Patent ID: 9291471
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G01C

Claim Text:
1. An in-vehicle information processing device comprising: a map database for storing map information; a traffic information database for storing traffic information; vehicle position determination means for calculating and determining a vehicle position; driving assist information extraction means for extracting driving assist information from said map information stored in said map database and said traffic information stored in said traffic information database; and a driving assist information database for storing said driving assist information extracted by said driving assist information extraction means, wherein said driving assist information extraction means includes travel route determination means for determining a vehicle travel route for said vehicle based on said vehicle position determined by said vehicle position determination means, and said driving assist information extraction means includes same event determination means for determining whether or not said map information and said traffic information express a same driving event, and when said same event determination means determines that a same driving event is not expressed, said driving assist information extraction means subsequently extracts from said driving assist information stored in said driving assist information database, said driving assist information from said map information and said traffic information for said vehicle travel route, and when said same event determination means determines that the same driving event is expressed, said driving assist information extraction means subsequently extracts said driving assist information only from said traffic information for said vehicle travel route; and further comprising: an out-of-route information extraction means for extracting, from said traffic information concerning a further vehicle travel route which is connected to said vehicle travel route via a connection point, said traffic information concerning a driving event that will reach said vehicle travel route within a predetermined time period if moving at a speed at that point of time, as said driving assist information in said connection point.