Patent ID: 8612143

Claim:
A passage determination device carried by a user who travels along a pre-set course by any means as training, the device comprising: a storage; a position information obtaining unit that obtains positions of the device at predetermined intervals; and a controller that causes said storage to store a course and a position of a passage point on the course set in advance by the user, and that causes said storage to store the positions obtained by said position information obtaining unit as well as times at which the positions are obtained, wherein said controller determines, if positions of the device enter a predetermined range of the passage point, a time at which the user passes through the passage point based on a position, from among the obtained positions within the predetermined range, that is closest to the passage point and a time at which the position is obtained, and wherein said controller determines the time of passage by using, if positions of the device enter the predetermined range and then are outside the predetermined range for a certain time period or longer, positions obtained by the time at which the last position within the predetermined range is determined, the positions being within the predetermined range.