Patent ID: 9156480
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: B61L

Abstract:
1. An in-vehicle information providing apparatus that causes a plurality of display units installed in a vehicle to display a station facility image of a next station, the in-vehicle information providing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein a station-facility image management table in which station-facility image selection conditions including at least a station name, a traveling direction, and a door opening direction are associated with the station facility image, and a station-facility image database in which a plurality of station facility images corresponding to the station-facility image selection conditions are registered for each station; and an image-display control unit that selects, from the station-facility image database, the station facility image associated with the station-facility image selection conditions when train information acquired from a train information management apparatus matches with the station-facility image selection conditions, by referring to the station-facility image management table, and transmits the selected station facility image as station-facility image information to the respective display units.