# US 2018/0022277 A1 · Approaching-body warning device for automobile > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0022277 A1 - Document ID: US20180022277A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/549,861 - Filed: 2016-02-02 - Published: 2018-01-25 - Earliest claimed: 2015-02-16 - Assignees: Shuichi TAYAMA; Image Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Image Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Shuichi TAYAMA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180022277A1 ## CPC - B60N 2/90: Details or parts not otherwise provided for - B60Q 9/008: {for anti-collision purposes} - B60W 30/08: {Active safety systems} predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision {or attempting to minimise its consequences} - B60W 30/095: Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision - B60W 50/14: Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention - B60W 50/16: Tactile feedback to the driver, e.g. vibration or force feedback to the driver on the steering wheel or the accelerator pedal - B62D 1/04: Hand wheels - G08B 6/00: Tactile signalling systems, e.g. tactile personal calling systems - G08G 1/04: using optical or ultrasonic detectors - G08G 1/163: {involving continuous checking} - G08G 1/164: {Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles} - G08G 1/166: {for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes} - B60N 2002/981: {Warning systems, e.g. the seat or seat parts vibrates to warn the passenger when facing a danger} - B60W 2050/143: {Alarm means} - B60W 2050/146: {Display means} - B60W 2420/403: Image sensing, e.g. optical camera - B60W 2420/408: Radar; Laser, e.g. lidar - B60W 2520/10: Longitudinal speed - B60W 2540/16: Ratio selector position - B60W 2540/18: Steering angle - B60N: SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES; VEHICLE PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - B60Q: ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL - B60W: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT - B62D: MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS (steering, or guiding on a desired track, of agricultural machines or implements A01B69/00; wheels, castors, axles, increasing wheel adhesion B60B; vehicle tyres, tyre inflation or tyre changing B60C; connections between vehicles of a train or the like B60D; vehicles for use on rail and road, amphibious or convertible vehicles B60F; suspension arrangements B60G; heating, cooling, ventilating or other air treating devices B60H; windows, windscreens, non-fixed roofs, doors or similar devices, protective coverings for vehicles not in use B60J; propulsion plant arrangements, auxiliary drives, transmissions, controls, instrumentation or dashboards B60K; electric equipment or propulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles B60L; power supply for electrically-propelled vehicles B60M; passenger accommodation not otherwise provided for B60N; adaptations for load transportation or to carry special loads or objects B60P; arrangement of signalling or lighting devices, the mounting or supporting thereof or circuits therefor, for vehicles in general B60Q; vehicles, vehicle fittings or vehicle parts not otherwise provided for B60R; servicing, cleaning, repairing, supporting, lifting, or manoeuvring, not otherwise provided for, B60S; brake arrangements, brake control systems or parts thereof B60T; air-cushion vehicles B60V; motor-cycles, accessories therefor B62J, B62K; testing of vehicles G01M) - 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}) ## Abstract An approaching-body warning device causes a driver to recognize a direction in which a detection target approaches to an own vehicle and a distance thereto with tactual feeling provided by a vibration device. An approaching-body warning device includes a detection system that detects automobiles and the like approaching to an own vehicle from various directions. A vibration device includes a plurality of vibrating body pairs, each being a right-left pair of vibrating bodies, arranged along a vehicle travelling direction at the interior component with which a driver's body is to be in contact. When the detection system detects the detection target approaching from one or a plurality of directions, a vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating body pairs to vibrate in accordance with each direction in which the detection target detected by the detection system is approaching to the own vehicle and a distance therebetween. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 -22. (canceled) ### Claim 23 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. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating body of the vibrating body pair on the right side or left side corresponding to the direction in which the detection target is approaching to vibrate. ### Claim 25 (depends on 24) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 24, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating bodies to vibrate serially from the vibrating body located at the rear side in the vehicle travelling direction in accordance with a distance to the approaching detection target from behind the own vehicle. ### Claim 26 (depends on 24) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 24, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device, when a steering wheel of the own vehicle is operated toward an adjacent traffic lane on which the detection target is approaching from behind the own vehicle, to cause the vibrating body on the right side or left side corresponding to the traffic lane to vibrate. ### Claim 27 (depends on 24) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 24, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating bodies to vibrate serially from the vibrating body located at the front side in the vehicle travelling direction in accordance with a distance to the approaching detection target from the front of the own vehicle. ### Claim 28 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating bodies on both right and left sides of the vibrating body pair to concurrently vibrate when the detection target is approaching from the straight front or the straight rear. ### Claim 29 (depends on 28) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 28, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating body pairs to vibrate serially from the vibrating body pair located at the front side in the vehicle travelling direction in accordance with a distance to the approaching detection target from the front of the own vehicle. ### Claim 30 (depends on 28) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 28, wherein the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating body pairs to vibrate serially from the vibrating body pair located at the rear side in the vehicle travelling direction in accordance with a distance to the approaching detection target from behind the own vehicle. ### Claim 31 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein, when the detection target is approaching from the front of the own vehicle, the vibration control unit controls only the vibrating body arranged in front of a driver in the vehicle travelling direction to be driven. ### Claim 32 (depends on 31) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 31, wherein, when the detection target is approaching from the front of the own vehicle, the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating body corresponding to an approaching direction being the right or left out of the vibrating body pair arranged in front of the driver in the vehicle travelling direction to vibrate. ### Claim 33 (depends on 31) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 31, wherein, when the detection target is approaching from the straight front of the own vehicle, the vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating bodies on both the right and left of the vibrating body pair arranged in front of the driver in the vehicle travelling direction to vibrate concurrently. ### Claim 34 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein a vibrational frequency of the vibrating body arranged at the front (or the rear) in the vehicle travelling direction is set larger than a vibrational frequency of the vibrating body arranged in the rear (or the front). ### Claim 35 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein the vibrating body pairs are arranged at a seat and a steering wheel, respectively. ### Claim 36 (depends on 35) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 35, wherein the vibration control unit causes the vibrating body arranged on the right or left of the steering wheel to vibrate in accordance with an approaching direction from the right or left at the front and causes the vibrating body arranged on the right or left of the seat to vibrate in accordance with an approaching direction from the right or left at the rear. ### Claim 37 (depends on 35) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 35, wherein the vibrating body pairs are arranged at a backrest and a seating face of the seat, respectively. ### Claim 38 (depends on 35) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 35, wherein the number of the vibrating bodies arranged at the steering wheel is at least four being on the upper, lower, right, and left sides. ### Claim 39 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein the detection system further includes a radar sensor system. ### Claim 40 (depends on 39) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 39, wherein the radar sensor system is one or a combination of a millimeter-wave radar sensor, a micrometer-wave radar sensor, a laser radar sensor, an infrared radiation sensor, and an ultrasonic sensor. ### Claim 41 (depends on 39) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 39, wherein the radar sensor system includes a radar sensor configured to detect the detection target, and an arithmetic unit configured to calculate an inter-vehicle distance and a relative speed from a detection output of the radar sensor and a speed of the own vehicle and to evaluate approaching of the detection target. ### Claim 42 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, further comprising an arithmetic unit configured to measure an approaching speed by calculating a distance between the detection target and the own vehicle based on detection of a deviation between two image signals from a corresponding pair of cameras and calculating differential of the calculated distance, the cameras of each pair that configures the imaging camera system being arranged at a predetermined interval. ### Claim 43 (depends on 23) The approaching-body warning device according to claim 23, wherein the detection system includes an arithmetic unit configured to calculate a distance between the detection target and the own vehicle based on image data in the vicinity of the own vehicle transmitted from a satellite orbiting the earth and to measure an approaching speed by calculating differential of the calculated distance.