Abstract: A navigation system presents and updates information that allows the driver to determine an appropriate vehicle speed and a steering angle depending on a condition or a feature of a road. The navigation system includes storage means for storing map data, a display for displaying information, a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed, and a controller for determining the shape of a road section being approached by a vehicle, based on the map data and the vehicle speed, and controlling the display to display the shape of the road.

Abstract: Responsive to braking, a CPU of a driving assist apparatus calculates an average deceleration of the vehicle and then calculates a braking distance. The CPU further calculates a final position at which the vehicle will come to a stop, on the basis of the braking distance. The CPU next activates an assist display for display a map including, superimposed thereon, the route to the final position and an arrival indicator indicating the stop (final) position of the vehicle.

Abstract: A control system controls a hardware switch which receives a usage command for utilizing an auxiliary function of a vehicle and a software switch displayed with an information portion indicating the auxiliary function and a command portion for input of the usage command through a screen. When either of the hardware switch or the software switch is operated, information is provided for identifying the other switch that corresponds to the auxiliary function commanded by the operated switch.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and programs display a virtual escort vehicle that appears to be driving ahead of a user's vehicle on at least one of a windshield of the user's vehicle and a display disposed in front of a driving seat of the user's vehicle and display a driving instruction for the user's vehicle based on actual driving condition information and standard driving condition information for a predetermined reference point located ahead of the current position of the user's vehicle.

Abstract: A control system controls a hardware switch which receives a usage command for utilizing an auxiliary function of a vehicle and a software switch displayed with an information portion indicating the auxiliary function and a command portion for input of the usage command through a screen. When either of the hardware switch or the software switch is operated, information is provided for identifying the other switch that corresponds to the auxiliary function commanded by the operated switch.

Abstract: Responsive to braking, a CPU of a driving assist apparatus calculates an average deceleration of the vehicle and then calculates a braking distance. The CPU further calculates a final position at which the vehicle will come to a stop, on the basis of the braking distance. The CPU next activates an assist display for display a map including, superimposed thereon, the route to the final position and an arrival indicator indicating the stop (final) position of the vehicle.

Abstract: An information display system for displaying a map that covers an area around a pre-registered point relevant to a date or a date and time. The position of the pre-registered point on the map is readily and accurately identified using the operator's selection of the date or the date and time. The information display system, include a map information storage in which map information is stored; an input device to input a designated point relevant to a date or a date and time; a schedule information storage unit in which the designated point is stored relevant to a date or a date and time; a display device on which a calendar and a map are displayed; and a display control device by which a map covering a point relevant to a date, or a date and time, either of which being selected from the calendar, is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: A vehicle braking control assistance device includes: a speed detecting unit for detecting current vehicle speed; a brake force detecting unit for detecting the current braking force; a deceleration target point determining unit for determining a target point for deceleration control; a target vehicle speed determining unit for determining a target vehicle speed at the deceleration target point; an ideal brake force determining unit for determining an ideal brake force to be applied in continued movement to the deceleration target point with the target vehicle speed realized at the deceleration target point, based on the current vehicle speed, the deceleration target point and the target vehicle speed; a notification information generating unit for generating notification information indicating the relationship between the ideal brake force and the current brake force; and a notification unit for bringing the generated notification information to the attention of the driver.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and programs display a virtual escort vehicle that appears to be driving ahead of a user's vehicle on at least one of a windshield of the user's vehicle and a display disposed in front of a driving seat of the user's vehicle and display a driving instruction for the user's vehicle based on actual driving condition information and standard driving condition information for a predetermined reference point located ahead of the current position of the user's vehicle.

Abstract: A navigation system presents and updates information that allows the driver to determine an appropriate vehicle speed and a steering angle depending on a condition or a feature of a road. The navigation system includes storage means for storing map data, a display for displaying information, a vehicle speed sensor for detecting a vehicle speed, and a controller for determining the shape of a road section being approached by a vehicle, based on the map data and the vehicle speed, and controlling the display to display the shape of the road.

Abstract: A map display device using an input unit for inputting a display scale, a memory for storing polygon map data, a drawing processing control unit for drawing a polygon map by loading polygon map data from the memory and a display unit for displaying an output from the drawing processing control unit, wherein the drawing processing control unit is provided with a function for determining a unit of a polygon map that should be drawn and drawing a polygon map of the determined unit.

Abstract: An information display system capable of automatically acquiring necessary information from a facility information screen and registering the acquired information in an automotive navigation apparatus. The information display system includes a display for displaying a facility information screen, an information extractor for extracting position identification information from the facility information screen, a facility information registration unit for registering facility information including a specified point set on the basis of the position identification information, and a facility information storage unit for storing the registered facility information.

Abstract: An information display system for displaying a map that covers an area around a pre-registered point relevant to a date or a date and time. The position of the pre-registered point on the map is readily and accurately identified using the operator's selection of the date or the date and time. The information display system, include a map information storage in which map information is stored; an input device to input a designated point relevant to a date or a date and time; a schedule information storage unit in which the designated point is stored relevant to a date or a date and time; a display device on which a calendar and a map are displayed; and a display control device by which a map covering a point relevant to a date, or a date and time, either of which being selected from the calendar, is displayed on the display device.

Abstract: A navigation system for searching coordinates of a telephone number, displaying a map and setting a point, the navigation system comprising a memory for storing information on a subscriber inclusive of coordinates corresponding to a telephone number and map data, an input device for inputting a telephone number, and a control device for searching a subscriber and coordinates based on the input of the telephone number, setting specific coordinates based on the searched coordinates and displaying a map with the specific coordinates located at the center of the map on a condition that the searched subscriber is a specific classified subscriber, wherein a map with a vague point located at the center of the map is displayed while a private home is not directly displayed thereon when the subscriber is a private subscriber of the input telephone number.

Abstract: A map display device using an input unit for inputting a display scale, a memory for storing polygon map data, a drawing processing control unit for drawing a polygon map by loading polygon map data from the memory and a display unit for displaying an output from the drawing processing control unit, wherein the drawing processing control unit is provided with a function for determining a unit of a polygon map that should be drawn and drawing a polygon map of the determined unit.

Abstract: A resist material for micro-fabrication comprising a polymer in which the polymer backbone has thereon a moiety of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group or an aralkyl group, the resist material being curable by electromagnetic radiation such as electron beams, X-rays or deep ultraviolet light with a wave length of less than about 3000A and being particularly suitable as a micro-fabrication resist material.

Abstract: A resist material curable by irradiation with high energy radiation such as electron beams, X-rays, ion beams, neutron beams, .gamma.-rays or deep ultraviolet light but substantially non-curable by irradiation with light having a wavelength of about 300 nm or more, the resist material comprising, as a main component, a solvent-soluble polymer containing an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, the polymer being obtained by reacting (a) a polymer having a plurality of oxirane rings therein and (b) a monomer containing (i) at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond and (ii) one functional group capable of opening the oxirane rings, and then opening the unreacted oxirane rings.

Abstract: A resist material for micro-fabrication comprising a polymer in which the polymer backbone has thereon a moiety of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an aryl group or an aralkyl group, the resist material being curable by electromagnetic radiation such as electron beams, X-rays or deep ultraviolet light with a wave length of less than about 3000A and being particularly suitable as a micro-fabrication resist material.