Patent ID: 7044372
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: G01C,G09B

Abstract:
1. A guide information providing apparatus comprising data holding means for storage or acquisition from outside over a network of a map image in which a coordinate position on an image is correlated with the latitude and the longitude, an image in a complex of establishments, as a guide view image for each floor of said complex of establishments, and the POI information, stating the information pertinent to a sites and an establishment; display means for demonstrating said map image, the image in the complex of establishments and the POI information; and control means for controlling the contents demonstrated on said display means; said POI information stating the name and the latitude/longitude of the site and the establishment; the POI information, pertinent to the establishment present in the complex of establishments, further stating the complex of establishments where the establishment exists, the floor where the establishment exists, and the coordinate on the image in the complex of establishments where the establishment exists; said control means displaying said map image and an image in said complex of establishments responsive to input control from a user; said control means displaying a marker for a point on the map image specified by the latitude/longitude stated in the POI information selected, when said map image is displayed; said control means displaying a marker for a point on the image in the complex of establishments specified by the floor and the coordinates stated in the POI information selected, when said image in the complex of establishments is displayed.