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

Claim 4:
5. 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 storing step of using a departure place/destination table to store one or more departure points when the vehicle enters the area, one or more destination points when the vehicle parks in the area, and a number of times that the vehicle traveled on a route connecting the departure point and the destination point, for each of the routes; and
a destination estimation step of referring to the departure place/destination table based on information of a point that the vehicle entered the area when it is determined in the arrival place determination processing step that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and estimating the destination point belonging to a route in which the number of times that the vehicle traveled on a route connecting the departure point and the destination point is most frequent as the vehicle's destination within the area,
wherein, in the recommendation step, the destination point estimated as the vehicle's destination within the area is output as information belonging to the guidance information.