Patent ID: 8988425
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. An image display control system containing a processor comprising: a feature information acquiring unit that acquires feature information indicating a three-dimensional shape and a position of a feature; a travel direction determining unit that determines a travel direction of a navigation terminal; a birds-eye view data creating unit that creates, based on the feature information, image data of a birds-eye view showing scenery to be acquired when viewing in the travel direction downward from a view position that is set at an upper point above a current position of the navigation terminal, the birds-eye view whose center is the travel direction; a panoramic view data creating unit that creates, based on the feature information, image data of a panoramic view that is a 360-degree panoramic view having as a rotational axis a line parallel to a line passing the current position in the vertical direction at the current position, in a manner such that a center of the panoramic view is the travel direction and an icon representing the travel direction is superimposed at the center of the panoramic view; and an image display control unit that displays the birds-eye view and the panoramic view at a time on a display part installed in the navigation terminal, based on the image data of the birds-eye view and the image data of the panoramic view, wherein the image display control unit displays the birds-eye view and the panoramic view at a time in a manner such that a position of the icon superimposed at the center of the panoramic view matches a center position of the birds-eye view in the vertical direction.