Communications: electrical – Vehicle position indication – Map display
Patent
1996-01-25
1999-11-09
Swarthout, Brent A.
Communications: electrical
Vehicle position indication
Map display
340990, 340988, 701210, G08G 1123
Patent
active
059823011
ABSTRACT:
A navigation apparatus capable of outputting the guide information concerning a necessary point input by a driver in response to a request of the driver previously stores map information, specifies an automobile position on the map information by detecting signals such as GPS signals, gyroscopic signals and speed pulse signals, etc., retrieves a point to be guided from the map information on the basis of the present position of the automobile, produces the guide information concerning the point to be guided by processing the map information, and displays the guide information concerning the point to be guided. Further, a guide switch (a touch panel key) as a display mark, a distance to a target destination point and an azimuth toward the target destination point, and a running direction to go at or near the target destination point are also displayed.
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Ideno Hiroaki
Itoh Hisatsugu
Norimoto Masatsugu
Ohta Masako
Mitsubishi Denki & Kabushiki Kaisha
Swarthout Brent A.
Tweel , Jr. John
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