Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Other

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Sony Corporation

Satoshi Nakano

Hiroshi Mukawa

Toshiyuki Kitazawa

Tatsuro Suzuki

Hiroaki Kuramochi

Masashi Okano

Motohiro Hidaka

Shuhei Dairokuno

Takayuki Sensui

Isamu Hirai

Osamu Sato

Akio Takahashi

Masato Yamamoto

Takeshi Matsushita

Katsuyuki Akutsu

Toshimasa Yamanaka

Makoto Katsukura

Taichi Ishizaka

Katsuyuki Umezawa

Takenao Shishikura

Nobuhiko Matsudo

Tomoaki Itabashi

A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes: an environment information acquisitor that acquires environment information ahead of the vehicle; a vehicle position estimator that estimates a vehicle's position; a target route setter that sets a target route; and a controller that causes the vehicle to travel along the target route. The controller includes: an intersection determiner that determines whether an intersection is ahead of the vehicle; a right-left turn determiner that determines whether the vehicle turns right or left at the intersection; a route generator that generates correct and erroneous routes; a lateral position distance calculator that calculates a correct-route-side lateral position distance and an erroneous-route-side lateral position distance; a lateral position distance comparator that compares the lateral position distances; a control determination comparator that compares the correct-route-side lateral position distance with a threshold; and an intervention controller that returns a traveling direction to the correct route side.

Driving assistance apparatus for vehicle

A vehicle lane keep control apparatus includes a steering control processor. the steering control processor is configured to, upon detection of a skid of a vehicle during control, switch modes from a lane keeping mode to a slip-handling mode, perform a steering control to allow the vehicle to have a stable attitude, and restart the lane keeping mode. The control includes setting a target route on which the vehicle is to travel, calculating a control amount for an electric power steering motor of the vehicle based on at least an amount of shifting from the target route, and causing the vehicle to travel along the target route.

Vehicle lane keep control apparatus

A vehicle driving support apparatus includes a forward environment recognizing device configured to recognize a traveling environment forward of a vehicle, a control device configured to perform active lane keep centering control based on the traveling environment, an electric power steering device configured to apply an assist torque to control a turning angle of wheels in accordance with a steering angle received from a steering handle, and a driver monitoring system configured to detect biological information of a driver who drives the vehicle. During execution of the active lane keep centering control, the control device is configured to count the number of times a driver's line-of-sight direction in the biological information has deviated from a target route direction of the vehicle and if the counted number of times is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold count, reduce the assist torque stepwise as the counted number of times increases.

Vehicle driving support apparatus

A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes: an environment information acquisitor that acquires environment information in front of the vehicle; a target route setter that sets a target route; and a controller that causes the vehicle to travel along the target route. The controller includes: an intersection determiner that determines whether there is an intersection in front of the vehicle; a right-left turn determiner that determines whether the vehicle turns right or left; a multiple intersecting road determiner that checks whether there is a second intersecting road; a route generator that generates a correct route and a quasi-correct route; an estimated traveling route setter that sets an estimated traveling route; a lateral position distance calculator that calculates a correct-route-side lateral position distance and a quasi-correct-route-side lateral position distance; a lateral position distance comparator that compares the lateral position distances; and an intervention controller that sets a traveling direction.

A vehicle light distribution control apparatus includes a first surrounding environment recognition device configured to recognize a surrounding environment around a vehicle and detect first object information in the recognized surrounding environment, and a second surrounding environment recognition device configured to acquire map information in a predetermined range based on the positional information of the vehicle, and second object information included in the acquired map information, and an illumination device configured to radiate illumination light. An illumination control unit is configured to compare the first object information and the second object information, identify objects that are detected in the second object information and are not detected in the first object information, set the objects as light distribution candidate objects respectively, set light distribution priority levels of the light distribution candidate objects respectively, and perform the light distribution control based on the light distribution priority levels.

Vehicle light distribution control apparatus

A facility apparatus control device includes: first and second image capturing units capturing images of first and second spaces; a data-for-learning generator generating location information on a person in the first space by analyzing a first image captured and extracting therefrom, an image of a range including the person in the first space; a learning unit learning, using the location information and a first extracted image extracted by the data-for-learning generator, a feature of the person in the first space and a staying location of the person in the first space; a person detector detecting a person in the second space by analyzing a second image captured and extracting therefrom, an image of a range including the detected person; and an apparatus controller controlling a facility apparatus installed in the first space using a second extracted image extracted by the person detector and a learned result of the learning unit.

Facility apparatus control device and facility apparatus control method

A camera including a main switch which turns on/off a power supply, and a first memory unit for storing a mode/function which is selected from changeable modes/functions to be used in photography. The camera further includes a second memory unit for storing the changeable modes/functions separately from the first memory unit, and a mode call switch for calling the modes/functions stored in the second memory unit, the mode call switch being interlocked with the main switch.

Camera having a mode memory device

A display device for a camera finder include a display for displaying data, a position sensor which outputs a signal that is dependent on an orientation of the camera finder, and a controller for controlling the display such that the data is displayed along one of several predetermined directions. The predetermined direction that is selected depends on the output signal of the position sensor.

Display device in a camera finder

A camera having a manually actuable switch for temporarily shifting the camera to an optimum exposure value so that exposure factors, based upon a manually set shutter speed and a manually set aperture value, are replaced by optimum exposure factors based upon a metered brightness of the object to be photographed when the camera is set to a non-program exposure mode. A clear button associated with the camera functions as a manually actuable switch for temporarily shifting an exposure mode of the camera to another exposure mode when the camera is set to a hyper-manual exposure mode. In the hyper-manual exposure mode, a photographer sets exposure factors by actuating a Tv electronic dial and an Av electronic dial. Actuation of the clear button when the camera is set to the hyper-manual exposure mode causes the set exposure factors to be replaced with optimum exposure factors that are automatically calculated in accordance with an object brightness Bv. Thus, operating the clear button (manually actuable switch for temporarily shifting to another exposure mode) results in the mode of the camera being changed from a mode in which exposure factors are manually set by a photographer (via the setting of a shutter speed and an aperture value) to a mode in which optimum exposure factors are set based upon a calculation performed by a processor of the camera.

Exposure control apparatus of camera

An exposure control apparatus of a camera having a photometer for detecting a brightness of an object to be taken, an exposure value calculator for calculating an optimum exposure value in accordance with the object brightness, and an exposure factor setting device for setting a pair of exposure factors having a shutter speed and a diaphragm value, including an exposure factor manual setting device, a specific program exposure mode in which the exposure factors corresponding to the optimum exposure values are automatically set, and an exposure factor modifying device for enabling the exposure factor manual setting device to manually set one of the exposure factors when the exposure factor manual setting device is actuated in the specific program exposure mode.

An exposure control apparatus of a camera, wherein a pair of exposure factors that include a shutter speed and a diaphragm value can be manually and independently set. Furthermore, in the exposure control apparatus, an exposure value determined in accordance with the exposure factors can be locked, and one of the exposure factors can be varied, based on the locked exposure value, when the other exposure factor is varied by the associated manual setting means.

An exposure control apparatus of a camera, in which at least one of a pair of exposure factors that include a shutter speed and a diaphragm value is variable. An exposure factor setting device sets at least one variable exposure factor, while a limit value setting device varies and sets at least one upper and lower limit value of the exposure factor.

Exposure control apparatus of camera including exposure factor limit

A display system of a camera, for displaying photographing data or information relating to the camera, on a display unit disposed in a main body of the camera is provided. The photographing data or information is divided into sub-title data or information to be displayed as a plurality of sub-title data or information. The camera includes an information display changeover mechanism for selecting and displaying the sub-title data or information and the subordinate data or information on the display unit.

Display system of a camera selective display system for a camera

An indicating apparatus of a camera having a camera body which has an indicating portion in which information on the camera is indicated. The indicating portion includes a main indicating portion, which generally indicates the information on the camera, and an enlarged indicating portion, which enlarges and indicates specific information indicated in the main indicating portion.

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Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Nakano