A speech-outputting device is controlled for along with the following of a particular itinerary presenting information items associated to the itinerary in speech to a user person. In particular, the information items as relating to multiple itineraries in...

When one' s vehicle goes into a road from outside the road, the direction of turning is indicated by guiding.

The information reproduction method, e.g. for spoken information, has the sound effect matched to the semantics of the information. The volume of the acoustic information can be adjusted in dependence on the urgency of the information and/or key words in a...

For route guidance, an intersection guidance unit (32) generates a route guide map for providing route guidance at an intersection which a user's vehicle approaches, and displays the map on a display device (6) through an image combiner (18). A guidance st...

The present invention is directed to a navigation apparatus capable of performing a proper voice guidance even in such a case that signals transmitted from GPS satellites cannot be received, but a current location cannot be judged. That is to say, the navi...

A navigation apparatus which assists traveling of the movable body is provided. The navigation apparatus (S) includes a position detecting device (4), a route setting device (4), and a sound outputting device (4, 18). The position detecting device (4) dete...

A navigation device includes a map information storage means for storing map information such as nodes, links and the like, a present position detection means for detecting a present position of a moving body, a route searching means for searching a route ...