Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki K.k.

Katsuji Doi

Ikuo Saga

Katsuro Hayami

Shigeki Nakane

Toshiyuki Matsuo

Toshio Sogawa

Route guiding information is displayed on the basis of set information and positional data when set information and positional data are set by a keyboard or are transmitted from a sensor BOX

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A traffic information display unit having a road type associated traffic information display mode control unit for altering the display mode of a traffic information representation in accordance with the type of a road associated with the traffic information. Alternatively, it may have a traffic information additional symbol adding unit for adding a traffic information additional symbol indicating the direction of a road associated with an accident/regulation information. Those make it possible to solve conventional problems in that a driver must manipulate a switch each time he wishes to distinguish the traffic information representation of an expressway from that of a local road, or that he cannot recognize lane in which the accident/regulation takes place because the traffic information representation of the accident/regulation information was a simple symbol on the road without showing the direction.

Traffic information display unit

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Tokyo, Japan

Katsuji Doi