Fujitsu Ten Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Seiko Epson Corporation

Kazuhiro Sakiyama

Kazuya Sako

Satoshi Harumoto

Toshitaka Yamato

Toshihiro Shimizu

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Yoshihiko Maeno

Masaaki Nagami

Masahiro Babasaki

Motohiro Nakamura

Yuusaku Matsuda

Tsuyoshi Takatori

Tomohiro Matsuo

Naotoshi Miyamoto

Kouichi Tomiyama

Shimizu Toshihiro

A driving support apparatus supports a driver in driving a vehicle. The driving support apparatus determines a state of the vehicle by collecting information concerning an operating condition of the vehicle, determines a plurality of optimum operations of the vehicle to achieve a corresponding objective based on the determined state, and arbitrates the determined optimum operations.

Driving support apparatus and driving support method

A vehicle drive assist system comprises a camera for picking up an image of an area existing in an advancing direction of a vehicle; display means for displaying the image picked up by the camera; steering angle detecting means for detecting a steering angle for steering the vehicle; traveling path predicting means for predicting a traveling path of the vehicle on the basis of the steering angle detected by the steering angle detecting means; and drive assist means for overlaying on the display means drive assist information containing the vehicle predictive traveling path predicted by the traveling path predicting means and guide lines prolonged from the lines defining the width of the vehicle body on the image of the area existing in the vehicle advancing direction.

Vehicle drive assist system

A control apparatus for an in-vehicle device includes an acquisition/transmission unit and a recording unit. The acquisition/transmission unit acquires a program guide corresponding to a position of a vehicle and transmits the acquired program guide to a communication terminal device. The recording unit selects at least one program from the acquired program guide on a basis of an instruction transmitted from the communication terminal device and records at least one of video and audio of the selected program.

Control apparatus for an in-vehicle device, control method for an in-vehicle device, and control program for an in-vehicle device

An apparatus for monitoring a status of a vehicle, which determines whether the vehicle is in an abnormal status by comparing an impact value detected by a detecting unit that detects an impact on the vehicle with a predetermined threshold value, includes a first determining unit that determines whether the impact value detected is over at least one threshold value from among a plurality of threshold values; and a second determining unit that, when the first determining unit determines that the impact value is over the at least one threshold value, continues to monitor a status of the vehicle, and determines whether the vehicle is in an abnormal status.

Method and apparatus for monitoring vehicle status

An apparatus for managing a notification from an in-vehicle device to a person to be notified includes an information acquiring unit that acquires information on the person; and a means selecting unit that selects a notification means based on the information acquired. The information includes at least a relative position of the person with respect to a vehicle.

Notification managing apparatus and notification managing method for vehicle

A vehicle control apparatus includes an information acquiring/managing unit that acquires information for controlling various units in a vehicle instead of a driver of the vehicle, and manages the information acquired, a situation determining unit that determines a situation under which the vehicle is placed, based on the information, a danger determining unit that selects predetermined information corresponding to the situation from among the information, and determines degree of danger of the situation based on the predetermined information, and a vehicle controller that controls predetermined units in the vehicle in such a manner that the degree of danger is reduced.

Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle control method, and computer program

A camera unit is mounted on a vehicle . When an attempt is made to park the vehicle in a parking lot, a predicted path 5 and guidelines 5 are displayed on an information display together with an image. Data to be used for displaying the predicted path 5 and the guidelines 5 are stored beforehand in internal memory of an image processing circuit provided in a parking assist ECU so that the data can be selected in accordance with specifications, such as the type of the vehicle . The predicted path 5 is computed on the basis of a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor provided in an exposed portion of the steering shaft . The length or color of the predicted path 5 is changed in accordance with the speed of the vehicle . Further, a vehicle driving support system is provided with a back sonar , and hence the length or color of the predicted path 5 is also changed in accordance with the result of detection of an obstacle.

Vehicle driving support system, and steering angle detection device

A camera unit is mounted on a vehicle . When an attempt is made to park the vehicle in a parking lot, a predicted path and guidelines are displayed on an information display together with an image. Data to be used for displaying the predicted path and the guidelines are stored beforehand in internal memory of an image processing circuit provided in a parking assist ECU so that the data can be selected in accordance with specifications, such as the type of the vehicle . The predicted path is computed on the basis of a steering angle detected by a steering angle sensor provided in an exposed portion of the steering shaft . The length or color of the predicted path is changed in accordance with the speed of the vehicle . Further, a vehicle driving support system is provided with a back sonar , and hence the length or color of the predicted path is also changed in accordance with the result of detection of an obstacle.

A noise control device disposed at the outlet of a tail pipe which emits exhaust noise of an automobile to silence noise from the tail pipe comprises a speaker which is arranged near the tail pipe and of which the open surface has a constant angle with respect to a vertical plane, an enclosure which closes the rear portion of the speaker, and a silencing sound guide portion which guides silencing sounds emitted from the front surface of the speaker to the outlet of the tail pipe. A closed space into which a bumper for absorbing impact in case of collision is made, is used as a resonant-cavity of said speaker. Based on the amount of silencing noise which becomes greater as a plurality of microphones are arranged to be closer to the speaker, the outputs of the plurality of microphones apart a constant distance from said speaker are synthesized.

Noise control device

In a noise controller which forms a noise cancelling sound having a phase opposite to and a sound pressure equal to those of a noise infiltrating into a closed space, any deviation in its transfer characteristics from the initial equalization is easily checked and judged owing to the provision of an adaptive filter which automatically varies the filter coefficient and forms a cancelling signal for forming a cancelling sound, a coefficient updating means which updates the filter coefficient based on an error signal after the noise has been cancelled, a simulated transfer characteristics compensation means which forms the initial equalization by simulating transfer characteristics of a transmission path via the space in which the noise is to be cancelled and forms a reproduced reference signal, a white noise generating means which generates white noise to check the initial equalization, and an initial equalization judging means which judges the accuracy of the initial equalization based on a ratio (S/N) of the reproduced reference signal obtained from white noise to the error signal. A change in the conditions for cancelling noise is detected in the closed space, and any deviation from the initial equalization is judged.

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Kazuhiro Sakiyama