Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.

Abstract: A guidance device according to the present invention is installed in a movable body, the guidance device includes: an output device including a display device; an input device that receives an operation performed by an occupant of the movable body for starting each of a plurality of driving assistance functions installed in the movable body; and a guidance control device that determines whether the movable body is in a stopping period or in a traveling period, and allows the display device to display a video for explaining any one of the plurality of driving assistance functions when the movable body is in the stopping period.

Abstract: An information management device for managing information provided to a plurality of first devices mounted on a mobile object that an occupant boards and a second device used by a user at a location different from the mobile object includes a processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program to acquire information from the plurality of first devices and the second device, match any one of the plurality of first devices with the second device, receive a designation of the user for setting any one of the plurality of first devices as a matching target of the second device, and switch the matching target of the second device when a designation of the user for setting any one of the plurality of first devices as the matching target of the second device already matched with the first device is received.

Abstract: An information management device according to the embodiment is an information management device that manages information provided to a first device mounted on a mobile object that an occupant has boarded and a second device used by a user at a location different from the mobile object, and includes an acquirer configured to acquire information from the first device and the second device, and a provider configured to provide each of the first device and the second device with information on the basis of the information acquired, in which the acquirer acquires an indoor image and an outdoor image of the mobile object using the first device, and acquires operation information of the user using the second device, and the provider switches between the indoor image and the outdoor image and provides the second device with a switching result when an operation of the user is a predetermined operation.

Abstract: An information management device according to the embodiment is an information management device that manages information provided to a first device mounted on a mobile object on which an occupant boards and a second device used by a user at a location different from the mobile object, and includes an acquirer configured to acquire information from the first device and the second device, and a provider configured to provide each of the first device and the second device with information based on the information acquired, in which the information acquired by the first device includes an indoor image of the mobile object, an outdoor image, and indoor voice information of the mobile object, and the provider provides the second device with information set to be available among the indoor image, the outdoor image, and the indoor voice information based on provision availability information set by the occupant.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first device that is mounted in a mobile object which an occupant boards and a second device that is used by a user at a place different from the mobile object. The first device includes a first communication device configured to communicate with a second communication device of the second device and a camera unit including one or more cameras. The second device includes the second communication device configured to communicate with the first communication device, a detection device configured to detect an orientation direction of the user, and a display device configured to display an image corresponding to the orientation direction when seen from the predetermined seat out of images captured by the camera unit. The second device identifies a sight area to which a sightline of the user is directed in the image, and the first device displays the sight area received via the first communication device in a predetermined mode on a display device.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first device that is mounted on a mobile object boarded by an occupant, and a second device that is used by a user at a location different from the mobile object, in which the first device includes a first speaker configured to output a voice uttered by the user, and a camera unit that is provided on a predetermined seat of the mobile object and has one or more cameras including at least an indoor camera capable of capturing an image of an interior of the mobile object viewed from the predetermined seat, the second device includes a detection device for detecting an orientation direction, which is a face orientation or gaze direction, of the user, and a display device configured to display an image corresponding to the orientation direction viewed from the predetermined seat among images captured by the camera unit.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first device that is mounted in a mobile object which an occupant boards and a second device that is used by a user at a place different from the mobile object. The first device includes a first communication device configured to communicate with a second communication device of the second device and a camera unit. The second device includes the second communication device configured to communicate with the first communication device, a detection device configured to detect an orientation direction and a gesture of the user, and a display device configured to display an image corresponding to the orientation direction when seen from the predetermined seat out of images captured by the camera unit. The second device determines an operation unit of the mobile object oriented by the user and operation details on the operation unit from the image on the basis of the detected orientation direction and the detected gesture.

Abstract: An information process system includes: a first apparatus that is provided on a movable body on which an occupant boards; and a second apparatus that is used by a user at a place different from the movable body. The first apparatus includes: a first communication device that communicates with a second communication device of the second apparatus; and a camera unit that is capable of capturing an image of the inside and the outside of the movable body.

Abstract: An information processing device mounted in a moving object includes a display device having a display display a person image indicating a person or a character corresponding to the person and capable of adjusting a position of the display so that an occupant of a backseat is shown in a mirror when an occupant of a driver's seat or a front passenger seat of the moving object visually recognizes the display on the assumption that the display is the mirror and the occupant is sitting in the backseat of the moving object and a control device control a first speaker within the moving object so that a sound is output from a direction of the backseat when the display is allowed to display a service image including the person image in which the person or the character is sitting in the backseat of the moving object.

Abstract: In a robot control system, the operation of a mobile robot that moves autonomously inside a facility is controlled based at least on an image captured by a photographing device that photographs a blind area located at a blind angle to the mobile robot. When entry of the mobile robot into a predetermined area corresponding to the blind area is detected, the amount of information obtainable from an image captured by the photographing device is increased.

Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of transport robots that is travelable autonomously in a facility. The robot control system: acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot; acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot; determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information; and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.

Abstract: A mobile robot receives first transmission information transmitted from a server device to manage the mobile robot in a state where wireless communication with the server device is possible, directly executes wireless communication with another mobile robot among the mobile robots and executes a reception process of receiving the first transmission information transmitted from the server device to manage the mobile robot from the other mobile robot in a case where wireless communication with the server device is not possible.

Abstract: A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processing circuit configured to segment an original bit sequence into a plurality of input blocks each having a first block length, create a random bit sequence, encrypt respective ones of the plurality of input blocks with a block cipher scheme using a key (having a key length larger than the first block length) based on the random bit sequence to derive intermediate blocks, concatenate every predetermined number of intermediate blocks to form one or more output blocks, compute an invertible transformation function on the one or more output blocks and the random bit sequence to derive a further output block, and output an encrypted bit sequence including those output blocks.

Abstract: A guidance device according to the present invention is installed in a movable body, the guidance device includes: an output device including a display device; an input device that receives an operation performed by an occupant of the movable body for starting each of a plurality of driving assistance functions installed in the movable body; and a guidance control device that determines whether the movable body is in a stopping period or in a traveling period, and allows the display device to display a video for explaining any one of the plurality of driving assistance functions when the movable body is in the stopping period.

Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes a processing circuit configured to segment an original bit sequence into a plurality of input blocks each having a first block length, create a random bit sequence, encrypt respective ones of the plurality of input blocks with a block cipher scheme using a key (having a key length larger than the first block length) based on the random bit sequence to derive intermediate blocks, concatenate every predetermined number of intermediate blocks to form one or more output blocks, compute an invertible transformation function on the one or more output blocks and the random bit sequence to derive a further output block, and output an encrypted bit sequence including those output blocks.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a permeability sensor configured to detect information on magnetic permeability of developer contained in a developer container for detecting toner density of the developer, and a controller configured to control a control voltage applied to the permeability sensor so that (i) a value of the control voltage that is applied to the permeability sensor in a case where a predetermined condition including a condition that the toner density of the developer contained in the developer container is a predetermined density is satisfied and an amount of the developer contained in the developer container is a first amount is greater than (ii) a value of the control voltage applied to the permeability sensor in a case where the predetermined condition is satisfied and the amount of the developer contained in the developer container is a second amount greater than the first amount.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control portion, and in a first period from when use of a developing apparatus is started until when an amount of developer in a developing device reaches a predetermined amount larger than an amount of initial developer, when an amount of developer supplied from a supplying portion through a single supplying operation in an image forming operation is larger than a predetermined supplied amount, the control portion interrupts the image forming operation and drives a conveyance portion for a predetermined time. In a second period after the amount of the developer reaches the predetermined amount, when an amount of the supplying developer supplied through a single supplying operation in the image forming operation is larger than the predetermined supplied amount, the control portion continues the image forming operation without interruption.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container, a developing sleeve, a magnet and grooves provided at a surface of the sleeve and formed along a direction crossing a circumferential direction of the sleeve. In a cross-section, each of the grooves is formed by a flat bottom portion contacting a carrier particle and a pair of side surface portions provided in both sides of the flat bottom portion with respect to the circumferential direction of the sleeve and satisfies the following relationship: r<w<2r, 2×r<L, and r/2?s<2r. In the above, r is a volume-average particle size of the carrier particles, w is a length of the flat bottom portion, L is a width between the side surface portions at the surface of the sleeve, and s is a depth of each of the grooves.