Nissan Motor Company Limited

Masao Yamane

Toru Takagi

Susumu Fujita

Okihiko Nakayama

Toshiro Muramatsu

Takeshi Mitamura

Takeshi Oono

Katsumi Ohta

Hideaki Hozumi

Hiroyuki Sakai

An information presentation apparatus for a vehicle includes an indicator mounted on the vehicle for indicating a target direction and a control unit for controlling the indicator. The control unit includes a function for acquiring a current position of the vehicle and a reference direction of the vehicle, a function for specifying a target and acquiring a target position, a function for calculating a target angle that indicates a target direction against the reference direction based on the target position, the current position and the reference direction, and a function for generating a presentation command based on the calculated target angle so as to indicate the target direction by the indicator. According to the apparatus, information for specifying the target position can be provided.

Information presentation apparatus for vehicle and information presentation method for vehicle

A guide system terminal device is provided to facilitate group operation vehicles. The guide system terminal device has a transceiver that receives the traveling environment information from another vehicle, such as for the turn signal, vehicle speed, running position, a road change judgment module that judges course changes by the other vehicle based on the traveling environment information of the other vehicle, and a user interface that outputs the judgment result obtained by road change judgment module. For example, the road change judgment module judges a left/right turn to have occurred when the blinker information acquired by turn signal sensor lasts longer than a prescribed time, and when the maximum value of the change in vehicle speed exceeds a prescribed level.

System and method for guiding a vehicle

A vehicle information processing systemconducts wireless communications between a preceding vehicleand a succeeding vehicle, and exhibits information on a winker operation of the preceding vehicleto a driver of the succeeding vehicle, and includes vehicle-mounted apparatusesin the preceding and succeeding vehicles, of which onein the preceding vehiclewirelessly transmits information on a winker operation of the preceding vehicle, and the otherin the succeed vehiclereceives the wirelessly transmitted information on the winker state, and exhibits same to a driver of the succeeding vehicle, while the apparatusin the succeeding vehicleestimates a relationship between the preceding vehicleand the succeeding vehicle, judges whether an exhibition liming of the information on the winker state is to be hastened or delayed based on an estimation result, and exhibits the information on the winker state at the judged timing.

Vehicle information processing system and method

A vehicular communications apparatus is configured to calculate information on relative positions, relative velocities, and relative moving directions between own vehicle and other vehicles at a point such as a junction where other vehicles tend to affect running of the own vehicle, and to search for and decide other vehicles which are to be opponents of radio communications, based on a calculated result, and communication opponents are decided from among the searched other vehicles, and radio communications are conducted therewith, and then, the vehicular communications apparatus obtains information on the other vehicles, in a time-sequential manner and by radio communications, and present the information to a driver of the own vehicle from time to time, thereby causing the driver to recognize dynamic information on the other vehicles, enabling the own vehicle to smoothly join a flow of traffic at a junction, for example.

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Yokosuka, Japan

Masao Yamane