Patent ID: 7400233

Claim:
A travel safety apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: an object detecting unit which detects an object in a traveling direction of the vehicle; an object information obtaining unit adapted to obtain object information regarding the object; a vehicle information obtaining unit adapted to obtain vehicle information regarding the vehicle; a determination unit which determines whether or not there is a possibility that one of contact and collision between the vehicle and the object occurs based on the object information and the vehicle information; a position detecting unit which detects positions of eyeballs of an occupant of the vehicle; a projecting unit adapted to project a predetermined image on a retina of the occupant based on eyeball position information when the determination unit determines that there is a possibility that one of contact and collision between the vehicle and the object occurs; and a controller which controls operation of the projecting unit, wherein the controller is adapted to control the projecting unit to project the predetermined image so that the predetermined image overlaps in a view of the occupant with one of a position of the object and an area within a predetermined radius from the position of the object.