Patent ID: 8188893

Claim:
An onboard vehicle information notifying apparatus comprising: a moving body position acquiring section configured to acquire a moving body position for at least one moving body existing in a vicinity of a host vehicle equipped with the vehicle information notifying apparatus, the moving body position acquiring section being further configured to acquire map information of the vicinity of the host vehicle, the map information being divided into a plurality of unit regions and each of the unit regions being indicated as a notification necessary region upon determination the moving body exists in the unit region; an information acquiring section configured to acquire an advancement speed and an advancement direction of the host vehicle, and a prescribed movement speed of the moving body; an information providing zone setting section configured to set an information providing zone within which existence of the moving body should be reported, based on information acquired by the information acquiring section; and an information notifying section configured to report the existence of the moving body upon determination that the position of the moving body acquired by the moving body position acquiring section exists in one of the unit regions that is indicated as the notification necessary region and upon determination that the information providing zone set by the information providing zone setting section overlaps with the notification necessary region acquired by the moving body position acquiring section, the information providing zone setting section being configured to set the information providing zone to exclude a zone in which a road does not branch from an intersection, upon determining the intersection exists in the advancement direction of the host vehicle.