Patent ID: 7783415

Claim:
A traffic information processing apparatus comprising: a unit that acquires first traffic information for a navigation process and second traffic information originated by a different source from the first traffic information; a correcting information generating means for extracting traffic information on a first kind of object, data of which is included in both the first traffic information and the second traffic information, from both the first traffic information and the second traffic information during a predetermined time zone within a predetermined number of days, and for generating correcting information used to correct the second traffic information based on the difference between the traffic information extracted from the first and second traffic information; and a traffic information correcting means for acquiring traffic information on a second kind of object, data of which is not contained in the first traffic information, by correcting the second traffic information on the second kind of object using the correcting information generated by the correcting information generating means, wherein both of the first kind of object and the second kind of object include at least one link, and the correcting information is generated according to the at least one link; wherein the correcting information generating means generates the link-wise correcting information to be used with each link making a road on the map, the road-type-wise correcting information to be used in accordance with the road type associated with the link and the mesh-wise correcting information to be used in accordance with the mesh constituting an area defined on the map; and wherein the traffic information correcting means uses the link-wise correcting information, if available, for the link to be corrected, the road-type-wise correcting information, if available, for the road type associated with the link to be corrected, in the absence of the link-wise correcting information for the link to be corrected, and the mesh-wise correcting information, if available, of the mesh associated with the link to be corrected, in the absence of both the link-wise correcting information for the link to be corrected and the road-type-wise correcting information of the road type associated with the link to be corrected.