NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND ON-VEHICLE DEVICE

• US 20120232793A1
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Inoue, Noriaki, Kitahara, Toshio, Ishizuka, Yoshiji, Hagiwara, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US13/510,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20120232793A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/518
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments

Abstract

A navigation system is configured in which a driven distance calculating unit of an on-vehicle device calculates a first driven distance in a predetermined section based on vehicle speed calculated using vehicle speed pulses outputted from a vehicle and a vehicle speed calculation coefficient, a driven distance calculating unit of a portable terminal device calculates a second driven distance of the vehicle in the predetermined section based on GPS information provided from global navigation satellites, a learning unit corrects the vehicle speed calculation coefficient based on the result of comparing the first driven distance with the second driven distance, and a vehicle location predicting unit of the portable terminal device predicts a vehicle location based on the vehicle speed calculated using the vehicle speed pulses and the corrected vehicle speed calculation coefficient.

Claims

1. A navigation system that provides location information about a vehicle using an on-vehicle device and a portable terminal device, the navigation system comprising:

a first calculating unit configured to calculate a driven distance in a predetermined section based on vehicle speed calculated using a vehicle speed pulse outputted from a vehicle and a vehicle speed calculation coefficient;

a second calculating unit configured to calculate a driven distance by the vehicle in the predetermined section based on location information provided from a global navigation satellite;

a correcting unit configured to correct the vehicle speed calculation coefficient based on a result of comparing the driven distance calculated by the first calculating unit with the driven distance calculated by the second calculating unit; and

a predicting unit configured to predict a vehicle location based on the vehicle speed calculated using the vehicle speed pulse and the vehicle speed calculation coefficient corrected by the correcting unit.

2. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first calculating unit calculates an angular variation in a predetermined section based on angular velocity calculated using an output value of a gyro sensor mounted on the vehicle and an angular velocity calculation coefficient;

the second calculating unit calculates an angular variation in the vehicle in the predetermined section based on location information provided from the global navigation satellite;

the correcting unit corrects the angular velocity calculation coefficient based on a result of comparing the angular variation calculated by the first calculating unit with the angular variation calculated by the second calculating unit; and

the predicting unit further predicts an orientation of the vehicle at the predicted vehicle location based on an angular velocity calculated using the output value of the gyro sensor and the angular velocity calculation coefficient corrected by the correcting unit.

3. The navigation system according to claim 2,

wherein the correcting unit corrects the angular velocity calculation coefficient based on the angular variations calculated by the first calculating unit and the second calculating unit as the predetermined section is a section where an angle in a yaw direction is changed only in one direction.

4. The navigation system according to claim 1,

wherein the correcting unit corrects the vehicle speed calculation coefficient or the angular velocity calculation coefficient based on the driven distances or the angular variations calculated by the first calculating unit and the second calculating unit as the predetermined section is a section on an expressway.

5. The navigation system according to claim 1,

wherein the correcting unit corrects the vehicle speed calculation coefficient or the angular velocity calculation coefficient based on the driven distances or the angular variations calculated by the first calculating unit and the second calculating unit as the predetermined section is a section where a tilt angle to a horizontal plane ranges within a predetermined threshold.

6. An on-vehicle device that provides location information about a vehicle in linking with a portable terminal device, the on-vehicle device comprising:

a calculating unit configured to calculate a driven distance in a predetermined section based on vehicle speed calculated using a vehicle speed pulse outputted from a vehicle and a vehicle speed calculation coefficient;

a correcting unit configured to correct the vehicle speed calculation coefficient based on a result of comparing the driven distance calculated by the calculating unit with a driven distance by the vehicle in the predetermined section calculated by the portable terminal device based on location information provided from a global navigation satellite; and

a sending unit configured to send the vehicle speed calculation coefficient corrected by the correcting unit to the portable terminal device.