NAVIGATION DEVICE

• US 20130006524A1
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Inventors: SASAKI, Jun, MAKI, Yasunori, OGAWARA, Masaru, NISHIGUCHI, Kaoru
• Application Number:
  US13/612,005
• Publication Number:
  US 20130006524A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/430
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B

Abstract

A navigation device includes: a storage unit configured to store map information; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a moving body; a controller configured to generate drawing data; and a display unit configured to display the drawing data on a screen, the display unit includes a plurality of backlights.

The controller is configured to control the plurality of the backlights such that luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a second region is lower than luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a first region.

The first region corresponds to a traveling direction of the moving body, the second region is a region other than the first region, and the first region is configured to change according to a scale of the map information displayed on the display unit.

Claims

1. A navigation device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store map information;

a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of a moving body;

a controller configured to generate drawing data, the map information stored in the storage unit and the position of the moving body being superimposed in the drawing data; and

a display unit configured to display the drawing data on a screen, the display unit including a plurality of backlights, the backlights irradiating the screen, the drawing data being generated by the controller, wherein

the controller is configured to control the plurality of the backlights such that luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a second region is lower than luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a first region, the first region corresponding to a traveling direction of the moving body, the second region being a region other than the first region, wherein

the first region is configured to change according to a scale of the map information displayed on the display unit.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the display unit includes a liquid crystal panel, and

the controller is configured to control the liquid crystal panel such that transmittance of the liquid crystal panel in the first region is higher than transmittance of the liquid crystal panel in the second region.

3. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the first region is a region that is surrounded by a first line segment and a second line segment, the first line segment forming a first angle with the traveling direction of the moving body, the second line segment forming a second angle with the traveling direction of the moving body.

4. The navigation device according to claim 3, wherein

the controller is configured to:

make an angle formed by the first line segment and the second line segment smaller as a scale of a map to be displayed on the display unit becomes larger; and

make the angle formed by the first line segment and the second line segment larger as a scale of a map to be displayed on the display unit becomes smaller.

5. The navigation device according to claim 3, wherein

the first angle and the second angle are mutually different from each other.

6. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the first region is defined to include a searched route of the moving body.

7. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to control the plurality of the backlights such that luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a position not corresponding to a single road is lower than luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a position corresponding to the single road, in a case where the single road is displayed on the display unit, the single road having no branch road within a displayed map.

8. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to generate the drawing data such that a north direction of the map information is fixedly oriented to an upper direction on the display unit.

9. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein

the controller is configured to control the backlights such that luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate a region corresponding to the moving body is higher than luminance of a backlight that is arranged to irradiate the second region.