Navigation system with function of one-touch map matching correction and method thereof

• US 7,647,174 B2
• Filed: 04/17/2006
• Issued: 01/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai AMCO Company Limited (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai AMCO Company Limited (Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kwon, Pil Su
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Khoi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sriraman; Nikhil
• Application Number:
  US11/279,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20060276961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,366 Days
• Field of Search: 701/200, 701/207, 701/208, 701/209, 701/210, 701/211, 701/212, 701/213, 701/214, 340/988, 340/990, 340/995.1, 340/995.11, 340/995.14, 340/995.15, 340/995.17, 340/995.18, 340/995.19, 340/995.22, 340/995.25, 340/995.26, 340/995.27, 342/357.01, 342/357.02, 342/357.03, 342/357.06, 342/357.08, 342/457, 353/12
• US Class Current: 701/214
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/30 Map- or contour-matching

Abstract

A navigation system with a function of one-touch map matching correction, and a method thereof. The navigation system includes a GPS module for receiving each position signal, and measuring self position and driving direction; a map database for storing map data; a storage unit for storing a candidate designation index, road information, a guidance stop flag, a flag activating a map-matching correction button, and voice data for road sequence guidance; a display unit for displaying the map data, activating or deactivating the map-matching correction button, and generating a coordinate value of a position; and a controller for indexing the parallel roads, generating a candidate road array, activating the map-matching correction button, and sequentially selecting candidate roads while performing the map matching correction.

Claims

1. A navigation system with a function of map matching correction, for matching self position and driving direction to map data and displaying the map-matched position and direction, the system comprising:

a GPS module configured for receiving each position signal from a plurality of GPS satellites, measuring the self position and driving direction, and outputting information on the measured position and direction;

a map database configured for storing the map data;

a storage unit configured for storing a candidate designation index, road information corresponding to the candidate designation index, a guidance stop flag, a flag activating a map-matching correction button, and voice data for road sequence guidance;

a display unit configured for, under a predetermined control, displaying the map data, activating or deactivating the map-matching correction button, magnifying and displaying candidate roads, and generating a coordinate value of a position on a screen pressed by an external force; and

a controller configured for, when there are one or more parallel roads within a predetermined distance from a road of the map-matched position, indexing the parallel roads, generating a candidate road array for storing information on roads including a road of the map-matched position according to an indexing sequence, activating the map-matching correction button, and sequentially selecting candidate roads of the candidate road array depending on the number of times of pressing the map-matching correction button while performing the map matching correction.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the candidate road array stores the indexing sequence in a sequence of left to right on an orientation of an observer'"'"'s right and left.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the candidate road array stores the indexing sequence in a sequence of an uppermost road to a lowermost road when a general road and an overpass road are overlapped.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising an audio processor for outputting a road sequence guidance voice for the map-matching corrected road under the control of the controller.

5. A navigation system with a function of map matching correction, for matching self position and driving direction to map data and displaying the map-matched position and direction, the system comprising:

a GPS module configured for receiving each position signal from a plurality of GPS satellites, measuring the self position and driving direction, and outputting information on the measured position and direction;

a map database configured for storing the map data;

a storage unit configured for storing a candidate designation index, road information corresponding to the candidate designation index, a guidance stop flag, a flag activating a map-matching correction button, and voice data for road sequence guidance;

a display unit configured for, under a predetermined control, displaying the map data, activating or deactivating the map-matching correction button, magnifying and displaying candidate roads, and generating a coordinate value of a position on a screen pressed by an external force; and

a controller configured for, when there are one or more parallel roads within a predetermined distance from a road of the map-matched position, indexing the parallel roads, generating in the storage unit a candidate road array for storing information on roads including a road of the map-matched position according to an indexing sequence, activating the map-matching correction button, and when the map-matching correction button is pressed, displaying the candidate roads on the display unit, receiving a coordinate value of one of the displayed candidate roads pressed by a user from the display unit, and performing the map matching correction.

6. The system according to claim 5, wherein the candidate road array stores the indexing sequence in a sequence of the left to the right.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the candidate road array stores the indexing sequence in a sequence of an uppermost road to a lowermost road when a general road and an overpass road are overlapped.

8. The system according to claim 5, further comprising an audio processor configured for outputting a road sequence guidance voice for the map-matching corrected road under the control of the controller.

9. A method of correcting map matching in a navigation system having a function of map matching correction, the method comprising the steps of:

measuring a current position and, when there are one or more parallel roads within a predetermined distance from a road of the measured position, preparing an array for storing indexes for and information on the road of the measured position and the parallel roads and corresponding to the stored indexes, and activating a map-matching correction button; and

sequentially moving a selection of the roads according to an indexing sequence by the number of times of pressing the map-matching correction button, while performing the map matching correction.

10. A method of correcting map matching in a navigation system having a function of map matching correction, the method comprising the steps of:

measuring a current position and, when there are one or more parallel roads within a predetermined distance from a road of the measured position, preparing a candidate road array for storing indexes for and information on the road of the measured position and the parallel roads and corresponding to the stored indexes, and activating a map-matching correction button; and

when the map-matching correction button is pressed, displaying candidate roads, and performing the map matching correction for the candidate road selected by a user from the displayed candidate roads.