Patent ID: 8825386
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G01C

Abstract:
1. A navigation apparatus for providing guidance to guide a vehicle through a predetermined route to a destination, the navigation apparatus configured to learn a new road, which does not exist in a ready-made road data, based on a current position of the vehicle during running of the vehicle, the navigation apparatus comprising: a processor, the processor being configured to: the learned road detector creates a first auxiliary link extending from a first end of a base link to the end of the learned road link and a second auxiliary link extending from a second end of the base link to the end of the learned road link, the base link is the at least one of the first and second existing link, the road information storing device stores an association between the base link and each of the first and second auxiliary links as the road information, the link identifying device identifies at least one of the entrance and exit inks by using the first and second auxiliary links, and the road determination device determines that the entrance and exit links form the continuous road represented by the road information, when the entrance and exit links are identified as the first and second auxiliary links extending along the same base link.