NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION SERVER AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM

• US 20100198500A1
• Filed: 07/03/2008
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Arai, Masayuki, Kinoshita, Yoshitaka, Sengoku, Koji, Sugawara, Aiko, Nogawa, Tadafumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,933,715 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3407 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A navigation device and the like capable of harmonizing a navigation route for guiding a mobile body set on the basis of a support route search result by a navigation server and a navigation route for also guiding the mobile body set independently of the navigation route, from a view point of guiding the mobile body smoothly. In the case where the second navigation route r₂ is set in the condition where the first navigation route r₁ is set, the second navigation route r₂ is set and output so as to include a part dr₁ of the first navigation route r₁ which takes a position departing from the current position p_t of the automobile 2 by a first distance d₁. Therefore, even in the case where the second navigation route r₂ is set and output at the navigation device 200 during the time when the automobile 2 is traveling according to the first navigation route r₁ output at the navigation device 200, it is possible to guide the automobile 2 according to the original first navigation route r₁ until the position departing from the current position p_t of the automobile 2 by the first distance d₁. Therefore, it becomes possible to guide the automobile 2 smoothly to the destination position p₂, without forcing the automobile 2 to perform abrupt behavior change.

Claims

1. A navigation device which guides a mobile body on the basis of communication with a navigation server, comprising:

a first processing unit which recognizes a departure position and a destination position of the mobile body, and which sets and outputs a first navigation route for guiding the mobile body to the destination position; and

a second processing unit which makes the navigation server recognize the departure position and the destination position of the mobile body on the basis of communication with the navigation server, which recognizes individual link constituting a support route set by the navigation server for guiding the mobile body to the destination position, and which sets and outputs a second navigation route for guiding the mobile body to the destination position on the basis of individual link;

wherein the second processing unit sets and outputs the second navigation route including a part of the first navigation route taking a position departing from the current position of the mobile body by a first distance as a terminal point, in a condition where the first navigation route is set by the first processing unit.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1,

wherein the first processing unit determines whether or not the mobile body is traveling before the second processing unit sets the second navigation route, and sets the first navigation route on condition that it is determined that the mobile body is traveling.

3. The navigation device according to claim 1,

wherein the first processing unit sets the first navigation route on the basis of a navigation map information stored in a navigation map storing unit, in place of a link in the range within the first distance from the current position of the mobile body among the links constituting the support route recognized by the second processing unit.

4. The navigation device according to claim 1,

wherein the first processing unit recognizes a type of a road on which the mobile body is traveling, and sets the first distance on the basis of the type of the road.

5. The navigation device according to claim 1,

wherein the second processing unit sets or outputs the second navigation route taking a position departing from the destination position of the mobile body by a second distance as the terminal point.

6. A navigation server which supports guiding of a mobile body by a navigation device, on the basis of communication with the navigation device, comprising:

a first support processing unit which recognizes a current position and a destination position of the mobile body on the basis of communication with the navigation device, and which sets a support route for guiding the mobile body from the current position to the destination position; and

a second support processing unit which makes the navigation device recognize individual link constituting the support route set by the first support processing unit, on the basis of communication with the navigation device.

7. The navigation server according to claim 6,

wherein the second support processing unit makes the navigation device preferentially recognize a link close to the current position of the mobile body, among the links constituting the support route.

8. (canceled)