VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED INFORMATION PROCESSOR

• US 20130041578A1
• Filed: 04/27/2010
• Published: 02/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Aono, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/642,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20130041578A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/300
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/005 with correlation of navigation data from several sources, e.g. map or contour matching G01C21/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network

Abstract

Provided is a vehicle-mounted device, which can reduce the amount of data of the positional information of other vehicles captured by a communication device, and also provided are a vehicle-mounted communication device and a vehicle-mounted information processor, which are used in the vehicle-mounted device. The vehicle-mounted device discerns a positional relationship, which is formed on the basis of map information, with an object captured by a communication device. The positional relationship is discerned by means of an information processor, which processes positional information of the object as required. The communication device is provided with a coordinate conversion unit, which converts the positional information of the captured object into coordinate information of a coordinate system that is set at a limited resolution with respect to the map information, and the communication device transfers to the information processor the coordinate information produced by the conversion.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted device, which is configured to discern a target positional information, which is a positional relationship with a target, on the basis of map information, the device comprising:

a vehicle-mounted communication device for obtaining target positional information, which is positional information of the target; and

a vehicle-mounted information processor, which discerns the target positional relationship by processing the target positional information as required, wherein

the vehicle-mounted information processor is provided with a display device having a screen, on which the target positional information and the map information are visualized and displayed,

the vehicle-mounted communication device includes a coordinate conversion unit, which uses a conversion factor to convert the target positional information to coordinate information of a coordinate system that corresponds to a resolution of the screen,

the vehicle-mounted communication device is configured to transfer the coordinate information to the vehicle-mounted information processor, and

the vehicle-mounted information processor includes a conversion factor computing unit, which calculates the conversion factor on the basis of a scale in each case of the map information and the screen resolution.

2. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 1, wherein

the conversion factor is transferred from the conversion factor computing unit to the coordinate conversion unit,

the conversion factor includes information indicating a center position of the screen corresponding to the map information, and

the coordinate conversion unit is configured to conduct the conversion such that the coordinate information indicates coordinate information from the center position.

3. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 1, wherein

the target is a communication destination vehicle in vehicle-to-vehicle communication,

each communication destination vehicle is identified by identification information,

the target positional information is positional information of the communication destination vehicle,

the vehicle-mounted communication device is configured to obtain the target positional information and the identification information of each communication destination vehicle through the vehicle-to-vehicle communication,

the coordinate conversion unit converts the target positional information of each communication destination vehicle into the coordinate information, and

the coordinate conversion unit is configured to transfer the coordinate information of each communication destination vehicle to the vehicle-mounted information processor.

4. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 3, wherein

the vehicle-mounted communication device is further provided with a function of calculating a moving amount of each communication destination vehicle,

the coordinate conversion unit converts the moving amount to calculate moving-amount coordinate information, which is information corresponding to the moving amount of each communication destination vehicle, and

the vehicle-mounted communication device is configured to transfer the moving-amount coordinate information of each communication destination vehicle to the vehicle-mounted information processor.

5. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 1, wherein

the vehicle-mounted communication device and the vehicle-mounted information processor are connected to each other through a vehicle-mounted network, and

the coordinate information is configured to be transferred from the vehicle-mounted communication device to the vehicle-mounted information processor via the vehicle-mounted network.

6. The vehicle-mounted device according to claim 1, wherein the target positional information includes at least one of a value of latitude and a value of longitude.

7. A vehicle-mounted information processor, which is configured to discern a target positional information, which is a positional relationship with a target, on the basis of map information,

target positional information, which is positional information of the target, is obtained by a vehicle-mounted communication device,

the vehicle-mounted information processor is configured to discern the target positional relationship by processing the target positional information as required,

the vehicle-mounted information processor includes a conversion factor calculation unit, which calculates a conversion factor for converting the target positional information to coordinate information of a coordinate system having a resolution that is set to a limited value with respect to the map information, and

the vehicle-mounted information processor is configured to transfer the conversion factor to the vehicle-mounted communication device.

8. The vehicle-mounted information processor according to claim 7, further comprising a display device having a screen, on which the target positional information and the map information are visualized and displayed,

wherein the conversion factor calculation unit is configured to calculate the conversion factor on the basis of a scale in each case of the map information and a resolution of the screen.

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