Apparatus and method for providing road guidance information for a vehicle

• US 9,805,600 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2016
• Issued: 10/31/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Jong Rok, Noh, Dong Gyu, Ryu, Cho Rong, Hwang, Dae Sung, Noh, Hahk Rel, Sung, Su Lynn
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, DHAVAL V
• Application Number:
  US15/138,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20170098370A1
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 340905, 340435, 3409951, 340989, 4554563, 701123, 701410, 701523, 701117, 701408, 701437, 701 23, 701424, 701532, 701533
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/01 Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled G08G1/07 - G08G1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/04 using optical or ultrasonic detectors
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09626 where the origin of the information is within the own vehicle, e.g. a local storage device, digital map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0967 Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096758 where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle. The apparatus may include: a position measurer configured to measure a position of the vehicle; a communicator configured to receive event information from an outside of the vehicle; and a processor configured to perform guidance and a warning for an event depending on whether or not the vehicle is scheduled to pass through an event occurrence point using a travel route history recorded by the position measurer and the received event information, when absence of map data is confirmed on the basis of the event information.

Claims

1. An apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle, comprising:

a position measurer configured to measure a position of the vehicle;

a communicator configured to receive event information corresponding to an event from outside of the vehicle; and

a processor configured to;

perform route guidance of the vehicle, the route guidance including a travel route history of the vehicle;

receive the event information, the event information including an event occurrence point and one or more approach routes to the event occurrence point;

when map data corresponding to the event occurrence point is not available as part of the performed route guidance;

map the travel route history to the one or more approach routes;

determine the vehicle is scheduled to pass through the event occurrence point when the mapping of the travel route history to the one or more approach routes confirms that a reference number of route points in a recent sequence of the travel route history coincides with a reference number of route points from a start point of one or more approach routes; and

control presentation of a warning for the event based on the determination the vehicle is scheduled to pass through the event occurrence point.

2. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to confirm whether or not one or more direction change points at which a curvature is changed by a reference or more are present on the approach route that the vehicle is traveling, when the vehicle is traveling any one approach route.

3. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to confirm whether or not the number of non-passing direction change points among the one or more direction change points is one when the one or more direction change points are present on the approach route that the vehicle is traveling.

4. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein the processor is configured to confirm whether or not a turn signal lamp of the vehicle is in a turn-on state when the number of non-passing direction change points is one, and to confirm whether or not the vehicle changes a direction to the event occurrence point when the turn signal lamp is in the turn-on state.

5. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to determine that the vehicle performs a left turn when an absolute value of a curvature difference obtained by subtracting a curvature of a previous pass point from a curvature of a current pass point of the vehicle is a reference value or more and the curvature difference is in a first range.

6. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to determine that the vehicle performs a right turn when an absolute value of a curvature difference obtained by subtracting a curvature of a previous pass point from a curvature of a current pass point of the vehicle is a reference value or more and the curvature difference is in a second range.

7. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 4, wherein the processor is configured to confirm whether or not the vehicle passes through a final direction change point when the vehicle does not change the direction to the event occurrence point, and to perform the guidance and the warning for the event depending on a confirmation result.

8. The apparatus for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the event information includes position information on the event occurrence point and one or more approach routes through which the vehicle is approachable to the event occurrence point.

9. A method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle, comprising:

receiving event information corresponding to an event, the event information including an event occurrence point and one or more approach routes to the event occurrence point;

confirming whether or not map data corresponding to the event occurrence point is available as part of a route guidance performed by the vehicle;

when map data corresponding to the event occurrence point is confirmed not to be available as part of the performed route guidance;

mapping the travel route history to the one or more approach routes;

determining the vehicle is scheduled to pass through the event occurrence point when the mapping of the travel route history to the one or more approach routes confirms that a reference number of route points in a recent sequence of the travel route history coincides with a reference number of route points from a start point of one or more approach routes; and

controlling presentation of a warning for the event based on the determination the vehicle is scheduled to pass through the event occurrence point.

10. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 9, wherein the confirming of whether or not the vehicle is scheduled to travel the event occurrence point includes:

confirming whether or not the vehicle is traveling any one of the one or more approach routes by mapping the driving route history and the one or more approach routes to each other;

confirming whether or not one or more direction change points are present on the approach route that the vehicle is traveling;

confirming whether or not the number of non-passing direction change points among the one or more direction change points is one when the one or more direction change points are present on the approach route that the vehicle is traveling;

confirming whether or not a turn signal lamp of the vehicle is in a turn-on state when the number of non-passing direction change points is one; and

confirming whether or not the vehicle changes a direction to the event occurrence point when the turn signal lamp is in the turn-on state.

11. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein in the confirming of whether or not the vehicle is traveling to any one of the one or more approach routes, it is confirmed whether or not a reference number of route points in a recent sequence in the travel route history and a reference number of route points from a start point of each approach route coincide with each other by mapping the traveling route history and the one or more approach route to each other.

12. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein in the confirming of whether or not the one or more direction change points are present on the approach route, it is determined that a point at which a curvature is changed by a reference or more on the approach route that the vehicle is traveling is the direction change point.

13. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein in the confirming of whether or not the vehicle changes the direction to the event occurrence point, it is determined that the vehicle performs a left turn or right turn based on a curvature difference when an absolute value of the curvature difference obtained by subtracting a curvature of a previous pass point from a curvature of a current pass point is a reference value or more.

14. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein in the confirming of whether or not the vehicle changes the direction to the event occurrence point, the guidance and the warning for the event are performed in the case in which the vehicle changes the direction to the event occurrence point.

15. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein in the confirming of whether or not the vehicle changes the direction to the event occurrence point, it is confirmed whether or not the vehicle passes through a final direction change point in the case in which the vehicle does not change the direction to the event occurrence point, and the guidance and the warning for the event are performed depending on a confirmation result.

16. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein it is confirmed whether or not the vehicles passes through a final direction change point when the number of non-passing direction change points is not one, and the guidance and the warning for the event are performed when the vehicle passes through the final direction change point.

17. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein in the confirming of whether or not the turn signal lamp is in the turn-on state, it is confirmed whether or not the vehicle passes through a final direction change point, and the guidance and the warning for the event are performed when the vehicle passes through the final direction change point.

18. The method for providing road guidance information to a vehicle according to claim 10, wherein the guidance and the warning for the event are performed when the one or more direction change points are not present on the approach route that the vehicle is traveling.