NAVIGATION DEVICE, ROUTE GUIDANCE CONTROL METHOD IN NAVIGATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

• US 20150330802A1
• Filed: 04/07/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alpine Electronics Incorporated (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ono, Tatsuya
• Granted Patent: US 9,638,536 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/166 Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/175 Autonomous driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/166 Navigation
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/175 Autonomous driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/28 characterised by the type of the output information, e.g. video entertainment or vehicle dynamics information; characterised by the purpose of the output information, e.g. for attracting the attention of the driver
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3629 Guidance using speech or audio output, e.g. text-to-speech text to speech systems per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0061 for transition from automatic pilot to manual pilot and vice versa

Abstract

A navigation device mounted in a vehicle travelling in any driving mode out of an automatic driving mode for travelling irrespective of a driver'"'"'s driving operations and a normal driving mode for travelling according to the driver'"'"'s driving operations includes a driving mode determination unit for determining whether a driving mode of the vehicle is the automatic driving mode or the normal driving mode, and a route guidance stop control unit for, when the driving mode determination unit determines that a driving mode of the vehicle is the automatic driving mode, stopping route guidance made while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

Claims

1. A navigation device mounted in a vehicle travelling in any driving mode out of an automatic driving mode for travelling irrespective of a driver'"'"'s driving operations and a normal driving mode for travelling according to the driver'"'"'s driving operations, comprising:

a driving mode determination unit configured to determine whether a driving mode of the vehicle is the automatic driving mode or the normal driving mode; and

a route guidance stop control unit configured to, when the driving mode determination unit determines that a driving mode of the vehicle is the automatic driving mode, stop route guidance made while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1,

wherein the route guidance stop control unit includes a display stop control unit configured to stop guidance display for route guidance made on a display unit while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

3. The navigation device according to claim 1,

wherein the route guidance stop control unit includes an audio stop control unit configured to stop outputting from an audio output unit an audio guidance for route guidance made while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

4. The navigation device according to claim 3,

wherein the route guidance stop control unit includes a display stop control unit configured to stop guidance display for route guidance made on the display unit while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

5. The navigation device according to claim 3,

wherein the audio stop control unit includes an audio output determination unit configured to determine whether audio other than the voice for route guidance is output from the audio output unit, and

when the audio output determination unit determines that audio other than the voice for route guidance is output from the audio output unit, the audio guidance is not output from the audio output unit.

6. The navigation device according to claim 5,

wherein the route guidance stop control unit includes a display stop control unit configured to stop guidance display for route guidance made on the display unit while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

7. The navigation device according to claim 6,

wherein the display stop control unit includes a display output determination unit configured to determine whether video contents other than the guidance display for route guidance are displayed on the display unit, and

when the display output determination unit determines that video contents other than the guidance display are displayed on the display unit, the guidance display is not output on the display unit.

8. The navigation device according to claim 7, comprising:

a driving mode switching detection unit configured to detect that the driving mode is switched from the automatic driving mode to the normal driving mode; and

an on-switching route guidance control unit configured to, when the driving mode switching detection unit detects that the driving mode is switched from the automatic driving mode to the normal driving mode, provide route guidance based on a travelling state of the vehicle on detection of the driving mode switching.

9. The navigation device according to claim 8,

wherein the on-switching route guidance control unit performs guidance display for route guidance based on a travelling state of the vehicle on detection of the driving mode switching on the display unit.

10. The navigation device according to claim 8,

wherein the on-switching route guidance control unit outputs audio guidance for route guidance based on a travelling state of the vehicle on detection of the driving mode switching from the audio output unit.

11. The navigation device according to claim 10,

wherein the on-switching route guidance control unit performs guidance display for route guidance based on a travelling state of the vehicle on detection of the driving mode switching on the display unit.

12. A route guidance control method in a navigation device mounted in a vehicle travelling in any driving mode out of an automatic driving mode for travelling irrespective of a driver'"'"'s driving operations and a normal driving mode for traveling according to the driver'"'"'s driving operations, comprising:

a driving mode determination process of determining whether a driving mode of the vehicle is the automatic driving mode or the normal driving mode; and

a route guidance stop control process of, when a driving mode of the vehicle is determined as the automatic driving mode in the driving mode determination process, stopping route guidance made while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

13. The route guidance control method according to claim 12,

wherein the route guidance stop control process includes at least one of a display stop control process to stop guidance display for route guidance made on a display unit and an audio stop control process to stop outputting from an audio output unit an audio guidance for route guidance.

14. The route guidance control method according to claim 13,

wherein the audio stop control process determines whether audio other than a voice for route guidance is output from the audio output unit, and

when it is determined that audio other than the voice for route guidance is output from the audio output unit, the audio guidance is not output from the audio output unit.

15. The route guidance control method according to claim 13,

wherein the display stop control process determines whether video contents other than a guidance display for route guidance are displayed on the display unit, and

when it is determined that video contents other than the guidance display are displayed on the display unit, the guidance display is not output on the display unit.

16. The route guidance control method according to claim 15, comprising:

a driving mode switching detection process configured to detect that the driving mode is switched from the automatic driving mode to the normal driving mode; and

an on-switching route guidance control process configured to, when the driving mode switching detection process detects that the driving mode is switched from the automatic driving mode to the normal driving mode, provide route guidance based on a travelling state of the vehicle on detection of the driving mode switching.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein a program for causing a computer to perform processing in a navigation device mounted in a vehicle travelling in any driving mode out of an automatic driving mode for travelling irrespective of a driver'"'"'s driving operations and a normal driving mode for travelling according to the driver'"'"'s driving operations, the program causing the computer to perform:

a driving mode determination process of determining whether a driving mode of the vehicle is the automatic driving mode or the normal driving mode; and

a route guidance stop control process of, when a driving mode of the vehicle is determined as the automatic driving mode in the driving mode determination process, stopping route guidance made while the vehicle is travelling in the normal driving mode.

18. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 17,

wherein the route guidance stop control process includes at least one of a display stop control process to stop guidance display for route guidance made on a display unit and an audio stop control process to stop outputting from an audio output unit an audio guidance for route guidance.

19. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 18,

wherein the audio stop control process determines whether audio other than a voice for route guidance is output from the audio output unit, and

when it is determined that audio other than the voice for route guidance is output from the audio output unit, the audio guidance is not output from the audio output unit.

20. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 18,

wherein the display stop control process determines whether video contents other than a guidance display for route guidance are displayed on the display unit, and

when it is determined that video contents other than the guidance display are displayed on the display unit, the guidance display is not output on the display unit.