Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Mapmaster Inc.

Makoto Matsushita

Tae Sugimura

Tomoyuki Kuriyama

Atsushi Hanawa

Yusuke Yokota

Yasuki Nakagawa

Takashi Hayashi

Kunihiro Murakami

Kiyonori Yoshida

Jun Endo

Katsuhiko Sakakibara

Junya Sato

Hideo Hasegawa

Naoki Yamada

Yuko Mizuno

Kohei Miwa

Kazuaki Takemura

Hayato Mizuma

Tomoaki Umeki

Toshiki Kindo

Kuniaki Jinnai

Mutsumi Matsuura

Shunsuke Tanimori

Naoki Uenoyama

Yuji Suzuki

Satoshi Komamine

Tomoaki Miyazawa

Hiroki Awano

Hikaru Gotoh

Takeshi Takemoto

Shunsuke Sagara

Kohta Tarao

Hiroe Fukui

Shoji Sakamoto

Hideaki Shiraishi

Yoshihiro Maekawa

Takanori Sasano

Kazumi Tsuchiya

Satoru Deguchi

The map generation device includes a satellite image acquisition unit that acquires a satellite image captured by an artificial satellite, a change point determination unit that determines a change point of the satellite image with time based on the satellite image, and a map generation unit that generates a map based on information of the determined change point. Based on the satellite images, the usage status of the parking lot is reflected in the map.

Map generation based on change points in satellite images

A monitoring device includes an in-vehicle mount and a stationary mount as mounts to and from which an imaging unit configured to take a video is able to be attached and detached. The imaging unit is configured to automatically switch the operation mode according to the mount on which the imaging unit is mounted in such a manner that the imaging unit operates in the in-vehicle operation mode when the imaging unit is mounted on the in-vehicle mount, and operates in the stationary operation mode when the imaging unit is mounted on the stationary mount.

Monitoring device

The vehicle management system includes an exposure amount calculation unit that calculates an exposure amount by ultraviolet rays of the vehicle, a selection unit that selects one vehicle from the plurality of vehicles so that the exposure amount between the vehicles is the same based on the exposure amount, and a dispatch instruction unit that gives an instruction to dispatch the selected vehicle.

Vehicle management system and vehicle

A drive recorder mounted on a vehicle includes a camera and a processing device. When the processing device recognizes that a landmark appears in the image shot by the camera, the processing device performs a process of setting the shutter speed and shooting timing for taking a photo of the landmark based on the vehicle speed, and A process of shooting a landmark at the shutter speed and shooting timing is executed.

Drive recorder

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to generate a travel route for a mobile object based on information about people in a range of influence that includes the travel route.

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

The vehicle includes a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information from a global precipitation satellite, and an autonomous driving control unit that causes the vehicle to travel at a point equal to or larger than a predetermined precipitation amount acquired from the weather information.

Vehicle

A management apparatus includes a controller that manages mobile objects that deliver articles. The controller determines and outputs a plan for maintenance of at least one target mobile object, which is a mobile object that is out for delivery among the mobile objects and is in a problematic state for delivery, based on information about the target mobile object.

Management apparatus, management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium

The vehicle includes a drive recorder that captures an image of the front of the vehicle, an external display device that performs display toward the rear of the vehicle, and a control unit. When a specific pattern is included in the video captured by the drive recorder, the control unit causes the external display device to display the same pattern as the pattern.

The vehicle includes a light-emitting part installed in the rear windshield wiper, a front camera that captures an image of the front of the own vehicle, a control unit that causes the light-emitting part to blink in conjunction with the operation of the rear windshield wiper to display the pattern, and a processing unit that acquires the pattern displayed by the blink of the light-emitting part of the preceding vehicle based on the image shot by the front camera.

A management apparatus includes a controller configured to manage a storage mobile object that is configured to store a stored mobile object. The stored mobile object includes a first mobile object that is stored in the storage mobile object and a second mobile object that is not stored in the storage mobile object. The controller is configured to instruct the storage mobile object to transport the first mobile object while maintaining the first mobile object.

Management apparatus, management method and mobile object

A driving handover control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which driving is handed over from a first state in which a vehicle travels in accordance with instruction from a first remote operator of the vehicle to a second state in which the vehicle travels in accordance with instruction from a second remote operator who is different from the first remote operator, the processor implements a transition from the first state to a third state in which the vehicle travels autonomously without instruction from the first remote operator or the second remote operator, and, after the transition from the first state to the third state, implements a transition from the third state to the second state.

Driving handover control device and driving handover control method

A driving handover control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which driving is handed over from a first state in which a vehicle travels in accordance with instruction from a remote operator of the vehicle to a second state in which the vehicle travels in accordance with operation by a passenger of the vehicle, the processor implements a transition from the first state to a third state in which the vehicle travels autonomously without instruction from the remote operator or operation by the passenger, and, after the transition from the first state to the third state, implements a transition from the third state to the second state.

A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.

Road abnormality detection apparatus, road abnormality detection method and road abnormality detection program

A vehicle controller device including: a communication section configured to perform communication between an operation device external to a vehicle and another vehicle; a memory; and a processor that is coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: acquire peripheral information regarding a periphery of the vehicle from a peripheral information detection section, generate a travel plan for the vehicle based on the peripheral information of the vehicle, acquire operation information to operate the vehicle from the operation device, control autonomous driving in which the vehicle travels based on the generated travel plan and also control remote driving in which the vehicle travels based on the acquired operation information, acquire peripheral information from the other vehicle in a case in which the processor is unable to acquire peripheral information, and hand over operation authority to the operation device when peripheral information is being acquired by the processor.

Vehicle controller device and vehicle control system

An operation selection device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to perform communication between a self-driving device provided at a vehicle which performs self-driving, and a plurality of operating devices that enable the vehicle to be driven remotely via a remote-control operation performed by a remote-control driver, and that are individually provided for each of a plurality of remote-control drivers, and to acquire information relating to remote-control operations performed by each remote-control driver using each of the plurality of operating devices for a receiving remote-control operation in the vehicle currently being driven remotely, using a predetermined weighting, one remote-control operation among many acquired remote-control operations, and to output information related to remote-control operation that has been decided on to the vehicle, and to allocate a score, which is reflected in the weighting, to the remote-control driver who performed the remote-control operation that has been decided.

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Ichinomiya, Japan

Makoto Matsushita