NAVIGATION DEVICE

• US 20100274476A1
• Filed: 11/18/2008
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Hoshino, Tsuyoshi, Maekawa, Naoki, Kojima, Yuki, Higuchi, Sadafumi
• Application Number:
  US12/733,680
• Publication Number:
  US 20100274476A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

A vehicle owner can express a display screen that displays a map in a color that matches an interior design. On a map view screen that displays a map for route guidance on a display screen, icons that indicate current navigation functions, and icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change current navigation functions are displayed. A color change operation screen is used to change the color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and the icons that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen. Accordingly, the display screen can be expressed in colors that match the interior design of the vehicle. Moreover, the colors of the map view screen used for route guidance do not change; only the icons that indicate navigation functions and icons that are operated to change navigation functions are changed. The general map colors are thus maintained according to natural usage conditions that blend into the overall design.

Claims

1. A navigation device that finds routes from a vehicle departure point to a destination and provides route guidance along a selected route, characterized by comprising:

a display screen that displays a map for the route guidance on a display, and displays icons that indicate current navigation functions and/or icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change current navigation functions integrated on a view screen that displays the map; and

a color change operation screen that changes a color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen, wherein

the icons include data on whether color changing is one of enabled and disabled depending on the type of icon, and the color of an icon for which color changing is enabled is changed in response to a color change operation.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the color change operation screen is displayed on the same screen as a screen that displays the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen, and the color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions can be changed from the screen.

3. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the color change operation screen can change the color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen to a different color for day and night.

4. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the color change operation screen sets the color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen to a fixed brightness for day and night.

5. The navigation device according to claim 3, wherein

the color change operation screen sets the color of the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen to a fixed brightness for day and night.

6. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen exclude icons used for trademark purposes.

7. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the icons that indicate navigation functions and/or the icons that indicate touch switches that are operated to change navigation functions on the display screen are grouped, and a color is set per group.

8. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

an icon for which color changing is disabled can be set with a brightness.

9. The navigation device according to claim 3, wherein

an icon for which color changing is disabled can be set with a brightness.