Patent ID: 7791458
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: B60Q,B60T

Abstract:
1. An alerting illumination device mounted in a vehicle comprising: a detecting component that detects the presence of a person; a danger degree estimating component that estimates a degree of danger, with respect to a subject vehicle, of the person detected by the detecting component; a danger assuming component that, on the basis of the degree of danger estimated by the danger degree estimating component, assumes whether or not the person detected by the detecting component is a danger to the subject vehicle; an illuminating component that illuminates light; and a controlling component that, in a case in which the danger assuming component assumes that the person is a danger, controls the illuminating component such that light, which shows a direction of the person who is assumed to be a danger and a distance to the person, is illuminated onto a road surface; wherein the controlling component further controls the illuminating component such that light, which shows a moving direction of the person who is assumed to be a danger, is illuminated on the road surface.