Patent ID: 8108100

Claim:
An information processing apparatus in a vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a present time specification section configured to specify a present time; a light information acquisition section configured to acquire light information on lighting state of a head light of the vehicle; a position information acquisition section configured to acquire position information for specifying a position where the vehicle presently exists; a calculation section configured to calculate a sunset time in a position specified based on the position information acquired by the position acquisition section when it is determined that the head light of the vehicle is switched from a light-off state to a light-on state based on the light information acquired by the light information acquisition section; a lighting-on time specification section configured to specify a lighting-on time when the head light of the vehicle is switched from the light-off state to the light-on state based on the present time specified by the present time specification section and the light information acquired by the light information acquisition section; and an evaluation information storage section configured to store the lighting-on time specified by the lighting-on time specification section and the sunset time calculated by the calculation section, in association with each other.