Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Keiichi Takikawa

Hiromitsu Yuhara

Eisuke Soma

Shinichiro Goto

Satoshi Imaizumi

Takayuki Yamada

Yoshimitsu Akuta

Kazuyoshi Miyajima

Akira Iihoshi

Koichiro Takemasa

Kazuo Matsuura

Yuiko Koga

Takafumi Katou

Provided is a supply-and-demand management apparatus including: a result management unit that manages a power supply result indicating a result of power supplied among a plurality of customers of a community; and a deriving unit that derives, based on power supply results from a first customer to other customers from among the plurality of customers, an incentive to supply power from the first customer to a second customer from among the other customers.

Supply-and-demand management apparatus, computer readable storage medium, and supply-and-demand management method

Provided is an information management device capable of prompting a first user of a general vehicle to be engaged in ride-sharing. An information management device (a server ()) includes a ride-sharing detection unit (), a ride-sharing path recognition unit (), and a benefit information recognition unit (). The benefit information recognition unit () recognizes benefit information for providing a benefit related to charging to the first user A of a moving body (a vehicle X) based on a move cost of a path including at least an entire ride-sharing path that is recognized by the ride-sharing path recognition unit ().

Information management device and information management method

An information providing device includes an emotion estimation unit that estimates the emotion of an occupant within a predetermined period of time from the time when the occupant gets in a vehicle (STEP), a base-emotion setting unit that sets a base emotion of the vehicle on the basis of the emotion of the occupant (STEP), a vehicle-state detection unit that detects the state of the vehicle (STEP), an emotion generation unit that generates the emotion of the vehicle in accordance with the base emotion and the state of the vehicle (STEP), an information determination unit that determines, on the basis of the emotion of the vehicle, information to be provided to the occupant (STEP), and an information output unit that outputs information to the occupant (STEP).

Providing information to vehicle occupants based on emotions

A vehicle management server for managing a shared vehicle used by a plurality of users in different time slots and including a plurality of containers respectively configured to accommodate items from a delivery service provider. The vehicle management server includes: a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The processor is configured to perform: receiving use reservations for using the shared vehicle from the plurality of users; making a use schedule of the shared vehicle; and notifying the delivery service provider of the use schedule of the shared vehicle made in the making.

Vehicle management server, vehicle management system and vehicle management method

A vehicle management server for managing a shared vehicle used by a plurality of users in different time slots. The vehicle management server includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The processor is configured to perform: receiving use reservations for using the shared vehicle from the plurality of users; and making a use schedule of the shared vehicle. The memory is configured to perform: storing a correspondence between a plurality of containers provided in the shared vehicle and the plurality of users respectively using the plurality of containers. The processor is further configured to perform: outputting a control signal to command the shared vehicle to lock or unlock each of the plurality of containers provided in the shared vehicle based on the use schedule made in the making and the correspondence stored in the memory.

The purpose of the present invention is to control an information terminal, equipped with a touch panel and installed in a vehicle, in a manner in which it can be operated without affecting driving. A drive mode application causes an information terminal, controlling the running of an application through first control on the basis of a user operation received via a touch panel, to function as: a connection detection unit, which detects a connection to a vehicle; a function limiting unit, which controls the running of the application through second control, different from the first control, on the condition that the connection to the vehicle is detected; and a display switching unit, which, on the basis of a sliding operation in a first direction received via the touch panel while a first application is being displayed, displays the first application and a second application.

Program, method, and device for controlling application, and recording medium

An information providing device and an information providing method capable of providing information according to a driving load while alleviating or eliminating a sense of discomfort of a user of a vehicle is provided. An information providing device includes an emotion determination unit that determines virtual emotion of a vehicle, and an output control unit that determines one or both of content and an output mode of the information that the output unit is caused to output according to the virtual emotion of the vehicle. The emotion determination unit determines predetermined emotion to be the virtual emotion of the vehicle when a condition that a period in which the traveling state of the vehicle detected by the traveling state detection unit is a predetermined traveling state has continued for a predetermined period or longer is satisfied.

Information providing device and information providing method

An information terminal controlling operations of applications according to a user's operation received via a touch panel includes a display control unit configured to display a first functional icon assigned with a first operation that is activated when the user touches the first functional icon for a predetermined period of time or less, wherein the display control unit displays a second functional icon at a position adjacent to the first functional icon when the user touches the first functional icon for more than the predetermined period of time, and wherein the second functional icon assigned with another operation, which is different from the first operation, that is activated when the user touches the second functional icon.

Information terminal controlling an operation of an application according to a user's operation received via a touch panel mounted on a display device

A control device of an information terminal of the present invention determines whether one specified operation among multiple specified operations to an input deviceis done. On condition that the one specified operation is determined to be done, the control device causes the input deviceto function as an input interface used to input information in order to use a function related to one category among the multiple categories corresponding to the one specified operation.

Information terminal

A vehicle steering system includes a rack and pinion mechanism having a pinion functionally coupled to a steering wheel and a rack meshing with the pinion and functionally coupled to steerable wheels and a mechanism for displacing the rack in the axial direction thereof to steer the steerable wheels independently of steering operation initiated by the steering wheel. The rack and pinion mechanism comprises a variable gear ratio rack and pinion mechanism having a variable gear ratio, which is the lowest when the steering wheel is in a neutral position and becomes higher as the steering angle of the steering wheel becomes large.

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Tokyo, Japan

Keiichi Takikawa