摘要:
The present invention relates to a traffic information display system mounted on a vehicle to provide a map which is easy to see and which permits the driver of the vehicle to recognize the present position of the vehicle, etc. A control means used in this system determines a road on which the vehicle is present, on the basis of an output provided from a present position and direction detecting means, and fetches plural road data including the said road from a map information memory means. Then, the control means transforms the coordinates of start and end points of each road present in the road data into coordinates on a display screen, and provides those coordinates and a command to connect the start and end points using a straight line to a deformed map preparing means. The deformed map preparing means displays the road between each start point and each end point using a straight line, thereby providing a map which is easy to understand for the driver.
摘要:
A switch system for an automotive vehicle enables the driver to properly operate various devices mounted on the vehicle without reducing or limiting the driver's field of view to any practical extent. In one form, the switch system includes a plurality of switches for operating various devices mounted on the vehicle; a switch selection detector for detecting which one of the switches is selected by a driver; a display for displaying the result of a driver's switch selection detected by the switch selection detector as well as the operating conditions of the devices as a result of the driver's switch selection; and a reflector in the form of a half mirror provided at a location above a dash board for reflecting the contents of the display so that the driver can watch the displayed contents of the display as reflected on the reflector. In another form, the reflector is omitted and the display is provided at a location above a dash board and below the driver's sight line through a front windshield so as not to reduce the driver's forward viewing field through the windshield so that the driver can watch the displayed contents of the display while watching the road ahead.
摘要:
A map information processor includes a map information storage unit 13 for storing map display information including a set of pieces of mesh-by-mesh map information managed on a mesh-by-mesh basis and including road information, background information, and in-mesh image information, an image processing unit 15 for generating a map image on a basis of image data included in the road information, the background information, and the in-mesh image information included in the mesh-by-mesh map information read from the map information storage unit, and a display device 5 for displaying the map image generated by the image processing unit.
摘要:
A map information processing apparatus includes: a vehicle position calculation unit 12 for calculating a vehicle position; a traveling locus data generation unit 21 for generating traveling locus data on the basis of the calculated vehicle position when the vehicle position deviates from a road indicated by road data that are included in map data read from a map data storage unit 1; a temporary registration unit 23 for registering the traveling locus data generated by the traveling locus data generation unit in a temporarily registered road list as a temporarily registered road; an operation unit 11 for selecting one of temporarily registered roads registered in the temporarily registered road list; and an official registration unit 24 for registering the temporarily registered road selected by the operation unit in an officially registered road list as an officially registered road in accordance with an instruction from the operation unit, generating road data on the basis of traveling locus data relating to the temporarily registered road, and adding the generated road data to the map data stored in the map data storage unit.
摘要:
In a road data frame for displaying road maps, each node/link data record describing a link corresponding to a road part includes link identification information identifying an original link, and auxiliary link identification information used for identifying a plurality of alternative links which substitute for any of the original links in the map data. In a route planning data frame for route planning, each connection record describing the interconnection of nodes also includes corresponding link identification information identifying an original link, and corresponding auxiliary link identification information used for identifying a plurality of alternative links which substitute for any of the original links in the map data. By means of identification information of the original link and auxiliary links, it is facilitated to identify the correlation among links in the road data frame and the route planning data frame having different versions.
摘要:
A map data processing apparatus includes: a map data storage unit, a differential data input unit, and a map data multiple update unit. The map data storage unit stores map data. The differential data input unit inputs differential data representing the difference between current map data stored in the map data storage unit and the most recent map data in a script format for each version. The map data multiple update unit updates the map data in the map data storage unit to the most recent map data using the differential data corresponding to the version.
摘要:
A map information processing apparatus includes a route determination unit for determining a route between two arbitrary points by using map information for route determination having one or more levels of hierarchy, and an external map information acquiring unit for, when acquiring map information about a predetermined region from outside the map information processing apparatus, acquiring map information for route determination result providing having information about a region of an arbitrary size including the predetermined region, and map information for route determination about at least one unit region including the predetermined region, which is included in map information for route determination at the top level of the hierarchy, and map information for route determination about all unit regions that exist at levels of the hierarchy lower than the former unit region including the predetermined region.
摘要:
A map information processing apparatus includes a map information storage unit 111 for storing map information which is separated into multiple layers, a layer-to-be-updated-with-addition determination processing unit 118 for determining one or more layers which are to be updated with addition of an unregistered road which has been detected during travel of a vehicle, and an unregistered road adding and updating unit 117 for adding the unregistered road to the map information storage unit to update the map information with the addition being aimed at the one or more layers determined by the layer-to-be-updated-with-addition determination processing unit.
摘要:
An apparatus includes a map information storage section for storing map information on an area by area basis formed in meshes; a positioning section for measuring its own present location; a new road detecting section; a new road registration decision section for deciding that the new road is additionally registerable to the map information stored in the map information storage section when the road density in the area including the new road detected by the new road detecting section is equal to or less than a predetermined value; and a new road registration section for making additional registration of the new road, as to which the new road registration decision section makes an additionally registerable decision, to the map information stored in the map information storage section.
摘要:
A map information processing device includes: a map information storage unit 23 for storing map information; a sensor information input unit 22 for inputting sensor information used for calculation of a current position; a navigation processing unit 25 for calculating the current position by using the map information read from the map information storage unit, and the sensor information inputted from the sensor information input unit, and for, when determining, from the above-mentioned calculated current position, that a vehicle has entered a tunnel shown by the above-mentioned read map information, calculating the number of tunnels excising forwardly and continuously at intervals of a predetermined distance or less from the above-mentioned tunnel to generate a map image about a map including the above-mentioned calculated number of tunnels; and an output control unit 26 for outputting the map image generated by the navigation processing unit 25.