Onboard apparatus, navigation system, and method for setting display screen

• US 20060122742A1
• Filed: 08/26/2005
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Amano, Shinichi Hasegawa, Takumi Arie
• Original Assignee: Hiroshi Amano, Shinichi Hasegawa, Takumi Arie
• Inventors: Arie, Takumi, Amano, Hiroshi, Hasegawa, Shinichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,543,252 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0274 using mapping information stored in a memory device navigation using map-matching G01C21/30
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 1/0278 using satellite positioning signals, e.g. GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 2201/0213 Road vehicle, e.g. car or truck
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages

Abstract

To use the same onboard apparatus and navigation system in many kinds of vehicles. A table in which manufacturers and vehicle types are connected with designs and functions has been previously stored in a navigation system module 21. The navigation system module 21 itself sends the center controller 11 a query about vehicle information (the country that manufactured, manufacturer, vehicle type, using country, manufacturing number), recognizes the vehicle information supplied from the center controller 11, and automatically sets the screen design, function, etc., suitable to the vehicle on which the onboard apparatus is mounted.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A display screen setting method for setting a screen to be displayed on a navigation system mounted on a vehicle, comprising:

obtaining vehicle information particular to the vehicle on which the navigation system is mounted;

recognizing the type of the vehicle, based on said obtained vehicle information; and

setting a design to be displayed on the screen and/or a function, based on the recognition result.

11. The display screen setting method according to claim 10, wherein, in said step of obtaining vehicle information, information about at least some of the manufacturer, the country that manufactured, the using country, the vehicle type and the manufacturing number, of the vehicle is obtained.