The present invention relates to a navigation apparatus and a service providing method of using a navigation apparatus, which can be applied to, for example, a car navigation apparatus to simplify a process for registering a shop or the like discovered whi...

The transparent map (9) is displayed inside a frame (4) mounted in front of the driver and shows a pattern of roads (10). There may be a semitransparent window (16) at or near the center of the map display, containing symbols (17,19,21) with explanatory te...

A digital road map is stored on the CD-ROM, and text descriptions of prominent objects in the vicinity of the road network also stored and assigned positions in the road network. The information is output visually. Additional information relating to the ob...

Additional marks made up of figures, marks or symbols representing a state in which the disposed state of a facility and/or the supplementary conditions thereof are displayed in combination with a landmark which is peculiar to the facility.

There is provided a navigation device comprising registration means for registering an index designated by a user's operation and data of a spot coordinate in association with each other, and display means for displaying a plurality of registered indexes a...

The present invention provides a function of easily selecting a desire-to-watch program by a simple operation. A plurality of maps 7 of different ranges of a resident area of a viewer are previously transmitted and accumulated in a memory built in a TV rec...

A map displaying apparatus (21, 27, 29) is provided with: a memory device (23) for storing map data including road data and name data; a map displaying device (29, 94, 95, 103) for displaying a map within a map display range by using the map data; a point ...