Patent ID: 7822539

Claim:
A guide route search device, comprising: a designating unit configured to designate at least two or more destinations; a creating unit configured to create plural route patterns in which orders of visit to the plural destinations are different from one another, wherein the creation unit comprises a unit for adding a new route point to the route pattern such that, when a route point at which the user arrives at a time earlier than the guide time as a route point condition is present in a route pattern, the user arrives at the route point at the guide time by searching for a genre, a stay time of which coincides with an adjustment time for said time earlier in a route point condition table for genre including genre name data, guide time data and stay time data, and a route point that is on a guide route between a start point and a route point with too early arrival time is searched in a proposed route point data base, including genre data indicating a genre of the facility in the proposed route point, which matches the genre data of the genre found in the route point condition table for genre; judgment unit configured to judge whether the plural route patterns are route patterns that satisfy destination conditions in all the destinations; and a route pattern edition unit, for route patterns in which destinations are judged as satisfying the destination conditions by the judgment unit, any one of addition of destinations, deletion of destinations, change of destinations, and rearrangement of destinations as correction of the route patterns and causing the judgment unit to judge whether destinations in the route patterns after the correction satisfy the destination conditions, wherein the designating unit configured to select a proposed route point from a proposed route point database, including genre data indicating a genre of the facility in the proposed route point and business hour data of the facility in the proposed route point, wherein the creating unit configured to output business hour data as time frame comparison data corresponding to a genre of the route point and comparing this time frame comparison data with guide time data associated with the same genre of a route point condition table for genre, including genre name data and associated guide time data, and wherein, when a time frame not included in the business hour data of the route point is included in a time frame of the guide time data, a guide point condition update unit deletes the guide time by the excess time frame not included in the business hour data and updates the guide time data of the route point condition for genre table to be included in the business hour data of the route point.