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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akihiro Morimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial, Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/100 ;
Abstract
A car navigation system displays texts free from overlapping with each other. The system includes a position calculator, a remote-control-unit, a map-memory for storing a map in a unit, an overlap determiner for determining whether or not a text undergone a co-ordinates-conversion is overlapped, a text-memory for storing a text in one unit, a displayed-data-memory for storing displayed text, and a display device for displaying a map.