US 5,297,051 AGranted

Map display device

AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation

InventorsTakeharu Arakawa, Morio Araki, Kiyoshi Yamanaka

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Abstract

An on-board navigation apparatus constantly displays characters of name data associated with geographical data in legible order and direction whenever the display direction is changed to one of the north, south, east, and west directions. In operation, after the geographical data and associated name data in a desired region are read, name reference point and name area of the read name data is retrieved, and display direction of map orientation is retrieved. Coordinates of a drawing start point are then calculated on the basis of absolute coordinate of name reference point in accordance with the display direction. Correspondence between absolute coordinates of the geographical data and the coordinates of the drawing start point of the name data is established, and the name data is written into the name area so that the geographical data and the name data are stored while being superimposed with each other, thereby forming map data. The display is performed on the basis of the map data produced by the superimposition.

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Dependent claims

A map display device comprising:

a storage medium for storing geographical data and associated name data;
reading means for reading said geographical data and said name data of a predetermined regional part from said storage medium;
retrieving means for retrieving a name reference point having absolute coordinates and a name area of said name data read by said reading means and for retrieving a display direction of map orientation;
calculating means for calculating a display start point for said name data including name data display coordinates on the basis of said absolute coordinates of said name reference point and in accordance with said display direction of map orientation in a manner that said name data display coordinates are at a corner of said name area associated with said name reference point;
superimposing means for correlating absolute coordinates of said geographical data with said name data display coordinates of said display start point of said name data, and writing said name data into said name area with reference to said display start point so that said geographical data and said name data are superimposed with each other, thereby forming map data;
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display controlling means for displaying said map data on a display.

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