Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takehiko Hanada

Shinji Akatsu

Shin Miura

Masami Matsubara

Shigeru Imai

Hiroki Sakaguchi

Masahiro Abukawa

Hiroyuki Kurokawa

Mitsuyoshi Suzuki

Akira Hirata

Yukimasa Sugino

Susumu Oka

Mengxiong Wang

Yosuke Ishiwatari

Masayuki Baba

Takumi Akiyama

A crossing detection unit () detects a pedestrian who is about to cross a roadway on which a vehicle () travels. A behavior detection unit () detects a behavior of a nearby vehicle traveling around the vehicle (). A stop determination unit () determines whether or not to stop the vehicle () in view of the detection of the pedestrian who is about to cross the roadway by the crossing detection unit () and the behavior of the nearby vehicle detected by the behavior detection unit (). A vehicle control unit () stops the vehicle () before the pedestrian when the stop determination unit () determines to stop the vehicle.

Driving assistance system

A blind spot identification unit () identifies a plurality of obstacles causing a blind spot in an area around a vehicle. An individual calculation part () calculates, as an individual probability, a probability of occurrence of a traffic accident at a target position with respect to the position of a target object which is each of the obstacles identified by the blind spot identification unit (). A combined calculation part () calculates, as a combined probability, a probability of occurrence of a traffic accident at the target position with respect to each of the plurality of obstacles from the individual probability calculated by the individual calculation part ().

Accident probability calculator, accident probability calculation method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing accident probability calculation program

A number-of-operations information storage unit () stores number-of-operations information in which a plurality of conditions of the vehicle is defined and number of acceleration operations and number of deceleration operations performed by a vehicle are described for each condition defined. A correction speed specifying unit () detects a current condition of the vehicle, when the vehicle travels at a constant speed, extracts number of acceleration operations and number of deceleration operations described for a condition corresponding to the detected current condition of the vehicle from the number-of-operations information, compares the extracted number of acceleration operations with the extracted number of deceleration operations, specifies a correction speed higher than a set speed for a constant-speed travel if the number of acceleration operations is larger than the number of deceleration operations, and specifies a correction speed lower than the set speed if the number of deceleration operations is larger than the number of acceleration operations. A constant-speed travel control unit () makes the vehicle travel at a constant speed based on the correction speed specified by the correction speed specifying unit ().

Vehicle constant-speed travel control apparatus, vehicle constant-speed travel control method, and computer readable medium

A content display device includes a content setting storage meansfor storing a content setting which associates a content selection request with a content which an external device has, a content setting server meansfor accepting a content setting from a content setting clienton a network to update and manage content settings stored in the content setting storage means, and a display content management meansfor reading a content setting corresponding to the content selection request from the content setting storage meansto present the content which the content setting clienthas to a display means, or, when the content setting corresponding to the content setting request does not exist, displaying a method of accessing the content setting server meansand identification information for identifying the content setting clienton the display means

Content display device

An application executing unitmakes a request for assignment of a remote control button to an application currently being executed, a button assignment management unitcarries out an assignment process of assigning the remote control button to the application, and a user interface unitinquires of the button assignment management unitabout an application corresponding to a remote control button indicated by a remote control code received by a remote control code receiving unitshows, and notifies a predetermined event associated with the application to the application executing unit

Application executing terminal

A control unit () is provided for storing time information of data which are received for the first time by a receiving unit () in a memory (), and for, every time when the receiving unit () detects time information, acquiring the time information from the receiving unit (), calculating the difference between the acquired time information and the time information of the first received data stored in the memory (), and, when the difference reaches a predetermined amount, outputting a command for starting a playback of data to a playback unit (). The playback unit () starts a playback of the data stored in the storage unit () when the command for starting a playback of data is outputted from the control unit ().

Data playback apparatus and data playback method

A client apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes a contents list request transmitting meansfor transmitting a request of a media server apparatusto transmit a contents list which is a list of metadata of contents, a contents list receiving meansfor receiving the contents list from the media server apparatus, an item list storing meansfor storing the contents list and an item list having listed items each of which is described as metadata, an item list transmitting meansfor transmitting the item list to a monitor server apparatus, a key input meansfor receiving a key input, an input key transmitting meansfor transmitting the key input to the monitor server apparatus, and an identification information receiving meansfor receiving identification information making it possible to uniquely identify each item included in the item list.

Client apparatus

A transcoder includes transcoder modulesandwhich convert the formats of contents stored in serversandinto formats which can be supported by a renderer, respectively, and an internal controllerfor comparing the format of each content stored in the serversandwith the conversion functions of the transcoder modulesandto create a transcoder content list in which contents which can be supported are described, and for transferring a content acquisition request to acquire a content to the serversand, the content acquisition request being transmitted thereto on the basis of the created transcoder content list.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takehiko Hanada