Land vehicle navigation apparatus with guidance display image limiter for recognizability enhancement
First Claim
1. A storage medium containing a program for providing guidance along a route to a destination, said program comprising the steps of:
- retrieving intersection information, including guidance and road information for a guidance intersection, from storage on the basis of stored route information;
judging whether or not the retrieved road information satisfies at least one predetermined criterion;
limiting the retrieved road information to road information judged to satisfy the one predetermined criterion;
outputting road information limited to that judged to satisfy the one predetermined criterion; and
drawing an image of the guidance intersection according to the output road information.
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Abstract
Land vehicle navigation apparatus for searching for a route to a destination and for providing guidance improves readability of intersection diagrams to thereby enable a vehicle operator to more easily recognize the travel path at a guidance intersection. The apparatus includes a storage device for storage of data representative of intersection diagrams and other data for use in performing route guidance. A display control device controls display of an intersection diagram by identifying that information necessary for route guidance from among the stored data items and depicts only that information so identified, i.e. the truly necessary information items. A present position detector detects the present vehicle location and the display controller causes the intersection diagram to be displayed responsive to an intersection display instruction automatically issued when the detected present vehicle position approaches to within a predefined distance from the guidance intersection.
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13 Claims
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1. A storage medium containing a program for providing guidance along a route to a destination, said program comprising the steps of:
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retrieving intersection information, including guidance and road information for a guidance intersection, from storage on the basis of stored route information; judging whether or not the retrieved road information satisfies at least one predetermined criterion; limiting the retrieved road information to road information judged to satisfy the one predetermined criterion; outputting road information limited to that judged to satisfy the one predetermined criterion; and drawing an image of the guidance intersection according to the output road information.
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2. A method for providing guidance along a route to a destination comprising:
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retrieving intersection information, including guidance and road information for a guidance intersection, from storage on the basis of stored route information; judging whether or not the retrieved road information satisfies at least one predetermined criterion; limiting the retrieved road information to road information judged to satisfy the one predetermined criterion; outputting road information limited to that judged to satisfy the one predetermined criterion; and drawing an image of the guidance intersection according to the output road information.
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3. A vehicle navigation apparatus for providing guidance along a route to a destination, said vehicle navigation apparatus comprising:
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map information storage means for storing map information including road information and intersection information; route storage means for temporarily storing route information pertaining to the route to the destination; read means for retrieving map information limited to a single guidance intersection, from said map information storage means, based on the stored route information, into said route storage means; control means for judging whether or not the limited map information temporarily stored in said route storage means satisfies at least one predetermined criterion, and for further limiting the retrieved map information in accordance with the judgement; and intersection image generator means for drawing an intersection image of the guidance intersection based on the further limited map information. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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