Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
701212000 | Having variable map scale | 23 |
20080294339 | Route display apparatus and route display system - A navigation system includes a control circuit that controls scrolling of a navigation route together with economical driving information pertaining to a part of the navigation route on a display unit so as to match a moving point along the navigation route to a standard point of the display unit (e.g., a center of the display), thereby allowing a user of the navigation system to recognize the economical driving information of the navigation route prior to the travel of the navigation route in the course of confirmation of the navigation route and enabling the user to imagine required operation condition of economic driving. | 11-27-2008 |
20080319662 | Electronic device and recording medium - A controller determines whether or not the map data that includes the position information of the user device and the position information of the other party can be displayed on the screen of the display panel at a predetermined reduced scale. When the result of the determination specifies that the map that includes the position information of both parties cannot be displayed at the predetermined reduced scale, the controller | 12-25-2008 |
20090048777 | Method for Controlling the Display of a Geographical Map in a Vehicle and Display Apparatus for that Purpose - In a method for controlling a map display in a vehicle, a display device is controlled such that a section of a geographical map is displayed in a spatially non-linear scale. A display apparatus for displaying a geographical map includes a control unit and a display device, connected to the control unit, a map section, the control unit including an arithmetic-logic unit by which data assigned to the geographical map is able to be converted into display data, taking a spatially non-linear scale into consideration. A navigation system includes such a display apparatus. | 02-19-2009 |
20090063048 | Navigation apparatus - In a navigation apparatus, a control device superimposes, on a displayed map in a display device, a plurality of marks for indicating a guidance route around a guidance point. The control device fixes a real distance of an interval between the marks without depending on the change in the scales of the map. | 03-05-2009 |
20090105949 | Generation in a mobile device of a traffic map based on traffic messages - A Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled mobile device includes traffic map generation capability. The mobile device receives traffic messages including information about a traffic event. Based on the information included in the traffic messages and a current location, the mobile device generates a traffic map depicting a location of the traffic event and the current location. | 04-23-2009 |
20090112468 | Method and apparatus for displaying map and vehicular navigation system - A bird's-eye view map is drawn to have two horizontal divisions which divide the display window into three display window sections. The top display window section displays an image of a bird's-eye view in which a mountain range in the distant-range view is drawn using altitude information as it is. The central display window section displays a bird's-eye view in which a mountain range is drawn using altitude information by 50%. In addition, the bottom display window section displays a bird's-eye view in which a road or the like in the close-range view is drawn without using altitude information. This configuration of the whole of the display window can provide a bird's-eye view map with reality. Further, the road or the like in the close-range view is drawn with depression and projection not so highly conspicuous. Users can be thus provided with a bird's-eye view map having enhanced visibility. | 04-30-2009 |
20090177393 | Navigation device and method - A method of displaying enhanced map information on a PND, and a PND capable of displaying such enhanced information is described. In accordance with the invention, the PND determines its velocity and displays map information on a display screen thereof. The map information is continually and/or periodically refreshed to take account of the displacement of the device brought about by its velocity. The invention is characterized in that the extent to which the map information displayed is enhanced to include one or more enhanced features is dependent to some degree on the velocity of the PND, said enhanced features being chosen from the group containing: building textures, digitized photographic images of building facades, landscapes, discrete areas of land and buildings, vistas, patterns representative of land use, street lights, electricity pylons, tram rails, train rails, zebra crossings and traffic signs, types of road surfaces or patterns indicative thereof, road markings, traffic lights, landmarks in the distance or digitized photographs thereof, cities in the distance or digitized photographs thereof, animated patterns, bicycle lanes, bus lanes, graphically or textually represented commercial, agricultural, tourist or traffic information, and enhanced POI icons. | 07-09-2009 |
20090326815 | Position Fix Indicator - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting location information. In some implementations, a method includes: obtaining a first position measure at a mobile device indicating a geographic area where the mobile device is located, presenting a first graphical indicator on a user interface representing the geographic area; obtaining a second position measure at the mobile device, indicating a location associated with the mobile device, and within the geographic area; and presenting a second graphical indicator on the user interface representing the location within the geographic area. | 12-31-2009 |
20100017123 | AZIMUTHAL EQUIDISTANT PROJECTION NAVIGATION DISPLAY AND METHOD - Methods and apparatus are provided for an azimuthal equidistant projection (AEP) aircraft navigational display. The apparatus comprises a generator providing the aircraft's current latitude and longitude (φ | 01-21-2010 |
20100017124 | Location and path-map generation data acquisition and analysis systems - A device, system, and method for generating location and path-map data for displaying a location and path-map is disclosed. The device includes a first set of sensors for generating a plurality of first data signals with respect to an attitude of an object; a second set of sensors for generating a plurality of second data signals with respect to the attitude of the object; an imaging device for generating a plurality of third data signals that include a most significant feature, which is disposed in at least two images of the imaging device; and at least one processing device that is adapted to calculate a heading direction (bearing) of the device using the plurality of first data signals and the plurality of second data signals; to calculate a distance traveled along the heading direction using the plurality of third data signals; and to translate the calculated heading direction and calculated distance traveled into a leg or portion of a leg of a path-map for visual display on a two- or three-dimensional system. | 01-21-2010 |
20100070177 | Method and Apparatus for Storing or Displaying Prespecified Geometric Objects and Computer Program Product - In order to store prespecified geometric objects on a storage medium ( | 03-18-2010 |
20100100319 | Mobile Navigation System with Graphic Crime-Risk Display - A navigation system for mobile use includes street map data used for creating a dynamic map display tracking movement of the vehicle and includes crime data used to provide an overlay on the dynamic display indicating a risk of crime to the vehicle's occupants from the surrounding area. Crime data may be harvested from police websites and/or generated using statistical correlation techniques from other proxy information. Presented crime data indicate crime risk, type of crime, crime date or time of occurrence, and linkage to environmental conditions such as type of weather, temperature, and moonlight. | 04-22-2010 |
20100138154 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM - Disclosed is an information display method whereby an information processing apparatus displays a map on a display screen such that a cursor is displayed at a position measured as the current position of a position indication object on the map. The method includes the steps of, when the moving speed of the position indication object is equal to or less than a threshold speed, scrolling the map on the display screen in accordance with the movement of the position indication object in a first display mode, and when the moving speed of the position indication object is greater than the threshold speed, fixing the map on the display screen in a second display mode or reducing the speed of scrolling the map on the display screen so that the scrolling speed is less than that in the first display mode. | 06-03-2010 |
20100145614 | MAP DRAWING DEVICE AND MAP DATA DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A map drawing device can reduce the use amount of a video memory and power consumption. The map drawing device comprises an arithmetic processing unit that operates according to a map drawing program and outputs an address of map data to be drawn; an address difference detection circuit that makes comparison of each address of map data output one by one from the arithmetic processing unit and determines whether or not to output a transfer start trigger signal to a data transfer control unit; and a data transfer control unit that directly transfers the map data with the address instructed by the arithmetic processing unit from a map data storage medium to the video memory based on the transfer start trigger signal output from the address difference detection circuit. | 06-10-2010 |
20100169012 | MAP DATA DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, MAP DATA DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - A map data display control apparatus includes: a position information acquiring section acquiring position information; a latitude determining section determining whether a latitude identified by the acquired position information is in the excess of a predetermined latitude threshold or not; a display range calculating section calculating a display range for displaying a map with reference to a position identified by the acquired position information based on the result of the determination made by the latitude determining section; and a rendering section rendering a map associated with the reference position based on the calculated display range. | 07-01-2010 |
20100198509 | 3D MAPS RENDERING DEVICE AND METHOD - The invention uses altitude, determined from a GPS receiver, or GPS receiver with additional sensor input, to provide additional input to the map rendering application or to a pointer device. The advantage lies in improving the user experience in particular situations where map rendering using horizontal position from GPS plus a default altitude gives a distorted view when compared with the true viewing angle. Providing altitude in addition to the horizontal position, in conjunction with image rendering that can use the additional input will correct this shortcoming | 08-05-2010 |
20100305853 | 3-D map display - A computer generated 3-dimensional map display includes a reference icon identifying an observation point in the geographic area defined by the map, the map being presented on a curved surface which extends from a first plane to a second plane which is substantially orthogonal to the first plane. The observation point is located in the first plane. The display is configured such that the height of landmarks and buildings in a defined foreground of the reference icon are presented normal to the first plane, the height of land marks and buildings at a defined far distance are presented normal to the second plane and the height of land marks and buildings in a defined middle ground are presented normal to the non-linear portion of the curved surface. The geographic area represented can be translated along the curved surface to provide a perception that the reference icon is roaming through the displayed geographic area. | 12-02-2010 |
20110093197 | Real-Time Spherical Correction of Map Data - A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes steps of obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device, generating corrected map data by applying a spherical correction factor to the obtained map data, and rendering the corrected map data to display the map on a display of the wireless communications device. The spherical correction factor corrects for map distortions that occur at northerly (or southerly) latitudes. Since the spherical correction factor is a simple correction to a 3×3 transformation matrix, this spherical correction can be easily applied without taxing the CPU limitations of small handheld devices. | 04-21-2011 |
20110130963 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING EMPHASIZED AIRCRAFT TAXI LANDMARKS - A method and system is described for enhancing ground situational awareness to an aircrew via a display ( | 06-02-2011 |
20110144909 | PERSONALIZED AND CONTEXT-SENSITIVE 3D ROUTE GUIDANCE - A method of displaying a navigation map includes determining a route of a vehicle. Three-dimensional data is received. The data is associated with buildings that are disposed within a geographic area. The geographic area includes the route of the vehicle. At least one of the buildings in the data that is adjacent to at least one street of the route is rendered in a first opaque visual style. All of the buildings in the data that are nonadjacent to at least one street of the route are rendered in at least one second visual style different from the first opaque visual style. | 06-16-2011 |
20110166783 | STYLIZED PROCEDURAL MODELING FOR 3D NAVIGATION - A method of displaying a navigation map includes determining a route of a vehicle. A two-dimensional footprint of a building disposed within a geographic area is received within the vehicle. The geographic area includes the route of the vehicle. Attribute information associated with the building is received. The attribute information is received within the vehicle. A visual representation of the building is rendered based upon the two-dimensional footprint and the attribute information. | 07-07-2011 |
20110172917 | Adjusting a level of map detail displayed on a personal navigation device according to detected speed - A method of adjusting a level of map detail for content displayed on a personal navigation device includes displaying a map of a current location of the personal navigation device on a display of the personal navigation device, calculating a current speed of the personal navigation device, adjusting a level of map detail according to the current speed of the personal navigation device to create an updated map, and displaying the updated map on the display of the personal navigation device. | 07-14-2011 |
20110202274 | Navigation Device and Map Data Product - A navigation device includes: a storage unit that stores map data divided into a plurality of files for a predetermined map range; an acquisition unit that acquires map updating data for updating the map data; an extraction unit that extracts at least one file from among the map data files; and an updating unit that updates the map data by storing new map data files based upon the map updating data in the storage unit, after having deleted the map data files from the storage unit with the exception of the file extracted by the extraction unit. | 08-18-2011 |