Patent ID: 7885218
Filing Date: 2011-02-08
Classification: G07B

Abstract:
1. An on-vehicle information terminal that is mounted on a vehicle and conducts communication with a base station located on a road, comprising; a transceiver which communicates with the base station; data output processor which converts data received by the transceiver from the base station into voice data or image data as output data, and outputs the output data; and a priority table for storing information on categories each representative of a type of data, the information being added to the data and transmitted from the base station, and priorities for determining an order in which the data output processor outputs the data, such that the information and the priorities are associated with each other, wherein the priorities in the priority table are variable, and wherein the on-vehicle information terminal further comprises: first elapsed time measuring processor which measures an elapsed time since the transceiver received the data as a first elapsed time; first coefficient storage unit which stores a first predetermined coefficient every first elapsed time; and first priority correcting means processor which extracts the first predetermined coefficient from the first coefficient storage unit based on the first elapsed time measured by the first elapsed time measuring processor and assigns an updated first priority with a value obtained by multiplying the value of a first priority in the priority table by the first predetermined coefficient.