Vehicle monitoring apparatus and vehicle monitoring method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorHidetoshi YAMAZAKI
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Abstract
A vehicle monitoring server communicates with a vehicle to acquire information related to a traveling condition of the vehicle. The vehicle monitoring server detects an area outside a communication range where communication with the vehicle is unavailable. The vehicle monitoring server calculates an expected stay time for which the vehicle remains in the area outside the communication range. The vehicle monitoring server executes a safety confirmation process in a mode, of a plurality of modes of safety confirmation process characterized by different loads, corresponding to a traveling condition of the vehicle acquired so far, when a time elapsed since communication with the vehicle became unavailable exceeds the expected stay time.
Claims5
A vehicle monitoring apparatus comprising:
- an acquisition unit that communicates with a vehicle to acquire information related to a traveling condition of the vehicle;
- a detection unit that detects an area outside a communication range where communication with the vehicle is unavailable;
- a calculation unit that calculates an expected stay time for which the vehicle remains in the area outside the communication range;
- and
- a safety confirmation unit that executes a safety confirmation process in a mode, of a plurality of modes of safety confirmation process characterized by different loads, corresponding to a traveling condition of the vehicle acquired so far, when a time elapsed since communication with the vehicle became unavailable exceeds the expected stay time.
A vehicle monitoring method executed by a computer, comprising:
- communicating with a vehicle to acquire information related to a traveling condition of the vehicle;
- detecting an area outside a communication range where communication with the vehicle is unavailable;
- calculating an expected stay time for which the vehicle remains in the area outside the communication range;
- and
- executing a safety confirmation process in a mode, of a plurality of modes of safety confirmation process characterized by different loads, corresponding to a traveling condition of the vehicle acquired so far, when a time elapsed since communication with the vehicle became unavailable exceeds the expected stay time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.