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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1996
Takumi Ajima, Zama, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A scenery from a first position in which contours of natural formations such as mountains, seas, lakes, basins, wide green areas and the like, contours of artificial structures such as buildings, towers, famous temples, schools and the like, a starry sky including stars and constellations, names of administrative regions such as cities, towns and the like, names of the natural formations and the artificial structures, positions of sunrise, sunset, a propagation locus of a diffracted electric wave and an earth orbital locus of the sun, and populations are indicated is displayed on a displaying unit 21. The first position is input to an input unit, or a current position is detected by a global positioning system as the first position. The scenery is prepared in a scenery displaying apparatus according to scenery information stored in a scenery information storing unit. Also, a specific scenery position is automatically selected from among a plurality of candidates for the specific scenery position by quantitatively estimating visibility fields of a plurality of sceneries in a special scenery position designating unit.