Xanavi Informatics Corporation

Manabu Morita

Akio Sumizawa

Atsushi Hiroike

Kishiko Maruyama

Akinori Asahara

Shigeru Shimada

Masaaki Tanizaki

Wataru Oikubo

Yuko Hamada

Kazuhiro Toma

Shoji Kijima

Hitoshi Koseki

Takahiko Tada

The on-vehicle information terminal according to the present invention comprises an abridged road generating device that generates abridged roads by abridging a road map based upon map data, a road decision-making device that makes a decision as to whether or not a road is a special shape road having a predetermined special shape based upon the map data, a substituting device for substitutes a specific road shape pattern stored in memory in advance for a road determined by the road decision-making device to have a special shape and a display control device that displays at the display device an abridged map containing specific road shape patterns used to substitute for special shape roads by the substituting device and the abridged roads generated by the abridged road generating device.

On-vehicle information terminal, abridged map generating apparatus, abridged map display method and display apparatus

A navigation system includes: an intersection enlargement creation unit that creates based upon map data an intersection enlargement over a predetermined map range around a target guidance-requiring intersection present on a recommended route, at which a turn should be made; an intersection enlargement display unit that displays at a display monitor the intersection enlargement having been created by the intersection enlargement creation unit; and a mark display unit that displays an indicator mark indicating an advancing path shape at a next guidance-requiring intersection immediately beyond the target guidance-requiring intersection over the intersection enlargement on display at the display monitor.

Navigation system

This abridged map generating apparatus includes a route searching unit that searches for a plurality of routes from a departure point to a destination which has been set, an abridged map generation unit that generates an abridged map in which road shapes of the routes which are searched out by the route searching unit are simplified, based upon road map data which specifies shapes of roads by shapes of links set for each predetermined road section, and a link compactification unit that compactifies links of the routes based upon relative positional relationships of the routes before the abridged map generation unit generates the abridged map.

Abridged map generating apparatus, on-vehicle information terminal, abridged map distribution system and abridged map generating method

This abridged map generating apparatus includes an abridged map generation unit that generates an abridged map in which a shape of a road is simplified based upon road map data, wherein the road map data specifies the shapes of the road by shapes of links set for each predetermined road section, and the abridged map generation unit generates the abridged map by simplifying a shapes of a link or link series with fixed positions of both end points of the link or link series made by lining up a plurality of the links.

An abridged map generating apparatus includes a polygon shape data extraction unit that extracts from map data polygon shape data specifying the shape of a polygon, a polygon shape simplification unit that simplifies the shape of the polygon based upon the polygon shape data which is extracted by the polygon shape data extraction unit, and a polygon drawing unit that draws upon a map the polygon whose shape has been simplified by the polygon shape simplification unit.

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Zama, Japan

Manabu Morita