DRIVE ASSIST SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160153802A1
• Filed: 06/10/2014
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Yuji, Mori, Toshihiro, Nakao, Koichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,791,287 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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: G09B 29/007 using computer methods

Abstract

Drive assist systems, methods, and programs display, on a display, an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present and specify a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage. The systems, methods, and programs display on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body.

Claims

1. A drive assist system that displays an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body, comprising:

a display;

a memory that stores a drive assist program; and

a processor that, when executing the stored program;

acquires length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present;

specifies a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage; and

displays, on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body.

2. The drive assist system according to claim 1, wherein the processor, when executing the stored program:

specifies the display position of the destination location icon on the basis of the estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage or a position nearer than the destination location even if an error is caused between the estimated position and an actual position of the mobile body in a direction of the road on which the mobile body is present.

3. The drive assist system according to claim 1, wherein the processor, when executing the stored program:

acquires a maximum error, which is a maximum value of an error between the estimated position and an actual position of the mobile body that may be caused in a direction of the road on which the mobile body is present; and

specifies the display position of the destination location icon on the basis of the estimated position of the mobile body such that;

the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage when the error is zero; and

the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage or a position nearer than the destination location when the error is the maximum error.

4. The drive assist system according to claim 3, wherein the processor, when executing the stored program:

the display position specifying means determines a position the maximum error on a near side from an end point of the frontage on a far side in the direction of the road on which the mobile body is present as the display position of the destination location icon when half the length of the frontage is less than the maximum error.

5. The drive assist system according to claim 3, wherein the processor, when executing the stored program:

determines a position of maximum error on a far side from an end point of the frontage on a near side in the direction of the road on which the mobile body is present as the display position of the destination location icon when half the length of the frontage is equal to or more than the maximum error.

6. The drive assist system according to claim 3, wherein the processor, when executing the stored program:

specifies end points of the frontage on the basis of site shape data that indicates a shape of a site of the destination location when such site shape data is present; and

specifies, as the end points of the frontage, positions half the length of the frontage prescribed in advance for the destination location away from a center of the frontage of the destination location toward a far side and a near side in the direction of the road on which the mobile body is present when the site shape data is not present.

7. The drive assist system according to claim 1, wherein:

the length of the frontage is prescribed in advance for each type of the destination location.

8. A drive assist method for displaying, on a display, an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body, comprising:

acquiring a length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present;

specifying a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage; and

displaying, on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body.

9. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable drive assist program for displaying, on a display, an image in which a destination location icon that indicates a destination location is superimposed on a scene in front of a mobile body, the program comprising:

instructions for acquiring a length of a frontage of the destination location along a road on which the mobile body is present;

instructions for specifying a display position of the destination location icon on the basis of an estimated position of the mobile body such that the display position of the destination location icon is a position within the frontage; and

instructions for displaying, on the display, an image in which the destination location icon is superimposed on the display position of the destination location icon in the scene in front of the mobile body.