Patent ID: 7219010

Claim:
A navigation apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a registration means for registering a place of departure, a destination, a route traveled by the vehicle, and a time of day that the route was traveled; a determination means for determining whether an input place of departure is substantially the same as a place of departure of a registered route and an input destination is substantially the same as a destination of the registered route; a route search means for reading out a particular registered route from registered route information when the determination means determines that the input place of departure is substantially the same as the place of departure of the registered route and the input destination is substantially the same as the destination of the registered route, the particular registered route having substantially the same place of departure and destination as the respective input place of departure and input destination and having a registered time of day that is nearest to a time of day for which route guidance between the input place of departure and input destination is requested; and a control means for performing route guidance based on a route returned by the search means.