Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Chika Yoshioka

Yuka Sobue

Ryuji Okamura

Yu Hiei

Kazunori Kagawa

Satoru Niwa

Kazuhiro Morimoto

Shin Tanaka

Akihisa Yokoyama

Junichi Wakita

The invention provides a vehicle having an obstacle detection device capable of improving the control accuracy of a motor and preventing the influence of noise on a sensor. A vehicle includes motorsandwhich are AC motors, an inverterthat drives the motors, an ultrasonic sonarwhich is, for example, a detector for detecting an obstacle around the vehicle, a frequency determining devicewhich determines whether noise generated from the inverteris likely to interfere with a detection frequency of the detector, and a sonar ECUwhich changes the carrier frequency of the inverterwhen it is determined that the noise is likely to interfere with the detection frequency.

Vehicle having obstacle detection device

A parking assistance apparatus includes a display unit that displays an image of a scene behind a host vehicle. At least when the host vehicle moves forward or when the host vehicle is stopped, the display unit displays an indication including a plurality of kinds of trajectories along which the host vehicle is able to back up from a point at which the host vehicle is currently positioned, in a manner such that the indication is superimposed on the image of the scene behind the host vehicle.

Parking assistance apparatus

In a vehicle remote operating system remotely operating a host vehicle VM from a portable terminal, a main control unitof an ECUof an in-vehicle devicedetermines an dispatch position of the host vehicle VM on the basis of a parking position of the host vehicle VM and a position of a user U who intends to board the host vehicle VM. Due to this, it becomes possible to dispatch the host vehicle VM according to the parking position of the host vehicle VM and the position of the user U, and convenience is improved in dispatch operation and boarding of the host vehicle VM.

Vehicle remote operating system and in-vehicle device

The recognizability of a vehicle peripheral environment may be enhanced. A vehicle periphery monitoring device is to monitor the periphery of a vehicle. The vehicle periphery monitoring device includes an imaging unit that obtains a plurality of peripheral images by imaging the periphery of the vehicle, a display unit that displays the plurality of peripheral images imaged in the imaging unit, and an image control unit that controls the plurality of peripheral images displayed in the display unit. The image control unit varies a distance between the plurality of peripheral images displayed in the display unit. As a result, sensory understanding of a vehicle peripheral environment by a driver may be enhanced, thereby enhancing the recognizability of the vehicle peripheral environment.

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Chika Yoshioka