Patent ID: 7623045

Claim:
A facility display apparatus comprising: a setting unit for setting a display mode of facilities selected by a user from a plurality of selectable display modes, the selectable display modes including a mode for displaying facilities as a moving picture and a mode for displaying facilities as a still picture; a facility identifying unit for identifying facilities at a point of interest selected by the user from a plurality of selectable points of interest, the facilities being identified to be displayed; and a display unit for displaying on a map at least one of a moving picture and a still picture of the facilities identified by said facility identifying unit in accordance with the display mode set by said setting unit, wherein: the map illustrates a route from a present geographical location of the user to the point of interest, when the user selects the mode for displaying facilities as a moving picture, said display unit displays the moving picture of the identified facilities on the map, the moving picture automatically rotating a three-dimensional image of the identified facilities by a preset amount to provide multiple views of the identified facilities from multiple directions, the three-dimensional image being automatically rotated the same amount regardless of which facilities are identified by the facility identifying means and regardless of the user's geographical location while the moving picture is displayed, and the identified facilities comprises at least one physical object having a fixed geographical location at the selected point of interest.