JP2006038626A - Alighting point guiding device, car navigation device and map data recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inform of a free alighting point when a user wants to alight for a while. <P>SOLUTION: This alighting point guiding device 15 is equipped with a position detector 2; a map data recording medium 7 for storing road map data, and storing alighting point potion data of alighting points such as a free parking lot, a free parking area or a facility equipped with a free parking lot; a display device 10; and a control circuit 9. When an alighting point display command switch is switched on, the control circuit 9 displays the alighting point together with a road map on the display device 10 based on the road map data and the alighting point potion data in the map data recording medium 7. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an exit point guide device, a car navigation device, and a map data recording medium capable of displaying an exit point where free parking is possible.

  Conventionally, in a navigation apparatus for a vehicle, a destination is set, and a route from the current position to the destination is set and guided. By the way, the set destination is a place near the destination where the buildings are scattered and difficult to see, there are many narrow streets and the route to the destination is not drawn, or inside the building When there is a destination, it may be difficult to see which building is visible.

In this case, the user may want to stop the car and check the destination and its surroundings for the time being.
Alternatively, you may want to stop for a while and get off, such as going to the bathroom while driving.
In such a case, the user often displays the pay parking lot on the display device of the navigation device to recognize the pay parking lot, parks the car in the pay parking lot, and often gets off the vehicle. In addition, there exists patent document 1 as what can display a pay parking lot on a display apparatus.
JP 2002-48568 A

As mentioned above, when the user wants to get off the vehicle, he or she parks once in the pay parking lot displayed on the display device or looks for a nearby pay parking lot, but temporarily parks there. Even while searching for a destination on foot or checking the surroundings, a parking fee is added, which is disadvantageous for the user.
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an unloading point guide device that can notify a free unloading point and improve convenience when the user wants to unload for a while. And a car navigation apparatus and a map data recording medium.

  According to the disembarkation point guide device of claim 1, the road map data is stored, and a map storing disembarkation point position data of a disengagement point such as a free parking lot, a free parking area or a facility with a free parking lot is stored. A data storage means, a disembarking point display command generating means for generating a command to display a disembarking point; a display means; and when the disembarking point display command is generated by the dismounting point display command generating means, the road map data and the dismounting Based on the point position data, the display means includes a display control means for displaying the getting-off point together with the road map, so that the user can cause the getting-off point display command generating means to display the getting-off point. Is generated, the getting-off point is displayed on the display means. Therefore, it is possible to inform the user of the parking points or parking facilities that can be parked free of charge, and the convenience is improved.

According to the disembarking point guide device of claim 2, the current position detecting means for detecting the current position of the vehicle;
Map data storage means for storing road map data and storing the drop-off point position data of the drop-off points such as free parking lots or free parking areas or facilities with free parking lots, and a command to display the drop-off points When the getting-off point display command is generated by the getting-off point display command generating means, the display means, and the getting-off point display command generating means, the vehicle position information detected by the previous current position detecting means, and the road map data And display control means for displaying the getting-off point and the vehicle position together with the road map on the display means based on the getting-off point position data. The convenience is even better.

In this case, if the getting-off point display command generating means is an input means operated by the user (a getting-off point guide device according to claim 3), the user can know the getting-off point as necessary, and it is more convenient. Good sex.
Moreover, it is provided with an alighting point selection means, and the display control means displays a place name or a facility name of a plurality of alighting points when the alighting point display command generating means generates the alighting point display command. When a place name or a facility name is selected, the selected getting-off point may be displayed together with a road map (a getting-off point guide device according to claim 4). In this way, the getting-off point is changed to a place name or a facility name. It is possible to select and take into account the convenience.

  Furthermore, it is provided with an alighting point selection means, and the display control means displays a place name or a facility name of a plurality of alighting points in association with its own vehicle position, and the place name or the facility name is selected by the alighting point selection means. The selected getting-off point may be displayed together with the road map and the own vehicle position (the getting-off point guide device according to claim 5), and in this way, the getting-off point is represented by the own vehicle position and the place name or the facility name. It is possible to select and take into account the convenience.

  Furthermore, according to the car navigation device of claim 6, the current position detecting means for detecting the current position of the vehicle, the destination setting means for setting the destination, the road map data are stored, and the free parking lot or free parking is stored. When the destination is set by the map data storage means storing the getting-off point position data of the getting-off point such as a possible area or a facility with a free parking lot, the display means, and the destination setting means, the destination is set. Route guidance means for setting the route and guiding by the display means, etc., and the destination setting means can set the getting-off point as a destination, so that a free parking lot or a free parking area or The route can be routed directly to the drop-off point of facilities with free parking, which is convenient.

  The map data recording medium according to claim 7 is a recording medium that stores road map data, and also stores unloading point position data of unloading points such as a free parking lot, a free parking area, or a facility with a free parking lot. As a result, it is possible to provide information on getting-off points that can be parked for free to the getting-off point guide device and the car navigation device.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows an electrical configuration of the car navigation device 1, which includes a dismounting point guide device 15 and a map data recording medium 7 as will be described later.
The car navigation apparatus 1 has a position detector 2 as own vehicle position detection means. The position detector 2 includes a geomagnetic sensor 3, a gyroscope 4, a distance sensor 5, and a GPS receiver 6. In addition, the car navigation apparatus 1 includes a map data input device 8 that reads map data from a map data recording medium 7 (map data storage means) such as a CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM, and a control that executes various processes necessary for navigation. A circuit 9, a display device 10 that is a display means for displaying a map, a sound generator 11 that generates sound, a remote control sensor 12 that receives a signal from a remote controller 13, and various operations necessary for navigation An operation switch group 14 and the like are provided.

The control circuit 9 stores programs relating to destination setting, route setting, voice guidance, display control, etc. in a memory (not shown), and also functions as display control means.
The operation switch group 14 includes a mechanical switch and a panel switch made of a transparent electrode provided in the display device 10. As will be described later, in the operation switch group 14, the panel switch constitutes an input means which is a drop-off point display command generation means and a drop-off point selection means.

  The getting-off point guide device 15 includes the position detector 2, the map data recording medium 7, the map data input device 8, the display control function in the control circuit 9, the display device 10, the sound generator 11, the remote control sensor 12, and the remote controller. 13, the operation switch group 14 is included, and the car navigation device 1 has a destination setting function, a route setting function, a route guidance function, a getting-off point display control function, and the like. No. 15 does not have a destination setting function, a route setting function, a route guidance function, etc., but has a getting-off point display control function.

  The map data recording medium 7 includes map data used for map display, map data used for map matching, map data used for route guidance, position data of various facilities (including paid parking lots), and free of charge. Data such as the parking point, the free parking area, or the unloading point position data of the facility having the free parking is recorded. This map data recording medium 7 provides the getting-off point information for free parking to the getting-off point guide device 15 and the car navigation device 1.

  In the configuration described above, when the user uses the operation switch group 14 corresponding to the destination setting means or the remote controller 13 to set the destination and instruct route search, the control circuit 9 uses the map data used for route guidance. Is used to search for a route to the destination. That is, the control circuit 9 calculates the route cost from the departure point (for example, the current position of the host vehicle) to the set destination by the Dijkstra method or the like, and when the calculation of all the route costs to the destination is completed, Connect the link with the lowest route cost and set the route to the destination.

The control circuit 9 highlights the destination route on the road map of the display device 10 for the destination route set in this way, or guides the guidance event from the voice generation device 10 for the destination route. Control to generate sound.
At the time of such route guidance, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, the control circuit 9 displays a map, a destination (indicated by a symbol M), and a vehicle position (indicated by a symbol Q) on the display device 10. In addition, a plurality of panel switches are displayed.

  Of the plurality of panel switches, the part where the characters “get off point” are displayed constitutes a drop-off point display switch 14a as input means. In FIG. 2, when the user turns on the getting-off point display switch 14a in order to confirm the destination on foot, the control circuit 9 is in the vicinity of the vehicle position (for example, within a predetermined radius distance centered on the destination). ) Are listed from the data of the map data recording medium 7 (alighting point listing means), the display of the display device 10 is switched to the screen shown in FIG. Display the name (or place name) on the screen. For example, when there are four listed getting-off points, the name of each facility is displayed in the areas A to D.

In this case, each of the areas A to D constitutes a panel switch, that is, constitutes selection switches 16a to 16d serving as drop-off point selection means. Further, on this display screen, the distance from the vehicle position is displayed in the display area E, and the direction from the vehicle position to each facility is displayed in the area F.
Thereafter, when the user turns on any of the selection switches 16a to 16d, the display screen is switched to FIG. In FIG. 4, the selected getting-off point (indicated by the symbol R) is displayed. After this, the user parks the vehicle at the displayed getting-off point and confirms the destination on foot.

  Further, in this car navigation device 1, when the control circuit 9 sets the destination by the operation switch group 14 as the destination setting means or the remote controller 13, the getting-off point near the destination is displayed on the display device 10. It is possible to display and set the displayed getting off point as the destination. In this case, the getting-off point can be set as the destination from the beginning, which is convenient.

Further, the control circuit 9 can display the getting-off point even during the operation of displaying the vehicle position on the display device 10 together with the map (when only the getting-off point guide device 15 is operated).
That is, when the vehicle does not perform the navigation operation, on the display screen of the display device 10 shown in FIG. 5 (there is no destination display and no voice route guidance unlike FIG. 3), for example, the user When it is desired to get off the vehicle, when the drop-off point display switch 14a is turned on, the control circuit 9 lists the drop-off points around the own vehicle position, and as shown in FIG. The name of the facility (or the place name) may be displayed on the screen. When the user selects a desired getting-off point with the selection switches 16a to 16d, the control circuit 9 switches to the display screen shown in FIG. 6 and displays the selected getting-off point on the screen together with the vehicle position. Therefore, even when the route guidance is not operated, the getting-off point can be notified in relation to the own vehicle position, and convenience is further improved.

When only the getting-off point guide device 15 is in operation, the vehicle position may be changed to a form that does not display. That is, when registering a spot, the display device 10 may display a map near the registered spot and display only the getting-off point.
Further, according to the above embodiment, since the getting-off point display switch 14a, which is an input means operated by the user, is used as the getting-off point display command generating means, the user can know the getting-off point if necessary, and it is more convenient. Good sex.

Next, the embodiment of the present invention may be modified as follows. That is, in FIG. 2 or FIG. 5, when the getting-off point display switch 14a is turned on, the display of FIG. 3 is omitted, and a plurality of getting-off points listed are directly displayed on the display screen of FIG. You may make it display on a map.
In each of the above embodiments, the drop-off point display switch 14a operated by the user is exemplified as the drop-off point display command generating means. However, the drop-off point display command generating means has a predetermined timing when the control circuit 9 executes the program. In this case, an exit point display command may be generated. That is, for example, during a navigation operation, an exit point display command may be automatically generated when a vehicle enters a predetermined distance range around the destination. In this case, a plurality of exit points are automatically displayed. It is recommended to list up and display the listed getting-off points on the display screen.

1 is a block diagram of an electrical configuration of a car navigation apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention. The figure which shows the display state near the destination at the time of navigation operation The figure which shows the display state of the list of getting off points at the time of the same operation The figure which shows the display state of the selected getting-off point at the time of the same operation The figure which shows the display state around the own vehicle position at the time of guide operation The figure which shows the display state of the selected getting-off point at the time of the same operation

Explanation of symbols

  In the drawings, 1 is a car navigation device, 2 is a position detector (own vehicle position detection means), 7 is a map data recording medium (map data storage means), 9 is a control circuit (display control means), and 10 is a display device ( Display means), 13 is a remote control (destination setting means), 14 is an operation switch group (destination setting means), 14a is a drop-off point display switch (drop-off point display command generating means, input means), and 15 is a drop-off point guide device. , 16a to 16d indicate selection means (alighting point selection means).

Claims (7)

Map data storage means for storing road map data, and storing the parking point position data of the free parking lot or a free parking area or a facility equipped with free parking, etc.
A getting off point display command generating means for generating a command to display the getting off point;
Display means;
Display control means for displaying the getting-off point together with the road map on the display means based on the road map data and the getting-off point position data when the getting-off point display command is generated by the getting-off point display command generating means. A getting-off point guide device provided. Current position detecting means for detecting the current position of the vehicle;
Map data storage means for storing road map data, and storing the parking point position data of the free parking lot or a free parking area or a facility equipped with free parking, etc.
A getting off point display command generating means for generating a command to display the getting off point;
Display means;
When the getting-off point display command is generated by the getting-off point display command generating means, based on the own vehicle position information detected by the previous current position detecting means, the road map data and the getting-off point position data, the display means An exit point guide device comprising: a display control means for displaying the exit point and the vehicle position together with the road map. In the getting-off point guide device according to claim 1 or 2,
The getting-off point guide device is an input means operated by a user. In the getting-off point guide device according to claim 1,
A drop-off point selection means,
When the getting-off point display command generating means generates the getting-off point display command, the display control means displays a place name or facility name of a plurality of getting-off points, and the place name or facility name is selected by the getting-off point selecting means. An unloading point guide device that displays a selected unloading point together with a road map. In the getting-off point guide device according to claim 2,
A drop-off point selection means,
When the getting-off point display command generating means generates the getting-off point display command, the display control means displays the place names or facility names of a plurality of getting-off points in association with the vehicle position, and the getting-off point selecting means displays the place name or When the facility name is selected, the getting-off point guide device displays the selected getting-off point together with the road map and the vehicle position. Current position detecting means for detecting the current position of the vehicle;
Destination setting means for setting the destination;
Map data storage means for storing road map data, and storing the parking point position data of the free parking lot or a free parking area or a facility equipped with free parking, etc.
Display means;
Route setting means for setting a route to the destination and guiding by the display means when the destination is set by the destination setting means,
The car navigation device characterized in that the destination setting means can set the getting-off point as a destination. A map data recording medium used for an exit point guide device or a car navigation device,
A map data recording medium characterized by storing road map data, as well as free point parking points, free parking areas, and free point parking point location data such as facilities with free parking lots.

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