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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2000
Akira Sone, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Masuo Sugiura, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A call response method for a vehicle used in a vehicle to respond to a call received from another system includes following steps: performing a call reception previous notification for previously signaling a call reception at a predetermined interval to appeal to one sense or a combination of at lease two senses among a sense of hearing, a sense of smell and a sense of touch of a driver except for a sense of sight of the driver when a call including at least an image is received in the vehicle from another system; and performing a call reception main notification for presenting the image included in the call to appeal to the sense of sight of the driver, after performing the call reception previous notification except of the sense of sight.