Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masaki Negoro

Morimichi Nishigaki

Kenichi Sawada

Yuji Yokochi

Yoshito Terayama

Toshinori Tsukamoto

Yoshifumi Nakamura

Masatoshi Noguchi

Yusuke Sakaguchi

Fuminori Taniguchi

John P Moon

Tamotsu Kawamura

Hiroshi Akiyama

Akiyoshi Kobayashi

Tomokazu Honda

Kotaro Shigeno

Yoshinori Ando

Dennis Patrick Clark

Atsuhiro Eguchi

Yoshikazu Fujimoto

Shintaro Yoshimi

Naoto Akutsu

Yoshinori Matsuo

Naoki Sugimoto

Nobuhiko Fujii

Tomokazu Takagi

A photographic image exchange system includes an imaging device having an imager that performs imaging, a communicator that performs communication with a server, and a controller that controls the communicator such that an image that includes a registered target among images captured by the imager is transmitted to the server, and the server provides the image received from the imaging device to a device used by a user who is related to the registration.

Photographic image exchange system, imaging device, and photographic image exchange method

Provided is a vehicle in which overdischarge of a battery is protected and turning drivability of the vehicle is improved when there is even a little remaining capacity. An ECU controls the left motive force and the right motive force of the left electric motor and the right electric motor so as not to exceed a differential torque upper limit value, which is the maximum value of the difference between the left motive force and the right motive force established on the basis of the temperature or discharge limit power of the battery. When the battery is at a low temperature or the like and the discharge power is limited, the difference between the left motive force and the right motive force is controlled on the basis of the discharge limit power, whereby the turnability of the vehicle is improved while preventing the risk of damage to the battery.

Right and left motor output control for vehicle

Provided is a vehicle provided with left and right electric motors electrically connected to a battery and mechanically connected respectively to left and right vehicle wheels, a power generator mechanically connected to an internal combustion engine being electrically connected to the battery, wherein the battery is reliably protected during traction control and at other such times. Two electric motors, specifically first and second electric motors, are temporarily handled integrally to determine a torque down amount (TD), which is the total allowable power variation width (&#x3b1;) of the two electric motors, on the basis of left and right total power (Y), and the respective motive powers of the first and second electric motors are controlled while being limited by values obtained by simply dividing the determined torque down amount (TD) equally, whereby the allowable input/output power (allowable input power (Z)) of the battery is reliably protected.

Vehicle

A surrounding area monitoring apparatus for vehicle includes an infrared camera mounted on a vehicle for capturing images of surrounding area around the vehicle, a unit for generating and displaying images based on image data captured by the camera, and a controller for calibrating output of the camera with respect to a relation between pixels, based on image data produced by imaging a surface of a shutter that opens and closes an aperture introducing a light to the camera, The controller estimates whether a temperature of the camera is stable, based on an operation state of the vehicle, and determines a possibility that a driver is looking at the unit, based on a behavior of the vehicle. When the temperature of the camera is estimated stable and the possibility that the driver is looking at the unit is determined to be low, the means for calibrating executes the calibration.

Surrounding area monitoring apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle surroundings monitoring device includes a moving direction determining unitwhich determines whether a physical body is moving in a traveling direction of a self vehicle or a transverse direction orthogonal to the traveling direction, from a change in a detection position of the physical body by a laser radar, wherein a classification determining unitexecutes a first classification determining process of determining the physical body determined to be moving in the traveling direction as a four-wheel vehicle when dimensions of the physical body obtained from the detected position by the laser radaris within a range of A, and a second classification determining process of determining the physical body determined to be moving in the transverse direction as the four-wheel vehicle when the dimensions of the physical body obtained from the detected position by the laser radaris within a range of B

Vehicle surroundings monitoring device

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Saitama, Japan

Masaki Negoro