Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hayato Ito

Yasuhiro Kobatake

Akihiro Kusumoto

Daichi Hotta

Hidekazu Sasaki

Marie Ishikawa

Aya Hamajima

Toshiki Kindo

Tomoyuki Kuriyama

Nobuhide Kamata

Taichi Kawanai

Takayuki Iwamoto

Hideyuki Matsui

Kazuhiko Kamikado

An information collection system includes a plurality of vehicles and a server. The server is configured to, when an event occurrence notification notifying that a specific event has occurred at least together with an event occurrence location is received, select at least one vehicle to move toward the event occurrence location from among the vehicles as an information collection vehicle, and transmit an information collection instruction notification to the information collection vehicle. The vehicles are configured to, when the information collection instruction notification is received, move toward the event occurrence location and collect images captured by a camera while the vehicles are moving as event-related information that is information related to the event.

Information collection system

A pedestrian protection system includes a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles and a server configured to be able to communicate with each of the autonomous driving vehicles. The server is configured to select at least one vehicle to be moved to the location of a pedestrian from among the autonomous driving vehicles as a pedestrian protection vehicle when a particular situation occurrence notification is received and is configured to send an instruction notification to the pedestrian protection vehicle. The particular situation occurrence notification indicates that the pedestrian is placed in a particular situation. The instruction notification instructs the pedestrian protection vehicle to move to the location of the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian. Each of the autonomous driving vehicles is configured to move to the location of the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian when the instruction notification is received.

Pedestrian protection system

A monitoring device includes: an instruction unit configured to instruct a vehicle to acquire appearance data of a monitoring object designated by a user; a detection unit configured to receive the appearance data from the vehicle and to detect whether a state of the monitoring object has changed based on the appearance data; and a monitoring result notifying unit configured to notify the user of a monitoring result of the monitoring object when the detection unit detects that the state of the monitoring object has changed.

Monitoring device, monitoring method, and monitoring system

An autonomous driving system that performs a traveling of an autonomous driving vehicle based on a remote instruction by a remote commander includes: a vehicle position acquisition unit configured to acquire a position of the autonomous driving vehicle on the map; an external environment recognition unit configured to recognize an external environment of the autonomous driving vehicle; a remote instruction location situation recognition unit configured to recognize a remote instruction location situation on a target route of the autonomous driving vehicle set in advance based on the target route, the position of the autonomous driving vehicle on the map, and map information; and a remote instruction request determination unit configured to determine whether or not to request the remote commander for the remote instruction with regard to the remote instruction location situation, based on the external environment of the autonomous driving vehicle.

Autonomous driving system

A server includes: a registration unit that registers identification information for identifying a detection target in a storage unit; a detection target determination unit that determines whether the detection target is shown in an image captured on or around a road, based on the identification information; an abnormal behavior determination unit that determines whether the detection target exhibits an abnormal behavior that is different from a normal behavior of the detection target, when the detection target is shown in the image; and an alert transmission unit that transmits an alert when the detection target exhibits the abnormal behavior.

Abnormal behavior notification device, abnormal behavior notification system, abnormal behavior notification method, and recording medium

A notification device includes an object detection unit configured to detect a position and a relative condition of an object around a host vehicle; a virtual sound source setting unit configured to set a virtual sound source around the driver, based on the detected position of the object; a sound output unit configured to output a notification sound to a driver; and a sound output control unit configured to output the notification sound from the sound output unit such that the driver identifies that the notification sound in response to the relative condition has come from a direction of the set virtual sound source, based on the set virtual sound source and the relative condition.

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Susono, Japan

Hayato Ito