Patent ID: 9082306
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. An in-vehicle display apparatus that is provided in a vehicle, comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires a plurality of posted information items which are posted by a plurality of users in real time and to which geographical location data indicating a destination of each of the plurality of posted information items is added; a category classifying unit that specifies a posted information item to be displayed from the plurality of posted information items based on a hash tag included in each of the plurality of posted information items, and classifies the specified posted information item into categories, which are not categories by the geographical location data indicating the destination of the posted information item, based on the hash tag; and a display unit that displays map data in which the posted information item is displayed, using a display method that is changed based on an elapsed time from the posting of the information to the acquisition of the posted information by the acquiring unit, in a speech-bubble-type icon of a color which is specified according to the category classified by the category classifying unit at a position which is specified on the basis of the geographical location data, when the elapsed time from the posting of the posted information item to the acquisition of the posted information item that is acquired by the acquiring unit is less than a predetermined time.