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Apparatus for displaying travel path

US4963865A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 16, 1987
Grant dateOct 16, 1990
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Expiry dateMar 16, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG09B29/106
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

There is disclosed an apparatus for displaying a travel path of a running body in which a constantly changing location of the running body on a two-dimensional coordinates is successively computed and the current location of said running body is displayed successively, in accordance with the data thus computed, on a display screen having a map previously displayed thereon. According to this apparatus, longitude and latitude values of a reference point in a mesh consisting of lines of longitude and latitude in each map of divided areas are registered as known factors and the current location of the running body on the two-dimensional coordinates thus computed is converted to a location on longitude-latitude coordinates, whereby the current location on the map is calculated from the known longitude and latitude values of the reference point displayed on the display screen.

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