Sony Corporation

Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.

Micolatta Inc.

Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Corporation

Thomson Licensing

Sony Disc & Digital Solution Inc.

Yoichiro Sako

Takatoshi Nakamura

Mitsuru Takehara

Masamichi Asukai

Toshiro Terauchi

Tatsuya Inokuchi

Motoyuki Takai

Akira Tange

Yasushi Miyajima

Taiji Ito

Takayasu Kon

Yasunori Kamada

Kazunori Hayashi

Shunsuke Furukawa

Toru Sasaki

Kazuyuki Sakoda

Makoto Inoue

Tomoya Onuma

Katsuya Shirai

Kohei Asada

Akane Sano

Hiroyuki Hanaya

Masaaki Tsuruta

Kosei Yamashita

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Tamotsu Yamagami

Yuki Koga

Yoshitomo Osawa

Akira Kurihara

Isao Kawashima

Kenichi Makino

Akinobu Sugino

Yuichi Sakai

Itaru Kawakami

Masafumi Matsuda

Akiya Saito

Yuichi Abe

Hideo Owa

Hidehiko Sekizawa

Nozomu Ozaki

Hiroshi Ogawa

Kaoru Kijima

Yoshiteru Kamatani

Katsuhisa Aratani

Masashi Takeda

Masahiro Suzuki

Kan Ebisawa

Toru Takeda

Masanobu Yamamoto

Takanori Washiro

Shoei Kobayashi

Kayoko Tanaka

Kentaro Odaka

Akihiro Komori

Susumu Takatsuka

Masakazu Yajima

Takayuki Hirabayashi

Takushi Kunihiro

Toru Aida

Keiji Kimura

Tatsuya Narahara

Isao Soma

Takashi Sato

Seiji Wada

Hiroshi Mukawa

Hiroshi Okada

Takao Tanikame

Hiroaki Ogawa

Tetsuji Kawashima

Satoshi Otsuka

Yukio Shishido

Yuichi Kojima

Takashi Fukushima

Ikuo Tsukagoshi

Koichi Sato

Yasuhiro Yamada

Tadao Suzuki

Tetsu Watanabe

Kiyoshi Yoneda

Masanori Iwasaki

Minoru Tobita

Atsuhiro Kumagai

Masato Tanaka

Takahiro Suzuki

Kenta Kawamoto

Taizo Shirai

Kouichi Matsuda

Kenji Nakano

Masayuki Takada

Akira Ono

Naomasa Takahashi

Satoru Tobita

Tsuyoshi Ito

Kazutoshi Shimizume

Hisayoshi Moriwaki

Norihiro Nagai

Masayuki Arai

Hideki Sakai

A self-driving vehicle includes a motor, a driving source configured to drive the motor, a vehicle-traveling-time setter setting a vehicle traveling time determined by a passenger, thereby generating a passenger-set, vehicle traveling time, and a processor providing a traveling application providing assistance in driving the self-driving vehicle. The processor also detects the remaining amount of power of the driving source and calculates the amount of time the self-driving vehicle will travel based on the detected remaining amount of power of the driving source. Also, the processor searches and determines a route the vehicle can complete within the passenger-set, vehicle traveling time when the calculated travelable time is longer than the passenger-set, vehicle traveling time.

Self-driving vehicle determining route completable within travel time calculated based on remaining amount of vehicle power and non-transitory computer-readable medium configured to store program for the vehicle

An automatic driving vehicle includes an automatic driving mode in which autonomous traveling is carried out. The automatic driving vehicle receives a setting for a behavior after getting out from the automatic driving vehicle. The setting includes information of a destination and a time period and/or a clock time which are designated by a user of the automatic driving vehicle. The automatic driving vehicle is controlled based on the information to automatically drive to the destination by an appointed time.

Automatic driving vehicle and program for automatic driving vehicle

A vehicle includes a communication unit; a memory configured to store information for connection to a person who recently got out from a vehicle by the communication unit; and at least one processor. The processor(s) are configured to: in a case where a user who tries to newly start to use the vehicle gets in the vehicle, obtain information for authentication of the user; connect to the person by the communication unit using the information for connection stored in the memory; send the information for authentication of the user to the person; decide whether the authentication of the user is successful on a basis of an authentication result received from the person; and determine to allow the user to use the vehicle when the authentication of the user is successful.

Vehicle and program for vehicle

A vehicle includes a motor and a controller configured to provide a traveling application of an own vehicle including the motor and to provide a non-traveling application of the own vehicle. The controller is further configured to: determine whether the own vehicle is providing the traveling application or the non-traveling application; generate usage information of an application being provided, based on a result of the determination of whether the own vehicle is providing the traveling application or the non-traveling application; and inform an outside of the usage information.

Vehicle with controller generating application-usage information, medium storing program for such vehicle, and system having first and second such vehicles

Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a calculation section which calculates a proficiency level of a user for operations performed by the user for achieving a prescribed objective based on history information related to the operations and attribute information related to physical features of the user, and a generation section which generates advice for achieving the objective based on the proficiency level calculated by the calculation section.

Information processing apparatus and storage medium

A vehicle includes: a traveling driving system configured to execute traveling of an own vehicle; a non-traveling-application providing unit configured to provide a passenger with an application other than the traveling of the own vehicle; and a control unit. The control unit includes: inquiry means for inquiring a usage application of the own vehicle to the passenger when it is detected that the passenger gets into the own vehicle, the usage application including a traveling application and the application other than traveling of the own vehicle; non-traveling-application providing unit activating means for activating the non-traveling-application providing unit in a case where the application other than traveling is selected in response to the inquiry by the inquiry means; and traveling driving system activating means for activating the traveling driving system in a case where the traveling application is selected in response to the inquiry by the inquiry means.

Vehicle and program for vehicle for responding to inquiry to usage application

An automatic driving vehicle includes an automatic driving mode in which autonomous traveling is carried out. The automatic driving vehicle receives information for estimating a setup for a destination and a time. The information is input by a driver or a user when the driver or the user gets out of the automatic driving vehicle. The automatic driving vehicle is controlled to move to the destination on a basis of the destination and the time.

There is provided a mobile object including an imaging unit configured to capture a perimeter of the mobile object, a speaker configured to be capable of controlling directivity, a determination unit configured to determine whether the mobile object is in a driving mode, and a speaker control unit configured to control the speaker in the driving mode in a manner that predetermined audio is output toward a warning target that is recognized based on a captured image captured by the imaging unit, and to control the speaker in a non-driving mode in a manner that the predetermined audio is output in a non-directional way.

Mobile object and storage medium

A vehicle dispatch management system includes a vehicle dispatch management server and an autonomous vehicle managed thereby. The system dispatches a vehicle to a user based on a vehicle dispatch request to the vehicle dispatch management server from the user. The autonomous vehicle includes a network interface that communicates with the dispatch management server. The vehicle performs a first authentication by comparing first reference information and first authentication information, and determining, based on the first comparison, whether the user passes a first authentication. The vehicle dispatch management server includes a further network interface that carries out communication with the autonomous vehicle. The server performs a second authentication that compares second authentication information and second reference information, and determines a confirmed authentication result indicating whether the user passes a second authentication and transmits the confirmed authentication result to the autonomous vehicle via the further network interface.

Vehicle dispatch management system and vehicle dispatch management server

An information processing system, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information record medium that are controlled to generate an operation effect sound that differs for each user of a card upon an operation for electronic money are provided. A cardrecords user information, balance information, and audio data. The cardmakes a settlement of electronic money with a vending machineto buy a commodity. When the cardis presented to the vending machine, it reads the user information, the balance information, and the audio datafrom the cardthrough wireless communications. The vending machinemakes a settlement on the basis of both information of the commodity that a user has selected and the balance information. As a result, the vending machineprovides the selected commodity to the user. On the other hand, with audio data, at a predetermined timing of the settlement, a predetermined sound is output. Audio data may be stored only in the vending machineor both in the cardand in the vending machine. A sound that differs for each user and for each event is output.

Information processing system, information processing device, information processing method, and information recording medium

Provided is a contact lens including: a lens unit configured to be worn on an eyeball; an image pickup unit configured to capture an image of a subject, the image pickup unit being provided in the lens unit; and an image pickup control unit configured to control the image pickup unit.

Contact lens with image pickup control

Provided is a contact lens including: a lens unit configured to be worn on an eyeball; an adjustment unit configured to adjust light to be transmitted through at least one of a first region that is a central portion of the lens unit and covers a pupil of the eyeball and a second region that is an outer side of the first region and covers an iris of the eyeball; and a control unit configured to control the adjustment unit in response to input of a trigger signal.

Contact lens and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a bio-information obtaining unit configured to obtain bio-information of a subject; a kinetic-information obtaining unit configured to obtain kinetic information of the subject; and a control unit configured to determine an expression or movement of an avatar on the basis of the bio-information obtained by the bio-information obtaining unit and the kinetic information obtained by the kinetic-information obtaining unit and to perform a control operation so that the avatar with the determined expression or movement is displayed.

Information processing apparatus, system, and method for displaying bio-information or kinetic information

There is provided a display control system including a plurality of display units, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject, a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject according to a captured image captured by the imaging unit, a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject according to a prediction result from the predictor, and a display controller configured to, on the basis of the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject.

Displaying guide images on a table

Provided is a signal processing device including a display control unit for causing a display to display an image corresponding to a specified place, a sound-collection-signal input unit for inputting a sound collection signal of a sound collection unit that collects a user sound produced with microphones surrounding the user, an acoustic-signal processing unit for performing a first acoustic-signal process for reproducing a sound field where the user sound is sensed as if the sound were echoing in the place on the signal input by the sound-collection-signal input unit, based on a first transfer function measured in the place to indicate how a sound emitted on a closed surface inside the place echoes in the place and then is transferred to the closed-surface side, and a sound-emission control unit for causing a sound based on the processed signal to be emitted from speakers surrounding the user.

Signal processing device and signal processing method

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Yoichiro Sako