# US 12,114,245 B2 · Wireless communication apparatus, vehicle, and control method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,114,245 B2 - Document ID: US12114245B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/679,642 - Filed: 2022-02-24 - Published: 2022-09-01 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2019-08-28 - Assignees: KYOCERA Corporation - Applicants: KYOCERA Corporation - Inventors: Takeshi Makabe - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12114245B2 ## CPC - H04W 4/44: for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] - H04W 4/90: Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] - G08B 25/003: {Address allocation methods and details} - G08B 25/016: {Personal emergency signalling and security systems (emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12)} - G08B 25/10: using wireless transmission systems {(G08B25/009 takes precedence)} - G08G 1/09: Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions ({railroad crossing signals B61L; reflectors E01F, G08B}; indicating arrangements for variable information by selection or combination of individual elements G09F9/00) - H04M 11/04: with alarm systems, e.g. fire, police or burglar alarm systems - H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services - H04W 76/50: for emergency connections - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) ## Abstract The wireless communication apparatus is a wireless communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle and supports a plurality of emergency report schemes. The wireless communication apparatus includes a wireless communicator configured to perform wireless communication, and a controller configured to perform an emergency report via the wireless communicator at a time of occurrence of a vehicle accident. The controller is configured to identify a region to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs at the time of occurrence of the vehicle accident. The controller is configured to select one emergency report scheme from the plurality of emergency report schemes based on the identified region. The controller is configured to perform the emergency report by using the one emergency report scheme selected. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A wireless communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle and supporting a plurality of emergency report schemes which varies depending on a region, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: a wireless communicator configured to perform wireless communication; and a controller configured to perform an emergency report to an emergency report center in a region via the wireless communicator at a time of occurrence of a vehicle accident, wherein the plurality of emergency report schemes include a Minimum Set of Data (MSD) transmission and a voice emergency call, and the controller is configured to identify the region to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs at the time of occurrence of the vehicle accident, select one emergency report scheme corresponding to the emergency report center in the region from the plurality of emergency report schemes based on the identified region, and perform the emergency report by using the one emergency report scheme selected. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to identify the region by using at least one of base station information acquired from a base station to which the wireless communication apparatus is connected, GNSS information acquired from a GNSS receiver provided in the vehicle or the wireless communication apparatus, or registration region information stored in the wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to identify the region by prioritizing use of the base station information among the base station information, the GNSS information, and the registration region information. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to identify the region by prioritizing use of the GNSS information out of the GNSS information and the registration region information in a case that the region cannot be identified by using the base station information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller is configured to identify at least one region for two or more types of information among the base station information, the GNSS information, and the registration region information, and identify two or more emergency report schemes, out of the plurality of emergency report schemes, corresponding to the identified at least one region, and perform the emergency report by selecting an emergency report scheme with transmission of accident-related information in a case where the two or more emergency report schemes identified include the emergency report scheme with transmission of accident-related information. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein in a case where the vehicle accident is serious, the controller is configured to identify at least one region for two or more types of information among the base station information, the GNSS information, and the registration region information and identify two or more emergency report schemes corresponding to the identified at least one region, and perform the emergency report by selecting an emergency report scheme with transmission of accident-related information in a case where the two or more emergency report schemes identified include the emergency report scheme with transmission of accident-related information. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) A vehicle comprising the wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1. ### Claim 8 A control method for controlling a wireless communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle and supporting a plurality of emergency report schemes which varies depending on a region, the control method comprising: identifying a region to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs at a time of occurrence of a vehicle accident; selecting one emergency report scheme corresponding to an emergency report center in the region from the plurality of emergency report schemes based on the identified region; and performing an emergency report to the emergency report center in the region by using the one emergency report scheme selected, wherein the plurality of emergency report schemes include a Minimum Set of Data (MSD) transmission and a voice emergency call. ### Claim 9 A wireless communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle and supporting a plurality of emergency report schemes, the wireless communication apparatus comprising: a wireless communicator configured to perform wireless communication; and a controller configured to perform an emergency report via the wireless communicator at a time of occurrence of a vehicle accident, wherein the controller is configured to identify a region to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs at the time of occurrence of the vehicle accident, identify the region by using at least one of base station information acquired from a base station to which the wireless communication apparatus is connected, GNSS information acquired from a GNSS receiver provided in the vehicle or the wireless communication apparatus, or registration region information stored in the wireless communication apparatus, identify the region by prioritizing use of the base station information among the base station information, the GNSS information, and the registration region information, select one emergency report scheme from the plurality of emergency report schemes based on the identified region, and perform the emergency report by using the one emergency report scheme selected.