JPH06138818A - On-vehicle navigation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To superimpose information corresponding to dates of sightseeing, an excursion, an event, etc., on a road map. CONSTITUTION:This navigation device is equipped with a storage means 101 which stores road map data by dates including information corresponding to the dates, a calendar timer 102 which outputs date and a display control means 103 which reads the road map data corresponding to the date of the calendar timer 102 out of the storage means 101 and displays the data on a display means 100.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a vehicle-mounted navigation device for displaying the current position of a vehicle on a road map and guiding an occupant to a destination.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A vehicle-mounted navigation device that guides an occupant by displaying a current route of a vehicle and a guidance route to a destination on a road map around the vehicle displayed on a display device has been put into practical use. There is. In this type of vehicle-mounted navigation device, the road map is displayed on the display device, and the display screen is switched to a list of information (hereinafter referred to as date information) corresponding to dates such as sightseeing, excursions, and events, and a list thereof. The details are displayed.

However, in the conventional vehicle-mounted navigation device, the date information is not superimposed and displayed on the road map, so that there is a problem that the date information such as sightseeing, leisure, and events cannot be confirmed on the road map. is there.

An object of the present invention is to display information corresponding to dates such as sightseeing, excursions, and events by superimposing them on a road map.

[0005]

The present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 which is a claim correspondence diagram. In the invention of claim 1, a vehicle-mounted navigation for displaying a road map on the display means 100 to guide an occupant. A storage unit 101 that is applied to the device and stores road map data for each date including information corresponding to the date, and a calendar clock 102 that outputs the date.
And the road map data corresponding to the date of this calendar clock 102 is read from the storage means 101 and displayed on the display means 10.
The display control means 103 for displaying 0 is provided to achieve the above object. The invention according to claim 2 is applied to a vehicle-mounted navigation device that displays a road map on the display means 200 to guide an occupant, and stores the information corresponding to the date and the road map data irrelevant to the date.
01, a calendar clock 202 for outputting the date, information corresponding to the date of the calendar clock 202 and road map data irrelevant to the date are read from the storage means 201, and are displayed on the display means 200 in a superimposed manner. The control means 203 is provided, and the said objective is achieved by this.

[0006]

In the vehicle-mounted navigation device according to the present invention, the road map data corresponding to the date of the calendar clock 102 is read out and displayed from the road map data for each date including the information corresponding to the stored date. . In addition, in the vehicle-mounted navigation device according to the present invention, from the stored information corresponding to the date and the road map data not related to the date, the information corresponding to the date of the calendar clock 102 and the road map data not related to the date are stored. Are read out, and they are superimposed and displayed.

[0007]

EXAMPLE FIG. 2 shows the configuration of an example. In the figure,
Reference numeral 1 is an input device such as a panel switch or a touch panel installed on a display, 2 is a calendar clock for outputting the date, and 3 is a memory including a ROM and a RAM.
Reference numeral 4 denotes a control circuit including a microcomputer and its peripheral components, which executes a control program described later to perform display control. Further, 5 is a map information storage device that stores road map data for each date including information corresponding to the date, 6 is a display that displays the road map and date information, and 7 is a vehicle position calculation device that uses GPS or beacons. Is.

Here, the road map is JIS-X0 for the whole country.
It is divided into small sections (hereinafter referred to as regional meshes) defined by 410 and is managed for each date of date information such as sightseeing, leisure, and events. In addition, the road map is dataized as a collection of nodes indicating roads such as intersections and bends, and straight lines connecting the nodes, that is, links, and the position coordinates of each node and each link and the road type. It is stored together with attribute information such as. Further, the date information such as sightseeing, excursions, and events included in the road map includes the information name, the date and period, and position coordinates indicating the place.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing a display item setting program executed by the control circuit 4. When the date information selection mode switch of the input device 1 is operated, the control circuit 4 starts execution of this control program and performs date information selection / setting processing. In step S1, FIG.
The date information display selection screen shown in is displayed on the display 6. On this screen, an information menu 11 such as fishing information, festival information, outdoor information, fireworks display information, excursion information, ski information, seasonal road information, etc. is displayed, and such information is displayed according to the date, or A selection menu 12 for selecting whether to always display or not to display is displayed. When the finger touches the selection menu 12, the touch switch is turned on and the selection information is output to the control circuit 4. When a finger touches the scroll mark 13, the scroll switch is turned on, and the information menu 11 and the selection menu 12 scroll up and down.

In step S2, the state of the touch switch operated on the date information display selection screen is input, and in the following step S3, the setting end menu 14 is operated to determine whether or not the setting end touch switch is turned on, and the setting is set. Is completed, the process proceeds to step S4, and if not, the process returns to step S2. In step S4, the flag of the selected date information is set and the execution of the program ends.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing a map drawing program executed by the control circuit 4. Control circuit 4
When the navigation mode switch of the input device 1 is operated, the control program starts executing and executes map drawing processing. The current date is input from the calendar clock 2 in step S11, and the date is set to April 1 in step S12.
It is determined whether it is within the period from the date to April 30th. 4 /
If 1 to 4/30, the process proceeds to step S13, and if not, the process proceeds to step S14. In step S13, the road map data around the vehicle position calculated by the vehicle position calculation device 7 from the map information storage device 5, or the input device 1
Road map data in the range specified by
The road map data including the information corresponding to the date of / 30 is read.

When the date is not 4/1 to 4/30, the process proceeds to step S14, and it is determined whether the date is 5/1 or not. If the date is 5/1, the process proceeds to step S15, and if not, the process proceeds to step S16. In step S15, road map data around the vehicle position or in the designated range
The road map data including the information corresponding to the date is read. If the date is not 5/1, the process proceeds to step S16, and it is determined whether the date is 12/1 to 12/31. Date is 1
If it is 2/1 to 12/31, the process proceeds to step S17, and if not, the process proceeds to step S18. In step S17, the road map data of the vehicle position or the designated range and including the information corresponding to the dates of 12/1 to 12/31 is read. The process of searching road map data corresponding to dates 5/1 to 11/30 is the same as the process for other dates except for the content of the data, and therefore description thereof will be omitted.

In step S18, the date information to be displayed is selected from the road map data including the information corresponding to the date read from the map information storage device 5 according to the date information flag set on the date information display selection screen. In a succeeding step S19, a road map around the vehicle or a designated range including the selected date information is displayed on the display 6.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a display screen of a road map including information corresponding to dates of 4/1 to 4/30, in which the selected sightseeing spots of cherry blossoms and fishing spots of fishing information are displayed on the road map. is there. FIG. 7 shows a display screen example of a road map including information corresponding to the date of 5/1, in which the location of the large kite festival of the selected festival information is displayed on the road map.
FIG. 8 shows a display screen example of a road map including information corresponding to dates of 6/1 to 7/31, in which a selected camping site of outdoor information and a fishing site of fishing information are displayed on the road map. FIG. 9 shows an example of a display screen of a road map including information corresponding to the date of 8/13, in which the location and date and time of the selected fireworks display information and the beach of the vacation information are displayed on the road map. FIG. 10 shows a display screen example of a road map including information corresponding to dates of 9/1 to 9/30, in which the famous autumn leaves of the selected vacation information are displayed on the road map. FIG. 11 shows an example of a display screen of a road map including information corresponding to the dates of 12/1 to 12/31, in which the ski resort and seasonal road information of the selected ski information are displayed on the road map.

As described above, since the road map data for each date including the information corresponding to the date is stored and the road map data corresponding to the current date is read out and displayed, sightseeing and excursions can be performed on the road map. , Date information corresponding to the current date such as an event and its location can be confirmed. In addition, since any information is selected from the date information and only the information corresponding to the current date is displayed, the amount of information displayed is not too large and the visibility of the road map and date information is improved. Good.

In the above-described embodiment, the road map data for each date including the information corresponding to the date is stored in the map information storage device, and the road map data corresponding to the current date is read out and displayed. However, the information corresponding to the date and the road map data for each area irrelevant to the date are stored in the map information storage device, and the information corresponding to the current date and the road around the own vehicle position or the designated area are stored. You may make it read map data and display them on top of each other.

In the configuration of the above embodiment, the display 6 serves as display means and the map information storage device 5 serves as storage means.
The calendar clock 2 constitutes a calendar clock, and the control circuit 4 constitutes a display control means.

[0018]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1, the road map data for each date including the information corresponding to the date is stored, and the road map data corresponding to the date of the calendar clock is read and displayed. By doing so, it is possible to confirm the date information and the location corresponding to the current date of sightseeing, excursions, events, etc. on the road map. Further, since only the information corresponding to the date of the calendar clock is displayed from the date information, the displayed information amount is not too large, and the visibility of the road map and the date information is good. According to the invention of claim 2, the information corresponding to the date and the road map data not related to the date are stored, and the information corresponding to the date of the calendar clock and the road map data not related to the date are read out,
Since they are superposed and displayed, the same effect as the invention of claim 1 can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a complaint correspondence diagram.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a display item setting program.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a date information display selection screen.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a map drawing program.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a road map display screen of 4/1 to 4/30.

FIG. 7 is a view showing a 5/1 road map display screen.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a road map display screen from 6/1 to 7/31.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a road map display screen on 8/13.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a road map display screen from 9/1 to 9/30.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a road map display screen from 12/1 to 12/31.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Input Device 2, 102, 202 Calendar Clock 3 Memory 4 Control Circuit 5 Map Information Storage Device 6 Display 7 Vehicle Position Calculator 11 Information Menu 12 Selection Menu 13 Scroll Mark 14 Setting End Menu 100, 200 Display Means 101, 201 Storage Means 103, 203 Display control means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A vehicle-mounted navigation device for displaying a road map on a display means to guide an occupant, a storage means for storing road map data for each date including information corresponding to a date, and a calendar clock for outputting the date. And a display control unit for reading road map data corresponding to the date of the calendar clock from the storage unit and displaying the road map data on the display unit. 2. In a vehicle-mounted navigation device for displaying a road map on a display means to guide an occupant, a storage means for storing information corresponding to a date and road map data irrelevant to the date, and outputting the date. A calendar clock, information corresponding to the date of this calendar clock, and road map data irrelevant to the date are read from the storage means,
A vehicle-mounted navigation device, comprising: display control means for displaying them in a superimposed manner on the display means.