Patent ID: 8521425

Claim:
A position registering apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object; a destination setting unit that sets at least one set destination; a position identifying unit that identifies a first position of the mobile object, based on the traveling state information and map information, to be on a road, and thereafter identifies a second position of the mobile object to be off the road after identifying that the first position of the mobile object is on the road; a parking determining unit that, after the first position of the mobile object has been identified to be on the road and then the second position of the mobile object has been identified to be off the road, determines that the mobile object is parked off the road, after being on the road, within a predetermined range from the set destination; and a registering unit that, after (i) the first position of the mobile object is identified to be on the road, (ii) the second position of the mobile object is identified to be off the road after identifying that the first position of the mobile object is on the road, and (iii) the mobile object is determined to be parked off the road, starts to register into a storage unit a first deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the set destination, the registering unit being configured to register a second deviation point different from the first deviation point as a second entrance point to the parking lot for the same set destination to thereby register, into the storage unit, a plurality of the entrance points for each of at least one set destination.