Abstract: A vehicular navigation system includes guide control facilities which acquires stored information of an angle between a road entering and a road departing a rotary branch on a route stored in route information storing means, the angle of a junction to the rotary, and information of the changing angles of individual links forming the rotary. Direction guidance is performed on the basis of this acquired information along with the present position of a vehicle, a destination, and a computed route.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 7, 1998
Date of Patent:
August 22, 2000
Assignee:
Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
Inventors:
Takaharu Fukaya, Koji Inoue, Shinichi Kato