Patent ID: 8305234

Claim:
A vehicular information provision apparatus comprising: a stop detector configured to detect a temporal stop of a vehicle that is having a travel; a display unit configured to display various information at a position that is viewable by occupants in the vehicle, the display unit being an in-vehicle display unit; an information database configured to memorize information organized as long time information and short time information; a control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of display contents in a manner that (a) information contents elected from the database are processed to conclude within a stop time of the temporal stop, the stop time being pre-determined from a stop start time, and (b) two successive contents of information differ from each other while the vehicle is standing at the temporal stop detected by the stop detector; and a personal information accumulation device configured to accumulate personal information that at least includes a personal hobby and an idea of a driver of the vehicle, wherein extraction of the information contents is performed according to the personal information of the driver, and the extracted information contents are then elected from the information database and are processed for viewing by the driver.