NAVIGATION SYSTEM, IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20110029239A1
• Filed: 07/23/2010
• Published: 02/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Yoshiji, OKUDE, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/842,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20110029239A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker

Abstract

A navigation system is provided. An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle. A data providing apparatus provides data regarding navigation to the in-vehicle device. The data providing apparatus detects current position data of the vehicle, accumulates map image data, cuts the map image data in a display size of the in-vehicle device, and separately transmits the detected current position data and the cut map image data to the in-vehicle device. The in-vehicle device receives the current position data and the cut map image data from the data providing apparatus, and superimposes the received current position data and the cut map image data to display a guide image. The current position data is transmitted in a first transmission cycle and the cut map image data is transmitted in a second transmission cycle which is shorter than the first transmission cycle. The current position data is updated while maintaining the cut map image data when the current position data is received, and the cut map image data is updated when the current position data is located at an update position in the periphery of the cut map image data.

Claims

1. A navigation system, comprising:

an in-vehicle device mounted on a vehicle; and

a data providing apparatus that provides data regarding navigation to the in-vehicle device,

wherein the data providing apparatus includes;

a detection unit that detects current position data of the vehicle;

an accumulation unit that accumulates map image data;

a map image cutting unit that cuts the map image data in a display size of the in-vehicle device; and

a transmission unit that separately transmits the current position data which is detected by the detection unit and the cut map image data which is cut by the map image cutting unit to the in-vehicle device,

wherein the in-vehicle device includes;

a reception unit that receives the current position data and the cut map image data from the data providing apparatus; and

a display unit that superimposes the received current position data and the cut map image data to display a guide image,

wherein the transmission unit transmits the current position data in a first transmission cycle and transmits the cut map image data in a second transmission cycle which is shorter than the first transmission cycle, and

wherein the display unit updates the current position data while maintaining the cut map image data when the reception unit receives the current position data, and updates the cut map image data when the current position data is located at an update position in the periphery of the cut map image data.

2. The navigation system as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the data providing apparatus further includes a vehicle speed detection unit that detects a vehicle speed of the vehicle,

wherein the transmission unit transmits decoration data for decorating the cut map image data to the in-vehicle device when the vehicle speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined vehicle speed, and

wherein the display unit superimposes the received current position data, the cut map image data and the decoration data to display the guide image.

3. The navigation system as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the transmission unit transmits display sequence data which indicates a sequence for superimposing the current position data and the cut map image data to display the guide image, and

wherein the display unit superimposes the current position data and the cut map image data on the basis of the display sequence data.

4. The navigation system as set forth in claim 1,

wherein the map image cutting unit cuts a route map image according to a guidance route to a destination and an adjacent map image adjacent to the route map image as the cut map image data, and

wherein the display unit of the in-vehicle device selects one of the route map image and the adjacent map image as the cut map image data for use in the guide image on the basis of the current position data.

5. An in-vehicle device that is mounted on a vehicle and that receives data regarding navigation from a data providing apparatus, wherein the data providing apparatus detects current position data of the vehicle, accumulates map image data, cuts the map image data in a display size of the in-vehicle device, and separately transmits the detected current position data and the cut map image data to the in-vehicle device, and wherein the data providing apparatus transmits the detected current position data in a first transmission cycle and transmits the cut map image data in a second transmission cycle which is shorter than the first transmission cycle, the in-vehicle device comprising:

a reception unit that receives the current position data and the cut map image data from the data providing apparatus; and

a display unit that superimposes the received current position data and the cut map image data to display a guide image,

wherein the display unit updates the current position data while maintaining the cut map image data when the reception unit receives the current position data, and updates the cut map image data when the current position data is located at an update position in the periphery of the cut map image data.

6. The in-vehicle device as set forth in claim 5,

wherein the reception unit receives display sequence data which indicates a sequence for superimposing the current position data and the cut map image data to display the guide image, from the data providing apparatus, and

wherein the display unit superimposes the current position data and the cut map image data on the basis of the display sequence data.

7. A navigation method for a navigation system including:

an in-vehicle device which is mounted on a vehicle; and

a data providing apparatus which provides data regarding navigation to the in-vehicle device, the navigation method comprising;

a detection step of causing the data providing apparatus to detect current position data of the vehicle;

a map image cutting step of causing the data providing apparatus to cut map image data which is accumulated in the data providing apparatus in a display size of the in-vehicle device;

a transmission step of causing the data providing apparatus to separately transmit the detected current position data and the cut map image data to the in-vehicle device;

a reception step of causing the in-vehicle device to receive the current position data and the cut map image data from the data providing apparatus; and

a display step of causing the in-vehicle device to superimposes the received current position data and the cut map image data to display a guide image,

wherein in the transmission step, the current position data is transmitted in a first transmission cycle and the cut map image data is transmitted in a second transmission cycle which is shorter than the first transmission cycle, and

wherein in the display step, the current position data is updated while maintaining the cut map image data when the current position data is received, and the cut map image data is updated when the current position data is located at an update position in the periphery of the cut map image data.

8. A computer-readable medium recording a program which is executable in a computer of an in-vehicle device that is mounted on a vehicle and that receives data regarding navigation from a data providing apparatus, wherein the data providing apparatus detects current position data of the vehicle, accumulates map image data, cuts the map image data in a display size of the in-vehicle device, and separately transmits the detected current position data and the cut map image data to the in-vehicle device, and wherein the data providing apparatus transmits the detected current position data in a first transmission cycle and transmits the cut map image data in a second transmission cycle which is shorter than the first transmission cycle, the program which causes the computer of the in-vehicle device to perform a navigation method comprising:

a reception step of causing the in-vehicle device to receive the current position data and the cut map image data from the data providing apparatus; and

a display step of causing the in-vehicle device to superimposes the received current position data and the cut map image data to display a guide image,

wherein in the display step, the current position data is updated while maintaining the cut map image data when the current position data is received, and the cut map image data is updated when the current position data is located at an update position in the periphery of the cut map image data.