Abstract: An approaching-body warning device causes a driver to recognize a direction in which a detection target approaches to an own vehicle and a distance thereto with tactual feeling provided by a vibration device. An approaching-body warning device includes a detection system that detects automobiles and the like approaching to an own vehicle from various directions. A vibration device includes a plurality of vibrating body pairs, each being a right-left pair of vibrating bodies, arranged along a vehicle travelling direction at the interior component with which a driver's body is to be in contact. When the detection system detects the detection target approaching from one or a plurality of directions, a vibration control unit controls the vibration device to cause the vibrating body pairs to vibrate in accordance with each direction in which the detection target detected by the detection system is approaching to the own vehicle and a distance therebetween.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic key system capable of providing an instruction to an automobile through a portable device having biometric authentication of a user. When biometric information of a wearer is detected by a biometric recognition sensor, a portable device worn on a user determines with a biometric authentication unit whether or not the detected biometric information is matched with biometric information of a previously-registered user. When the biometric authentication unit authorizes that the wearer is a registered user, the portable device enables, through a communication control unit, near-distance wireless communication with a control unit mounted on an automobile through a wireless communication device. Thus, the portable device can provide an operational instruction to the automobile through wireless communication with the control unit.

Abstract: An object is to provide an approaching-body warning device capable of causing a drive to recognize, with enhanced reality, a direction and a location of a detection target approaching to an own vehicle. It is provided with a detection system including cameras, a radar sensor, and the like for detecting detection targets approaching to an own vehicle from various directions. A plurality of speakers is arranged in a cabin of the own vehicle to surround a driver. When the detection system determines that a detection target is approaching from any of various directions, an audio control unit provides, to the driver, enhanced reality of the approaching detection target by producing warning sound with surround signals output to a surround stereo audio system to form a sound field corresponding to an approaching direction.

Abstract: An automobile periphery information display system can display actual situations around an own vehicle as superimposing on a map, and detects situations around the own vehicle with a sensor device. A navigation device specifies a current position and a travel direction of the own vehicle and reads map data of a peripheral region including the current position from a map database. An object determination unit detects existence of a detection object based on sensor information detected by the sensor device and determines a category of the detection object. Meanwhile, a position detection unit obtains positional information of the detection object based on the sensor information with the own vehicle being as a reference. An image generation unit generates a map image in which an icon corresponding to the detection object is superimposed on the map data at a position indicated by the positional information detected by the object determination unit.

Abstract: Provided is an automobile proximity warning system that notifies a detection object such as a pedestrian of automobile proximity while ensuring quiet for surrounding environment. A plurality of parametric speakers (13, 14, 15) are arranged so as to emit sound outside a vehicle from different positions of a vehicle body of an own vehicle. When a detection object existing around the own vehicle is detected by a sensor device, a distance detecting unit (5c) detects the direction and distance to the detection object, with the own vehicle being as a reference, from detection information from the sensor device. A warning control unit (5d) selects any of the speakers (13, 14, 15) for emitting sound in the direction and controls warning sound to be emitted while adjusting breadth of the directivity of the speaker in accordance with the distance.

Abstract: An automobile periphery information display system can display actual situations around an own vehicle as superimposing on a map, and detects situations around the own vehicle with a sensor device. A navigation device specifies a current position and a travel direction of the own vehicle and reads map data of a peripheral region including the current position from a map database. An object determination unit detects existence of a detection object based on sensor information detected by the sensor device and determines a category of the detection object. Meanwhile, a position detection unit obtains positional information of the detection object based on the sensor information with the own vehicle being as a reference. An image generation unit generates a map image in which an icon corresponding to the detection object is superimposed on the map data at a position indicated by the positional information detected by the object determination unit.

Abstract: In a vehicle image display system, a travel behavior of an own vehicle during automated driving to be subsequently performed is previously noticed to an occupant with display to be recognized intuitively and instantaneously. A vehicle image display system includes a first display device that uses a front windshield as a display screen and a second display device as a monitor device mounted on a dashboard, and displays, on a display screen of each display device, a moving image of a virtual image of the own vehicle travelling on an arrow of a symbol image indicating a travel course for lane change as having the arrow as a trajectory therefor so as to visually provide prior notice of the lane change to the occupant when the own vehicle in the automated driving system is about to perform the lane change as being deviated from a scheduled travel course.