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Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2007
Applicants:

Jun Ozawa, Nara, JP;

Takashi Tajima, Osaka, JP;

Mototaka Yoshioka, Osaka, JP;

Takahiro Kudoh, Kyoto, JP;

Inventors:

Jun Ozawa, Nara, JP;

Takashi Tajima, Osaka, JP;

Mototaka Yoshioka, Osaka, JP;

Takahiro Kudoh, Kyoto, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

To provide a destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination more accurately than before. A destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination of a mobile object includes: a stay characteristic accumulating unit in which stay characteristic information indicating a time period when the mobile object will likely stay at a predetermined point is accumulated; a travel time calculating unit which calculates a travel time in the case where the mobile object heads from a current location obtained by a current point obtaining unit to the point; and a destination predicting unit which calculates an estimated arrival time based on a current time obtained by a current time obtaining unit and the calculated travel time and predicts the point as a destination only when a condition that the calculated estimated arrival time and a time period indicated by the stay characteristic information is satisfied.


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