Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Clarion Co

Xanavi Informatics Corporation

Yukihiro Kawamata

Kimiya Yamaashi

Osamu Tomobe

Yukio Miyazaki

Takayuki Uchida

Mikio Bando

Mariko Okude

Takaharu Ishida

Yoshibumi Fukuda

Masato Horita

Moritaka Oota

Shigeru Matsuo

Katsuaki Tanaka

Yoichi Kowatari

Yoshitaka Atarashi

Chieko Onuma

Makoto Shioya

Hidefumi Ishimoto

Kenichiro Yamane

Manabu Kato

Takayoshi Yokota

Toshiyuki Aoki

Takumi Fushiki

Tomiharu Yoshida

Hiroto Morizane

Atsuya Toyama

Toshiro Shibata

Seiji Ukai

Yoshinori Endo

Kozo Nakamura

Tomoyuki Hamada

Masayuki Tani

Masaaki Tanizaki

Hiroshi Ogura

Tadashi Kamiwaki

Masayasu Futakawa

Atsuhiko Nishikawa

Ryo Yumiba

Akira Maeki

Yoshihiro Inanobe

Harumi Uchigasaki

Hiroto Sasaki

Hideo Hiroshige

Manabu Katou

Tetsumori Aikawa

Deepak Ramaswamy

Takayoshi Shimokawa

Mikio Bandou

Kunihiko Kurami

A vehicle to vehicle communication device including a satellite vehicle signal reception means for suppressing a decrease in relative position accuracy with a small communication amount during a unit time, a communication means, a kinematic acquisition means, a positioning means, a first vehicle information storage means, a second vehicle information storage means configured to record satellite vehicle information and the velocity vector of the second vehicle in each time, a relative position calculation means configured to calculate a relative position from the velocity vector of the first vehicle, the velocity vector of the second vehicle, and the satellite vehicle information, a requested satellite vehicle number generation means configured to generate a requested satellite vehicle number notifying the second vehicle of a satellite vehicle number observed by the first vehicle, and a transmitting satellite vehicle information generation means configured to generate information to be sequentially transmitted to the second vehicle.

Vehicle to vehicle communication device

The present invention includes: a map information storage unitstoring map dataA representing a travelable area for a dump truck; a work machine information accumulation unitaccumulating position dataA and operational dataB of a hydraulic excavator; an operational range arithmetic processing unitcalculating an operational range of the hydraulic excavatoron the basis of the position dataA and the operational dataB accumulated in the work machine information accumulation unit; and a map information update unitverifying the operational range of the hydraulic excavatorcalculated by the operational range arithmetic processing unitagainst the map dataA stored in the map information storage unitin order to correct the boundaryof the loading sitein the map dataA and then update the map dataA.

Map generation device

A surroundings monitoring system for a working machine prevents its own vehicle shadow from having an influence on the detection of an object existing around the working machine. The surroundings monitoring system for a working machine includes: a monocular camera picks up an image of the surroundings of the working machine. A characteristic pattern extraction unit extracts characteristic patterns in the picked-up image based on a characteristic amount of the image. A shadow profile extraction unit extracts a profile of a region, which can be regarded as a shadow of the working machine in the image, based on the characteristic amount of the image; and an object detection unit detects an obstacle existing around the working machine based on the remaining characteristic patterns obtained by excluding a shadow profile characteristic patterns positioned on the profile extracted by the shadow profile extraction unit from the characteristic patterns.

Surroundings monitoring system for working machine

When a to-be-monitored image exists in an image lacking from a bird's-eye image for surroundings monitoring though the to-be-monitored image is imaged by a camera for monitoring, the to-be-monitored image is securely displayed on a display. CamerasF,B,L,R are provided in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction of a dump truck, in playing bird's-eye imagesF,B,L,R acquired by converting view points of a through image imaged by each camera, so as to display a to-be-monitored image in a to-be-monitored image undisplayable area, each through image imaged by each camera is aggregated on one screen by an image aggregating unit, this aggregated screen is scanned by a to-be-monitored image detectorto detect the to-be-monitored image, and the to-be-monitored image is superimposed on a synthetic bird's-eye imagedisplayed on the displayand is displayed.

Surroundings monitoring device of vehicle

The vehicle exterior moving object detection system includes a surrounding-area image input section for capturing images in areas surrounding its own vehicle and delivering the captured images as surrounding-area images, a combined image constructing section for constructing a combined image including a result output from the detection of a moving object by combining the surrounding-area images, and an output section for presenting the combined image to the user. The vehicle exterior moving object detection system includes a movable-component region setting section for setting shapes and layout of movable components of the own vehicle in the surrounding-area images and calculating regions for the movable components of the vehicle, and a moving object detecting section for being supplied with the movable-component regions calculated by the movable-component region setting section and the surrounding-area images from the surrounding-area image input section, performing a process of detecting a moving object, and outputting a detection result.

Vehicle exterior moving object detection system

An operation management system for dump trucks includes a storage devicein which map data indicative of a road map for dump trucks are stored, a plurality of dump trucksconfigured to travel based on the map data, and a control deviceconfigured to permit, upon updating of partof the map data, updating of the part of the map data when, although the part of the map data is included in any of a plurality of mining fields, no dump truck exists in any of the plurality of mining fields.

Operation management system for dump trucks

A vehicle peripheral obstacle notification system, used on a construction machine, detects a moving obstacle, gives composite display of the detected moving obstacle, and notifies a user thereof, the moving obstacle being at a location not appearing in a composite bird's-eye view obtained by onboard cameras acquiring images of the surroundings of the vehicle including an image immediately under the vehicle body. The system has a composite image formation part that extracts composite image formation areas from the surrounding images to compose a composite bird's-eye image. A moving obstacle is detected using the surrounding images and it is decided whether the detected position of the moving obstacle is inside or outside the composite image formation areas. If the detected position is determined to be outside the composite image formation areas, information about the detected position is extracted and an image thereof is output for superimposition onto the composite bird's-eye image.

Vehicle peripheral obstacle notification system

A fleet operation management system for a vehicle traveling on a predetermined travel route comprises: a storage unit () which stores travel route information including the position, height and surface resistance of the vehicle's travel route; a speed prediction unit () which predicts future change in the speed of the vehicle coasting on the travel route based on the current position, the current speed, and the travel route information; and an operation timing calculation unit () which judges which of acceleration, deceleration and coasting should be performed at the current position based on the change in the coasting speed so that the vehicle speed after the lapse of a predetermined time will be within a predetermined range. This configuration makes it possible to properly judge which of the acceleration, the deceleration and the coasting should be performed on the vehicle's travel route from the viewpoint of fuel-efficient operation.

Fleet operation management system

An update information providing server for providing data of an updated portion in map data composed of plural kinds of the data includes: a map data storage unit configured to store incremental update data of a difference between the data at a predefined time and newest data, and a data size of the incremental update data; an update request receiving unit configured to receive from a user terminal a map data update request including a capacity of a recording medium, and priority information for specifying a data kind of the data to be preferentially updated; an update order information making unit configured to make update order information; an update information transmission unit configured to extract the incremental update data from the storage unit, to make update information including the extracted incremental update data and the update order information, and to transmit the made update information to the user terminal.

Map update server, map update system, and car navigation system

A driving support device includes a maximum measurement range determination unit adapted to calculate a distance to a plurality of points on a surface of an object present at surroundings of a vehicle. A distance sensor such as a laser range finder or a stereo camera that measures a distance is used in order to estimate bias of an acceleration sensor with high accuracy upon correction of the bias by use of the distance sensor such as the stereo camera or the LRF in a GPS non-receiving section. A sensor parameter estimation unit is adapted to estimate a parameter of the acceleration sensor based on a behavior of an own vehicle obtained from a vehicle translation and rotation angle calculation means adapted to count backwards the vehicle behavior based on distance variation and also based on a measurement value of the acceleration sensor.

Driving support device

Provided is an autonomous travel system having an operation management unit including a map database with a combination of topological region maps, on which the range of travel of a vehicle is expressed as points and lines, and metric region maps, on which the travel range is expressed on planar maps; a vehicle position management unit for managing the position of the vehicle; and a vehicle travel planning unit for planning vehicle travel, which, if the vehicle is present near the boundary of a map, blocks the map boundary so that other vehicles will not advance into another map. The operation management unit is provided with a blockage setting unit for dividing a boundary section of a map into a plurality of regions and releasing the blockage of the boundary of a divided region in which no vehicles are present in front of the vehicle in the direction of travel.

Autonomous travel system

A map update data delivery method includes: storing update unit data compiled in correspondence to each set of update data used to update map data in a specific version to map data in another version for a map element by incorporating update data for another map element that must also be updated in coordination with a change made for the map element; searching for base update data needed to update a map data for a map element designated as an update target in a map area specified at a terminal as a map data update target; searching for related update data with a relation to contents of update data included in the base update data searched; and transmitting the base update data and the related update data to the terminal.

Map update data delivery method, map update data delivery device and terminal device

In an autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle, vehicles usually travel an independent travel lane and when there are two approaching vehicles on the independent travel lane, they switch to pass-by lanes to pass by each other. To do this switching operation effectively, respective vehicles check and obtain road conditions around them while they are traveling and the obtained road conditions are transmitted to and collected by a travel administration center so that the road conditions at various points along the lanes can be obtained from the travel administration center. Accordingly, when the autonomic traveling trucks approaching each other and supposed to pass by each other, switch to the associated pass-by lanes, they change travel lanes avoiding the point of bad road condition on the basis of the road conditions sent from the travel administration center.

Autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle

A car navigation systemincludes a HDD mapand a cached map. Map data for entire area is stored in the HDD, and map data used by a route search unitand a guidance unitare stored in the cached map. A cached map area specifying unitspecifies map data files that should be stored in the cached mapfor each navigation application, and stores the names of the specified map data files, linked to the respective navigation applications, into a navigation application consistency management table. A consistency judgment unitmonitors an update status of a data file of which name stored in the navigation application consistency management table, and stores the update status (completed or not completed) into the navigation application consistency management table

Car navigation system, program and method for updating map data

A navigation device receives a differential map data from a map delivery server via a communication line. The map delivery server checks whether there is a new intersection on a navigation route searched by the navigation device after updating a map data. The navigation device acquires a differential map data containing the intersection from the map delivery server. Then, an update map data selection section determines whether the intersection can be updated in time. An update order determination section updates the differential map data which can be updated in time in ascending order of time required to reach the intersection.

Navigation device, navigation method and navigation system

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Yukihiro Kawamata