In-vehicle communication device

Abstract

To obtain an in-vehicle communication device which can avoid tightness or congestion of communication in the environment in which there coexist vehicle-to-vehicle and road-to-vehicle communication. Information of an own vehicle is periodically wirelessly transmitted by a wireless transmission section, and also, information wirelessly transmitted from a roadside device is received by a wireless reception section, via the road-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, wherein a configuration is such that when the information transmitted from the roadside device is received by the wireless reception section, information on an own vehicle is extracted from the received information by an own vehicle information extraction section, and that when the information on the own vehicle is extracted by the own vehicle information extraction section, the periodical transmission of the information on the own vehicle from the wireless transmission section is stopped.

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