Patent ID: 8392061

Claim:
An information presentation apparatus for a vehicle comprising: an indicator mounted on the vehicle configured to present information indicating a direction; and a control unit configured to control presentation of the information by the indicator, wherein the control unit includes a vehicle information acquiring unit configured to acquire a current position of the vehicle and a reference direction of the vehicle; a target specifying unit configured to specify a target to be presented to an occupant of the vehicle; a target information acquiring unit configured to acquire a target position, the target position being a position where the target exists; a target angle calculating unit configured to calculate a target angle indicating a target direction against the reference direction based on the target position, the current position and the reference direction, the target direction being a direction in which the target exists; and a presentation command generating unit configured to generate a presentation command based on the calculated target angle, the indicator being to present information indicating the target direction according to the presentation command, wherein the vehicle information acquiring unit is further configured to acquire a velocity of the vehicle in addition to the current position and the reference direction, and the target angle calculating unit is further configured to estimate a position of the vehicle after a predefined time and a reference direction of the vehicle after the predefined time based on the current position, the reference direction and the velocity, and calculate a target angle after the predefined time based on the estimated position, the estimated reference direction and the target position.