Subaru Corporation

Masatoshi Tsuge

Ryota Nakamura

Tsukasa Mikuni

Toru Kato

Takuya Homma

Kazuhiro Hayakawa

A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a communicator, a memory, a user interface, and a processor. The communicator transmits an emergency report to an operator terminal if the vehicle is involved in an emergency. The memory holds information on injury inquiry items for inquiry about injury to an occupant. The user interface is provided in the vehicle and used by the occupant of the vehicle. The processor controls the vehicle to cause the communicator to transmit the emergency report to the operator terminal if the vehicle is involved in the emergency. In the case where the vehicle is involved in the emergency, the processor inquires of the occupant about the injury inquiry items held in the memory, via the user interface, and causes the communicator to automatically transmit, to the operator terminal, an inquiry result of the injury to the occupant after the occurrence of the emergency.

Vehicle with emergency reporting function

A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a vehicle communicator, an emergency reporting switch, a user interface, and a processor. The vehicle communicator transmits an emergency report about an emergency involving the vehicle to a server to make a request for an emergency response. The processor generates an emergency report and causes the vehicle communicator to transmit the emergency report if the vehicle is involved in an emergency. If the emergency reporting switch is manually operated by an occupant of the vehicle upon occurrence of the emergency, the processor presents emergency category items to allow the occupant to select a category item among the emergency category items on the user interface, generates the emergency report based on a manual operation about the category item selected by the occupant, and causes the vehicle communicator to transmit the emergency report based on the manual operation.

Vehicle with emergency reporting function, and server

An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, an occupant state detection apparatus, and a determination apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors make assignment of a part to be monitored, of an occupant in a vehicle, to be monitored by the occupant monitoring apparatus, to detect a physical state of the occupant.

Occupant state detection system

A vehicle with an emergency reporting function transmits an emergency report in a case where the vehicle is involved in an emergency. The vehicle includes a vehicle communicator and a vehicle memory. The vehicle communicator transmits the emergency report to an operator terminal. The operator terminal acquires emergency-related information by accessing a memory holding the emergency-related information. The emergency-related information includes limited-access information about the vehicle, an occupant of the vehicle, or both. The vehicle memory holds authentication information to be used to access the limited-access information held in the memory. The vehicle communicator transmits the authentication information to the operator terminal, and causes the operator terminal to acquire the limited-access information from the memory, as a part of the emergency-related information, by using the authentication information received from the vehicle.

Vehicle with emergency reporting function, and vehicle emergency reporting system

A drive assist system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and a drive assist control apparatus. The occupant monitoring apparatus monitors a physical state of an occupant, including a driver, of a vehicle. The determination apparatus determines a traveling state and a stopped state of the vehicle. The drive assist control apparatus executes a control to secure safe traveling upon determining that sleep duration of the occupant is less than a predetermined time and quality of sleep thereof is lower than a predetermined level on the basis of monitoring information acquired by the occupant monitoring apparatus. The drive assist control apparatus includes one or more processors that perform, in a case where determination information from the determination apparatus indicates the stopped state, a control of appropriately restricting the driver's driving operation on the basis of at least the sleep duration and the quality of sleep of the driver.

Drive assist system

A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, a first determination processor, a second determination processor, and a control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit acquires information including biometric information of the occupant inside and outside the vehicle. The first determination processor and the second determination processor determine a physical fatigue level and a mental fatigue level of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image of the occupant inside the vehicle captured by the imaging unit or the information including the biometric information of the occupant inside and outside the vehicle acquired by the information acquisition unit. The control processor controls a vehicle device on the basis of one or both of determination information obtained by the first determination processor, and determination information obtained by the second determination processor.

Safety drive assist apparatus

An occupant state detection system includes first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses monitor a physical state of an occupant in a vehicle in different methods. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more first processors and one or more first memories. Upon receiving data indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state from the determination apparatus, the one or more first processors cooperate with one or more programs in the one or more first memories to: make assignment of a part to be monitored and data to be acquired, of the occupant in the vehicle, to be detected by the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses; and detect the physical state of the occupant on the basis of first and second occupant monitoring data from the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses.

An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories store data including traveling-state comparative data and stopped-state comparative data. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors compare the occupant monitoring data with the traveling-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the traveling state, and compare the occupant monitoring data with the stopped-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the stopped state, to detect a state of the occupant in the vehicle.

A vehicle with an emergency reporting function includes a processor, a vehicle communication device, a first calling device, and a vehicle outside occupant detector. The processor determines, by means of the vehicle outside occupant detector, whether an occupant who has been present inside the vehicle before an emergency is present inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle after the emergency. If the occupant is present inside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor uses the first calling device to enable a communication between an occupant inside the vehicle and an operator terminal. If the occupant is present outside the vehicle after the emergency, the processor additionally uses a second calling device to enable a communication between an occupant present outside or inside the vehicle and the operator terminal. The second calling device allows for a communication outside the vehicle.

A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, first and second determination processors, and a search control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit is provided inside and outside the vehicle and acquires information including biometric information of the occupant. The first and the second determination processors determine physical and mental fatigue levels of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit or the information acquired by the information acquisition unit. The search control processor searches for a recommended traveling route and a recommended stop-by point on the basis of a search condition, and propose a result of the search to the occupant. The search condition is based on one or both of determination information obtained by the first determination processor, the second determination processor.

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Masatoshi Tsuge