Patent ID: 7653485

Claim:
A routing guide system comprising: a route calculating device configured to calculate a route of a vehicle to a destination; an image providing device, having a storage device configured to store, as data, scenery images of a plurality of location points, said image providing device configured to read, from said storage device, scenery images on the route calculated by said route calculating device; a display device configured to display the scenery images on the calculated route generated by said image providing device; and a route confirming device configured to confirm, as a set route, the route calculated by said route calculating device, according to an operation, during or after display of the scenery images on said calculated route by said display device, wherein the vehicle is provided with a camera configured to capture scenery images in front of the vehicle, and a pleasantness degree calculating device configured to calculate a degree of pleasantness of each of the scenery images in front of the vehicle captured by the camera, wherein said pleasantness degree calculating device includes: a road analyzing device configured to perform road analysis processing on each of the scenery images in front of the vehicle captured by the camera; a scene analyzing device configured to perform scene analysis processing on each of the scenery images in front of the vehicle; a background analyzing device configured to perform background analysis processing on each of the scenery images in front of the vehicle; a road pleasantness calculating device configured to calculate a degree of road pleasantness on the basis of results of said road analysis processing; a scene pleasantness calculating device configured to calculate a degree of scene pleasantness on the basis of results of said scene analysis processing; and a background pleasantness calculating device configured to calculate a degree of background pleasantness on the basis of results of said background analysis processing, and wherein each said scenery image contains appendix information that includes said degree of pleasantness of each said scenery image, and wherein said degree of pleasantness of each said scenery image includes said degree of road pleasantness, said degree of scene pleasantness and said degree of background pleasantness.