Navigation System Having Simplified Display Mode and Display Method Thereof

• US 20100088015A1
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MStar Semiconductor Incorporated (MediaTek, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: MStar Semiconductor Incorporated (MediaTek, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Ming-Chang
• Application Number:
  US12/570,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20100088015A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/200
• 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: 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: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map

Abstract

A navigation system is provided. The navigation system operates in a normal operating mode and a simplified mode. The navigation system includes a processing module and a display module. When the navigation system operates in the normal operating mode, the processing module generates display content, which comprises a plurality of geographic information layers to display road information. The display module displays the display content on a display screen. When the navigation system operates in the simplified display mode, the processing module omits partial display content, such as partial geographic information layers, to generate simplified display content. The display module displays the simplified display content on the display screen.

Claims

1. A display method of a navigation system, comprising:

in a normal operating mode, displaying display content on a display screen which comprises a plurality of geographic information layers for displaying road information; and

in a simplified display mode, omitting partial geographic information layers to generate simplified display content, and displaying the simplified display content on the display screen.

2. The display method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display screen displays a result of having rotated the simplified display content with a predetermined angle.

3. The display method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of simplifying the display content by the navigation system in the normal operating mode comprising:

omitting road information that is not of a same geographic information layer, to which a route planned by the navigation system belongs, to generate the simplified display content.

4. The display method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the step of omitting road information that is not of a same geographic information layer, to which the route planned by the navigation system belongs, comprises:

selecting partial vertexes on the route from a database of the navigation system according to the route planned by the navigation system; and

linking the selected vertexes to form a route to be displayed.

5. The display method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the selected vertexes are a start point and an end point of the route.

6. The display method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of simplifying the display content by the navigation system in the normal operating mode comprises:

omitting information except a route planned by the navigation system and direction instruction signs to generate the simplified display content.

7. The display method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

adjusting the simplified display content to change a display manner of the direction instruction signs.

8. The display method as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

updating the display screen according to a control command which comprises an instruction direction; and

correspondingly updating the display screen according to a direction from rotating the instruction direction with the predetermined angle.

9. A navigation system, comprising a normal operating mode and a simplified display mode, comprising:

a processing module, for generating display content comprising a plurality of geographic information layers of road information when the navigation system operates in the normal operating mode, and omitting partial geographic information layers to generate simplified display content when the navigation system operates in the simplified display mode; and

a display module, coupled to the processing module, for displaying the display content on a display screen in the normal operating mode, and for displaying the simplified display content on the display screen in the simplified display mode.

10. The navigation system as claimed in claim 9, wherein when the simplified content is displayed, the display module displays a result of having rotated the simplified display content with a predetermined angle on the display screen.

11. The navigation system as claimed in claim 10, wherein when the processing module simplifies the display content of the navigation system operating in the normal operating mode, the processing module omits road information that is not of a same geographic information layer to which a route planned by the navigation system belongs.

12. The navigation system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the processing module selects partial vertexes on the route from a database of the navigation system according to the route planned by the navigation system, and links the selected vertexes to form a route to be displayed.

13. The navigation system as claimed in claim 12, wherein the selected vertexes are a start point and an end point of the route.

14. The navigation system as claimed in claim 10, wherein when the processing module simplifies the display content of the navigation system operating in the normal operating mode, the processing module omits information except a route planned by the navigation system and a direction instruction sign.

15. The navigation system as claimed in claim 14, wherein the processing module further adjusts the simplified display content to change a display manner of the direction instruction sign.

16. The navigation system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processing module further updates the display screen according to a control command, which comprises an instruction direction, and the processing module correspondingly updates the display screen according to a direction from rotating the instruction direction with the predetermined angle.