Patent ID: 7477990

Claim:
A navigation apparatus for guiding a vehicle to a destination, comprising: a destination setting section that sets a destination in accordance with an input by a driver; a location deriving section that derives a current location of the vehicle; a path obtaining section that obtains a path from the current location derived by said location deriving section as a starting point to the destination set by said destination setting section; a data storing section that stores an information set including at least location information for identifying a location of a travel burden point on a road network, link information indicating a road linked to the travel burden point, and a reference hesitation value indicating a degree of a driver's hesitation to go through the travel burden point, and a characteristic value of the driver; a point guidance data generating section that generates point guidance data representing guidance for the travel burden point based on the current location derived by said location deriving section, the path obtained by said path obtaining section, and the information set and the driver characteristic value stored in said data storing section; and an output section that outputs the guidance for the travel burden point in accordance with the point guidance data generated by said point guidance data generating section, wherein said point guidance data generating section compares a reference hesitation value contained in the information set stored in said data storing section with a driver characteristic value, and based on a result of the comparison, generates point guidance data.