Patent ID: 7472019
Filing Date: 2008-12-30
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. A navigation apparatus for, in accordance with a destination and one or more via-points specified by a user, searching for a route to the specified destination through the specified one or more via-points and presenting a detected route, comprising: a point database in which a plurality of point combinations are recorded, each combination comprising a previously set destination point that is a point specified as a destination in the past by a user and one or more previously set via-points that are points that were specified as via-points to the previously set destination point; a destination acceptance unit for accepting a point entered by the user as the destination; and a via-point acceptance unit for accepting one or more via-points, wherein if the point accepted as the destination by the destination acceptance unit is included as a previously set destination point in the combinations of previously set destination points and via-points that are recorded in the point database, then previously set via-points included in the combinations having a matching destination are presented to the user as candidate via-points, and via-points specified by the user from the presented via-point candidates are accepted by the via-point acceptance unit as the one or more via-points.