Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140015693 | REAR CROSS TRAFFIC ALERT DEVICE - Provided is a rear cross traffic alert device that allows a driver to understand that notification of the presence of an object (another vehicle, etc.) in an area directly behind the vehicle cannot be notified. The rear cross traffic alert device provided on a vehicle includes: an object detection section configured to detect the presence of an object laterally behind the vehicle; a movement determination section configured to determine whether or not the object has entered a predetermined area in a detection area in which the object detection section can detect the presence of the object; and a notification control section configured to stop notification when the movement determination section has determined that the object has entered the predetermined area. | 01-16-2014 |
20140028451 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY ALERT DEVICE - A vehicle periphery alert device is installed in a vehicle that operates when the vehicle starts to reverse from a parked state. The vehicle periphery alert device includes a detecting unit configured to detect a position and a movement direction of another vehicle behind the vehicle; an alert operation activating unit configured to perform a predetermined alert operation in the vehicle; and a control unit configured to set a virtual alert area behind the vehicle according to an angle formed by a movement direction of the vehicle and the movement direction of the another vehicle, and to activate the alert operation activating unit when a condition, including that the position of the another vehicle is in the alert area that has been set, is satisfied. | 01-30-2014 |
20140044311 | NEIGHBORING VEHICLE DETECTING APPARATUS - A neighboring vehicle detecting device according to the invention includes: a neighboring vehicle detecting part configured to detect a neighboring vehicle behind an own vehicle; a curved road detecting part configured to detect information related to a curvature radius of a curved road; a storing part configured to store a detection result of the curved road detecting part; and a processing part configured to set a detection target region behind the own vehicle based on the detection result of the curved road detecting part which is stored in the storing part and is related to the curved road behind the own vehicle, wherein the processing part detects the neighboring vehicle behind the own vehicle based on a detection result in the set detection target region by the neighboring vehicle detecting part, the neighboring vehicle traveling on a particular lane which has a predetermined relationship with a traveling lane of the own vehicle. | 02-13-2014 |
20140121938 | WARNING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A warning device for a vehicle to start a warning at an optimum timing depending on a position at which an object passes near the vehicle. The warning device has a warning part for warning a driver of a presence of the object that will pass near the vehicle. The warning device has a timing changing part for changing a timing of starting the warning via the warning part according to a size of an allowance space from the vehicle to an expected passing position at which the object is expected to pass near the vehicle. | 05-01-2014 |
20140354450 | WARNING DEVICE - A purpose of the present invention is to provide a warning device, usability of which is improved. | 12-04-2014 |
20150116102 | VEHICLE WARNING DEVICE - A warning control device is provided with a detection device for detecting a mobile body moving in a direction intersecting with the path of the host vehicle. The warning control device performs a warning operation when the host vehicle and the mobile body approach each other. The warning control device calculates the intersecting distance, which is the distance to the host vehicle from a predicted intersecting position between the path of the host vehicle and the path of the mobile body. The shorter the calculated intersecting distance, the earlier becomes the timing of the warning operation executed by the warning control device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150175063 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY ALERT DEVICE - Means to Solve the Problem | 06-25-2015 |
20150298611 | WARNING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - When a warning is generated for a driver of a host vehicle based on approach information about a moving object, a selection between a first warning method and a second warning method is determined in accordance with the moving direction of the moving object with respect to the host vehicle. In the first warning method, a predicted collision time, which is the predicted amount of time before the moving object will collide with the host vehicle, is calculated based on the approach information, and the driver is warned only when the predicted collision time is less than a threshold value. In the second warning method, the distance between the moving object and the host vehicle is obtained as the approach information, and the driver is warned only when that distance is a value that corresponds to a value within a warning range. | 10-22-2015 |