Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Other

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Ten Limited

Aisin Corporation

Zenrin Co., Ltd.

Toyota Mapmaster Inc.

Denso Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Fujitsu Limied

Asin Aw Co., Ltd.

Fujitsu Tem Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Hironobu Sugimoto

Tomoki Kodan

Akihito Tada

Norihiro Nakamura

Seiji Takahata

Kazuteru Maekawa

Sadahiro Koshiba

Kimiyoshi Sawai

Shinichi Hayashi

Akimasa Nanba

Toshiaki Egawa

Yuji Sato

Xin Jin

Hiroaki Sakakibara

Shingo Kinashi

Takahiro Yamaguchi

Shojiro Takeuchi

Masayuki Yurimoto

Toshiyuki Kaneiwa

Yoriyuki Nagata

Isao Moribe

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Hirokazu Nomoto

Satomi Yoshioka

Toru Sakai

Kenji Yano

Yoshikatsu Matsumoto

Masahiro Tsujiko

Yuichi Ochi

Kazuya Nishimura

Yoichi Sato

Motohiro Nakamura

Yoshihiro Oe

Hideaki Miyazaki

Hiroyoshi Masuda

Hiroaki Sekiyama

Koichi Nakao

Masahiro Kimura

Takao Suzuki

Hidetoshi Fujimoto

Yoshihiro Suda

Daisuke Yamaguchi

Teruhide Hayashida

Yoshiyuki Kato

Akira Iijima

Atsushi Ichimura

Sayaka Yoshizu

Yasuhiro Tooyama

Toshifumi Obayashi

Shohji Ueoka

Isao Ogawa

Hidenobu Suzuki

Ichiro Usami

Kensuke Hanaoka

Koji Uchiyama

Chandrasiri Pathiranehelage Naiwala

Teruhide Hayasida

Takayuki Suzumiya

Mamoru Kainuma

Shoji Iwata

Kenji Shono

Takayuki Hirasawa

Satoshi Okada

Shuguang Li

Kaname Miyazaki

Driving assistance systems, methods, and programs accept an inputted planned travel route from the route guidance system, provide driving assistance of the vehicle on the planned travel route, based on driving assistance map data, and obtain, when versions of the route guidance map data and the driving assistance map data do not match each other, the driving assistance map data whose version matches the version of the route guidance map data from a map provider. Route guidance systems search for a planned travel route based on route guidance map data, provide guidance on the planned travel route, output the planned travel route to the driving assistance system, and obtain, when versions of the route guidance map data and the driving assistance map data do not match each other, the route guidance map data whose version matches the version of the driving assistance map data from a map provider.

Driving assistance system, route guidance system, driving assistance method, and driving assistance program

A driving assistance systems, methods, and programs are capable of communicating with a route guidance system that searches for a planned travel route of a vehicle and provides guidance on the planned travel route. The systems, methods, and programs accept, as input, the planned travel route from the route guidance system as a route for driving assistance and provide driving assistance of the vehicle on the route for driving assistance. The systems, methods, and programs accept, as input, when the planned travel route whose guidance is provided by the route guidance system no longer matches the route for driving assistance, the planned travel route from the route guidance system.

An information providing device to be mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle includes control means and control means for transmitting, when the vehicle is controlled by automatic driving, a control signal for outputting route guidance information for informing a driver of the vehicle about a specified route by mechanical speech, and a control signal for outputting automatic driving guidance information for informing the driver of the vehicle about a route of the vehicle driven by automatic driving by a sound effect.

Information providing device and in-vehicle device

This invention provides technology that can provide a driver with an opportunity to decide whether or not to continue automatic drive control. A cancel point management system includes a cancel point collector that collects first notification information, indicating a manual cancel point which is a point where automatic drive control has been cancelled in response to operation by a driver in a notification vehicle, from the notification vehicle and a guide information distributer that distributes first guide information for showing the manual cancel point to a guide vehicle traveling on a road.

Cancel point management system, cancel point notification system, cancel point guide system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

The present invention provides technology that updates a map such that appropriate guidance can be provided near an intersection. A map data update system updates map data on a link-by-link basis and includes a link acquisition portion that acquires an existing link which is a link indicated by existing map data and a new link which is a link indicated by new map data, and a link update portion that updates the existing link with the new link based on a shape of a portion of the existing link connected to an intersection and a shape of a portion of the new link corresponding to the existing link, the portion being connected to the intersection.

Map data update system and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A driving skill in input driving data is acquired from driving skill classification unit, driving data, which includes a driving skill higher than the driving skill in the input driving data and of which a similarity to the input driving data is at least a predetermined similarity, is selected from among driving data stored in a driving data storage unit, a difference between the selected driving data and the input driving data is detected, and a notice on the detected difference is issued as driving advice. As a result, it is possible to present suitable advice to improve a driving skill taking into account the skill and type of a driver.

Driving assistance device and method

A vehicle is provided with a driving environment information acquisition section, which acquires driving environment information, which is information on a driving environment of the vehicle. A center is provided with a driving environment evaluation section, which quantitatively evaluates the ease of traveling in the driving environment of the vehicle based on an analysis of the driving environment information acquired by the driving environment information acquisition section. A display section of the vehicle displays the result of evaluation by the driving environment evaluation section.

Travel environment evaluation system, travel environment evaluation method, drive assist device, and travel environment display device

An information providing system includes an obtaining portion that obtains image information captured by a moving object traveling on a road, and an information providing portion that provides the obtained image information, and additional information related to the image information.

Information providing system and information providing method

Navigation systems, methods, and programs acquire deviated point information regarding a deviated point where a vehicle traveling a set route has deviated the route, and acquire post-deviation travel history information regarding a travel history after a deviated vehicle has deviated the route at the deviated point. The systems, methods, and programs determine based on the post-deviation travel history information for each of the deviated vehicles whether the deviated vehicle has traveled along a reroute set after deviating the route at the deviated point, and judges whether a rate of the deviated vehicles which were determined as having traveled along the reroute is a first predetermined value or more. If the rate of the deviated vehicles which were determined as having traveled along the reroute is the first predetermined value or more, the systems, methods, and programs determine that guidance of the route is not appropriate.

Navigation device, navigation method, and program

Systems, methods, and programs store feature information relating to features existing on a road and on the periphery of the road, each piece of feature information being associated with a unique identification symbol, each piece of feature information including disposition information expressing a spatial disposition of each feature independently of the road network, form information expressing a form of each feature, accuracy information expressing an accuracy of the information, and acquisition timing information expressing an acquisition timing of the information. The systems, methods, and programs (1) output the feature information stored in the feature database and input map information constituting the map database, the map information being generated based on the output feature information, or (2) generate map information constituting the map database on the basis of the feature information stored in the feature database.

Map database generating systems, methods, and programs

The invention provides a vehicle data analysis method that enables quantitative analysis of characteristics of vehicle data indicating transition in a driver's driving operation, and a vehicle data analysis system using this analysis method. A plurality of vehicle data are collected based a plurality of types of driving operations. Based on an evaluation criterion as an index for evaluating levels of the driving operations, the collected vehicle data are grouped into at least two groups. Characteristic values of the vehicle data differing between these groups are extracted.

Vehicle data analysis method and vehicle data analysis system

Map information distribution systems and methods store map information and version information for each road category of the map information stored in a navigation device, the version information correlated with identification information identifying the navigation device. The systems and methods receive the identification information from the navigation device and obtain, based on the received identification information, the version information for each road category of the map information stored in the navigation device corresponding to the stored identification information. The systems and methods extract, based on the obtained version information for each road category, differential data for each road category with stored map information of a latest version, and transmit the extracted differential data for each road category to the navigation device corresponding to the received identification information.

Map information distribution systems and methods

A data updating system includes a navigation device running according to a predefined application program; and a server providing the navigation device with a differential data file for updating a database containing road network data. The navigation device includes a navigation memory storing a local database in an updating data format in which the road network data is arranged in the order of data types and to be updated with the differential data file; and a navigation controller that converts data stored in the local database so as to have the reference data format in which the road network data is arranged in the order of connection of the road network to be referenced to by the application program. The server includes a server controller that outputs the differential data file to be provided to the navigation device.

Data updating system, navigation device, server, and method of data updating

There is provided a map information providing technology that can keep map information very fresh at all times. A map information management system has a map to be updated DB for storing map data to be updated that is used to update and maintenance, a map to be provided DB for storing map data to be provided that is distributed, an updated data DB for storing updated data for updating the map data to be provided, a map DB update means for updating the map data to be updated when the updated data for updating the map data of the map data to be updated DB is input, an updated data creation mean for creating the differential data before and after it is updated by the updated data and storing the differential data in the updated data DB as the updated data, and a data distribution means for extracting the map data to be provided or the updated data stored in the map to be provided DB when it receives a request to distribute the map data or the updated data from a destination system and distributing it to the destination system.

Map information management system and map information distribution system

A map information delivery system, including a navigation apparatus, is capable of preferentially receiving map updating information based on a host vehicle's state. The updating information may be preferentially received based on whether a destination has been set, a location of the updating information relative to an updating position or a destination, and/or the size of the updating information.

Map information delivery system, method, and program

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Hironobu Sugimoto