Alarm Device

• US 20080062008A1
• Filed: 06/22/2005
• Published: 03/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hamada, Hiroyuki, Kuwabara, Takashi, Morimoto, Akihiro, Nagashima, Kazumasa
• Application Number:
  US11/572,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20080062008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/936
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers

Abstract

An alarm device comprises a motion detector for detecting a motion of a vehicle, a display located in the vehicle, and adapted to display an image on a screen, and a controller for controlling, on the basis of the motion of the vehicle detected by the motion detector, a display mode in which the image is displayed on the screen by the display.

Claims

1. An alarm device, comprising:

motion detecting means for detecting a motion of a vehicle;

displaying means to be provided in said vehicle, and adapted to display an image on a screen; and

controlling means for controlling, on the basis of said motion of said vehicle detected by said motion detecting means, a display mode in which said image is displayed on said screen by said displaying means.

2. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, which further comprises acceleration detecting means for detecting an acceleration of said vehicle, and in which said motion detecting means is adapted to detect said motion of said vehicle on the basis of said acceleration detected by said acceleration detecting means.

3. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, in which said motion detecting means is adapted to detect said motion of said vehicle by detecting how said vehicle is being operated by a driver.

4. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, which further comprises image taking means for taking an image of an object near or ahead of said vehicle, and in which

said motion detecting means is adapted to detect said motion of said vehicle on the basis of said image taken and outputted by said image taking means.

5. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, which further comprises navigation means for producing support information to support a driver in driving to a destination through an optimum travel route, and in which

said motion detecting means is adapted to detect said motion of said vehicle on the basis of travel route information produced by said navigation means.

6. The alarm device as set forth in claim 5, in which said controlling means is adapted to have said displaying means display, on a subsidiary screen forming part of said screen, said travel route information produced by said navigation means.

7. The alarm device as set forth in claim 6, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of a position of a vehicle occupant sitting on a seat in said vehicle, an on-screen position in said subsidiary screen and/or an image to be displayed on said subsidiary screen.

8. The alarm device as set forth in claim 6, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of said motion of said vehicle detected by said motion detecting means, one or more of a size, an on-screen position, a transmission factor, and an image to be displayed on said subsidiary screen.

9. The alarm device as set forth in claim 8, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of a position of a vehicle occupant sitting on a seat in said vehicle, an on-screen position in said subsidiary screen and/or an image to be displayed on said subsidiary screen.

10. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of said motion of said vehicle detected by said motion detecting means, one or more of a shape and a size of said image displayed on said screen by said displaying means.

11. The alarm device as set forth in claim 10, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of a position of a vehicle occupant sitting on a seat in said vehicle, said shape of said image displayed on said screen.

12. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, which further comprises additional information producing means for producing additional information related to said motion of said vehicle detected by said motion detecting means, and in which

said displaying means is adapted to displaying, on said subsidiary screen, said additional information produced by said additional information producing means by superimposing, on said image to be displayed on said screen, said additional information produced by said additional information producing means.

13. The alarm device as set forth in claim 11, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of said motion of said vehicle detected by said motion detecting means, one or more of a shape, a size, an on-screen position, and a transmission factor of said additional information.

14. The alarm device as set forth in claim 13, in which said controlling means is adapted to change, on the basis of one or more position of vehicle occupants, one or more of said shape and said on-screen position of said additional information.

15. The alarm device as set forth in claim 1, which further comprises setting means for setting control information on a display mode in which said image is displayed on said screen by said displaying means, and in which

said controlling means is adapted to control said displaying means on the basis of control information on said display mode set by said setting means.

16. A vehicle comprising The alarm device as set forth in claim 1.