Patent ID: 8954219
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G07C

Abstract:
1. A device installed in a vehicle for monitoring a target section in the vehicle, the device comprising: an executing unit configured to execute a fail-safe process for addressing an abnormality in the target section; an instructing unit configured to instruct the executing unit to execute the fail-safe process when an abnormality occurs in the target section; a determining unit configured to determine when the fail-safe process is required to be checked; a checking unit configured to instruct the executing unit to execute the fail-safe process independently of whether an abnormality occurs in the target section each time it is determined that the fail-safe process is required to be checked, thus checking whether an abnormality occurs in the fail-safe process; an obtaining unit configured to obtain, as information indicative of an amount of operation of the device, information indicative of a plurality of types of parameters indicative of the amount of operation of the device, the determining unit being configured to determine that the fail-safe process is required to be checked each time all of the plurality of types of parameters indicative of the amount of operation of the device respectively meet a plurality of preset conditions, the plurality of preset conditions being previously set respectively for the plurality of types of parameters indicative of the amount of operation of the device; and a correcting unit configured to correct each of the plurality of preset conditions based on a difference between a first timing at which the fail-safe process is required to be checked upon all of the plurality of types of parameters respectively meeting the plurality of preset conditions and a second timing at which each of the plurality of types of parameters indicative of the amount of operation of the device meets a corresponding one of the plurality of preset conditions.