Patent ID: 7650237
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A navigation apparatus, comprising: a storage medium storing, for at least one display position on a map image, a plurality of different character strings associated with a plurality of display scales; facility search means for searching for a facility that fulfills a set search condition, where the facility searched by said facility search means is one of a plurality of facilities located in a building or place at one of said at least one display position, and one of said character strings indicates the searched facility while another of said character strings indicates the building or place at the display position; displayed character string setting means for setting a character string which is displayed at said one display position, where in a non-facility search state the character string set for display is responsive to display scale, and in a facility search state the character string set for display is the character string indicating the searched facility regardless of display scale; map drawing means for drawing a map image including the location of the facility searched by said facility search means and the character string set by said displayed character string setting means; and display means for displaying the map image drawn by said map drawing means.