Patent ID: 6097313
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
An information exchange system comprising:a vehicle-mounted unit mounted on a vehicle;a road-side unit providing information to said vehicle-mounted unit using a road-vehicle radio communication;said vehicle-mounted unit including receiving means for receiving information transmitted from said road-side unit through a radio communication and transferring means for transferring at least a part of a content of the received information to a vehicular occupant;said road-side unit including storage means for storing information to be transmitted to said vehicle-mounted unit and transmitting means for transmitting information to said vehicle-mounted unit through the radio communication;said storage means of said road-side unit for storing at least information relating to a service provider where a service is provided at the location thereof;said road-side unit further including editing means for editing information stored in said storage means on the basis of a relative position between said service provider and a communication region of said transmitting means and generating an edited information to be transmitted from said transmitting means;said vehicle-mounted unit further including setting means for permitting said vehicular occupant to set information and second transmitting means for transmitting the set information to said road-side unit through the radio communication;said road-side unit further including second receiving means for receiving information transmitted from said vehicle-mounted unit through the radio communication and parsing means for parsing the received information; andsaid editing means of said road-side unit performs editing process by using at least one of said relative position and a result of parsing by said parsing means.