Patent ID: 8346465
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A display method for a navigation system, comprising the following steps of: searching upcoming cross streets that intersect with a current street on which a user's vehicle is running for a predetermined distance range ahead of a current vehicle position; retrieving data concerning the upcoming cross streets from the map data; determining whether a cross street is meaningful for the user to be displayed on a screen of the navigation system by applying predetermined rules to the data concerning the cross street; selecting a meaningful cross street name from among a plurality of cross street names when a plurality of cross street names exist for one or more cross streets each having an intersection common to one another; checking a type of street of the current street, and if the current street is a double-digitized road, applying predetermined rules associated with the double-digitized road to determine whether a particular cross street is meaningful to the user; displaying information on the cross street that has been determined to be meaningful for the user on the screen; and displaying the meaningful cross street name of the next upcoming cross street along with a cross street icon in a location information indicator that is a text box provided at a predetermined location.