US 12,249,197 B2
Notifying device
Tomokazu Tojo, Fujisawa (JP); Tomoaki Sasaki, Fujisawa (JP); and Naoki Takahashi, Fujisawa (JP)
Assigned to Isuzu Motors Limited, Yokohama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/795,583
Filed by Isuzu Motors Limited, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 29, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/003236
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/153731, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-013537 (JP), filed on Jan. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0105672 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G07C 5/08 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 5/0816 (2013.01) [G07C 5/0808 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A notification apparatus comprising:
a notification part configured to detect an object located around a vehicle using radar and provide a passenger with a notification of presence of the object; and
a notification control part in which among operations of an operation part for operating the vehicle, a low start operation that is estimated that a driver's intention to start in a predetermined direction is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value is set in advance, the notification control part being configured such that when the low start operation has been executed while the vehicle has been stopped, the notification control part controls the notification part so as to suppress a level of a notification than when the vehicle is travelling,
wherein the low start operation is a switching operation of a transmission switching part of the vehicle to a shifting position that starts the vehicle in a direction different from the detection direction of the object.