Vehicular recording control apparatus, vehicular recording apparatus, vehicular recording control method, and computer program

A vehicular recording control method for a vehicular recording control apparatus to execute:

• a parking detecting step of detecting whether a vehicle is in a parked state;
• an object detecting step of detecting a surrounding object present at a distance less than a certain distance from the vehicle at a position at which the vehicle is parked while the vehicle is parked, the surrounding object blocking entry of another vehicle or a person into the surroundings of the vehicle;
• an event detecting step of detecting an event concerning the vehicle;
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• a recording function controlling step of performing, when a surrounding object present at a distance less than the certain distance from the vehicle is detected at the object detecting step while the vehicle is parked, recording, as event recording data, due to the event detected at the event detecting step, using video data captured by an image capturing unit, among a plurality of image capturing units configured to capture images of surroundings of the vehicle, other than the image capturing unit that captures images in a direction in which the surrounding object is detected,
• wherein the event detecting step detects, as the event, based on the video data acquired by a video data acquiring unit from at least some of the plurality of image capturing units, comprising the image capturing unit, when a moving object in the surroundings of the vehicle is detected, in a case where the object detecting step detects the surrounding object present at the distance less than the certain distance from the vehicle at the position at which the vehicle is parked while the vehicle is parked, the surrounding object blocking entry of the person into the surroundings of the vehicle.

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing therein a computer program causing a computer operating as a vehicular recording control apparatus to execute:

• a parking detecting step of detecting whether a vehicle is in a parked state;
• an object detecting step of detecting a surrounding object present at a distance less than a certain distance from the vehicle at a position at which the vehicle is parked while the vehicle is parked, the surrounding object blocking entry of another vehicle or a person into the surroundings of the vehicle;
• an event detecting step of detecting an event concerning the vehicle;
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• a recording function controlling step of performing, when a surrounding object present at a distance less than the certain distance from the vehicle is detected at the object detecting step while the vehicle is parked, recording, as event recording data, due to the event detected at the event detecting step, using video data captured by an image capturing unit, among a plurality of image capturing units configured to capture images of surroundings of the vehicle, other than the image capturing unit that captures images in a direction in which the surrounding object is detected,
• wherein the event detecting step detects, as the event, based on the video data acquired by a video data acquiring unit from at least a portion of the plurality of image capturing units, including the image capturing unit, when a moving object in the surroundings of the vehicle is detected, in a case where the object detecting step detects the surrounding object present at the distance less than the certain distance from the vehicle at the position at which the vehicle is parked while the vehicle is parked, the surrounding object blocking entry of the person into the surroundings of the vehicle.