Patent ID: 6937141

Claim:
A vehicle control system comprising: a communication module which communicates with a mobile phone in response to a call issued from the mobile phone; an image sensor control portion which includes an image sensor for capturing a peripheral image of the vehicle and detects image information captured by the image sensor, wherein a capturing direction of the image sensor is controlled by a first command received through the communication module based on an operation of an operating device provided at the mobile phone; an electric compass that determines azimuth angle data showing the direction along which the vehicle is directed; a storage that obtains positional data showing a current position of the vehicle from a vehicle navigation system that is connected to the vehicle control system, measures the current position of the vehicle, and stores the positional data and the azimuth angle data detected by the electronic compass; and a controller which controls the communication module to transmit the positional data and the azimuth angle data that are stored in the storage through the communication module to the mobile phone according to a second command received through the communication module from the mobile phone, wherein, the controller controls the communication module to transmit the image information detected by the image sensor control portion through the communication module to the mobile phone according to a third command received through the communication module from the mobile phone.