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Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2005
Applicants:

Ichiro Hatano, Tokyo, JP;

Koji Hirose, Tokyo, JP;

Hitoshi Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ichiro Hatano, Tokyo, JP;

Koji Hirose, Tokyo, JP;

Hitoshi Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Based on a transfer request from a portable terminal though an input operation or communication, a two-dimensional code is generated, the code containing information of a scale rate of map information for guidance displayed on the in-vehicle terminal and a current position of a vehicle. The two-dimensional code is displayed on a terminal display unit together with a region of the map information corresponding to a region to be displayed on the portable terminal. When the portable terminal captures the two-dimensional code with an image pickup unit, the portable terminal recognizes the scale rate and the current position with a code analyzer, receives a region of the map information corresponding to the scale rate and containing at least the current position from the server unit and displays the information on the portable terminal display unit. The map information can be continuously displayed on a separate terminal in a similar manner without giving a user a feeling of strangeness, so that the user can obtain guidance well.


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