Patent ID: 7057505

Claim:
An alarm information providing apparatus for a vehicle comprising: a recognizer that recognizes surrounding circumstances of the vehicle in a plurality of directions; a provider that provides alarm information to a driver only upon sensing a request from the driver according to surrounding information output from the recognizer that recognizes surrounding circumstances; and a receiver that receives an alarm information request so as to control the provider using an instruction from the driver as a trigger and comprises a sensor provided to an indicator manipulable to indicate a directional change, the sensor configured to transmit information specifying a direction to an alarm information output controller by touching the sensor, the output controller does not operate with an operation for emitting a turn signal; wherein the receiver specifies a direction of the surrounding information to be output according to the instruction from the driver and outputs information of a specified direction as the trigger to the provider, and the provider switches indicated alarm information according to the instruction from the driver based on the information of the direction output from the receiver.