Apparatus and method for warning vehicle entry into dangerous area
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsDaehan Choi, Suhyeon Chae
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Abstract
An apparatus for warning vehicle entry into a dangerous area includes: a monitoring period calculator determining a first monitoring period based on a driving speed of a vehicle and a distance from the vehicle to a second dangerous area nearest to the vehicle after an initial first alarm is transmitted as the vehicle enters a first dangerous area; a dangerous area entry detector determining whether the vehicle enters the dangerous area in every first monitoring period; and an alarm transmitter transmitting a second alarm when the vehicle entry into the second dangerous area is detected.
Claims19
An apparatus for warning vehicle entry into a dangerous area, the apparatus comprising:
- a monitoring period calculator determining a first monitoring period based on a driving speed of a vehicle and a distance from the vehicle to a second predetermined dangerous area nearest to the vehicle after an initial first alarm is transmitted as the vehicle enters a first predetermined dangerous area;
- a dangerous area entry detector determining whether the vehicle enters the second predetermined dangerous area in every first monitoring period;
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- an alarm transmitter transmitting a second alarm in response that the dangerous area entry detector detects the vehicle entry into the second predetermined dangerous area.
A method for warning vehicle entry into a dangerous area, the method comprising:
- transmitting, by a processor, a first alarm as a vehicle enters a first predetermined area;
- determining, by the processor, a first monitoring period based on a driving speed of the vehicle and a distance from the vehicle to a second predetermined area nearest to the vehicle;
- determining, by the processor, whether the vehicle enters the second predetermined area in every first monitoring period after the transmission of the first alarm;
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- transmitting, by the processor, a second alarm in response that the processor concludes that the vehicle enters into the second predetermined area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.