Patent ID: 7873468
Filing Date: 2011-01-18
Classification: G01C,G06F

Abstract:
1. A vehicle-mounted apparatus comprising: a navigation unit configured to display a map to provide route guidance information to a user on the displayed map; a Web browser configured to access a Web page to display the Web page; a first storage unit configured to store point information blocks assigned to respective points, each point information block containing point coordinates indicating the geographical coordinates of the corresponding point and the URL of a Web site which provides information associated with the point such that the coordinates are related to the Web site URL; a page memory configured to save Web pages of the Web sites; a controller configured to access the Web site associated with each point matching a predetermined condition among the points, which have the point information blocks stored in the first storage unit, using the Web site URL contained in the corresponding point information block via wireless communication to download at least one Web page of the Web site to the page memory, and to display a mark at a position corresponding to the point coordinates contained in the point information block which also contains the URL of the Web site, of which the at least one Web page is being or has been downloaded, on the map displayed by the navigation unit and, in response to a user operation on the mark, allowing the Web browser to access the Web page, downloaded in the page memory, of the Web site corresponding to the operated mark; and a display configured to change the pattern of each mark displayed on the map depending on the progress of downloading the at least one Web page of the Web site corresponding to the mark.