Image transmitting device to enhance security of parked vehicle
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsShinichi Shikii, Motoji Ohmori, Koichi Kusukame
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Abstract
In order to enhance security of a parked vehicle, an image transmitting device to be mounted on a vehicle includes: a checking unit that checks, at a parking place of the vehicle, communicability with an external device outside of the vehicle, that is, whether an image can be transmitted from the parking place to the external device; a providing unit that provides notification information based on a result of the checking by the checking unit; a capturing unit that captures an image while the vehicle is parked; and a transmitting unit that transmits the image captured by the capturing unit to the external device.
Claims15
An image transmitting device to be mounted on a vehicle, the image transmitting device comprising:
- a checking unit configured to check communicability with an external device outside of the vehicle at a parking place of the vehicle;
- a providing unit configured to provide notification information based on a result of the checking by the checking unit;
- a capturing unit configured to capture an image while the vehicle is parked;
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- a transmitting unit configured to transmit the image captured by the capturing unit to the external device,
- wherein when the result of the checking the communicability with the external device at the parking place of the vehicle shows that the communicability is denied, the providing unit is further configured to provide information indicating a parking place candidate according to neighborhood map information and communicability position information, the parking place candidate being (i) located where communicability with the external device is sufficiently high and (ii) a parking place closest to the parking place of the vehicle from among parking places affiliated with a facility and including the parking place of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.