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Navigation apparatus, method, and program

  • US 20080027640A1
  • Filed: 07/20/2007
  • Published: 01/31/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A navigation apparatus for providing guidance to a vehicle user, comprising:

  • a memory that stores map/road data including information on parking lots;

    a sensor unit that provides position information on a position of the vehicle;

    an output unit that outputs guidance information; and

    a controller that;

    processes the position information and the map/road data to generate guidance information;

    make a first determination whether the vehicle enters a first threshold area around a target destination;

    makes, in response to the first determination, a second determination that the vehicle has not been parked before a parking notification output condition is fulfilled; and

    outputs parking notification information on the output unit in response to the second determination.

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