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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2010
Satoshi Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kaori Amano, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoshi Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kaori Amano, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a navigation apparatus including: a display unit having a display screen; a touch panel provided to the display screen; and a display controller that selectively changes first, second, and third screens in response to contacting the touch panel to be displayed, wherein each of the screens has a manipulation-button display area for displaying a screen-changing button, and wherein, the display controller performs a first displaying operation of circulatingly changing the screens in a predetermined order to be displayed at each time of contacting the manipulation-button display area, a second displaying operation of displaying a pop-up menu including first, second, and third screen-selecting buttons for directly selecting the screens at the same time of the first displaying operation, and a third displaying operation of displaying on the display screen one screen selected among the screens in response to contacting the screen-selecting buttons displayed by the second displaying operation.