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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2008
Masaharu Umezu, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Matsutani, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoya Ikeuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Mikuriya, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Nakae, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Kodaka, Tokyo, JP;
Masaharu Umezu, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Kohno, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Matsutani, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoya Ikeuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Mikuriya, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Nakae, Tokyo, JP;
Yasushi Kodaka, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A map information processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor for calculating a vehicle position; a data generation unit for generating traveling locus data on the basis of the calculated vehicle position when the vehicle position deviates from a road; a registration unit for registering the traveling locus data generated by the data generation unit in a temporarily registered road list as a temporarily registered road; an operation unit for selecting one of temporarily registered roads registered in the temporarily registered road list; and an official registration unit for registering the selected temporarily registered road in an officially registered road list as an officially registered road in accordance with an instruction from the operation unit, generating road data on the basis of traveling locus data relating to the temporarily registered road, and adding the generated road data to a map data stored in a map data storage unit.