TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• Main Author: TAMIYA SATORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.12.2013
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; SEALS; SURVEYING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TESTING; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal device capable of suitably displaying highly necessary facility information upon the basis of positions of respective facilities.SOLUTION: A terminal device includes acquisition means, facility information extraction means, display priority determination means, and display control means. The acquisition means acquires a current position. The facility information extraction means extracts facility information on facilities nearby roads being passed through or/and expected to be passed through from facility information on respective facilities related to the position information. The display control means makes the display means display the facility information that the facility information extraction means extracts, side by side, upon the basis of the position relation between positions indicated by the position information related to the facility information and the current position.