Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Seungho Choi

Kota Saito

Yoshikazu Matsuo

Naoki Kikuchi

Kenji Okuma

Yuki Matsuura

Hiromi Sato

Takashi Okada

Yoshihiro Matsugi

Katsuya Ikenobu

Weifeng Zhang

Hisumi Esaki

An emotion estimation apparatus includes a recording section that records one or more events that cause a change in an emotion of a person and prediction information for predicting, for each event, an occurrence of the event; an event predicting section that predicts the occurrence of the event, based on detection of the prediction information; and a frequency setting section that sets a frequency with which an estimation of the emotion is performed. If the occurrence of the event is predicted by the event predicting section, the frequency setting section sets the frequency to be higher than in a case where the occurrence of the event is not predicted, and also sets the frequency based on the content of the event.

Emotion estimation apparatus

A personal identification apparatus includes a recording unit that records in advance feature information concerning an activity of at least one of a first person (person A) and a second person (person B or C) when the first person and the second person are together; an information acquiring unit that acquires identification information for identifying the other person; and an identification processing unit that identifies the other person as the second person, based on matching between the identification information and the feature information.

Personal identification apparatus and personal identification method

A vehicle system includes: a camera that can capture an image of a vehicle occupant; and a state change unit that can change an image capturing state for the vehicle occupant by the camera to each of an image capturing permitted state where an image of the vehicle occupant is permitted to be captured and an image capturing limited state where capturing the image of the vehicle occupant is limited. The state change unit changes the image capturing state for each vehicle occupant.

Vehicle system

An occupant observation device includes an imager configured to capture an image of a head of an occupant of a vehicle; an eye detector configured to detect at least a part of eyes of the occupant in an image captured by the imager; a mouth detector configured to detect at least a part of the mouth of the occupant in the image captured by the imager; and a condition estimator configured to estimate a condition of the occupant on the basis of a detection result of the eye detector and a detection result of the mouth detector, in which the condition estimator changes a ratio of reflecting each of the detection result of the eye detector and the detection result of the mouth detector in an estimation of the condition of the occupant, on the basis of the detection result of the eye detector or a result of a process performed on the basis of the detection result of the eye detector.

Occupant observation device

Provided is an occupant observation device including an imager configured to capture an image of a head of an occupant of a vehicle; and an eye detector configured to detect at least a part of eyes of the occupant in the image captured by the imager, in which the eye detector sets an eye closer to the imager among the eyes of the occupant as a detection target.

Occupant eye(s) observation device

A control device includes: a recognition unit that recognizes predetermined behavior of a user; an estimation unit that estimates a situation of the user on the basis of the predetermined behavior that is recognized by the recognition unit; an evaluation unit that evaluates certainty of an estimation result from the estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs to the control unit, an operation instruction in accordance with the certainty.

Control device and control method

An operation assistance system includes: a motion recognition unit that recognizes predetermined motion of a hand of a vehicle occupant; a position recognition unit that recognizes a first relative position corresponding to a relative position of the hand of the vehicle occupant with respect to a first vehicle; a specifying unit that specifies a second on-vehicle device of a second vehicle that is operated by using an operation unit of the second vehicle provided at a second relative position that is a relative position with respect to the second vehicle and corresponds to the first relative position; and a control unit that assists an operation for a first on-vehicle device of the first vehicle, the first on-vehicle device including a function common with that of the second on-vehicle device.

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Seungho Choi