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On-board system, information processing apparatus, and program product

  • US 9,702,712 B2
  • Filed: 02/09/2015
  • Issued: 07/11/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An on-board system comprising:

  • a controller, the controller is configured toexecute, by at least one execution unit, an operation adapted to eliminate an inattentive state or a drowsy state of a driver who drives a vehicle;

    acquire, from an information acquiring section, driver state information indicating a state of the driver;

    determine, in a state determination section, whether the driver is in the inattentive state or in the drowsy state based on the driver state information;

    specify, using a position specifying section, a present position of the vehicle;

    search, by a searching section, for a resting place at which the driver can have a rest based on the present position of the vehicle and information stored in a resting place database when the state determination section determines that the driver is in the inattentive state or in the drowsy state, the information stored in the resting place database being related to places at which the driver can have a rest;

    calculate, by an execution unit control section, a necessary travel time required for the vehicle to travel from the present position to the resting place, and activate, by the execution unit control section, at least one target execution unit to start the operation adapted to eliminate the inattentive state or the drowsy state of the driver when the necessary travel time is equal to or longer than a threshold period that is preliminarily determined, the at least one target execution unit being a part of the at least one execution unit; and

    notify the driver, by a notification section, of information of a guidance route to the resting place determined by the searching section by at least outputting an audio guidance to execute a route guidance from the present position to the resting place,wherein, during a period from a start to an end of the route guidance by the notification section, the execution unit control section activates the at least one target execution unit at a time which does not overlap the audio guidance that is being output in order to start the operation that is adapted to eliminate the inattentive state or the drowsy state of the driver, andthe operation to eliminate the inattentive state or the drowsy state of the driver which is started by the at least one target execution unit is an operation which is pre-defined in a user information database as being correlated to the drive who is a specific driver of a plurality of drivers.

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