Patent ID: 9322664
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G01C

Claim Text:
1. A map display control apparatus comprising: a controller that executes a process that does not use any searched route to display a map of an area around a vehicle's detected position; a map data acquiring unit that, as part of the process that does not use any searched route, acquires map data corresponding to the map of an area around a vehicle's detected position to be displayed on a screen of a display device according to the process that does not use any searched route; an HOV lane entrance/exit extracting unit that, as part of the process that does not use any searched route, extracts each entrance/exit of an HOV lane, which allows a driver to enter/exit the HOV lane to/from a non-HOV lane, within the area of the map based on the map data; and a display processing unit that, as part of the process that does not use any searched route, creates display data for displaying indicia of all entrance/exits of the HOV lane extracted by the HOV lane entrance/exit extracting unit on the map displayed on the display device according to the process that does not use any searched route, wherein the indicia points out respective locations on the map displayed on the display device of all entrance/exits of the HOV lane extracted by the HOV lane entrance/exit extracting unit.