Patent ID: 7688188
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surrounding information informing device, which informs a vehicle passenger of a surrounding obstacle information, comprising: an own-vehicle traveling information detecting device to detect own-vehicle traveling information including a location, a moving speed and a moving direction of an own vehicle; an own-vehicle obstacle detecting device to detect own-vehicle obstacle information including a location, a moving speed and a moving direction of an obstacle that exists around the own vehicle; an information communication device to receive another-vehicle obstacle information including a location, a moving speed and a moving direction of an obstacle that exists around the own vehicle, the another-vehicle obstacle information being detected by another vehicle; a hidden-area obstacle detecting device to detect a hidden-area obstacle that is located in a hidden-area of the own vehicle and approaches the own vehicle based on the own-vehicle obstacle information detected by said own-vehicle obstacle detecting device and the another-vehicle obstacle information received by said information communication device, an existing-area calculating device to calculate an existing area of the hidden-area obstacle detected by said hidden-area obstacle detecting device, based on the own-vehicle traveling information detected by said own-vehicle traveling information detecting device and information with respect to the hidden-area obstacle of said own-vehicle obstacle information and said the another-vehicle obstacle information, the existing area of the hidden-area obstacle indicating at least a range from a present location of the hidden-area obstacle to a moving location of the hidden-area obstacle where the hidden-area obstacle reaches when the hidden-area obstacle approaches closest to the own vehicle; and an indicating device to indicate the existing area of the hidden-area obstacle calculated by said existing-area calculating device, wherein the indication includes the existing area of the hidden-area obstacle showing at least a range from a present location of the hidden-area obstacle to a moving location of the hidden-area obstacle where the hidden-area obstacle reaches when the hidden-area obstacle approaches closest to the own vehicle.