VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THIS VEHICLE-MOUNTED COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PEDESTRIANS AND NAVIGATION DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THIS COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR PEDESTRIANS, AND PEDESTRIAN-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
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Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted communication device that carries out radio communications with a communication device for pedestrians which is carried by a pedestrian, the vehicle-mounted communication device including: a receiver that receives pedestrian information showing whether the pedestrian belongs to a pedestrian group formed of the pedestrian and a plurality of pedestrians in the vicinity of the pedestrian from the communication device for pedestrians; a controller that judges the pedestrian information received by the receiver and issues a command to present pedestrian attention information when the pedestrian information shows that the pedestrian does not belong to a pedestrian group; and an information outputter that presents the pedestrian attention information according to the command from the controller. Therefore, the vehicle-mounted communication device enables the driver to certainly recognize the existence of a pedestrian not belonging to a pedestrian group.
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39 Claims
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21. A vehicle-mounted communication device that carries out radio communications with a communication device for pedestrians which is carried by a pedestrian, said vehicle-mounted communication device comprising:
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a receiver that receives pedestrian information showing whether said pedestrian belongs to a pedestrian group formed of said pedestrian and a plurality of pedestrians in a vicinity of said pedestrian from said communication device for pedestrians; a controller that judges said pedestrian information received by said receiver, and issues a command to present pedestrian attention information and also issues a command to transmit vehicle approach information showing that said vehicle is approaching when said pedestrian information shows that said pedestrian does not belong to a pedestrian group; an information outputter that presents said pedestrian attention information according to the command from said controller; and a transmitter that transmits said vehicle approach information to a communication device for pedestrians carried by a pedestrian not belonging to said pedestrian group according to the command from said controller. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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25. A communication device for pedestrians that carries out radio communications with a vehicle-mounted communication device mounted in a vehicle, and that is carried by a pedestrian, said communication device for pedestrians comprising:
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a pedestrian information acquirer that acquires pedestrian information showing whether said pedestrian belongs to a pedestrian group formed of said pedestrian and a plurality of pedestrians in a vicinity of said pedestrian; an information processor that issues a command to transmit the pedestrian information acquired by said pedestrian information acquirer by using a transmission method of changing a transmission frequency, transmission power, or a transmission priority according to whether said pedestrian information belongs to a pedestrian group; and a transmitter that transmits said pedestrian information to said vehicle-mounted communication device in response to the command from said information processor. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system that includes a communication device for pedestrians carried by a pedestrian and a vehicle-mounted communication device mounted in a vehicle, and that carries out radio communications between said communication device for pedestrians and said vehicle-mounted communication device, wherein
said communication device for pedestrians comprises: -
a pedestrian information acquirer that acquires pedestrian information showing whether said pedestrian belongs to a pedestrian group formed of said pedestrian and a plurality of pedestrians in a vicinity of said pedestrian; an information processor that issues a command to transmit the pedestrian information acquired by said pedestrian information acquirer by using a transmission method of changing a transmission frequency, transmission power, or a transmission priority according to whether said pedestrian information belongs to a pedestrian group; and a transmitter that transmits said pedestrian information to said vehicle-mounted communication device in response to the command from said information processor, and wherein said vehicle-mounted communication device comprises; a receiver that receives said pedestrian information transmitted from the transmitter of said communication device for pedestrians; a controller that judges said pedestrian information received by said receiver, and issues a command to present pedestrian attention information and also issues a command to transmit vehicle approach information showing that said vehicle is approaching when said pedestrian information shows that said pedestrian does not belong to a pedestrian group; an information outputter that presents said pedestrian attention information according to the command from said controller; and a transmitter that transmits said vehicle approach information to a communication device for pedestrians carried by a pedestrian not belonging to said pedestrian group according to the command from said controller. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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