In a navigation apparatus, when a first detour route for detouring part of an initial route is present and calculation of a second detour route is instructed, a route search processing unit (28) determines whether the ratio of the distance of the first det...

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...

A vehicle navigation system is provided. When route guidance for a vehicle to a destination is performed on the screen of a display unit (8) based on road data for route searching, whether or not the vehicle has entered a minor street or not is determined ...

In a vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus including a case (1) having an opening (7) on the front surface thereof, a nose (10) that moves from an ordinary attitude which is vertical or oblique in front of the case (1) to an accommodated attitude in which t...

In a stereoscopic map display method for an on-vehicle navigation apparatus, in displaying a town map, a threshold value is changed in accordance with the display scale, buildings higher than the threshold value are displayed stereoscopically, and building...

A navigation system characterized by including speech-recognition devices 2 and 3 for performing speech-recognition processing on input speech, language determining devices 4 and 5 for determining a language used by a speaker of this input speech based on ...