GUIDING DEVICE, SENSOR UNIT, PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, GUIDING METHOD AND GUIDING PROGRAM

• US 20140012499A1
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Hirose, Chihiro, Tanaka, Kazuaki, Nagao, Shunichiro, Endo, Isao, Kaneko, Hitoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/985,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20140012499A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/470
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/165 combined with non-inertial navigation instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments

Abstract

A guiding device, includes: a first position detecting unit which detects a present position; an obtaining unit which obtains a present position detected by a second position detecting unit, from a sensor unit having the second position detecting unit which detects the present position; a detecting unit which detects a communication condition with the sensor unit; a determining unit which determines whether to preferentially use the present position detected by the first position detecting unit or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit, based on the communication condition; and a controlling unit which displays a guidance based on the present position determined by the determining unit, on a display unit. Therefore, since the present position can be calculated with accuracy, it becomes possible to appropriately perform the guide based on the present position.

Claims

1. A position measurement device, comprising:

a first position detecting unit which detects a present position;

an obtaining unit which obtains a present position detected by a second position detecting unit that detects the present position, by a communication;

a detecting unit which detects a communication condition of the communication; and

an output unit which outputs either the present position detected by the first position detecting unit or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit, based on the communication condition.

2. The position measurement device according to claim 1, further comprising a comparing unit which compares reliability of a detection by the first position detecting unit with reliability of a detection by the second position detecting unit,

wherein the output unit outputs either the present position detected by the first position detecting unit or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit, based on the communication condition and a comparison result by the comparing unit.

3. The position measurement device according to claim 2, further comprising a supplementary information obtaining unit which obtains supplementary information that is supplementally used for detecting the present position, from a sensor unit which is fixed to a movable body and has the second position detecting unit,

wherein, when the reliability of the detection by the first position detecting unit is higher than the reliability of the detection by the second position detecting unit, the output unit outputs a present position based on the present position detected by the first position detecting unit and the supplementary information.

4. The position measurement device according to claim 3,

wherein the supplementary information includes information indicating a direction, and

wherein the output unit outputs the present position based on the present position detected by the first position detecting unit and the supplementary information, by using the direction included in the supplementary information as a present direction.

5. The position measurement device according to claim 1, further comprising a supplementary information obtaining unit which obtains supplementary information that is supplementally used for detecting the present position, from a sensor unit which is fixed to a movable body and has the second position detecting unit,

wherein, when the present position cannot be detected by the first position detecting unit and the second position detecting unit, the output unit outputs a present position based on present position information used last time and the supplementary information.

6. The position measurement device according to any one of claim 1,

wherein, the output unit outputs information as to whether to use the present position detected by the first position detecting unit or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit.

7. (canceled)

8. A position measurement method executed by a position measurement device, comprising:

a first position detecting process which detects a present position;

an obtaining process which obtains a present position detected by a second position detecting unit that detects the present position, by a communication;

a detecting process which detects a communication condition of the communication; and

an output process which outputs either the present position detected by the first position detecting process or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit, based on the communication condition.

9. A position measurement computer program product stored in a non-transient tangible computer-readable medium and executed by a position measurement device having a computer, the computer program product makes the computer function as:

a first position detecting unit which detects a present position;

an obtaining unit which obtains a present position detected by a second position detecting unit that detects the present position, by a communication;

a detecting unit which detects a communication condition of the communication; and

an output unit which outputs either the present position detected by the first position detecting unit or the present position detected by the second position detecting unit, based on the communication condition.

10. A portable terminal device, comprising:

a first position detecting unit which detects a present position by a GPS position measurement;

a displaying unit which displays a navigation guide screen;

a communication unit which is fixed to a movable body, and communicates with a sensor unit that includes a second position detecting unit which detects a present position by a GPS position measurement and a sensor which detects a condition of the movable body; and

a detecting unit which detects a communication condition with the sensor unit,

wherein, when the communication condition detected by the detecting unit is good, the portable terminal device uses position information calculated based on the present position detected by the second position detecting unit and/or the condition of the movable body detected by the sensor which are received from the sensor unit, at the time of displaying the navigation guide screen.

11. A sensor unit being fixed to a movable body, comprising:

a position detecting unit which detects a present position by a GPS position measurement;

a sensor which detects a condition of the movable body; and

a communication unit which communicates with a portable terminal device having a navigation function,

wherein the sensor unit calculates position information based on the present position detected by the position detecting unit and/or the condition of the movable body detected by the sensor, and sends the position information to the portable terminal device via the communication unit.