Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinji Akatsu

Shin Miura

Masami Matsubara

Shigeru Imai

Takehiko Hanada

Atsushi Matsumoto

Yuji Hamada

Takuji Morimoto

Takatoshi Tosa

Kiyoshi Matsutani

Yasutaka Konishi

Takumi Akiyama

Hiroki Sakaguchi

Kohtaro Asai

Masahiro Abukawa

Yasuaki Takimoto

Susumu Oka

Yukimasa Sugino

Hiroshi Kawawata

An in-vehicle deviceregularly transmits to an information distribution serveran acquisition request that includes an own vehicle position and a facility search condition, and acquires facility information matching the condition around the vehicle. The in-vehicle devicecontrols the number of displays of the facility information on the basis of the information in an in-vehicle sensor groupwhen displaying the acquired facility information on a map.

In-vehicle device, information distribution server, and facility information display method

An evaluation information posting device determines a rest state of a vehicle on the basis of rest information, determines a facility at which the vehicle has stopped off by using position information showing a rest position of the vehicle, map information including facility information about facilities located in an area surrounding the position shown by this position information, and a keyword about a facility at the rest position of the vehicle, and, by using both stop-off facility information about the facility which is a result of the determination, and a keyword about an evaluation which is provided for this facility, generates evaluation information about the stop-off facility and posts this evaluation information to an evaluation information managing server.

Device and method that posts evaluation information about a facility at which a moving object has stopped off based on an uttered voice

An apparatus includes: a vehicle information acquiring unitto obtain the vehicle information about a vehicle state of its own vehicle; a cloud communication unitto transmit the vehicle information obtained by the vehicle information acquiring unitto a cloud server, and to receive the communication establishment information transmitted from the cloud server; an intervehicle communication unitto carry out intervehicle communication; and a controllerto instruct the intervehicle communication unitto perform the intervehicle communication and to establish communication in accordance with the communication establishment information the cloud communication unitreceives.

Onboard apparatus, cloud server, intervehicle communication system and intervehicle communication method

A leading vehicle grouptransmits divided dataandobtained by dividing vehicle information. Data transfer vehicle groupsandtransfer the divided dataandto a data composite vehicle groupand to following vehicle groupsand. The data composite vehicle grouptransfers composite dataobtained by XORing the divided dataandto the following vehicle groupsand. The following vehicle groupXORs the divided datareceived from the data transfer vehicle groupwith the composite datareceived from the data composite vehicle groupto restore the unreceived divided data

Inter-vehicle communication device

A service information provision apparatus is provided with a data service information table configured from a service discovery information table showing association of specific information of a service provider and service discovery information as service content information provided by the service provider, and a service offer information table showing association of the service discovery information of the service discovery information table and data contents corresponding to the service discovery information.

Service information provision apparatus and service information acquisition apparatus

A multimedia information receiving apparatus receives multimedia information which is transmitted by a broadcast system and receives multimedia information which is simultaneously transmitted by another transmission system such as IP communications, and generates one received information by selecting elements having a few errors from elements of demodulated broadcast system information and elements of demodulated other transmission system information and then arranging the selected elements.

Multimedia information receiving apparatus

A content display device includes a content setting storage meansfor storing a content setting which associates a content selection request with a content which an external device has, a content setting server meansfor accepting a content setting from a content setting clienton a network to update and manage content settings stored in the content setting storage means, and a display content management meansfor reading a content setting corresponding to the content selection request from the content setting storage meansto present the content which the content setting clienthas to a display means, or, when the content setting corresponding to the content setting request does not exist, displaying a method of accessing the content setting server meansand identification information for identifying the content setting clienton the display means

Content display device

An application executing unitmakes a request for assignment of a remote control button to an application currently being executed, a button assignment management unitcarries out an assignment process of assigning the remote control button to the application, and a user interface unitinquires of the button assignment management unitabout an application corresponding to a remote control button indicated by a remote control code received by a remote control code receiving unitshows, and notifies a predetermined event associated with the application to the application executing unit

Application executing terminal

A client apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a contents list request transmitting meansfor transmitting a request of a media server apparatusto transmit a contents list which is a list of metadata of contents, a contents list receiving meansfor receiving the contents list from the media server apparatus, an item list storing meansfor storing the contents list and an item list having listed items each of which is described as metadata, an item list transmitting meansfor transmitting the item list to a monitor server apparatus, a key input meansfor receiving a key input, an input key transmitting meansfor transmitting the key input to the monitor server apparatus, and an identification information receiving meansfor receiving identification information making it possible to uniquely identify each item included in the item list.

Client apparatus

A transcoder includes transcoder modulesandwhich convert the formats of contents stored in serversandinto formats which can be supported by a renderer, respectively, and an internal controllerfor comparing the format of each content stored in the serversandwith the conversion functions of the transcoder modulesandto create a transcoder content list in which contents which can be supported are described, and for transferring a content acquisition request to acquire a content to the serversand, the content acquisition request being transmitted thereto on the basis of the created transcoder content list.

Transcoder

A data gateway unit includes a configuration information update unit for examining a connection state of a terminal on a customer premise network side, and for updating configuration information on the customer premise network; a service menu unit for enumerating, in response to the configuration information on the customer premise network which the configuration information update unit updates, available services the terminal on the customer premise network side can implement; and a service presentation and selection unit for notifying a user of the available services the service menu unit enumerates, and for accepting a service selected by the user. This can solve a problem of a conventional data gateway unit in that users unfamiliar with a personal computer, home bus, or system information, cannot change the setup of the system easily because of the difficulty to create the system information.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shinji Akatsu