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Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 1991

Filed:

Feb. 06, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:

Okihiko Nakayama, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroshi Tsuda, Kanagawa, JP;

Toshiyuki Itoh, Kanagawa, JP;

Hiroshi Ueno, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364449 ; 364454 ; 364457 ; 36457105 ; 33356 ;
Abstract

A system measures a traveling direction of a vehicle based on a direction toward a coordinate position defined by outputs of a geomagnetic sensor from a first coordinate position of a center of a corresponding output circle. The system utilizes a preliminary coordinate position as a preliminarily corrected value of the first coordinate position, a first value indicative of accuracy of the preliminary coordinate position and a second value which is variable depending on a variation in a magnetization level on a vehicle body. The system derives a finally corrected value of the first coordinate position based on the preliminary coordinate position and a latest value of the finally corrected value which has been derived in a prior execution of the system, by changing a rate which determines a point of the current finally corrected value between the latest finally corrected value and the preliminary coordinate position.


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