Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yasuhiro Monde

Kazuya Tabata

Atsushi Maeda

Koichi Inoue

Masatoshi Fujii

Katsuro Hayami

A navigation system includes: an angular velocity sensorfor detecting a change in an advancement direction of a vehicle; a vehicle azimuth calculation unitfor calculating a vehicle azimuth on the basis of angular velocity sensor information obtained from the angular velocity sensor; an on-board camerafor shooting a periphery of the vehicle; an image recognition unitfor recognizing an image obtained from the on-board camera; and an offset voltage correction unitfor performing a drift correction on the angular velocity sensor in accordance with an angle error between the vehicle azimuth calculated by the vehicle azimuth calculation unit and a vehicle azimuth determined from a white line on a road recognized by the image recognition unit.

Navigation system

An in-vehicle navigation device in which a route search block outputs a search result of a guiding route from an exit of the expressway to an entrance of the expressway by way of the selected facility to a display block to make the display block display the search result in a case where a present position detected by a present position detection block is on an expressway and where position of a target facility selected by a facility information selection block is outside the expressway.

In-vehicle navigation device

A destination navigation method is disclosed, which includes locating present position and destination, searching route to the destination. The method includes giving driving guidance along a route set on basis of a predetermined evaluation index or selection of driver and further determining whether searched route contains a short distance lane change section, where a road having many lanes and distance between an entryway to the road having many lanes and a junction (exit way) is short in order to give notice that it is coming and for driver to avoid it if necessary because the short distance lane change section may cause stress and fatigue especially for an unskilled driver.

Destination route guiding method

When it is decided that the current vehicle position is outside an area described by map data stored on a CD-ROM -i loaded in a disk storage drive , a disk-switching message is produced for switching the CD-ROM -i to a CD-ROM -j having stored thereon map data describing the area covering the current vehicle position. This makes the user aware of the necessity for switching to the CD-ROM -j having the map data describing the area toward which the vehicle is traveling; hence, reliable navigation information is provided continuously over an extended route to the user's destination.

A navigation system searches for a route from the present position to a destination with considering weather information and regulation information collected by an information collecting section ( ) and vehicle information input from an operating section ( ).

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Monde