Display method, method of storing image information, display apparatus, navigation apparatus and automobile

• US 6,335,729 B2
• Filed: 02/27/1998
• Issued: 01/01/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ota, Takeshi, Nunokawa, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Dennis-Doon
• Application Number:
  US09/031,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20010012004A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,404 Days
• Field of Search: 364/927, 364/943.9, 364/946.1, 364/948.2, 364/948.4, 364/975.2, 713/100, 714/2, 345/212, 345/211, 345/204, 345/507, 345/508, 340/990, 340/995
• US Class Current: 345/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/30 Means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations for resetting only G06F1/24
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

When of a map or the like is displayed on the basis an information read from a recording medium, the display can be preferably performed with little waiting time even when the apparatus is activated or when the recording medium is replaced by saving a predetermined information is saved in a non-volatile memory (18) immediately before the power supply is turned off or the recording medium is replaced, and the predetermined information saved in the non-volatile memory (18) when the power supply is turned on or a now recording medium is loaded to perform a desired display process based on the predetermined information thus read.

Claims

1. A display method comprising the steps of:

reading display image information from a first recording medium into a first predetermined storage means;

displaying an image based on said display image information;

storing said display image information being currently displayed in a second predetermined storage means, when said first recording medium is replaced with a second recording medium while an image display for displaying an image is activated; and

displaying an image based on said saved display image information stored in said second predetermined storage means until said second recording medium replaces said first recording medium and new image information is read into said first predetermined storage means from said second recording medium.

2. A display method according to claim 1, wherein said display image information includes map image information for a map to be displayed.

3. A method of storing image information comprising the steps of:

replacing a first recording medium which stores display information for displaying an image with a second recording medium;

activating automatically an image display for displaying an image when said first recording medium is replaced with said second recording medium while said image display is not activated;

reading new image information from said second recording medium immediately after said first recording medium is replaced with said second recording medium;

storing said read image information in one of a non-volatile predetermined storage means and a dynamic predetermined storage means; and

deactivating automatically said image display when said storing step is completed and said first recording medium was replaced with said second recording medium while said image display was not activated.

4. A method of storing image information according to claim 3, wherein said new image information includes map image information for a map to be displayed.

5. A display apparatus comprising:

reading means for reading from a first recording medium first predetermined information;

detection means for detecting a loading and a removal of a recording medium loaded on said reading means;

first storage means for storing the first predetermined information read by said reading means;

display processing means for generating a display signal based on the first predetermined information saved in said first storage means;

display means for displaying the display signal generated by said display processing means; and

second storage means for storing the display signal generated by said display processing means when said detection means detects a replacement of the first recording medium such that said display means displays the display signal stored in said second storage means while said display processing means is not generating the display signal, until second predetermined information is read by said reading means from a newly loaded second recording medium and is saved in said first storage means.