Patent Document ID: 9816829
Application ID: 14071861
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An in-vehicle navigation apparatus that provides guidance to a lane on which a user's vehicle should travel among a plurality of driving lanes on a guidance route, the in-vehicle navigation apparatus comprising: a navigation unit connected to a processor, further comprising a landmark information acquiring unit configured to acquire landmark information representing an object which serves as a landmark existing along the route within a landmark acquisition range, the landmark acquisition range defining a distance range spaced apart along the route from a specific point on a near side of the specific point between a point β set a certain distance short of the specific point and a point α spaced apart from the point β toward the specific point but spaced apart from the specific point, a lane among the plurality of driving lanes on the route on which the user's vehicle should travel being restricted at the specific point; and a lane guide unit configured to provide guidance, from a display by a display unit and/or an audio guide by a speaker, to the lane on which the user's vehicle should travel in association with the object represented by the landmark information acquired by the landmark information acquiring unit; wherein the lane guide unit includes a landmark display control unit that displays a mark corresponding to the object represented by the landmark information on a map that includes the guidance route and that is displayed on the display unit; and a lane guidance display control unit that displays lane guidance information leading the user's vehicle to the specific lane on which the user's vehicle should travel in association with the mark displayed on the display unit; and wherein the landmark acquisition range is set so as to be spaced apart from the specific point a greater distance with one of an increasing speed limit on the route to the specific point and increasing driving speed of the user's vehicle at a certain point on the near side of the specific point.