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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2005
Tsuyoshi Kindo, Osaka, JP;
Tsuyoshi Kindo, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention solves problems to provide an in-vehicle information processing device that is equipped in a vehicle to perform communications wirelessly and has a function as a communication terminal for transmitting and receiving information without an access point to form an ad-hoc wireless communication network, the device comprising: a road shape storage unitoperable to store road shape data of a road leading to a driver's destination; a propagation path derivation unitoperable to derive propagation path data from information received by a driver's vehicle, using position data of another vehicle from which the information is propagated; a determination unitoperable to determine whether or not the propagation path data matches the road shape data, and to generate match information in a case that the propagation path data matches the road shape data; and a notification unitoperable to notify the driver of the received information in a case that the match information is generated.