Approaching-body warning device for automobile

An approaching-body warning device, comprising:

• a detection system configured to detect, using an imaging camera system, a detection target being an automobile, a bicycle, a person, an animal, or the like that approaches to a travelling own vehicle from a direction of all directions;
• a vibration device configured of a plurality of vibrating body pairs, each being a right-left pair of vibrating bodies, arranged along a vehicle travelling direction at an interior component with which a driver's body is to be in contact;
• a vibration control unit configured to control the vibration device;
• and
• a display configured to display images taken by the imaging camera system in different directions of the own vehicle,
• wherein the imaging camera system includes pairs of cameras to take images on the right and/or left at the front and rear of the own vehicle, each pair thereof being arranged at the front and rear of the own vehicle, and an image recognition unit configured to evaluate dangerous approaching of the detection target to the own vehicle by performing an image recognition process on images taken serially by the cameras, and
• the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause any or all of the vibrating bodies to vibrate in accordance with a direction in which the detection target detected by the detection system is approaching to the own vehicle and a distance therebetween, when the detection system detects the detection target approaching from one or a plurality of directions.