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On-board navigation apparatus
Kenichi C,O Pioneer Electronic Corp. Nobe,Morio C,O Pioneer Electronic Corp. Araki,Takeharu C,O Pioneer Electronic Corp. Arakawa +5 more
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In this article, the authors propose an on-board navigation apparatus in which coordinate data of formerly set designations are held in a memory, the destination coordinate data stored in the memory are read out at the time of destination setting, and one piece of destination coordinates is selected from the read designation coordinate data in accordance with an operation input to set a destination according to the selected one piece.Citations
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