Patent ID: 8666975

Claim:
A navigation device comprising: a database unit configured to access a facility database having information of a facility associated with a predetermined search category; a character input unit configured to input a character string; a facility searching unit configured to search a facility as a destination candidate from the facility database using the character string input from the character input unit as a search key; and a display unit configured to display the information of a facility found by the facility searching unit, wherein the facility searching unit is configured to: recognize a plurality of first search categories to which a first character string pertains and a plurality of second search categories to which a second character string pertains with reference to the facility database when the first character string and the second character string are input from the character input unit, define a combination of patterns of the plurality of first search categories to which the first character string pertains and the plurality of second search categories to which the second character string pertains, and assign a priority order to each of the combination of patterns, and perform a candidate facility searching process to search a facility as a destination candidate according to the priority order assigned to each of the combination of patterns by performing a first search with the first character string as a first search key in the plurality of first search categories and a second search with the second character string as a second search key in the plurality of second search categories according to each of the combination of patterns.