WO2008026377A1

WO2008026377A1 - Information registration device, information registration method, and others

Info

Publication number: WO2008026377A1
Application number: PCT/JP2007/063464
Authority: WO
Inventors: Takashi Ishikawa
Original assignee: Pioneer Corporation
Priority date: 2006-08-31
Filing date: 2007-07-05
Publication date: 2008-03-06
Also published as: JPWO2008026377A1

Abstract

An information registration device etc. capable of avoiding redundant registration of car parks in automatic car park registration. The information registration device detects a current position of a vehicle and determines whether the vehicle is in a parked state. Also, the information registration device determines whether the vehicle's position that is on a map and corresponds to the vehicle's current position is present within any of house shapes on the map. When the vehicle is in a parked state and is within a house shape, the device recognizes the house shape where the position of vehicle is. The information registration device determines whether car park information is registered for the recognized house shape. When car park information is not registered, the information registration device registers car park information for the recognized house shape.

Description

Specification

Information registration device and information registration method, etc.

Technical field

[0001] The present application relates to a technical field such as an information registration apparatus and method for registering information about a moving object.

Background art

[0002] Conventionally, navigation devices that are mounted on vehicles that are moving bodies and provide navigation information such as map information of a moving route have been widely used. The development of such navigation device technology, in addition to remarkable driving route guidance, detects vehicle conditions such as driving and parking of the vehicle, and based on the results of positioning of the vehicle condition and the current position, there are a variety of technologies. Something that provides service information has appeared.

[0003] In order to provide such various service information, it is necessary to detect vehicle states such as running and parking. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for detecting a parking state among such vehicle states. Is disclosed.

Patent Document 1: JP 2005-121466

Disclosure of the invention

Problems to be solved by the invention

[0004] By the way, in the future, when the parking state of the vehicle is detected in this way and the function of automatically registering that point (for example, in the facility) as a parking lot is realized! Even when parking at a location different from the location already registered as a parking lot, there may be a problem of overlapping parking registrations within the same facility.

[0005] Therefore, the present application has an information registration apparatus that can solve such inconvenience as one issue, and can avoid redundant parking registration when automatically registering a parking lot. , And an information registration apparatus method.

Means for solving the problem

[0006] In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention of the information registration device according to claim 1 is characterized in that storage means for storing map data including a plurality of partitioned areas, and a current state of the mobile object Current position detection means for detecting a position, stop state determination means for determining whether or not the moving body is in a stopped state, and the position of the moving body on the map corresponding to the current position of the moving body, Position determining means for determining whether or not it exists in any of the areas on the map, and if it is determined that the moving body is in a stopped state and exists in the area, the movement Recognize the region where the body position exists, determine whether or not the information on the moving body is registered for the recognized region, and if not registered in the recognized region And a registration means for registering information relating to the mobile object.

[0007] The invention of the information registration method according to claim 3 includes a step of storing data of a map configured to have a plurality of partitioned areas, a step of detecting a current position of a moving body, The step of determining whether or not the moving body is in a stopped state, and the position of the moving body on the map corresponding to the current position of the moving body exists in any of the areas on the map. A step of determining whether or not a force is applied, and if it is determined that the moving body is in a stopped state and exists in the area, the area where the position of the moving body exists is recognized and the recognized Determining whether or not information on the mobile object is registered for the area, and if not registered, registering information on the mobile object on the recognized area. Features.

[0008] The invention of the information registration processing program according to claim 4 detects the current position of the moving body, storage means for storing data of a map configured to have a plurality of partitioned areas, and a computer. Current position detection means, stop state determination means for determining whether or not the moving body is in a stopped state, and the position of the moving body on the map corresponding to the current position of the moving body Position determining means for determining whether or not the moving body exists in the region, and the position of the moving body when it is determined that the moving body is in a stopped state and exists in the region. Is recognized, and it is determined whether or not the information related to the moving body is registered for the recognized area. If the information is not registered, the area is recognized for the recognized area. Information about moving objects Characterized in that to function as a registration means for registering.

[0009] The invention of the recording medium according to claim 5 is the information registration processing program according to claim 4. Force S Characterized by being recorded in a computer-readable manner.

Brief Description of Drawings

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration example of an in-vehicle navigation device according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a parking lot registration process in the system control unit 7 of the in-vehicle navigation device S.

Explanation of symbols

[0011] 1 ... GPS receiver

2 ... Sensor part

4… Display section

5… Audio output

6… Operation part

7 ... System controller

S… In-vehicle navigation system

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, the best embodiment of the present application will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. The embodiment described below is an embodiment when the present application is applied to an in-vehicle navigation device mounted on a vehicle (an example of a moving body).

First, the configuration and function of the in-vehicle navigation device in the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a schematic configuration example of an in-vehicle navigation device according to the present embodiment.

[0015] As shown in FIG. 1, the in-vehicle navigation device S includes a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiving unit 1, a sensor unit 2, a storage unit 3 as a storage means, a display unit 4, and an audio output unit. 5. It comprises an operation unit 6, a system control unit 7, etc.

[0016] The GPS receiver 1 receives a navigation radio wave output from a GPS satellite that is placed in a satellite orbit and orbits the earth via an antenna (not shown), and based on the received signal, the current position information of the vehicle ( (Longitude and latitude) is detected and output to the system controller 7 as GPS data It is supposed to be.

[0017] The sensor unit 2 includes, for example, a speed (vehicle speed) sensor that detects a vehicle speed based on a vehicle speed pulse, a direction sensor (gyro sensor) that detects the traveling direction of the vehicle using geomagnetism, and a vehicle acceleration. It includes an acceleration sensor to detect, a distance sensor to detect the mileage of the vehicle, etc., and each data (speed data, azimuth data, acceleration data, mileage data, etc.) detected by these sensors is sent to the system controller 7 Output to.

The storage unit 3 is, for example, a CD (Compact Disc) —ROM drive, DVD (Digital Versatile

Disc) —ROM drive or HD (Hard Disc) drive, etc., and each drive was recorded on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or HD under the control of the system controller 7. Data and programs for route search and route guidance (route guidance) are read out and output to the system control unit 7.

Here, the data for performing route search, route guidance, etc. include, for example, map data configured with a plurality of partitioned areas, data for route search (for example, link data) Etc.) and data for route guidance, and further data (for example, menu data) for prompting the user to input or select.

[0020] The map data includes image data or the like for displaying a map on the display screen in the display unit 4, for example, a plurality of administrative boundary data indicating boundaries of a plurality of administrative divisions on the map. (Including the display of the address corresponding to each administrative division), road data indicating the road on the map (including the name of each road), partitioned areas on the map (for example, facilities, buildings, etc. (poi (Point Of As an example), multiple house shape data indicating the shape of the house, and shape data indicating the shape of rivers and mountains (including names of rivers and mountains), etc. Including.

[0021] The house shape data includes a set of coordinates on the map (coordinates (Χ, Υ) on the map corresponding to latitude and longitude (or altitude)) that determine the house shape. Each house shape data is assigned and managed with a unique house shape ID, and each house shape ID has a parking lot information indicating registration of a parking lot of the vehicle (area corresponding to the house shape). It is now possible to register by associating (parking lot information indicating that at least a part of the parking lot is used as a parking lot for vehicles)! / The display unit 4 includes, for example, a drawing processing unit, a noffer memory, a display (for example, a liquid crystal display or an organic EL display), and the drawing processing unit is under the control of the system control unit 7. , Map image data and image data related to route guidance are developed in the buffer memory, rendered, and then displayed on the display screen (for example, map display, route display, list display of route distances and charges, etc.) It ’s like that. Further, for example, a menu for prompting the user to input or select is displayed on the display under the control of the system control unit 7.

[0023] The audio output unit 5 includes, for example, a DAC (digital Z analog signal converter), an amplifier, a speech power, and the like. The audio data related to the route guidance output from the system control unit 7 is converted to DZA by DAC. After conversion, it is amplified by an amplifier and output as sound waves from a speaker.

[0024] The operation unit 6 has a plurality of operation buttons for receiving input instructions and selection instructions (for example, destination instructions) from the user, and corresponds to the operation buttons pressed by the user. An instruction signal is output to the system control unit 8.

[0025] The system control unit 7 includes a CPU having an arithmetic function, a working RAM, a ROM for storing various data programs, and the like, and performs overall control of all components in the navigation device S. ing. Then, the CPU power of the system control unit 7, for example, various programs stored in the storage unit 3 (including the information registration processing program of the present application) are read and executed to perform route search and route guidance processing to the destination. At the same time, it functions as a current position detection unit, a stop state determination unit, a position determination unit registration unit, and a registration unit, and executes a parking lot registration process.

More specifically, the system control unit 7 adds the current position of the vehicle (for example, latitude and longitude) to the speed data, direction data, acceleration data, and the like from the sensor unit 2 and the GPS data from the GPS reception unit 1. The coordinates (Χ, Υ)) on the map corresponding to are detected and acquired, and the current position of the vehicle (position of the vehicle on the map) force is present in any house shape on the map (house Whether the coordinates of the current position of the vehicle are included in the coordinates indicated by the shape data).

[0027] Further, the system control unit 7 determines whether or not the vehicle is in a parked state (an example of a stopped state). For example, by detecting that the engine of the vehicle is stopped or that the gear is parked.

[0028] Then, if the system control unit 7 determines that the vehicle is in a parked state and exists in any of the house shapes, the system control unit 7 recognizes the house shape where the position of the vehicle exists, It is determined whether or not the parking lot information is registered for the house shape (house shape ID), and if it is not registered, the above parking lot information is registered for the recognized house shape. It has become.

[0029] When the parking lot information is registered in this way, for example, in the route search process, the user can designate the parking lot as the destination from the operation unit 6, and the set parking lot (that is, A point with a house shape corresponding to the parking lot) is set as a destination, and a route search to the set destination is executed.

[0030] It should be noted that route search and route guidance processing are not directly related to the present application, and thus detailed description thereof is omitted.

[0031] Next, parking lot registration processing in the in-vehicle navigation device S will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of parking lot registration processing in the system control unit 7 of the in-vehicle navigation device S.

[0033] The process shown in FIG. 2 is started when the execution or parking state is detected periodically.

In the parking lot registration process shown in FIG. 2, first, the system control unit 7 determines whether or not the vehicle is in a parked state. If the vehicle is not in a parked state (step SI: NO), If the processing is completed and the vehicle is parked (step SI: YES), map information (for example, house shape data) is also acquired for the current position of the vehicle and the map data force (step S2).

[0035] Next, the system control unit 7 determines whether or not the parking force in the house shape (that is, the force in which the vehicle is in the parking state and exists in any of the house shapes as described above). If it is discriminated (step S3) and it is not parked in the house (step S3: NO), the process is terminated and if it is parked in the house (step S3: YES), Recognize the house shape where the vehicle is located. [0036] Next, the system control unit 7 determines whether or not the parking lot has been registered for the recognized house shape (that is, whether or not the parking lot information is registered for the recognized house shape). (Step S4). If the parking lot has been registered (Step S4: YES), the process is terminated. If the parking lot has not been registered (Step S4: NO), the parking lot is registered. (Register the parking lot information for the house ID corresponding to the recognized house shape) (step S5), and the process ends.

[0037] As described above, according to the present embodiment, the current position of the vehicle is detected, whether or not the vehicle is in a parked state is determined, and the map on the map corresponding to the current position of the vehicle is determined. The position force of the vehicle It is determined whether or not the vehicle exists in any house shape on the map, and if it is determined that the vehicle is in a parked state and exists in the house shape, Recognize the house shape where the location exists, determine whether parking information is registered for the recognized house shape, and if not registered, parking space for the recognized house shape Since it is configured to register information, it is possible to avoid overlapping parking registration when automatically registering a parking lot. In other words, it is possible to prevent multiple registrations at the same place because the judgment is based on the house shape rather than the point.

[0038] Further, even in a place where there is no information as a parking lot, since the judgment is made based on the house shape, information on the place of the house shape can be added as a parking lot.

[0039] It should be noted that in the above embodiment, the force described in the case where the present application is applied to the in-vehicle navigation device S is not limited to this, but is not limited to this. Information of the present application for a communication navigation system configured by a terminal and a communication center apparatus to which the communication navigation terminal is connected via an antenna and a mobile communication network (including a radio base station). It may be configured to apply the registration device and method.

[0040] In the above embodiment, a vehicle is taken as an example of a moving body, and parking lot information is taken as an example of information about a moving body. However, any device or the like that registers information about the moving body may be used. It is also possible to apply to other things.

[0041] Also, in the case of judging the parking lot by the house shape! The law can also be used in various facilities other than parking lots.

Claims

The scope of the claims

[1] Storage means for storing map data configured with a plurality of partitioned areas, current position detection means for detecting the current position of the moving body,

Stop state determining means for determining whether or not the moving body is in a stopped state, and the position of the moving body on the map corresponding to the current position of the moving body is any one of the regions on the map Position discriminating means for discriminating whether or not it exists in

When it is determined that the moving body is in a stopped state and exists in the area

Recognizing the area where the position of the moving body exists, determining whether or not information on the moving body is registered in the recognized area, and if registered, in some cases An information registration apparatus comprising: registration means for registering information relating to the moving object in the recognized area.

[2] In the information registration device according to claim 1,

The current position detection means detects a current position of the vehicle that is the moving body, the stop state determination means determines whether or not the vehicle is parked, and the position determination means Determining whether the position of the vehicle on the map corresponding to the current position exists in any of the areas on the map;

When it is determined that the vehicle is in a parked state and exists within the area, the registration unit recognizes the area where the vehicle is present, and the registration means It is determined whether or not parking lot information indicating that at least a part of the vehicle is used as a parking lot for the vehicle is registered. If the parking lot information is not registered, the parking lot information is registered for the recognized area. An information registration apparatus characterized by:

[3] storing map data composed of a plurality of partitioned areas;

Detecting the current position of the moving object;

Determining whether the moving body is in a stopped state; and

Determining whether the position of the moving body on the map corresponding to the current position of the moving body exists in any of the areas on the map; When it is determined that the moving body is in a stopped state and exists in the area

Recognizing the area where the position of the moving body exists, determining whether or not information on the moving body is registered in the recognized area, and if registered, in some cases And a step of registering information relating to the moving object with respect to the recognized area.

[4] Computer

Storage means for storing map data comprising a plurality of partitioned areas, current position detection means for detecting the current position of the moving object,

Stop state determining means for determining whether or not the moving body is in a stopped state, the position of the moving body on the map corresponding to the current position of the moving body is within any of the regions on the map Position discriminating means for discriminating whether or not there exists, and

Recognizing the area where the position of the moving body exists, determining whether or not information on the moving body is registered in the recognized area, and if registered, in some cases An information registration processing program for causing a function of registering information relating to the moving object to the recognized area.

[5] A recording medium, wherein the information registration processing program according to claim 4 is recorded so as to be readable by a computer.