Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tsubakimoto Chain Company

Takahiro Yoneda

Eiichi Muramoto

Kazunobu Konishi

Yuta Shimotsuma

Ryota Ohnishi

Toshiya Arai

Akira Ishikawa

Taisuke Matsumoto

Ichiro Takei

Masashi Kobayashi

Shuhei Matsui

Toyoki Kawahara

Yuki Matsumura

Yasunori Ishii

Hiroshi Nishimura

Katsuo Doi

Yoshimasa Honda

Motoshi Anabuki

Yuki Minoda

Fumiaki Suzuki

Chih-chang Hsu

Ryota Onishi

An information processing method, performed by a computer, includes: obtaining second situational information related to a situation of at least one of a vehicle or surroundings of the vehicle at a second time point subsequent to a first time point; determining recommended content related to vehicle monitoring recommended to a second monitoring agent by inputting the second situational information to a trained model obtained by machine learning in which first situational information and a first monitoring result which is a result of monitoring by a first monitoring agent based on the first situational information are used, the first situational information being related to a situation of at least one of the vehicle or the surroundings of the vehicle at the first time point; generating presentation information for vehicle monitoring based on the recommended content determined; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.

Information processing method and information processing system

An information processing method to be executed by a computer, the information processing method including: obtaining a self-driving vehicle list and a rider list; obtaining a driving skill of each of a plurality of riders included in the rider list, the driving skill indicating whether the rider is capable of driving; allocating a plurality of self-driving vehicles included in the self-driving vehicle list to the plurality of riders in accordance with the driving skill of each of the plurality of riders to distribute riders capable of driving, among the plurality of riders, across the plurality of self-driving vehicle; and outputting a result of the allocating.

The information processing method includes processes of determining whether an emergency stop for a moving vehicle that is autonomously travelling has occurred; when it is determined that the emergency stop has occurred, simulating safety control based on a travel situation history of the moving vehicle; identifying a process that is a cause of the emergency stop from processes for the autonomous travel control indicated by a log of an autonomous driving system, based on the autonomous travel control indicated by the log and the safety control simulated; obtaining, from a database, one or more situation candidates corresponding to the process identified, and presenting an interface to an operator for inputting a situation candidate from the one or more situation candidates that corresponds to a situation indicated by the log; and determining restartability of the autonomous travel control by the autonomous driving system according to the situation candidate input.

An information processing method uses a computer and includes: obtaining a first information item regarding first monitoring performed by a first monitor on a first vehicle, the first monitoring being allocated to the first monitor; obtaining a second information item regarding second monitoring on a second vehicle, the second monitoring being not allocated to any monitor; comparing the first information item with the second information item; generating presentation information indicating the second monitoring on the second vehicle in accordance with a result of the comparing; and presenting the generated presentation information via a presentation device.

An information processing method performed using a computer includes: obtaining first vehicle information from a vehicle that is a monitoring target of a monitor, the first vehicle information indicating at least one of a running state and an external state of the vehicle; determining a monitoring priority level of the vehicle according to a degree of request for monitoring the vehicle by the monitor, the degree being based on the first vehicle information; generating presentation information for monitoring the vehicle, based on the monitoring priority level; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.

An information processing method performed using a computer includes: obtaining first position information indicating a first position, the first position being a position of a vehicle that is a monitoring target; obtaining second position information indicating a second position, the second position being a position in which the vehicle is requested to be monitored; determining a monitoring priority level of the vehicle according to movement information relating to movement of the vehicle from the first position to the second position; generating presentation information for monitoring the vehicle, based on the monitoring priority level; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.

A video transmitting device is to be provided in a vehicle and includes a first acquiring unit that acquires first video information from an imaging unit that captures images of the surroundings of the vehicle, a risk map creating unit that creates a risk map indicating a risk region in traveling of the vehicle, a video creating unit that creates second video information having a data amount smaller than a data amount of the first video information on the basis of the risk map, and a communication unit that transmits the second video information to a remote monitoring device for remotely monitoring the vehicle.

Video transmitting device, video transmitting method, and recording medium

An information processing method includes the following executed by a computer: obtaining first attribute information that indicates an attribute of a first user concerning an internal space of a moving body, and vacancy information of at least one moving body; generating presentation information for a second user using the first attribute information and the vacancy information, the presentation information indicating, in accordance with the attribute of the first user, at least one of a vacant moving body and vacant seats among the at least one moving body; and causing a presentation apparatus to present the presentation information.

Information processing method

A vehicle that is remotely operable by an operator is provided. The vehicle includes a communication circuit that receives a vehicle operation signal including an accelerator input value based on a first operation performed by the operator, a steering angle sensor that measures a steering angle of the vehicle, a speed sensor that measures a speed of the vehicle, and a processor. The processor corrects the accelerator input value such that when the absolute value of an angular measure of the steering angle is greater than or equal to a predetermined angular measure and the speed is greater than zero, the accelerator input value is corrected so as to reduce the speed to a value that is less than when the absolute value of the angular measure of the steering angle is less than the first predetermined angular measure and the speed is greater than zero.

Vehicle, vehicle control method, vehicle remote operation apparatus, and vehicle remote operation method

A communication method in a roadside unit that acquires first dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around the roadside unit and second dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around in-vehicle units includes: selecting at least one in-vehicle unit from among the plurality of in-vehicle units on a basis of a list in which the second dynamic information and the in-vehicle units having the second dynamic information are associated with each other; acquiring the first dynamic information indicative of a state around the roadside unit acquired by a sensor mounted in the roadside unit; configurating a dynamic map on a basis of the acquired first dynamic information, the second dynamic information acquired from the selected in-vehicle unit, and a static map indicative of a static object; and transmitting the dynamic map to one or more of the in-vehicle units that communicate with the roadside unit.

Communication method, roadside unit, and communication system

A router includes a content store (CS) that stores content, a packet processing determination unit that determines whether a received interest packet is a best available (BA) interest packet, and an optimum content request processor that if it is determined that the interest packet is a BA interest packet and if the optimum content request processor determines that content having higher quality than the quality of the content stored in the CS can be acquired from an upstream router, on the basis of the quality of the content stored in the CS and constraining conditions of the BA interest packet, forwards the BA interest packet to the upstream router.

Communication controller, communication control method, and communication control system

A communication control apparatus connected to a content-oriented network includes a transmitter, a receiver, a memory, and a processor. The transmitter transmits an interest packet requesting a plurality of pieces of content. The receiver receives a first data packet including (i) a first piece of content, which is one of the pieces of content, and (ii) first PIT information representing a name of a second piece of content, which is another of the pieces of content and which has not been transmitted from a transmission source. The memory stores a transmission PIT in which names of the pieces of content are registered. The processor registers, in response to transmission of the interest packet, the names of the pieces of content registered in the transmission PIT, and deletes, in response to reception of the first data packet, a name of the first piece of content from the transmission PIT.

Communication control apparatus and communication control method

An operator uses a remote operation apparatus to remotely operate an operated vehicle. The remote operation apparatus includes a position information processor which, based on vehicle position information indicating a current position of the operated vehicle and delay information indicating a delay time required for information transmission between the operated vehicle and the remote operation apparatus, generates first position information indicating a first predicted position of the operated vehicle from the current position of the operated vehicle considering the delay time; based on obstacle position information indicating a current position of at least one obstacle around the operated vehicle acquired by the operated vehicle and the delay information, generates second position information indicating a second predicted position of the at least one obstacle from the time of the current position of the obstacle considering the delay time; and outputs the first and second position information.

Information processing apparatus, operated vehicle, information processing method, and recording medium storing program

A roadside device transmits first detection data obtained by a first sensor to a server. The server extracts an unobservable area that is a blind spot of the first sensor, based on the first detection data, and transmits unobservable-area information indicating the unobservable area to a moving terminal. The moving terminal extracts, based on second detection data obtained by a second sensor, second dynamic information indicating an object that exists in a sensing range of the second sensor, and determines whether or not an overlapping area where the unobservable area indicated by the unobservable-area information and the sensing range of the second sensor overlap each other exists. Upon determining that the overlapping area exists, the moving terminal transmits, to the server, third dynamic information that is included in the second dynamic information and that indicates an object that exists in the overlapping area.

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Takahiro Yoneda