Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Marunaka

Kenichi Murata

Hiroshi Katou

Kazuhiko Nakashima

Satoshi Inoue

Masaya Watanabe

Yasuhiro Tsutsumi

Toru Ochi

Daisuke Tsuji

Noriyuki Imanishi

A motive power stoppage guidance apparatus includes at least one of a display device configured to be disposed in a compartment of a vehicle, and a sound output device configured to output a sound in the compartment of the vehicle; and an indication control unit configured, when the vehicle is traveling in a state where a motive power stops, or when the likelihood is high in that the vehicle is traveling in the state where the motive power stops, to execute at least one of having the display device display at least one of that the motive power is in a stopped state, and a recommended operational method, and having the sound output device output an indication sound.

Motive power operation guidance apparatus

A vehicle-mounted apparatus outputs caution or warning information to an occupant in a vehicle if the vehicle-mounted apparatus does not continually receive information that shows that an application that is presently being executed in a portable information terminal connected to the vehicle-mounted apparatus has an attribute of being permitted to be used during the moving of a vehicle in which the vehicle-mounted apparatus is mounted.

Vehicle-mounted apparatus, computer-readable medium storing application program installed in portable information terminal, use restriction method for application program, portable information terminal, and vehicle-mounted system

A disclosed in-vehicle equipment control device 'S' includes input unitsandfor increasing and decreasing a set value of in-vehicle equipment, and a set value increase/decrease halting unitfor stopping the increase/decrease of the set value when the set value reaches a prescribed value after being increased and decreased by the input unitsand. Further, the in-vehicle equipment control device 'S' may further include a set value increase/decrease resuming unitfor resuming increasing or decreasing the set value when an input of the input unitoris continued after the increase or decrease of the set value is stopped by the set value increase/decrease halting unit

In-vehicle equipment control device and in-vehicle equipment setting method using the device

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Kariya, Japan

Kenji Marunaka