Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tec

Japan Weather Association

Tokyo Electric Co.

Takuro Masuda

Kazuhiro Tanji

Shigeyuki Nomura

Hiroshi Inoue

Aiko Sugawara

Takamichi Shimada

Yasuhiro Ono

Koji Sengoku

Tadafumi Nogawa

Akira Suzuki

Hiroki Yokoyama

Yusuke Hamano

Satoru Okubo

Koki Fujisawa

In an embodiment, a gate control device includes a communication interface to receive first biometric information from a first gate device at an entrance and second biometric information from a second gate device at an exit. A storage unit stores the first biometric information. A processor is configured to cause the received first biometric information to be stored in the storage unit, transmit an opening instruction to the first gate device via the communication interface once the first biometric information has been stored in the storage unit, and, when the second biometric information is received via the communication interface, compare the second biometric information to the first biometric information stored in the storage unit to determine if the received second biometric information matches the stored first biometric information, then transmit an opening instruction to the second gate device if the received second biometric information matches the stored biometric information.

Gate control device, gate control method, and gate control program

A vehicle service providing apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory. The memory is configured to perform storing map data including route position data. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring reservation application data for using the vehicle including destination data, calculating a route to the destination base on the map data stored and the destination data acquired, acquiring parcel data including fee revenue data for a delivery of the parcel, determining whether the user satisfies a predetermined requirement for delivering the parcel when using the vehicle based on the parcel data in the acquiring and the route calculated in the calculating, deciding the incentive based on the parcel data in the acquiring when it is determined that the user satisfies the predetermined requirement; and outputting incentive data of the incentive in the deciding to the user.

Vehicle service providing apparatus and vehicle service providing method

Provided is a navigation server or the like capable of promoting enhancement of convenience in traffic of moving bodies with a comprehensive consideration of various factors of each link. There is found a server route R configured by link groups that connect a starting point pand a destination point pof a navigation clientof interest, the server route R having a minimum total value &#x3a3;Cof second moving costs Cin the link groups. The second costs Cresult from first moving costs Ccorrected based on various factors, such as combinations of 'static factors' and 'dynamic factors'.

Navigation server and navigation system

An apparatus for predicting a traffic hindrance risk having a traffic hindrance information generating server configured to generate traffic hindrance information encompassing congestion degree information including a current congestion degree obtained from a current value of driving data transmitted as probe data regarding a driving route from a vehicle equipped with a navigation system and a statistical congestion degree obtained from a statistical value of the current value of driving data in a certain previous period and a weather information generating server configured to generate weather information from weather data distributed by a meteorological agency with respect to an area including the driving route based on an weather model. In the apparatus, a traffic hindrance occurrence risk possibility of traffic hindrance occurrence with respect to the driving route is predicted from the congestion degree and weather information.

Traffic hindrance risk prediction apparatus

An apparatus for indicating a traffic hindrance risk, having a traffic hindrance information generating server that generates traffic hindrance information for links that define a driving route, and a weather information generating server that generates weather information from weather data distributed by a meteorological agency with respect to an area including the driving route. In the apparatus, a tabular data is generated together with congestion degree information by sorting foul weather information into a plurality of level categories in accordance with a degree of traffic hindrance when the weather information includes at least one item of foul weather information, and a traffic hindrance occurrence risk predictive value meaning possibility of traffic hindrance occurrence with respect to the driving route for a predetermined future period is calculated to be viewed by an operator of the vehicle.

Traffic hindrance risk indication apparatus

An apparatus for indicating a traffic hindrance risk having a traffic hindrance information generating server that generates traffic hindrance information for links that define a driving route on a mesh map. In the apparatus, the congestion degree information is colored in a color assigned in accordance with a numerical value defined to diminish with increasing congestion degree and is drawn the colored congestion degree information on the mesh map with respect to each of the links defining the driving route. And a traffic hindrance occurrence risk predictive value meaning possibility of traffic hindrance occurrence with respect to the driving route is calculated based on the drawn congestion degree information and is indicated to be viewed by an operator of the vehicle.

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

Provided is a navigation server, a navigation client, and a navigation method that allow for searching for a route estimated to have a low degree of making a user feel burdened. A server cost recognition correction elementevaluates, for at least one of a plurality of indices representing one or both of a road environment of a subject segment and a relative relationship between the subject segment and one or more of other segments included in the server route candidate, a segment cost index value representing a traffic difficulty of the subject segment, and corrects a cost of the subject segment using the segment cost index value of the subject segment (STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP, STEP, and STEP).

Navigation server, navigation client, and navigation method

Provided is a navigation system capable of, when an emergency situation occurs, immediately distributing, to a mobile terminal that is a client terminal located in a region impacted by the emergency situation, required information according to the terminal position in order of priority. During an emergency situation such as when a disaster or the like occurs, information on the emergency situation is distributed from a server, as a priority, simultaneously to each mobile terminal located in an area that is strongly impacted (for example, areas marked with a circled 1) immediately, regardless of when terminal position information is received from the mobile terminals, and the information on the emergency situation is displayed on a display device of the mobile terminal and a display device of a DA device to which same was distributed.

Navigation system

Provided are a navigation system, an information providing method and a mobile communication terminal wherein the merits of wide-area information delivery using broadcast waves are sufficiently utilized and further delivery data are selected or discarded at each of a plurality of terminals according to the position or traveling path thereof, whereby information in accordance with the position of each mobile communication terminal can be provided. A broadcast station of a navigation system digital-broadcasts, to a plurality of mobile communication terminals, a plurality of data files including a plurality of types of content files and at least one guide file. Each mobile communication terminal uses associated information of the guide file to determine and use a content file corresponding to the current position or to a guide path that leads to the destination.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takuro Masuda