Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yuya Kishimoto

Hiroshi Uematsu

Minoru Higuchi

Masaki Maruyama

Toshiaki Seo

Masayuki Sato

Kazuasa Suzuki

Tomoko Nishino

Takashi Nishioka

Toshihiro Hashimoto

Tomoaki Hosobe

Norio Mugikura

Yuki Murayama

Yuji Kuwashima

Kazuki Takano

Hidehiro Takeda

Masuhito Tanaka

Misaki Koseki

Miku Sasaki

Yoshiyuki Matsumoto

Ryosuke Matsuoka

Shirena Takai

Tomoyuki Fujiwara

Masahiro Daimon

To reduce a chance that the driver overlooks the object that should be seen, a visual guidance device for guiding a visual line of a driver of the vehicle to an object existing ahead of the vehicle includes an object recognition unit for recognizing the object, and a display control unit for causing the display device to display the visual guidance virtual image for guiding the driver's visual line to a position corresponding to the object recognized by the object recognition unit on a windshield of the vehicle. The display control unit sets a length of the visual guidance virtual image to be displayed by the display device in the vehicle width direction to a length in accordance with a status of the object existing ahead of the vehicle.

Visual guidance device, attention calling system, attention calling method, and program

A reproduction system includes an external detection unit configured to acquire external information of an own vehicle, a vehicle sensor configured to acquire vehicle information of the own vehicle, a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions, and at least one processor connected to the storage medium, the at least one processor executing the computer-readable instructions to generate external time-series data indicating an external situation of the own vehicle in time series based on the external information, generate vehicle time series data indicating a driving situation of the own vehicle in time series based on the vehicle information, generate, based on the external time-series data and the vehicle time-series data, a moving image that reproduces a movement history of the own vehicle at a specific traffic location, and cause a display device to display the moving image.

Reproduction system, reproduction method, and storage medium

The alert system includes a projection device, a display control unit, and a target object recognition unit. When a state changes from a state where a target object is not recognized by the target object recognition unit to a state where a target object is recognized by the target object recognition unit, the display control unit causes the projection device to output an alert display on a front window such that the length of the alert display is gradually shortened toward a position where a direction from an operator to the target object intersects with a front window.

Alert system and recording medium

A driving support device is provided which can efficiently perform training for driving support. A driving support device () is equipped to a vehicle (), and includes a driving support execution unit () capable of executing driving support to control steering and/or braking of the vehicle, and executing the driving support when the driver of the vehicle () performs a predetermined operation using a predetermined operator provided in the vehicle (); and a driving support training control unit () which executes driving support training processing for the driver of the vehicle () to train the predetermined operation, in which the driving support training control unit () executes the training support training processing after the vehicle () has started up and during vehicle stop.

Driving support device

An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the number of targets increases, reduces the size of the surrounding icon.

A driving support device is provided which can evaluate the driving skill of a driver, and improve the driving skill of the driver. A driving support deviceincludes: a peripheral information acquisition unit; an outside-world detection unit; a driving status detection unit; a driving evaluation unitwhich decides a driving evaluation indicating the driving skill of the driver of the vehicle, based on the outside-world detection result of detecting the predetermined target and the driving status; a voice output devicewhich notifies the driver of the driving evaluation result indicating the result of driving evaluation; and a notification control unitwhich notifies the driver by way of the notification unit of the outside-world detection result or driving status based on the driving evaluation result, when the driving evaluation improves.

Provided is a driving support device which can perform an effective warning to occupants of the vehicle in order to avoid collision between one's own vehicle and another vehicle. A driving support deviceincludes: an acoustic device; an outside-world information acquisition unit; a relative distance measurement unitwhich measures the relative distance from another vehicletraveling ahead of the vehiclebased on the outside-world information acquired by the outside-world information acquisition unit; and a music control unitwhich control music outputted by an acoustic device, in which the music control unitmodulates the tone of music according to the relative distance, in the case of the relative distance becoming no more than a first predetermined distance D, in a state of outputting music by the acoustic device

The attention calling system includes a detection unit for detecting an object around a moving body, and a attention calling unit for outputting a visual display in a horizontally extending belt-like range on an interior structure of the moving body using a light projection device. The attention calling unit outputs the visual display in the belt-like range at a position corresponding to a direction of the object.

Attention calling system and attention calling method

Provided is a driving support device including a storage device and a hardware processor, the hardware processor executing a program stored in the storage device to: acquire, from a mobile object, information on existence of a specific situation on a planned travel route, which is set as a route to a destination set by an occupant of the mobile object; plan a coaching item, including notification of warning information relating to traveling of the mobile object and suggestion relating to traveling of the mobile object, based at least on the information; and control a notification device so as to execute the notification and suggestion based on the planed coaching item.

Driving support device, driving support method, and storage medium

The attention calling system includes the classification unit for classifying an object into a category based on a traffic scene, the risk calculation unit for calculating the risk value with respect to contact with the object based on the category, and the attention calling unit for outputting the visual display in the horizontally extending belt-like range on the windshield of the moving body. The attention calling unit outputs the visual display in the mode adapted to the risk value of the object.

A device for visually confirming a forward direction that allows a crew member to visually confirm a desired range on the forward side of a vehicle includes a first reflecting mirror that reflects the desired range and a second reflecting mirror that reflects a reflected image reflected on the first reflecting mirror toward the crew member, the first reflecting mirror is arranged on a dashboard that is located inside the vehicle, and the second reflecting mirror is arranged on a lower side of the dashboard, and a first light transmitting part and a second light transmitting part are disposed in an area that connects the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror and an area that connects the second reflecting mirror and an eye-point of the crew member.

Device for visually confirming forward direction

A rear under mirror that is placed near a top edge portion of a rear window glass on a vehicle compartment interior side thereof, the rear under mirror including: a reflecting mirror that reflects a lower area behind a vehicle towards a driver's seat, the reflecting mirror comprising a concavo-convex mirror having a mirror surface that is formed as a concave surface in a substantially vertical direction and as a convex surface in a substantially horizontal direction, the reflecting mirror having a radius of curvature of the convex surface in a substantially horizontal direction of the reflecting mirror in the bottom portion area is larger than that of the top portion area, the reflecting mirror having a trapezoidal shape whose bottom side is longer than top side when viewed from a front thereof.

Rear under mirror

A vehicle rear viewing device includes a rear under view mirror provided to face an inner surface of a rear windshield and capable of reflecting an area below and behind a vehicle to an occupant in an interior of the vehicle. A marker indicator is to allow the occupant to view the area below and behind the vehicle through the rear under view mirror to visually recognize a position of a rear end of a vehicle body. A rear wiper is provided on a rear part of the vehicle body so as to face an outer surface of the rear windshield. The marker indicator is provided so as to be covered with at least a part of the rear wiper along a front rear direction of the vehicle in front of the rear wiper when the rear wiper is in an initial position.

Vehicle rear viewing device

An on-vehicle multidirectional visual-recognition device includes a first visual-recognition mechanism including a front door window and a door mirror of a door mirror mechanism. A second visual-recognition mechanism includes a first mirror provided in a door-mirror housing of the door mirror mechanism so as to show a range from a side of a vehicle including an area below the door mirror mechanism to a front side of the vehicle. A sub window transmits light reflected by the first mirror and extends continuously from the front door window toward the front side of the vehicle via a frame. A second mirror reflects the light transmitted through the sub window toward a vehicle occupant. Brightness of the light to be received by the vehicle occupant is set substantially equal to brightness of the light at the first visual-recognition mechanism.

On-vehicle multidirectional visual-recognition device

Provided is a device for viewing a front-lateral area of a vehicle. A front-lateral viewing device () comprises a mirror body () of a door mirror (), a mirror housing (), a first reflection mirror () which is provided in the mirror () and which reflects a desired range from a front area to a lateral area with respect to a side portion () of a vehicle body, and a second reflection mirror () which reflects light from the first reflection mirror () toward a vehicle occupant. The mirror housing () has a recess () where a front surface () is inwardly recessed. The first reflection mirror () is provided in the recess (). A blinker () is provided at a position spaced from an outer end () of the first reflection mirror () at a predetermined distance.

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Yuya Kishimoto