Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takahisa Aoyagi

Asako Omote

Noritaka Kokido

Hiroshi Yamada

Masataka Shirozono

Kenta Katsu

Takashi Matsumoto

Yoichi Kato

Koji Iida

Takuya Taniguchi

Tetsuji Haga

Asako Shigeta

Satoru Inoue

Kohei Teramoto

Takuji Morimoto

Yoshihiko Mori

Nariaki Takehara

Tsuyoshi Nakada

Ryotaro Suzuki

Yukiyasu Akemi

Seiki Suzuki

Jun Yoshida

Youichi Kato

Norifumi Hodohara

Ryoichi Hamahashi

Haiyue Zhang

A traffic control device includes: a passage schedule calculation unit which calculates, on the basis of vehicle information about vehicles that enter an intersection, passage schedules according to which the vehicles pass through the intersection; a collision determination unit which determines, on the basis of the passage schedules, whether the vehicles have a possibility of a collision; a passage rank setting unit which sets passage ranks for the vehicles if there is the possibility of the collision; and a passage schedule adjustment unit which calculates an adjustment period on the basis of a result of comparing the passage schedules for the vehicles determined to have the possibility of the collision, and delays, by the adjustment period, a passage schedule for a vehicle that has a low passage rank among the vehicles determined to have the possibility of the collision, to adjust the passage schedule.

Traffic control device

A route generation device includes: a steering loaded state input unit to which a steering loaded state of a vehicle is inputted; a parking slot position input unit to which a position of a parking slot near the vehicle is inputted; a vehicle position input unit to which a position of the vehicle is inputted; a number-of-times-of-static-steering upper limit calculation unit configured to calculate, on the basis of the steering loaded state, a number-of-times-of-static-steering upper limit value up to which static steering of the vehicle can be performed between the position of the vehicle and the position of the parking slot; and a guidance route generation unit configured to generate a guidance route for guiding the vehicle to the parking slot, on the basis of the position of the vehicle, the position of the parking slot, and the number-of-times-of-static-steering upper limit value.

Route generation device, parking assist apparatus, route generation method, and parking assist method

In a parking assistance device, a target parking position calculation unit calculates a target parking position of a subject vehicle based on a position of a corner point of a parking space. A constraint condition setting unit sets a constraint condition regarding a target parking route for guiding the subject vehicle to the target parking position based on a position and a posture angle of the subject vehicle, peripheral information of the subject vehicle, and the position of the corner point of the parking space. The constraint condition includes a condition that a curvature change rate of the target parking route is continuous. A target parking route calculation unit calculates the target parking route based on the position and the posture angle of the subject vehicle, the position of the corner point of the parking space, the target parking position, and the constraint condition.

Parking assistance device and parking assistance method

The present invention relates to a parking assistance device, and includes: a surrounding detection part detecting surrounding information of a vehicle which is to be parked to detect a parking space where the vehicle can be parked; a parking route generation part generating a traveling route from a current position of the vehicle to the parking space; a travel controller making the vehicle travel to the parking space along the traveling route; an obstacle detection part detecting an obstacle around the vehicle; and a parking route regeneration part generating a new traveling route to avoid a collision between the vehicle and the obstacle and park the vehicle in the parking space in a case where the travel controller makes the vehicle travel to the parking space along the traveling route, wherein the travel controller makes the vehicle travel along the new traveling route when the new traveling route is generated.

Provided are a vehicle control device and a vehicle control method for keeping necessary functions effective until an occupant gets out of a vehicle. The vehicle control device include a vehicle exit detection part configured to detect a timing at which the occupant gets out of the vehicle, in accordance with a vehicle exit detection signal from a vehicle exit detector set in advance, and a power supply control part configured to control, when the timing at which the occupant gets out of the vehicle is detected by the vehicle exit detection part, a power supply control device so as to carry out any one of: shutting off a power supply to an in-vehicle device installed on the vehicle, thereby bringing the in-vehicle device into a stop state; and supplying a standby voltage to the in-vehicle device, thereby bringing the in-vehicle device into a sleep state.

Vehicle control device and vehicle control method

A calibration device includes: a coordinate calculator that calculates coordinates of a plurality of rigid body-based points on a vehicle-based coordinate system from measurement values of respective distances between two points constituted by a combination of one of a plurality of vehicle-based points and one of the plurality of rigid body-based points, the plurality of vehicle-based points having known coordinates on the vehicle-based coordinate system and the plurality of rigid body-based points having known coordinates on a rigid body-based coordinate system; and a parameter calculator that calculates a relative attitude and a relative position of an origin as calibration parameters from a correspondence relationship between positions of image coordinates of the plurality of rigid body-based points within a captured image and the coordinates of the plurality of rigid body-based points on the vehicle-based coordinate system.

Calibration device and calibration method

An operation control apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes a dangerous region determination section which sets a dangerous region in a vehicle travel direction from the vehicle in accordance with the travel speed of the vehicle, and when an obstacle is detected in the dangerous region, determines that it is dangerous to operate an in-car electrical component equipped in the vehicle; an operation detection section which detects that an operation of the in-car electrical component is done; and a dangerous operation recognition section which, when it is determined in the dangerous region determination section that an operation of the in-car electrical component is dangerous, and it is detected in the operation detection section that an operation of the in-car electrical component is done, recognizes a dangerous operation and outputs a signal for issuing an alarm.

Operation control apparatus

To perform an ideal calibration operation, a start switch started manually or by an on-vehicle camera calibration device, a start switching device started by an operation of the start switch and projection devices installed in an outer periphery of a vehicle body, including at least one or more light sources irradiating the surroundings of the vehicle body with light are provided, in which whether a calibration operation is possible or not is determined based on references on a road surface projected by the projection devices.

On-vehicle camera calibration auxiliary device

Provided are a vehicle approach detection device and a vehicle approach detection method that are capable of detecting an approach of another vehicle without installing a dedicated device on a road. At least one of a vehicle surrounding video for showing an observed area (for example, road surface) used to observe irradiation light (for example, headlight beam emitted from a headlight of another vehicle) from another vehicle and a vehicle surrounding environmental sound is detected as vehicle external information, and it is determined based on the detected vehicle external information whether or not another vehicle is approaching an own vehicle.

Vehicle approach detection device and vehicle approach detection method

Position information of a vehicleand feature amounts of driving operations by a driver are acquired as triggered by occurrence of switching from an automatic driving mode to a manual driving mode, and a driving operation to be corrected in the automatic driving mode and a correction amount thereof, are determined from these feature amounts. A driving operation in the automatic driving mode is corrected using the determination result, so that the vehicleis controlled in the automatic driving mode in which the corrected driving operation is included.

Driving assistance device and driving assistance method

An automatic adjuster, when carrying out an AR superimposed display using a head-up display in a vehicle like a car, is able to perform eye position adjustment for the AR superimposition automatically without increasing a burden to a driver by controlling, according to the eye position information acquired from an eye position detector, in such a manner as to shift the driver's eye position in accordance with the reference position of the superimposed display, which serves as a position where the AR superimposition is performed appropriately, and by controlling a movable part of the driver's power seat the driver of the vehicle takes.

Automatic adjuster, automatic adjusting system and automatic adjusting method

It is determined whether a driver is gazing at a gaze target object in the eye gaze direction, and the eye gaze of the driver is guided by changing a display mode of the gaze target object determined to be gazed at by the driver. Calibration of eye gaze direction detection information is accurately and promptly executed.

Display control apparatus, display control method of display control apparatus, and eye gaze direction detection system

A sound quality adjustment apparatus of an approaching vehicle audible system that generates a signal of a notification sound, which is emitted from a sounding device provided in an electric vehicle that generates at least part of driving force by use of a motor to the outside of the electric vehicle, is provided with a sound element storage unit that stores sound element data forming an element of the notification sound; a sound-source sound quality extraction unit that analyzes the sound element data so as to extract a characteristic value related to the sound quality of a sound element; a parameter setting unit that obtains a parameter for converting the sound element data in accordance with vehicle information, by use of the characteristic value extracted by the sound-source sound quality extraction unit; and a parameter storage unit that stores the parameter obtained by the parameter setting unit.

Sound quality adjustment apparatus of approaching vehicle audible system, approaching vehicle audible system simulator, and approaching vehicle audible system

A notification sound control unit () of an approaching vehicle audible system (), generating a signal for a notification sound to be emitted from a sounding device () provided in an electric vehicle () in which at least part of driving force is produced by a motor to the outside of the electric vehicle (), is provided with a behavior conversion processing section () that changes through time change processing an accelerator opening degree signal () among vehicle information signals () of the electric vehicle () so as to output a processed accelerator opening degree signal and with a notification sound signal generation processing section () that changes a pitch and a volume of a sound element signal outputted from a sound element (), based on the processed accelerator opening degree signal, so as to generate a notification sound signal.

Notification sound control unit of approaching vehicle audible system

A notification sound control unit of an approaching vehicle audible system includes a first rotation speed calculation section that calculates a first rotation speed, based on an accelerator opening degree signal of an electric vehicle, a second rotation speed calculation section that calculates a second rotation speed, based on a vehicle speed signal of the electric vehicle, a rotation speed synthesis section that synthesizes the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed, a virtual engine rotation speed calculation section that applies filtering processing to a synthesis rotation speed synthesized by the rotation speed synthesis section so as to calculate a virtual engine rotation speed, and a notification sound signal generation processing section that changes a pitch and a volume of a phoneme signal outputted from a phoneme, based on the virtual engine rotation speed, so as to generate a notification sound signal.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takahisa Aoyagi