Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a function search section which searches for a function capable of being executed for specified content, from a function group including a function capable of being executed in the case where content has a specific attribute or detail, a display control section which causes content icons showing the content to be displayed on a display section, and in the case where one of the content icons is selected by a user, the display control section causes a function icon group corresponding to the function group to be displayed in a first region on the display section, and causes a function icon to be enabled and displayed, from among the function icon group, which corresponds to a function capable of being executed for content corresponding to the selected content icon, and a function execution control section which causes a function to be executed which corresponds to the function icon for content corresponding to the selected content icon in accordanc

Abstract: A telephone device which enables a user to consciously send a determined present position to a device in the surrounding area is provided. A portable telephone device 10 sends position determination information acquired by a GPS unit including a GPS antenna 31 and/or a portable telephone signal position determination processing unit including a portable telephone communication antenna 21, to another portable telephone device 50 as a desired communicating party via a base station by using a data communication function in accordance with a decision operation of a POS button 17a. Another portable telephone device 50 displays a map image of the vicinity of the received position determination information on an LCD display unit 52 by using an embedded digital map display application or the like, and also displays a present position point 53 of the portable telephone device 10 on the map image.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus generating a three-dimensional map on the basis of three-dimensional map data includes rendering area acquiring means for acquiring a rendering area in which the three-dimensional map is generated with respect to a focal point; identifying means for identifying the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area, among the three-dimensional map data including rendering object data that concerns at least one rendering object and that is hierarchized into multiple groups in accordance with characteristics of the rendering object; rendering object data acquiring means for selecting a group on the basis of the distance from the focal point and acquiring the rendering object data in the selected group from the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area; and three-dimensional map generating means for rendering the rendering object on the basis of the rendering object data to generate the three-dimensional map.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus displays navigation information generated based on map information. The apparatus includes a positional information acquiring section for acquiring positional information, a storage section storing two-dimensional map data, three-dimensional graphic data, and node-based altitude data of recorded altitude data of nodes which are set on a link used as a route, a data processor generating and outputting three-dimensional display information for a guidance region by receiving the positional information acquired by the positional information acquiring section, and acquiring data from the storage section based on the received positional information, and a display device displaying the information output from the data processor. The data processor calculates the altitudes of points on the route based on the node-based altitude data, and generates and outputs, to the display device, three-dimensional route information in which data of the calculated altitudes is set as a parameter.

Abstract: Three-dimensional map data of drawing objects in respective division areas and distant view images in respective directions on map data, which are obtained when viewing is made from insides of the respective division areas, are held in a recording medium, three-dimensional map data of a drawing object for a near view positioned in a sight line direction at a point of interest is retrieved from the three-dimensional map data based on position information of the point of interest and sight line direction information, and is converted into a map image based on a perspective drawing method. A distant view image obtained in the sight line direction is retrieved from the distant view images held in the recording medium based on the position information of the point of interest and the sight line direction information, and the retrieved distant view image is overwritten with the map image for the near view to combine them.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus generating a three-dimensional map on the basis of three-dimensional map data includes rendering area acquiring means for acquiring a rendering area in which the three-dimensional map is generated with respect to a focal point; identifying means for identifying the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area, among the three-dimensional map data including rendering object data that concerns at least one rendering object and that is hierarchized into multiple groups in accordance with characteristics of the rendering object; rendering object data acquiring means for selecting a group on the basis of the distance from the focal point and acquiring the rendering object data in the selected group from the three-dimensional map data in the rendering area; and three-dimensional map generating means for rendering the rendering object on the basis of the rendering object data to generate the three-dimensional map.

Abstract: A positioning information transmitting device for transmitting the current site data to a peripheral device(s) using wireless signals. The current side data, as the positioning information of the current site, calculated by a portable telephone signal positioning processor 20 or a GPS unit 30, is transmitted to a CPU 12 through an interfacing (I/F) unit 11. The positioning information transmitting device 10 includes a local wireless communication unit 40 for transmitting/receiving data to or from the peripheral device(s). The current side data is transmitted from a CPU 12 through a communication controller 13 so as to be processed by a baseband processor 41 of the local wireless communication unit 40. The so processed data is superposed by an RF processor 41 on a carrier wave so as to be transmitted over a wireless path to a peripheral device(s) from a local wireless communication antenna 43.

Abstract: A guide information providing apparatus, and a program, in which a marker indicating a point of interest for a user is displayed on a map image, and in which, even in case the point of interest is located in a complex of establishments, the detailed position of the point of interest in such complex of establishments may be demonstrated. A guide program may display a marker for a point specified by the latitude/longitude for the point of interest when a map image is displayed, while displaying a marker for a point specified by the floor and the coordinate of the point of interest information when an image in the complex of establishments is displayed.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus displays navigation information generated based on map information. The apparatus includes a positional information acquiring section for acquiring positional information, a storage section storing two- dimensional map data, three-dimensional graphic data, and node-based altitude data of recorded altitude data of nodes which are set on a link used as a route, a data processor generating and outputting three-dimensional display information for a guidance region by receiving the positional information acquired by the positional information acquiring section, and acquiring data from the storage section based on the received positional information, and a display device displaying the information output from the data processor. The data processor calculates the altitudes of points on the route based on the node-based altitude data, and generates and outputs, to the display device, three-dimensional route information in which data of the calculated altitudes is set as a parameter.

Abstract: A guide information providing apparatus, and a program, in which a marker indicating the POI position is displayed on a map image, and in which, even in case the POI is located in a complex of establishments e.g. a department store, the detailed position of the POI in such complex of establishments may be demonstrated. In a guide program 10, there are registered map images, images in the complex of establishments, as guide view images for the respective floors of the complex of establishments, and the information pertinent to the sites or establishments, and stores (POIs). In the POI information, the names and the latitude/longitude of the POIs are stated. In the POPI information pertinent to the POIs present in the complex of establishments, the complex of establishments, where there exists the establishment of interest, the floor where there exists the establishment of interest, and the coordinates on the image in the complex of establishments, where there exists the establishment of interest, are stated.

Abstract: A telephone device which enables a user to consciously send a determined present position to a device in the surrounding area is provided. A portable telephone device 10 sends position determination information acquired by a GPS unit including a GPS antenna 31 and/or a portable telephone signal position determination processing unit including a portable telephone communication antenna 21, to another portable telephone device 50 as a desired communicating party via a base station by using a data communication function in accordance with a decision operation of a POS button 17a. Another portable telephone device 50 displays a map image of the vicinity of the received position determination information on an LCD display unit 52 by using an embedded digital map display application or the like, and also displays a present position point 53 of the portable telephone device 10 on the map image.

Abstract: A positioning information transmitting device for transmitting the current site data to a peripheral device(s) using wireless signals. The current side data, as the positioning information of the current site, calculated by a portable telephone signal positioning processor 20 or a GPS unit 30, is transmitted to a CPU 12 through an interfacing (I/F) unit 11. The positioning information transmitting device 10 includes a local wireless communication unit 40 for transmitting/receiving data to or from the peripheral device(s). The current side data is transmitted from a CPU 12 through a communication controller 13 so as to be processed by a baseband processor 41 of the local wireless communication unit 40. The so processed data is superposed by an RF processor 41 on a carrier wave so as to be transmitted over a wireless path to a peripheral device(s) from a local wireless communication antenna 43.