Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Clarion Co

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Incorporated

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Xanavi Informatics Corporation

Nec Corporation

Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.

Noriyuki Abe

Shigemitsu Akutsu

Norikazu Nara

Satoyoshi Oya

Kimio Okamoto

Kota Kasaoka

Masashi Bando

Makoto Orino

Kentaro Torisawa

Ryohei Kato

Canasai Kruengkrai

Yusuke Matsumoto

Katsuya Matsuyuki

Takuya Fujieda

Takaaki Yashiro

Hidetaka Suzuki

Yutaka Kidawara

Ryu Iida

Kanako Onishi

Tadashi Suzuki

Norimasa Kishi

Takaaki Ishii

Hiroaki Takatsuki

Hiroshi Iida

Shinji Fujimoto

Tetsuya Hasebe

Toshihiro Mochizuki

Takanobu Suzuki

Takefumi Ikegami

Shigeru Koyama

Akihiro Kondo

Jonghoon Oh

Takashi Shioya

Atsuhiro Sakai

Kazuyoshi Okada

Reiko Aoyama

Masafumi Naitou

Yumiko Koga

Hideo Kimura

Tohru Mori

Tetsuya Yamada

Kenji Kawase

Hiroomi Ichiba

Satoshi Kaito

Nobuyuki Takao

Mitsushige Oguri

Yoshihiko Asao

Yoshio Okada

Takashi Matsumoto

Takashi Kimura

Yoshinori Endo

Mariko Okude

Toshimi Abo

Shigeru Shimada

Teruyoshi Mihara

Masatoshi Kumagai

Toru Futami

Atsushi Sakagami

Tomoaki Hiruta

Takashi Onishi

Akinori Asahara

Norio Fujiki

Shinichi Amaya

Kishiko Maruyama

Hisanori Ohara

Masanobu Asakawa

Kenji Fukuda

Kazuhiro Hara

Mitsuteru Yano

Iwao Shimane

Koji Sato

Osamu Saito

Tsutomu Matsushita

Yasuo Kitami

Akira Nagao

Naoki Hotta

Kenji Yao

Toshiyuki Nishida

Moriyoshi Awasaka

Yuki Miyoshi

Julien Kloetzer

Nobuhiro Kumagai

Mitsuhiro Takeda

Masayuki Fuchino

Junta Mizuno

Satoshi Okamoto

Teruo Nagahama

Shohei Higashiyama

Koichi Takase

Yoshio Kojima

Toshirou Shinohara

Kazutaka Kawahara

Yuta Kobayashi

Katsuya Asada

A secondary battery management device includes a target setting portion that sets a target charging rate that is a target for a charging rate of a secondary battery mounted in a vehicle, and a target charging rate reaching time that is a time when main charging in which the secondary battery is charged to the target charging rate at a main charging speed is completed; a main charging setting portion that sets a main charging start time when the main charging is started and the main charging speed on the basis of an output of a charger, the target charging rate, and the target charging rate reaching time; at least one of a discharging setting portion that sets a discharging start time when discharging of the secondary battery is started and a discharging speed that is a speed of the discharging, and a sub-charging setting portion that sets a sub-charging start time when sub-charging in which the secondary battery is charged at a sub-charging speed is started and the sub-charging speed; and a charging/discharging execution portion that executes the main charging, the discharging, and the sub-charging in accordance with set details.

Secondary battery management device, secondary battery management method, and storage medium

A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a plurality of solar cells provided on different surfaces of a vehicle body respectively, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating an output of each solar cell; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the information indicating an output of the solar cell acquired by the acquisition unit, a startup solar cell that causes power generation for charging the power storage device to be performed; and a control unit configured to cause charging of the power storage device with electric power generated by the startup solar cell determined by the determination unit to perform, and cause charging of the power storage device with electric power generated by another solar cell different from the startup solar cell to stop.

Solar power generation control device

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

A request paraphrasing systemallowing a dialogue system to flexibly address to requests in various different manners of expression includes: a pre-processing unitconverting a user inputto a word vector sequence; and a neural paraphrasing modeltrained in advance by machine learning to receive the word vector sequence as an input and paraphrasing a request represented by the word vector sequence to a request having a higher probability of obtaining an answer from a question-answering devicethan the request before paraphrasing. As pre-processing, whether the user inputis a request or not may be determined and it may be paraphrased only when it is determined to be a request. Further, a classification modelmay classify the input request to determine to which request class it belongs, and the classification may be input as one feature to neural paraphrasing model

Request paraphrasing system, request paraphrasing model and request determining model training method, and dialogue system

A vehicle includes a drive system ground fault determination unit configured to determine that, when the first magnetic contactor is in a conduction state, the drive system electrical system has a ground fault when a ground stray capacitance of the drive system electrical system measured by a drive system ground fault sensor included in the drive system electrical system exceeds a drive system conduction state threshold value, and to determine that, when the first magnetic contactor is in a non-conduction state, the drive system electrical system has a ground fault when the ground stray capacitance of the drive system electrical system measured by the drive system ground fault sensor exceeds a drive system non-conduction state threshold value, which is different from the drive system conduction state threshold value.

Vehicle, vehicle control device, storage medium, and vehicle control method

A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a solar cell provided in the vehicle, includes: an acquisition unit that acquires environmental information on weather or a planimetric feature around the vehicle; a prediction unit that predicts a change in solar radiation state of the vehicle based on the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit and a moving state of the vehicle; and a control unit that controls an operation mode of the solar power generation system, including a first mode, in which the power storage device is charged with electric power generated by the solar cell, and a second mode, in which power consumption of the solar power generation system is lower than in the first mode, based on a prediction result of the prediction unit.

A solar power generation control device, controlling a solar power generation system configured to charge a power storage device of a vehicle with electric power generated by a solar cell provided in the vehicle, includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether irradiation light to the vehicle is sunlight based on an output of an optical sensor; and a control unit configured to control an operation mode of the solar power generation system, including a first mode, in which the power storage device is charged with electric power generated by the solar cell, and a second mode, in which power consumption of the solar power generation system is lower than in the first mode, based on a determination result of the determination unit. The control unit sets the solar power generation system to the first mode when the determination unit determines that the irradiation light is sunlight.

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.

A collinear relationship is satisfied in which rotation speeds of first to third rotation elements and rotation speeds of fourth to sixth rotation elements are arranged respectively in this sequence on a single straight line in a collinear diagram. The first and fourth rotation elements are connected with first and second power sources respectively. The second and fifth rotation elements are connected with first and second driven units respectively. The second and sixth rotation elements are connected with each other by a first connecting mechanism in a way that rotating directions thereof are the same, and rotation speed of the former is greater than that of the later. The third and fifth rotation elements are connected with each other by a second connecting mechanism in a way that rotating directions thereof are the same, and rotation speed of the former is greater than that of the later.

Power apparatus

A dialogue system includes a response utterance selecting unit generating a response utterance original sentence to an input utterance; an input utterance emotion estimating unit estimating emotion of the input utterance by calculating input utterance emotion scores indicating degree of matching between the emotion represented by the input utterance and a plurality of emotions; and a response utterance modifying unit for calculating response utterance emotion scores of a response utterance original sentence as emotion scores for each of the plurality of emotions, modifying the response utterance original sentence by a method of modification determined by the values of input utterance emotion score and the response utterance emotion score, and thereby generating and outputting a response utterance.

Dialogue system and computer program therefor

A summary generating apparatus includes a text storage device storing text with information indicating a portion to be focused on; word vector converters vectorizing each word of the text and adding an element indicating whether the word is focused on or not to the vector and thereby converting the text to a word vector sequence; an LSTM implemented by a neural network performing sequence-to-sequence type conversion, pre-trained by machine learning to output, in response to each of the word vectors of the word vector sequence input in a prescribed order, a summary of the text consisting of the words represented by the word sequence; and input units inputting each of the word vectors of the word vector sequence in the prescribed order to the neural network.

Summary generating apparatus, summary generating method and computer program

An image processing device including circuitry that renders display data of a material based on illumination information, material information including texture information of the material, and a relative positional relationship of a light source, a display surface of a display on which an image of the material is displayed, and a viewer.

Image processing device, method, and program for rendering display data of a material

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 dialogue system includes: a question generating unit receiving an input sentence from a user and generating a question using an expression included in the input sentence, by using a dependency relation; an answer obtaining unit inputting the question generated by the question generating unit to a question-answering system and obtaining an answer to the question from question-answering system; and an utterance generating unit for generating an output sentence to the input sentence, based on the answer obtained by the answer obtaining unit.

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Noriyuki Abe