Fujitsu Ten Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Ten Limited

Noriaki Inoue

Toshio Kitahara

Satoshi Ohta

Kenichi Murata

Minoru Maehata

Kenji Nakamura

Yuji Ninagawa

Satoru Ikeda

Masashi Tsuyunashi

Yusuke Iguchi

Yoshio Togashi

Tatsuya Hamaoka

Takako Fukuda

Kazuyoshi Kasai

Kyohei Morita

Ikuo Yagasaki

Tomohiro Kuroko

Kentaro Koga

Fumio Kameyama

Satoshi Akamatsu

Shohei Koide

An image processing device includes: a recognition unit configured to recognize a part of a confidential target from a captured image; a processing unit configured to process the captured image such that the part recognized by the recognition unit is concealed; an encryption unit configured to encrypt data relating to the part recognized by the recognition unit; and a merging unit configured to merge data of the image processed by the processing unit and the data encrypted by the encryption unit.

Image processing device, image processing method, and computer readable medium

A use specifying unit specifies a 'purpose of use' of a vehicle based on a running-data table. An application selection unit selects one or more information-related applications which are suitable for the 'purpose of use', from a plurality of information-related applications. Then, an execution inhibition unit inhibits execution of information-related applications which are not selected to be suitable for the specified purpose of the vehicle. As a result, it is possible to prevent information-related applications which are unnecessary for the &#x201c;purpose of use&#x201d; of the vehicle from being executed wastefully.

Vehicular system

In a vehicle network system, a plurality of ECUs are network-connected. The plurality of ECUs include a first ECU that has set therein a secret key from among the secret key and a public key that form a pair and are set on the basis of initialization processing performed when the vehicle network system is created, and a second ECU that has set therein the public key. The second ECU adds, to a transmission signal, an authentication keyword created from the public key and information capable of specifying the second ECU and transmits the transmission signal with the authentication keyword added thereto to the network. The first ECU acquires the authentication keyword and estimates the reliability of the communication signal on the basis of the acquired authentication keyword and the secret key.

Vehicle network system

A program update device that is provided in a vehicle in which a battery can be charged from the outside and updates a software program used in the vehicle includes a charging time acquiring unit that acquires the charging time of the battery, an update time acquiring unit that acquires the time required to rewrite the program, a comparison unit that compares the charging time acquired by the charging time acquiring unit and the program rewrite time acquired by the update time acquiring unit, and an update unit that rewrites the program on the basis of the comparison result of the comparison unit. According to this structure, it is possible to appropriately determine a program which can be updated within the battery charging time and reliably update the program while the vehicle is being charged.

Program update device

A positioning system is configured such that an in-vehicle device includes an in-vehicle-side positioning unit that obtains in-vehicle-side positioning data that includes in-vehicle-side positioning coordinates representing positioned coordinates and a transmitting unit that transmits the in-vehicle-side positioning data obtained by the in-vehicle-side positioning unit to a portable terminal device. In addition, the portable terminal device includes a portable-side positioning unit that obtains portable-side positioning data that includes portable-side positioning coordinates representing positioned coordinates, a selecting unit that selects the in-vehicle-side positioning unit and/or the portable-side positioning unit based on a positioning environment, and a vehicle-position calculating unit that calculates a vehicle position based on positioning coordinates of a positioning unit selected by the selecting unit.

Positioning system and in-vehicle device

A hydraulic operated valve includes an electromagnetic adsorption mechanism and a steel ball. In the electromagnetic adsorption mechanism, when a current is supplied, an adsorption plate is adsorbed by a solenoid. By this adsorption, a steel ball is pressed against an outer surface of a cam disc. The outer surface of the cam disc includes two steps. When the cam disc is rotated clockwise or counterclockwise, the pressed steel ball engages the two steps. Thus, the cam disc is detented. These two steps are configured such that when the cam disc is returned to a neutral position, the adsorption plate is separated from the solenoid against the pressing of the electromagnetic adsorption mechanism. Thus, the detent state of the cam disc is canceled.

Operating device

In an in-vehicle system, a portable terminal interprets a command intended by operation data operated by an occupant via a touch panel of a DA, and determines whether the interpreted command is a prohibition command, that is, whether execution of the command in an own device is prohibited. When the command is not a prohibition command, the portable terminal is caused to execute the command, and when it is a prohibition command, the DA is caused to execute the command.

In-vehicle system, in-vehicle device, and execution control method of command of the in-vehicle device

A portable communication terminal transmits a request signal that requests voice data representing an email message, to a server apparatus when the portable communication terminal receives the email that has been sent to the portable communication terminal, and the portable communication terminal transmits the voice data received from the server apparatus, to an in-vehicle equipment. A server apparatus converts an email message that has been sent to a portable communication terminal, into voice data in response to a request signal received from the portable communication terminal, and the server apparatus returns the voice data to the portable communication terminal. The in-vehicle equipment detects a position of a portable communication terminal in a cabin, and the in-vehicle equipment outputs a voice message converted only from voice data representing an email message received by the portable communication terminal located in a specific position in the cabin, inside the cabin of the vehicle.

Data communication system

Upon detection of a portable terminal positioned at a predetermined distance allowing wireless communication with an in-vehicle device, the in-vehicle device in an in-vehicle system performs a pairing process with respect to the detected portable terminal to establish wireless communication with the detected portable terminal. Thereafter, the in-vehicle device acquires an image and sound acquired by an application being executed on the portable terminal from the portable terminal, with which wireless communication has been established. The in-vehicle device converts acquired various types of data into an outputtable format of the in-vehicle device and outputs the converted data to at least one of a display unit and a speaker.

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Kobe, Japan

Noriaki Inoue