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Patent No.:

US 8447507 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013

Filed:

Apr. 16, 2010
Applicant:

Tadashi Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Tadashi Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A navigation system comprising a receiver module that receives a stream for a broadcast content and a control unit in communication with the receiver module. The control unit determines whether the stream for the broadcast content contains information that matches to a keyword from a stored list of keywords, identifies a landmark that is associated with the keyword, determines whether a position information for the landmark resides with a map area to be displayed by the navigation system according to a detected position for the navigation system, and prompts a map area display of the map area having a landmark display for the landmark that is superimposed within the map area display.


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