NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE

Japanese Patent JP3891231

B2

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide guide information appropriately depending on the traveling lane at the time of traveling on a road having a plurality of lanes by outputting a lane change guide depending on next guide information on a previously calculated course and the currently traveling lane.
SOLUTION: After acquiring the current position of a vehicle (S11), guide information of an intersection to be guided next is acquired from a course data (S12) and the current position of a vehicle on a road data is calculated along with the distance to the guide intersection. Subsequently, traffic information is acquired from a road traffic information system VICS (S13). When a next guide intersection is present in the traffic information (S14), the traveling lane of a host vehicle is acquired from the lane information of the VICS to the next guide intersection (S15). Subsequently, a decision is made whether a predetermined distance to the guide intersection is present (S16) and when a predetermined distance is present, a decision is made whether the traveling lane corresponds to the advancing direction at the intersection (S17). When the traveling lane is a left turn lane and the advancing direction corresponds to left turn, an advancing direction guide at the guide intersection is outputted (S19).

Mitsuhiro Nimura
Shinichi Kato
Katsuhiko Rokka

JP19106297A

March 14, 2007

July 16, 1997

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Aisin AW Co., Ltd.

G01C21/00; G09B29/10; G08G1/09; G08G1/0969; (IPC1-7): G01C21/00; G08G1/09; G08G1/0969; G09B29/10

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Ryukichi Abe
Hirukawa Masanobu
Norihiko Uchida
Kenji Aoki
Hideo Sugai
Hiroshi Nagisawa
Akira Yonezawa

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