Navigation system and portable head up display thereof

• US 20090058761A1
• Filed: 12/20/2007
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elitegroup Computer Systems Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Elitegroup Computer Systems Company Limited
• Inventors: Chen, Yu, Yang, Tai-Sheng, Yu, Ching Hsiang
• Application Number:
  US12/003,083
• Publication Number:
  US 20090058761A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/7
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2360/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2370/334 Projection means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 11/0258 for navigation systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2011/0026 Windows, e.g. windscreen
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/365 Guidance using head up displays or projectors, e.g. virtual vehicles or arrows projected on the windscreen or on the road itself
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 2027/014 comprising information/image processing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays

Abstract

This present invention provides a navigation system and a portable head up display thereof. The navigation system comprises a navigation apparatus and a portable head up display. The navigation apparatus is for generating a command with navigation message. The portable head up display is for receiving and processing the command with navigation message in wired or wireless manner, and then displaying the graphic data corresponding to the navigation message. Furthermore, the portable head up display is able to broadcast an acoustic data corresponding to the navigation message. Hereby, a user owning the personal navigation device (PND) can place this portable head up display in the vehicle, and the effectiveness of the navigation message displayed on the windshield can be achieved.

Claims

1. A navigation system, comprising:

a navigation apparatus, for generating a command with a navigation message; and

a portable head up display, for receiving and processing said command with navigation message, and displaying said graphic data corresponding to said navigation message.

2. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein said head up display can broadcast an acoustic data corresponding to said navigation message.

3. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein said navigation apparatus comprises a wireless signal transmitting module transmitting said command to said portable head up display in wireless manner.

4. The navigation system of claim 3, wherein said wireless signal transmitting module is a Bluetooth transmitting module, a radio transmitting module or an infrared transmitting module.

5. The navigation system of claim 1, wherein said navigation apparatus comprises a wired signal transmitting module transmitting said command to said portable head up display in wired manner.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said wired signal transmitting module is an USB transmitting module or an IEEE 1394 module.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said navigation apparatus is a motor vehicle navigation device or a personal navigation device.

8. A head up display applied for displaying a navigation message from a remote navigation apparatus, comprising:

a power supply module, for providing power for operation of said head up display;

a data transmitting module, for receiving a command with said navigation message;

a display module, for displaying graphic image;

a storage module, for storing a plurality of graphic data; and

a control module, coupled to said data transmitting module, said display module and said storage module, wherein said control module processes said command to obtain said navigation message and selects the graphic data corresponding to said navigation message from said storage module, and drives said display module to show said selected graphic data.

9. The head up display of claim 8, further comprising an acoustic output module, and said storage module further storing a plurality of acoustic data, and said control module selecting the acoustic data corresponding to said navigation message from said storage module and driving said acoustic output module to broadcast said selected acoustic data.

10. The head up display of claim 9, further comprising an audio decompression module for decompressing said acoustic data.

11. The head up display of claim 10, wherein said audio decompression module is built in said control module.

12. The head up display of claim 8, wherein said display module comprises a display controller and at least one display component.

13. The head up display of claim 12, wherein said display component is VFD tube, LED, TFT LCD, OLED, LCD, STN LCD or DSTN LCD.

14. The head up display of claim 8, wherein said data transmitting module is a wireless signal transmitting module.

15. The head up display of claim 14, wherein said wireless signal transmitting module is a Bluetooth transmitting module, a radio transmitting module or an infrared transmitting module.

16. The head up display of claim 8, wherein said data transmitting module is a wired signal transmitting module.

17. The head up display of claim 16, wherein said wired signal transmitting module is an USB transmitting module or an IEEE1394 module.

18. The head up display of claim 8, wherein said storage module comprises a ROM, a RAM, a flash memory or a memory built in said control module.