Patent ID: 6138072
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: G01C,G06F,G08G,Y10S

Abstract:
A navigation device for determining a current position of the device and displaying the determined current position on a map shown on a display screen, which device is provided with a wireless internet communication means, a browser means for connection with any one of specified home pages established in the Internet's world-wide web according to a specified URL, and a memory means for storing a data table for registering URLs of the home pages for providing information on respective stationary objects existing on the displayed map, and wherein data of a specified stationary object is obtained from digital map data by designating the specific stationary object on the displayed map shown on the display screen, a URL of a home page corresponding to the object data is read from the memory means and transferred to the browser means by which a content of the home page of the specified stationary object is then obtained and displayed on the display screen.