Navigation system
AssigneeAisin Aw Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomoki Kubota, Yumi Shibata, Yukio Yamamoto
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Abstract
A navigation system presents and updates information that allows the driver to determine an appropriate vehicle speed and a steering angle depending on a condition or a feature of a road. The navigation system includes storage means for storing map data, a display for displaying information, a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed, and a controller for determining the shape of a road section being approached by a vehicle, based on the map data and the vehicle speed, and controlling the display to display the shape of the road.
Claims26
A navigation system for a vehicle comprising:
- (a) storage means for storing map data;
- (b) a display unit for displaying information;
- (c) a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed;
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- (d) a controller for determining a shape of a road section being approached by the vehicle, based on the map data and the vehicle speed, and controlling the display unit to display the shape of the road section.
A method for providing navigational guidance to the driver of a vehicle comprising:
- (a) storing map data as electronic data;
- (b) detecting vehicle speed;
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- (c) determining a shape of a road section being approached by the vehicle, based on the map data and the detected vehicle speed;
- (d) displaying the determined shape of the road section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.