Furuno Electric Company Limited

Takatoshi Morita

Masato Okuda

Ryu Shimizutani

Masami Tagawa

Tomihiko Oda

Petri Turkulainen

Takashi Ohmori

Kentaroh Hamamoto

Jun Yamabayashi

Timo Kostiainen

Jussi Suistomaa

A route planning apparatus is provided for planning a navigation route of a ship. The route planning apparatus includes a display to display a chart on a screen; and an operation interface configured to designate a position in the screen. In addition, the route planning apparatus includes a storage configured to store one or more potential base points that may be a potential base point of a waypoint; a processing circuitry configured to: set a waypoint on the chart in response to a navigator's operation; extract the base points within a predetermined range of the set waypoint as a reference from the storage; and a determine the extracted potential base point to be the base point of the set waypoint.

Apparatus and method for route planning

A navigation planning device configured to receive a navigation start point, a navigation destination point for a navigation route of at least one of a vessel or an aircraft, and a plurality of waypoints between the navigation start point and the navigation destination point, where the plurality of waypoints may be received in at least one of random order or in sequential order. The navigation planning device is configured to determine a positional relationship between the plurality of waypoints, and determine at least one indicator data corresponding to at least one waypoint data of the plurality of waypoints, based on the positional relationship between the plurality of waypoints. The navigation planning device is further configured to output the at least one waypoint data and the corresponding at least one indicator data for the navigation route to a display.

Apparatus and method for navigation route planning

The purpose is to provide a nautical chart display device which enables a measurement of a distance on an electronic nautical chart, like a measuring method which is performed by using a divider. The nautical chart display device includes a display unit, an operation detector, a registration processing module, and a change processing module. The display unit has a screen and displays a nautical chart on the screen. The operation detector detects a touch operation to the screen. The registration processing module accepts two points of the touch operation on the screen, and registers a scale at which a distance between the touched points on the screen matches a distance setting on the nautical chart as an additional scale. The change processing module changes the scale of the nautical chart to the additional scale.

Nautical chart display device, nautical chart display method, and nautical chart display program

The purpose is to provide a nautical chart display device which enables to easily grasp a direction centering on a reference position. The nautical chart display device includes a display, a detector, a directional symbol displaying module, and a directional symbol changing module. The display displays a nautical chart on a screen. The detector detects an operation to the screen. The directional symbol displaying module displays, on the display so as to be superimposed on the nautical chart, a directional symbol in which directional markers arranged in a circle and the center of the circle are indicated. The directional symbol changing module moves the directional symbol according to an operation to the directional symbol.

A navigational information display device is provided, which may include a display configured to display a navigational image indicated using a geometrical figure related to first navigational information, and further display one or more characters selected from the group consisting of a first navigational information character indicative of the first information, a second navigational information character indicative of second navigational information, and a device operation character related to operation of the display device, and processing circuitry configured to receive input of an instruction signal to instruct a change in a display orientation of the screen, and to change a display orientation of at least one of the one or more characters while maintaining a display orientation of the navigational image when the input of the instruction signal is received.

Navigational information display device, and method of displaying navigational information

An electronic map display device is provided. The device acquires electronic maps and displays the electronic maps, each electronic map being acquired per acquisition unit. The electronic map display device may include a map information display determiner for determining whether the electronic map is currently available per acquisition unit, and a map information display interface for displaying information relating to the electronic map per the acquisition unit depending on whether the electronic map is currently available. The map information display interface varies the exterior edge of each of the electronic maps depending on the status of the electronic map.

Electronic chart display device and method of displaying information relating to electronic chart

A route planning apparatus is provided. The apparatus may include a display, a user interface, a caution information reader, and a route verifier. The display displays a user-scheduled route on a map. The user interface accepts an input of time and date to travel on the route. The caution information reader reads caution information having influence on the travel and associated with position, and time and date. The route verifier verifies whether the travel on the route is available based on one or more positions, and times and dates at which the caution information read by the caution information reader indicates, one or more positions on the route, and the inputted travel time and date.

Route planning apparatus and route plan verifying method

An electronic map display device is provided. The device acquires electronic maps and displays the electronic maps, each electronic map being acquired per acquisition unit. The electronic map display device may include a map information display determiner for determining whether the electronic map is currently available per acquisition unit, and a map information display interface for displaying information relating to the electronic map per the acquisition unit depending on whether the electronic map is currently available.

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Nishinomiya, Japan

Takatoshi Morita