Alert apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorJunya FUKUTA
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Abstract
Provided is an alert apparatus for a vehicle configured to: in a case where a connection state of a switch is an off state, determine whether or not there is an alert-target object based on vehicle peripheral information which has been acquired until an off time point at which the connection state of the switch is changed to the off state, the alert-target object being a moving object to be alerted when an occupant of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle; and configured to, when determining that there is the alert-target object, cause an alerting device to perform an alerting operation.
Claims1
An alert apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a power supply device mounted in the vehicle;
- a switch, a connection state of the switch being changed from an off state to an on state when a driver of the vehicle drives the vehicle, and being changed from the on state to the off state when the driver stops driving the vehicle;
- an information acquisition device connected to the power supply device via the switch,
- wherein the information acquisition device is supplied with electric power from the power supply device when the connection state of the switch is the on state, the information acquisition device being configured to acquire vehicle peripheral information including information on a moving object which is present at least behind the vehicle through use of the supplied electric power;
- a memory that stores the vehicle peripheral information acquired while the connection state of the switch is the on state;
- an alerting device configured to be supplied with the electric power from the power supply device regardless of whether the connection state of the switch is the on state or the off state, the alerting device being further configured to perform an alerting operation for alerting an occupant of the vehicle through use of the supplied electric power;
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- a controller configured to be supplied with the electric power from the power supply device regardless of whether the connection state of the switch is the on state or the off state, the controller being programmed to:
- during a period of time when the connection state of the switch is the off state, determine whether or not there is an alert-target object based on the vehicle peripheral information that was stored in the memory while the connection state of the switch was the on state, the alert-target object being a moving object to be alerted when the occupant gets out of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.