Patent ID: 8918275

Claim:
A place-information obtaining apparatus comprising: a position detecting unit for detecting a present position to obtain position data; a position storing unit for storing plural pieces of position data previously obtained by the position detecting unit as action-history information; a place-name storing unit for storing specific place data, the specific place data comprising plural place names respectively corresponding to the plural pieces of position data; a converting unit for converting the position data into a place name by searching for a place name corresponding to the position data to be converted from among the plural place names stored in the place-name storing unit; a judging unit for judging whether or not position data newly obtained by the position detecting unit coincides with any one of the plural pieces of position data stored in the position storing unit; and a conversion controlling unit for making the converting unit convert the position data newly obtained by the position detecting unit into a place name, when the judging unit determines that the newly obtained position data coincides with one of the plural pieces of position data stored in the position storing unit; wherein the place-name storing unit stores the specific place data such that the specific place data corresponds to a specific user.