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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
Filed:
May. 11, 1995
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A composite electronic apparatus consisting of a video and audio signal processing portion including image displaying circuits for displaying images based on a video signal and sound reproducing circuits for reproducing a sound based on an audio signal, a position detecting portion for conducting positional detection to produce position data representing a detected position, a data reproducing portion operative to read information from a record medium and to reproduce map data or video or audio data on the basis of the information read from the record medium, a data processing portion for causing the position data and the map data to be subjected to predetermined data processing, a video signal transmitting portion operative to produce a video signal for image display on the basis of the position data and the map data subjected to the predetermined data processing and to transmit the video signal for image display to the image displaying circuits so that images displayed by the image displaying circuits, and a cabinet for containing the video and audio signal processing portion, a part of the position detecting portion, the data reproducing portion, the data processing portion and the video signal transmitting portion and for supporting another part of the position detecting portion. The audio data reproduced by the data reproducing portion is selectively applied to sound reproduction by sound reproducing circuits in the video and audio signal processing portion.