Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Taro Kumagai

Takashi Hirano

Takanori Okumura

Tetsuya Satake

Shuhei Ota

Tsutomu Matsubara

Akimasa Yuuki

Hirokazu Shimizu

Takaki Yagisawa

Takumi Takei

Kazuki Kunihiro

Haozhou Li

Yoshiyuki Ogawa

Yuriko Takada

A passenger state determination device includes: a third determination part finally determining a state of a passenger based on a first determination result as a determination result of the state of the passenger by the first determination part and a second determination result as a determination result of the state of the passenger by the second determination part. The third determination part determines the first determination result to be a final determination result of the state of the passenger in a normal state, and when the first determination result is changed and the third determination part determines that the first determination result after the change is not appropriate, the third determination part determines the second determination result or the first determination result before the change to be a final determination result of the state of the passenger.

Passenger state determination device and passenger state determination method

There is provided an occupant detection device with a reduced processing load. An occupant detection device includes an image obtainer to obtain a captured image from an imaging device including, in an imaging range, a driver present in a driver seat of a vehicle and a passenger present in a passenger seat or a rear seat of the vehicle, an occupant detector to obtain the captured image from the image obtainer, the occupant detector being capable of detecting the driver and the passenger in the captured image, and a detection target determiner to determine whether a detection target of the occupant detector is one of occupants of the driver and the passenger or both of the occupants of the driver and the passenger.

Occupant detection device, occupant detection system, and occupant detection method

A face detection device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire, from an imaging device mounted on a vehicle and imaging an at least one occupant inside the vehicle, a captured image in which the at least one occupant is imaged; set a search area in which a face of the at least one occupant is searched in the acquired captured image; search the search area and detect the face of the at least one occupant; determine whether or not the detection of the face of the at least one occupant has succeeded; and expand the search area when determining that the detection of the face of the at least one occupant has failed.

Face detection device

In a liquid crystal display device, the liquid crystal panel has a display surface of a planar shape on which a plurality of pixels are located. The front protective plate is located so as to face the display surface of the liquid crystal panel. The optical path changing portion is located between an emission surface of the front protective plate and an air layer located closer to the back side than the emission surface is and located closest to the emission surface. The optical path changing portion changes an optical path of light that enters the optical path changing portion so as to expand an emission angle when the incident light is emitted from the emission surface of the front protective plate.

Liquid crystal display device with a display surface of a planar shape

An area determining unit () for determining whether a detected face area is located within an area set for authenticating an occupant sitting on a front seat of a vehicle, a face orientation detecting unit () for detecting orientation of a face of a person on the basis of position information in a taken image of an element of the face of the person detected when the face area is determined to be located within the set area, a face orientation determining unit () for determining whether the orientation of the face of the person detected is within a range of the face orientation set for authenticating the occupant sitting on the front seat of the vehicle, and an authentication processing unit () for collating characteristic information of the taken image of the face area with characteristic information of a taken image for authentication accumulated in advance and authenticating the person whose face area is detected when the orientation of the face of the person is determined to be within the set range of the face orientation.

Image authentication device, image authentication method, and automobile

An HUD superimposes a display object, as a stereoscopic image or a planar image, on an actual scene. A display control device acquires information about a moving object and information about surrounding and estimates a relative distance between a display obstacle and the moving object. When it is determined that the display obstacle exists or can exist between the display object and the moving object, the display control device changes the display mode of the display object in accordance with the amount of change in the relative distance and notifies the HUD of the display mode.

Display control device for controlling stereoscopic display of superimposed display object, display system, display control method and computer readable medium

An emphasis level R is calculated in accordance with a difference between a position of a hand of an operator A specified based on a detection signal of a 3D cameraand a predetermined position of a hand for performing a gesture operation. A notification of a presence of an operation object intended for the gesture operation is provided with the calculated emphasis level R to thereby guide the hand of the operator A to a predetermined position of a hand, every time the emphasis level R is calculated in response to the detection of the hand of the operator A by the 3D camera

Gesture guidance device for moving platform, gesture guidance system for moving platform, and gesture guidance method for moving platform

Information display for vehicle

According to an in-vehicle control apparatus, it is configured to receive information of a plurality of operation keys displayed on a display, to identify from a result of voice recognition of a user's speech, the operation key corresponding thereto on the basis of the information of the operation keys, and to execute a function assigned to the operation key upon receiving an instruction for execution by the user using a decision key, so that it is possible to perform an operation without making contact directly with the plurality of operation keys displayed on the display and without the need of a complex key operation. Further, solely by mounting just one decision key on a steering wheel, it becomes possible to safely perform the operation about the operation key displayed on the display without the user releasing his/her hand from the steering wheel during driving.

In-vehicle control apparatus and in-vehicle control method

Display with graphical user interface

A drive support system includes a motion information acquiring unitthat acquires motion information of a driver of a vehicle; a vehicle information acquiring unitthat acquires vehicle information about a state of the vehicle; a controllerthat decides drive support contents corresponding to the motion pattern matching the motion information of the driver and to the state of the vehicle the vehicle information indicates from the support condition data that records drive support contents corresponding to a motion pattern of a driver to be provided with the drive support and the state of the vehicle; and an information presentation unitthat presents the drive support contents the controllerdecides.

Drive support system and drive support method

An information display apparatus includes: an around-the-vehicle sensorthat detects an obstacle around a vehicle; a transmissive display apparatuswhich has a plurality of LEDsdisposed inside a vehicle interior structural member, and performs a display by lights of LEDstransmitted through a surface of the structural member and irradiated outside; and a controllerthat determines a driver's driving operation based on vehicle information about a driving operation, and allows the transmissive display apparatusprovided at the structural member present in a direction of a blind spot area in which the obstacle is detected by the around-the-vehicle sensor, among the blind spot areas formed by the vehicle interior structural members obstructing the visual field of a driver looking outside the vehicle in the driving operation, to display information on the obstacle.

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Tokyo, Japan

Taro Kumagai