Patent ID: 7239252
Filing Date: 2007-07-03
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A communications system provided in a vehicle, the communications system comprising: a communicating unit that has a wireless communications area to execute an inter-vehicle communications with another communication system configured for cooperative communication; a vehicle state detecting unit that detects at least one state of the vehicle; and a controlling unit that controls various controls, wherein the controlling unit includes: a determining unit that determines at least one of whether the vehicle enters a parked state where the vehicle is to be parked and whether the vehicle enters a departing state where the vehicle is to depart based on the vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detecting means; and a transmission controlling unit that causes the communicating unit to send parking information indicating that the vehicle enters the parked state when that the vehicle enters the parked state is determined, and departing information indicating that the vehicle enters the departing state when the vehicle enters the departing state is determined; and a notifying unit that executes, when at least one of parking information and departing information is received from the another communications system via the communicating unit, at least one of a notification indicating that a vehicle to be parked is present and a notification indicating that a vehicle to depart is present based on the received at least one of parking information and departing information, respectively.