Vehicle-presence notifying apparatus and vehicle-presence notifying method
AssigneeFujitsu Ten Limited
InventorsMasahiro Maekawa, Chie Shigenaga, Naoyuki Takaishi
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Abstract
An apparatus for notifying presence of a vehicle to a periphery of the vehicle includes a control unit that controls an operating unit that operates to cause the vehicle to drive, generating an operation sound; a judging unit that judges whether it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle; and a notifying unit that notifies, when the judging unit judges that it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle using the operation sound, by changing a content of a control by the control unit.
Claims27
An apparatus for notifying presence of a vehicle to a periphery of the vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- a control unit that controls an operating unit that operates to cause the vehicle to drive, the operating unit generating an operation sound;
- a judging unit that judges whether it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle;
- and
- a notifying unit that notifies, when the judging unit judges that it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle using the operation sound, by changing a content of a control by the control unit.
An apparatus for notifying presence of a vehicle to a periphery of the vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- a physical sound generating unit that generates a physical sound by driving of the vehicle;
- a judging unit that judges whether it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle;
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- a notifying unit that notifies, when the judging unit judges that it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, by causing the physical sound generating unit to generate the physical sound.
An apparatus for notifying presence of a vehicle to a periphery of the vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
- a traveling-environment judging unit that judges a traveling environment of the vehicle;
- a map-information acquiring unit that acquires map information around the vehicle;
- a judging unit that judges whether it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle;
- a plurality of notifying units having different notifying mechanisms;
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- a selecting unit that selects a combination of the notifying units based on the traveling environment judged, wherein
- the judging unit judges whether it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, based on the map information acquired;
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- when the judging unit judges that it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, the vehicle-presence notifying apparatus controls the notifying units based on the combination selected.
A method notifying presence of a vehicle to a periphery of the vehicle, the method comprising:
- judging a traveling environment of the vehicle;
- acquiring map information around the vehicle;
- judging whether it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle, based on the map information acquired;
- selecting a combination of notifying units having different notifying mechanisms based on the traveling environment judged;
- and
- controlling the notifying units based on the combination selected when it is judged that it is necessary to notify the presence of the vehicle to the periphery of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.