PERSONALIZED UPDATING OF DIGITAL NAVIGATION MAPS

• US 20110102193A1
• Filed: 04/25/2008
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Stählin, Ulrich
• Granted Patent: US 9,542,843 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/905
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle

Abstract

A digital navigation map is updated by floating car data, wherein vehicles transmit their own position to a traffic control center, the traffic control center and/or at least one vehicle identifies a hazard situation, and an update for the digital navigation maps of the vehicles in the surroundings is initiated and performed.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. An update device for a vehicle for updating a digital map for a purpose of providing a queue warning, said update device comprising:

a detection unit for ascertaining a position of the vehicle;

a communication unit for transmitting the position of the vehicle to a control center or to a second vehicle; and

a control unit for updating the digital map and providing a queue warning.

17. The update device as claimed in claim 16,

wherein the communication unit is configured to receive update data from the control center or from a third vehicle,

wherein the update data are based on an ascertained position for an end of the queue;

and

wherein the digital map is updated on the basis of the update data.

18. The update device as claimed in claim 16,

wherein a position of an end of the queue is ascertained on the basis of floating car data.

19. The update device as claimed in claim 16,

wherein a position of an end of the queue is ascertained on the basis of a position of a last vehicle at the end of the queue.

20. The update device as claimed in claim 16,

wherein a position of an end of the queue is ascertained in real time.

21. The update device as claimed in claim 16,

wherein the update device in the vehicle is configured to ascertain a position of an end of the queue.

22. An update system for updating a digital map in a vehicle for a purpose of providing a queue warning, said update system comprising:

an update device as claimed in claim 16;

a control center for creating the update data for the digital map on the basis of a transmitted position of the vehicle.

23. The update system as claimed in claim 22,

wherein the control center is configured to ascertain a position of an end of the queue.

24. The update system as claimed in claim 22,

wherein the control center is configured to trigger an update for the digital map.

25. The update system as claimed in claim 22,

wherein the control center is configured to transmit the update data to selected vehicles.

26. The update system as claimed in claim 22, wherein the update system is configured to predict a queue on the basis of a transmitted position of the vehicle and transmitted positions from other vehicles.

27. The use of an update device as claimed in claim 16 in a vehicle.

28. A method for updating a digital map for a vehicle for a purpose of providing a queue warning, said method comprising the following steps:

ascertaining a position of the vehicle;

transmitting the position of the vehicle to a control center or to a second vehicle;

creating update data for the digital map on the basis of the transmitted position of the vehicle;

transmitting the update data to another vehicle; and

updating the digital map by a control unit, which provides a queue warning.

29. A computer program product which, when executed on a processor, instructs the processor to perform the following steps:

ascertainment of a position for the vehicle;

transmission of the position of the vehicle to a control center or to a second vehicle;

reception of update data which have been created on the basis of the transmitted position; and

updating of the digital map by a control unit, which provides a queue warning.

30. A computer-readable medium which stores a computer program product which, when executed on the processor, instructs the processor to perform the following steps:

ascertainment of a position for the vehicle;

transmission of the position of the vehicle to a control center or to a second vehicle;

reception of update data which have been created on the basis of the transmitted position; and

updating of the digital map by a control unit, which provides a queue warning.