Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Makoto Yasugi

Yoichi Nakagawa

Hirofumi Nishimura

Seiya Miyazaki

Sachiko Uranaka

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Koichi Emura

Weijie Liu

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Hiroaki Sudo

Tsuyoshi Ueno

Masamoto Tanabiki

Shintaro Muramatsu

Takashi Shimojima

Yoji Yokoyama

Koichi Aihara

Toshihiro Kasahara

Provided is a system which can reduce load on a travel controller that performs a danger avoidance operation by preliminarily detecting a significant event without increasing an amount of ITS communications, thereby providing suitable assistance for travel control of autonomous vehicles. When a vehiclepasses through a certain section of a road after an in-vehicle terminalhas detected a significant event while the vehicleis traveling in the section, the in-vehicle terminaltransmits event data (images and other information related to the event) to a roadside apparatusat an end point of the section. The roadside apparatustransmits the event data to another roadside apparatusat a start point of the section, which in turn transmits the event data to an in-vehicle device in another vehicle entering the section so that the device can perform travel control based on the event data.

Travel assistance method, road captured image collection method, and roadside device

A processor in an object detection device is configured to: acquire settings data for one or more radar grids, each radar grid being set for a measurement area of a corresponding radar and consisting of radar cells; acquire settings data for a processing grid for clustering operations, the processing grid being set for the one or more measurement areas and consisting of processing cells; calculate, for each processing cell, one or more likelihoods associated with measurements of one or more related radar cells based on distances between the processing cell and the one or more related radar cells; calculate a grid value of each of the processing cells in the processing grid based on the one or more likelihoods; and perform a clustering operation on each processing cell based on distances between and/or grid values of the processing cell and one or more different processing cells.

Object detection device, object detection system, and object detection method

The traffic monitoring system is provided with: a camera which captures an image of a monitoring area including a road and generates image data; a millimeter-wave radar which scans a scanning area included in the monitoring area and generates millimeter-wave data; and an information processing server which is connected to the camera and the millimeter-wave radar and acquires the image data and the millimeter-wave data. The information processing server is provided with: a data synchronization unit which synchronizes the image data with the millimeter-wave data so that the difference between a timing at which the image data is generated and a timing at which the millimeter-wave data is generated is equal to or smaller than a certain value; and a screen generation unit which associates the image data and the millimeter wave, which have been synchronized, with each other and generates a monitoring screen that indicates the road conditions.

Traffic monitoring system and traffic monitoring method

An object detection device includes a sub-cluster generating circuitry which, in operation, divides a cluster generated by a cluster generator into one or more first sub-clusters each corresponding to a part of an object having a different traveling direction or traveling speed from a main part of the object and a second sub-cluster corresponding to the main part of the object; and a speed calculating circuitry which, in operation, uses one or more capture points belonging to the second sub-cluster and calculates a traveling speed of the object.

Object detection device and object detection method

An object detection device includes first information generation circuitry second information generation circuitry, region calculation circuitry, measured value interpolation circuitry, and object determination circuitry. The measured value interpolation circuitry which, in operation, calculates a first interpolated measured value of the first target object region using the second measured value of the second target object region or calculates a second interpolated measured value of the second target object region using the first measured value of the first target object region. The object determination circuitry which, in operation, determines the target object using a combination of the first measured value and the first interpolated measured value or a combination of the second measured value and the second interpolated measured value.

Provided is a device for detecting intruding objects that enables the detection of intruding objects without requiring antenna switching. Delay units () use different delay amounts to delay signals received at each of a plurality of antennas (). A signal synthesis unit () synthesizes the delayed signals. A frequency conversion unit () converts the synthesized signal frequency to a baseband. A wave detection unit () detects the signal that has undergone frequency conversion. A radar profile generation unit () uses the detected signal to generate a profile formed from the distance from the antenna, and the signal strength at each distance from the antenna. A detection processing unit () detects a peak in the profile at which the signal strength exceeds a preset threshold value, and determines whether an intruding object is present in a detection region on the basis of the detected peak.

Device for detecting intruding objects, and method for detecting intruding objects

Disclosed is an object detection device capable of improving object detection accuracy by preventing erroneous combination detection. In this device, a detection object region correction unit () corrects a detection object region set by a detection object region set unit () on the basis of moving speed map information associated with a coordinate group in a reference image plane and the detected moving speed on each coordinate, which is detected by a radar. Thus, the detection object region can be amended by the use of the moving speed map information even when the detection object region is obtained as a result of erroneous combination. As a result, the object detection accuracy can be improved.

Provided is a positioning information forming device which improves object detection accuracy. This device comprises a synthesis unit () which synthesizes camera distance map information and radar distance map information and generates 'synthesized map information'. This synthesized map information is used for object detection processing by a detection device (). In this way it is possible to improve object detection accuracy by being able to detect objects based on information in which the camera distance map information and radar distance map information have been synthesized. In other words, by synthesizing the camera distance map information and radar distance map information, it is possible to remove unnecessary noise due to reflection from the ground and walls, etc. and therefore set object detection thresholds to low values. It is therefore possible to detect even objects the detection of which was judged to be impossible in the past.

Positioning information forming device, detection device, and positioning information forming method

An installation error estimating device has a predicted pattern acquirer which obtains a predicted positioning distribution pattern, which is obtained by computing a characteristic pattern of a predicted positioning distribution obtained by predicting a logical positioning distribution, at each observation point where a wireless tag is installed for positioning; and an observation data inputter to which positioning results obtained from the wireless tags by a tag reader are input as observation data. A dispersion pattern analyzer computes a characteristic pattern of a measured positioning distribution, which is obtained by statistical analysis of the applicable positioning result, as a measured positioning distribution pattern at each observation point based on the observation. An installation error estimator computes the installation error for the tag reader using the predicted positioning distribution patterns obtained and the measured positioning distribution patterns computed.

Installation error estimating device and installation error estimating method

Provided is a character outfit autoconfiguration device capable of configuring outfit for a character matched with a content of a scenario without requiring specification of outfit by a user or using user environment information. The character outfit autoconfiguration device () for configuring outfit of a character from a scenario includes: a scenario dividing unit () for dividing the scenario into sections according to continuity of outfit of the character, and outfit autoconfiguration unit () for configuring outfit of the character according to a content of a scenario section for each of the scenario sections divided by the scenario dividing unit.

Character outfit autoconfiguration device, character outfit autoconfiguration method, and character outfit autoconfiguration program

There is provided a scenario generation device capable of automatically generating a scenario for generating an animation of rich expression desired by a user even from a text created by the user who has no special knowledge about creation of animation. In the device, a scenario generation unit generates a scenario from a text inputted by the user, and a scenario edition unit edits a scenario with information recalled from words in the generated scenario by using external information acquired by an external information acquisition unit. That is, the scenario generation device recognizes information to be added to the text created by the user and adds information to the scenario by using external information acquired from a device owned by the user and a device existing in a communicable range. Thus, even the user has no special knowledge, the user can generate a scenario for realizing animation of expression near to the user's intention.

Scenario generation device, scenario generation method, and scenario generation program

There are provided a scene modifier generation device and a scene modifier generation method capable of improving expressive power of animation when automatically generating a modifier concerning a scene used in computer graphics from an inputted text sentence. A scene modifier as a modification expression concerning a scene of computer graphics is stored together with the application condition. It is possible to automatically generate a unique scene modifier appropriate for a scene according to an agentive in the scenario, a meaning of the operation, and a component of a scene modifier contained in the scenario including an adverb.

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Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Yasugi