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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2007
Takashi Irie, Tokyo, JP;
Naomiki Komatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiki Akashi, Tokyo, JP;
Kumi Nishibashi, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Irie, Tokyo, JP;
Naomiki Komatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiki Akashi, Tokyo, JP;
Kumi Nishibashi, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A navigation system includes a lane information acquiring unitfor acquiring both the number of lanes of a road which forms an intersection, and lane information which defines a road branching off from each of the lanes, a lane direction determining unitfor determining the direction of each of the lanes on the basis of both the lane information acquired by the lane information acquiring unit, and a road attribute of an incoming road coming into the intersection and a road attribute of an outgoing road extending from the intersection, the road attributes of the incoming and outgoing roads being included in map data acquired by a map data acquiring unit, and a lane information display unitfor displaying the direction of each of the lanes determined by the lane direction determining unit with an arrow.