Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Denso Corporation

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Kazuya Sasaki

Masumi Kobana

Masaaki Uechi

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Masahiro Ueda

Shinya Kawamata

Akira Shinada

Ippei Tambata

Goro Asai

Hironobu Kitaoka

Shojiro Takeuchi

Makoto Hamada

Takashi Yonekawa

Nobutaka Tauchi

Mikio Kamada

Katsuhiko Nunokawa

Koichi Fujita

Tomoharu Maeda

Osamu Ozaki

Hiroaki Okajima

Tetsuya Oki

Hiromichi Fujishima

Masafumi Kizu

Kazunori Higuchi

Hiroaki Kosaka

Takuya Otsuka

Jiro Tsuchiya

Tatsuya Iwase

Hiroko Mori

Mitsuteru Kokubun

Masaaki Naito

Shuitsu Yamamoto

Kazuhiko Gotoh

Tetsuo Kurahashi

Hirokazu Nishitani

Mikinari Yokoi

A determination processing ECU of a vehicle control apparatus which stops a vehicle regardless of whether a driver operates a brake pedal operation stops the vehicle while changing the steering angle of the vehicle based on an environment surrounding a vehicle stop position.

Vehicle control apparatus

An emergency evacuation device of a vehicle that executes an automatic vehicle stop control based on a command of a driver is disclosed. The emergency evacuation device comprises a driver's physiological condition estimation portion that estimates a driver's physiological condition; a driver's command input portion, operated by the driver, that receives a driver's command input and outputs a command of an execution of an automatic vehicle stop control in accordance with the command input; and an automatic vehicle stop control portion that executes the automatic vehicle stop control in response to the command from the driver's command input portion, wherein based on the driver's physiological condition estimated in the driver's physiological condition estimation portion, the structure of the driver's command input portion, for example, the arrangement of receptor(s) of the driver's command input portion receiving the command from the driver is changed.

Vehicle emergency evacuation device

The present invention provides a traffic simulator which can simulate traffic conditions with high accuracy. Cautionary object searching portion searches for cautionary objects which a driver should heed when driving a vehicle model; recognized cautionary object selection portion and driver-recognized cautionary object selection portion, based on driver ability information set by data creation portion, select cautionary objects recognized by a driver from the found cautionary objects; and movement determination portion determines the movement of a vehicle model based on the selected cautionary objects.

Traffic simulator

An intersection visibility determination device includes an ECU that determines visibility at an intersection. When a host vehicle approaches an intersection with a stop sign, the ECU calculates conflict points at which a trajectory vector of the host vehicle intersects with virtual trajectory vectors of intersecting objects, which are presumed to come from the right side and the left side of the intersection, respectively. The conflict points are calculated based on information on types and traveling positions of the intersecting objects. The ECU sets visibility determination areas at the intersection as viewed from the host vehicle based on the positions of the conflict points, the right-side and the left-side visibility target distances, and the current location of the host vehicle, and calculates, based on the visibility determination areas, visibility distances that are used as visibility parameters indicating whether the visibility at the intersection is good or poor.

Intersection visibility determination device, vehicle with intersection visibility determination device, and method for determining intersection visibility

An operation assist apparatus including: an assist controller that assists a driver of a vehicle in operating the vehicle before a stop point; and a watching action detector that detects a watching action of the driver for watching the stop point. The assist controller changes an assist manner in which to assist the vehicle operation by the driver in accordance with whether the watching action is detected by the watching action detector during deceleration of the vehicle. Thus configured, the operation assist apparatus can accurately determine whether the driver will stop the vehicle at the stop point and thus can perform the vehicle operation assist appropriately.

Operation assist apparatus

When it is determined that a head light is turned on, the sunset time is calculated. Thus, the frequency of calculating the sunset time is significantly decreased as compared with that of continuously calculating the sunset time, thereby reducing the processing load. Further, as compared with the case where the sunset time is calculated regardless of the time of lighting on, the calculated sunset time can evaluate the time of lighting on appropriately.

Information processing apparatus

An in-vehicle device, a vehicle, and a vehicle information processing method, which are used, for example, to assist in driving an automobile and can properly communicate a vehicle situation to a driver. Methods and mechanisms express user's handling of the vehicle by virtual feelings on the assumption that the vehicle has a personality, and displays the virtual feelings by facial expressions of a predetermined character.

Vehicle information processing device, vehicle, and vehicle information processing method

A rolling angular velocity sensor (30) is used to detect a roll of a vehicle. When the vehicle rolls at a predetermined or greater rolling rate and a rolling angle RA becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined upper limit value RA1, a control unit (50) gives an instruction to a high-speed control valve (46) of an attitude-sustaining air bag (22) via an input port (56) to open the high-speed control valve (46). This enables the high-pressure air to be fed into an air bag body (48) of the attitude-sustaining air bag (22), which is accordingly inflated and expanded to support the attitude of a passenger in a passenger's seat. When the acceleration in the lateral direction is not sufficiently large, when the passenger fastens a seat belt (24), or when the passenger is not seated, the attitude-sustaining air bag (22) is not activated.

Attitude-supporting apparatus mounted on vehicle for sustaining attitude

An air bag apparatus for a passenger seat includes: a first sensor for detecting an occupant seated in a passenger seat; a second sensor for detecting a state in which the occupant is approaching an instrument panel excluding a state in which the occupant put out his or her hand(s) on the instrument panel; and a deployment controller for changing the control of deployment of an air bag when the occupant is detected by the first sensor and the state in which the occupant is approaching the instrument panel is detected by the second sensor.

Air bag apparatus for passenger seat

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Kazuya Sasaki