Patent ID: 8818621
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: B60R,G07C

Abstract:
1. An in-vehicle device which is carried on an automotive vehicle, and includes an operation execution unit that executes a vehicle operation, requested by a user, in response to a remote control request from the user, the in-vehicle device comprising: a vehicle state monitoring unit configured to detect a person or animal in a passenger compartment of the vehicle or in areas surrounding the vehicle; and a control unit configured to permit the operation execution unit to execute the vehicle operation if the vehicle state monitoring unit does not detect a person or animal in the passenger compartment of the vehicle or in the areas surrounding the vehicle upon reception of the remote control request, wherein the control unit is configured to determine permission or inhibition of execution of the requested vehicle operation by the operation execution unit depending on whether the requested vehicle operation satisfies predetermined conditions for execution of the vehicle operation if the vehicle state monitoring unit detects the person or animal in the passenger compartment of the vehicle or in the areas surrounding the vehicle upon reception of the remote control request.