Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Yuta Shimotsuma

Takahiro Yoneda

Kazunobu Konishi

Ryota Ohnishi

Toshiya Arai

Shuhei Matsui

Akira Ishikawa

Eiichi Muramoto

Yasunori Ishii

Ryota Onishi

An information processing method, performed by a computer, includes: obtaining second situational information related to a situation of at least one of a vehicle or surroundings of the vehicle at a second time point subsequent to a first time point; determining recommended content related to vehicle monitoring recommended to a second monitoring agent by inputting the second situational information to a trained model obtained by machine learning in which first situational information and a first monitoring result which is a result of monitoring by a first monitoring agent based on the first situational information are used, the first situational information being related to a situation of at least one of the vehicle or the surroundings of the vehicle at the first time point; generating presentation information for vehicle monitoring based on the recommended content determined; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.

Information processing method and information processing system

An information processing method uses a computer and includes: obtaining a first information item regarding first monitoring performed by a first monitor on a first vehicle, the first monitoring being allocated to the first monitor; obtaining a second information item regarding second monitoring on a second vehicle, the second monitoring being not allocated to any monitor; comparing the first information item with the second information item; generating presentation information indicating the second monitoring on the second vehicle in accordance with a result of the comparing; and presenting the generated presentation information via a presentation device.

Various embodiments for controlling a state of an autonomous vehicle that is to meet a user are provided. A receiver receives location information indicating a current location of the user. A memory stores a plurality of states of the autonomous vehicle. Each of the states at least one of visually or audibly distinguishes the autonomous vehicle. A sensor senses an environment of the autonomous vehicle to obtain environment information. A distance from a place of meeting the user to the current location of the user is calculated based on the location information. A first state is selected in accordance with the environment information. The autonomous vehicle is caused to change from a second state to the first state when the distance from the place of meeting the user to the current location of the user becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined distance.

Control device and control method

An information processing method performed using a computer includes: obtaining first vehicle information from a vehicle that is a monitoring target of a monitor, the first vehicle information indicating at least one of a running state and an external state of the vehicle; determining a monitoring priority level of the vehicle according to a degree of request for monitoring the vehicle by the monitor, the degree being based on the first vehicle information; generating presentation information for monitoring the vehicle, based on the monitoring priority level; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.

Various embodiments are provided for controlling an autonomous car. The embodiments acquire meeting information indicating a place of a meeting and a time of the meeting. A remaining time between the time of the meeting and a current time is calculated. A waiting time for waiting in a waiting place by the autonomous car and a traveling time for traveling to the place of the meeting by the autonomous car are determined. The waiting and traveling times are determined to minimize a total cost and to make a total time within the remaining time. The total cost includes a cost of the traveling and a cost of the waiting. The total time includes the waiting and traveling times. A route along which the autonomous car is to travel to the place of the meeting within the traveling time is determined.

Autonomous car, traveling controller, traveling control method, and storage medium storing control program

Provided is an information processing method of an information processing apparatus for remotely operating a vehicle via a communication network. The information processing method includes: obtaining vehicle information about the vehicle; obtaining a delay time of the communication network; calculating, based on the vehicle information and the delay time, a stop position at which the vehicle would stop if the vehicle were caused to perform an emergency stop; and outputting stop position information indicating the calculated stop position.

Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and information processing system

An information processing method performed using a computer includes: obtaining first position information indicating a first position, the first position being a position of a vehicle that is a monitoring target; obtaining second position information indicating a second position, the second position being a position in which the vehicle is requested to be monitored; determining a monitoring priority level of the vehicle according to movement information relating to movement of the vehicle from the first position to the second position; generating presentation information for monitoring the vehicle, based on the monitoring priority level; and causing a presentation device to output the presentation information.

A video transmitting device is to be provided in a vehicle and includes a first acquiring unit that acquires first video information from an imaging unit that captures images of the surroundings of the vehicle, a risk map creating unit that creates a risk map indicating a risk region in traveling of the vehicle, a video creating unit that creates second video information having a data amount smaller than a data amount of the first video information on the basis of the risk map, and a communication unit that transmits the second video information to a remote monitoring device for remotely monitoring the vehicle.

Video transmitting device, video transmitting method, and recording medium

A vehicle that is remotely operable by an operator is provided. The vehicle includes a communication circuit that receives a vehicle operation signal including an accelerator input value based on a first operation performed by the operator, a steering angle sensor that measures a steering angle of the vehicle, a speed sensor that measures a speed of the vehicle, and a processor. The processor corrects the accelerator input value such that when the absolute value of an angular measure of the steering angle is greater than or equal to a predetermined angular measure and the speed is greater than zero, the accelerator input value is corrected so as to reduce the speed to a value that is less than when the absolute value of the angular measure of the steering angle is less than the first predetermined angular measure and the speed is greater than zero.

Vehicle, vehicle control method, vehicle remote operation apparatus, and vehicle remote operation method

A communication method in a roadside unit that acquires first dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around the roadside unit and second dynamic information indicative of a dynamic object around in-vehicle units includes: selecting at least one in-vehicle unit from among the plurality of in-vehicle units on a basis of a list in which the second dynamic information and the in-vehicle units having the second dynamic information are associated with each other; acquiring the first dynamic information indicative of a state around the roadside unit acquired by a sensor mounted in the roadside unit; configurating a dynamic map on a basis of the acquired first dynamic information, the second dynamic information acquired from the selected in-vehicle unit, and a static map indicative of a static object; and transmitting the dynamic map to one or more of the in-vehicle units that communicate with the roadside unit.

Communication method, roadside unit, and communication system

An operator uses a remote operation apparatus to remotely operate an operated vehicle. The remote operation apparatus includes a position information processor which, based on vehicle position information indicating a current position of the operated vehicle and delay information indicating a delay time required for information transmission between the operated vehicle and the remote operation apparatus, generates first position information indicating a first predicted position of the operated vehicle from the current position of the operated vehicle considering the delay time; based on obstacle position information indicating a current position of at least one obstacle around the operated vehicle acquired by the operated vehicle and the delay information, generates second position information indicating a second predicted position of the at least one obstacle from the time of the current position of the obstacle considering the delay time; and outputs the first and second position information.

Information processing apparatus, operated vehicle, information processing method, and recording medium storing program

A roadside device transmits first detection data obtained by a first sensor to a server. The server extracts an unobservable area that is a blind spot of the first sensor, based on the first detection data, and transmits unobservable-area information indicating the unobservable area to a moving terminal. The moving terminal extracts, based on second detection data obtained by a second sensor, second dynamic information indicating an object that exists in a sensing range of the second sensor, and determines whether or not an overlapping area where the unobservable area indicated by the unobservable-area information and the sensing range of the second sensor overlap each other exists. Upon determining that the overlapping area exists, the moving terminal transmits, to the server, third dynamic information that is included in the second dynamic information and that indicates an object that exists in the overlapping area.

Dynamic-map constructing method, dynamic-map constructing system, and moving terminal

A communication method includes generating a packet including the data regarding which the priority has been set beforehand, acquiring channel-used time, calculating channel-usable time based on the channel-used time, calculating a first channel usage estimated time, calculating a wireless transmission rate to be applied when the wireless base station transmits the packet to the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, based on the priority of the data included in the packet, to where the first channel usage estimated time is within the channel-usable time, and transmitting the packet, and information indicating the wireless transmission rate, to the wireless base station.

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Yuta Shimotsuma