Navigation system for a motor vehicle

• US 8,700,308 B2
• Filed: 06/21/2006
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Ng, Brian, Chan, Thomas, Lee, Chu Hee, Rosario, Daniel, Stoschek, Arne
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Khoi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kiswanto, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US11/472,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20070233369A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,855 Days
• Field of Search: 340/995.15, 340/995.27
• US Class Current: 701/400
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096811 where the route is computed offboard

Abstract

A navigation system for a motor vehicle includes: a motor vehicle, a server which is spatially separate from the motor vehicle, and a wireless communication connection between the server and the motor vehicle for the time-staggered transmission of a first navigation information item and at least a second navigation information item from the server to the motor vehicle, the first navigation information item being assigned a first priority and the second navigation information item being assigned a second priority, the sequence of the transmission of the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item being a function of the priority level, and a man-machine interface being arranged in the motor vehicle for outputting the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item to an operator of the motor vehicle.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:

an interface for a wireless communication connection for time-staggered reception of a first navigation information item and a second navigation information item, the first navigation information item having a first priority level and the second navigation information item having a second priority level, a sequence of the reception of the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item being a function of the respective priority level of the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item; and

a man-machine interface adapted to output the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item to an operator of the motor vehicle;

wherein the priority of a navigation information item is settable by an operator of the motor vehicle as a function of at least one of;

(a) an update rate;

(b) a usual update rate;

(c) a size;

(d) a distance to a position of the motor vehicle;

(e) a distance to a suggested route for the motor vehicle;

(f) a recognition value;

(g) a safety relevance; and

(h) a user profile.

2. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the priority level of a navigation information item includes an excerpt from a map display.

3. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the priority level of the excerpt from the map display is a function of distance to a position of the motor vehicle.

4. The motor vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the priority level of the excerpt from the map display is a function of distance to a suggested route for the motor vehicle.

5. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the man-machine interface includes a monitor.

6. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a navigation system.

7. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item are encoded, the motor vehicle further comprising a decoder adapted to decode the first encoded navigation information item and the second encoded navigation information item, a sequence of the decoding of the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item being a function of the respective priority level of the first navigation information and the second navigation information item.

8. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a memory having a map display.