Map display control device and automatic map scrolling method
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsHaruhiko WAKAYANAGI, Mitsuo SHIMOTANI
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Abstract
A map display control device includes a display processor to cause a display to display a map, an operation information acquiring unit to acquire information on an operation performed by a user, a scroll processor to scroll the map displayed on the display, and a priority object setting unit to determine a priority object having higher priority than other objects contained in the map. The scroll processor scrolls the map in step with an operation performed by the user to scroll the map, and automatically scrolls the map toward the priority object when determining that the operation has been ended.
Claims20
-17. (canceled)
A map display control device comprising:
- a processor to execute a program;
- and
- a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of,
- acquiring map information,
- displaying a map based on said map information on a display,
- acquiring information on an operation performed by a user with an input device,
- determining a priority object having higher priority than other objects contained in said map,
- performing manual map scrolling to scroll said map in step with a manual scroll operation performed by the user to scroll said map displayed on said display,
- displaying an automatic scroll start icon on said display when determining that said manual scroll operation has been ended, and
- performing automatic map scrolling to automatically scroll said map toward said priority object when the user operates said automatic scroll start icon,
- wherein said priority object is a dot indicating a spot or has a continuous or intermittent elongated shape.
A map display control device comprising:
- a processor to execute a program;
- and
- a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of,
- acquiring map information,
- displaying a map based on said map information on a display,
- acquiring information on an operation performed by a user with an input device,
- determining a priority object having higher priority than other objects contained in said map,
- performing manual map scrolling to scroll said map in step with a manual scroll operation performed by the user to scroll said map displayed on said display,
- performing automatic map scrolling to automatically scroll said map toward said priority object when determining that said manual scroll operation has been ended, and
- ending said automatic map scrolling in a case where said priority object is displayed in a specified area on a screen of said display during said automatic map scrolling.
An automatic map scrolling method for a map display control device, said method comprising:
- displaying a map based on map information on a display;
- determining a priority object having higher priority than other objects contained in said map;
- preforming manual map scrolling to scroll said map in step with a manual scroll operation performed by a user to scroll said map;
- displaying an automatic scroll start icon on said display when determining that said manual scroll operation has been ended, and
- performing automatic map scrolling to automatically scroll said map toward said priority object when the user operates said automatic scroll start icon,
- wherein said priority object is a dot indicating a spot or has a continuous or intermittent elongated shape.
An automatic map scrolling method for a map display control device, said method comprising:
- displaying a map based on map information on a display;
- determining a priority object having higher priority than other objects contained in said map;
- performing manual map scrolling to scroll said map in step with a manual scroll operation performed by a user to scroll said map;
- performing automatic map scrolling to automatically scroll said map toward said priority object when determining that said manual scroll operation has been ended;
- and
- ending said automatic map scrolling in a case where said priority object is displayed in a specified area on a screen of said display during said automatic map scrolling.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.