Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hiroyuki Sakai

Takeshi Mitamura

Katsumi Ohta

Hideaki Hozumi

Masao Yamane

Takeshi Oono

Provided is an information presentation system installed on a vehicle, and including a robot () having a driver unit () to drive the robot () and an output unit () to output information generated according to vehicle conditions, and a robot control device () having an information acquirer unit () to acquire the information generated according to the vehicle conditions, an action controller unit () to cause the driver unit () to drive the robot () in response to the acquired information, thereby causing the robot () to take an action of informing a passenger that information will be presented, and an information presenter unit () to cause the robot () to take an action of presenting the information after taking the action of informing the passenger that the information will be presented.

Information presentation system

An information presentation apparatus for a vehicle includes an indicator mounted on the vehicle for indicating a target direction and a control unit for controlling the indicator. The control unit includes a function for acquiring a current position of the vehicle and a reference direction of the vehicle, a function for specifying a target and acquiring a target position, a function for calculating a target angle that indicates a target direction against the reference direction based on the target position, the current position and the reference direction, and a function for generating a presentation command based on the calculated target angle so as to indicate the target direction by the indicator. According to the apparatus, information for specifying the target position can be provided.

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Atsugi, Japan

Hiroyuki Sakai