Patent ID: 7482913

Claim:
A vehicle information processing apparatus for processing vehicle information relating to a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of vehicle information obtaining devices that obtain vehicle information and transmitting, as a signal, the obtained vehicle information together with an ID at regular intervals, said ID being unique to each of the vehicle information obtaining devices; a controller that receives the vehicle information from each of the vehicle information obtaining devices and processes that vehicle information; and a power supply which supplies power to the controller, wherein the controller: performs a predetermined verification based on the signal transmitted at regular intervals from each of the vehicle information obtaining devices upon receiving a command to shift into a verification mode while power is being supplied from the power supply; and, after the command to shift into the verification mode is received by the controller, the controller performs a comparison with respect to a number of times supply of power to the controller was stopped or started, and the controller remains in the verification mode until the number of times that the supply of power to the controller was stopped or started exceeds a predetermined value.