US 12,143,908 B2
Emergency reporting device for vehicle
Isamu Nagasawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/386,532.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-130804 (JP), filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038873 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/0965 (2006.01); B60W 30/08 (2012.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 4/46 (2018.02) [B60W 30/08 (2013.01); G08G 1/0965 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); B60W 2030/082 (2013.01); B60W 2556/55 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An emergency reporting device for a vehicle, the emergency reporting device comprising one or more electronic control units (ECUs) configured to:
detect or estimate an emergency including a collision of the vehicle;
cause, when the emergency of the vehicle is detected or estimated, a communicator of the vehicle to transmit information related to the emergency to outside the vehicle so that a succeeding vehicle receives the information related to the emergency; and
cause a notification device of the vehicle to output a first notification based on receiving, after the information related to the emergency is transmitted to outside the vehicle, from outside the vehicle, acknowledgment information generated based on a recognition operation on an operation device of the succeeding vehicle by an occupant of the succeeding vehicle with respect to the received information related to the emergency,
wherein the one or more ECUs is configured to:
cause, in response to causing the communicator to transmit the information related to emergency to outside the vehicle, the notification device to output a second notification indicating that the information related to the emergency is unrecognized by the occupant of the succeeding vehicle; and
cause, in response to receiving the acknowledgment information, the notification device to output the first notification indicating that the acknowledgment information is received from the succeeding vehicle from the notification device to change the second notification into the first notification.