Sony Corporation

Shizue Okuda

Kunihito Sawai

Makoto Sasaki

Masayuki Chatani

Tadao Ogaki

Satoshi Suzuno

Koji Ihara

Yoshinori Kurata

Junpei Ito

Natsuo Koda

Tadahiro Ohata

Ryota Sakamoto

Toshiaki Enami

A telephone device which enables a user to consciously send a determined present position to a device in the surrounding area is provided. A portable telephone devicesends position determination information acquired by a GPS unit including a GPS antennaand/or a portable telephone signal position determination processing unit including a portable telephone communication antenna, to another portable telephone deviceas a desired communicating party via a base station by using a data communication function in accordance with a decision operation of a POS button. Another portable telephone devicedisplays a map image of the vicinity of the received position determination information on an LCD display unitby using an embedded digital map display application or the like, and also displays a present position pointof the portable telephone deviceon the map image.

Telephone device

An information processing apparatus generating a three-dimensional map on the basis of three-dimensional map data includes rendering area acquiring means for acquiring a rendering area in which the three-dimensional map is generated with respect to a focal point; identifying means for identifying the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area, among the three-dimensional map data including rendering object data that concerns at least one rendering object and that is hierarchized into multiple groups in accordance with characteristics of the rendering object; rendering object data acquiring means for selecting a group on the basis of the distance from the focal point and acquiring the rendering object data in the selected group from the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area; and three-dimensional map generating means for rendering the rendering object on the basis of the rendering object data to generate the three-dimensional map.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

A navigation apparatus displays navigation information generated based on map information. The apparatus includes a positional information acquiring section for acquiring positional information, a storage section storing two-dimensional map data, three-dimensional graphic data, and node-based altitude data of recorded altitude data of nodes which are set on a link used as a route, a data processor generating and outputting three-dimensional display information for a guidance region by receiving the positional information acquired by the positional information acquiring section, and acquiring data from the storage section based on the received positional information, and a display device displaying the information output from the data processor. The data processor calculates the altitudes of points on the route based on the node-based altitude data, and generates and outputs, to the display device, three-dimensional route information in which data of the calculated altitudes is set as a parameter.

Navigation apparatus, and data processing method and computer program used therewith

A positioning information transmitting device for transmitting the current site data to a peripheral device(s) using wireless signals. The current side data, as the positioning information of the current site, calculated by a portable telephone signal positioning processoror a GPS unit, is transmitted to a CPUthrough an interfacing (I/F) unit. The positioning information transmitting deviceincludes a local wireless communication unitfor transmitting/receiving data to or from the peripheral device(s). The current side data is transmitted from a CPUthrough a communication controllerso as to be processed by a baseband processorof the local wireless communication unit. The so processed data is superposed by an RF processoron a carrier wave so as to be transmitted over a wireless path to a peripheral device(s) from a local wireless communication antenna

Positioning information transmitting device and positioning information transmitting/receiving system

A guide information providing apparatus, and a program, in which a marker indicating a point of interest for a user is displayed on a map image, and in which, even in case the point of interest is located in a complex of establishments, the detailed position of the point of interest in such complex of establishments may be demonstrated. A guide program may display a marker for a point specified by the latitude/longitude for the point of interest when a map image is displayed, while displaying a marker for a point specified by the floor and the coordinate of the point of interest information when an image in the complex of establishments is displayed.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shizue Okuda