Method and system for assisting a driver of a road vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsFumiaki ONO, Giancarlo CACCIA DOMINIONI, Alexandre GENTNER, Antonio CAROLI
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Abstract
The disclosure is related to a method and a system for assisting a driver of a road vehicle. A data processing unit receives data representing at least a relative position of the road vehicle, outputs, through a display device and/or an interior lighting device, a visual alert when the data processing unit determines that the data fulfill a first condition, and outputs, through a sound-emitting device, an audible alert when the data processing unit determines that the data fulfill a second condition after fulfilling the first condition.
Claims15
A method for assisting a driver of a road vehicle, comprising:
- receiving, at a data processing unit, data representing at least a relative position of the road vehicle;
- outputting, through a display device and/or an interior lighting device, a visual alert when the data processing unit determines that the data fulfill a first condition;
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- outputting, through a sound-emitting device, an audible alert when the data processing unit determines that the data fulfill a second condition after fulfilling the first condition.
A system for assisting a driver of a road vehicle, comprising:
- a display device and/or an interior lighting device;
- a sound-emitting device;
- a data processing unit configured to receive data representing at least a relative position of the road vehicle, output a visual alert through the display device and/or interior lighting device when the data fulfill a first condition, and output an audible alert through the sound-emitting device when the data fulfill a second condition after fulfilling the first condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.