Hitachi, Ltd.

Clarion Co

Hitcha, Ltd.

Masashi Koga

Hiromichi Fujisawa

Yoshihiro Shima

Masashi Akachi

Hiroshige Furugori

Yoshitaka Hara

Shigeru Watanabe

Tatsuhiko Kagehiro

Takuya Naka

Saku Egawa

Katsumi Marukawa

Kazuki Nakashima

Hiroki Abe

Haruki Kobayashi

Yoh Ueda

Tsugio Takahashi

Tatsuya Murakami

Hidefumi Masuzaki

Masaaki Fujinawa

Yuji Hosoda

Hiroshi Sako

Hisashi Ikeda

Hisao Ogata

Hiroshi Sakou

Masato Teramoto

Naohiro Furukawa

Kazunori Kinoshita

Atsushi Kato

Tao Guo

Shizue Kato

Makoto Sugiyama

Kiyomichi Kurino

Hiroshi Sugihara

Tetsuzo Uehara

An information processing device and an information processing method that prevent unnecessary warning are provided. An information processing device includes a host vehicle information acquisition part configured to acquire host vehicle information on a host vehicle, a setting part configured to set an allowable range for a driver's sight of the host vehicle based on the host vehicle information, a driver information acquisition part configured to acquire driver information on the driver, a determination part (inattentive driving determination part) configured to determine whether or not the driver is looking at the allowable range based on the allowable range and the driver information, and an output part (sound output part, vibration part, display part) configured to output a predetermined notification based on the determination of the determination part (inattentive driving determination part).

Information processing device and information processing method

An object is to provide a warning output device, a warning output method, and a warning output system that make it possible to appropriately output warning. A warning output device includes: a driver's state acquisition unit configured to acquire inattentive driving information indicating that a driver performs inattentive driving; a vehicle state acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle state; a vehicle warning reception unit configured to receive vehicle warning, which is warning corresponding to the vehicle state; an adaptive rule acquisition unit configured to acquire adaptive rule information generated when the driver performs inattentive driving and the warning is received; and an output unit configured to output inattentive driving warning, which is warning related to inattentive driving when the driver's state acquisition unit acquires the inattentive driving information and the vehicle state satisfies a predetermined condition specified in the adaptive rule information.

Warning output device, warning output method, and warning output system

Information can be displayed on display devices according to information to be notified. An information processing systemincludes a navigation device, a mobile terminal, and a control server, wherein the navigation deviceis connected to a head-up displaythat can be visually recognized by a driver and includes a display panelthat can be visually recognized by the driver and a passenger other than the driver, the mobile terminaltransmits notification information to the navigation deviceand transmits notification related information regarding the notification information to the control server, the control serverdetermines a display device that displays information based on the notification information in the navigation devicebased on the notification related information received from the mobile terminaland transmits display location information indicating the determined display device to the navigation device, and the navigation devicedisplays the information based on the notification information on the display device indicated by the received display location information.

Information processing system, on-vehicle device, and terminal device for privacy management

This invention can enhance the convenience of a user. An information processing systemincludes: a vehicle-mounted devicewhich has a sound pickup unitthat picks up a speech sound, and a transmitting unit that transmits speech data that is generated based on the speech sound that is picked up to a control server; and the control serverwhich has a server storage unitthat stores a pictogram correspondence tablein which recognition keywords and pictogram IDs indicating a plurality of pictograms that correspond to the recognition keywords are associated, and a server control unitwhich executes pictogram processing that selects a recognition keyword that corresponds to text representing a speech sound that is generated by speech recognition based on speech data from among the recognition keywords included in the pictogram correspondence table, and in accordance with a predetermined condition, selects a single pictogram ID from among a plurality of pictogram IDs that are associated with the selected recognition keyword.

Information processing system, and vehicle-mounted device

A monitoring device monitors facility elements in a building. Self-localization of the monitoring device is estimated by collating measured three-dimensional shapes with a map for localization including the shapes and positions of structural objects inside a building excluding the shapes and positions of facility elements. The monitoring device extracts the shape and position of a facility element candidate from the measured three-dimensional shapes; and calculates a similarity between the shape and position of each of the facility elements in the periphery of the self-localization extracted from the facility element collation map. The monitoring device identifies which of the facility elements in the periphery of the self-localization extracted from the facility element collation map is the facility element candidate extracted from the measured three-dimensional shape on the basis of the calculated similarity.

Monitoring device, monitoring system and monitoring method

A vehicle support information system mounted in a vehicle, the vehicle support system including: a man-detecting unit; a vehicle-position detecting unit; a communication unit; a man-position/waiting-score calculating unit; a stopping-vehicle determining unit determining whether or not the vehicle should be stopped, based on a man position and a waiting score of an at least one potential-crossing-man; a travelling controller for stopping the vehicle when the stopping-vehicle determining unit determines that the vehicle should be stopped; and a man-crossing-signal display unit displaying information to inform the at least one potential-crossing-man whether or not the at least one potential-crossing-man can safely cross the road, based on an instruction of the stopping-vehicle determining unit, wherein the man-position/waiting-score calculating unit outputs the man-position/waiting-score to the communication unit.

Vehicle support systems for pedestrians to cross roads and support methods for pedestrians to cross roads

A vehicle support system for supporting a man in safely crossing a road without crosswalks installed is provided. The vehicle support system includes a man-detecting unit detecting a man, a subject-vehicle-position detecting unit detecting a position of a vehicle, a man-position/waiting-score calculating unit determining the detected man to be a potential-crossing-man who may cross the road, calculating an absolute position of the potential-crossing-man, measuring waiting time of the potential-crossing-man to cross the road, calculating a waiting score, and storing the result in a man-position/waiting-score storing unit, a stopping-vehicle determining unit determining whether or not the vehicle should be stopped based on the position and the waiting score of the potential-crossing-man, a travelling controller stopping the vehicle when the vehicle should be stopped, and a pedestrian-crossing-signal display unit displaying information indicating whether or not crossing the road is safe based on an instruction of the stopping-vehicle determining unit.

A collision avoidance assisting system for a vehicle, for expecting a risk of colliding upon a moving object (or a moving obstacle), including a pedestrian, more correctly, but without annoying a driver, excessively, by estimating the risk to be excessively high, comprises a moving object detecting means for detecting a moving object existing on periphery of the vehicle; a footway boundary detecting means for detecting a position and a configuration of a footway boundary object on periphery of the vehicle; a risk estimation means for estimating a risk that the moving object detected by said moving object detecting means collides on the vehicle; and an alarm means for calling an attention to a driver of the vehicle, upon basis of the risk of collision estimated by the risk estimation means, wherein the risk of collision between the moving object, which is detected by the moving object detecting means, and that vehicle is estimated by taking at least the position information of the moving object, the position information of the footway boundary object and conditions of the circumferences thereof.

Collision avoidance assisting system for vehicle

A map generation system comprising: a mobile device for acquiring location data of a vehicle and a status of the vehicle at a time of acquisition of the location; and a server for processing the acquired location data of the vehicle. The server comprises an input interface, a first storage unit, a processor and a second storage unit. The server includes a management unit for collecting a plurality of pieces of the track data obtained by a motion of the vehicle, an extraction unit for extracting feature points of the plurality of pieces of the track data on a road from which the plurality of pieces of the track data are collected to calculate a Spline curve satisfying the extracted feature points, and an update unit for adding the calculated Spline curve as a lane central line to the digital road map to update map data.

Map generation system and map generation method by using GPS tracks

A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different binarization, means for synthesizing character sub-image candidates that have been obtained from the binarization units, and means for analyzing character sub-image candidates and for recognizing an image as a character string consisting of character sub-image candidates.

Method and apparatus for recognition of character string in scene image

A method and a machine for generating a dictionary of address phrase expressions. One embodiment of the invention includes an apparatus for generating a dictionary of target phrases that includes an input interface for receiving as its input a first address phrase included in a list of address phrase expressions, a memory for storing a dictionary of address phrase variants, including rules for generating variants of address phrase expressions, and a processing device for generating variants of address phrases which generates a second address phrase which is different in expression from the first address phrase to output the second address phrase to a storage device holding the dictionary of target phrases, based on the input first address phrase, and the knowledge of rules about variants included in the dictionary of address phrase variants.

Place name expressing dictionary generating method and its apparatus

An address reader method and apparatus for recognizing a receiver address on a surface of mail. An image of the surface of the mail is input and segmented into at least one character string candidate. At least one address area candidate is extracted from the image based upon the segmented character string candidate. One address area candidate extracted from the image is selected as a receiver address by analyzing each address area candidate based on predetermined position information indicating a usual position of a receiver address area, character direction information indicating a character direction of a character string appropriate for the predetermined position information, and key character string information indicating a character string most likely to exist in a receiver address. Characters in character strings of the selected address area candidate are recognized as a receiver address.

Address reader, sorting machine such as a mail thing and character string recognition method

An address reader method and apparatus for recognizing a receiver address on a surface of mail. In the invention an image of the surface of the mail is input and segmented into at least one character string candidate. At least one address area candidate is extracted from the image based upon the segmented character string candidate. One of the address area candidates extracted from the image is selected as a receiver address of the mail by analyzing each of the address area candidates based on predetermined position information indicating a usual position of a receiver address area, character direction information indicating a character direction of a character string appropriate for the predetermined position information, and key character string information indicating a character string most likely to exist in a receiver address. Characters in character strings of the selected address area candidate are recognized as a receiver address which is used to sort the mail.

A character reading method has enhanced character segmentation accuracy and character string recognition accuracy for reading correctly hand-written addresses on postal matters. The method extracts provisional character patterns from image information of the address character string (step,), creates a table,of tentative character patterns and implements the character classification for the tentative character patterns (step,), extracts, specifically for characters of the street number portion of the address character string, periphery information (vertical and horizontal lengths, vertical/horizontal length ratio, pattern spacings, etc.) of tentative character patterns (step,), and segments the character string into characters accurately based on the information (step,).

Method of reading characters and method of reading postal addresses

In an apparatus for and a method of processing document information, according to a requirement of a writer of document information, the document information is generated, referenced, and re-constructed. Further, according to a requirement of a reader of the document information, the information is referenced and re-constructed. The apparatus includes a reader terminal including means for inputting a requirement of a reader of document information and means for outputting document information referenced and re-constructed according to the requirement, and a writer terminal for inputting therefrom a requirement of a writer of document information and creating document information. The apparatus further includes a document processing unit connected to the reader terminal and the writer terminal. The unit includes means for storing therein the document information produced by the writer terminal and processing means for referencing and re-constructing the stored document information according to the requirement of the user inputted from the reader terminal, thereby outputting therefrom the resultant document information.

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Masashi Koga