Emergency reporting apparatus

• US 20030128123A1
• Filed: 12/26/2002
• Published: 07/10/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Original Assignee: Kabushikikaisha Equos Research
• Inventors: Hori, Koji, Kubota, Tomoki, Sumiya, Koji, Fujii, Kazuaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,044,742 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance

Abstract

An emergency reporting apparatus is provided which is capable of easily acquiring passenger information necessary at the time of emergency report and reporting as deputy for a passenger at the time of emergency report. The emergency reporting apparatus asks, in a training mode, the user simulated questions from an emergency rescue facility which will be addressed when an emergency situations occurs, and learns and stores the reply contents and response procedures. From the questions and replies, the emergency reporting apparatus automatically acquires the passenger information. Then, the emergency reporting apparatus reports as deputy for the user the passenger information acquired in the training mode, when there is no reaction of the user at the time of occurrence of an actual emergency situation.

Claims

1. An emergency reporting apparatus which reports emergency situation information in an emergency situation during a passenger is in a vehicle, comprising:

a training means for simulating a contact and report to an emergency contact point based on an occurrence of said emergency situation.

2. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein said training means comprises:

a suggestion means for suggesting an item of an emergency situation;

an item selection means for selecting the item suggested by said suggestion means; and

a question means for outputting one or more questions corresponding to the item selected by said item selection means.

3. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an answer receiving means for receiving an answer to the question by said question means; and

a training evaluation means for outputting an evaluation to the answer received by said answer receiving means.

4. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a present position information detection means for detecting information of a present position,

wherein said suggestion means suggests the item of an emergency situation based on the present position information detected by said present position information detection means.

5. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a passenger information storage means for storing information of the passenger,

wherein said suggestion means suggests the item of an emergency situation based on the passenger information stored by said passenger information storage means.

6. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a result storage means for storing a result of an experience of the simulation by said training means,

wherein said suggestion means suggests the item of an emergency situation based on the result of the experience of the simulation stored in said result storage means.

7. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a passenger information storage means for storing as passenger information a result of the simulation by the passenger based on said training means;

a detection means for detecting an occurrence of an emergency situation of the vehicle or an emergency situation of the passenger; and

a passenger information transmission means for transmitting to an emergency report destination the passenger information stored in said passenger information storage means, when said detection means detects the occurrence of the emergency situation.

8. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising:

a response capability judging means for judging whether the passenger is capable of responding to the emergency report destination, when said detection means detects the occurrence of the emergency situation,

wherein said passenger information transmission means transmits the passenger information when said response capability judging means judges that the passenger is incapable of responding.

9. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein said training means comprises:

a question means for outputting one or more questions imagining the emergency situation; and

an answer receiving means for receiving an answer to the question by said question means,

wherein said passenger information storage means stores the answer to the question received by said answer receiving means.

10. The emergency reporting apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein said passenger information transmission means comprises a voice output means for outputting by voice in the vehicle the passenger information transmitted to the emergency report destination.