Patent Document ID: 8666593
Application ID: 12148805
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A travel information collection apparatus equipped in a self vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a position detector configured to determine a current position of the self vehicle and a traveling road section; a storage control unit configured to store, in a storage unit, travel information of only the self vehicle collected for each of road sections along a travel of the self vehicle; and a database building unit configured to build a learn database of the travel information of only the self vehicle, the learn database having a plurality of time slot categories according to characteristics of traffic information acquired from a traffic information database of an information center that is external to the self vehicle, the characteristics of the traffic information being representative of traffic flow of a specific road section, the storage control unit is configured to provide the travel information of only the self vehicle to the database building unit according to the plurality of time slot categories of the learn database.