Navigation system and radio receiving system

• US 8,749,405 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2012
• Issued: 06/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Original Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
• Inventors: Knebel, Karsten, Hassel, Liza, Wolf, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): BLOUNT, ERIC
• Application Number:
  US13/416,883
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166204A1
• Time in Patent Office: 823 Days
• Field of Search: 340/995.14, 340/995.1, 345/619, 701/1, 701/201, 701/211, 704/275, 704/E21.001
• US Class Current: 340/995.14
• 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: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

An object of the invention is also a navigation system having an input device for the input of an input scale value, having a display device for displaying road map information according to a selected display scale value and having a processor device, wherein the number of enterable input scale values is larger than the number of the selectable display scale values.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

an input device configured to input an input scale value;

a display device configured to display road map information according to a selected display scale value; and

a processor device which is set and coupled with the input device and the display device such that a number of enterable input scale values is larger than a number of the selectable display scale values, and wherein the display scale value is determined by;

setting the input scale value as a display scale value when the input scale value is equal to a selectable display scale value,

determining a display scale value nearest to the input scale value when the input scale value is not equal to a selectable display scale value,

setting the determined display scale value as a display scale value when the determined display scale value is not equal to the last selected display scale value,

setting the next-larger display scale value from the determined display scale value as the display scale value when the determined display scale value is equal to the last selected display scale value and the input scale value is larger than the last selected display scale value, and

setting the next-smaller selectable display scale value from the determined display scale value as a display scale value when the determined display scale value is equal to the last selected display scale value and the input scale value is smaller than the currently selected display scale value.

2. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the input device comprises a microphone and a voice recognition unit which are configured to detect a spoken input scale value.

3. A radio receiving system comprising:

an input device configured to input an input frequency value;

a receiving device configured to receive signals based on a selected receiving frequency value; and

a processor device which is set up and coupled with the input device and the display device such that the number of enterable input frequency values is larger than the number of selectable receiving frequency values, and wherein the receiving frequency value is determined by;

setting an input scale value as the receiving frequency value when the input frequency value is equal to a selectable receiving frequency value,

determining a receiving frequency value nearest the input frequency value when the input scale value is not equal to a selectable receiving frequency value,

setting the determined receiving frequency value as the receiving frequency value when the determined receiving frequency value is not equal to the last selected receiving frequency value,

setting the next-larger receiving frequency value from the determined receiving frequency value as the receiving frequency value when the determined receiving frequency value is equal to the last selected receiving frequency value and the input frequency value is larger than the last-selected receiving frequency value, and

setting the next-smaller selectable receiving frequency value from the determined receiving frequency value as the receiving frequency value when the determined receiving frequency value is equal to the last selected receiving frequency value and the input frequency value is smaller than the currently selected receiving frequency value.

4. The radio receiving system according to claim 3, wherein the input device comprises a microphone and a voice recognition unit which are configured to detect a spoken input scale value.