Patent ID: 7688467

Claim:
A portable wireless telephone apparatus comprising: a wireless communication device that is capable of wireless connection to a communication channel and capable of conducting transmission or reception of voice signals and data signals through the communication channel; a microphone that is capable of generating voice signals to be transmitted by the wireless communication device; a speaker that is capable of generating audio signals based upon voice signals received by the wireless communication device; a CPU that is capable of outputting control commands to the wireless communication device, processing the data signals received from the communication channel through the wireless communication device, and supplying the data signals to be transmitted to the communication channel through the wireless communication device; a global positioning system receiver device that is capable of receiving a signal and determining position information based on the signal; a map information reader device that is capable of processing map information and the position information and capable of creating a map based on a combination of the position information and the map information; a display device that is capable of displaying the map created by the map information reader device; a navigator device that is capable of navigating a user by use of the position information received by the global positioning system receiver device and the map information processed by the map information reader device; a transmission selector device that, when a destination is selected, is capable of conducting a transmission by the wireless communication device through the communication channel to the selected destination; and a map information transmitter device that, during communication by the wireless communication device through the communication channel with the destination selected by the transmission selector device, is capable of reading map information relating to a map around position coordinates from previously registered map data based on the position information, and transmitting the map information to the destination through the communication channel.