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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2007
Noboru Yamazaki, Iwaki, JP;
Noboru Yamazaki, Iwaki, JP;
Alpine Electronics, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a navigation device and a facility image display method, whereby a user can recognize various types of information about a facility from the image corresponding to the facility. The navigation device includes road information, etc., used for drawing map images; facility information including the nodes of the facilities and a plurality of attributes of the facilities; a buffer memory that stores data of icon images corresponding to each of the plurality of attributes of the facilities; a map drawing unit that draws a map image on the basis of the road information, etc., and draws any of the icon images corresponding to the plurality of attributes of the facilities contained in the facility information, at a position in the map image corresponding to the node identified in the facility information; and an image synthesizing unit that causes a display unit to display the drawn image.
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