Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shinichiro Goto

Hiromitsu Yuhara

Eisuke Soma

Tomoko Shintani

Keiichi Takikawa

Satoshi Imaizumi

Atsuyuki Suzuki

Junichi Hirose

Taiki Iwama

Toshifumi Matsuno

A driving ability determination system, includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire travel data of a vehicle; a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first evaluation value indicating characteristics of steering by a driver of the vehicle based on the travel data acquired by the acquisition unit; and a second calculation unit configured to calculate a second evaluation value indicating characteristics of steering by the driver of the vehicle based on travel data in a first section among pieces of the travel data acquired by the acquisition unit. The first calculation unit calculates the first evaluation value based on the travel data in the first section and travel data in a second section different from the first section among pieces of the travel data acquired by the acquisition unit.

Driving ability determination system and driving ability determination method

An information providing device includes an emotion estimation unit that estimates the emotion of an occupant within a predetermined period of time from the time when the occupant gets in a vehicle (STEP), a base-emotion setting unit that sets a base emotion of the vehicle on the basis of the emotion of the occupant (STEP), a vehicle-state detection unit that detects the state of the vehicle (STEP), an emotion generation unit that generates the emotion of the vehicle in accordance with the base emotion and the state of the vehicle (STEP), an information determination unit that determines, on the basis of the emotion of the vehicle, information to be provided to the occupant (STEP), and an information output unit that outputs information to the occupant (STEP).

Providing information to vehicle occupants based on emotions

An information providing device and an information providing method capable of providing information according to a driving load while alleviating or eliminating a sense of discomfort of a user of a vehicle is provided. An information providing device includes an emotion determination unit that determines virtual emotion of a vehicle, and an output control unit that determines one or both of content and an output mode of the information that the output unit is caused to output according to the virtual emotion of the vehicle. The emotion determination unit determines predetermined emotion to be the virtual emotion of the vehicle when a condition that a period in which the traveling state of the vehicle detected by the traveling state detection unit is a predetermined traveling state has continued for a predetermined period or longer is satisfied.

Information providing device and information providing method

An information provision device () includes: an emotion engine () which estimates an emotion of a test driver Pof a vehicle (); an action detection unit () which detects an action performed on the vehicle () by the test driver P; a function-of-interest estimation unit () which estimates a specific function that interests the test driver Pfrom among the functions possessed by the vehicle () based on the action of the test driver Pdetected by the action detection unit () and the emotion of the test driver Pestimated by the emotion engine () when an action is detected; and an information provision unit () which provides the test driver Pwith information on the specific function.

Information provision device, and moving body

An information provision device is disclosed. The information provision device comprises: cameras and a driver's seat microphone which detect the state of a user of a moving body, the user being located within a predetermined area including the moving body; an emotion engine which estimates emotions of the user based on the detection results from the cameras and the driver's seat microphone; and an image transmission unit which, when the emotion level of the user estimated by the emotion engine is increased by a predetermined level or higher, captures an image of the user through the driver's seat camera and transmits the captured image data of the user to a communication terminal of the user.

A mobile unit control device is installed in a vehicle and includes a user detector that detects a user located within a first predetermined distance from the vehicle; a sight line detector that detects the direction of the sight line of the user detected by the user detector; and a response controller that performs interest response processing of, when the sight line detector detects that the sight line of the user is directed toward the vehicle, actuating an accessory (e.g., headlights, tail lamps) provided in the vehicle to change in a manner recognizable from outside the vehicle.

Mobile unit control device and mobile unit

A processing result error detection device includes: a behavior recognition unit which recognizes behavior of a user; a processing unit which executes a process dependent on the behavior of the user; an emotion presumption unit which presumes an intensity of emotion of the user based on reaction of the user to a processing result; and a judgment unit which judges that the processing result includes an error when the presumed intensity of emotion of the user is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.

Processing result error detection device, processing result error detection program, processing result error detection method, and moving entity

An output control apparatus for an onboard image display apparatus controls output of a signal to be supplied to the image display apparatus mounted in a vehicle, is connectable to a mobile information terminal, and receives image information transmitted from the mobile information terminal to output the received image information. The output control apparatus includes at least two connection units via which the mobile information terminal is connected to the output control apparatus, and a detection unit configured to detect a single terminal connection state in which a single mobile information terminal is connected to the output control apparatus via both of the two connection units. Information received through the two connection units is output on condition that the detection unit detects the single terminal connection state when the vehicle is in a predetermined non-stop state.

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Wako, Japan

Shinichiro Goto