Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Yasushi Kojima

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Mitsuteru Kataoka

Junji Yoshida

Hideaki Takechi

Shinji Hamai

Shigeki Matsunaga

Kouichi Kanemura

Takahiko Kamitsuji

Daiki Matsuda

Hiroyoshi Ohmiya

Yoshiki Ito

Teruo Koukai

Masakiyo Nishikawa

Shotaro Takano

A virtual-accident-image generation device includes: a dangerous driving determiner capable of determining, based on vehicle information regarding a vehicle driven by a driver, that driving of the driver corresponds to dangerous driving; a virtual-accident-object generator that generates, based on the vehicle information and a determination result that was determined by the dangerous driving determiner and indicates that the driving of the driver corresponds to the dangerous driving, a virtual accident object that would potentially get into an accident with the vehicle if the virtual accident object were actually present, in an image of a scene where the driver is driving the vehicle; and a virtual-accident-image generator that generates, based on the virtual accident object generated by the virtual-accident-object generator, a virtual accident image showing a virtual accident between the vehicle and the virtual accident object, and outputs the virtual accident image generated.

Virtual-accident-image generation device, virtual-accident-image generation method, and recording medium

An autonomous driving assistance system is a system for assisting driving of vehicles, and includes a service server that provides services relating to the vehicles to operation terminals, a vehicle connection server connected to the vehicles via wireless communication routes, and a plurality of control servers each communicating with the vehicles by handover and respectively controlling travel of the vehicles in different areas. When calling a vehicle parked in a predetermined area in accordance with the service provided by the service server, a control server that is associated with the predetermined area among the control servers causes the vehicle connection server connected to the vehicle to notify the vehicle of an end point, the end point being information indicating the location of the control server as a connection destination.

Autonomous driving assistance system, vehicle connection server, control server, autonomous driving assistance method, and server control method

A program update system updating programs comprising: a first control device executing a program stored in the primary storage area thereof; a second control device executing a program stored in the primary storage area thereof; a program storage temporarily storing an acquired program; a program acquirer preferentially acquiring and storing into the program storage a first program to be stored in the first control device, and acquiring and storing into the program storage a second program to be stored in the second control device; and an update unit storing the first program stored in the program storage into the primary storage area of the first control device, storing the second program stored in the program storage into the primary storage area of the second control device, and switching the primary storage area and the secondary storage area of the first control device.

Program update system, control system, mobile body, program update method, recording medium

A character input device includes: a terminal control unit that accepts information on a character candidate being a candidate of an input confirmed character, and performs a displaying process of the character candidate, and generates a guide image whose image varies in accordance with a remaining time until an input confirmation of the character candidate; and a display unit that displays the character candidate and the guide image. By displaying the guide image that varies in accordance with the remaining time before the input character is confirmed, how long it takes until the character is confirmed, or whether the character has already been confirmed is reported to the user, so as to avoid an unintended manipulation of the user.

Character input device and character input method

To easily ensure that appropriate recognition information is used. A remote control system () includes a DVR () and a remote control () that controls the DVR () via a wireless communication path. The remote control () which is one apparatus out of the DVR () and the remote control () obtains, by a wireless reception unit (), recognition information used by the apparatus to uniquely recognize the other apparatus, via another communication path (a communication path through a TV ()) different from the wireless communication path connecting the apparatus and the other apparatus. When a connected apparatus recognized via the wireless communication path is identified by the obtained recognition information, the remote control () sets, by a control circuit (), the connected apparatus as the DVR () which is the other apparatus to enable communication with the connected apparatus.

Wireless control system

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Osaka, Japan

Yasushi Kojima