Patent ID: 6526350
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: G01C,G06Q,G08G,G09B

Abstract:
A route guide apparatus for finding a route to a destination and supplying the route to a user terminal, comprising:landmark storage means for storing information regarding facilities which are landmarks; route search means for searching for a route that reaches the destination and that passes near at least one of the facilities which are landmarks; route supplying means for supplying the route found by the route search means to the user terminal; and advertisement storage means for storing advertisement information regarding at least some of the facilities that are landmarks, wherein the route search means searches for a route that passes near at least one of the facilities which is a landmark and whose advertisement information is to be supplied to the user terminal and if there are a plurality of facilities which are landmarks and whose advertisement information is to be supplied to the user terminal, the route search means searches for a route based on a weight assigned to each facility in accordance with a significance of each facility.