Patent ID: 7436431

Claim:
A terminal apparatus, comprising: a position measuring means for measuring a present position of a car; an image pick-up means being able to pick up an image of a front or a rear of the car; a transmitting means for transmitting the image picked up by said image pick-up means, together with the position information, to an image information server for managing a database of image information being indicative of condition of a road; a receiver means for receiving image picked up by other terminal being mounted on other car from said image information server; a display means for displaying said image received thereon; and an input device which receives information indicating importance of the image picked up by the image pick-up means; wherein: a place or a timing of picking up an image by said image pick-up means is controlled from said image information server, if information indicating importance of the image picked up by the image pick-up means is received by the input device, the transmitter transmits notice information to the image information server so that the image information server distributes the image with priority.