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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2004
Shinichi Nakaishi, Kobe, JP;
Hideki Matsui, Kobe, JP;
Akira Motojima, Kobe, JP;
Yuji Tomita, Kobe, JP;
Masanobu Maeda, Kobe, JP;
Minoru Maehata, Kobe, JP;
Shinichi Nakaishi, Kobe, JP;
Hideki Matsui, Kobe, JP;
Akira Motojima, Kobe, JP;
Yuji Tomita, Kobe, JP;
Masanobu Maeda, Kobe, JP;
Minoru Maehata, Kobe, JP;
Fujitsu Ten Limited, Kobe, JP;
Abstract
A navigation apparatus includes a guidance-information creating unit that creates guidance information by acquiring a guiding direction, in which a vehicle should be guided, from preset route information and current position information; an acoustic-image creating unit that creates an acoustic image for notifying a driver of the guidance information; and an acoustic-image control unit that changes at least one of a movement start position of the acoustic image, a direction change position of the acoustic image, a moving amount of the acoustic image, a moving speed of the acoustic image, and a moving locus of the acoustic image according to the current position information and a guiding position in the preset route information.