Navigation device

Abstract

A navigation device includes: a map database 5 that holds map data; a location and direction measurement unit 4 that measures the current location and direction of a vehicle; a road data acquisition unit that 16 that acquires, from the map database, map data of the surroundings of the location measured by the location and direction measurement unit, and that gathers road data from the map data; a camera 7 that captures video images ahead of the vehicle; a video image acquisition unit 8 that acquires the video images ahead of the vehicle captured by the camera; a video image composition processing unit 14 that creates a video image in which a picture of a road denoted by road data gathered by the road data acquisition unit is superimposed on the video image acquired by the video image acquisition unit; and a display unit 10 that displays the video image created by the video image composition processing unit.

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