Patent ID: 9601017
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G08G,G09B

Claim:
1. A reckless-vehicle reporting apparatus in a vehicle, the reckless-vehicle reporting apparatus wirelessly communicating data with a different reckless-vehicle reporting apparatus in each of a plurality of different vehicles different from the vehicle, the different reckless-vehicle reporting apparatus being identical to the reckless-vehicle reporting apparatus in function, the reckless-vehicle reporting apparatus, executed on a processor, comprising: a position detection unit that detects a position of the vehicle; an in-vehicle communicator that transmits a position data indicating a position of the vehicle and receives a position data indicating a position of each of the different vehicles; a mark display processor that displays a mark indicating the position of each of the different vehicles on a display based on the received position data of each of the different vehicles; a determination information acquisition section that acquires determination information that is used to determine whether a reckless driving operation takes place in the vehicle or not; a transmission control section that transmits the determination information acquired by the determination information acquisition section via the in-vehicle communicator; a reception control section that receives determination information from each of the different vehicles via the in-vehicle communicator, the determination information received from each of the different vehicles being used to determine whether a reckless driving operation takes place in each of the different vehicles or not; a reckless-vehicle determination section that determines whether a reckless driving operation takes place in each of the different vehicles based on the determination information of each of the different vehicles received by the reception control section; and a reckless-vehicle display processor that displays the mark indicating the position of a target different vehicle in a first display mode, the target different vehicle being the different vehicle in which the reckless driving operation is determined to take place by the reckless-vehicle determination section, the first display mode being different from a second display mode that is used to the mark indicating the position of each of the different vehicles in which the reckless driving operation is not determined to take place, wherein: the determination information acquisition section includes a travel speed acquisition unit that acquires a travel speed of the vehicle; the determination information contains a travel speed acquired by the travel speed acquisition unit; and the reckless-vehicle determination section determines that the reckless driving operation takes place in the target different vehicle when a travel speed of the target different vehicle is greater than a value that is obtained by adding a predetermined threshold value to an average travel speed of several nearby different vehicles among the plurality of different vehicles traveling adjacent to the target different vehicle.