Patent ID: 7680592

Claim:
A drive assistance system for assisting an operation of a driver comprising: an information transmission unit for transmitting field information representative of an outer field of the vehicle, wherein the information transmission unit is disposed on an outside of the vehicle, and wherein the outer field includes a field that is potentially invisible from the driver in an outside of the vehicle; a set of information provision units for providing the field information for the driver; and a control unit for controlling the set of information provision units, wherein the control unit makes one of the information provision units provide the field information derived from the information transmission unit for the driver for assisting the operation of the driver, and wherein the control unit makes one other information provision unit provide supplemental information that identifies the information provision unit being controlled for providing the field information derived from the information transmission unit, wherein the information transmission unit, the set of information provision units and the control unit are organized as a drive assistance apparatus.