Patent ID: 7809502

Claim:
A vehicle-mounted onboard information providing apparatus for providing information to a user of the vehicle, comprising: a current location acquisition unit for acquiring a current location; an instruction input unit inputting a destination and inputting instructions for selecting categories of the information to be delivered as types of content to be provided as selected type of content for each of plural sections of a route retrieved between a current location and a destination; a control unit for editing the selected type of content retrieved based on the instructions to provide edited content; and an output unit for outputting the edited content; wherein the control unit: determines for each said section of the route, based on attribute information assigned to each said section of the route included in results of retrieving the route from the current location to the destination, whether selected content is outputted or not outputted and provides a determination of whether the selected content is outputted or not outputted for each said section; creates, based on results of the determination, an editing list including a required time for passing through each said section in which the selected content is outputted; edits the selected content to be outputted as edited content in each said section so that a time difference between a required time for each said section in which the selected content is outputted and an output time of the selected content to be outputted is equal to or smaller than a predetermined time value; and creates an edited content list for each said section in which said selected content is outputted based on the edited content.