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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kumi Nishibashi, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Irie, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G10L 13/08 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3629 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01); G01C 21/3644 (2013.01); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01); G10L 13/086 (2013.01);
Abstract

A navigation apparatus includes a route calculation unit, an environment information obtaining unit and a controller. The route calculation unit calculates a route to a destination based on map information, a position of a vehicle and a destination of the vehicle. By the time when the moving body arrives at a guidance given point at which the vocal output is given, the environment information obtaining unit obtains environment information related to an environment of an outside of the moving body. The controller causes an audio output device to selectively vocally output one of a name and a feature of the landmark object based on the environment information at the guidance given point.


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