Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Patent
1996-06-07
1999-08-24
Zanelli, Michael J.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
701208, 701211, 340995, G01C 2100, G08G 1123
Patent
active
059419342
ABSTRACT:
A microprocessor 24 detects turn start and turn finish of a vehicle on the basis of outputs of various sensors 11, 12 and 13, and during this operation, the microprocessor 24 successively sets a current position to a middle point of a next link every time a predetermined condition is satisfied. While the current position is shifted from the middle point of a link to the middle point of a next link, the vehicle travel azimuth output from the sensor is corrected to approach to the azimuth of the link by an amount corresponding to the difference between the link azimuth of the just-previous middle point and the vehicle travel azimuth, and the current position is displayed on the basis of the corrected travel azimuth and the travel distance. Information on each link is obtained form a road map which is stored in a CD-ROM 15 and in which roads are expressed by an assembly of links. With this device, the current position can be displayed in the vicinity of a road on a road map on which the vehicle runs, even on a curve which is not accurately displayed on the road map.
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Xanavi Informatics Corporation
Zanelli Michael J.
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