Patent ID: 7869942

Claim:
A travel plan presenting apparatus comprising: a travel pattern extracting unit configured to: retrieve, as travel patterns, sets of pieces of travel history information each including a current position and a final arrival place, from pieces of travel history information of a mobile object each being accumulated in a travel history accumulation unit and regarding a travel from a departure place to an arrival place; extract at least one travel pattern from the retrieved travel patterns; and, in the case where a travel pattern in which an order of halfway arrival places other than the final arrival place included in the extracted travel pattern has been changed exists in the pieces of travel history information of the mobile object, further extract the travel pattern in which the order of the arrival places has been changed; a travel plan calculating unit configured to calculate, for each of the extracted travel patterns, estimated arrival times at the final arrival place and each of the arrival places included in a corresponding one of the travel patterns extracted by said travel pattern extracting unit; and a display processing unit configured to generate display information for displaying, on a same screen, for each extracted travel pattern, the estimated arrival time at each arrival place that has been calculated by said travel plan calculating unit, and display the display information on the screen.