Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Renault S.a.s.

Laurel Precision Machines Co., Ltd.

Masayasu Suzuki

Takeshi Akatsuka

Hirofumi Inoue

Daisuke Saito

Masahide Nakamura

Masaki Watanabe

Tomoki Hirabayashi

Toru Takagi

Arata Nakagoshi

Ken Oizumi

Takao Inoue

Susumu Fujita

Satoshi Chinomi

Satoshi Kawai

Keiko Shishido

Hidenori Seguchi

Shiro Mazawa

Manabu Yoshimura

Yoshinori Nakano

Toshiro Muramatsu

Hideo Aoe

Youhei Kaneko

Naoki Tsubaki

Taki Ohishi

Masahiro Hagiwara

Hidenori Boutani

Natsu Takahashi

A vehicle allocation control device, when a forgotten item in the vehicle is detected after setting a first travel route including a drop-off place, is configured to: calculate a first time at which the vehicle arrives at the drop-off place by travelling along the set first travel route, set at least one second travel route which is different from the first travel route and goes through a facility for depositing the forgotten item, calculate a second time at which the vehicle arrives at the drop-off place by travelling along the second travel route, and change the first travel route to the second travel route where a time difference between the first time and the second time is equal to or less than a permissible time.

Vehicle allocation control device, vehicle allocation control system, and vehicle allocation control method

A vehicle control device is used for a vehicle that simultaneously transports a user and a package. The vehicle control device includes a controller configured to: acquire an attribute of the user and an attribute of the package; determine whether the user and the package are loaded in the vehicle; and upon determining that the user and the package are loaded in the vehicle, perform air conditioning control according to the attribute of the user and the attribute of the package.

Vehicle control device and vehicle control method

A vehicle allocation support device: acquires baggage information about baggage carried in a vehicle; acquires user information that includes at least user position information indicating a current position of a user or destination information indicating a scheduled destination of the user; acquires vehicle information including vehicle position information indicating a position of the vehicle; specifies a usage area in which the baggage is to be used, based on an estimated usage place that is information corresponding to the baggage and in which the baggage is estimated to be used and one of the user information and the vehicle information; and determines a vehicle allocation route for allocating the vehicle to at least the current position of the user, the scheduled destination of the user, or the usage area, based on a positional relationship between the usage area and one of the user position information and the scheduled destination information.

Vehicle allocation support device, vehicle allocation support method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing vehicle allocation support program

A vehicle control device is used for a vehicle that transports a user and a package. The vehicle control device includes a controller configured to: acquire an attribute of the user and an attribute of the package; partition a space in the vehicle into spaces prior to loading of at least one of the user and the package into the vehicle; and perform air conditioning control according to the attribute of an object for loading in at least one of the partitioned spaces.

A vehicle travel route control system controls a plurality of vehicles having an autonomous driving function or a driving assist function, wherein a vehicle dispatch information data server creates a travel route map, in which driving mode switching position at which vehicles have switched over during travel to the manual driving mode from the autonomous driving mode, have been added to a road map. Based on the travel route map, a travel route that avoids the driving mode switching position is calculated from among a plurality of routes on which a dispatch vehicle candidate travels to a destination via user position. When a travel route that avoids the driving mode switching position is calculated, a dispatch vehicle candidate is set as a dispatch vehicle, and the calculated travel route information is transmitted to an on-board unit mounted in the dispatch vehicle.

Vehicle travel route control system, vehicle travel route control device, and vehicle travel route control method

A communication method for a vehicle dispatch system includes a communication apparatus configured to control communication between a first apparatus and a second apparatus. The first apparatus and the second apparatus are capable of information exchange with each other. The communication apparatus includes a processor. The processor operates to: acquire a position of a boarding point for a user and a current position of a target vehicle to be dispatched to the user; at identification timing at which a determination is made that the current position of the target vehicle belongs to a predetermined area defined with reference to the position of the boarding point, generate target vehicle information using a captured image captured by one or more cameras of the target vehicle; and transmit the target vehicle information to the second apparatus. The second apparatus operates to display the received target vehicle information on a display.

Communication method for vehicle dispatch system, vehicle dispatch system, and communication device

Vehicle allocation system includes an information provision apparatus, a first apparatus: control apparatus, and a user's second apparatus: user terminal apparatus. Processor of the information provision apparatus calculates a first driving plan for a vehicle in response to request information. When a second driving plan different from the first driving plan is calculated based on detection information acquired from the vehicle, the processor determines the cause of a change in the driving plan on the basis of the detection information. The processor transmits cause information including the cause to the user terminal apparatus. The user terminal apparatus presents the cause information on a display.

Information service method for vehicle dispatch system, vehicle dispatch system, and information service device

A candidate route providing system that provides a vehicle with a candidate route as a candidate of a travel route, based on traveled paths of a plurality of vehicles includes a storage that stores the traveled paths of the plurality of vehicles and travel history information associated with the traveled paths, a current location setter that sets a current location of the vehicle, a passage candidate point setter that sets a passage candidate point selectable by the vehicle to pass through, within a predetermined range being a distance range between a lower-limit distance and an upper-limit distance from the current location, a path extractor that extracts, from the traveled paths, traveled paths that pass through the current location and the passage candidate point, and a candidate route selector.

Candidate route providing system, in-vehicle apparatus, and candidate route providing method

A vehicle reach area presentation device sets a unit area in which a start point exists as a start area among unit areas into which a region on map data is divided and extracts pieces of probe data including records of past travels within a certain range from the start area. The device sets the unit areas, including goal points recorded in the extracted pieces of probe data, as reach areas, calculates energy consumptions from the start area to the reach areas by using the pieces of probe data, and presents the reach areas to a user while changing display of the reach areas depending on the calculated energy consumptions.

Vehicle reach area presentation device and vehicle reach area presentation method

When a parking assistant assists a driver in carrying out parking operation, the parking assistant takes image of vehicle surroundings to generate vehicle surroundings images, converts coordinates of vehicle surroundings images to generate overhead view image, and sets a parking target area in the overhead view image. On the overhead view image, the parking assistant superposes a parking target area image which denotes the parking target area. The parking assistant generates the parking target area image when a first certain portion where a solid object is present is superposed with the parking target area. The parking target area image is generated in a second certain portion other than the superposed first certain portion. The generating operation is implemented even when another vehicle included in the overhead view image falls in the set parking target area image. The parking assistant displays the overhead view image and the parking target area image.

Parking assistant and parking assisting method

A parking assistant includes: shooting part shooting surroundings; parking target position setter setting parking target position in surroundings image by shooting part; rearward movement starting position calculator calculating rearward movement starting position based on: target position by position setter, and vehicle's movable area, rearward movement starting position denoting position stopping vehicle and starting rearward movement of vehicle, to park vehicle in target position; movement calculator sensing movement direction and movement amount of vehicle; and image generator superposing an information image on surroundings image based on movement direction and amount which are sensed with movement calculator. Information image denotes rearward movement starting position for allowing vehicle to be parked in target position. According to vehicle's movement, image generator generates, with different displays, following sub-positions of rearward movement starting position: first sub-position allowing vehicle to move to target position, and second sub-position failing to allow vehicle to be parked in target position.

In a vehicle circumferential image providing device, an image converting unitgenerates an overhead imagefrom images picked up with plural camera modules. An image detecting unitperforms edge detection in an overhead image. Further, the image detecting unitdetermines continuity of edge lines connecting between connected parts in the overhead image, among the detected edge lines. When the edge lines striding over the connected parts in the overhead imageare discontinuous, the image detecting unitsets edge lines at the far side of the own vehicle to match edge lines at the near side of the own vehicle, thereby setting the edge lines continuous at the connected parts.

Vehicle circumferential image providing device and vehicle circumferential image providing method

A banknote stacking apparatus includes a banknote stacking plateon which banknotes are to be stacked, a first banknote press memberfixed to a support shaftso as to be swingably together with the support shaft, a second banknote press memberwhich is formed of a synthetic resin sheet having flexibility, whose upstream end portion is fixed to the banknote stacking apparatus and whose downstream end portion is fixed to the first banknote press memberand a solenoidfor driving the first banknote press memberand the banknote stacking apparatus is constituted so that when a banknote is fed into the banknote stacking apparatus and the first banknote press memberis driven by the solenoid, the first banknote press memberis swung and presses a portion of a banknote close to the front end portion thereof and the second banknote press memberis swung together with the first banknote press memberand deformed so as to form a convex portionprojecting toward the banknote, whereby a portion of the banknote close to the rear end portion thereof is pressed by the convex portionof the second banknote press member. According to the thus constituted banknote stacking apparatus, a banknote can be stacked on the banknote stacking platein the desired manner using a single drive means.

Sheet stacking apparatus

A video signal processing device, which includes: a plurality of imaging devices outputting mutually asynchronous interlace video signals; input buffers temporarily storing field by field the video signals outputted from the respective imaging devices; and an output image generating device generating field by field video signals of output target images from the video signals stored in the input buffers, wherein each of the video signals of the output target images is generated when all of the latest video signals to be components thereof are stored in the input buffers.

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Yokosuka, Japan

Masayasu Suzuki