JP2018045139A - Electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic device configured to easily obtain facility information in accordance with user operation.SOLUTION: An electronic device 10 executes a display program 200 for displaying nearby facility information during scroll operation of touch operation. The display program 200 causes a facility information acquisition unit 210 to acquire facility information located within a specific range, and uses a display facility selection unit 220 to select facility information to be displayed. A display position determination unit 240 determines a display position, on the basis of a relative relation between the selected facility information and a reference position. A facility name display unit 250 displays a facility name in the determined display position. Upon detection of pinch-out operation or pinch-in operation, the displayed facility information is modified without changing the scale of a map image displayed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

Description

  The present invention relates to a display method for a navigation device, and more particularly to display of peripheral facility information.

  The navigation device stores information on roads, intersections, and various facilities in advance, and can display a map image around the vehicle position on the display. If a desired destination is input, an optimum guidance route to the destination can be calculated and navigation guidance can be performed.

  When displaying a map image on a display, in addition to roads and intersections, names of directions that do not appear in the map image may be displayed. For example, when displaying a map image on a rectangular display, the center point is the vehicle position, and the right end, left end, top end, and bottom end are XX prefecture, △△ prefecture, □□ prefecture, ▽▽ prefecture, etc. Is displayed. Patent Document 1 discloses an in-vehicle navigation device that displays administrative divisions corresponding to each direction together with a map image, and sets the representative point of the administrative division as a temporary destination by selecting the displayed administrative division. Has been.

JP 2002-122435 A

  When scrolling on a map image, as shown in FIG. 11, there is a navigation device having a function of displaying an administrative district and a municipality of a scroll destination in the four directions of the screen centering on the own vehicle. However, the user may not be able to obtain appropriate information even if the function is used in places where there is no intuition. For example, if station A exists in XX ward, a user who thought "Where is station A" would not say that station A is in XX ward. Even if the display is made, station A cannot be easily searched.

  The present invention solves such a conventional problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device that can easily obtain facility information according to a user's operation.

  An electronic device according to the present invention is an electronic device having a map display function, which is a touch panel type display means capable of input in response to a user operation, a map display means for displaying a map on the display means, An acquisition unit that acquires facility information outside the display range of the display unit based on a reference position of a map displayed on the display unit, and a facility information that displays the facility information acquired by the acquisition unit in a specific area of the display unit Display means; detection means for detecting a user operation on the display means; and change means for changing a facility information acquisition range by the acquisition means in accordance with the user operation detected by the detection means.

Preferably, the detection means detects a pinch-out operation or a pinch-in operation, and changes the facility information acquisition range according to the pinch-out operation or the pinch-in operation. Preferably, the electronic device further includes a selection unit that selects the facility information acquired by the acquisition unit, and the facility information display unit displays the facility information selected by the selection unit. Preferably, the selection means selects a facility on an extension line of a direction centered on the reference position. Preferably, the specific area is an area having an orientation centered on the reference position. Preferably, the specific area is an outer peripheral area of the display means. Preferably, the electronic device further includes switching means for switching presence / absence of display by the facility display means. When the facility display means is not displayed by the switching means, the facility display means Do not display facility information in the area.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the convenience improvement of the user at the time of performing map scroll can be aimed at. Specifically, it is possible to present useful information to the user by displaying including peripheral facilities other than the municipality, and further, the accuracy of the peripheral information display can be improved by performing display using the entire outside of the screen. Can be up. Further, by performing a pinch-out operation or a pinch-in operation during the scroll operation, the display facility can be changed by a simple operation of the user without changing the scale of the map.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the vehicle-mounted apparatus which concerns on the Example of this invention. FIG. 2A is a diagram illustrating an operation example of an input unit according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2A is a diagram illustrating an operation of “pinch out”, and FIG. 2B is a diagram illustrating an operation of “pinch in”. FIG. It is a figure which shows the example which acquires information from another delivery site. It is a figure which shows the functional structural example of the display program which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows concretely operation | movement of the relative position calculation part and display position determination part which concern on the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the facility name display part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows notionally the operation | movement of the target range change part which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the display program which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of the operation | movement flow of the display program which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure which illustrates redisplay of the display program which concerns on the Example of this invention. It is a figure explaining the subject of the conventional vehicle-mounted apparatus.

  Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention is an in-vehicle device such as a navigation device that is fixedly mounted on a moving body such as an automobile, or a portable computer device that can be carried around, or a tablet computer device. Can do. The electronic apparatus may further include other functions such as a function of reproducing audio / video data, a function of receiving television / radio broadcasts, and a function of executing application software.

  In addition, the electronic device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a display having a touch panel function. When a desired point on the map is touched while the map image is displayed on the display, the map image is scrolled, and the touched point can be switched to a map image that matches the center of the display. .

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an in-vehicle device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As an example, the in-vehicle device 10 includes an input unit 100, a position information calculation unit 110, a navigation unit 120, a display unit 130, an audio output unit 140, a communication unit 150, a storage unit 160, and a control unit 170.

  The input unit 100 receives an instruction from the user through an input key device, a voice input recognition device, a touch panel, and the like, and provides this to the control unit 170. Preferably, the input unit 100 according to the present embodiment uses a touch panel, and various input operations can be performed depending on some operation modes of the touch panel. 2A and 2B are diagrams illustrating an operation example of the input unit according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2A illustrates an operation “pinch out”, and FIG. 2B illustrates an operation “pinch in”. Indicates. The pinch out is an operation in which the user's fingers F1 and F2 are brought into contact with the display unit 130 having a touch panel function, and the fingers F1 and F2 are released from an arbitrary point P. The pinch-in is an operation of bringing the finger F1 and F2 into contact with the display unit 130 having a touch panel function in a state where the user's fingers F1 and F2 are separated and closing the fingers F1 and F2 toward an arbitrary point P. Hereinafter, pinch-out operation and pinch-in operation may be referred to as pinch operation. In a conventional navigation device, the display area of the displayed map image can be changed or the scale can be changed by a pinch-out or pinch-in operation. The fingers F1 and F2 are not particularly limited, but are preferably an index finger and a thumb.

  The position information calculation unit 110 calculates the current location of the host vehicle based on GPS signals transmitted from GPS satellites and outputs from sensors such as a gyro sensor. For example, the navigation unit 120 calculates a guide route from the current location to the destination calculated by the position information calculation unit 110, and outputs a voice guidance of the calculated guide route from the voice output unit 140, The road map is displayed on the display unit 130. The destination used for the navigation unit 120 is input from the input unit 100 by a user operation, for example.

  The display unit 130 includes a display device such as a liquid crystal display or an organic EL. For example, the display unit 130 displays a road map image generated by the navigation unit 120, or displays a setting screen or menu screen for performing user settings. To do. The display unit 130 has a touch panel function. The voice output unit 140 outputs voice guidance for guiding the route calculated by the navigation unit 120, or performs voice guidance of driving support information to the driver.

  The communication unit 150 enables data transmission / reception with various external devices. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the communication unit 150 accesses the position information distribution site 152 via the network NW, acquires the vehicle position information from there, or accesses the map data distribution site 154, Necessary map data can be acquired from, or the road traffic information distribution site 156 can be accessed from which detailed information regarding road traffic information can be acquired. The vehicle position information obtained from the position information distribution site 152 can be used in place of the vehicle position information calculated by the position information calculation unit 110. Further, by using the map data distribution site 154, the in-vehicle device 10 may store the minimum necessary map data in the storage unit 160.

  The storage unit 160 can store application software and programs executed by the control unit 170, map data required by the navigation unit 120, and the like. The map data can include information necessary for the operation of the navigation unit, such as node data indicating intersections, link data indicating roads between nodes, and the like. Moreover, the facility information required when displaying a map image on the display part 130 is included. The facility information includes facility name, facility position, facility category information, and the like.

  In a preferred embodiment, the control unit 170 includes a microcontroller including a ROM, a RAM, and the like, and the ROM or the RAM can store various programs for controlling the operation of each unit of the in-vehicle device 10. In the present embodiment, the control unit 170 executes a display program 200 that displays facility information existing in each direction with an arbitrary point as a reference together with a map image.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration example of the display program according to the embodiment of the present invention. The display program 200 according to the present embodiment includes a facility information acquisition unit 210, a display facility selection unit 220, a relative position calculation unit 230, a display position determination unit 240, a facility name display unit 250, a pinch operation detection unit 260, and a target range change unit. 270.

  The facility information acquisition unit 210 acquires facility information in a specific range stored in the storage unit 160. The “specific range” is not particularly limited. For example, an arbitrary point touched when the map display is switched by scrolling or an own vehicle position calculated by the position information calculation unit 110 (hereinafter referred to as an arbitrary point and an own point). The vehicle position may be referred to as a reference position), and the radius may range from several kilometers to several tens of kilometers. The radius can be stored in advance in the storage unit 160 as setting information, and can be changed at any time by the target range changing unit 270 described later.

  The display facility selection unit 220 selects facility information to be displayed on the display unit 130 from the facility information acquired by the facility information acquisition unit 210. The facility selection method is not particularly limited. For example, a method of selecting one facility from each of the four directions of east, west, south, and north centering on the reference position, and a method of selecting a plurality of facilities in the order closer or further from the reference position. , A method of placing priority information in advance in the facility information and selecting a plurality of facilities in descending order of the priority; a user's desired category is set in advance and a facility in the same category as the set category There are a method of selecting the site, and a method of selecting the site of the facility in descending order. In addition, when a mobile terminal having search history information such as the Internet and the electronic device 10 are connected, the search history information is acquired from the mobile terminal, and a display target that matches the user's preference is selected. May be. Note that the display facility selection unit 220 preferably uses the selection method exemplified above and selects a facility that is not displayed on the display unit 130.

  The relative position calculation unit 230 calculates the relative position of the reference position and the facility selected by the display facility selection unit 220. FIG. 5 is a diagram specifically illustrating operations of the relative position calculation unit and the display position determination unit according to the embodiment of the present invention. The relative position calculation unit 230 arranges the position of the selected facility two-dimensionally with reference to the two-dimensional coordinates (X0, Y0) of the reference position Q. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the selected facilities Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4 are based on the respective position coordinates (X1, Y1), (X2, Y2), (X3, Y3), (X4, Y4). Arrange.

  The display position determination unit 240 determines the display position on the display unit 130 of each facility based on the information arranged by the relative position calculation unit 230. The display area shown in FIG. 5 is an area of the map displayed on the display unit 130, and the inner area is a virtual area somewhat smaller than the display area, and the area between the display area and the inner area is displayed as an outer periphery. The display position determination unit 240 determines the display position within the outer periphery display region that is the outer periphery of the four sides. For example, if the straight lines L1, L2, L3, and L4 are defined for each facility from the reference position Q, the display position of Z1 is position 1, the display position of Z2 is position 2, the display position of Z3 is position 3, and Z4 The display position is determined as position 4.

  The facility name display unit 250 displays the name of the facility on the display position determination unit 240. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a display example of the facility name display unit according to the embodiment of the present invention. The facility name display unit 250 displays the facility names Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4 at the positions 1, 2, 3, and 4 determined by the display position determining unit 240, respectively.

  The pinch operation detection unit 260 detects a pinch out operation or a pinch in operation based on an input from the input unit 100. The target range changing unit 270 changes the “specific range” when the facility information acquiring unit 210 acquires facility information. For example, when a pinch-out operation is detected by the pinch operation detection unit 260, the specific range is changed so that the range is narrowed. When a pinch-in operation is detected, the specific range is set so that the range is widened. Can be changed. In this embodiment, the pinch-out operation corresponds to the narrow area operation, and the pinch-in operation corresponds to the wide area operation. However, the pinch out operation corresponds to the wide area operation, and the pinch in operation corresponds to the narrow area operation. good.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram conceptually illustrating the operation of the target range changing unit according to the embodiment of the present invention. For example, when the specific range of the facility information acquisition unit 210 is a range with a radius of 50 km centered on the reference position Q, the facility information acquisition unit 210 acquires the facility information of Z1 to Z6. Here, when the pinch operation detection unit 260 detects a pinch out operation, the specific range is a radius of 10 km, and the facility information that can be acquired by the facility information acquisition unit 210 is only Z5 and Z6. On the other hand, when a pinch-in operation is detected, the specific range has a radius of 100 km, and the facility information that can be acquired by the facility information acquisition unit 210 can acquire Z7, Z8, and Z9 in addition to Z1 to Z6.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of the display program according to the embodiment of the present invention. The display program 200 according to the present embodiment first acquires facility information by the facility information acquisition unit 210 (S100). In addition, the acquisition of facility information for the first time acquires facility information within a specific range set in advance. Next, the display facility selection unit 220 selects one or a plurality of facilities from the facility information acquired in S100 (S102). The relative position calculation unit 230 calculates the relative position between the facility selected in S102 and the reference position (S104). The display position determination unit 240 determines the display position by the method shown in FIG. 5 (S106), and the facility name display unit 250 displays the corresponding facility name at the display position determined in S106 (S108).

  Here, the pinch operation detection unit 260 does not detect the pinch operation (S110), the electronic device 10 is turned off, the map display screen is turned off by the user's operation, and the map display screen is changed from the map display screen by the user's operation. If the facility display is no longer necessary, for example, the facility information display is terminated, that is, the facility information is displayed in the outer periphery display area. Is terminated (S114). On the other hand, if the pinch-out operation or the pinch-in operation is detected by the pinch operation detection unit 260 without performing the ending operation (S110), the target range changing unit 270 determines the facility information acquisition range according to the operation mode. (S112). After the acquisition range is changed, the process returns to S100, the processes from S100 to S108 are executed, and the facility name of the facility selected in S102 is displayed again.

  Next, a specific example of the operation flow of FIG. 8 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a specific example of the operation flow of the display program according to the embodiment of the present invention. For example, it is assumed that a map image and a current location are displayed as shown in FIG. 9A using a conventional map display function. Here, when the user touches an arbitrary point (reference position Q) on the display unit 130, the screen is scrolled to a map image centered on the reference position Q, as is also done in a conventional navigation device. At this time, the display program 200 is executed, and the facility information as shown in FIG. 9B is displayed by the processing from S100 to S108. Note that the facility information shown in FIG. 9B is a display for facility information within a radius of 50 km from the reference position Q.

  Next, when the user performs a pinch-in operation in the state shown in FIG. 9B (S110), the target range is changed in the wide area direction (S112), as shown in FIG. 9C. Facility information for facility information within a radius of 100 km from the reference position Q is displayed (S100 to S108). On the other hand, when the user performs a pinch-out operation in the state shown in FIG. 9B (S110), the target range is changed in the narrow area direction (S112), and shown in FIG. 9D. The facility information for the facility information within a radius of 10 km from the reference position Q is displayed (S100 to S108). As shown in the change from FIG. 9B to FIG. 9C or FIG. 9D, the display program 200 changes the display of facility information or the like shown in the outer periphery display area. It is information and the scale of the map image is not changed.

  Further, as another operation mode, a case where the user further scrolls the map image in the state shown in FIG. For example, this is a case where the user touches a different arbitrary point Q1 in the state shown in FIG. 9B. In such a case, the display program 200 is executed again with the arbitrary point Q1 as the reference position, and the facility information as shown in FIG. 10 is displayed by the processing from S100 to S108. When a pinch-in operation or a pinch-out operation is performed in the state shown in FIG. 10, the target range is changed with reference to Q1 (S112).

  In this embodiment, an example in which facility information is displayed in the outer periphery display area is shown, but the information to be displayed is not limited to facility information, and may be other information such as road traffic information. Moreover, as shown in FIG. 6, the facility information by the display program 200 shown in the present Example is displayed on the display unit 130 by displaying a switch button B between facility display and municipality display that can be touch-operated and operating the button. You may make it switch the display of a municipality and the display which were performed with the display of conventional and navigation apparatus (refer patent document 1 etc.).

  In this embodiment, since the range of the target facility can be changed by the pinch-out operation or the pinch-in operation (see FIG. 7), for example, the facility information is displayed on the display unit 130 for the facility up to. May be displayed. Specifically, when facility information within a radius of 50 km from the reference position is displayed, a display such as “display facility information within 50 km” is displayed on any of the display units 130.

  In this embodiment, the pinch-out operation and the pinch-in operation are associated with the operation of the target range changing unit 270. However, the pinch-out operation and the pinch-in operation in the conventional navigation apparatus are often used mainly for changing the display scale of the displayed map image. Therefore, the user can select whether to display the facility information in advance, and the display program 200 shown in the present embodiment may be executed when the setting for displaying the facility information is made. good. In addition, a button for switching the setting is displayed on the display unit 130, and whether to change the display of the facility information as in the present embodiment or to change the scale of the related art in response to the operation of the pinch-out operation and the pinch-in operation. You may make it switch.

  In this embodiment, facility information within a specific range is acquired from the storage unit 160, but the facility information may be acquired by more detailed conditioning. For example, facility information to be acquired when performing detailed display (display within a radius of 50 km from the reference position) and wide area display (reference position) by storing “detail / wide area” in association with the facility information. Can be classified into facility information to be acquired when a display exceeding a radius of 50 km is performed. As shown in FIG. 7, for example, when a specific range is set to a radius of 50 km, the facility information of Z1 to Z6 can be acquired. At this time, when the facility information of Z1 corresponds to “wide area display”, the facility information of Z1 is not acquired and the facility information of Z2 to Z6 is acquired. On the other hand, when the specific range is changed to the radius of 100 km, the facility information of Z1 corresponding to “wide area display” is acquired.

  The preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above. However, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiment, and various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the gist of the invention described in the claims. It can be changed.

10: In-vehicle device 100: Input unit 110: Location information calculation unit 120: Navigation unit 130: Display unit 140: Audio output unit 150: Communication unit 152: Location information distribution site 154: Map data distribution site 156: Road traffic information distribution site 160: Storage unit 170: Control unit 200: Display program 210: Facility information acquisition unit 220: Display facility selection unit 230: Relative position calculation unit 240: Display position determination unit 250: Facility name display unit 260: Pinch operation detection unit 270: Target range change unit NW: Network Q, Q1: Reference position

Claims (7)

An electronic device having a map display function,
Touch panel type display means capable of input in response to user operations;
Map display means for displaying a map on the display means;
An acquisition means for acquiring facility information outside the display range of the display means based on a reference position of a map displayed on the display means;
Facility information display means for displaying the facility information acquired by the acquisition means in a specific area of the display means;
Detecting means for detecting a user operation on the display means;
Changing means for changing the acquisition range of facility information by the acquisition means according to a user operation detected by the detection means;
An electronic device. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the detection unit detects a pinch-out operation or a pinch-in operation, and changes an acquisition range of facility information according to the pinch-out operation or the pinch-in operation. 3. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a selection unit that selects facility information acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the facility information display unit displays the facility information selected by the selection unit. Electronic equipment. The electronic device according to claim 3, wherein the selection unit selects a facility on an extension line of a direction centered on the reference position. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the specific region is a region having an orientation centered on the reference position. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the specific area is an outer peripheral area of the display unit. The electronic device further includes switching means for switching presence / absence of display by the facility display means, and when the facility display means is not displayed by the switching means, the facility display means is placed in the specific area. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the facility information is not displayed.

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