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Travel guidance system for vehicles

US4646089A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 6, 1984
Grant dateFeb 24, 1987
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Expiry dateJan 6, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01C21/3682
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a travel guidance system for vehicles, a map data storage medium preliminarily stores administrative division name data and/or landmark data, and a control unit has the function of retrieving the name of an administrative division to which the present position of a vehicle belongs and/or a landmark in the vicinity of the present position in accordance with present position data and displaying the retrieved administrative division name and/or the retrieved landmark on a display.

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