Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Takehiko Hashimoto

Masatoshi Hayashi

Wataru Minoura

Fumihiro Nasu

Yutaro Imamura

Yuki Tatsumoto

Yoshihiro Oe

In a navigation system, a data center and a plurality of vehicles are connected via a communication network. The data center accepts specific section information, which can identify a specific section for which the capturing of road conditions is requested, from a capturing requester. The data center proposes capturing-requested routes, each of which goes through a specific section, to a user who performed a route search with a destination set using a navigation device, based on the specific section information. The data center stores, in a storage device, a video that was uploaded by a user, that was captured by a dashcam while the vehicle was traveling in the specific section, and that shows the road conditions of the specific section, along with capturing position information that can identify the position where the video was captured.

Navigation system

In a safe driving support system, a data center is connected to a plurality of vehicles via a communication network. The data center stores a position of a first vehicle of which a G sensor detects that behavior of the vehicle has been disturbed when caution information is received from the first vehicle as a caution-needed spot in a storage device. The data center transmits data of a caution image extracted from data of images in a predetermined period before the caution information has been received out of the data of the images captured by a drive recorder of the first vehicle to a second vehicle approaching the caution-needed spot when the caution information is received. The display of the second vehicle having received the data of the caution image attracts attention by displaying the caution image before the second vehicle arrives at the caution-needed spot.

Safe driving support system and safe driving support method

An information providing device and an information providing method are provided. Processing circuitry receives, from a first vehicle, a piece of video data related to the moment the first vehicle passed an occurrence site. The first vehicle captures a piece of video data by a dashboard camera when passing the occurrence site of a traffic event requiring cautious driving. The processing circuitry extracts a piece of image data representing a situation of the occurrence site from the video related to the piece of video data, and transmits the piece of image data to the second vehicle. When the second vehicle reaches a notification location, a display device of the second vehicle displays an image related to the piece of image data in order to issue an alert.

Information providing device and information providing method

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Takehiko Hashimoto