Clarion Co

Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.

Norikazu Nara

Noriyuki Abe

Kimio Okamoto

Ryohei Kato

Katsuya Matsuyuki

Makoto Orino

Takaaki Yashiro

Hidetaka Suzuki

Masafumi Naitou

Norimasa Kishi

Takaaki Ishii

Hiroaki Takatsuki

Toshihiro Mochizuki

Akihiro Kondo

Takashi Shioya

Naoto Sakata

Tetsuro Murakami

Takashi Matsumoto

Yusuke Matsumoto

Katsumi Sano

Stephen Chiu

Megumi Kawata

A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.

Information processing apparatus, and recording medium

A first server apparatus is communicably connected to each of a second server apparatus having a server-less function and a vehicle and includes an obtaining unit obtaining, from the vehicle, start position information indicating a start position of the vehicle, start date-and-time information indicating a start date and time of the vehicle, parking position information indicating a parking position of the vehicle, and parking date-and-time information indicating a parking date and time of the vehicle, an estimating unit estimating a date and time at which the vehicle is started based on the start position, the start date and time, the parking position and the parking date and time, and an instructing unit instructing the second server apparatus to activate a personal authentication program in accordance with an estimation result by the estimating unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing system

Based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist is determined, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area is stored as parking information, the parking information is referenced when it is determined that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and guidance information is output as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area.

In-vehicle apparatus and processing method thereof

An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: an assistance processing unit that executes assistance processing for providing a user with specified information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a list according to a sequential order of the assistance processing executed by the assistance processing unit.

In-vehicle apparatus and information presentation method

An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: a map information storage unit that stores map information; a communication control unit that acquires traffic information; a travel history database in which a travel history of the vehicle with respect to each road is recorded; a route estimation unit that estimates a travel route of the vehicle by using the map information and the travel history database; a traveling time calculation unit that calculates actual traveling time of the vehicle with respect to the travel route and calculates predicted traveling time required when traveling the travel route estimated by the route estimation unit by using the traffic information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a map screen indicating the travel route and display the actual traveling time and the predicted traveling time together with the map screen.

An information processing device is installed in a vehicle and comprises an action history DB which stores a plurality of action histories including a combination of a content that was played based on an instruction of a user and a situation in which the content was played, and an automatic playing unit which, when a current elapsed time as an elapsed time from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON or a current travel distance as a travel distance from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON matches any one of the action histories of the action history DB, plays a content included in the matching action history.

Information processing device, automatic playing method of content

A display device that is to be connected with an information terminal includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up on display the screen based upon the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the information terminal, displacement quantity information corresponding to a quantity of displacement from the display position of the cursor to the touch position.

Display device

A portable terminal includes a GPS unit configured to receive a GPS signal, a GPS processing section configured to detect GPS accuracy at an interval and detect the position of a vehicle on the basis of the GPS signal received by the GPS unit, and an information processing section configured to detect entrance timing, which is timing when the GPS accuracy is detected when the vehicle is located at an entrance point of a multi-storey parking structure, on the basis of transition of the GPS accuracy detected by the GPS processing section at the interval.

A display device configured to be connected to an information terminal, includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up the screen on display based on the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits operation information in correspondence to the touch operation to the information terminal. The transmission unit transmits the operation information in a delay when the touch operation is performed continuously.

An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.

In-car information system, in-car device, and information terminal

In an in-vehicle information system including a portable information terminal and an in-vehicle device, the information terminal includes: a storage unit that stores applications; a control unit that executes a start-up application; a running application determination unit that determines an application that is executed by the control unit by a predetermined time interval; a comparison unit that compares the start-up application and the running application; and a restriction information transmission unit that transmits to the in-vehicle device restriction information corresponding to contents of action regulation imposed on the running application while a vehicle is in a traveling state based upon a result of the comparison by the comparison unit.

In-vehicle information system, information terminal, and application execution method

An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal identifies a specific application being executed in the foreground and transmits restriction information pertaining to the particular application to the in-car device. The in-car device either allows or disallows, based upon the restriction information transmitted from the information terminal, image display corresponding to the application being executed in the foreground and transmission of operation information corresponding to an input operation.

In-car information system, information terminal, and application execution method

An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal includes a storage unit in which applications are stored and a control unit that executes an application manager. The application manager has a launch function that enables execution of the application stored in the storage unit in the foreground and a communication function that enables execution of communication processing in the background to allow the information terminal and the in-car device to exchange information.

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Norikazu Nara