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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2008
Koji Sengoku, Minato-ku, JP;
Aiko Sugawara, Minato-ku, JP;
Tadafumi Nogawa, Minato-ku, JP;
Masayuki Arai, Wako, JP;
Yoshitaka Kinoshita, Wako, JP;
Koji Sengoku, Minato-ku, JP;
Aiko Sugawara, Minato-ku, JP;
Tadafumi Nogawa, Minato-ku, JP;
Masayuki Arai, Wako, JP;
Yoshitaka Kinoshita, Wako, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A navigation device and the like capable of harmonizing a navigation route for guiding a mobile body set on the basis of a support route search result by a navigation server and a navigation route for also guiding the mobile body set independently of the navigation route, from a view point of guiding the mobile body smoothly. In the case where the second navigation route ris set in the condition where the first navigation route ris set, the second navigation route ris set and output so as to include a part drof the first navigation route rwhich takes a position departing from the current position pof the automobileby a first distance d. Therefore, even in the case where the second navigation route ris set and output at the navigation deviceduring the time when the automobileis traveling according to the first navigation route routput at the navigation device, it is possible to guide the automobileaccording to the original first navigation route runtil the position departing from the current position pof the automobileby the first distance d. Therefore, it becomes possible to guide the automobilesmoothly to the destination position p, without forcing the automobileto perform abrupt behavior change.