VEHICLE-MOUNTED ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20110257880A1
• Filed: 12/21/2009
• Published: 10/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SANYO Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: SANYO Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation), Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kajitani, Takashi, Watanabe, Ryo
• Application Number:
  US13/142,174
• Publication Number:
  US 20110257880A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/33 of global position, e.g. by providing GPS coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3461 Preferred or disfavoured areas, e.g. dangerous zones, toll or emission zones, intersections, manoeuvre types, segments such as motorways, toll roads, ferries

Abstract

A vehicle-mounted electronic device according to the present invention includes: an input portion through which a destination is specified; an incident-prone area storage portion in which incident-prone area data is stored; an alarm notification portion; and a control portion, in which an incidence of incidents in each area or an incidence of incidents in each facility in each area is stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and, when an incidence of incidents in an area where the specified destination is located or an incidence of incidents in a facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion provide an alarm notification.

Claims

1. A vehicle-mounted electronic device comprising:

an input portion through which a destination is specified;

an incident-prone area storage portion in which incident-prone area data is stored;

an alarm notification portion; and

a control portion,

wherein an incidence of incidents in each area or an incidence of incidents in each facility in each area is stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and, when an incidence of incidents in an area where the specified destination is located or an incidence of incidents in a facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion provide an alarm notification.

2. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein, when the incidence of incidents in the facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the control portion searches for, as an alternative destination, a facility which is located around the specified destination, in which an incidence of incidents is less than the predetermined value and which is of a same type.

3. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 2,

wherein, when the alternative destination is found, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion perform guiding to the alternative destination or sets the alternative destination at a new destination whereas, when the alternative destination is not found, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion issue a warning to give attention.

4. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 2,

wherein the control portion searches for, as the alternative destination, a facility that is the nearest to the specified destination.

5. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein the predetermined value can be changed through the input portion.

6. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein incidences of incidents in a plurality of time periods of day in each area are stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, the control portion calculates an estimated time or an estimated time period of day when the specified destination is reached and, when an incidence of incidents in the calculated time or the calculated time period of day in an area where the specified destination is located is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion issue a warning to give attention.

7. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein incidences of incidents in a plurality of time periods of day in each facility in each area are stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, the control portion calculates an estimated time or an estimated time period of day when the specified destination is reached and, when an incidence of incidents in the calculated time or the calculated time period of day in the specified destination is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the control portion searches for, as an alternative destination, a facility which is located around the specified destination, in which the incidence of incidents in the time or the time period of day is less than the predetermined value and which is of a same type.

8. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 7,

wherein, when the appropriate alternative destination is found, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion perform guiding to the alternative destination whereas, when the appropriate alternative destination is not found, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion issue a warning to give attention.

9. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 7,

wherein the control portion searches for, as the alternative destination, a facility that is the nearest to the specified destination.

10. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 6,

wherein the predetermined value can be changed through the input portion.

11. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein a type of incident in each area and an incidence of incidents in the type of incident and warning statements corresponding to a plurality of types of incident are stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and, when an incidence of incidents in an area where the specified destination is located is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the control portion selects a warning statement corresponding to a type of incident in the area, and makes the alarm notification portion issue a warning to give attention.

12. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein a type of incident in each facility in each area and an incidence of incidents in the type of incident and warning statements corresponding to a plurality of types of incident are stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and, when an incidence of incidents in a facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the control portion selects a warning statement corresponding to a type of incident in the area, and makes the alarm notification portion issue a warning to give attention.

13. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 11,

wherein the types of incident include at least theft of a vehicle and theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device, and a warning statement for each of the theft of a vehicle and the theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device is stored in the incident-prone area storage portion.

14. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 12,

wherein, when the incidence of incidents in the facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, the control portion searches for, as an alternative destination, a facility which is located around the specified destination, in which the incidence of incidents is less than the predetermined value and which is of a same type.

15. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 14,

wherein, when the appropriate alternative destination is found, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion perform guiding to the alternative destination whereas, when the appropriate alternative destination is not found, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion issue a warning to give attention.

16. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 11,

wherein the predetermined value can be changed through the input portion.

17. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein types of incident including at least theft of a vehicle and theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device in each area and incidences of incidents in the types of incident and warning statements corresponding to the types of incident are stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and

when an incidence of incidents in an area where the specified destination is located is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, if the type of incident is the theft of a vehicle, the control portion searches for an area which is around an area where the specified destination is located and in which an incidence of incidents in the type of incident is less than the predetermined value and makes the alarm notification portion perform guiding to the area in which the incidence of incidents is less than the predetermined value whereas, if the type of incident is the theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device, the control portion selects a warning statement corresponding to the type of incident and makes the alarm notification portion issue the selected warning statement.

18. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 1,

wherein types of incident including at least theft of a vehicle and theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device in each facility in each area and incidences of incidents in the types of incident and warning statements corresponding to the types of incident are stored in the incident-prone area storage portion, and,

when an incidence of incidents in a facility that is the specified destination is equal to or greater than the predetermined value, if the type of incident is the theft of a vehicle, the control portion searches for, as an alternative destination, a facility which is located around the facility that is the specified destination, in which an incidence of incidents in the type of incident is less than the predetermined value and which is of a same type and makes the alarm notification portion perform guiding to the facility in which the incidence of incidents is less than the predetermined value and which is of the same type whereas, if the type of incident is the theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device, the control portion selects a warning statement corresponding to the type of incident and makes the alarm notification portion issue the selected warning statement.

19. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 18,

wherein, when the appropriate alternative destination is found by the searching, the control portion makes the alarm notification portion perform guiding to the alternative destination whereas, when the appropriate alternative destination is not found, the control portion selects a warning statement corresponding to the type of incident and makes the alarm notification portion issue the selected warning statement.

20. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 18,

wherein the control portion searches for, as the alternative destination, a facility that is the nearest to the specified destination.

21. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 18,

wherein the control portion displays a list of the facilities of the same type on a display portion, and sets at a destination a facility that is selected by the input portion from the facilities of the same type displayed on the display portion.

22. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 17,

wherein, when the type of incident is the theft of a vehicle-mounted electronic device, the control portion selects a warning statement corresponding to the type of incident and makes the alarm notification portion issue the selected warning statement when a vehicle reaches the destination.

23. The vehicle-mounted electronic device of claim 17,

wherein the predetermined value can be changed through the input portion.