Pioneer Corporation

Geotechnologies, Inc.

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Increment P Corporation

Takeshi Koda

Masayoshi Yoshida

Nobuyuki Takakuwa

Yasuko Fukuda

Takao Sawabe

Masanori Nakahara

Tohru Kanegae

Keiji Katata

Akira Imamura

Masahiro Kato

Kazuo Kuroda

Kenji Mito

Eiji Muramatsu

Masahiro Miura

Shoji Taniguchi

Makoto Hatano

Kazuhiro Nakao

Tsuyoshi Hasebe

Tsuyoshi Namiki

Shinji Suzuki

Toshio Suzuki

Yoshinori Abe

Toshiro Tanikawa

Kazutoshi Kitano

Masami Oishi

Yuji Shimizu

A terminal device used by a user of a vehicle includes a first input unit configured to receive a first user ID inputted by the user, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the first user ID to a second server device operated by a service providing company, a receiving unit configured to receive service information from the second server device, the service information including provision information, the provision information indicating information to be provided from a first server device to the second server device from among information transmitted from a terminal device of the vehicle to the first server device, a storage unit configured to store the received service information, a second input unit configured to receive a use start instruction of the vehicle inputted by the user, and a second transmission unit configured to transmit the service information to the terminal device of the vehicle.

Server device, information processing method, program, and storage medium

A job request is transmission data transmitted from the vehicle cloud serverto the in-vehicle terminaland includes at least: data collection condition information and collection data designation information indicative of contents of a process to be performed by the in-vehicle terminal; and deletion prohibition flag indicative of prohibiting the in-vehicle terminalfrom deleting the job request under a predetermined condition.

Data structures, storage media, storage device and receiver

A moving body management device includes: a first receiving unit configured to receive a request signal (JR) transmitted by an information management device (); a generating unit configured to generate command information (JR) based on the request signal (JR); a first transmitting unit configured to transmit the command information (JR) to a plurality of moving bodies (); a second receiving unit configured to receive a reception result (UD) indicating that the moving bodies () have successfully received the command information (JR); a first counting unit configured to count, on a basis of the reception result (UD), the number of the moving bodies () which have successfully received the command information (JR); a third receiving unit configured to receive response information to the command information (JR); a second counting unit configured to count, on a basis of the response information, the number of moving bodies () that have transmitted the response information; and a second transmitting unit configured to moving body number information to information management device (), the moving body number information relating to the number of the moving bodies () which have successfully received the command information and the number of moving bodies () that have transmitted the response information.

Moving body management device, control method, program and storage media

A driving assistance device performs autonomous driving based on an output from a sensor unit that acquires information on surroundings of a vehicle or information on the state of the vehicle. The driving assistance device stores an autonomous driving determination table based on autonomous driving compatibility information. By referring to the autonomous driving determination table based on sensor information on the sensor unit and road element information on a predetermined road section, the driving assistance devicedetermines a set of an autonomous driving function and an automation level that can be performed in the predetermined road section.

Autonomous driving assistance device

An advanced map DBstored on a server deviceincludes pulse type information that is configuration information for detecting a landmark using a LIDAR. By sending request information Dincluding own vehicle position information, the vehicle mounted devicereceives response information Dincluding pulse type information corresponding to a landmark around the own vehicle position and controls the LIDARon the basis of the received pulse type information.

Feature data structure, control device, storage device, control method, program and storage medium

A server devicestores a distribution map DBincluding autonomous driving regulatory information Ir for regulating autonomous driving of a vehicle in a predetermined section, and sends map data Dincluding the autonomous driving regulatory information Ir to a driving assistance device. Then, the driving assistance devicereceives the map data Dincluding the autonomous driving regulatory information Ir and controls the autonomous driving of the vehicle based on the received autonomous driving regulatory information Ir.

Map information storage device, autonomous driving control device, control method, program and storage medium

A server device stores on a storage unit an advanced map database which includes feature information associated with a feature. The server device receives, from vehicle mounted devices equipped with external sensors which measure features, difference information indicative of a difference between feature information and the actual feature corresponding to the feature information. In accordance with the degree of reliability which is calculated based on a plurality of the difference information, the server device sends to the vehicle mounted device a raw data request signal for requesting the transmission of raw data which is measurement data of the actual feature.

Information processing device, measurement device and control method

A driving assistance deviceperforms autonomous driving based on an output from a sensor unitthat acquires information on surroundings of a vehicle or information on the state of the vehicle. The driving assistance devicestores an autonomous driving determination table Tj based on autonomous driving compatibility information. By referring to the autonomous driving determination table Tj based on sensor informationon the sensor unitand road element information Ie on a predetermined road section, the driving assistance devicedetermines a set of an autonomous driving function Fc and an automation level Lv that can be performed in the predetermined road section.

Autonomous driving assistance device, control method, program and storage medium

A server devicestores on a storage unitan advanced map databasewhich includes feature information associated with a feature. The server devicereceives, from vehicle mounted devicesequipped with external sensorswhich measure features, difference information Idf indicative of a difference between feature information and the actual feature corresponding to the feature information. In accordance with the degree of reliability Rdf which is calculated based on a plurality of the difference information Idf, the server devicesends to the vehicle mounted devicea raw data request signal SR for requesting the transmission of raw data which is measurement data of the actual feature.

In an information recording apparatus, when it is determined to perform a copy process, a copy processor copies content data cached in a first storage section to an information recording medium as copy destination. A process-result sender sends, to a copy-count management server, a result of the copy process. A cached-data abandoning unit abandons the content data cached in the first storage section if information regarding an allowable number of copies on which the result of the copy process has been reflected represents that a next copy process is disallowed.

Information recording apparatus and copy management program for caching content data of digital content

On an information record medium, there are recorded: a plurality of content informations; and a plurality of play list sets each including a plurality of play list informations defining reproduction sequence thereof. The plurality of content informations, whose reproduction sequences are defined by the plurality of play list informations in a same play list set, are different from each other in reproduction functions required for an information reproduction system to reproduce the plurality of content informations and are adapted to at least partially construct titles, each of which is a logically united information unit and which are same to each other. Required function information indicating the reproduction function required for the information reproduction system is further recorded for each of the plurality of play list informations.

Information record medium, information record device and method, information reproduction device and method, information recording/reproduction device and method, recording or reproduction control computer program, and data structure containing control signal

Provided is an information recording apparatus which, in a state where the content of moving picture image information, etc. can be prevented from being inadvertently recognized by the user due to inadvertent presentation to the user of a relevant representative picture image, enables recording the respective information into a recording medium. A reproduction list PL that is to be reproduced is not only recorded into an optical discbut is there also recorded in it a reproduction list display prohibition flag PHF indicating at least whether limiting the display of a representative picture image that represents the content of the reproduction list PL.

Apparatus for and method of recording information, apparatus for and method of reproducing information, recording medium, and information recording medium

A hologram recording apparatus () is provided with: a recording device () for recording record information into a hologram recording medium (); a measuring device () for measuring a time elapsed from when the recording of the record information is stopped to when the recording of the record information is restarted; a first controlling device () for controlling the recording device to multiplex-record the record information, if the measured elapsed time is shorter than a time length in which the record information can be multiplex-recorded; and a second controlling device () for controlling the recording device not to multiplex-record the record information, if the measured elapsed time is longer than the time length in which the record information can be multiplex-recorded.

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Takeshi Koda