Apparatus providing information of a vehicle's surroundings
First Claim
1. An apparatus for providing information about situations around a vehicle to a user in the vehicle, the apparatus being mounted in the vehicle and comprising:
- a situation information providing unit configured to detect an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and provide information about the detected occurrence to the user;
a failure detecting unit configured to detect a failure in each of the sensors; and
a warning unit configured to calculate the situation whose occurrence cannot be detected normally by the situation information providing unit due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure detecting unit detects the failure in a sensor, and warn the user that an occurrence of the calculated situation cannot be detected normally.
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Abstract
In an apparatus for providing information about a vehicle'"'"'s surroundings, if failure in a sensor occurs, a warning fault calculating unit registers “fault” in the entry of a warning type influenced by the failure in the sensor and generates a message warning that an operation fault has occurred in the warning type due to the failure. A warning generating unit determines whether the vehicle is in a state in which a warning the warning type should be generated on the basis of sensor information received from a sensor information processing unit. If the warning should be generated, the warning generating unit transmits a warning of the warning type to a warning output control unit. The warning generating unit does not transmit a warning of the warning type if the fault status of the warning type is “fault”.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus for providing information about situations around a vehicle to a user in the vehicle, the apparatus being mounted in the vehicle and comprising:
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a situation information providing unit configured to detect an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and provide information about the detected occurrence to the user;
a failure detecting unit configured to detect a failure in each of the sensors; and
a warning unit configured to calculate the situation whose occurrence cannot be detected normally by the situation information providing unit due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure detecting unit detects the failure in a sensor, and warn the user that an occurrence of the calculated situation cannot be detected normally. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An apparatus for providing information about situations around a vehicle to a user in the vehicle, the apparatus being mounted in the vehicle and comprising:
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a situation information providing unit configured to detect an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and provide information about the detected occurrence to the user;
a failure detecting unit configured to detect a failure in each of the sensors; and
a warning unit configured to calculate the situation in which the reliability of detection of an occurrence by the situation information providing unit decreased due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure detecting unit detects the failure in the sensor, and warn the user that the reliability of detection of an occurrence of the calculated situation decreased. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for providing information about situations around a vehicle to a user in the vehicle, the method comprising:
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detecting an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and providing information about the detected occurrence to the user;
detecting the existence of a failure in each of the sensors; and
calculating the situation whose occurrence cannot be detected normally due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure in a sensor is detected, and warning the user that an occurrence of the calculated situation cannot be detected normally. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. A method for providing information about situations around a vehicle to a user in the vehicle, the method comprising:
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detecting an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and providing information about the detected occurrence to the user;
detecting the existence of a failure in each of the sensors; and
calculating the situation in which the reliability of detection of an occurrence decreased due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure in the sensor is detected, and warning the user that the reliability of detection of an occurrence of the calculated situation decreased. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer program to be read and executed by a computer, the computer program controlling the computer mounted in a vehicle to function as:
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a situation information providing unit configured to detect an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and provide information about the detected occurrence to a user;
a failure detecting unit configured to detect a failure in each of the sensors; and
a warning unit configured to calculate the situation whose occurrence cannot be detected normally by the situation information providing unit due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure detecting unit detects the failure in a sensor, and warn the user that an occurrence of the calculated situation cannot be detected normally.
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20. A computer program to be read and executed by a computer, the computer program controlling the computer mounted in a vehicle to function as:
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a situation information providing unit configured to detect an occurrence of each of a plurality of predetermined situations around the vehicle on the basis of output from a plurality of sensors and provide information about the detected occurrence to the user;
a failure detecting unit configured to detect a failure in each of the sensors; and
a warning unit configured to calculate the situation in which the reliability of detection of an occurrence by the situation information providing unit decreased due to a failure in any of the sensors when the failure detecting unit detects the failure in the sensor, and warn the user that the reliability of detection of an occurrence of the calculated situation decreased.
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