Patent ID: 11858414
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 17:
18. An attention calling method, executed by a hardware processor, the attention calling method comprising:
acquiring information regarding obstacles around a moving object, the obstacles being detected by a sensor included in the moving object; calculating a potential risk that is a degree to which attention needs to be paid for each of the obstacles around the moving object, based on the information regarding the obstacles acquired at the acquiring and a moving state of the moving object;
presenting, to an occupant of the moving object, information for calling attention to at least one obstacle having a potential risk exceeding a predetermined value, based on the potential risk of each of the obstacles calculated at the calculating;
determining radiation characteristics of at least one headlight of the moving object to cover the at least one obstacle having the potential risk exceeding the predetermined value;
determining whether a following moving object is traveling in a same direction as the moving object and at a position within a predetermined distance behind the moving object; and
presenting, to a second occupant of the following moving object, second information for calling attention to the obstacle having the potential risk exceeding the predetermined value in response to the following moving object traveling in the same direction and being at the position within the predetermined distance.