NAVIGATION SYSTEM

• US 20120323875A1
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Sakairi, Takeo, Tamada, Takashi, Goto, Yukio, Shimotani, Mitsuo, Mikuriya, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US13/582,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20120323875A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3859 Differential updating map data
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3867 Geometry of map features, e.g. shape points, polygons or for simplified maps
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3881 Tile-based structures

Abstract

A navigation system includes data management data that determines storage locations of real data from data definition information indicating a data structure of a map DB 10d, a data access program that describes an access function to the real data whose data structure is specified in accordance with the data definition information; and a functional unit 15a for gaining access to the real data of the map DB 10dby executing the data access program while determining the storage locations of the real data by referring to the data management data.

Claims

1. A navigation system for executing processing concerning navigation by using real data of map data acquired from a data group retaining real data of map data, the navigation system comprising:

data management data that determines storage locations of the real data in the data group in accordance with data definition information indicating a data structure of the data group, and that is provided separately from the data group;

a data access program that describes an access function to the real data whose data structure in the data group is specified in accordance with the data definition information; and

a functional unit for gaining access to the real data of the data group by executing the data access program while determining the storage locations of the real data by referring to the data management data.

2. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein

the data management data is data that determines storage locations of the real data used for each function of the navigation.

3. The navigation system according to claim 2, wherein

the data access program is a program that describes an access function to the real data used for each function of the navigation.