JP4528004B2 - Building information display device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a building information display device that displays information on tenants (stores, companies, etc.) occupying a building, and more particularly, to a building information display device applicable to an in-vehicle navigation device.

  In recent in-vehicle navigation devices, storage devices such as DVDs (Digital Versatile Disks) or hard disks include not only map databases but also convenience stores, restaurants, gas stations, sightseeing spots, amusement parks, shopping buildings and office buildings. The facility database composed of the facility data (hereinafter referred to as facility data) is now stored. In this type of in-vehicle navigation device, for example, when a predetermined operation is performed by selecting a shopping building or office building displayed on a map, the name of a tenant (store or company) in the shopping building or office building Are displayed by floor. When the user selects a desired tenant, detailed information (for example, address, telephone number, business hours, etc.) of the tenant is displayed.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 11-30952 describes an information guide device that displays a three-dimensional display of a resident and displays a list in the order of the tenants in order when a target building (building) is searched. . In this information guidance device, when a desired resident is selected from the list, the floor in which the selected resident is occupying is highlighted.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-30952

  However, in the in-vehicle navigation device described above, in order to find out what kind of store is in which building in the area where shopping buildings are lined up, it is said that a building is selected and the store in that building is displayed. It is necessary to repeat the operation over and over again. For example, when searching for a CD shop, one shopping building is selected, a store occupying the building is displayed, and it is confirmed whether there is a CD shop. If there is no CD shop, or if there is a CD shop but it is not a favorite shop, after the display of the store is canceled, the next building is selected to display the store in the building. It is necessary to perform such an operation until a desired CD shop is found.

  The information guidance device described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-30952 also displays a list of tenants in one searched building, and thus does not solve the above problem.

  From the above, an object of the present invention is to provide a building information display device that can be applied to an in-vehicle navigation device and can easily find a desired store or company (tenant) from a plurality of buildings. is there.

The above-described problems include a display unit, a map displayed on the display unit, a control unit that acquires information on a tenant occupying the building displayed on the display unit, and an operation signal output to the control unit. The control unit changes the display floor of tenant information one floor at a time according to a signal input from the operation unit , and each of the plurality of buildings displayed on the map Information on tenants occupying the display floor changed according to the signal input from the operation unit is displayed on the display unit at the same time, and a building without a display target floor is displayed on the display unit. The problem is solved by a building information display device characterized in that the floor is displayed on the display unit in a different style from a building with a floor, and tenant information of a building without the floor to be displayed is not displayed.

  In the present invention, information on tenants occupying the same floor of a plurality of buildings displayed on the map is simultaneously displayed on the display unit. For this reason, for example, even when six 10-story shopping buildings are lined up, all tenants can be confirmed by 10 operations, and the operability is greatly improved as compared with the conventional case.

  The tenant information may be stored in the storage unit together with the map database, or may be acquired from an external server via a communication device. Further, tenants of a genre registered in advance are preferably displayed on the display unit so as to stand out in a different manner from other tenants.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a building information display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to an in-vehicle navigation device will be described.

  This in-vehicle navigation device includes a control unit 10 constituted by a microcomputer, an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) 11, an operation unit 12, a vehicle position detection unit 13, a display unit 14, and a memory 15.

  The HDD 11 stores a map database composed of a large number of map data and a facility database composed of a large number of facility data. Details of the map database and the facility database stored in the HDD 11 will be described later.

  The operation unit 12 is provided with various operation buttons and the like for operating the vehicle-mounted navigation device. In the present embodiment, the operation unit 12 includes a touch panel 12a disposed on the front surface of the display unit 14 as shown in FIG. When the user touches the touch panel 12a with a finger, a signal corresponding to the contact position of the finger is output from the touch panel 12a to the control unit 10.

  The position detection unit 13 includes a GPS receiver that receives a positioning signal transmitted from a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite, a gyro that detects a rotation angle of the vehicle, and a travel distance that generates a pulse at every constant travel distance. It is comprised with a sensor. The control unit 10 detects the latitude / longitude of the current position of the vehicle according to the signal from the position detection unit 13.

  The display unit 14 is composed of a liquid crystal panel, for example. The control unit 10 displays a map of an area including the current position of the vehicle on the display unit 14, or displays a guidance route from the departure point to the destination, a vehicle position mark, and other guidance information.

  The memory 15 temporarily stores map data and facility data read from the HDD 11 by the control unit 10.

  FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of the map database and the facility database stored in the HDD 11. As shown in FIG. 3, the map data constituting the map database 1a includes road data used for road drawing and guidance route search, background data for drawing seas, rivers, ponds, green spaces, and the like, It is composed of facility drawing data for drawing facilities (buildings) and character / symbol data for displaying administrative division names such as municipalities, road names, intersection names, building names, and map symbols. Yes. Of the facilities drawn by the facility drawing data, the facilities registered in the facility database 1b are given unique facility numbers for each facility.

  The facility data constituting the facility database 1b is also given a unique facility number for each facility, and can be linked to the facility displayed on the map. Each facility data includes information such as the name, address, and genre (type of convenience store, restaurant, gas station, sightseeing spot, amusement park, shopping building, etc.). Further, when the facility is a shopping building, it has information indicating the number of floors of the shopping building (the number of floors of the basement and the ground floor) and information for each floor. The information for each floor is composed of one or a plurality of tenant information or tenant group information.

  As shown in FIG. 4A, the tenant information includes a property number unique to the tenant, the name of the tenant, the genre (type of CD shop, bookstore, restaurant, appliance store, etc.), address, icon data, and other details. It consists of information (phone number, business hours, etc.). In addition, as shown in FIG. 4B, the tenant group information includes tenant group names (for example, a cafeteria floor, a movie street floor, an office floor, a shopping floor, etc.) and information on each tenant constituting the tenant group ( Tenant information). The configuration of the tenant information included in the tenant group information is basically the same as that shown in FIG.

  Hereinafter, operation | movement of the building information display apparatus (vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus) of this embodiment is demonstrated with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  First, in step S11, the floor display mode is set. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, when a map of the current position of the vehicle is displayed on the display unit 14 (in the current position display mode), the desired building among the buildings displayed on the display unit 14 is indicated. When is touched, a signal (operation signal) corresponding to the contact position of the finger is output from the touch panel 12 a to the control unit 10. As a result, the control unit 10 displays a main menu (not shown) on the display unit 14. When the “view information” item is selected in the main menu, the control unit 10 displays a submenu as shown in FIG. When the “display by floor” item is selected (touched with a finger) in this submenu, the floor display mode is set.

  If the item “Display by building” is selected in the submenu shown in FIG. 7, the same building-by-building display mode in which tenant information for each floor of the selected building is displayed is displayed. The description of the mode is omitted.

  Next, in step S12, the control unit 10 extracts the building registered in the facility database 1b from the buildings displayed on the display unit 14, that is, the building to which the facility number is assigned. Here, it is assumed that four buildings (facility) of A building, B building, C building, and D building shown in FIG. 6 have been extracted. Thereafter, the control unit 14 reads the extracted building facility data from the facility database 1 b of the HDD 11 and stores it in the memory 15.

  Next, it transfers to step S13 and the control part 10 investigates the floor number for every building using the facility data preserve | saved at the memory 15. FIG. Here, for example, it is assumed that Building A has 2 floors to 9 floors, Building B has floors 1 to 11, and Buildings C and D have floors 1 to 10.

  Next, the process proceeds to step S <b> 14, and the control unit 10 generates an image of the display floor designation button and displays it on the display unit 14.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display floor designation button displayed on the display unit 14. In this example, as shown in FIG. 8, from "B2 (second basement)" to "11 (11th floor)" corresponding to the lowest floor to the highest floor of A building, B building, C building, and D building. 13 display floor designation buttons 31 are displayed so as to overlap the map image. In addition, when there is a floor where there is no property information in any of the A building, B building, C building, and D building, the display floor designation button 31 corresponding to the floor is not displayed or grayed out so that it cannot be selected. It is preferable to do. In addition, the number of display floor designation buttons 31 displayed on one screen is, for example, up to 10, and when there are many floors, a “next” button and a “previous” button are displayed together with the display floor designation buttons 31. The floor display of the display floor designation button 31 may be switched by the button.

  Next, in step S15, the control unit 10 monitors whether the user has pressed the display floor designation button 31 or not. In this example, when the user presses any one of the display floor designation buttons 31 from “B2” to “11”, the process proceeds to step S16.

  Next, in step S <b> 16, the control unit 10 sets the name or icon of the store (tenant) or the tenant group name occupying the floor corresponding to the display floor designation button 31 pressed by the user to the A building, B building, The images are displayed on the C building and the D building, respectively.

  Next, it transfers to step S17 and the control part 10 determines whether operation which changed the display designation floor was performed. When it is determined that an operation for changing the display designated floor is performed, the process returns to step S16, and the name or icon of the store or the tenant group name on the designated floor is displayed.

  On the other hand, when it is determined in step S17 that the operation for changing the display designated floor has not been performed, the process proceeds to step S18, and it is determined whether or not the floor display mode for building information is to be ended. When it is determined that the operation for ending the floor display mode is not performed, the process returns to step S17, and when it is determined that the operation for ending the floor display mode is performed, the floor display mode is ended and the current position display mode is displayed. (See FIG. 6).

  9 shows a screen display example when tenant information on the ninth floor (store) is displayed, FIG. 10 shows a screen display example when tenant information on the tenth floor is displayed, and FIG. 11 shows tenant information on the eleventh floor. The example of a screen display when displaying is shown.

  As shown in FIG. 9, when displaying tenant information on the 9th floor, the name or icon of the store occupying the 9th floor of the A building, B building, C building, and D building is A building, B building, C They are displayed superimposed on the images of the building and D building. That is, an icon is displayed for a store in which icon data is registered in the tenant information, and a store name is displayed for a store in which icon data is not registered in the tenant information.

  Here, for example, when the user touches the display part of Building B (in this example, “Yamada Denki”), the control unit 10 reads the detailed information of the store from the memory 15 and displays it as shown in FIG. 12, for example. Detailed information of the store is displayed on the part 14. When the “return” button 32 is pressed on the screen shown in FIG. 9, the building information floor display mode is terminated, the current position display mode is returned, and the screen shown in FIG. 6 is displayed.

  Furthermore, when the “down” button 33 is pressed on the screen shown in FIG. 9, the tenant information display screen is changed to the next lower floor, and when the “up” button 34 is pressed, the tenant information display screen is displayed one higher floor. Is done. In addition, when the “down” button 33 or the “up” button 34 is pressed, tenant information on the upper floor or the lower floor in any of the buildings A, B, C, and D May not be registered, the floor where tenant information is not registered may be skipped and the tenant information display screen on the lower floor or the upper floor may be displayed.

  As shown in FIG. 10, when tenant information on the 10th floor is displayed, since stores are located on the 10th floor of the B building, the C building, and the D building, the B building, the C building, and the D building are shown as solid lines. Is displayed. In this example, a store name is displayed in B building, and a store icon is displayed in D building. In C building, the tenant group name (canteen street) registered in the tenant group information is displayed. In addition, since A building does not have the 10th floor part, A building is displayed with a broken line.

  When the user touches the part (C building display part) where the restaurant street is displayed on the screen shown in FIG. 10, the control unit 10 reads tenant information from the corresponding tenant group information, and the display unit 14 reads the cafeteria street. Display the list of cafeterias (tenants) that make up. When a desired canteen is selected from the list, detailed information on the selected canteen is displayed.

  As shown in FIG. 11, when displaying tenant information on the 11th floor, since the store is located only on the 11th floor of the B building, only the B building is displayed with a solid line, and the store occupying the B building is displayed. The name is displayed. Since the A building, the C building, and the D building do not have the 11th floor, these buildings are displayed by broken lines.

  In the present embodiment, for the shopping buildings registered in the facility database among the buildings displayed on the map, the names or icons of the stores or tenant information existing on the same floor of each building are simultaneously displayed on the screen. . The display floor can be easily changed by the “down” button 33 and the “up” button 34. As a result, it is possible to easily know in which building the desired store is located with less operation, and the operability is greatly improved compared to the conventional case when searching for the desired store.

  In the above embodiment, the user designates the display floor using the display floor designation button 31 displayed on the screen as shown in FIG. 8, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, when the floor display mode is set, the tenants of the first floor, the top floor, or the last floor displayed in the last floor of those buildings are extracted from the area displayed on the map and registered in the facility database. Information may be displayed.

  Moreover, if a user registers a favorite genre in advance, the registered genre stores may be displayed in a different manner from other stores so that the stores are conspicuous. For example, when the user registers an electronics store as a favorite genre, the control unit 10 checks whether there is a store of a genre registered as a favorite genre when displaying tenant information for each floor. If there is a store of a registered genre, for example, as shown in FIG. 13, the background color and the character color of the store name are reversed and displayed on the display unit 14.

  In the above embodiment, the case where a store in a shopping building is displayed has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, a desired company can be searched from an office building containing a plurality of companies. it can.

  In the above embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to an in-vehicle navigation device has been described. However, the scope of application of the present invention is not limited to the in-vehicle navigation device. The present invention can also be applied to a building information display device using, for example, a personal computer or a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant).

  Furthermore, in the above embodiment, the case where tenant information of each building is displayed using the facility data recorded in the HDD 11 has been described. For example, the facility data is connected to a predetermined server via a communication device, and the facility data is transmitted from the server. You may make it acquire. In this case, when the detailed information of the store is displayed, it is also possible to display, for example, information on today's special sale items of the store.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a building information display device (vehicle-mounted navigation device) according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a touch panel arranged on the front surface of the display unit. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a map database and a facility database stored in the HDD. 4A is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of tenant information, and FIG. 4B is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of tenant group information. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the building information display device (vehicle-mounted navigation device) according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a screen in a mode for displaying a map of the current position of the vehicle. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a submenu. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of the display floor designation button. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example when tenth floor information on the ninth floor is displayed on the screen. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example when tenth floor information on the 10th floor is displayed on the screen. FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example when tenant information on the 11th floor is displayed on the screen. FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example when the detailed information of the store is displayed. FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an example when a store of a genre registered as a favorite genre is displayed.

Explanation of symbols

10 ... control unit,
11 ... HDD (hard disk drive),
12 ... operation part,
12a ... touch panel,
13 ... position detector,
14 ... display part,
15 ... Memory,
31 ... Display floor designation button,
32 ... "Back" button,
33 ... "Down" button,
34 ... "Up" button.

Claims (4)

A display unit;
A control unit that displays a map on the display unit, and acquires information on a tenant occupying the building displayed on the display unit;
An operation unit that outputs an operation signal to the control unit;
The control unit changes the display floor of tenant information one floor at a time in accordance with a signal input from the operation unit , and displays each of the plurality of buildings displayed on the map from the operation unit. Information on the tenant occupying the display floor changed according to the input signal is displayed on the display unit at the same time, and a building that does not have a display target floor is different from a building that has the display target floor. A building information display device that displays on the display unit and does not display information on a tenant of a building having no floor to be displayed. Furthermore, it has a storage unit that stores a map database and a facility database,
The building information display device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit acquires map data to be displayed on the display unit from the map database, and acquires the tenant information from the facility database.   The building information display device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit acquires the tenant information from an external server.   The building information display according to claim 1, wherein the control unit displays a tenant of a genre registered in advance among tenants displayed on the display unit on the display unit in a manner different from other tenants. apparatus.

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