Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Pioneer Corporation

Shinichi Akama

Shigeyuki Seko

Shuhei Kinoshita

Takahiro Iwata

Yoshihiro Mishio

Yuji Yokota

Naoto Furuyama

Motohiro Kubo

Takuya Katoh

The present disclosure relates to delaying content from being sent when it is determined to be inappropriate. Inappropriate content may be determined by keywords within the content, speed at which the content is entered in, facial expression of a sender who is entering in the content or the like. A sent message confirming that the content has been delivered to a receiver device may be provided to a sender device when the content has been held. This may provide a cool down period for the sender. After a period of time, the content may be provided back to the sender indicating that the content has not been sent. If approved or revised, the content may be sent to the receiver device. Otherwise, sending the content may be cancelled.

Content post delay system and method thereof

The systems and methods are generally directed to remote control of a vehicle by multiple operators. The vehicle is traveling on a roadway parsed into a plurality of segments including a first segment and a second segment. The method includes receiving vehicle data. The method includes assigning a set of one or more operators of the plurality of operators to each segment of the plurality of segments. The plurality of operators includes a first set of operators assigned to the first segment and second set of operators assigned to the second segment. The method includes identifying a control shift region having a first boundary and a second boundary. The method includes selectively shifting control from the first set of operators to the second set of operators upon reaching the first boundary such that the first set of operators and the second set of operators exert shared control in the control shift region.

Systems and methods for remote control by multiple operators

The systems and methods described herein are generally directed to vehicle communication for remote control of communicating devices at a destination. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method for vehicle communication for remote control is provided. The method includes selecting a destination based on user data associated with a user of a vehicle. The method also includes identifying one or more destination attributes associated with the destination. The method further includes detecting a trigger event based on vehicle data received from one or more of vehicle systems or vehicle sensors of the vehicle. In response to the trigger event being detected, instructions for controlling one or more remote systems at the destination are transmitted based on the one or more destination attributes.

Systems and methods for vehicle communication for remote control

The systems and methods described herein are generally directed to altering experience attributes. According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method for altering experience attributes based on a comparison of an estimated arrival time to a desired arrival time is provided. The method includes receiving logistical data for a trip of the vehicle occupant. The method also includes estimating an estimated arrival time based on navigation data. The method further includes determining that the estimated arrival time will occur at least a threshold amount of time after a desired arrival time. The method also includes identifying an experience attribute based on the determination that the estimated arrival time will occur at least the threshold amount of time after the desired arrival time. The method further includes altering a vehicle system based on the experience attribute.

Systems and methods for controlling vehicle systems using experience attributes

The present disclosure relates to a voice assistant that may provide a generalized recommendation based on a natural flow of a conversation and thereafter, generate specific advertisements if there is interest in the generalized recommendation. In an illustrative embodiment, the voice assistant operating on a vehicle computing system may interact with a driver or operator of the vehicle to both respond to and anticipate the user's needs. The voice assistant may identify potential advertisements based on communications with the driver or occupant. The generalized recommendation related to the potential advertisements may be provided to the driver or occupant. If there is interest, the voice assistant may provide an advertisement within the potential advertisements. Real-time information from a location of the advertisement may also be provided that typify the feeling of the location to further draw interest to the advertisement.

Voice assistant generated advertisement for a vehicle system and method thereof

A system and method for providing virtual interpersonal communication that include receiving data associated with one-to-one interpersonal communication between a user and a target individual. The system and method also include determining at least one contextual data point and at least one associated behavioral attribute of the user and the target individual during the one-to-one interpersonal communication. The system and method additionally include analyzing at least one statement spoken by the user to a virtual representation of the target individual and presenting a virtual avatar of the target individual in a manner that replicates the personality of the target individual and communicates with the user based on the at least one contextual data point and the at least one associated behavioral attribute.

System and method for providing virtual interpersonal communication

An information presentation device, an information presentation method, and a program capable of intuitively ascertaining a direction of a target position are provided. An information presentation device includes a first position acquirerconfigured to acquire a current position of a subject device, an image generatorconfigured to cause an image that looks superimposed on scenery of a real space to appear, a second position acquirerconfigured to acquire a target position on the real space where the image appears, a direction deriverconfigured to derive a direction from the first position to the target position on the basis of the first position and the target position, and an output controllerconfigured to control the image generator such that the image is caused to appear based on the direction acquired by the direction deriver.

Information presentation device, information presentation method, and storage medium

Systems and methods for enabling a vehicle to park remotely. The system includes a memory that stores instructions for executing processes for enabling a vehicle to park remotely, and a processor that executes the instructions. In some aspects, the instructions cause the processor to: analyze an image of the vehicle to identify a vehicle type; extract vehicle information related to the vehicle type; calculate a distance between a mobile device and the vehicle based on the vehicle information and a location of the mobile device; determine whether the mobile device is within a predetermined distance of the vehicle; and enable the vehicle to park remotely when the mobile device is within the predetermined distance.

Methods and systems for enabling a vehicle to park remotely

Producing a virtual sound field may include receiving an audio signal associated with a remote sound source within a remote environment. The audio signal may be defined or recorded as a binaural recording and recorded from a remote set of binaural microphones. The audio signal may be indicative of a position of the remote sound source relative to the remote set of binaural microphones within the remote environment. Producing the virtual sound field may include determining a virtual position relative to the position of the remote sound source within the remote environment, generating a virtual sound field audio signal which simulates audio representing the remote sound source perceived from the virtual position within the remote environment relative to the position of the remote sound source within the remote environment, and playing back the virtual sound field to simulate the remote sound source as perceived from the virtual position.

Virtual sound field

This in-vehicle unit includes: a vehicle-side communication portion; a mobile-side communication portion; a communicator-side communication portion; a connection determination portion; and a communication control portion that, if both of a mobile terminal and a communicator are determined to be in a connected state by the connection determination portion, performs control so as to send information related to a motor vehicle, which has been received by the vehicle-side communication portion, preferentially to the mobile terminal.

In-vehicle unit, communication system, communication method, and program

A mobile terminal that performs communication with an onboard device includes: a communication control unit configured to control reception of information instructing to switch a sound source which is transmitted from the onboard device, the information including information indicating an application program which is executed in the terminal serving as the sound source, and transmission of a sound, played by an application program operating in a foreground of the terminal, to the onboard device; a switching unit configured to switch an application program having been in operation in a foreground until immediately before, to a background, on the basis of the received information instructing to switch a sound source, and to switch an application program having been in operation in a background until immediately before, to a foreground; and a sound control unit configured to stop playing a sound of the application program having been in operation in a foreground until immediately before, and to start playing a sound of the application program having been in operation in a background until immediately before, subsequently to the stop.

Mobile terminal, onboard device, control method, and control program

This electronic communication system includes: a mobile terminal; and an in-vehicle unit, wherein the mobile terminal includes: a mobile-side first communication portion; a mobile-side second communication portion; and an application functional portion, and wherein the in-vehicle unit includes: a vehicle-side first communication portion; a vehicle-side second communication portion; and reproduction portions.

Electronic communication system, in-vehicle unit, and control method

A mobile electronic device coordination system includes a vehicle-mounted information providing apparatus and a mobile electronic device. The information providing apparatus and the mobile electronic device are each configured to perform both first type communication and second type communication different from the first type communication. The information providing apparatus acquires unique information from the mobile electronic device via the first type communication through which a communication connection with the mobile electronic device has been established, the unique information being necessary for individual identification of the mobile electronic device for establishing a communication connection with the mobile electronic device via the second type communication. Then, the information providing apparatus establishes a communication connection with the mobile electronic device via the second type communication on the basis of the acquired specific information.

Mobile electronic device coordination system, information providing apparatus, mobile electronic device, and program for mobile electronic device

On-board device mounted in a vehicle includes output device including a display device and a speaker. The on-board device comprises a communications device that communicates with a mobile device having an information processing function. The on-board device also comprises an output controller that receives through the communications device information produced by the mobile phone and controls output of the received information to the output device. The output controller is configured to determine if the received information satisfies one or more certain conditions that are determined from the standpoint of safety of the vehicle, and further configured to output the received information to the output device if the determination is positive, and to process the received information to satisfy the one or more certain conditions or retards the output until it satisfies the one or more certain conditions if the determination is negative.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Shinichi Akama