Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Gokyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeru Inoue

Takahiro Kurehashi

Moriya Horiuchi

Yuta Sakagawa

Yoshitaka Mimura

Kiichiro Sawamoto

Akihito Kimata

Yuji Takagi

Hiroshi Sato

Hideo Kadowaki

Masaki Okumoto

Hideki Matsunaga

Masamitsu Tsuchiya

Kenji Komori

Hiroki Tanaka

Hiroshi Furumi

Yasuaki Gunji

Yasuhiro Miyachi

Masakazu Saka

Tomoyoshi Aoki

Yoji Sasabuchi

Hirokazu Tokushima

Hisaya Izawa

Hiroshi Satoh

A system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires position information of equipment that is movable, and precision information indicating a precision of the position information; a specification unit that specifies, based on the position information and the precision information, an area where the precision of the position information is lower than a predetermined value, among a plurality of areas where pieces of the equipment exist; and an instruction unit that instructs a moving object which has a function of acquiring the position information of the equipment, to move to the area specified by the specification unit, in order to cause the moving object to measure a position of the equipment.

System, method, and computer-readable storage medium

A traffic safety support system includes a target traffic area recognizer configured to acquire recognition information regarding traffic participants, and the like, in a target traffic area, a predictorconfigured to predict a risk in the target traffic area on the basis of the recognition information, and a coordination support information notifierconfigured to transmit coordination support information to support targets. The predictorincludes an area risk predictorconfigured to extract a high risk area from a plurality of local areas obtained by subdividing the target traffic area on the basis of information obtained by performing statistical processing on the recognition information, and a traffic participant risk predictorconfigured to predict a risk in future of traffic participants in the high risk area on the basis of information related to the high risk area among the recognition information.

Traffic safety support system and learning method executable by the same

Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body will approach a host vehicle from the front or the rear. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle is present outside an analogue notification actuation range and acts as an oncoming mobile body or acts as a following mobile body, and the risk notification setting unit sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within the analogue notification actuation range.

Traffic safety support system

Provided is a warning control apparatus comprising: an obtainment unit configured to obtain recognition information including position information and a moving direction of each of a plurality of targets present outside a moving object; a classification unit configured to classify the plurality of targets into one or more groups based on the position information and the moving direction of each of the plurality of targets; a risk level determination unit configured to determine, based on position information and a moving direction of the group, a risk level at which each of the one or more groups approaches a moving object; a selection unit configured to select, based on the determined risk level, a plurality of groups to be warned; and a transmission control unit configured to control transmission of warning information including position information of the selected one or more groups.

Warning control apparatus, moving object, warning control method, and computer-readable storage medium

Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which a mobile body has merged onto a road on which a mobile vehicle as a host vehicle is traveling and is approaching the host vehicle. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle acts as an oncoming vehicle and a first travel path of a four-wheeled automobile and a second travel path of the motorcycle join, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within an analogue notification actuation range.

Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body will not obey a signal displayed by a traffic light. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a four-wheeled automobile acts as an oncoming mobile body and at least one of the four-wheeled automobile or a motorcycle is approaching a traffic light, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the four-wheeled automobile is present within an analogue notification actuation range.

Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body other than a host vehicle is shielded by a nearby vehicle present near the mobile body. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a motorcycle acts as an oncoming mobile body, and where a four-wheeled automobile is present near the motorcycle and is approaching a four-wheeled automobile from the front in the traveling direction of the four-wheeled automobile, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the motorcycle is present within an analogue notification range.

A communication device includes a target locating unit configured to locate a position of a target having a risk of approaching a moving body. The communication device includes a transmission unit configured to transmit request information including positional information of an external terminal, for which the positional information is requested, based on the position of the target located by the target locating unit. The communication device includes a reception unit configured to receive response information with respect to the request information. The transmission unit is configured to transmit warning information based on the positional information of the external terminal included in the response information.

Communication device, vehicle, computer-readable storage medium, and communication method

There is provided a control apparatus that identifies an area for which an analysis is not required based on information of an image captured from a position of a movable object, identifies a first time period that is a time period for the movable object to reach the identified area, calculates a second time period that is an arrival time period to reach a movement area of the movable object from a position in the identified area, sets, in the identified area, a risk area where an object approaching the movable object may be present based on the first time period and the second time period and on the identified area, and controls transmission of risk area information.

V2X warning system for identifying risk areas within occluded regions

A control apparatus includes a reception control unit configured to perform control to receive, when a movable object is located at a first point, presence information of a risk area including a plurality of position coordinates specified through image recognition by another movable object, a determination unit configured to determine whether the movable object is in a vicinity of the risk area based on the plurality of position coordinates included in the presence information of the risk area for which the reception control unit has performed the control to receive, a transmission control unit configured to perform control to transmit, when the determination unit determines that the movable object is in the vicinity of the risk area, information related to presence of the movable object, and a control unit configured to execute control of the movable object.

Control apparatus, movable object, control method, and computer readable storage medium

A control apparatus includes a risk area specification unit to specify a risk area outside a movable object, a transmission control unit to perform control to transmit alert information related to a position of the risk area to an outside of the movable object, a reception control unit to perform control to receive response information including information related to a position of another movable object that is response information to the alert information which is transmitted by the other movable object, and a control unit to execute control of the movable object based on position information of the risk area and the information related to the position of the other movable object which is acquired, in which the alert information includes information for controlling a mode related to a transmission cycle of the response information to be transmitted by the other movable object which has received the alert information.

Control apparatus, movable object, control method, and terminal

There is provided a control apparatus that includes at least one processor to: identify an unrecognizable area not possible to be recognized from a moving object; calculate an arrival time taken by the moving object to arrive at a location in the unrecognizable area; set a first region and a second region in the unrecognizable area based on the arrival time; set an alerting level for the first region and an alerting level for the second region different from each other; control transmitting warning information to an external apparatus; and control the moving object based on response information received from the external apparatus in response to the warning information. The warning information includes location information of the first region and location information of the second region; and information indicating the alerting level set for the first region and the alerting level set for the second region.

Control apparatus, moving object, control method, and computer-readable storage medium

A control apparatus includes a risk area identification unit for identifying a risk area outside a movable object with respect to a movement of the movable object based on an image captured by an image capturing apparatus mounted on the movable object, and a transmission control unit for performing control to transmit risk area information including position information of the risk area, and precision information related to a calculation precision of the position information to an outside of the movable object without designating a destination, wherein the transmission control unit transmits the position information and the precision information to cause a terminal having received the position information and the precision information to determine whether a position thereof corresponds to an inside of the risk area, and cause an alert unit included in the terminal to output an alert when it is determined that the terminal is inside the risk area.

An alert control device including: a risk area identifying unit for identifying a risk area outside a mobile object based on operation information of the mobile object; a transmission control unit for controlling transmission of risk area information containing risk area location information outward the mobile object; a reception control unit for controlling reception of response information for the risk area information; and the output control unit for controlling output of alert information at least into the mobile object based on the response information. An alert controlling method including: identifying a risk area outside a mobile object based on operation information of the mobile object; controlling transmission of risk area information containing risk area location information outward the mobile object; controlling reception of response information for the risk area information; and controlling output of alert information at least into the mobile object based on the response information.

Alert control device, mobile object, alert controlling method and computer-readable storage medium

A mobile object monitoring system including a terminal unit installed in a vehicle and a monitoring unit configured to monitor an unknown mobile object around the vehicle. The terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information including information on presence or absence of an unknown mobile object; a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object regarding a blind spot; a time-of-absence information generation component that generates a time-of-absence information set concerning an unknown mobile object that includes absence information of an unknown mobile object in the blind spot and time information on a time of determination; and a communication component that transmits the time-of-absence information set. The monitoring unit receives time-of-absence information sets from terminal units and establishes, regarding the received time-of-absence information sets, reliability of absence information based on the number of time-of-absence information sets with overlapping time ranges that are based on the time information on a time of determination.

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Saitama, Japan

Shigeru Inoue