Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Yoshitaka Hiramatsu

Toshimitsu Takahashi

Kazumasa Tokuhashi

Takashi Sumiyoshi

Masahito Togami

Tasuku Soga

Nobuaki Kabuto

Yukinobu Maruyama

Takeshi Nagasaki

Mayumi Suzuki

Yuto Komatsu

An information processing apparatus which is configured to access a database in which a characteristic of a person and advertisement information are associated with each other for each one in an area group within a movement range of a moving object, and configured to control a movement of the moving object, the information processing apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to detect a specific person that exists within a predetermined distance from the moving object; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a characteristic of the specific person detected by the detection unit; an extraction unit configured to extract, from the database, specific advertisement information about a specific area in a movement route to a destination point of the moving object based on the characteristic of the specific person acquired by the acquisition unit; and an output unit configured to output the specific advertisement information extracted by the extraction unit.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A dialogue system including a processor, a memory, an audio input apparatus, an audio output apparatus, a touch input apparatus, and a display unit. The processor receives an input from the voice or a touch input apparatus, analyzes the content of the input, and selects a scenario corresponding to the input data from preset scenario information. The processor generates the output data specified in the scenario, calculates the priority of the input data, and determines the presence or absence of the scenario being prepared for the output data. When there is the scenario under generating the output data, the processor changes the output method of the scenario to be executed based on the priority.

Method of controlling dialogue system, dialogue system, and data storage medium

A dialogue system includes an inquiry step of generating and outputting inquiry information, an input step of accepting a reply, and a guidance step of generating and outputting candidates of guidance information corresponding to the answer. The dialogue system includes a mode for outputting options based on the inquiry information to the touch panel and a dialogue mode for outputting comments based on the inquiry information by the touch panel or the sound output device and selects them according to the operation situation of the dialog system A mode switching step, and the inquiring step and the guiding step use the selected mode.

Method of controlling communication system including mode switching between modes for receiving a touch input or an audio input, communication system, and storage medium

A vehicle detection apparatus includes: a specific color region detection unit that detects a specific color region from an image photographed by a camera provided in a vehicle; a processing target range calculation unit that calculates a processing target range in which the other vehicle is detected in the image on the basis of the specific color region detected by the specific color region detection unit; and a vehicle region detection unit that detects a region of the other vehicle from the image within the processing target range calculated by the processing target range calculation unit.

Vehicle detection apparatus and light distribution control apparatus

A robot control apparatus that performs communication with a plurality of robots R according to a communication environment includes: a wireless communication environment map creation unit that collects communication environment data transmitted from the plurality of robots and creates a wireless communication environment map; a service determination unit that determines change in services to be performed by the plurality of robots on the basis of the created wireless communication environment map; and a communication interface that performs communication with the plurality of robots using the wireless communication environment such as a wireless communication access point. The service determination unit determines a change process of dispositions of the plurality of robots, a stop process and a restoration process of functions thereof, or a change process of the service scenarios thereof on the basis of the wireless communication environment map.

Robot control apparatus, system and method

An arithmetic unit comprises a video input unit to which is input recorded video information obtained by taking a video of a human, a memory which stores human motion information as information related to movement of the human, and a transmission unit which determines importance of the human motion information, and sends the recorded video information and the human motion information to an external device so that availability of the human motion information in the external device will increase more for the human motion information determined as having high importance.

Arithmetic unit, transmission program, and transmission method

A control system includes: a moving object; and a control apparatus. The moving object is configured to: determine a face direction based on whether or not a face image of the human exists; and control the movement apparatus so that the moving object moves in accordance with path information. The control apparatus is configured to: detect a position of the human and the moving object in the area; calculate, based on the position of the human and the moving object, and the face direction, the path information for allowing the moving object to arrive at any one of a position within a predetermined range from the human and in a field of view of the human and a position within the predetermined range from the human and outside the field of view of the human; and transmit the path information to the moving object.

Control system, moving object, and control apparatus

A computer system that performs in dialogue with a user and provides a prescribed service, comprising: an imaging device; a computer; and a generation device generating dialogue content on a basis of an algorithm for generating dialogue content. The computer couples to a database that stores an authentication image used for an authentication process that uses an image. The computer calculates a distance between the user and the imaging device; executes an attribute estimation process in a case where the distance is larger than a threshold, selects the algorithm on the basis of results of the attribute estimation process, and issues a notification of the selected algorithm to the generation device.

Computer system, dialogue control method, and computer

A control apparatus is configured to execute: acquisition processing of acquiring, from at least one data acquisition apparatus, as data on a second object, time series data on a series of pieces of information on the second object that has been collected since the at least one data acquisition apparatus detected the second object; determination processing of determining whether or not the first and the second object are identical to each other based on information on the first and the second object; and storage processing of storing, when the determination processing results that the first and the second object are/aren't identical to each other, the data on the second object and the data on the first object in association with/without each other, and when the determination processing results in a determination that the first object and the second object are not identical to each other.

Control apparatus, control system, and control method

A three-dimensional information calculation device includes a first image input unit which continuously acquires a plurality of images from a first imaging unit, a second image input unit which continuously acquires a plurality of images from a second imaging unit, an object candidate region extraction unit which extracts an object candidate region where an object exists by using two or more images acquired by the first image input unit at different times, a region future estimation unit which estimates a future position of the object candidate region relative to an image capture range of the first imaging unit based on a position of the extracted object candidate region on a plurality of images, and a three-dimensional information calculation unit which calculates three-dimensional information of the object candidate region, in which three-dimensional information is deemed required based on the future position estimated by the region future estimation unit, based on corresponding points of the object candidate region in an image included in the images acquired by the first image input unit and an image included in the images acquired by the second image input unit.

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitaka Hiramatsu