Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Michio Ikeda

Shunsuke Tanimori

Masaki Ito

Masaki Wasekura

Mitsugu Makita

Eiichi Ishii

Gaku Itou

Toru Yoshida

Shotaro Inoue

Yoshinori Yamada

Akihiro Muguruma

Hiroshi Hiraiwa

Kazuhiro Fukazawa

Tomoaki Miyazawa

Kenta Miyahara

Masaru Ando

Kihiro Kato

Kazuhiro Matsui

A control device for a vehicle controls a vehicle configured to provide a ridesharing service by autonomous traveling. The control device for a vehicle includes: a first information acquiring unit configured to acquire first information of a passenger who is supposed to use the ridesharing service; a second information acquiring unit configured to acquire second information of a passenger who has entered the vehicle at a pickup point; a determination unit configured to determine whether the vehicle is to depart by comparing the first information with the second information; and a vehicle control unit configured to control the vehicle based on a determination result from the determination unit. The determination unit is configured to prohibit departure of the vehicle when the first information does not match the second information.

Control device for vehicle and method of operating vehicle

An information display device includes: a display section that displays a view of a situation ahead of a vehicle and guidance information; a learning section that classifies and learns targets appearing on a travel route and visible through the display section as: a first target necessary to be visible, a second target necessary to be visible under the setting condition, or a third target not necessary to be visible, and a display control section configured to: prohibit display of the guidance information in a prohibited region with the first target, permit display of the guidance information in a permitted region with the third target, and either prohibit display of the guidance information in a conditional region with the second target and the setting condition is met, or permit display of the guidance information in the conditional region with the second target and the setting condition is not met.

Information display device, control method, and storage medium

A restraining device control system includes: a restraining device that is provided at a vehicle seat and that restrains an occupant seated in the vehicle seat; a surrounding environment detection unit that detects an environment surrounding a vehicle; and a control unit that increases a restraining force on the occupant by the restraining device in a case in which it has been predicted, from the surrounding environment of the vehicle, that vacillation of the vehicle while in an autonomous driving mode will exceed a threshold amount and that decreases the restraining force on the occupant by the restraining device in a case in which it has been predicted, from the surrounding environment of the vehicle, that the vehicle will maintain a state in which vacillation of the vehicle while in the autonomous driving mode is less than the threshold amount.

Restraining device control system

The vehicle air conditioning apparatus comprises at least one physical condition information sensor which detects information on physical conditions of passengers in a vehicle as physical condition information. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus selectively executes an outside-air circulation control for discharging air from an interior of the vehicle to outside of the vehicle and introducing outside air to the interior of the vehicle from the outside of the vehicle and an interior-air circulation control for taking the air from the interior of the vehicle and returning the taken air to the interior of the vehicle. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus executes the outside-air circulation control when the electronic control unit determines that at least one of the passengers has an infection, based on the physical condition information.

Vehicle air conditioning apparatus

A route information decision device includes: a route search unit that searches for a route along which a user moves from a first spot to a second spot; a partial route decision unit that decides a permissible route part of the route and a non-permissible route part of the route, the permissible route part being contained in a permissible region where a vehicle is permitted to be dispatched to the user, the non-permissible route part being contained in a non-permissible region where the vehicle is not permitted to be dispatched to the user, the vehicle being a vehicle for which an automatic driving control is performed.

Route information decision device, route information system, terminal, and method for deciding route information

A vehicle information provision device includes a travel state detection unit, a surroundings situation detection unit, a potential hazard detection unit detecting a potential hazard based on the situation detected by the surroundings situation detection unit, a driver state detection unit detecting the driver state during self-driving of a vehicle; a driver state determination unit configured to determine whether or not the driver is observing the situation in the vehicle surroundings based on the state of the driver detected by the driver state detection unit, and an information control unit that provides information to the driver regarding the potential hazard in a case in which the driver is observing the situation in the vehicle surroundings, and restricts provision of information to the driver in a case in which the driver is not observing the situation in the vehicle surroundings during self-driving of the vehicle.

Vehicle information provision device

A guidance information providing system includes a plurality of mobile shop vehicles and a server device. Each mobile shop vehicle of the mobile shop vehicles includes first circuitry and the server device includes second circuitry. The first circuitry is configured to acquire location information on the mobile shop vehicle and configured to send the location information on the mobile shop vehicle. The second circuitry is configured to acquire location information on the mobile shop vehicle, configured to generate map information indicating a layout of the plurality of mobile shop vehicles, and configured to output the map information.

Guidance information providing system, guidance information providing device, guidance information providing method, and program-stored non-transitory storage medium

A traffic information determination device includes a server configured to acquire driving environment information that may affect safety of traveling of a vehicle to be subjected to autonomous driving control, determine a first allowable area in which traveling of the vehicle is allowed, and in which traveling of the vehicle is not allowed when a person gets on the vehicle, based on the driving environment information, and determine a second allowable area in which traveling of the vehicle is allowed, and in which traveling of the vehicle is allowed even when the person gets on the vehicle, based on the driving environment information.

Traffic information determination device, traffic information system, and method of determining traffic information using processor

An accompanying vehicle selection system includes: a first vehicle that is provided with a driver's seat; a plurality of second vehicles that have different functions from the first vehicle, and that are configured to travel in accompaniment with the first vehicle; and a control unit that is provided in the first vehicle, and that determines, based on input information, which vehicle from among the plurality of second vehicles is to travel in accompaniment with the first vehicle.

Accompanying vehicle selection system

There is provided an image processing device including: a first memory; a first processor that is connected to the first memory; and a storage section that stores image data related to a position information-appended image that is appended with position information relating to an imaging location. The first processor searches for one or more items of the image data including the position information within a predetermined range of a current position of a vehicle, and selects a position information-appended image related to image data found by the searching as an image to be displayed in the vehicle.

Image processing device, image processing system, and vehicle

The present disclosure makes it possible to properly arrange mobile shop vehicles. An apparatus for determining arrangement of mobile shop vehicles comprises a controller configured to set a user of a shop group formed by the plurality of mobile shop vehicles; and determine the arrangement of the plurality of mobile shop vehicles on the basis of information that represents at least one of an attribute, a taste, and a purchase history of the user.

Apparatus for determining arrangement of mobile shop vehicles, method for determining arrangement, and computer-readable storage medium

An information system comprises a selector configured to select one or more mobile shop vehicles each of which functions as a meeting place for users who utilize a shopping district composed of mobile shop vehicles, from a group of the mobile shop vehicles allowed to gather in a predetermined area in order to construct the shopping district composed of the mobile shop vehicles to provide services of different classifications in a composite manner; and a manager configured to instruct the one or more mobile shop vehicles each of which functions as the meeting place to cause a change into an appearance with which it is possible for the users to distinguish, in a differentiated manner, that each of the one or more mobile shop vehicles is the meeting place in the shopping district composed of the mobile shop vehicles.

Information system, information processing method, and program

A vehicle notification system performs audio notification regarding a driving status of a vehicle that is capable of self-driving, for an occupant of the vehicle at a predetermined timing during self-driving. The vehicle notification system includes a position identification section that is configured to identify a current position of the vehicle. Based on a destination and the current position, notification that the driving status is conforming to a plan is performed at regular intervals, and notification that the driving status is not conforming to the plan is performed if the driving status is no longer conforming to the plan.

Vehicle notification system

A vehicle configured to provide a mobility service of transporting a passenger by autonomous traveling includes a gesture detecting device configured to detect a person's gesture outside the vehicle and a service end determining unit configured to determine whether the passenger has approved of an end of the mobility service. The service end determining unit determines that the passenger has approved of the end of the mobility service when the gesture detecting device has detected a specific gesture while the vehicle is stopped.

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Nagoya, Japan

Michio Ikeda