destination, route guidance by displaying a magnified view of the intersection, comprising:

a storage medium for storing address range data for links connected to the intersection, in the address range data each of the links being correlated with a house number range including house numbers, the house numbers being given along the each of the links in ascending order;

a controlling circuit for selecting, based on the stored address range data, a facility corresponding to a house number within house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection; and

an image display device for displaying, together with the magnified view of the intersection, a landmark of the facility selected by the control circuit.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein,

the controlling circuit selects multiple facilities corresponding to house numbers within the house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection, and

the image display device displays, together with the magnified view of the intersection, landmarks of the multiple facilities selected by the control circuit, wherein a number of the multiple facilities is predetermined.

3. A navigation device for performing, when approaching an intersection on a route to a destination, route guidance by displaying a magnified view of the intersection, comprising:

a storage medium for storing address range data for links connected to the intersection, in the address range data each of the links being correlated with a house number range including house numbers, the house numbers being given along the each of the links in ascending order;

a controlling circuit for selecting as a facility at a corner of the intersection, based on the stored address range data, a facility corresponding to a house number at an end of one of house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection; and

an image display device for displaying, together with the magnified view of the intersection, a landmark of the facility selected as the facility at the corner by the control circuit.

4. The navigation device according to claim 3, wherein,

the controlling circuit further selects, based on the stored address range data, a certain facility corresponding to a house number within a house number range correlated with an entering link, through the entering link the route to the destination going just before entering the intersection, and

the image display device further displays a landmark of the certain facility selected by the control circuit.

5. The navigation device according to claim 4, wherein

the link correlated with the house number range including the house number corresponding to the facility selected as the facility at the corner is an exiting link, through the exiting link the route to the destination going just after exiting the intersection.

6. The navigation device according to claim 5, wherein,

the controlling circuit selects multiple facilities corresponding to house numbers within the house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection, wherein the facility selected as the facility at the corner and the certain facility are included in the multiple facilities, and

the image display device displays, together with the magnified view of the intersection, landmarks of the multiple facilities selected by the control circuit, wherein a number of the multiple facilities is predetermined.

7. A navigation device for performing, when approaching an intersection on a route to a destination, route guidance by displaying a magnified view of the intersection, comprising:

a storage medium for storing address range data for links connected to the intersection, in the address range data each of the links being correlated with a house number range including house numbers, the house numbers being given along the each of the links in ascending order;

a controlling circuit for selecting, based on the stored address range data, a given facility corresponding to a house number at an end of a house number range correlated with an exiting link, through the exiting link the route to the destination going just after exiting the intersection; and

an image display device for displaying, together with the magnified view of the intersection, a landmark of the given facility selected by the control circuit.

8. The navigation device according to claim 7, wherein,

the controlling circuit further selects, based on the stored address range data, a certain facility corresponding to a house number within a house number range correlated with an entering link, through the entering link the route to the destination going just before entering the intersection, and

the image display device further displays a landmark of the certain facility selected by the control circuit.

9. The navigation device according to claim 8, wherein,

the controlling circuit selects multiple facilities corresponding to house numbers within the house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection, wherein the given facility and the certain facility are included in the multiple facilities, and

the image display device displays, together with the magnified view of the intersection, landmarks of the multiple facilities selected by the control circuit, wherein a number of the multiple facilities is predetermined.

10. A computer program product for performing, when approaching an intersection on a route to a destination, route guidance by displaying a magnified view of the intersection, comprising a computer program mechanism embedded in a computer readable medium for causing a computer to:

read, from a storage medium, address range data for links connected to the intersection, in the address range data each of the links being correlated with a house number range including house numbers, the house numbers being given along the each of the links in ascending order;

select, based on the address range data, a facility corresponding to a house number within house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection; and

cause an image display device to display, together with the magnified view of the intersection, a landmark of the selected facility .

11. A computer program product for performing, when approaching an intersection on a route to a destination, route guidance by displaying a magnified view of the intersection, comprising a computer program mechanism embedded in a computer readable medium for causing a computer to:

read, from a storage medium, address range data for links connected to the intersection, in the address range data each of the links being correlated with a house number range including house numbers, the house numbers being given along the each of the links in ascending order;

select as a facility at a corner of the intersection, based on the address range data, a facility corresponding to a house number at an end of one of house number ranges correlated with the links connected to the intersection; and

cause an image display device to display, together with the magnified view of the intersection, a landmark of the facility selected as the facility at the corner.

12. A computer program product for performing, when approaching an intersection on a route to a destination, route guidance by displaying a magnified view of the intersection, comprising a computer program mechanism embedded in a computer readable medium for causing a computer to:

read, from a storage medium, address range data for links connected to the intersection, in the address range data each of the links being correlated with a house number range including house numbers, the house numbers being given along the each of the links in ascending order;

select, based on the address range data, a given facility corresponding to a house number at an end of a house number range correlated with an exiting link, through the exiting link the route to the destination going just after exiting the intersection; and

cause an image display device to display, together with the magnified view of the intersection, a landmark of the selected given facility.