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US 5,289,195 AGranted
Positioning and displaying system
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuya Inoue
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Abstract
A positioning and displaying apparatus includes a unit for positioning a current place, a unit for retrieving an area name containing the current place located by the positioning unit, and a unit for displaying characters indicating the area name retrieved by the retrieving unit.
Claims9
A positioning and displaying apparatus comprising:
- means for positioning a current place on a map;
- means for retrieving an area name containing said current place located by said positioning means;
- means for displaying characters indicating said area name retrieved by said retrieving means;
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- an external storage means for storing a map table therein;
- said positioning means including an indicator which indicates a point on a latitude and a longitude of said current place, and being adapted to retrieve an area name containing said latitude and said longitude of said current place;
- said retrieving means being further adapted to select a proper square for defining an area therein, said proper square being situated inside of said current place defined by said indicator.
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