Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Ujiie

Takeshi Kishikawa

Tomoyuki Haga

Hideki Matsushima

Manabu Maeda

Yuji Unagami

Jun Anzai

Masato Tanabe

Toshihisa Nakano

Ryo Hirano

Yoshihiko Kitamura

Junichi Tsurumi

Hiroshi Amano

Motoji Ohmori

Natsume Matsuzaki

Tohru Wakabayashi

Ryota Sugiyama

Yuishi Torisaki

Ryo Kato

Hiroyasu Terazawa

Susumu Kobayashi

Masaki Yamauchi

Makoto Fujiwara

Hisashi Kashima

Takuya Kuwahara

Yukino Toriumi

Takamitsu Sasaki

Yuka Ozawa

Yoshimi Nishii

Seiji Sakaki

A control mode switching apparatus switches a control mode of a robot. The control mode includes at least two of a remote control mode, a manual control mode, and an autonomous control mode. The control mode switching apparatus includes: an anomaly detector that, based on a communication message on a control network in the robot and the control mode, obtains a detection result of at least one anomaly among a user anomaly caused by user control, a robot anomaly caused by the control network, an operating environment anomaly caused by an operating environment of the robot, and an application anomaly caused by an application; and a switcher that calculates, for each type of anomaly detected, a score indicating a likelihood that the type is a cause of the anomaly in the robot, and switches the control mode based on the score calculated.

Control mode switching apparatus and control mode switching method

An authentication method is used by an automated driving system that includes a vehicle and an external device, the external device communicating with the vehicle to cause the vehicle to implement automated driving. The vehicle holds a first certificate that certifies validity of the vehicle. The external device holds a second certificate that certifies validity of the external device. The authentication method includes: validating a third certificate that certifies validity of a combination of the vehicle and the external device, in accordance with a result of device authentication performed between the vehicle and the external device by reference to the first certificate and the second certificate.

Authentication method, authentication system, and authentication device

An electronic control unit is connected to a network in an in-vehicle network system. The electronic control unit includes a first control circuit that operates on a first operating system and a second control circuit that operates on a second operating system. The first control circuit is connected to the network via the second control circuit. The second control circuit performs a first determination process on frames to determine conformity of the frames with a first rule. Upon determining that the frames conform to the first rule, the second control circuit transmits contents of the frames to the first control circuit. The first control circuit performs a second determination process on the contents of the frames to determine conformity with a second rule. The second rule is different from the first rule.

Vehicle communication apparatus, in-vehicle network system, and vehicle communication method

An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.

Security processing method and server

A service broker that is connected to each of a server unit and a client unit in a service offer system for offering a service from the server unit to the client unit by way of a service oriented communication includes: a communication controller that receives a frame for use in offer of the service, from the server unit or the client unit; and a service manager that determines whether a combination of a service identifier included in the frame received by the communication controller, an identifier indicating one of a transmission source and a destination of the frame, and a type of the frame is appropriate, and provides output of a result of the determination.

Service broker, service brokering method, and recording medium

A gateway device is connected to a plurality of electronic controllers on-board a vehicle. The gateway device acquires firmware update information, which includes at least a part of updated firmware to be applied to a first electronic controller, patch data, and information indicating where to apply the patch data. When the gateway device determines that the first electronic controller does not include a firmware cache for performing a pre-update firmware cache operation, the gateway device executes a proxy process. In this regard, the gateway device requests the first electronic controller to transmit boot ROM data to the gateway device, merges the patch data and existing firmware to create updated boot ROM data with updated firmware, and transmits the updated boot ROM data to the first electronic controller that updates the boot ROM data and resets the first electronic controller with the updated firmware.

Gateway device, in-vehicle network system, and firmware update method

A method used in an on-board network system, having electronic controllers that exchange messages and a fraud-detecting electronic controller. The method includes receiving an inquiry for a vehicle status indicating whether a vehicle in which the fraud-detecting electronic controller is installed is running from an external device, transmitting the vehicle status to the external device, and determining whether a message transmitted conforms to fraud detection rules. The method also includes receiving from the external device the delivery data, including updated fraud detection rules and network type information indicating a network type that the updated fraud detection rules are to be applied. The method further includes determining whether the vehicle is running, and whether the network type information indicates a drive network that is connected to an electronic controller related to travel of the vehicle. When the network type information does not indicate the drive network, updating the fraud detection rules.

Method of updating fraud detection rules for detecting malicious frames, fraud detecting electronic control unit, and on-board network system

The control network system is connected to electronic control unit(s) and a communication device, and includes security sensor(s) that transmits a security alert indicating that an indication of a security breach is detected to the network, if the indication is detected in at least one of the network, the electronic control unit(s), or the communication device. The intrusion path analysis device includes: an alert obtainer that obtains the security alert from the security sensor(s); an event obtainer that obtains an event history of an event that occurs in the control network system; and an intrusion path analyzer that performs an analysis on an intrusion path of an attack on the basis of the security alert, the event history, and an intrusion depth indicating an intrusion level to be assumed in a case the security alert occurs, and that outputs a result of the analysis.

Intrusion path analysis device and intrusion path analysis method

A vehicle log transmission device includes: an anomaly detector that obtains a vehicle log from at least one electronic control unit, detects an anomaly based on log information in the vehicle log, and extracts log information in which the anomaly is detected as an anomaly log; an anomaly notifier that transmits the anomaly log to a server; a change instructor that, based on a vehicle state extracted from the vehicle log, transmits, to the at least one electronic control unit, a change instruction to change a save priority level of the log information included in the vehicle log; and a vehicle log request responder that, when a vehicle log request is received, obtains the vehicle log including log information saved based on the save priority level changed in response to the change instruction, and transmits the vehicle log obtained to the server.

Vehicle log transmission device, vehicle log collection system, vehicle log transmission method, and save priority level changing device

A fraud detecting method for use in an in-vehicle network system including a plurality of electronic control units that communicate with each other via a network includes detecting whether a state of a vehicle satisfies a first condition or a second condition, and switching, upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition or the second condition, an operation mode of a second electronic control unit connected to the network. A first mode in which a first type of detecting process for detecting a fraudulent message in the network is performed is switched to a second mode in which the first type of detecting process is not performed upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the first condition. Moreover, the second mode is switched to the first mode upon detecting that the state of the vehicle satisfies the second condition.

Method for sensing fraudulent frames transmitted to in-vehicle network

An anomaly handling method in an in-vehicle network includes: transmitting and receiving frames; detecting a frame having an anomaly; and switching, when the anomaly is detected in the detecting, a transmission timing of the frame in which the anomaly is detected. The switching includes changing a switched transmission timing to which the transmission timing is switched, according to predetermined information.

Anomaly handling method and anomaly handling device

An anomaly detection device included in a communication network adopting a time-triggered protocol based on a time slot includes: a frame transceiver that receives frames; and an anomaly detector that detects an occurrence of an anomalous frame in accordance with a time slot among a plurality of time slots included in a cycle and the number of repeated cycles of the cycle for each frame. The anomaly detector detects an occurrence of an anomalous frame by verifying a statistic on the frames received while the cycle is repeated a predetermined number of times, which is at least once, against a rule indicating a reference range of the statistic.

Anomaly detection method and anomaly detection device

A vehicle surveillance device for an in-vehicle network system that includes one or more electronic control units includes: a frame transmitter and receiver that receives a frame flowing over the in-vehicle network system; and a score calculator that detects a suspicious behavior different from a normal driving behavior based on the frame received by the frame transmitter and receiver and vehicle data including information on one or more frames received by the frame transmitter and receiver prior to receiving the frame, and calculates, based on a detection result, a score indicating a likelihood that reverse engineering has been performed on a vehicle provided with the in-vehicle network system.

Vehicle surveillance device and vehicle surveillance method

A vehicle network system employing a controller area network protocol includes a bus, a first electronic control unit, and a second electronic control unit. The first electronic control unit transmits, via the bus, at least one data frame including an identifier relating to data used for a calculation for obtaining a message authentication code indicating authenticity of transmission content. The second electronic control unit receives the at least one data frame transmitted vis the bus and verifies the message authentication code in accordance with the identifier included in the at least one data frame.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Ujiie