Sony Corporation

Takashi Takinami

Hideki Sakai

Hiroshi Amano

Miyuki Matsumoto

A navigation apparatus includes a command input block from which the user inputs a command signal, a current positional data supply unit, a data reading unit for reading from a CD-ROM map data, voice guidance data, object data about an object displayed on a map of the navigation apparatus, and sound data symbolizing a geographical location corresponding to the object on the map, and a controller for displaying the map and the object onto a display device and sounding the voice guidance and sound data from a speaker.

Navigation apparatus for navigating a vehicle based on symbolic sounds

When scrolling a display range of a map in a navigation device or the like, the display state can be satisfactorily scrolled. The range displayed as a map is continuously changed on the basis of a specified operation, and the speed to change the display range is arranged to be gradually increased from the initial speed at the starting time of the specified operation, to the specified terminal speed at a previously set specified acceleration.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Takinami