Patent Document ID: 20160231135
Application ID: 15027497
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A movement support apparatus that supports movement of a moving body by causing an audio output device that moves with said moving body to vocally output an announcement of a landmark object, the movement support apparatus comprising: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, results in performance of steps comprising, obtaining map information; obtaining a position of said moving body; obtaining a destination of said moving body; obtaining a route to said destination retrieved based on said map information, the position of said moving body and the destination of said moving body; obtaining environment information related to an environment of an outside of said moving body by the time when said moving body arrives at a guidance given point that corresponds to said route and at which said vocal output is given and causing said audio output device to selectively vocally output one of a name and a feature of said landmark object based on said environment information at said guidance given point, wherein said environment information includes at least one of a brightness of the outside of said moving body, information indicating a weather of the outside of said moving body, information obtained by a vehicle front image obtaining unit or a radar, for identifying whether or not there is a visual obstacle in front of said moving body, and a language that is a target for which it is determined whether or not the target matches a language set to said movement support apparatus, and that is used in an area corresponding to the position of said moving body.