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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasataka Eida, Sadayuki Sugama, Mamoru Sakaki, Masako Shimomura, Noriyasu Asaki
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Provided is an inexpensive vehicular communication apparatus capable of transferring image data containing a record of an accident to a safe, external location, the apparatus being usable in an ordinary automotive vehicle. The apparatus includes an image sensing device, a data storage device for storing image data that has been captured by the image sensing device, a sensor for sensing impact, a portable-terminal holding device in which a portable terminal is capable of being placed, and an operation controller which, if impact has been sensed by the sensor, is for notifying a prescribed party via the portable terminal unless the portable terminal is removed from the portable-terminal holding device within a predetermined period of time.
A vehicular communication apparatus mounted on an automotive vehicle, comprising:
A vehicular communication apparatus mounted on an automotive vehicle, comprising:
A communication method implemented by installing, in an automotive vehicle, an image sensing device, a data storage device for storing image data that has been captured by said image sensing device, a sensor for sensing impact, and a portable-terminal holding device in which a portable terminal is capable of being placed, wherein if impact has been sensed by said sensor, a prescribed party is notified via said portable terminal unless said portable terminal is removed from said portable-terminal holding device within a predetermined period of time.
A communication method implemented by installing, in an automotive vehicle, an image sensing device, a data storage device for storing image data that has been captured by said image sensing device, a sensor for sensing impact, and a portable-terminal holding device in which a portable terminal is capable of being placed, wherein if impact has been sensed by said sensor, image data that has been stored in said data storage device is transmitted to the outside via said portable terminal placed in said portable-terminal holding device, and wherein if impact has been sensed by said sensor when said portable terminal placed in said portable-terminal holding device is in a communicating state, this communication is severed and the image data is transmitted to the outside.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.