Warning system
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorYasufumi Yamada
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Abstract
A warning system warns a driver of a vehicle that a vehicle location in a record of previously detected drive operation that indicates a violation of a safety standard and a current position of the vehicle are determined to be within a predetermined distance from each other based on repeated detections of a current vehicle position by a detector and a detection of the drive operation that indicates the violation of the safety standard transmitted through an interface from a drive recorder. In this manner, the warning system for warning the driver lightens a process load of a unit that performs a position detection process and a unit that performs a record keeping process.
Claims12
A warning system for use in a vehicle comprising:
- a detector that detects, as unsafe driving, a driving operation exceeding a safety standard and outputs a detection signal that indicates the detection of the unsafe driving;
- an interface unit that is connected to the detector;
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- an acquisition unit, in connection to the interface unit, that repeatedly identifies a current position of the vehicle, acquires the detection signal output from the detector through the interface unit, and records as unsafe location information, position information of the vehicle at a time of the unsafe driving based on an acquisition of the detection signal, wherein
- the detector acquires the current position identified by the acquisition unit through the interface unit,
- the detector outputs the detection signal including the current position as position information of the vehicle at the time when the unsafe driving is detected,
- the acquisition unit acquires and records the position information output by the detector through the interface unit as the unsafe location information,
- the acquisition unit provides a warning for a user based on a predetermined degree of closeness of any identified current position of the vehicle to any position information previously recorded as unsafe location information, and
- the acquisition unit prioritizes the identification of the current position of the vehicle higher than other processes including the recording of the unsafe location information.
A warning system for providing a warning in a vehicle comprising:
- a detector for detecting an unsafe driving of the vehicle;
- an acquisition unit for performing an identification process of a vehicle position and a recording process of an identified vehicle position as unsafe location information at a time of detection of the unsafe driving of the vehicle;
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- an interface unit for information exchange between the detector and the acquisition unit, wherein
- vehicle positions identified by the identification process are repeatedly output to the detector through the interface unit;
- the detector acquires the vehicle positions identified by the identification process through the interface unit;
- the detector unit outputs a detection signal including the identified vehicle position as the unsafe location information when the detector detects the unsafe driving;
- the acquisition unit acquires and records the identified vehicle position output by the detector unit as the unsafe location information;
- the acquisition unit further provides a warning to vehicle driver based on a predetermined degree of closeness of any vehicle position identified in the identification process to any identified vehicle position previously stored as unsafe location information;
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- the identification process of the vehicle position is prioritized higher than the recording process of the vehicle position in the acquisition unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.