Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shiro Kitamura

Shigenori Hiruta

Shuji Nakayama

Daisuke Muramatsu

Satoru Minowa

Tomoyuki Okumura

Kimiyoshi Kusaka

Hiroshi Nanjo

An information providing system includes: a memory unit configured to store an image data acquired by an imaging unit a robot in association with a position data and a time data acquired by an information acquisition portion; a data extraction portion configured to extract an image data corresponding to a time and a position instructed by the user from among the stored image data; and a display unit configured to display an image based on the extracted image data. The memory unit stores the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a first robot moving with a first user and the image data acquired by the imaging unit of a second robot moving with a second user. The data extraction portion extracts an image data corresponding to a time and a position instructed by the first user from among the image data acquired by the second robot stored in the memory unit when the image data corresponding to the time and the position instructed by the first user is not present among the image data acquired by the first robot stored in the memory unit.

Information providing system, information providing method and management apparatus for information providing system for providing information obtained through a robot

A service providing system including: a mobile robot configured to act in response to an instruction from a user through wireless communication and including a sensor having a capability corresponding to a human sensing capability to perceive an external world; a target identifying unit configured to identify whether an action target of the robot is a human being or another robot; an user apparatus control portion configured to output the signal detected by the sensor in a first manner when the action target is identified to be a human being and output the signal detected by the sensor in a second manner when the action target is identified to be the other robot; and a user apparatus configured to act in a manner perceivable by the user based on a output signal.

Service providing system, service providing method and management apparatus for service providing system

A robot control system, including: a mobile robot having a situation-detecting unit detecting surrounding situations; a user apparatus operating in a manner recognizable by a user based on signals detected by the situation-detecting unit; an action-detecting unit detecting a predetermined action of the user; a brain-activity-detecting unit detecting a brain activity of the user; and a robot-controlling unit controlling the robot. The user apparatus has a computing unit analyzing the brain activity of the user detected by the brain-activity-detecting unit to output a first-action instruction from the user to the robot. The robot controlling unit further controlling the robot in accordance with the first-action instruction output by the computing unit and controlling, when the predetermined action is detected by the action-detecting unit during operation of the user apparatus, the robot in accordance with a second-action instruction different from the first-action instruction output by the computing unit.

Robot control system, robot control method and user apparatus for robot control system

A map generating server capable of bidirectional communication with multiple vehicles having a database configured to store vehicle type identifiers assigned to the vehicles and map data regarding roads usable by the vehicles and cultivated land area near the roads. In the server, a vehicle position data tagged with vehicle type identifier is successively written to location concerned of the map data when each vehicle transmits the position data tagged with the vehicle type identifier. The vehicle position data writing number is incremented if the written vehicle position data is that of a vehicle assigned a specified vehicle type identifier, and the location concerned of the cultivated land area is determined to be cultivated land area road and to update the map data stored in the database when the writing number is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.

Map generating server and map generating method

A floating-point calculation apparatus comprising: a selection part; an addition and subtraction calculation part; an output determination part; and a buffer management part configured to add, when it is determined that a buffer used to store an input value is not prepared, a buffer that corresponds to the input value, wherein when a number of significant digits of the result of performing an addition and subtraction calculation exceeds a number of significant digits of the buffer selected by the selection part, the addition and subtraction calculation part shifts right or shifts left part of the result of performing the addition and subtraction calculation and divides the result of performing the addition and subtraction calculation into values each being storable in one of a plurality of buffers.

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Shiro Kitamura