Map Display Device

• US 20110109649A1
• Filed: 04/04/2008
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Kumazawa, Kunitosi
• Granted Patent: US 8,576,249 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3694 Output thereof on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods

Abstract

There are provided: a map display control unit that brings up a map on display at a display monitor; a stormy weather condition information reception unit that receives stormy weather condition information; and a stormy weather condition information display control unit that provides a storm path forecast, indicating a predicted path of a storm, based upon the stormy weather condition information by superimposing the storm path forecast over the map on display at the display monitor. The stormy weather condition information display control unit displays the storm path forecast by using a fan-shaped range centered on a current position of the storm with an arc thereof passing through a predicted position that the storm is estimated to assume.

Claims

1. A map display device, comprising:

a map display control unit that brings up a map on display at a display monitor;

a stormy weather condition information reception unit that receives stormy weather condition information; and

a stormy weather condition information display control unit that provides a storm path forecast, indicating a predicted path of a storm, based upon the stormy weather condition information by superimposing the storm path forecast over the map on display at the display monitor, wherein;

the stormy weather condition information display control unit displays the storm path forecast by using a fan-shaped range centered on a current position of the storm with an arc thereof passing through a predicted position that the storm is estimated to assume.

2. A map display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a predicted position selection unit that selects a first predicted position and a second predicted position among a plurality of predicted positions that the storm is estimated to assume, wherein;

the predicted position selection unit selects, as the second predicted position, a predicted position corresponding to a latest time point among the plurality of predicted positions and selects, as the first predicted position, a predicted position closest to a halfway point between the current position of the storm and the second predicted position; and

the stormy weather condition information display control unit displays the storm path forecast by using two fan-shaped ranges, one centered on the current position of the storm with an arc thereof passing through the first predicted position and another centered on the first predicated position with an arc thereof passing through the second predicted position.

3. A map display device according to claim 2, wherein:

when at least one of a distance between the current position of the storm and the first predicted position, as indicated on a display screen at the display monitor, and a distance between the first predicted position and the second predicted position, as indicated on the display screen at the display monitor, is less than a first value and a distance between the current position of the storm and the second predicted position, as indicated on the display screen at the display monitor, is equal to or greater than the first value, the stormy weather condition information display control unit displays the storm path forecast by using a fan-shaped range centered on the current position of the storm with an arc thereof passing through the second predicted position, instead of the two fan-shaped ranges.

4. A map display device according to claim 2, wherein:

when a distance between the current position of the storm and the second predicted position, as indicated on a display screen at the display monitor, is less than a first value, a distance between the current position of the storm and the first predicted position, as indicated on the display screen at the display monitor, is less than the first value and a distance between the first predicted position and the second predicted position, as indicated on the display screen at the display monitor, is less than the first value, the stormy weather condition information display control unit displays no fan-shaped range.

5. A map display device according to claim 3, wherein:

the first value represents a size of an icon indicating the storm.

6. A map display device according to claim 2, wherein:

when a distance between the current position of the storm and the first predicted position, as indicated on a display screen at the display monitor, is equal to or greater than a second value, the stormy weather condition information display control unit displays, instead of the fan-shaped range centered on the current position of the storm with the arc thereof passing through the first predicted position, a fan-shaped range centered on the current position of the storm and having an arc passing through a point on a straight line connecting the current position of the storm and the first predicted position, which is set apart from the current position of the storm by a distance represented by the second value.

7. A map display device according to claim 4, wherein:

the first value represents a size of an icon indicating the storm.