Navigation system drawing recommended route upon different scale display map

• US 5,951,622 A
• Filed: 10/22/1997
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd. (Faurecia SA)
• Original Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation (Hitachi, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nomura, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Zanelli, Michael J.
• Application Number:
  US08/956,035
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 701/208, 701/211, 701/212, 701/209, 340/995
• US Class Current: 701/212
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map

Abstract

A navigation system according to the present invention comprises a database apparatus provided with map display data constituted of data representing road positions and physical forms provided in separate sets to correspond to different scales and route search data constituted of data representing connection states of one road connecting with another road provided in separate sets to correspond to different scales; and a control apparatus that, when displaying recommended route data obtained by performing a search using the route search data at a specific first scale superimposed upon a roadmap that is displayed on a monitor based upon map display data at a second scale that is larger than the first scale, reads out physical form data of the recommended route data obtained by performing the search using the route search data at the first scale based upon the map display data at the second scale and displays the physical form data superimposed upon the roadmap on the monitor.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

a database apparatus provided with map display data constituted of data representing road positions and physical forms provided in separate sets to correspond to different scales and route search data constituted of data representing connection states of one road connecting with another road provided in separate sets to correspond to different scales; and

a control apparatus that, when displaying recommended route data obtained by performing a search using said route search data at a specific first scale superimposed upon a roadmap that is displayed on a monitor based upon map display data at a second scale that is larger than said first scale, reads out physical form data of said recommended route data obtained by performing said search using said route search data at said first scale based upon said map display data at said second scale and displays said physical form data superimposed upon said roadmap on the monitor.

2. A navigation system according to claim 1, wherein:

links in said map display data and said route search data at said second scale that are identical to links in said map display data and said route search data at said first scale are assigned with identical link numbers as those assigned to said links in said map display data and said route search data at said first scale.

3. A navigation system according to claim 2 wherein:

said control apparatus searches said map display data at said second scale based upon link numbers of links in said recommended route data at said first scale and extracts physical form data of links sharing common link numbers.