Patent ID: 11859993
Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A processing method of an in-vehicle apparatus, comprising:
an arrival place determination processing step of determining, based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist;
a parking information storage step of storing, as parking information, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area;
a recommendation step of referring to the parking information when it is determined in the arrival place determination processing step that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and outputting guidance information as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area;
a travel history storage step of storing one or more entry links indicating a link when the vehicle enters the area, one or more exit links indicating a link when the vehicle exits the area, and a number of times that the vehicle traveled on a route connecting the entry link and the exit link, as a travel history, for each of the routes; and
a route estimation step of referring to the travel history when the vehicle exits the area, and estimating a route in which the number of times is most frequent and which is a route from a parking position of the vehicle to the exit link,
wherein, the recommendation step, the exit link is output as information belonging to the guidance information on a condition that a route to the exit link has been estimated in the route estimation step.