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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 22, 2014
Applicants:

Volkswagen Ag, Wolfsburg, DE;

Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;

Inventor:

Simon Gerlach, San Mateo, CA (US);

Assignees:

VOLKSWAGEN AG, Wolfsburg, DE;

AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/26 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3667 (2013.01); G08G 1/09 (2013.01); B60K 2350/1068 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for providing navigational maneuver instructions, where a navigation apparatus is configured to generate navigation map data on a navigation system display. The navigation apparatus may include a communications input for receiving at least one of traffic data and vehicle data. A secondary display apparatus may be communicatively coupled to the navigation system, wherein the navigation system is configured to determine a maneuver instruction sequence based on traffic data and/or vehicle data. The maneuver instruction sequence includes a series of directional instructions for responding to the traffic data and/or vehicle data. At least some of the directional instructions are represented for display as a series of generic navigational indicia.


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