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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2010
Applicants:

Mitsuo Shimotani, Tokyo, JP;

Makoto Mikuriya, Tokyo, JP;

Takeo Sakairi, Tokyo, JP;

Fujio Hayakawa, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Mitsuo Shimotani, Tokyo, JP;

Makoto Mikuriya, Tokyo, JP;

Takeo Sakairi, Tokyo, JP;

Fujio Hayakawa, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/26 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G08G 1/0969 (2006.01); G09B 29/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3667 (2013.01); G08G 1/0969 (2013.01); G09B 29/106 (2013.01);
Abstract

A map display device includes: current location calculating unit for calculating a current location; specific region dedicated database for storing map data permitted only inside a specific region; specific region permitted database for storing data for displaying the inside of the specific region outside the specific region; outside-specific-region database for storing map data of the outside of the specific region available both inside and outside the specific region; controller for generating display data for displaying a map of the outside of the specific region using map data from the outside-specific-region database, and generating display data for displaying an image of a permitted map attribute to the inside of the specific region using the data from the permitted database, when the current location is outside the specific region; and display unit for displaying an image of the map or the permitted map attribute based on the display data.


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