Navigation apparatus, navigation method, and navigation program

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8874368
APP PUB NO 20120310526A1
SERIAL NO

13430324

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To improve accuracy of determining whether route elements stored as a history are route elements familiar to the user, a navigation apparatus 100 includes: a passage history storage unit 9a that stores a history of route elements passed in the past; a memory cost determination unit 84 that determines memory costs indicative of how less likely a user still has in mind the route elements stored in the passage history storage unit 9a based on the history stored in the passage history storage unit 9a; a route search unit 85 that searches for a route leading to a destination by combining the route elements to minimize a route cost of the entire route including the memory costs determined by the memory cost determination unit 84; and a navigation unit 86 that performs a route guide in accordance with the route searched by the route search unit 85.

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  • DENSO CORPORATION;DENSO IT LABORATORY, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Mizuno, Nobuhiro Tokyo, JP 22 403
Shimizu, Yasuhiro Kariya, JP 169 1802

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