Patent ID: 7940194

Claim:
A position registering apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object; a position identifying unit that identifies a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information; a registering unit that registers, into a storage unit, a point of deviation from a road by the mobile object as an entrance point to a parking lot when the current position that has been identified to be on the road is identified to be at a place other than on the road; and a parking determining unit that determines whether the mobile object is parked when the current position is identified to be at a place other than on a road, wherein the registering unit registers the point of deviation as the entrance point when the mobile object is determined to be parked, and registers the current position identified upon the parking determining unit determining that the mobile object is parked, as a parking lot position correlated with the entrance point.