US 12,235,123 B2
Vehicle navigation apparatus
Chihiro Sugano, Tokyo (JP); Masato Yano, Tokyo (JP); Shuntaro Noguchi, Tokyo (JP); and Naoto Kuriyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/850,482.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-114562 (JP), filed on Jul. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0009755 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/32 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/367 (2013.01) [G01C 21/32 (2013.01); G01C 21/3461 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle navigation apparatus configured to be applied to a vehicle, the vehicle navigation apparatus comprising:
a storage configured to store first map information including at least route information;
a display configured to display map data on a basis of at least one of the first map information or second map information; and
at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one memory storing instructions configured to cause the at least one processor to execute the instructions including:
downloading the second map information providing a traveling route along which the vehicle is traveling, the second map information including more detailed route information than the first map information;
determining whether the traveling route provided in the second map information is nonexistent in the first map information;
in response to the traveling route is determined to be existent in the first map information, displaying the map data on the display on a basis of the first map information at a first scale; and
in response to the traveling route is determined to be nonexistent in the first map information, displaying the map data on the display on a basis of the second map information at a second scale, the second scale being greater than the first scale.