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Map update data supply apparatus, map data update system, and map update data supply method

US8326531B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 2008
Grant dateDec 4, 2012
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Expiry dateOct 11, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C21/3878
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A map update data supply apparatus includes: isolation detection means for detecting the presence and the absence of an isolated state in which some of the roads are isolated from other roads in a road network of target map data due to updating of one or more update target segments of the target map data based on update map data; extraction means for extracting, as update required segments, segments of the update map data, other than the update target segments, that have a road that connects to the isolated some of the roads when it is detected that there is the isolated state; and update data file generating means for generating update data files for the update target segments and the update required segments based on the update map data.

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