Patent ID: 6879247

Claim:
A vehicle anti-theft device, comprising: illegal activity detection means for detecting illegal activity conducted on a vehicle; vehicle information transmission means for acquiring vehicle information indicating a status of the vehicle so as to wirelessly transmit the vehicle information to one of a vehicle manager information terminal and an anti-theft information center when the illegal activity of the vehicle is detected by the illegal activity detection means; access detection means for detecting access of an object to the vehicle from a surrounding area of the vehicle; and surrounding area information storage means for acquiring surrounding area information indicating a state of the surrounding area of the vehicle so as to store the surrounding area information in a predetermined storage medium when the access of the object to the vehicle is detected by the access detection means, wherein the vehicle information transmission means transmits the surrounding area information stored in the storage medium to one of the vehicle manager information terminal and the anti-theft information center immediately after detection of the illegal activity of the vehicle by the illegal activity detection means.