Patent ID: 8103442

Claim:
A navigation device comprising: a display section for displaying a guide image indicating a guide to a destination; a state acquisition section for acquiring a state outside a vehicle; a photographed guide generation section for generating a photographed guide image, using a photographed image of a captured forward direction of the vehicle; a map guide generation section for generating a map guide image, using map information; a state determination section for, based on the state outside the vehicle acquired by the state acquisition section, determining which one of the photographed guide image and the map guide image is to be displayed by priority; and a guide display control section for, based on the determination made by the state determination section, allowing the guide image including at least one of the photographed guide image and the map guide image to be displayed in the display section, wherein the state acquisition section acquires a plurality of the states outside the vehicle, and wherein, when the state determination section determines, based on at least one of the states outside the vehicle acquired by the state acquisition section, that the map guide image is to be displayed by priority, the guide display control section allows the map guide image to be displayed by priority.