Method of recognizing intersecting point in navigation system

• US 20070208504A1
• Filed: 02/09/2007
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Autonet Co Ltd (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Autonet Co Ltd (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lee, Woo Tak
• Application Number:
  US11/704,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20070208504A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/208
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/30 Map- or contour-matching

Abstract

A method of recognizing a intersecting point in a navigation system includes a first step of extracting road type information from a road DB if it is determined as a intersecting point in a map DB, a second step of extracting road width information and traffic lane information depending on the extracted road type from the road DB, a third step of extracting GPS error information and map error information from a memory, and a fourth step of calculating the size of the intersecting point based on the extracted GPS error information, map error information, road width information and traffic lane information and recognizing a intersecting point. Therefore, an intersecting point can be recognized as a section, but not a point. Accordingly, there is an advantage in that smooth rotation can be induced at an intersecting point when a vehicle is navigated. Furthermore, when section traffic information is collected employing navigation using GPS, there is an advantage that a transit time between intersecting points can be calculated.

Claims

1. A method of recognizing an intersecting point in a navigation system, the method comprising:

a first step of extracting road type information from a road DB if it is determined as an intersecting point in a map DB;

a second step of extracting road width information and traffic lane information depending on the extracted road type from the road DB;

a third step of extracting GPS error information and map error information from a memory; and

a fourth step of calculating the size of the intersecting point based on the extracted GPS error information, map error information, road width information and traffic lane information and recognizing the intersecting point.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the second step, when the road type is an express highway, the road width information is set to 3.5 m, and when the road type is a road other than the express highway, the road width information is set to 3.0 m.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the GPS error information is set to 30 m considering SV clock error, troposphere, an ion layer, a multi-path, etc.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the map error information is set to 5 m.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the size of the intersecting point is calculated by adding (GPS error information+map error information+(road width×

traffic lane number)) resulting values, which are respectively obtained by multiplying the GPS error information, the map error information, the road width information and the traffic lane number.