Patent ID: 7904239

Claim:
A travel route display system comprising a server and a travel route display terminal apparatus that are connected via a network, wherein the travel route display terminal apparatus includes: a display unit that displays images; an obtaining unit that obtains (1) icon data for displaying a transportation icon that represents a transportation and a facility icon that represents a facility, and (2) numerical data that are to be displayed with the facility icon; a control unit that controls displaying of the images based on the icon data and the numerical data, the server includes: a search condition obtaining unit that obtains a given search condition transmitted from a user terminal; a database that stores various pieces of information for displaying the travel route; an information searching unit that searches the database based on the search condition obtained by the search condition obtaining unit; a numerical-data calculating unit that calculates various numerical data based on information obtained as a result of the search into the database, the numerical data being displayed together with the facility icon; an image data generating unit that generates the icon data and the numerical data to be displayed with the icon data, using the information obtained from the result of the search into the database by the information searching unit and the numerical data calculated by the numerical-data calculating unit; and an image data transmitting unit that transmits a plurality of kinds of image data to the travel route display terminal apparatus, the image data being generated by the image data generating unit, the control unit controls displaying of the images according to an input operation to provide either a simplified representation that displays the travel route from a departure point to a destination with the facility icon and the transportation icon or a detailed representation that displays the numerical data with the facility icon and the transportation icon, and the detailed representation displays detailed information on a facility icon that is selected by the input operation and also displays the selected facility icon, another facility icon near the selected facility icon, and the transportation icon in an area that does not overlap an area where the detailed information is displayed.