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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2010
Tomoyuki Zaitsu, Okazaki, JP;
Shinji Kachi, Okazaki, JP;
Kenji Nagase, Okazaki, JP;
Tsuyoshi Iwata, Nagoya, JP;
Takahisa Ozaki, Kariya, JP;
Masamiki Andoh, Kariya, JP;
Toshio Inoguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Kazunori Watanabe, Okazaki, JP;
Teruhide Hayashida, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Tomoyuki Zaitsu, Okazaki, JP;
Shinji Kachi, Okazaki, JP;
Kenji Nagase, Okazaki, JP;
Tsuyoshi Iwata, Nagoya, JP;
Takahisa Ozaki, Kariya, JP;
Masamiki Andoh, Kariya, JP;
Toshio Inoguchi, Nagoya, JP;
Kazunori Watanabe, Okazaki, JP;
Teruhide Hayashida, Shinagawa-ku, JP;
Aisin Aw Co., Ltd., Anjo, JP;
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
Conventionally, different traffic information cannot be sent in accordance with an output reason of a request to send. According to the present invention, a request to send traffic information, which is output in response to an instruction given by a user operation or an automatically given instruction, is acquired, an output reason of the request to send is determined, and a communication unit is controlled so that the traffic information on different areas is sent depending on the cases where the output reason is the instruction given by the user operation or the automatically given instruction.