Patent ID: 11935413
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle notification apparatus mounted on a host vehicle and configured to notify a following vehicle of the host vehicle of information, the vehicle notification apparatus comprising:
an object of driving over recognition unit configured to recognize an object of driving over on a road on which the host vehicle travels based on a detection result of a front sensor of the host vehicle;
a projectile determination unit configured to determine whether the object of driving over flies backwards based on a detection result of a rear sensor of the host vehicle when the object of driving over is recognized by the object of driving over recognition unit; and
a notification unit configured to notify the following vehicle of projectile information corresponding to the flight of the object of driving over when the projectile determination unit determines that the object of driving over has flown backwards.