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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2003
Filed:
May. 24, 2002
Ken-ichi Moriguchi, Neyagawa, JP;
Masaaki Tomoda, Suita, JP;
Teruaki Ata, Ibaraki, JP;
Takeshi Hatakeyama, Neyagawa, JP;
Tsuyoshi Kindo, Sennangun, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An in-vehicle communication device that automatically answers a caller device that sends a call when a telephone device located in a vehicle receives the call comprising: in-vehicle sensors that detect vehicle conditions, a communication interface for the telephone device and a control device that controls the telephone device via the communication interface wherein the control device acquires the vehicle conditions which are detected by the in-vehicle sensors judges whether a driver's answering the call is dangerous or not based on the acquired vehicle conditions when the control device detects the call to the telephone device prepares an answer message including vehicle information that depends upon a running condition of the vehicle at the time when the driver's answering the call is judged to be dangerous, and sends the prepared answer message to the caller device.