Patent ID: 7158879

Claim:
A navigation apparatus for guiding a movable object to a target position through provision of information to the movable object, comprising: a road traffic information recognition means for recognizing road traffic information based on communication with a road traffic information source; an actual travel information recognition means for recognizing actual travel information including a position of the movable object and a target position thereof; a route setup means for setting up plural routes for reaching the target position based on the road traffic information recognized by the road traffic information recognition means and the actual travel information recognized by the actual travel information recognition means; an actual route recognition means for recognizing, out of the plural routes set up by the route setup means, a route on which the movable object is actually traveling as an actual route based on the actual travel information recognized by the actual travel information recognition means; a virtual route recognition means for recognizing, out of the plural routes set up by the route setup means, a route that differs from the actual route as a virtual route; a virtual travel information recognition means for recognizing virtual travel information including a virtual position of the movable object on the virtual route based on the road traffic information recognized by the road traffic information recognition means; and a display means for displaying the actual travel information, the actual route, the virtual travel information and the virtual route.