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Title:
NAVIGATION SYSTEM, METHOD OF DISPLAYING VEHICLE POSITION AND PROGRAM THEREFOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2005114632
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a navigation system, a method of displaying a vehicle position and a program therefor, that are capable of reducing determination errors at a microscopic angle branching point.

A navigation system 1 displays a vehicle position on a display device 3, while performing map-matching with self-contained navigation, and includes a candidate road searching section 18b searching a candidate road from the estimated position of a vehicle, a micronic angle junction detecting section 18c detecting the presence of the microscopic angle branching point at a micronic angle on the candidate road, a running determining section 18d determining to which road the vehicle runs at the microscopic angle in consideration of each width of roads at the micronic angle, and a vehicle position correcting section 18a relaxing the map-matching from a point short of a predetermined distance of the micronic angle junction.


Inventors:
OZAWA YUJI
Application Number:
JP2003351403A
Publication Date:
April 28, 2005
Filing Date:
October 09, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
ALPINE ELECTRONICS INC
International Classes:
G09B29/00; G01C21/00; G08G1/0969; G09B29/10; (IPC1-7): G01C21/00; G08G1/0969; G09B29/00; G09B29/10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shuhei Katayama