Vehicle-installed navigation device and program

• US 20090248293A1
• Filed: 02/09/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Nagase, Kenji
• Application Number:
  US12/320,931
• Publication Number:
  US 20090248293A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3415 Dynamic re-routing, e.g. recalculating the route when the user deviates from calculated route or after detecting real-time traffic data or accidents
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries

Abstract

First, a determination is made as to whether or not an instruction to search for a route again has been issued. When it is determined that an instruction to search for the route again has been issued, a determination is made as to whether or not a destination arrival determination has been made. When a vehicle has reached an arrival road constituting a guidance route within a predetermined range from the destination, it is determined that the destination arrival determination has been made, and the guidance route is searched for again after increasing a road cost that takes into account an advancement direction in relation to the arrival road located in the vicinity of the destination of the set guidance route, whereupon the processing is terminated. As a result, the newly formed guidance route obtained as a result of the new search does not include at least a part of the road constituting the guidance route within the predetermined range from the destination, and therefore, a new guidance route according to which the destination can be reached along a different route to the previous route is obtained.

Claims

1. A vehicle-installed navigation device comprising:

a position detection unit for detecting a current position of a vehicle;

a map data storage unit for storing map data;

a route search unit for searching for a guidance route, which is a route to a set destination, on the basis of the map data stored in the map data storage unit; and

an arrival determination unit for determining whether or not the vehicle has reached a predetermined range from the destination on the basis of the current position of the vehicle detected by the position detection unit, wherein,

when a request is issued to search for the guidance route again after the arrival determination unit has determined that the vehicle has reached the predetermined range, the route search unit searches for the guidance route again to obtain a route that does not include at least a part of a road constituting the guidance route within the predetermined range.

2. The vehicle-installed navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the route search unit searches for the guidance route again by modifying an evaluation value relating to the road constituting the guidance route within the predetermined range.

3. The vehicle-installed navigation device according to claim 2, wherein,

when the guidance route within the predetermined range is a direct route, the route search unit searches for the guidance route again by modifying an evaluation value relating to an advancement direction along the road constituting the guidance route within the predetermined range.

4. The vehicle-installed navigation device according to claim 3, wherein,

when a right/left turning point is included in the guidance route within the predetermined range, the route search unit searches for the guidance route again by modifying an evaluation value relating to a right/left turn at the right/left turning point.

5. The vehicle-installed navigation device according to claim 2, wherein, when a right/left turning point is included in the guidance route within the predetermined range, the route search unit searches for the guidance route again by modifying an evaluation value relating to a right/left turn at the right/left turning point.

6. A program comprising:

route search processing for searching for a guidance route, which is a route to a set destination, on the basis of map data stored in a map data storage unit;

arrival determination processing for determining whether or not a vehicle has reached a predetermined range from the destination on the guidance route on the basis of a current position of the vehicle detected by a position detection unit; and

search-again processing for searching for the guidance route again when a request is issued to search for the guidance route again after the vehicle is determined to have reached the predetermined range in the arrival determination processing in order to obtain a route that does not include at least a part of a road constituting the guidance route within the predetermined range.