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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2004
Shizue Okuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Ihara, Chiba, JP;
Shizue Okuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Koji Ihara, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A guide information providing apparatus, and a program, in which a marker indicating a point of interest for a user is displayed on a map image, and in which, even in case the point of interest is located in a complex of establishments, the detailed position of the point of interest in such complex of establishments may be demonstrated. A guide program may display a marker for a point specified by the latitude/longitude for the point of interest when a map image is displayed, while displaying a marker for a point specified by the floor and the coordinate of the point of interest information when an image in the complex of establishments is displayed.