Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Yoshimasa Okabe

Masayoshi Michiguchi

Kenji Maeda

Yasutoshi Yamamoto

Shigeo Sakaue

Toru Takashima

Koji Amemiya

Hisakazu Kobayashi

Hironori Katsuura

Hirofumi Nishimura

Yukihiro Tanizoe

Hiroki Yamashita

Masato Inoue

Jun Nakai

Yuichiro Aihara

Shingo Kawahara

Hiromasa Funakoshi

Satoshi Fujiwara

Akihito Murai

Takanori Setsu

Yusuke Nakamura

Satoshi Fukumoto

Takashi Yoshida

Masato Yuda

Teppei Shibata

Toshimasa Takagi

Masazumi Yamazaki

Shogo Sasaki

Takanobu Ito

Yuya Hamai

Yuji Shigeta

Teruo Sakamoto

Toru Chikamitsu

Sumiaki Hazama

Toshihiko Hashinaga

Seisuke Yamada

Takashi Okohira

Hiroto Sankoda

Yudai Ishibashi

Takeo Tomida

Keiichi Tagano

Chiaki Izumoto

Takehito Sato

Atsushi Nojiri

Naoki Hayashi

Kiyohiko Fujiwara

Masayuki Fukuyama

Yuuji Shigeta

A parking support apparatus includes a storage that stores a manual parking path, and a processor that sets a safety region where the vehicle can pass. The processor causes the vehicle to perform automatic driving based on the generated automatic parking path, and the processor generates a parking path configured for driving within a range of the performance of the electric power steering and for the vehicle to pass inside the safety region.

Parking support apparatus and parking support method

Provided is a display control apparatus including: an image inputter; a vehicle periphery image generator that generates a vehicle periphery image; a subject image outputter that outputs a subject image; and an image superimposer that generates a display image by superimposing the subject image on the vehicle periphery image. An azimuth of a first line of sight is substantially identical to an azimuth of a second line of sight.

Display control apparatus

An obstacle detection device is configured to evaluate a ghost likelihood of a detection point to be high when a movement pattern of the detection point does not match a movement pattern of a detection point when a received carrier wave is a reflected wave from an obstacle, when the movement pattern of the detection point matches a movement pattern when the detection point is a ghost, when a characteristic of a strength or a degree of steepness of the carrier wave matches a characteristic of a strength or a degree of steepness when the detection point is a ghost, or when another detection point that has a direction and a speed correlated with a direction and a speed of the detection point and is different from the detection point, is present.

Obstacle detection device, obstacle detection method, and obstacle detection computer program product

A driving assistance device includes a processor connected to a memory. In a teaching traveling mode, the processor stores, in the memory, a teaching traveling path obtained by a vehicle traveling from a current position to a start position designated by a user, and generates teaching data related to a teaching path obtained by reversing the teaching traveling path from an end point toward a start point. The processor causes the vehicle to travel along the teaching path in an automated traveling mode. The processor generates, in the teaching traveling mode, a recommended path in which a turning radius of a stroke of forward travel is larger than a turning radius of a stroke of backward travel in a range from the current position to the start position. The processor outputs, in the teaching traveling mode, display information for displaying a display screen including the recommended path.

Driving assistance device and driving assistance method

A vehicle control device is mountable on a vehicle. The vehicle control device includes: a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the vehicle control device to perform operations. The operations includes: acquiring detection information obtained by detecting an obstacle around the vehicle; performing collision determination of evaluating a possibility of collision with the obstacle, generating, based on the detection information, information on an approaching object that is an obstacle approaching the vehicle and information on a detection point group that is a set of detection points indicating an obstacle that does not move; and excluding the approaching object from collision determination in a case in which the detection point group has a shielding effect of shielding the vehicle from the approaching object. The shielding effect is evaluated by using a gap threshold that is set based on a vehicle width.

Vehicle control device, vehicle, vehicle control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A parking support apparatus includes an instruction detection section that detects the occupant's parking instruction based on an operation of the occupant of the vehicle or a history of a motion of the vehicle, and a vehicle control section that performs the automatic parking of the vehicle. When the history indicates that the vehicle has stopped after steering and turning from a straight movement, and that the occupant has performed a predetermined parking instruction operation, the instruction detection section determines that the parking instruction is detected.

A parking support apparatus includes a display control unit, a confirmation reception unit, and a parking control unit that performs a parking support control of a vehicle when a confirmation reception unit receives a parking region confirmation and a confirmation required region confirmation, and the confirmation reception unit simultaneously receives a single operation of the driver of the vehicle as the parking region confirmation and the confirmation required region confirmation.

Parking support apparatus, parking support method and recording medium

A parking support device includes: an acquisition circuit configured to acquire first detection points related to obstacles around a vehicle before setting a parking direction, and acquire second detection points related to the obstacles after setting the parking direction; an analysis circuit configured to calculate first approximate straight lines and first variations for first detection point groups related to the first detection points, and calculate second approximate straight lines and second variations for second detection point groups related to the second detection points; a setting circuit configured to set a parking point based on the first detection points, and set the parking direction based on the first approximate straight lines and the first variations; and a correction circuit configured to correct the parking direction using a correction amount calculated using the second approximate straight lines weighted based on the second variations after setting the parking direction.

Parking support device and parking support method

An object detection device includes first and second detectors each configured to detect an object by transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a moving direction of the moving object and receiving a reflected wave of the ultrasonic wave, a second detector, a memory, and a hardware processor coupled to the memory, and configured to: determine that an obstacle is present in the moving direction of the moving object, based on object detection results by the first and second detectors; determine crossing of the obstacle based on object detection results by the first and second detectors in a state in which it is being determined that the obstacle is present; and cause a driving controller mounted on the moving object, to release driving restriction control of restricting movement of the moving object when determining the crossing, or prohibit the driving controller from releasing the driving restriction control under a predetermined condition.

Object detection device and driving assistance system

A display control apparatus includes a vehicle detector and a processor, the processor generating a background image of a vehicle, setting, when a surrounding vehicle is detected in a predetermined region, a second projection plane to a position at which the surrounding vehicle is detected, generating a surrounding vehicle image by projecting a plurality of captured images onto the second projection plane, and superimposing the surrounding vehicle image on the background image.

Display control apparatus, vehicle, and display control method

A vehicle monitoring apparatus includes a hardware processor functioning as an image acquisition unit, an abnormality information acquisition unit, a damage determination unit, and a damage reporting unit. The image acquisition unit serves to acquire a captured image including an image representation of an exterior of a vehicle body of a vehicle. The abnormality information acquisition unit serves to acquire vehicle-body abnormality information indicating an abnormality in the vehicle body. The damage determination unit serves to determine presence or absence of damage to the vehicle body on the basis of the captured image and the vehicle-body abnormality information. The damage reporting unit serves to report, to an information processing apparatus, a damage report including the captured image or an image generated on the basis of the captured image. The damage report is reported in accordance with on a result of the determination on the damage.

Vehicle monitoring apparatus, vehicle monitoring system, and vehicle monitoring method

An object detection apparatus includes distance measuring devices and a hardware processor. The distance measuring devices are provided in a vehicle and emit ultrasonic waves. The distance measuring devices detect an object around the vehicle and obtain distance information indicating a distance to the detected object. The hardware processor determines a scene in which the vehicle is placed. The determination is performed on the basis of the distance information, vehicle speed information, an image of surroundings of the vehicle, and/or a location of the vehicle on a map. The hardware processor performs, on the basis of a scene determination result, setting of a high-sensitivity area where sensitivity for detecting the reflected waves is temporarily increased, a change of an emission interval of the ultrasonic waves, and/or a change of an emission sequence of the ultrasonic waves.

Object detection apparatus

A display processing device is installed in a vehicle. The display processing device includes a hardware processor coupled to a memory. The processor acquires an image obtained by capturing a periphery of the vehicle and generates a bird's-eye view image of the periphery of the vehicle. The processor estimates a movement amount of the vehicle and generates past images whose capturing times are past time points. The past images are generated on the basis of the movement amount of the vehicle and a past bird's-eye view image. The processor generates a display image to be displayed on a display device in the vehicle by combining the past images and the bird's-eye view image. When occurrence of a skid phenomenon of the wheel is detected, the processor generates the display image by performing, on the past images, processing indicating that the skid phenomenon has occurred.

Display processing device, display processing method, and recording medium

A driving assistance apparatus configured to support a driving of a vehicle at a time of pulling out of the vehicle, the driving assistance apparatus including: a control section configured to determine a movement path from a parking space to a predetermined position of a road region, and run the vehicle along the movement path on a basis of surroundings information of the vehicle when pulling out the vehicle from the parking space to the road region, wherein the control section leaves an accelerator operation for the vehicle to a user while automatically controlling a steering operation for the vehicle at least in a section in the movement path, and switches from an automated driving mode to a manual driving mode in response to the steering operation that is performed by the user when the vehicle travels in the section.

Driving assistance apparatus, and vehicle

A vehicle including a vehicle control device is disclosed. The vehicle control device determines whether an object is a preceding vehicle and whether a brake light of the preceding vehicle is on or off. When the object is a preceding vehicle and its brake light is on, the vehicle control device transmits a braking request that instructs a braking control device to stop the vehicle at a position at which an inter-vehicle distance between the preceding vehicle and the vehicle is equal to or larger than a first distance. When the object is a preceding vehicle and its brake light is off, the vehicle control device transmits a braking request that instructs the braking control device to stop the vehicle at a position at which the inter-vehicle distance is equal to or larger than a second distance being smaller than the first distance.

Vehicle and vehicle control method

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshimasa Okabe