Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Yusuke Oi

Masaru Otaka

Takahiro Iijima

Naoko Imai

Ryusuke Tamanaha

Ryo Saiki

Yoshifumi Wagatsuma

Sawako Furuya

Shohei Tsukahara

Hiroki Nakayama

Yoshikazu Matsuo

Toshikatsu Kuramochi

Tsubasa Shibauchi

Kengo Naiki

Hiroshi Honda

Shinichi Kikuchi

Mototsugu Kubota

Hisumi Esaki

Masaki Kurihara

Shinya Yasuhara

Masahiro Takahata

A vehicle is a movable vehicle and includes an access point function unit having an antenna and configured to function as an access point by wirelessly communicating with a terminal device located near the antenna and a control unit configured to control a directivity direction of radio waves transmitted through the antenna so that a radio wave intensity of radio waves transmitted to a predetermined first region set on the basis of a surrounding environment of the antenna is less than a radio wave intensity of radio waves transmitted to a second region other than the first region.

Vehicle and vehicle system

Provided is a communication device including: a first receiving unit configured to receive distribution information from a second moving object that is different from a first moving object on which the communication device is mounted; a storage unit configured to store the distribution information; a transmission unit configured to transmit the distribution information to a third moving object that is different from the first moving object; and a communication relay unit configured to relay a communication between an external terminal located outside the first moving object, and an external network, in which the distribution information includes a restriction condition for restricting the transmission of the distribution information, and when the transmission unit determines that the transmission of the distribution information to the third moving object is not restricted based on the restriction condition, the transmission unit transmits the distribution information to the third moving object.

Communication device, computer-readable storage medium, and system

There is provided a communication control apparatus comprising a processor. The processor receives, from a first mobile communication apparatus, a request for permission of data transmission to a second mobile communication apparatus, the second mobile communication apparatus including a buffer memory to store received data. The processor determines whether to permit the data transmission based on a free capacity of the buffer memory and a reserved capacity indicated by a reservation setting of the buffer memory. The processor updates, when the data transmission is determined to be permitted, the reservation setting such that a capacity for received data corresponding to the data transmission is added to the reserved capacity. The processor transmits, when the data transmission is determined to be permitted, a response indicating that the data transmission is permitted to the first mobile communication apparatus.

Communication control apparatus, communication system, communication control method, and storage medium for determining whether to permit data transmission

A communication control device controls wireless communication of a mobile object. The wireless communication includes: a cost information obtaining unit for obtaining from another mobile object being in surroundings of the mobile object, cost information representing a cost for the other mobile object to perform direct wireless communication between mobile objects; a connection information obtaining unit for obtaining communication connection information available for the other mobile object; a communication path setting unit for setting, based on the communication connection information, a plurality of communication paths including a communication path using direct communication with the other mobile object; and a communication path selecting unit for selecting, based on the cost information obtained by the cost information obtaining unit and the communication connection information obtained by the connection information obtaining unit, a communication path to be used for data communication among the plurality of communication paths.

Communication control device, mobile object, communication control method, and computer-readable storage medium to control, communication path using direct communication between mobile objects

A movable vehicle includes an access point functional unit that includes an antenna and functions as an access point by wirelessly communicating with a terminal device around the vehicle, and a notifier that notifies the surroundings that the vehicle is functioning as an access point.

Vehicle

A communication device includes a communicator that is mounted in a mobile body and functions as a wireless access point, a power supplier configured to supply electric power at least to a driver that causes the mobile body to travel, a detector configured to detect the electric energy of the power supplier, and a controller configured to control at least one of communication strength and communication quality of the communicator based on the electric energy detected by the detector.

In-vehicle system, vehicle, and communication method

A communication device includes a communicator controller. The communication controller configured to cause a communicator to communicate with a terminal device in a first mode or a second mode, in which the first mode is a mode in which communication conditions are better than in the second mode, and, when the communication controller has acquired permission information indicating that communication in the first mode is permitted according to completion of processing of a first procedure different from a second procedure required for communication in the second mode in response to a request from the terminal device, the communication controller causes the communicator to communicate with a terminal device associated with the permission information in the first mode.

Communication device, and communication method

A TCU includes: a wide-area communication section that performs wireless communication with a base station; a short-range communication section that performs wireless communication with an access point; a vehicle-to-vehicle communication section that performs wireless communication with a relay vehicle; and a communication control section that transmits upload data by using any one of the wide-area communication section, the short-range communication section, and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section, wherein the communication control section transmits the upload data more preferentially by using the short-range communication section or the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section than by using the wide-area communication section when an upload deferment condition is met, and transmits the upload data more preferentially by using the wide-area communication section than by using the short-range communication section and the vehicle-to-vehicle communication section when the upload deferment condition is not met.

Communication device, communication method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing communication program, and vehicle

According to an aspect, a communication device includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a base station and a plurality of access points having narrower communication ranges than the base station, a first acquirer configured to acquire vehicle information from in-vehicle equipment, a second acquirer configured to acquire information about communication quality for each of the plurality of access points, and a connection adjuster configured to release a connected state associated with a determined access point when the access point whose connected state is released is determined on the basis of the information about the communication quality acquired by the second acquirer if communication with the plurality of access points by the communicator is in the connected state.

Communication device, base station, and communication system

An agent device includes a display controller configured to cause a first display to display an agent image when an agent providing a service including causing an output device to output response of voice in response to an utterance of a user is activated, and a controller configured to execute particular control for causing a second display to display the agent image according to loudness of a voice received by an external terminal receiving a vocal input.

Agent device, agent system, method for controlling agent device, and storage medium

According to an embodiment, an agent system includes: a plurality of agent functions mounted on a plurality of different objects and configured to each provide a service which includes a service for causing an output to output a response by a voice in response to a speech of a user; and an information provider configured to include attribute information associated with the same kind of agent function in response content by the same kind of agent function and provide the attribute information to a portable mobile terminal of the user when the same kind of agent function is in the plurality of objects among the plurality of agent functions.

Agent system, agent server, method of controlling agent server, and storage medium

An on-board agent system includes: a plurality of agent functional units, each of the plurality of agent functional units being configured to provide a service including outputting a response using voice to an output unit according to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; and a common operator configured to be shared by the plurality of agent functional units and provided in the vehicle, wherein, when an operation is executed on the common operator with an operation pattern set to correspond to each of the plurality of agent functional units, an agent functional unit corresponding to the operation pattern of the executed operation is activated.

On-board agent system, on-board agent system control method, and storage medium

According to an aspect, a communication device includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a base station and a plurality of access points having narrower communication ranges than the base station, a first acquirer configured to acquire vehicle information from equipment mounted in a vehicle, a second acquirer configured to acquire information about communication quality for each of the plurality of access points, a third acquirer configured to acquire a communication requirement for each piece of the vehicle information acquired by the first acquirer, and a selector configured to select an access point that transmits the vehicle information acquired by the first acquirer on the basis of the information about the communication quality acquired by the second acquirer and the communication requirement acquired by the third acquirer.

Communication device, base station, and communication method

A communication device, comprising: communication-part communicates with external device by first-communication-system provided at first-access-point or by second-communication-system provided at second-access-point, determination-part dynamically determines communication priority level of host device with respect to each of first and/or second-access-point; and communication controller transmits information including communication priority level and moving body information with respect to each of first and second-access-points, communication controller communicates with external device through first-communication-system in accordance with communication priority level determined at first-access-point or second-communication-system in accordance with communication priority level determined at second-access-point, communicates in accordance with communication priority level determined at second-access-point when the communication is switched from first-access-point to second-access-point, and communicates in accordance with communication priority level determined at first-access-point when communication of communication-part is switched from communication of second-access-point to communication of first-access-point.

Communication device, communication system, radio base station, communication control method, and storage medium

A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor executing a communication control process of performing vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a data reception process of receiving and saving, in a storage unit, file data transmitted from a communication destination vehicle by the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and an incompletely received file data management process of, in a case where the vehicle-to-vehicle communication is disconnected after reception of the file data by the data reception process is started and before the reception of the file data completes, setting, in accordance with a state of a predetermined parameter, at least one of an upper limit of a period for saving in the storage unit and a priority level for deleting from the storage unit for partial data of the file data saved in the storage unit.

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Yusuke Oi