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Navigation apparatus

  • US 20050128106A1
  • Filed: 11/23/2004
  • Published: 06/16/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A navigation apparatus that performs a route guidance for a vehicle based on preset route information and current position information, the navigation apparatus comprising:

  • a guidance-information creating unit that creates guidance information by acquiring a first guiding direction, in which the vehicle should be guided, and a second guiding direction, in which the vehicle should be guided following the first guiding direction, from the preset route information and the current position information;

    an acoustic-image creating unit that creates an acoustic image for notifying a driver of the guidance information; and

    an acoustic-image control unit that determines, when the guidance information is notified continuously, a direction of movement of the acoustic image in a single direction.

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