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Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2018
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Noda, Tokyo, JP;

Akihito Osato, Kanagawa, JP;

Hirotaka Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;

Hideyuki Matsunaga, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60K 28/06 (2006.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60K 28/06 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0818 (2013.01); B60W 2540/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A driving information generating sectionsuccessively generates as driving information diverse types of information indicative of a driving state of a vehicle. A dangerous driving determining sectiondetermines whether dangerous driving is underway on the basis of the driving information generated by the driving information generating section. A supplementary information acquiring sectionacquires state supplementary information manually or automatically upon determination of dangerous driving by the dangerous driving determining section, and associates the acquired state supplementary information with the result of the determination of dangerous driving. An information communication sectiontransmits the result of the determination of dangerous driving and the state supplementary information to an information management apparatus. The information management apparatuscan recognize the state of the case in which dangerous driving is underway based on the state supplementary information, and correctly determine validity of the result of the determination of dangerous driving.


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