Fujitsu Ten Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshihiko Maeno

Satoshi Harumoto

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Toshitaka Yamato

Kazuhiro Sakiyama

Yasushi Seike

Naoki Sakai

Naotoshi Miyamoto

Satoru Kishimoto

Motohiro Nakamura

Koichi Sugiyama

Yuusaku Matsuda

Junichi Sawada

Hiroyuki Komaki

Takayuki Yamaguchi

Hironori Nomori

An apparatus for supporting recovery of the vehicle if the vehicle is stolen includes a determining unit that determines whether the vehicle is being stolen. A camera judges a state of the vehicle and an environment around the vehicle. When the determining unit determines that the vehicle is being stolen, a horn of the vehicle is automatically honked.

Stolen vehicle recovery support apparatus

A control apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes an acquisition/transmission unit and a recording unit. The acquisition/transmission unit acquires a program guide corresponding to a position of a vehicle and transmits the acquired program guide to a communication terminal device. The recording unit selects at least one program from the acquired program guide on a basis of an instruction transmitted from the communication terminal device and records at least one of video and audio of the selected program.

Control apparatus for an in-vehicle device, control method for an in-vehicle device, and control program for an in-vehicle device

An apparatus for monitoring a status of a vehicle, which determines whether the vehicle is in an abnormal status by comparing an impact value detected by a detecting unit that detects an impact on the vehicle with a predetermined threshold value, includes a first determining unit that determines whether the impact value detected is over at least one threshold value from among a plurality of threshold values; and a second determining unit that, when the first determining unit determines that the impact value is over the at least one threshold value, continues to monitor a status of the vehicle, and determines whether the vehicle is in an abnormal status.

Method and apparatus for monitoring vehicle status

The present invention teaches an antitheft device whereby the detection accuracy of an unauthorized intruder into a vehicle can be improved, comprising a section for judging whether or not there is an approaching object T toward a vehicle M based on information obtained from a surround monitoring sensor for monitoring the surround of the vehicle M, a section for judging whether or not the approaching object T toward the vehicle M is a suspicious person based on information obtained from a motion sensor for monitoring the periphery and/or the inside of the vehicle M when it is judged that there is an approaching object T toward the vehicle M, and a section for conducting processing such as lighting-on of an indicator when the approaching object T toward the vehicle M is judged to be a suspicious person.

Antitheft device, monitoring device and antitheft system

An apparatus for managing a notification from an in-vehicle device to a person to be notified includes an information acquiring unit that acquires information on the person; and a means selecting unit that selects a notification means based on the information acquired. The information includes at least a relative position of the person with respect to a vehicle.

Notification managing apparatus and notification managing method for vehicle

A theft-deterrent system for a vehicle includes at least one detecting unit that detects information on damage of the vehicle including vehicle theft or vandalizing of the vehicle, at least one prevention unit that executes a preventive measure against the damage, a situation identifying unit that identifies a situation of the damage based on order of detection of the information, a degree-of-danger judging unit that judges a degree of danger based on the situation, and a theft-deterrent control unit that selects and controls the at least one prevention unit corresponding to the degree of danger to execute the preventive measure against the damage.

Vehicle anti theft system, vehicle anti theft method, and computer program

A vehicle environment control device for recognizing and controlling the state of vehicle-associated equipment and a vehicle environment has a personal data storage section for storing user's personal data associated with users of the vehicle M, a fingerprint information storage section for storing information about fingerprints of authorized users thereof, a section for identifying a user based on fingerprint information, a section for reading personal data (such as a physique) of the identified user thereof from the personal data storage section and a section for setting the vehicle M to be an environment suitable for the user (such as setting a seat position) based on the read personal data, resulting in improved convenience of a driver or occupants in using a vehicle.

Vehicle environment control device

A vehicle control apparatus includes an information acquiring/managing unit that acquires information for controlling various units in a vehicle instead of a driver of the vehicle, and manages the information acquired, a situation determining unit that determines a situation under which the vehicle is placed, based on the information, a danger determining unit that selects predetermined information corresponding to the situation from among the information, and determines degree of danger of the situation based on the predetermined information, and a vehicle controller that controls predetermined units in the vehicle in such a manner that the degree of danger is reduced.

Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and computer program

To achieve an air bag activation device that does not require the use of a mechanical safing sensor, the air bag activation device of the invention comprises: a first sensor for electronically detecting acceleration; second and third sensors, mounted at right and left front ends of a vehicle, for electronically detecting acceleration; a squib driver inserted between a power supply and a squib; a microcomputer for generating from outputs of the first, second, and third sensors a driving signal for driving the squib driver; safing signal generating means for generating a safing signal from the outputs of the second and third sensors; and an AND gate for receiving the driving signal and the safing signal as inputs, and for producing an output which is supplied to the squib driver.

Air bag activation device

In a vehicular air bag system, a diagnostic apparatus for testing a squib line is provided which has: a first diagnostic resistor R1 one end of which is connected to a terminal D+ of a squib; a first diagnostic switching means Q1 for connecting the other end of the R1 to an ignition voltage VDC; a second diagnostic resistor R3 one end of which is connected to the terminal D+ of the squib; a second diagnostic switching means Q2 for connecting the other end of the R3 to ground; and a CPU. The CPU measures the potentials VD+ and VD- at the squib, by switching the first and second diagnostic switching means Q1 and Q2 on and off in an appropriate manner, and calculates the values of various prescribed diagnostic parameters on the basis of the value of VDC and the values of the VD+ and VD-. Then, the values of the diagnostic parameters are compared with various prescribed evaluation threshold values to determine the source of a failure.

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Yoshihiko Maeno