Navigation Device and Map Data Product

• US 20110202274A1
• Filed: 02/09/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Inventors: Shimokawa, Takayoshi, Aikawa, Tetsumori
• Application Number:
  US13/023,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20110202274A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/212
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3881 Tile-based structures
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3896 Transmission of map data from central databases

Abstract

A navigation device includes: a storage unit that stores map data divided into a plurality of files for a predetermined map range; an acquisition unit that acquires map updating data for updating the map data; an extraction unit that extracts at least one file from among the map data files; and an updating unit that updates the map data by storing new map data files based upon the map updating data in the storage unit, after having deleted the map data files from the storage unit with the exception of the file extracted by the extraction unit.

Claims

1. A navigation device, comprising:

a storage unit that stores map data divided into a plurality of files for a predetermined map range;

an acquisition unit that acquires map updating data for updating the map data;

an extraction unit that extracts at least one file from among the map data files; and

an updating unit that updates the map data by storing new map data files based upon the map updating data in the storage unit, after having deleted the map data files from the storage unit with the exception of the file extracted by the extraction unit.

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

a subject vehicle position detection unit that detects the position of the subject vehicle, wherein;

the extraction unit determines the file to be extracted on the basis of the position of the subject vehicle detected by the subject vehicle position detection unit.

3. A navigation device according to claim 1, wherein:

the updating unit deletes the file extracted by the extraction unit from the storage unit after having completed updating of the map data.

4. A navigation device according to claim 3, wherein:

the same file names are used for corresponding ones of the files of the map data stored in the storage unit and the files of new map data based upon the map updating data;

the updating unit, when storing the files of new map data in the storage unit, changes the name of the file corresponding to the file extracted by the extraction unit; and

the file name having been changed is returned to its original file name after having deleted the file extracted by the extraction unit from the storage unit.

5. A map data product that is used in a navigation device according to claim 1, comprising:

map data that is divided into a plurality of files for a predetermined map range.

6. A map data product according to claim 5, wherein:

the map data includes at least one file that specifies an entire map range corresponding to a first map scale all together, and a plurality of files each divided up into a map range corresponding to a second map scale that is larger than the first map scale.