Denso It Laboratory, Inc.

Yasutaka Yamauchi

Takeshi Matsui

Ari Widodo

Akira Yoshizawa

An information provision apparatus () comprises an observed-object detection apparatus () and an information output unit (), and outputs from the information output unit () information on an observed object detected by the observed-object detection apparatus (). The observed-object detection apparatus () comprises: a line-of-sight detector () for detecting a line of sight of a driver; an object detector () for detecting an object which is on a line of sight of a driver, based on the direction of the line of sight detected by the line-of-sight detector (), on a current position of a vehicle, and on map information; and an observed-object calculator () for determining from objects detected by the object detector () an observed object observed by a driver, based on time for which the object is on a line of sight. This allows an object observed by a driver to be detected even if there is no trigger from the driver.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasutaka Yamauchi