Patent ID: 8054167
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. An onboard vehicle information notifying apparatus comprising: a moving body position acquiring section configured to acquire a moving body position for at least one moving body existing in a vicinity of a host vehicle equipped with the vehicle information notifying apparatus; an information acquiring section configured to acquire an advancement speed and an advancement direction of the host vehicle, and a prescribed movement speed of the moving body; an information providing zone setting section configured to set an information providing zone within which existence of the moving body should be reported, based on information acquired by the information acquiring section; an information notifying section configured to report the existence of the moving body when the position of the moving body acquired by the moving body position acquiring section exists within the information providing zone set by the information providing zone setting section; and a host vehicle position acquiring section configured to acquire vehicle position information indicating a position of the host vehicle, the moving body position acquiring section being configured to send the host vehicle position information acquired by the host vehicle position acquiring section to a remote information providing apparatus to acquire map information containing the position of the host vehicle and terminal position information transmitted from the moving body from the information providing apparatus, which created the map information.