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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1999
Akio Okada, Mishima, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A navigation control ECU (,) gives normal guidance to the driver of a vehicle based on the present location of the vehicle as determined from a D-GPS (,) and map data from a map database (,). A map database detailing device (,) obtains detailed data on the shape of a road from the detected valued of a yaw rate sensor (,), an acceleration sensor (,), and a vehicle speed sensor (,) and the data of the map database (,), and stores the detailed data in a detailed map database (,). A vehicle control ECU (,) evaluates the traveling stability of the vehicle at a curve and controls the deceleration, etc., of the vehicle by utilizing the detailed road shape data in the database (,). In this way, a vehicle navigation device can appropriately show the driver of the vehicle the route and control the traveling controller.
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