Map display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8972183-B2
Application number	US-201313949370-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2013
Priority date	Mar 26, 2010
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A map display apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus acquires present position information indicating a present position, and determines a route from the present position to a destination. The apparatus displays a map on a display screen based on map information acquired from a storage medium storing the map information, and displays the route in a form of a line on the map while switching a manner of displaying the route between multiple display modes including a first display mode and a second display mode. In the first display mode, the route is displayed to have a first transparency and a first width. In the second display mode, the route is displayed to have a second transparency more transparent than the first transparency and a second width larger than the first width.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A map display apparatus comprising:
a position information acquisition section configured to acquire present position information indicating a present position;
a route determination section configured to determine a route from the present position, which is indicated in the present position information acquired by the position information acquisition section, to a destination designated via an input from an external of the map display apparatus; and
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Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Yaguchi Ken

Classifications

• G01C21/367 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01C21/3676 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic