Patent ID: 8155873

Claim:
A vehicle-position-recognition apparatus, comprising: a memory; and a controller that: acquires current position information indicating a current position of a vehicle; acquires road information indicating at least one road based on a connection relationship between plural links; determines a link where the vehicle travels based on the current position information and the road information; generates travel-history information indicating a route that the vehicle travels at a point where a link is branched based on the determined link; acquires an image of an area surrounding the vehicle; recognizes a recognition target in the acquired image; stores the generated travel-history information in the memory in association with information indicating the recognition of the recognition target; and generates learning-priority information indicating a priority of each link branched out at the branch point based on the stored travel-history information and the stored recognition information, the generated learning-priority information being used to determine on which of the links branched out at the branch point that the vehicle is traveling.