Patent Document ID: 20080262713
Application ID: 12170962
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object, said map information display apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display an image that includes the map and an estimated transit time of a point on the map; a candidate obtainment unit configured to obtain a plurality of candidate points each of which is a candidate for displaying an estimated transit time; a selection unit configured to select at most a predetermined number of candidate points from among candidate points, of the plurality of candidate points, that are included in a part of a map area of the map displayed by said display unit; an estimated time calculation unit configured to calculate an estimated transit time of each of the selected candidate points; and a display control unit configured to cause said display unit to display the image that includes the map and a combination of the each of selected candidate points and the estimated transit time calculated for the each of selected candidate points, wherein said selection unit includes a representative point setting unit configured to set a plurality of representative points in the map area of the map included in the displayed image so that a distance between any two representative points which are in a travel direction of the mobile object is shorter than a distance between any two representative points which are in a direction other than the travel direction of the mobile object, the plurality of representative points being separated from each other by at least a predetermined distance, and said selection unit is configured to, for each of the plurality of representative points, select a candidate point that is closest to the each of plurality of representative points.