Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Company

Kiyoshi Matsutani

Reiko Okada

Atsushi Kohno

Atsushi Matsumoto

Masayuki Tsuji

Takuji Morimoto

Isao Otsuka

Yoshihiro Nishida

Shinji Akatsu

Yasutaka Konishi

Fumitaka Sato

Makoto Mikuriya

Masaharu Umezu

Tomoya Ikeuchi

Yasushi Kodaka

Tomohiro Nakae

Wataru Yamazaki

Yuta Kawana

Ken Ohnishi

An in-vehicle deviceregularly transmits to an information distribution serveran acquisition request that includes an own vehicle position and a facility search condition, and acquires facility information matching the condition around the vehicle. The in-vehicle devicecontrols the number of displays of the facility information on the basis of the information in an in-vehicle sensor groupwhen displaying the acquired facility information on a map.

In-vehicle device, information distribution server, and facility information display method

An evaluation information posting device determines a rest state of a vehicle on the basis of rest information, determines a facility at which the vehicle has stopped off by using position information showing a rest position of the vehicle, map information including facility information about facilities located in an area surrounding the position shown by this position information, and a keyword about a facility at the rest position of the vehicle, and, by using both stop-off facility information about the facility which is a result of the determination, and a keyword about an evaluation which is provided for this facility, generates evaluation information about the stop-off facility and posts this evaluation information to an evaluation information managing server.

Device and method that posts evaluation information about a facility at which a moving object has stopped off based on an uttered voice

When a vehicle navigation system is manipulated by taking pictures of a user hand motion and gesture with a camera, as the number of apparatuses and operational objects increases, the associated hand shapes and hand motions increase, thus causing a complex manipulation for a user. Furthermore, in detecting a hand with the camera, when the image of a face having color tone information similar to that of a hand appears in an image taken with a camera, or outside light rays such as sun rays or illumination rays vary, detection accuracy is reduced. To overcome such problems, a manipulation input device is provided that includes a limited hand manipulation determination unit and a menu representation unit, whereby a simple manipulation can be achieved and manipulation can accurately be determined. In addition, detection accuracy can be improved by a unit that selects a single result from results determined by a plurality of determination units, based on images taken with a plurality of cameras.

Manipulation input device which detects human hand manipulations from captured motion images

A vehicle operating device includes: a voice operation unit () for recognizing an uttered voice and outputting a voice recognition result; a spatial operation unit () for recognizing a movement performed within a predetermined space and outputting a spatial recognition result; a main processing unit () for executing a processing corresponding to the voice recognition result and the spatial recognition result; and a display unit () for displaying an image generated in accordance with an instruction from the main processing unit, the image being superimposed on an actual scene that can be viewed through a windshield.

Multi-modal vehicle operating device

A map information processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor for calculating a vehicle position; a data generation unit for generating traveling locus data on the basis of the calculated vehicle position when the vehicle position deviates from a road; a registration unit for registering the traveling locus data generated by the data generation unit in a temporarily registered road list as a temporarily registered road; an operation unit for selecting one of temporarily registered roads registered in the temporarily registered road list; and an official registration unit for registering the selected temporarily registered road in an officially registered road list as an officially registered road in accordance with an instruction from the operation unit, generating road data on the basis of traveling locus data relating to the temporarily registered road, and adding the generated road data to a map data stored in a map data storage unit.

Map information processing apparatus

In an on-vehicle information providing device including an input devicefor inputting information corresponding to operation, on-vehicle information equipmentfor executing processing corresponding to the information input, an active safety systemfor monitoring surrounding conditions of the vehicle and generating caution information, a liquid crystal display devicefor displaying a processing result of the on-vehicle information equipment, and a head-up display (HUD)for displaying the information delivered from the on-vehicle information equipment or from active safety system, the on-vehicle information equipment sends, if any display interrupt request is made from the active safety system during execution of the display processing onto the HUD, a display switching control request to the HUD by suspending the display processing, and the HUD switches from a state of displaying the information from the on-vehicle information equipment to a state of displaying the information from the active safety system in response to the display switching control request from the on-vehicle information equipment.

On-vehicle information providing device

An information terminal apparatus includes: a communication unit for transmitting/receiving information among the communication means, a server of a credit card firm, and a server owned by a settling financial institution which settles a charge requested from the credit card firm; a processor for executing a comparison process as to both credit card charge historical information issued from the credit card firm and balance account information saved in the settling financial institution, the credit card charge historical information being contained in the transmission/reception information of the communication unit; and an output unit for outputting predetermined information based upon the comparison process result by the processing means.

Information terminal apparatus

Two stage coding method

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Matsutani