Vehicle navigation system

Abstract

A vehicle navigation system capable of retrieving a route interconnecting a starting location and a destination by way of en route points, the starting location, destination, and en route points being set by a user, and displaying a retrieved route on a map display screen, the system including: an operation analysis section 21 for determining whether settings are made to display the entire route interconnecting the starting location and the destination by way of en route points or to display a route on a per-segment basis, such as a route segment interconnecting the starting location and one of the en route points, a route segment interconnecting en route points, or a route segment interconnecting one of the en route points and the destination; and a display control section 24 which extracts, from among the retrieved route segments, a route segment along which the vehicle is currently driving when the display determination device determines that a route is to be displayed on a per-segment basis, to thereby make the route segment distinguishable from the other route segments.

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