Patent ID: 8548643

Claim:
An information providing device for a vehicle for providing to an occupant of a subject vehicle information about a moving object that has a possibility of coming close to the subject vehicle on a path of the subject vehicle by carrying out intercommunication between the subject vehicle and a base station, the subject vehicle comprising: a subject vehicle information detection device for detecting subject vehicle information including a position, speed of travel, and direction of travel of the subject vehicle, a moving object detection device for detecting the moving object that is present in an area around the subject vehicle, a moving object information calculation device for calculating moving object information including the position, speed of travel, and direction of travel of the moving object based on detection results of the moving object detection device and the subject vehicle information, a first transmitting device for transmitting to the base station the subject vehicle information, the moving object information, and the time at which the information has been obtained, a first receiving device for receiving a signal from the base station, and an information providing device for presenting information to an occupant; and the base station comprising: a second receiving device for receiving a signal transmitted by the first transmitting device, a base station side map data storage device for storing map data, a moving object probability of presence calculation device for calculating the probability of a moving object being present on the map data based on the moving object information and the time information obtained by the second receiving device, and a second transmitting device for transmitting to the subject vehicle prediction information about the moving object present within a predetermined range that includes the subject vehicle position based on the subject vehicle position and the probability of the moving object being present obtained by the second receiving device, wherein the information providing device presents information to the occupant based on the subject vehicle position and the prediction information received by the first receiving device.