Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Disco Corporation

Kenta Onishi

Nariaki Takehara

Masahiro Yata

Yoichi Kato

Atsushi Inoue

Yuki Watanabe

Takuya Taniguchi

Noritaka Kokido

Kohei Mori

Kunio Ueda

Shigefumi Okada

Hiroyuki Urabe

Kimitake Mantoku

Hiroyuki Sakaguchi

A driving support device wherein an own vehicle and a peripheral vehicle are symbolized, and relative dispositions are displayed in real time in a display unit visible to the driver, is obtained to facilitate a lane change by a driver. The driving support device includes a vehicle detecting unit, which detects peripheral vehicles positioned in a periphery of a vehicle, and an image generating unit, which generates an image representing positions of the vehicle and the peripheral vehicles from vehicle information obtained by the vehicle detecting unit. The image generating unit generates a driving support image including vehicle information representing relative dispositions of the vehicle and the peripheral vehicles using symbols indicating the vehicle and the peripheral vehicles. The image generating unit includes an image stacking unit, which generates original data of the driving support image, and an image control unit, which cuts a necessary portion from the original data.

Driving support device

An ECU generates an overhead image including a vehicle and a vehicle surrounding area, on the basis of a plurality of images taken by a plurality of cameras mounted on the vehicle. When a distance between an object existing in an overlapping portion of imaging areas of the plurality of cameras and the vehicle is within a threshold and the object exists in a traveling direction of the vehicle, the overlapping portion is divided into two pairs of a road surface image and an object image, and combination is performed by alpha blending with an α value for the object image being set to 1 and an α value for the road surface image being set to 0 for an area that is the object image in one of the two pairs and is the road surface image in the other of the two pairs, to generate the overhead image.

Vehicle surrounding area image generation device, vehicle surrounding area display system, and vehicle surrounding area display method

A parking assistance apparatus includes: a parking space searching unit for searching for a parking-allowable parking space in which a user's vehicle can be parked; a target parking space selection unit for selecting a target parking space in which the user's vehicle is to be parked, based on an user setting information, when a plurality of parking-allowable parking spaces are detected; a parking operation assisting unit for assisting in a parking operation for parking the user's vehicle in the target parking space; and a parking operation assistance start determination unit for determining whether or not a determination condition for starting a parking operation is satisfied according to a state of the user's vehicle, and causing the parking operation assisting unit to start assisting in the parking operation when the determination condition is satisfied.

Parking assistance apparatus and parking assistance method

A vehicle control device includes a parking space candidate detection unit configured to detect a parking space candidate that is a candidate for a parking space where an own vehicle is parked, using a vehicle peripheral image acquired from a camera; a leaving path detection unit configured to detect, using the vehicle peripheral image, a leaving path on which another vehicle that is parked in an other vehicle parking space located in a periphery of the parking space candidate leaves the other vehicle parking space; and a nuisance parking determination unit configured to perform nuisance parking determination including determining, for each detected parking space candidate, whether the parking space candidate overlaps with the detected leaving path, and thereby classifying the parking space candidate into a nuisance parking space that overlaps with the leaving path or a non-nuisance parking space that avoids overlapping with the leaving path.

Vehicle control device and vehicle control method

A driving assistance apparatus includes processing circuit, and a communicator that communicates with the outside. The processing circuitry executes the following processes: identifying a driving state of a driver in a following vehicle behind a subject vehicle on the basis of a rear image containing the back of the subject vehicle; determining circumstances around the subject vehicle on the basis of images around the subject vehicle including the rear image; and controlling the autonomous driving of the subject vehicle on the basis of the driving state of the driver in the following vehicle, identified in the identifying process, and the circumstances, determined in the determining process.

Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method

The automatic parking apparatus includes: an image generation unit configured to generate an image of surroundings of an own vehicle photographed by a monitor device; a display unit; an input device configured to receive, a first touch input by the user for designating a parking place; a parking area calculation unit configured to determine whether a parking space for the own vehicle is available; a moving path calculation unit configured to determine at least one moving path candidate for guiding the own vehicle from a current location to a parking area, and to display the moving path candidate on the display unit; and a vehicle control processing unit configured to guide and control the own vehicle from the current location to the parking area in accordance with one moving path confirmed by the user operation from among the at least one moving path candidate.

Automatic parking apparatus

Provided are a vehicle periphery image display apparatus and a vehicle periphery image display method, which enable a driver to recognize a deviation between a parking frame and an own vehicle more easily at a time of a parking operation. The configuration includes: continuously inputting a periphery image of an own vehicle in a parking lot, which has been photographed by a plurality of photographing devices; storing the periphery image; compensating for, in the input periphery image, a lost image part with the stored periphery image to combine the compensated lost image part with the input periphery image; generating a top-view image seen from right above a top of the own vehicle based on the combined periphery image; generating a displayed image including the top-view image; and displaying the generated displayed image.

Vehicle periphery image display device and vehicle periphery image display method

A determining method for determining whether or not the tension of an adhesive tape constituting a frame unit is proper, in which a plate-shaped workpiece and an annular frame are attached to the adhesive tape to form the frame unit, is provided. The adhesive tape is composed of a base layer and an adhesive layer formed on the base layer. The determining method includes a supporting step, a downward amount measuring step, and a determining step.

Determining method, measuring apparatus, and adhesive tape attaching apparatus

A transfer unit transferring a wafer from or to a cassette is provided. The transfer unit includes a holding portion holding the wafer under suction and a driving portion moving the holding portion. The holding portion includes a body, a plurality of suction openings formed on the upper surface of the body so as to be spaced from each other, a vacuum transmitting passage connected to a vacuum source for transmitting a vacuum from the vacuum source to the suction openings, and a plurality of suction pads provided at the suction openings, each suction pad being formed of an elastic material. The suction openings are spaced from each other in the radial direction of the wafer, and the suction pads are selectively provided at any desired ones of the suction openings.

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