Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Koji Arata

Makoto Mochizuki

Yuko Arai

Koichi Emura

Wataru Nakai

Hiroyuki Kubotani

Hirofumi Nishimura

Takuya Nanri

Kazuhiko Iwai

Nobuhiro Fukuda

Takafumi Tokuhiro

Junko Ueda

Shuzo Noridomi

Toshihiro Sota

Takashi Motoyama

Ayase Watanabe

Tatsuyuki Negishi

A determination unit determines whether a driving behavior of a vehicle is performed by automatic driving control or manual driving control. A generation unit generates presentation instructing information for presenting the driving behavior by the automatic driving control externally from the vehicle when the determination unit determines that the driving behavior of the vehicle is performed by the automatic driving control, and generates presentation instructing information for presenting the driving behavior by the manual driving control externally from the vehicle when the determination unit determines that the driving behavior of the vehicle is performed by the manual driving control. An output unit outputs presentation instructing information generated by the generation unit.

Driving assistance method, and driving assistance device, automatic driving control device, and vehicle

A detection device includes an image segmenter and a detector. The image segmenter cuts out a first region image and a second region image from an image of a vehicle interior that is acquired from an imaging device. The first region image shows at least a portion of a first part of a body of an occupant. The second region image shows at least a portion of a region of the vehicle interior around the first part or at least a portion of a second part of the body of the occupant. The detector detects an orientation of the first part of the body of the occupant based on a feature amount of the first region image and a feature amount of the second region image.

Detection device, learning device, detection method, learning method, and recording medium

A detection device includes: an image acquirer that acquires an image of an interior of a vehicle, including a predetermined space; an action determiner that determines whether or not any one of a first action of placing an article or storing the article in the predetermined space and a second action of taking the article or taking out the article from the predetermined space has been performed and which of the first and second actions has been performed when it is determined that any of the first and second actions has been performed, on the basis of the acquired image; an article manager that manages an existence status of the article on the basis of the determination result of the action determiner; and a left-behind article determiner that determines whether or not an article left behind exists in the predetermined space on the basis of the existence status of the article.

Detection device, detection method, and storage medium

A driver performs switching to a manual driving mode in a state that the driver is suitable for a driving operation. In a vehicle that is driven by a plurality of driving modes including a self-driving mode to be performed by a self-driving control unit and a manual driving mode in which a driver performs a part of or all of a driving operation, before the manual driving mode is started, information for presenting a request for operating by the driver from a user interface unit to the driver is output to the user interface unit. The input unit receives a signal based on the operation by the driver. A notification unit notifies a self-driving control unit of a switching signal for instructing switching to the manual driving mode when a difference between a value obtained from the signal based on the operation by the driver, the signal having been input from the input unit and a reference value according to the operation request is within an allowable range.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program

An image processor includes an image converter. The image converter transforms data of an image that is photographed with a camera for photographing a seat, based on a transformation parameter that is calculated in accordance with a camera-position at which the camera is disposed. The image converter outputs the thus-transformed data of the image. The transformation parameter is a parameter for transforming the data of the image such that an appearance of the seat depicted in the image is approximated to a predetermined appearance of the seat.

Image processor, detection apparatus, learning apparatus, image processing method, and computer program storage medium

An identification device includes an inputter which receives image information of a person photographed by a camera, and a controller which identifies the person and detects parts, which are at least a head and hands, of the person based on the image information, thereby identifying a motion of the person based on the identified person, the detected parts, and a motion model in which a motion of a person is registered for every person, and outputs the identified motion of the person.

Identification device, identification method, and recording medium recording identification program

An image processing device () comprises the following: an image acquisition unit () for acquiring an image in which markers for calibration are captured; an edge detection unit () for detecting the edges of the markers in the image; a polygon generating unit () for estimating a plurality of straight lines on the basis of the edges and generating a virtual polygon region that is surrounded by the plurality of straight lines, the generation being carried out in the image in a region thereof including regions other than those where markers are installed; and a camera parameter calculation unit () for calculating camera parameters on the basis of the characteristic amount, with respect to the image, of the virtual polygon region and the characteristic amount, with respect to real space, of the virtual polygon region.

Image processing device and markers

A computer performs a process to determine whether an object is a predetermined object and a process to control a display unit to generate a first image based on a result of recognized object at a first timing and generate a second image based on a result of the recognized object at a second timing that is later than the first timing if the predetermined object is determined. The first image is an image formed by a pattern of markers representing a skeleton of the object, and the second image is an image formed by a pattern of markers corresponding to the pattern of markers in the first image, and the position of at least one marker of the pattern of markers in the first image differs from the position of the corresponding marker in the second image.

Display control method, display control apparatus, and display apparatus

A calibration device capable of calculating an installation parameter of a camera without storing graphical features of road marking in advance or without requiring another technique. An acquiring unit acquires images captured by the camera before and after a vehicle moves, and an extracting unit extracts two feature points from each of the images captured before and after the vehicle moves. A calculating unit calculates a camera installation parameter on the basis of a positional relationship of coordinates of the two feature points in the image before the vehicle moves and coordinates of the two feature points after the vehicle moves that correspond to the feature points before the vehicle moves.

Calibration device, method for implementing calibration, and camera for movable body and storage medium with calibration function

Provided is a stereo image processing device, with which it is possible to compute disparity with high precision even for an object of a small image region size in a baseline length direction. With this device, an image matching unit () acquires a correspondence point of a reference image for a target point of a target image. An image cropping unit () extracts first two-dimensional pixel data including the target point from the target image, and extracts second two-dimensional pixel data including the correspondence point from the reference image. An image reconfiguration unit () reconfigures the respective first two-dimensional pixel data and second two-dimensional pixel data into first one-dimensional pixel data and second one-dimensional pixel data. A peak position detection unit () computes disparity based on the correlation between the first one-dimensional pixel data and the second one-dimensional pixel data.

Stereo image processing device and stereo image processing method

Disclosed are a sound generation system, an ultrasonic wave emitting device, and an ultrasonic wave emitting method which utilize the principle of parametric speakers (which uses the difference between frequencies of two ultrasonic waves) and which are capable of allowing target persons in a prescribed area to hear a sound only when a mobile body approaches said prescribed area. An alert system () has an ultrasonic wave emitting device () mounted on a mobile body (), and an ultrasonic wave emitting device () permanently installed near an area (A). The ultrasonic wave emitting device () emits a first ultrasonic wave towards an area at least including the aforementioned area (A), and meanwhile, the ultrasonic wave emitting device () emits a second ultrasonic wave. The ultrasonic emitting device () forms the second ultrasonic wave by means of modulating the ultrasonic wave of frequency fwith an audible signal.

Sound generation system, ultrasonic wave emitting device, and ultrasonic wave emitting method

A dangerous drive predicting apparatus is provided which is capable of rapidly recognizing a future situation of the own vehicle by other vehicles. The dangerous drive predicting apparatus is equipped with: drive information detecting sectionfor detecting drive information containing at least one of a drive action and vehicle information; traffic environment detecting sectionfor detecting a traffic environment around a first vehicle; driving characteristic producing/storing sectionfor producing and storing a driving characteristic every traffic environment based upon the drive information and the traffic environment; and a driving characteristic transmitting section for transmitting the driving characteristic to a second vehicle.

Dangerous drive predicting apparatus

A roadside apparatus is connected to a roadside network and an in-vehicle apparatus which carries out wireless data transfer with the roadside apparatus, and it is equipped with a specifying unit for specifying an in-vehicle apparatus by associating an IP address which was assigned with respect to each in-vehicle apparatus, and an in-vehicle apparatus identifier other than an IP address. By this configuration, between the roadside apparatus and the in-vehicle apparatus, enabled is data communication which utilized an IP series communication protocol for specifying an in-vehicle apparatus by use of an IP address which was assigned with respect to each in-vehicle apparatus, and a non-IP series communication protocol for specifying an in-vehicle apparatus by use of LID.

Road-vehicle communication system, and roadside apparatus, mobile apparatus which are used for the same

A guidance system includes a vehicle-mounted apparatus. A sensor-signal input unit inputs a vehicle-sensor signal for acquiring a vehicle status. A determining unit determines a movement of the vehicle on the basis of the vehicle-sensor signal inputted from the sensor-signal input unit. A guidance-information acquiring unit acquires guidance information from an external apparatus through a communication apparatus mounted on the vehicle. An information selecting unit selects guidance information acquired by the guidance-information acquiring unit depending upon a vehicle movement determined by the determining unit. An output unit outputs guidance information selected by the information selecting unit.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Koji Arata