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

Claim 0:
1. An in-vehicle apparatus, comprising:
an arrival place determination processing unit configured to determine, 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 unit configured to store, as parking information, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area;
a recommendation unit configured to refer to the parking information when the arrival place determination processing unit determines that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and outputs 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 unit configured to stores 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 unit configured to refer to the travel history when the vehicle exits the area, and estimates 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 unit outputs the exit link as information belonging to the guidance information on a condition that the route estimation unit has estimated a route to the exit link.