Patent ID: 8510256

Claim:
An inter-facility movement estimation apparatus comprising: a processor coupled to a memory; a movement map which stores location information about facilities and movement times required to move between the facilities; a positioning unit which obtains location information on a user when the user starts a movement; a movement candidate list which stores given movement path candidates from one of the facilities being nearest to the obtained location information to other facilities and likelihoods of the movement path candidates; a movement situation estimating unit which estimates a movement situation of the user; a movement path estimating unit which selects, whenever the movement situation is changed, estimated movement path candidates from the given movement path candidates based on the nearest facility and the movement situation of the user; and an adjusting unit which changes the likelihoods of the estimated movement path candidates when the user moves from a starting point of the movement path list by a predetermined distance or longer and a movement path candidate having a highest likelihood does not exist in the movement candidate list, wherein, among the estimated movement path candidates one of the estimated movement path candidates having a highest likelihood of the changed likelihoods is specified as an actual movement path of the user.