Patent ID: 9481299
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: B60Q,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A warning device for a vehicle that generates a warning for a driver of a vehicle based on approach information about a moving object approaching the vehicle, the device comprising: a first warning section that calculates a collision prediction time, which is time predicted to elapse before a collision between the moving object and the vehicle, based on the approach information about the moving object, and generates a warning for the driver if the collision prediction time is less than a threshold value; a second warning section that obtains a distance between the moving object and the vehicle as the approach information about the moving object and generates a warning for the driver only when the distance is a value in a warning range; and a switching section that switches the warning section employed to generate a warning for the driver between the first warning section and the second warning section in accordance with a moving direction of the moving object with respect to the vehicle.