Abstract: A control device that is mounted in a second vehicle which a first vehicle having a following travel function is detachably connected to or loaded on is provided. The control device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting another vehicle that is within a predetermined range from the second vehicle in a state in which the second vehicle has the first vehicle connected thereto or loaded thereon and of which some or all of a scheduled travel route is the same as some or all of a scheduled travel route of the first vehicle after the first vehicle has been disconnected from the second vehicle; and transmitting following instruction information to the first vehicle and disconnecting the first vehicle from the second vehicle such that the first vehicle travels with the detected other vehicle as a preceding vehicle by the following travel function.

Abstract: A guidance display system includes an AR display device and a server. The AR display device includes a display unit and a display control unit configured to display, on the display unit, an augmented reality image in which an image of a virtual object for guidance is superimposed on scenery of a real world. The server is wirelessly connected to the display device. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit, a 3D model extraction unit, and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores character information set for a theme park. The 3D model extraction unit extracts the character of the theme park set as the destination, as a virtual object for guidance. The transmission unit transmits the image data of the extracted virtual object for guidance to the display control unit of the AR display device.

Abstract: A first panel member constituting the outer wall facing the outside of the vehicle, a vehicle body structure having a second panel member. Here, the second panel member, as the space portion is formed between the first panel member, located on the vehicle inside than the first panel member, when the hole in the first panel member is opened, the first panel member by pressure in the vehicle in contact with the member, it is configured to close the hole.

Abstract: A vehicle dust removing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of an object to be processed of a vehicle that runs in a low-temperature environment, a temperature of the object to be processed being configured to be able to be increased, a dust removing unit configured to be able to reduce a temperature of gas to be sprayed to the object to be processed and remove dust by spraying gas to the object to be processed, and a control unit configured to control spraying of the gas by the dust removing unit by at least one of increasing the temperature of the object to be processed and reducing the temperature of the gas based on the temperature of the object to be processed, acquired by the acquisition unit.

Abstract: When a theme park that is a facility configured based on a specific theme is set as a departure point, an AR display device transmits information of the theme park of the departure point to a server. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores information on a character set for the theme park of the departure point. The transmission unit transmits, to the AR display device, image data of the character set for the theme park of the departure point, with the character being set as a virtual object of the departure point.

Abstract: Provided is an optimal user interface for curbing sound generated by an imaging device. For this purpose, the imaging device includes a user interface control unit that performs user interface processing of enabling selection of whether or not to curb at least a part of sound generated in a first period from a power-on state until issuance of a transition instruction to a power-off state and a second period from the issuance of the transition instruction until the power-on state, and a switching control unit that changes control related to sound according to a selection result of the user interface processing.

Abstract: A window member is joined to a surface of a window-opening peripheral edge on an inside of a vehicle cabin through an adhesive to cover a window opening. A dam member for separating the window-opening peripheral edge and the window member from each other at a predetermined interval is interposed between the window-opening peripheral edge and the window member. The dam member is set at a position closer to an inner peripheral end of the window-opening peripheral edge than a set position of the adhesive when viewed in a penetrating direction of the window opening.

Abstract: A guidance display system includes an AR display device and a server. The AR display device includes a display unit and a display control unit configured to display, on the display unit, an augmented reality image in which an image of a virtual object for guidance is superimposed on scenery of a real world. The server is wirelessly connected to the display device. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit, a 3D model extraction unit, and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores character information set for a theme park. The 3D model extraction unit extracts the character of the theme park set as the destination, as a virtual object for guidance. The transmission unit transmits the image data of the extracted virtual object for guidance to the display control unit of the AR display device.

Abstract: A display system includes a display device and a remote terminal device. The display device includes an image shooting device, an image recognizer, and a display controller. The image recognizer recognizes real objects in an image shot by the image shooting device, and recognizes positions of the recognized real objects on space coordinates. The display controller superimposes a virtual object at a designated position on the space coordinates in the shot image. The image recognizer recognizes a gesture of the real object at the designated position of the virtual object in the shot image. The display controller executes image processing on the virtual object in response to the recognized gesture.

Abstract: When a theme park that is a facility configured based on a specific theme is set as a departure point, an AR display device transmits information of the theme park of the departure point to a server. The server includes a theme park-specific character storage unit and a transmission unit. The theme park-specific character storage unit stores information on a character set for the theme park of the departure point. The transmission unit transmits, to the AR display device, image data of the character set for the theme park of the departure point, with the character being set as a virtual object of the departure point.

Abstract: A display device includes an image recognition unit, a display control unit, a display unit, and a position information acquisition unit. The image recognition unit recognizes a person image from an image captured at a remote location. The display control unit is configured to superimpose a decoration image on the person image and generate an augmented reality image in which the person image that has been decorated is superimposed on scenery of a real world. The position information acquisition unit acquires a position of the position information acquisition unit. The server includes a decoration image storage unit and a decoration image extraction unit. In the decoration image storage unit, a plurality of kinds of the decoration images is stored. The decoration image extraction unit extracts, from the decoration image storage unit, the decoration image based on the position, as the decoration image to be superimposed on the person image.

Abstract: A display system includes a display device and a server. The display includes an imager, an image recognition unit that recognizes an identifier provided to a portable product and included in the image captured by the imager, a display control unit that generates an augmented reality image in which an image of a virtual object is superimposed on scenery of real world including the portable product in response to recognition of the identifier, a display unit that displays the augmented reality image, and a position information acquisition unit that acquires current position information. The server includes a first storage unit in which a plurality of types of image data of the virtual object is stored, and a first extraction unit that extracts, from the first storage unit, the image data of the virtual object that is provided to the display device, based on the position information of the display device.

Abstract: A control device that is mounted in a second vehicle which a first vehicle having a following travel function is detachably connected to or loaded on is provided. The control device includes a control unit configured to perform: detecting another vehicle that is within a predetermined range from the second vehicle in a state in which the second vehicle has the first vehicle connected thereto or loaded thereon and of which some or all of a scheduled travel route is the same as some or all of a scheduled travel route of the first vehicle after the first vehicle has been disconnected from the second vehicle; and transmitting following instruction information to the first vehicle and disconnecting the first vehicle from the second vehicle such that the first vehicle travels with the detected other vehicle as a preceding vehicle by the following travel function.

Abstract: A travel control device controls traveling of a vehicle of which a traveling function can be switched between an autonomous traveling function and a following traveling function. The travel control device includes a control unit configured to detect, when the vehicle is traveling by the autonomous traveling function, another vehicle present within a predetermined range of the vehicle and of which any part or all of a planned travel route is partially or wholly the same as a planned travel route of the vehicle, and switch the traveling function of the vehicle from the autonomous traveling function to the following traveling function such that the vehicle autonomously follows the other vehicle detected as a leading vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus manages a vehicle platform capable of being loaded with a plurality of vehicle compartment units, a first vehicle compartment unit configured to transport a passenger and a second vehicle compartment unit configured to transport cargo. The first and second vehicle compartment units are capable of being loaded on the vehicle platform. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to acquire first demand data representing demand associated with transportation of the passenger and second demand data representing demand related to transportation of the cargo in a predetermined period, and determine a combination of one or more first vehicle compartment units and one or more second vehicle compartment units, which are loaded on a predetermined vehicle platform, based on the first demand data and the second demand data.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that manages a plurality of first units separable from vehicles respectively owned by a plurality of users, capable of autonomous drive, and each capable of being coupled to a second unit having space for accommodating baggage, includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to acquire first unit information containing information on a non-use period that is a period during which the first unit is not schedule to be used by the user, for each of the plurality of first units, acquire second unit information containing information on the number of the second units to be used in delivery of baggage in a predetermined period, and select, from among the plurality of first units, the first unit to be coupled to the second unit for use in delivery of baggage in the predetermined period based on the first unit information and the second unit information.

Abstract: A system includes a vehicle, a unit separably connected to or mounted on the vehicle and configured to have a space to accommodate a person or a package and have a function of autonomously traveling within a predetermined area, and an information processing device configured to generate traveling command information for allowing the unit separated from the vehicle to travel to a destination within the predetermined area determined according to the person or the package accommodated in the unit when the vehicle is within the predetermined area and transmit the generated traveling command information to the unit.

Abstract: A window member is joined to a surface of a window-opening peripheral edge on an inside of a vehicle cabin through an adhesive to cover a window opening. A dam member for separating the window-opening peripheral edge and the window member from each other at a predetermined interval is interposed between the window-opening peripheral edge and the window member. The dam member is set at a position closer to an inner peripheral end of the window-opening peripheral edge than a set position of the adhesive when viewed in a penetrating direction of the window opening.

Abstract: A method manufactures a composite member that can exert a sufficient effect of reinforcing a metal part with a fiber-reinforced resin material when the metal part is obtained by bending a tubular member. The method firstly bends a tubular metal member having a plate-like outer wall extending in the longitudinal direction so that compressive stress acts on the outer wall to manufacture the metal part. Next the method prepares a plate-like metal plate. Next the method attaches a fiber-reinforced resin material to a surface of the prepared metal plate, the fiber-reinforced resin material including a fiber substrate containing reinforcement fibers having one orientation direction and impregnated with uncured thermosetting resin, followed by thermally curing of the thermosetting resin to prepare a reinforcement member. Next the method joins the metal plate of the reinforcement member to the surface of the outer wall of the metal part.

Abstract: A front pillar structure includes a first skeleton portion, a second skeleton portion extending along the first skeleton portion with a gap therebetween, and a connecting member. A cross-section of the first skeleton portion is a hollow closed cross-section and a width of the first skeleton portion in a horizontal direction orthogonal to a gaze direction of a driver seated in a driver's seat is equal to or less than a standard pupillary distance. A cross-section of the second skeleton portion is a hollow closed cross-section and a width of the second skeleton portion in the horizontal direction orthogonal to the gaze direction is equal to or less than the standard pupillary distance. The connecting member is transparent and is disposed between the first skeleton portion and the second skeleton portion.