Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Keiko Nakano

Naoki Uenoyama

Hideo Hasegawa

Akira Hoshino

Junya Masui

Etsuko Nakajima

Chikage Kubo

Hiroyuki Nishizawa

Eiichi Maeda

Takashi Hayashi

Yu Nagata

Ryota Kondo

Yohei Nakanishi

Takahiro Matsumura

Kazuya Nishimura

Chihiro Inaba

Kazunari Nawa

Hisakazu Hada

Emi Seki

An information processing device includes a processor. The processor obtains a peripheral image including a road mirror. The peripheral image is generated when an image capturing unit mounted on a first vehicle captures an image of a periphery of the first vehicle. When the processor determines that at least one of a second vehicle and a pedestrian approaching an installation spot of the road mirror from a direction that differs from a direction in which the first vehicle is approaching the installation spot of the road mirror is shown in a mirror surface of the road mirror captured in the obtained peripheral image, the processor determines that an orientation of the road mirror is not abnormal.

Information processing device

An information processing device includes a processor. In response to an occurrence of at least one of a weather-related event and a natural disaster event, the processor identifies a vehicle located at a site of the event. The processor determines a predetermined condition in accordance with the event. The processor requests the identified vehicle to provide a peripheral image that satisfies the predetermined condition. The peripheral image is generated when an image capturing unit mounted on the identified vehicle captures an image of a periphery of the identified vehicle.

Information processing device for capturing peripheral images from a vehicle-mounted image capturing unit

An information processing method is performed using an information processing system including vehicles and a sever device. The method includes transmitting, using the communication unit of each vehicle, notification information set to the server device. The notification information set includes the peripheral image in which an elementary school student is captured and position information of the vehicle obtained when the peripheral image is generated by the image capturing unit. The method also includes sending, using the server device, at least one notification set among the notification information sets to an information terminal. The at least one notification information set includes a peripheral image in which an elementary school student who is away from a school route of the elementary school is captured, and the position information of the vehicle obtained when the peripheral image is generated by the image capturing unit.

Information processing method

An information processing method is a method executed by an information processing system including a vehicle equipped with an imaging unit, a position information acquisition unit, and a communication unit, and a server device. The information processing method includes: transmitting, from the communication unit of the vehicle to the server device, notification information including a surrounding image in which an elementary school student is shown, and position information of the vehicle when the surrounding image is generated by the imaging unit; and notifying, by the server device, an information terminal of notification information including a lost item image that is a surrounding image in which belongings of the elementary school student are shown but the elementary school student is not shown, and position information of the vehicle when the lost item image is generated by the imaging unit, from among the notification information.

Information processing method, storage medium, and information processing system

A vehicle agent device receives utterance information from an on-board unit, analyzes the content of the utterance, detects, as a non-installed function from a database, a function that an occupant intended to utilize but which was not installed and is installable, generates proposal information for furnishing the occupant with information relating to the non-installed function it detected, and sends the proposal information that has been generated to the on-board unit to thereby send the information relating to the non-installed function to a preregistered mobile device carried by the occupant.

Vehicle agent device, vehicle agent system, and computer-readable storage medium

A vehicle agent device receives a captured image and vehicle information from an on-board unit, identifies an occupant from the captured image, specifies attributes of the occupant it identified, searches for vehicle functions corresponding to the attributes it specified, and sends, as description information to an on-board unit, a moving image that introduces the vehicle functions.

A locking and unlocking system includes a controller. The controller is configured to acquire a state of locking and unlocking of a vehicle that is locked and unlocked based on locking and unlocking instruction information acquired from a portable terminal, and send a notification to a first device associated with the vehicle, when the vehicle is not locked during a period of time from when the vehicle is unlocked based on the locking and unlocking instruction information acquired from the portable terminal until a first timing.

Locking and unlocking system for a vehicle based on a valid period of authentication

An agent device that receives state information regarding a state of a vehicle from the vehicle, and receive a question from a user as question information; performs inference processing for the received question information and the received state information in order to infer an intent of the question; and acquires a response to the question based on the inferred intent.

Agent device, agent system, and recording medium

In cases in which a confidence score of an inferred intent label is a predetermined threshold or less, an intent inference section searches for whether or not wording pertaining to a location, such as 'on the door', is present in a question. In cases in which a word relating to a location is present, the intent inference section consults individual function identification data associated with OM item codes in order to find intent labels including individual functions relevant to the location (such as “door”). In cases in which an intent label including an individual function relevant to the “door” is found, an OMA interaction control section consults QA data to find and acquire associated response information based on the found intent label and the OM item code, and notifies a HMI interaction control section of such response information.

Agent device, agent system, and computer-readable storage medium

An agent device receives input information that is input by the user, in a case in which the input information is a question from the user, executes inference processing on the input information to infer an intent of the question in order to acquire a response to the question based on the intent, in a case in which a plurality of the responses are acquired, provides the notification device with option information that includes the plurality of responses as options, in a case in which new input information is received, determines whether the new input information is information requiring the inference processing or is selection information relating to a selection result from selection of the options, and in a case in which the new input information is the selection information, provides the notification device with response information regarding the response associated with the selection result without executing the inference processing.

An agent device that receives, from an onboard device installed in a vehicle, vehicle information relating to the vehicle and question information corresponding to a question from a user, based on the vehicle information, confirms a scope of questions for which generation of a response is not possible, and instructs the onboard device to block receipt of questions falling within the scope of questions for which it has been confirmed that response generation is not possible.

An information processing apparatus, a control method for the information processing apparatus, and an information processing system which encourage a user to use a mobile object are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller. The communication interface receives actual usage for a plurality of mobile objects which are affiliated with one of a plurality of mobile object groups. The controller ranks the plurality of mobile object groups based on the actual usage.

Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatus, and information processing system

An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a vehicle, an information processing method and an information processing program which improve the utility of techniques for generating a travel plan for a vehicle are provided. An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller acquires first storage information indicating a stored amount of a first storage apparatus of a first vehicle provided with the first storage apparatus for storing drainage water. The controller generates a travel plan for a second vehicle provided with a second storage apparatus for storing the drainage water collected from the first vehicle, based on predetermined information which includes the first storage information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, vehicle, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

A control apparatus, a vehicle and a control method which improve user-friendliness of a technique for providing information to an interior or an exterior of a vehicle are provided. The control apparatus of the vehicle includes a controller which changes the degree of visibility between the exterior and the interior of the vehicle based on at least one of first information indicating a state of the exterior of the vehicle and second information indicating a state of the interior of the vehicle.

Control apparatus, vehicle, and control method

An agent system includes a first memory and a first processor coupled to the first memory. The first processor analyzes contents of a verbal question, and carries out pre-processing that replaces vocabulary, which is used in the contents of the question, with homogenized vocabulary, and generates response information based on results of analysis. In a case in which there exists substitution vocabulary that has replaced original vocabulary in the pre-processing, the first processor changes the response information such that it can be recognized that the substitution vocabulary in the response information is synonymous with the original vocabulary, and outputs the response information.

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