US 12,168,450 B2
Safety support device
Masaki Maruyama, Saitama (JP); Junichi Sakamoto, Saitama (JP); Yuichiro Shimura, Saitama (JP); and Toru Ezaki, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/184,685.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-054576 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0311921 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60Q 5/006 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60W 2540/223 (2020.02); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2710/30 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A safety support device for a vehicle, comprising:
a detector that detects a position of an object around the vehicle;
three-dimensional sound outputters that output a three-dimensional sound to allow a driver to sense a direction in which the object exists;
a sound outputter that outputs a sound allowing the driver to sense the existence of the object;
a monitor that monitors a change in positions of ears of the driver; and
a controller that controls the three-dimensional sound outputters and the sound outputter, based on detection information of the detector and the monitor,
wherein the controller selects, in accordance with the positions of the ears of the driver, the positions being detected by the monitor, whether to cause the three-dimensional sound outputters to output the three-dimensional sound or to cause the sound outputter to output the sound.