Summary of the invention
Technical matters to be solved by this invention provides a kind of rotary island air navigation aid of simply and intuitively navigating instrument.
For solving the problems of the technologies described above, the rotary island air navigation aid of navigating instrument of the present invention comprises the steps:
CPU element in A, the navigating instrument is surveyed current location according to the gps signal that gps receiver receives, and reads in the map data base and the corresponding map datum of current location, and by screen displaying and the corresponding map of current location; The user sets starting point and destination by the touch-screen of navigating instrument, the CPU element map datum in the database according to the map calculates the optimum path of navigation of described starting point to the destination, then should the optimum path of navigation by screen displaying and begin the route guidance process;
B, before arriving the destination, the CPU element in the navigating instrument is calculated the distance of current location to next prompting point; Until when this distance during, judge whether this prompting point is rotary island less than predetermined threshold value;
If not rotary island, then touch-screen directly shows the expanded view of this prompting point, and until by this prompting point the time, touch-screen returns to the state of described optimum path of navigation of normal demonstration and current location;
If rotary island, then CPU element reads the entranceway orientation and the peripheral path data of rotary island in the map data base earlier, calculate the slogan position then, calculate the engineer's scale that is suitable for the whole rotary island of screen displaying and the center of rotary island again, last CPU element control touch-screen is center and the expanded view that shows this rotary island by described engineer's scale with the center of rotary island, when CPU element recorded by this rotary island according to gps signal, touch-screen returned to the state of described optimum path of navigation of normal demonstration and current location;
C, CPU element continue to calculate current location to be pointed out the distance of point and repeats above-mentioned steps B to next, and navigation finishes when arriving the destination.
The present invention has positive effect: the rotary island air navigation aid of (1) navigating instrument of the present invention, can calculate the optimal proportion chi that on touch-screen, shows this rotary island according to the size of rotary island reality, calculate the center of rotary island simultaneously, so that the zone that is used to show expanded view on the touch-screen is center and by the whole rotary island of the complete demonstration of engineer's scale of maximum with described center, make the rotary island navigation simple and directly perceived, hommization is good.(2) in the rotary island air navigation aid of navigating instrument of the present invention, the engineer's scale of calculating demonstration rotary island and the step of center are simple and effective, thereby have improved the rotary island navigation efficient of navigating instrument.(3) in the rotary island air navigation aid of navigating instrument of the present invention, the numbering color of the rotary island outlet on optimum path of navigation is different from the numbering color of other rotary island outlets, with in the rotary island outlet that intuitively demonstrates on the touch-screen on the optimum path of navigation, make the rotary island navigation more humane.(4) in the rotary island air navigation aid of navigating instrument of the present invention, when showing rotary island, can select to show in the Northern Dynasties or, to satisfy the use habit of different user, hommization is good from car up with expanded view.(5) in the rotary island air navigation aid of navigating instrument of the present invention, when showing rotary island, do not show the road of different aspects, make the rotary island navigation more directly perceived, got rid of the vision that is produced of the road on the different aspects and disturbed with expanded view.
Embodiment
(embodiment 1)
As Fig. 1, the navigating instrument of present embodiment comprises: CPU element 1, with the CPU element 1 two-way gps receiver that is electrically connected 2, with the CPU element 1 two-way map data base 3 that is used to store numerical map that is electrically connected, with the CPU element 1 two-way program data base 4 that is used to store navigation program that is electrically connected, with the CPU element 1 two-way instantaneous speech power that is electrically connected 5 and with the CPU element 1 two-way touch-screen that is electrically connected 6.The navigating instrument carrier can be mobile vehicles such as automobile, motorcycle.
The ROM that CPU element 1 comprises the CPU that is used for programmed control and data operation, be used to store navigating instrument bottom software and basic setup data is program data base 4, be used for depositing when running software the RAM of program and data; Map data base 3 is deposited executive routine, POI data, retrieve data etc.Touch-screen 6 comprises liquid crystal touch screen, input circuit and display circuit, and input circuit is an outer input interface, response touch-screen order input; Display circuit is outside output interface, may command liquid crystal touch screen content displayed.
See Fig. 2, the rotary island air navigation aid of the navigating instrument of present embodiment comprises the steps:
CPU element 1 in A, the navigating instrument is surveyed current location according to the gps signal that gps receiver 2 receives, and reads in the map data base and the corresponding map datum of current location, and by screen displaying and the corresponding map of current location; The user sets starting point and destination by the touch-screen 6 of navigating instrument, the CPU element map datum in the database according to the map calculates the optimum path of navigation of described starting point to the destination, then should the optimum path of navigation by screen displaying and begin route guidance process (being step 10-11 among Fig. 2).
B, before arriving the destination, the CPU element in the navigating instrument is calculated the distance of current location to next prompting point; Until when this distance during, judge whether this prompting point is rotary island (being step 12-15 among Fig. 2) less than predetermined threshold value 1.5Km (among other embodiment, can be 0.5 arbitrary value to 5Km).Described prompting point comprises rotary island, intersection, road corner, unidirectional enforcement highway section, speed limit highway section etc.
If not rotary island, then being exclusively used in the touch-screen shows that the zone of expanded view directly shows the expanded view (being step 19 among Fig. 2) of this prompting point, until by this prompting point the time, touch-screen returns to the state (being step 20 and 11 among Fig. 2) of described optimum path of navigation of normal demonstration and current location.
If rotary island, then CPU element reads the entranceway orientation and the peripheral path data of rotary island in the map data base earlier, calculate the slogan position then, calculate the engineer's scale that is suitable for the whole rotary island of screen displaying and the center of rotary island again, last CPU element control touch-screen is the center shows this rotary island by described engineer's scale in the zone that is exclusively used in the demonstration expanded view a expanded view (being step 16-19 among Fig. 2) with the center of this rotary island, when CPU element recorded carrier by this rotary island according to gps signal, touch-screen returned to the state (being step 20 and 11 among Fig. 2) of described optimum path of navigation of normal demonstration and current location.
C, CPU element continue to calculate current location to be pointed out the distance of point and repeats above-mentioned steps B to next, and until arriving the destination, navigation finishes (being step 12 and 21 among Fig. 2).
See Fig. 3, among the described step B, when the engineer's scale of the CPU element calculating demonstration rotary island in the navigating instrument and center, get in the rotary island arbitrary highway section between each outlet earlier as initial highway section (being step 30 among Fig. 3), search next highway section of linking to each other with this initial highway section then counterclockwise as second highway section, and then search next highway section that links to each other with this second highway section counterclockwise, node until tail node that finds a highway section and described initial highway section coincides, and promptly draws the ellipse of being made up of described each highway section (being step 31-32 among Fig. 3); Calculate the boundary rectangle of this rotary island then, get the 1/2 long and 1/2 wide center (being step 33-34 among Fig. 3) that draws rectangle of this rectangle; With this center is the center of described expanded view, and expanded view is carried out convergent-divergent, determines engineer's scale, so that be used for showing the engineer's scale complete demonstration whole rotary island (be Fig. 3 step 35) of the zone of expanded view with maximum on the touch-screen.
See Fig. 4 and Fig. 8, when showing rotary island with expanded view, CPU element is searched the node that rotary island links to each other with non-rotary island counterclockwise along rotary island footpath be that rotary island exports, and number consecutively (being respectively 1,2 and 3 among Fig. 8) is up to the outlet of rotary island, and the numbering color of the outlet of the rotary island on described optimum path of navigation is different from the numbering color (being step 40-42 among Fig. 4) of other rotary island outlets, be among Fig. 8 outlet numbering 1 and 2 for yellow, and outlet numbering 3 be blueness.
As Fig. 8, the bottom of expanded view shows the distance of current location apart from junction ahead (being the rotary island inlet among Fig. 8), and as 150m, the right side of expanded view shows progress bar simultaneously, begins to show this progress bar in the time of can being set to apart from junction ahead 300m.
See Fig. 5-6, when showing same rotary island, can select to show in the Northern Dynasties or, wherein label 8 is from car position, i.e. current location from car up with expanded view; Letter N and label be 9 arrow be combined as the expression direct north.
When showing rotary island with expanded view, if this rotary island above or below have the road of other different aspects, then only show current rotary island map, do not show the road of other different aspects.
See Fig. 7, on the actual map, with the rotary island different aspects on may have other roads 7, and when showing rotary island with expanded view, only displayed map 5 or Fig. 6, and not in the displayed map 7 with the road 7 of rotary island in different aspects.CPU element 1 is judged the navigating instrument carrier on rotary island according to the highway section at current location place, has effectively avoided guiding to make mistakes.