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Navigation system, method for stereoscopically displaying topographic map for the navigation system, and recording medium recording the method

US6121972A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 6, 1998
Grant dateSep 19, 2000
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C21/3635
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a method for stereoscopically displaying the topographic map, a navigation system, and the recording medium recording the method, a multiple number of quadrilaterals with mutually adjoining four points of terrain locations as four vertices of each quadrilateral from the three-dimensional road map information are generated, each quadrilateral is divided into four triangles with one or two diagonal lines of each quadrilateral, a perspective projection transformation of three vertices of each triangle is performed onto a predetermined perspectively projected plane, a display color is allocated to each of the perspectively projected triangles, and the allocated display color is displayed on an image screen of a display device together with each of the perspectively projected triangles.

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