Subaru Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hajime Oyama

Masato Mizoguchi

Ryosuke Namba

Katsuhiro Aoki

Koji Matsuno

Shiro Ezoe

Yasushi Takaso

Yasuo Miyoshi

Harunobu Horiguchi

Takayuki Nagase

Tomoyuki Kitamura

Hiromitsu Takagaki

Teruyuki Ohnuma

Kiyonori Tsuda

Satoru Akiyama

Takashi Hodoshima

Seiji Oka

Hiroshi Ikeguchi

Kohji Suzuki

Yasushi Akiba

Tsukuru Kai

Nobutaka Takeuchi

Katsuhiro Echigo

Manabu Mochizuki

Seiichi Miyakawa

Eiichi Shiraishi

Takayuki Koike

Takahiro Tamiya

Shinya Kudo

Hisashi Shoji

Theerawat Limpibunterng

Takehiko Fujioka

Shin Hasegawa

Fumihiro Sasaki

Satoshi Mochizuki

Noriyuki Inoue

Osamu Takahashi

Masaya Endo

Shinichi Namekata

Masaru Kogure

Toru Saito

Shinji Matsushita

Osamu Ariizumi

Daichi Yamaguchi

Keisuke Kuwahara

Eiichi Katoh

Nobuo Mochizuki

Takeshi Terazawa

Masao Moriya

Motoki Zaizen

Koji Suzuki

Nobuyuki Sato

Hideyuki Tanaka

Nobuyuki Yanagawa

Noriyoshi Tarumi

Mitsuru Takahashi

Tsutomu Watanabe

Masahiko Kurishige

Takatsugu Fujishiro

Akihiro Watanabe

Ichiro Kadota

Yuuji Sawai

Toshio Kaneko

Shigekazu Enoki

Sadayuki Iwai

Chikara Imai

Misao Tanzawa

Tohru Nakano

Nobuhiko Umezawa

Yukio Tabata

Yuji Sawai

Noriyuki Usui

Kenji Karashima

Kentaro Matsumoto

Hiromi Demizu

Kazuhiko Yuki

Tsumori Satoh

Takahisa Kato

Motonori Hanada

Hidefumi Gohhara

Hideo Yoo

Kengo Kobayashi

Asami Mae

Masao Masumura

Shinichi Igarashi

Hiroaki Kawamura

Yuichirou Tamura

Megumi Sakakura

Kaoru Shimizu

Masaru Nakanishi

Norikazu Ebisawa

A surrounding space data providing system for a control apparatus for a vehicle includes a space generation processor and a signal generation processor. The space generation processor generates a surrounding space around the vehicle with the vehicle assuming a post-control position and a post-control posture, on the basis of a motion of the vehicle based on control data to be outputted by the control apparatus. The signal generation processor generates a generated signal of a space in which an object present in the surrounding space is arranged in the surrounding space in corresponding relation to the post-control position and the post-control posture of the vehicle. The generated signal is as suppliable to the control apparatus as a detection signal to be obtained by detection by an autonomous sensor provided in the vehicle. The signal generation processor outputs the generated signal to the control apparatus in place of the detection signal.

Surrounding space data providing system for control apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle position generation apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a memory, an imaging device, and a processor. The memory holds map data including information on at least positions of standing structures arranged to stand along a road on which the vehicle travels. The imaging device captures an image of a forward side in a traveling direction of the vehicle. The processor acquires information from the memory and the imaging device, and processes the acquired information. The processor generates information on one or more standing structures included in the captured image obtained by the imaging device, identifies, in the map data, positions of the one or more standing structures on which the information has been generated, and generates a position of the vehicle, based on the positions of the one or more standing structures identified in the map data, and the captured image.

Vehicle position generation apparatus, vehicle, and server

A travelling control system includes a plurality of vehicles each including a controller, a server including a generator configured to generate a travelling control information for the plurality of vehicles, a predictor configured to predict a merging interference between a first vehicle travelling from a merging road toward a main road and a second vehicle travelling on the main road, a sender which is provided in the first vehicle to send an interference suppressing request, and a receiver which is provided in the second vehicle to receive the interference suppressing request. The controller of the second vehicle travelling on the main road is configured to execute interference suppressing control of suppressing an approach of the second vehicle to the first vehicle travelling from the merging road to the main road, in a case that the receiver receives the interference suppressing request from the first vehicle.

Traveling control system for vehicles

A traveling environment recognition apparatus includes a camera, a first traveling environment recognition unit, a second traveling environment recognition unit, and an imaging mode switching unit. The first traveling environment recognition unit calculates the movement amount of a vehicle on the basis of an optical flow in an image captured by the camera. The second traveling environment recognition unit calculates a vehicle position in the real space on the basis of positioning signals received from positioning satellites. The imaging mode switching unit drives the camera in a first imaging mode when positioning accuracy based on the positioning signals is high, while the imaging mode switching unit drives in a second imaging mode when the positioning accuracy is low. When the camera is driven in the second imaging mode, the second traveling environment recognition unit estimates the vehicle position on a road map based on the movement amount.

Traveling environment recognition apparatus

A vehicle driving control system includes: a first road-traffic detection information acquisition unit and a first communicator of a mobile body; a road traffic information recognition unit, a control information calculation unit, and a second communicator of a traffic control apparatus; a second road-traffic detection information acquisition unit and a third communicator of a monitoring apparatus; and a driving control execution unit of a vehicle. The first and second road-traffic detection information acquisition units respectively acquire first and second road-traffic detection information. The road traffic information recognition unit recognizes road traffic information from the first and second road-traffic detection information received by the second communicator respectively through the first and third communicators. The control information calculation unit calculates, from the road traffic information, control information for the vehicle. The driving control execution unit controls driving based on the control information received by the first communicator through the second communicator.

Vehicle driving control system and vehicle traffic control apparatus

A vehicle external environment imaging apparatus includes imaging devices and a controller. The imaging devices are disposed on a vehicle to perform imaging of a vehicle external environment. The controller generates information regarding a distance or a direction of a vehicle-external imaging target with imaging images of the imaging devices. At least two imaging devices are disposed on the vehicle to be able to perform duplicated imaging of a common imaging region. The controller generates, on the basis of a distance and a direction in an imaging image obtained by a first one of the at least two imaging devices, correction information regarding a distance, a direction or both of the vehicle-external imaging target based on an imaging position which is to be used in a monocular process on an imaging image of at least one the at least two imaging devices that is different from the first one.

Vehicle external environment imaging apparatus

A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a stereo camera device, a LiDAR device, and a control unit. The stereo camera device recognizes a predetermined range of a front region of the vehicle as an image to acquire image data, and acquires three-dimensional image information including distance information on the basis of the acquired image data. The LiDAR device acquires three-dimensional point cloud data including distance information for each of detection points, by scanning substantially a same range as a range recognized by the stereo camera device, of the front region of the vehicle. The control unit controls the stereo camera device and the LiDAR device. The control unit includes a camera calibration unit that performs calibration of the stereo camera device, by correcting a position shift of the three-dimensional image information acquired by the stereo camera device, with respect to the three-dimensional point cloud data acquired by the LiDAR device.

Vehicle traveling control apparatus

A vehicle driving control system includes a road map information updating unit, a control information calculation unit, and a driving control execution unit. Upon determining that a stopped vehicle is present ahead of a target vehicle and that the target vehicle is able to pass by the stopped vehicle, the control information calculation unit calculates control information to be used to restrict a vehicle speed to a first set vehicle speed or less until the target vehicle passes by the stopped vehicle, and calculates, if a door of the stopped vehicle has been opened, the control information to be used to restrict the vehicle speed to a second set vehicle speed or less until a set time period elapses from the opening of the door or until the target vehicle passes by the stopped vehicle. The second set vehicle speed is lower than the first set vehicle speed.

Vehicle driving control system

A traffic control system includes a vehicle control system and a management and control system. The vehicle control system transmits, from a probe information transmitter, traveling information of a specific section in which an own vehicle has traveled deviating from a target route or target speed of the own vehicle, as probe information. The management and control system collects the probe information of a plurality of vehicles and extracts highly reliable information by a probe information collector, and calculates and transmits recommended traveling information for passing through the specific section by a recommended traveling information calculator. The vehicle control system performs traveling control for passing through the specific section based on the recommended traveling information for the specific section received from the management and control system and recognition information of a traveling environment for the specific section in a specific section traveling controller.

Traffic control system

A vehicle driving support system capable of supporting driving of a vehicle that travels on a road includes a notifier, and an acquirer. In a case where there is a first vehicle that moves between lanes, the notifier is configured to, provide notification of presence of the first vehicle to a second vehicle travelling in a target lane into which the first vehicle is to move. The acquirer is configured to acquire a size of a merging space that is to be provided by the second vehicle for merging of the first vehicle. In a case where the first vehicle is travelling under autonomous operation or assisted operation, the acquirer is configured to acquire the size of the merging space such that the size of the merging space is longer than when acquired in a case where the first vehicle is travelling under manual operation.

Vehicle driving support system, server apparatus for the vehicle driving support system, and vehicle for the vehicle driving support system

An object estimation device includes an acquisition unit and an estimation unit. The acquisition unit acquires a space image including an object present in a space. The estimation unit estimates image region data on the basis of a portion or all of the space image including the object. The image region data indicates a location of the object in the space image. On the condition that the object included in the space image acquired by the acquisition unit is included in an oblique posture, the estimation unit estimates an image region widened from an image region of the object included in the oblique posture in the space image, as the image region data.

Object estimation device, object estimation method therefor, and vehicle

A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, a generator, and a controller. The collector collects field information on movement of mobile bodies using communication apparatuses provided in respective predetermined zones or respective predetermined sections. The mapping unit maps positions of the mobile bodies based on the collected field information. The generator generates course-related information based on information on the mapped positions of the mobile bodies. The controller is provided for each of the mobile bodies and controls movement of corresponding one of the mobile bodies based on the course-related information. If the collected field information includes information on an obstacle that would hinder the movement of the mobile bodies, the mapping unit maps the obstacle together with the positions of the mobile bodies, and the generator generates the course-related information for the mobile bodies to cause the mobile bodies to move avoiding the obstacle.

Mobility information provision system, server, and vehicle

A mobility information provision system includes a collector, a mapping unit, an overall generator, and a specific generator. The collector collects information about movement of a plurality of mobile bodies. The mapping unit maps positions of the plurality of mobile bodies on the basis of the information collected by the collector. The overall generator repeatedly performs a first generation process of generating course-related information by using information including the mapped positions. The specific generator performs, in a case where a specific area for one or more mobile bodies, out of the plurality of mobile bodies, has been set, a second generation process of generating the course-related information for the one or more mobile bodies present in the specific area, by using the information including the mapped positions. The specific generator executes the second generation process in precedence over the first generation process executed by the overall generator.

A automatic driving control apparatus for a vehicle can selectively switch a driving mode between a manual driving mode in which a driver manually performs driving operation of the own vehicle and an automatic driving mode in which driving operation is performed automatically along a set target traveling route. The automatic driving control apparatus includes a driving skill evaluation unit and a driving mode switching unit. The driving skill evaluation unit is configured to monitor the driving operation by the driver during traveling in the manual driving mode and evaluate a driving skill of the driver. The driving mode switching unit is configured to control the driving mode so as to be switchable to the automatic driving mode on condition that at least an evaluation value of the driver by the driving skill evaluation unit exceeds a threshold set in advance.

Automatic driving control apparatus for vehicle based on driving skill of driver

A map generation system includes a vehicle including a terminal, an input data compilation device, and an output data compilation device. The input data compilation device includes a data reception unit, a data accumulation unit, and a current state map data creation unit. The data reception unit communicates with a communication unit of the terminal. The data accumulation unit accumulates data held by the terminal. The current state map data creation unit creates current state map data using data accumulated by the data accumulation unit, and map data, regional data, or both. The output data compilation device includes a forward region calculation unit and a calculation transmission unit. The forward region calculation unit makes predictive calculation of a forward region of the vehicle, using the current state map data. The calculation transmission unit communicates with the communication unit regarding a result of the predictive calculation.

Map generation system

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Hajime Oyama