Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Takamichi Shimada

Noboru Sekine

Tatsuyuki Ohashi

Nobuo Higaki

Shigeru Kanehara

Hideaki Yoshida

Hideki Wakamatsu

Hirofumi Akagi

Takashi Aoki

Yukio Morita

Yoshihisa Iwaki

Yoshiharu Saito

Yoshiaki Sakagami

Satoshi Terayama

Norio Nakauchi

Shuichi Fujimoto

Hisashi Kunii

Kenji Hagiwara

Kazumi Sato

Yoshiyuki Ura

Kazuyuki Konno

Yuji Takeuchi

Toru Yagasaki

Yoshikazu Ishikawa

Koji Sengoku

Tsunefumi Niiyama

Koji Kawabe

Naohisa Morishita

Yorinori Kumagai

Takashi Hotta

Hideaki Aoyama

Satoru Sunada

Junya Nagai

Toshitaka Imai

Ken Kanokogi

Masatoshi Shimizu

Takayuki Yamaguchi

Shigeo Ozawa

Kiminobu Terao

Toshio Oka

Minoru Noguchi

Kouji Yamaguchi

Takeshi Fujino

Eisuke Komazawa

Taro Yokoyama

Takuro Masuda

Junichi Miyake

Kazuo Ooyama

Hideo Koyama

Eijiro Shimabukuro

Osahide Miyamoto

Atsushi Fujikawa

Kouhei Ohsono

Nobuhiro Kira

Takuro Koyanagi

Masatoshi Nishina

Hiroyuki Shimada

Takahiro Matsuda

Takeshi Kato

Hiroyoshi Suzuki

Kouji Sasajima

Shoji Asatsuke

Kouji Shibuya

Akihito Ohhashi

Shouji Asatsuke

Yoko Saito

Kouji Ueda

Koichiro Inukai

Kaoru Kajikawa

Mayumi Takada

Kenji Amano

Yasushi Okawa

Youko Saitou

Tomonobu Gotou

Masahiro Seki

Yutaka Yamamoto

Kazuyuki Konnno

An information processing server and the like are provided that can generate information in a more meaningful manner for a user on the basis of multiple images taken by a client. In response to a start of an ON period of a mobile station X, the taken image registered in a clientand 'designated point' are associated with each other, are transmitted to an information processing server, and registered in a database. An editing policy is determined on the basis of the image registered in the database, or the editing policy is designated in the client. The images taken in a travel period of the clientand registered in the databaseare edited according to the editing policy, thereby generating an 'image library' in the travel period.

Information processing server, client, and information processing system

Provided is an information processing server and the like, in which in response to the start of an 'on' period of the movable body V, imaged images that are registered at the clientand a 'designated location' are associated and transmitted to an information processing server. An image corresponding to a &#x201c;first designated location&#x201d; that is a designated location that is outside a &#x201c;base area&#x201d; that is specific to the clientis registered as a &#x201c;first image&#x201d; in the information processing server. Further, an &#x201c;image library&#x201d; with respect to a trip period of the clientis generated based on a plurality of first images that are registered in the information processing serverin response to the start of an &#x201c;off&#x201d; period of the movable body V that occurs one or a plurality of times.

An information processing system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquires position information indicating a position of a vehicle, sensor performance information indicating the performance of a sensor mounted on the vehicle, and weather information corresponding to the position of the vehicle; and a database creation unit configured to creates correlation data indicating a correlation between the weather information and the sensor performance information on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition unit.

Information processing system and information processing method

A vehicle electric power supply system includes: an electric power generating source; a battery; a first voltage converter configured to raise a voltage of the electric power generating source; a second voltage converter configured to raise a voltage of the battery; and an electric power converter configured to supply voltages, which are obtained by conversions by the respective first and second voltage converters, to a vehicle load. A power control unit, which includes the first voltage converter, the second voltage converter and the electric power converter, and the battery are integrated into a unitary component, and are placed in a front portion of a vehicle while isolated from a vehicle interior. Accordingly, it is possible to widen the vehicle interior and a luggage containing space in the vehicle's rear portion, and to avoid increase in the weight of the vehicle.

Vehicle electric power supply system

In a legged mobile robot having an imaging device (such as CCD camera) for taking an image utilizing incident light from external world in which a human being to be imaged is present, brightness reduction operation is executed to reduce brightness of a high-brightness imaging region produced by high-brightness incident light, when the high-brightness imaging region is present in the image taken by the imaging device. With this, when the imaged high-brightness imaging region is present owing to high-brightness incident light from the sun or the like, the legged mobile robot can reduce the brightness to image a human being or other object with suitable brightness.

Image brightness reduction for legged mobile robot

An electric bower supply system includes a power supply controlling element () configured to switch a plug-out power supply which supplies electric power () from a fuel cell () or a battery () to a house () and a plug-in power supply which supplies electric power from a commercial power source () disposed in the house () to a fuel cell vehicle () on the basis of a vehicular power state of the fuel cell () and the battery () detected by a vehicular power state detecting element () and a household power state of the commercial power source () detected by a household power state detecting element () when a receptacle () of the fuel cell vehicle () and an outlet () of the commercial power source () have been connected by a power cable ().

Electric power supply system between vehicle and house

In an exposure controller of a camera mounted on a robot for taking an image utilizing incident light from external world in which an object such as a human being is present, a brightness histogram of the image is generated and exposure parameters are set based on the generated histogram. Then, it is determined whether the set exposure parameters are within a predetermined range and when they are out of the range and if a high-brightness imaging region is present in the image due to high-brightness incident light, it is again determined whether it is necessary to remove the high-brightness imaging region. When it is determined to be necessary, the high-brightness imaging region is extracted and is removed from the image, thereby enabling the camera to image the object with suitable brightness even when a bright light source such as the sun is within the camera angle of view.

Camera exposure controller including imaging devices for capturing an image using stereo-imaging

A communication system between vehicles of the present invention is equipped in each of the vehicles with an image taking device for taking an image around the vehicle; a moving body detection unit for detecting a moving body from the image taken by the image taking device; a display unit for displaying the image; an image data generation unit for generating image data output to the display unit of the each vehicle; and a transmitting/receiving device for any of transmitting/receiving data, wherein the image data generation unit generates image data for displaying an existence of a moving body, of which an image is taken by said image taking device of one of the vehicles, and outputs the image data to the display unit of other vehicle.

Communication system between vehicles

A mobile robot that is fitted with a camera and can be controlled from a remote terminal such as a mobile phone moves about in an event site to detect and track a moving object such as a visitor and entertainer. Because the camera along with the robot itself can change its position freely autonomously and/or according to a command from the mobile terminal, a desired frame layout can be accomplished by moving the position of the robot. Therefore, the operator is not required to execute a complex image trimming process or other adjustment of the obtained picture image so that a desired picture can be obtained quickly and without any difficulty. If the user is allowed access the managing server, the user can download the desired picture images and have them printed out at will. Also, because the selected picture images can be transmitted to the managing server, the robot is prevented from running out of memory for storing the picture images.

Picture taking mobile robot

In an event site or the like, a visitor may waste time and effort trying to find a spot where an event of interest may be taking place because the visitor is unable to look through the entire site from any particular spot. An information gathering robot roams in such an event site typically along a prescribed route, and notes spots of interest to transmit this information to a data server. The visitor can access the data server to find a spot of interest of his or her choice substantially on a real time basis.

Information gathering robot

A gesture recognition apparatus for recognizing postures or gestures of an object person based on images of the object person captured by cameras. The gesture recognition apparatus includes: a face/fingertip position detection means which detects a face position and a fingertip position of the object person in three-dimensional space based on contour information and human skin region information of the object person to be produced by the images captured; and a posture/gesture recognition means which operates to detect changes of the fingertip position by a predetermined method, to process the detected results by a previously stored method, to determine a posture or a gesture of the object person, and to recognize a posture or a gesture of the object person.

Gesture recognition apparatus, gesture recognition method, and gesture recognition program

In a biped robot control system, stereoscopic images captured by CCD cameras are analyzed, the analyzed images are then utilized to detect presence of any moving object around the robot and if it present, to calculate moving object information, and based on the calculated moving object information, it is determined whether or not walking of the robot needs to be stopped. If it is determined to be stopped, the robot is controlled to stop within a period that brings the travel distance at stopping (distance moved between image capture by the CCD cameras and stopping of robot walking) to within a predetermined distance. With this, when the robot approaches a moving object during walking, it can be stopped within the predetermined distance to avoid collision with the moving object.

Biped robot control system

The present invention detects a moving object by generating the distance information of the moving object, detecting the object motion, determining the object distance, detecting the object image area and the object contour from the video image that includes the object image and contour, and provides a moving object detection apparatus to carry out such detection as well as detecting a contour of the specific moving object by detecting the center of the moving object in high precision.

Apparatus, method and program for moving object detection

In an overcurrent prevention system for a robot having links connected by joints and an electrical system including electric motors installed at the joint, a power circuit connecting the electric motors to a power source, and drive circuits to supply current to the electric motors, there are provided a switching device installed in the power circuit, a current sensor detecting the current supplied to the electric motors, and the output of the current sensor is compared with a threshold value and the switching device is operated to execute a switching action to cut off the power circuit intermittently during a first predetermined period when the output of the current sensor exceeds the threshold value, thereby protecting the electrical system when overcurrent is detected, without causing functional disablement and/or posture instability of the robot.

Robot overcurrent prevention system

In a moving object detection system, an edge image is generated from captured images taken by CCD cameras and a moving object distance image indicative of a distance to a moving object (such as a human being) is generated by extracting pixel corresponding thereto. Then, pixels in the moving object distance image are summed to generate a histogram and a profile extraction region is set in the moving object distance image with its center line focusing on a position whose histogram is greatest, while the edge image is superposed on the moving object distance image to correct the center line of the profile extraction region such that the moving object is detected by extracting its profile in the region. With this, it becomes possible to detect the moving objects respectively even when the two or more objects are present in neighborhood.

Moving object detection system

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