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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2003
Takashi Kawakami, Kawagoe, JP;
Masaya Hashida, Kawagoe, JP;
Takashi Kawakami, Kawagoe, JP;
Masaya Hashida, Kawagoe, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When a moving body (e.g., a car) is entering a roundabout, a navigation machine extracts link data of the roundabout from road map data. The navigation machine detects a route entering the roundabout (i.e., a route the moving body is currently taking), a center of the roundabout, and an exiting route based on the link data to determine an angle of the exiting route with respect to the entering route. A direction mark having the exiting route angle is prepared as a heading direction guidance image. The navigation machine can show an appropriate route (direction) at the roundabout without increasing the amount of stored image data.