Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Simon D Humphries

Kenji Mori

Akira Shinada

Katsuhiko Nunokawa

Masayuki Yurimoto

Hiroaki Okajima

Masafumi Kizu

Naoto Kitagawa

Kota Nezu

Akihiro Inukai

Kikuko Yamawa

A portable electronic information device with superb portability and/or amusement value is provided. This device A is a portable electronic information device A having an external housingthat can be equipped in a car, and the device A is provided with expression meansandfor performing actions that can be sensed by the user of the vehicle, in accordance with vehicle status information of the vehicle or output signals from sensorsorequipped inside external housing, and thus delivers superb amusement value. This device also functions as a vehicle key, providing high portability, and enabling information to be shared with a home computer, thus providing a high level of convenience.

Portable electronic information device

A vehicle expression operation control system and vehicle communication system for performing an expression operation to generate an easily understood expression and a vehicle for performing an expression operation. Condition and other information about a vehicle is detected by an operation information collecting section ( ) and detected data collection section ( ), and supplied to a reaction formulating section ( ). Based on current status information of the vehicle held in a state recognizing section ( ), the reaction formulating section ( ) formulates a reaction and controls performance of an expression operation corresponding to the formulated reaction. Further, based on the reaction formulated, an operation control section ( ) controls operation of respective devices equipped to the vehicle, including lights, antennae, and the like, so that the vehicle performs such expression operation.

Vehicle expression operation control system, vehicle communication system, and vehicle which performs expression operation

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Simon D Humphries