Communications: electrical – Vehicle position indication – Map display
Patent
1995-09-14
1998-01-27
Swarthout, Brent A.
Communications: electrical
Vehicle position indication
Map display
340905, 340990, 3644441, 3644493, G08G 1123
Patent
active
057126321
ABSTRACT:
A navigation apparatus stores road data which are formed by a network of internally stored road links and traveling costs corresponding to the respective ones of the internal road links. When the navigation apparatus receives traffic information corresponding to a specific external road link which is set for communication of traffic information, the apparatus identifies one or more internal links or portions thereof corresponding to the external link for which traffic information has been received, and the stored traveling costs are updated, on the basis of a conversion table. The traveling cost for an internal road link corresponding to a specific external link which is closed to traffic is updated to ".infin.". The apparatus searches for and identifies a route between an origin and a destination based on the updated traveling costs and the network of the road links. The internal links do not need to correspond directly to the external links, but rather may include more branch points for example. Traffic information of different types and for different links can be processed and assimilated for correspondence with the internal links.
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Nakajima Masahiro
Nakano Hiroyuki
Nishimura Shigeki
Fasse W. F.
Fasse W. G.
Sumitomo Electric Industries,Ltd.
Swarthout Brent A.
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