Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tatsuya Mitsugi

Chikako Takeuchi

Satoru Inoue

Hirokazu Shimizu

Ryotaro Suzuki

Masato Hirai

Narihiro Matoba

Tsutomu Matsubara

Mutsuo Sekiya

Yoshihiko Utsui

Takeo Fujita

Kazuhiro Yokouchi

Kenichi Ogawa

Kenta Kawahara

Kuniyo Ieda

Asako Omote

Masako Ota

An object of the present invention is to accumulate data in an ECU related to a CAN message transmitted by an ECU in a CAN system. An ECU according to the present invention is an ECU among a plurality of ECUs connected to a CAN communication line, the ECU includes a transmission unit configured to transmit first CAN messages to other ECUs of the plurality of ECUs, and an accumulation unit configured to accumulate CANIDs of the plurality of first CAN messages transmitted by the transmission unit as transmission CANIDs.

ECU, monitoring ECU, and CAN system

The present invention has an object of implementing a multi-window using an OS for smartphones that does not support multi-display. The display control apparatus according to the present invention is a display control apparatus using an operating system for smartphones, and includes: a window creator that creates a window for each of displays; a window allocator that allocates the windows to a plurality of applications; and a display controller that obtains respective display information items from the plurality of applications, and causes the displays to display the display information items according to the allocation of the windows, the displays corresponding to the respective windows. The plurality of applications include first applications defined by a specification of the operating system as applications for controlling display, and second applications defined by the specification as applications for not controlling display.

Display control apparatus and display control method

An object of the present invention is to provide an application execution apparatus and an application execution method which enable quick startup at cold boot, and which can prevent occurrence of flicker in a display image at the time of camera image handover. The application execution apparatus according to the present invention includes a kernel that includes a predetermined function mechanism, a framework that includes an abstracted function mechanism, a first application that operates by directly using the function mechanism, and a second application, where the function mechanism includes a function mechanism that is required for operation of said first application and another function mechanism that is not required for operation of said first application, and where the kernel starts only the function mechanism that is required for operation of the first application, and then starts another function mechanism that is not required for operation of the first application.

Application execution apparatus and application execution method

An object of the present invention is to provide an application execution apparatus and an application execution method which enable quick startup at cold boot, and which can prevent occurrence of flicker in a display image at the time of camera image handover. The application execution apparatus according to the present invention includes a kernel that includes a predetermined function mechanism, a framework that is started by the kernel, and that includes an abstracted function mechanism obtained by abstracting the function mechanism, a first application that operates by directly using the function mechanism, and a second application that operates by indirectly using the function mechanism through the abstracted function mechanism, and that includes a function of the first application, where a volume of the first application is smaller than a volume of the second application.

An object of the present invention is to provide an application execution apparatus and an application execution method which enable quick startup at cold boot, and which can prevent occurrence of flicker in a display image at the time of camera image handover. The application execution apparatus according to the present invention includes a kernel that includes a display mechanism, a frame control mechanism that controls a plurality of window frames included in the display mechanism, a framework that includes an abstracted display mechanism, a first application that operates by directly using the display mechanism, and a second application that operates by indirectly using the display mechanism, and that includes a function of the first application, where the frame control mechanism performs control such that the same window frame is assigned at a time of operation of each of the first application and the second application.

An image processing device includes a distance information acquisition unit and an image combination unit. Based on positions of a common subject on a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras for capturing surrounding images of a vehicle, the distance information acquisition unit calculates a first subject distance from a vehicle reference position to the common subject, and calculates, based on the first subject distance, a second subject distance to a subject captured by one of the plurality of cameras. Based on the first subject distance and the second subject distance, the image combination unit converts the captured images in which the plurality of cameras are employed as viewpoints to images in which the reference position is employed as a viewpoint, and combines the converted images on a single plane of projection.

Image processing device

A power source system device includes a primary power source circuit blockthat generates a voltage (Mini+B&#x2212;DropV) which is further dropped from the lowest voltage of the onboard battery that supplies power to electric and electronic parts of a vehicle, the lowest voltage occurring at a start of the engine of the vehicle; a secondary power source circuit blockthat generates a power source voltage Vcc by boosting the voltage (Mini+B&#x2212;DropV) generated by the primary power source circuit block, supplies the power source voltage Vcc to an integrated circuit including a control block that executes a general-purpose OS, and starts the integrated circuit; and an ACC check control circuitthat controls the start and stop of the operation of the primary power source circuit blockand secondary power source circuit block

Power source system device

An environment estimation apparatus includes an image area dividing unit for dividing a camera image taken with a vehicle camera into a plurality of image areas, a camera image information extracting unit for extracting, from an image area that has the sky taken and is acquired from among the plurality of image areas undergoing the division by the image area dividing unit, image information indicating features of the image area, and an environment estimation unit for estimating, from the image information extracted by the camera image information extracting unit, the weather or intensity of light of a surrounding environment by referring to corresponding data indicating the correspondence between the features of the image area and the weather or the intensity of light of the surrounding environment.

Environment estimation apparatus and vehicle control system

A vehicle surroundings monitoring device carries out a position mapping process of expressing a positional relationship in the detection ranges of distance sensorsfor detecting an obstacleby coordinates on a camera image captured by a camera unithaving an image capture range in the surroundings of a vehicle, derives transformation parameters used for carrying out a mapping transformation in such a way that the obstacle detected by the distance sensorsis placed at a predetermined position on the camera image on which the position mapping process has been carried out, and carries out an image transformation on the camera image by using the transformation parameters in such a way that the obstacle is placed at the predetermined position.

Vehicle surroundings monitoring device

Because a vehicle rear view monitoring device changes the detection threshold level of each of distance sensors-to-to change horizontal and vertical detection areas and a bearing resolution, determines the display position of an obstacle markfrom the distances to an obstacledetected by the plurality of distance sensors-to-, and amplitude information about the amplitude of a reflected wave from the obstacle, and overlays the obstacle markon the obstacleby using an overlay unit, the vehicle rear view monitoring device improves the degree of positional precision of the overlay of the obstacle mark on the obstacle displayed on a captured image.

Vehicle rear view monitoring device

An object is to provide an imaging system for taking an image of a subject with high reproducibility. It includes an imaging device for taking a picture in accordance with imaging conditions which are set values concerning imaging, a display device for displaying the image taken with the imaging device in accordance with display conditions which are set values concerning display, and an imaging condition decision unit for determining imaging conditions corresponding to the display conditions. When the display device alters the display conditions, the imaging condition decision unit determines the imaging conditions corresponding to the display conditions after the alteration, and the imaging device alters the imaging conditions stored in an imaging condition altering unit to the imaging conditions the imaging condition decision unit determines.

Imaging system, imaging device and display device utilizing imaging conditions alterable according to display conditions

A driving assist apparatus acquires vehicle information which includes a gear state and speed of a vehicle; judges a state of preparing for movement, a state of starting movement, and a state during movement; generates a wide-angle image that is an image that can see a wide range although having distortion when the vehicle state is the state of preparing for movement or the state of starting movement; and generates a no-distortion image that is an image in which the distortion due to the lens shape and the distortion by the projection system are eliminated from the camera image when the vehicle state is the state during movement.

Driving assist apparatus, driving assist system, and driving assist camera unit

An artificial engine sound control unit which controls an artificial engine sound which is emitted from a sounding body which is provided at an electric vehicle whose at least a part of drive power is generated by an electric motor, to outside; comprising a speed region determination part which determines a speed region of the electric vehicle and an artificial engine sound generating part, when the speed region determination part determines such that the electric motor of the electric vehicle can be energized and the electric vehicle is stopped, the artificial engine sound generating part controls so as for the sounding body to emit an artificial engine sound, and the artificial engine sound generating part detects such that the electric vehicle comes close to a start running mode, then the artificial engine sound generating part controls the artificial engine sound which is emitted from the sounding body.

Artificial engine sound control unit, approaching vehicle audible system, and electric vehicle having them

A navigation device calculates the distance difference between the position of a vehicle which is map-matched onto a road link, and the position acquired by perpendicular-mapping the actual position of the vehicle at a branch point onto the above-mentioned road link from the lane width K of a road lane along which the vehicle had been traveling before making a turn at the branch point, the lane width N of a road lane along which the vehicle has been traveling after making the turn, and the lane number B of the road lane before the branch point, the lane number A of the road lane after branch point, and the turning angle &#x398; of the vehicle at the branch point, so as to correct the vehicle position in such a way that the vehicle position is the above-mentioned perpendicular-mapped position.

Navigation device

An audio system includes a key input section and a microcomputer, and enables playback volume level control that will meet the demand of a user. The key input section inputs a selection instruction for selecting one of a plurality of sound sources in response to a manipulation. The microcomputer, in cooperation with a level adjusting ratio setting library, a level adjusting pattern generator and a volume adjuster, selects the sound source designated by the selection instruction, calculates the level difference &#x394;P between the playback volume level of the sound data of the current piece of music and that of the next piece of music of the selected sound source, and adjusts the playback volume level of the next sound data in accordance with an adjusting ratio corresponding to the level difference.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Mitsugi