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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2005
Applicants:

Yasunori Maruyama, Yokosuka, JP;

Takuo Ishiwaka, Yokohama, JP;

Koichi Kuroda, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Yasunori Maruyama, Yokosuka, JP;

Takuo Ishiwaka, Yokohama, JP;

Koichi Kuroda, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/30 (2006.01); G01C 21/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A driving support system including: a vehicle location detector which detects current location and velocity vector of a vehicle; a traffic and road information database which stores point information of points on a route of the vehicle; a point information acquisition unit which acquires, from the database, the point information of the approaching points located in a given distance from the vehicle current location, based on the detected vehicle current location and velocity vector; a display device which provides displays of the acquired point information on a horizontally long screen thereof along a windshield of the vehicle; and a display control unit for controlling the display device. The display control unit determines display positions on the screen to display the point information, based on a positional relationship between the current location of the vehicle and the points where the point information related thereto are displayed.


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