Apparatus for displaying travel path
First Claim
1. An apparatus for displaying a travel path of a running body in which a constantly changing location of the running body on two-dimensional coordinates is successively computed and the current location of the running body is displayed successively, in accordance with the data thus computed, on a display screen having a map previously displayed thereon, comprising:
- means for registering as known factors longitude and latitude values of reference points, each of which is formed by an intersection point of a mesh consisting of lines of longitude and latitude on the map, the map having divided areas;
means for converting the current location of the running body on the two-dimesional coordinates to a position on latitude-longitude coordinates;
means for calculating the current location on the map, on the basis of the known latitude-longitude values of a reference point on the map displayed on the display screen; and
means for displaying the current location on the display screen,wherein the latitude-longitude of a position of a target point set on a map displayed on the display screen is calculated from the reference point of the map and means is provided to obtain and display a distance between the current location of the running body and the target point from a difference in position between latitude-longitude coordinates of the current location of the running body displayed on the map of one area and of the target point displayed on the map of another area.
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Abstract
There is disclosed an apparatus for displaying a travel path of a running body in which a constantly changing location of the running body on a two-dimensional coordinates is successively computed and the current location of said running body is displayed successively, in accordance with the data thus computed, on a display screen having a map previously displayed thereon. According to this apparatus, longitude and latitude values of a reference point in a mesh consisting of lines of longitude and latitude in each map of divided areas are registered as known factors and the current location of the running body on the two-dimensional coordinates thus computed is converted to a location on longitude-latitude coordinates, whereby the current location on the map is calculated from the known longitude and latitude values of the reference point displayed on the display screen.
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1. An apparatus for displaying a travel path of a running body in which a constantly changing location of the running body on two-dimensional coordinates is successively computed and the current location of the running body is displayed successively, in accordance with the data thus computed, on a display screen having a map previously displayed thereon, comprising:
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means for registering as known factors longitude and latitude values of reference points, each of which is formed by an intersection point of a mesh consisting of lines of longitude and latitude on the map, the map having divided areas; means for converting the current location of the running body on the two-dimesional coordinates to a position on latitude-longitude coordinates; means for calculating the current location on the map, on the basis of the known latitude-longitude values of a reference point on the map displayed on the display screen; and means for displaying the current location on the display screen, wherein the latitude-longitude of a position of a target point set on a map displayed on the display screen is calculated from the reference point of the map and means is provided to obtain and display a distance between the current location of the running body and the target point from a difference in position between latitude-longitude coordinates of the current location of the running body displayed on the map of one area and of the target point displayed on the map of another area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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