Vehicle Surroundings Information Output System and Method For Outputting Vehicle Surroundings Information
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Abstract
A vehicle surroundings information output system includes a vehicle surroundings information obtaining mechanism obtaining information about the vehicle surroundings, an object detector detecting an object around the vehicle based on the obtained vehicle surroundings information, an outputting mechanism outputting information relating to the detected object, a detection reliability determining mechanism determining the detected detection reliability of the detected object, and a notifying information generator generating notifying information that relates to that object according to the detection reliability. The notifying information generator is structured to generate notify information that does not easily stimulate at least one of the five senses of a driver when the detection reliability of the object is low as compared to when that detection reliability is high.
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24 Claims
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1-13. -13. (canceled)
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14. A vehicle surroundings information output system comprising
a vehicle surroundings information obtaining device that obtains information about the vehicle surroundings; -
an object detecting device that detects an object around the vehicle based on the vehicle surroundings information obtained rom the vehicle surroundings information obtaining device, an output device that outputs information relating to the object detected by the object detecting device; a detection reliability determining device that determines a detection reliability of the object detected by the object detecting device; and a notifying information generating device that generates notifying information that does not easily stimulate at least one of the five senses of a driver when the detection reliability of the object is low as compared to when the detection reliability is high. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21)
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18. The vehicle surroundings information output system according to clair 14, wherein the notifying information generating means generates notifying information that changes a luminance of the object displayed by the output device according to a level of the detection reliability of the object.
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22. A vehicle surroundings information output system comprising:
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a vehicle surroundings information obtaining device that obtains information about the vehicle surroundings; an object detecting device that detects an object around the vehicle based on the vehicle surroundings information obtained from the vehicle surroundings information obtaining device, an output device that outputs information relating to the object detected by the object detecting device; a detection reliability determining device that determines a detection reliability of the object detected by the object detecting device; and a notifying information generating device that generates notifying information that increasingly stimulates at least one of the five senses of a driver the higher the detection reliability determined by the detection reliability determining device.
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23. A method for outputting vehicle surroundings information, comprising:
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obtaining information about the vehicle surroundings; detecting information relating to an object around the vehicle based on the obtained vehicle surroundings information; outputting the detected information relating the object; determining a reliability of the detected information relating to the object; and generating notifying information that does not easily stimulate at least one of the five senses of a driver when that reliability is low as compared to when that reliability is high.
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24. A method for outputting vehicle surroundings information, comprising:
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obtaining information about the vehicle surroundings; detecting information relating to an object around the vehicle based on an obtained vehicle surroundings information; outputting the detected information relating to the object; determining a reliability of the detected information relating to detected object; and generating notifying information that stimulates at least one of the five senses of a driver more strongly, as the reliability is higher.
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