Patent ID: 8781728

Claim:
A travel history editing device editing name information of position information accumulated as a history of a travel route of a vehicle, said travel history editing device comprising: a position detecting unit configured to detect the position information corresponding to a position of the vehicle; a map information accumulation unit accumulating the name information related to one of the position information and a facility name corresponding to the position information, the facility name differing from the name information; an arrival point name determining unit configured to, when the vehicle arrives at an arrival point, (i) determine, as position information of the arrival point, the position information detected by said position detecting unit, and (ii) obtain the facility name that corresponds to the position information of the arrival point from said map information accumulation unit and determine the obtained facility name to be a facility name of the arrival point, or obtain the name information that relates to the position information of the arrival point from said map information accumulation unit and determine the obtained name information to be name information of the arrival point; a travel history accumulation unit accumulating (i) the position information of the arrival point, (ii) the determined facility name of the arrival point, and (iii) the determined name information of the arrival point; and a name editing unit configured to, when the name information of the arrival point is accumulated in said travel history accumulation unit, edit the name information of the arrival point to the facility name of the arrival point accumulated in said travel history accumulating unit, such that the edited name information of the arrival point is represented by a facility name previously visited by a user, and such that the name information of the arrival point is edited in accordance with a predetermined rule.