Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Navigation device having in-tunnel position estimation function
- Patent Title (中): 具有隧道内位置估计功能的导航装置
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Application No.: US13577765Application Date: 2011-02-16
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Publication No.: US08965687B2Publication Date: 2015-02-24
- Inventor: Shigeru Matsuo , Katsuaki Tanaka
- Applicant: Shigeru Matsuo , Katsuaki Tanaka
- Applicant Address: JP Saitama-shi
- Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Saitama-shi
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: JP2010-038103 20100224
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/053262 WO 20110216
- International Announcement: WO2011/105264 WO 20110901
- Main IPC: G01C21/00
- IPC: G01C21/00 ; G09B29/10 ; G09B29/00 ; G08G1/16 ; G01C21/30

Abstract:
A navigation device that includes a map data base in which map information is stored and a positioning unit that determines a current position based upon a radio wave signal received from a satellite, contains: a tunnel detection unit that detects a tunnel that is present ahead on a road where the navigation device is moving; a travel data acquisition unit that acquires travel data of another vehicle from an information center; and a position estimation unit that in case the tunnel detection unit detects a presence of a tunnel ahead on a road and the travel data acquisition unit acquires from the information center travel data of another vehicle that has traveled through the detected tunnel, estimates a current position of the navigation device in the detected tunnel using a travel speed in the detected tunnel in the acquired travel data as a movement speed of the navigation device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130018578A1 Navigation Device Having In-Tunnel Position Estimation Function Public/Granted day:2013-01-17
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