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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Motoyuki Akamatsu, Tsukuba, JP;
Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A route guide system for making guidance of the traveling direction in the sight field of the driver during traveling. The road guide plate is provided in front of a turning point. This road guide plate emits light differing in flash timing according to the branching direction. The liquid crystal shutter is provided on the front glass of the vehicle equipped with the navigation system. When making road guidance, ON/OFF operation of the liquid crystal shutter is controlled by an MPU so that only the light of the light-emitting pattern corresponding to the traveling direction according to the traveling direction information of the turning point obtained from route searching toward the targeted location.
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