Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Kazushi Uotani

Mitsuo Shimotani

Katsuro Hayami

Makoto Oi

Masahito Matsumoto

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that can facilitate setting of an object, such as a favorite team. An information output device includes a database that associates and stores a region on a map and a sport team related to the region, a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a self-vehicle, and a favorite team setting processing unit that sets a favorite team from among sport teams. Moreover, the information output device includes a determination processing unit that specifies the region corresponding to the self-vehicle position acquired by the position acquisition unit and determines the sport team associated with the specified region in the database as an object to be set by the favorite team setting processing unit or a candidate for the object.

Information output device

A navigation device includes: an along-route scroll mode determining unitfor determining whether or not a cursor on a screen is placed on a guidance route; a thick line highlight processing unitfor, when the cursor is placed on the guidance route, making a transition to an along-route scroll mode to highlight a line segment of the cursor indicating a direction of a destination and another line segment of the cursor extending in a direction opposite to that of the line segment; and a scroll processing unitfor, when a direction key indicating the direction of the thick-highlighted line segment indicating the direction of the destination, scrolling the map toward the direction of the destination, and for, when a direction key indicating the direction of the other line segment, scrolling the map toward the direction of a place of departure.

Navigation device for carrying out an along-route scrolling

A route searching sectiondetermines whether the area of the current position is an urban area or a suburban area, sets a predetermined area S or a predetermined time &#x394;t responsive to the determination result, and determines the presence or absence of restriction on each time restriction road depending on whether or not a time restriction road exists in the predetermined area S centering around the current position and whether or not the restriction time period of the time restriction road overlaps the time period in the predetermined time &#x394;t from the current time to. If the route searching section determines the presence of restriction, it searches for a route avoiding the time restriction road.

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Hyogo, Japan

Kazushi Uotani