Abstract: A speech recognition apparatus includes a speech detection unit configured to detect a speech input by a user, an information providing unit configured to perform information provision to the user, using either first speech recognition information based on a recognition result of the speech by a first speech recognition unit or second speech recognition information based on a recognition result of the speech by a second speech recognition unit different from the first speech recognition unit, and a selection unit configured to select either the first speech recognition information or the second speech recognition information as speech recognition information to be used by the information providing unit on the basis of an elapsed time from the input of the speech, and change a method of the information provision by the information providing unit.

Abstract: A device casing is configured to include a first casing member provided with a hole including a guide hole and a fitting hole that communicates with the guide hole, and a second casing member provided with a protrusion at a position corresponding to the hole, the second casing member being configured to be fixed with respect to the first casing member by fitting the protrusion to the fitting hole. The guide hole guides movement of the protrusion that entered within the guide hole in an oblique direction when fixing the second casing member with respect to the first casing member so that the second casing member can get close to the first casing member in a state where the second casing member is guided in the oblique direction. The protrusion that moved in the oblique direction along the guide hole, passed through the guide hole and reached inside the fitting hole fits to the fitting hole.

Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a first display; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the first display between a plurality of layouts according to the detected touch operation, the plurality of layouts being different from each other in sizes and a positional relationship of divided regions, the divided regions being obtained by dividing a display screen of the first display into a plurality of divided regions, wherein the layout setting unit displays, on the display screen, a transition process of the plurality of layouts by way of an animation presenting change of the sizes and the positional relationship of the plurality of divided regions.

Abstract: The present invention enables a user to accurately perform operation when the user operates a touch panel of a terminal to control propulsion of a vehicle.

Abstract: To allow an alarm vibration generated by a vibration generator to be recognized by a user through a vibration transmission member. A vehicle alarm device (100) includes a vibration generator (30) configured to generate an alarm vibration having a frequency corresponding to a frequency of a received alarm signal, a vibration transmission member (90) configured to transmit the alarm vibration to a user, a travel situation information acquisition unit (70) configured to acquire travel situation information in accordance with a travel situation of the vehicle, and an alarm signal generator (70) configured to generate the alarm signal such that when the value of the acquired travel situation information is high, a signal to be inputted to the vibration generator (30) includes at least a high-band frequency and such that when the value of the travel situation information is low, the signal to be inputted to the vibration generator (30) includes at least a low-band frequency.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication section; a generation section that based on position information pieces received by the communication section from an in-vehicle device, generates trip data including position information pieces of departure points and arrival points of a vehicle in which the in-vehicle device is mounted; an extraction section that based on the trip data, extracts a plurality of first candidate areas associated with position information pieces set as departure points, a number of which is equal to or exceeding a predetermined value, and for each of the plurality of first candidate areas, second candidate areas associated with position information pieces set as arrival points, a number of which is equal to or exceeding a predetermined value, in a case of departure from the departure points in the first candidate area; an acquisition section that acquires usage information pieces of lands including the first candidate areas and the second candidate areas; and an estimation section tha

Abstract: An in-vehicle processing apparatus that executes control of causing a vehicle to perform automated traveling from a predetermined position to a parking space and causing the vehicle to perform automated entry into the parking space, is configured to include a notification control section that causes a portable electronic device carried by a user to display a parking position notification display in which a position of the parking space entered by the vehicle through the automated entry and the predetermined position are superimposed on an image.

Abstract: A position estimating apparatus including: a position estimating unit that compares a target in first coordinate system data indicating a position of the target by coordinates in a first coordinate system and a target in second coordinate system data indicating a position of the target present around a position estimation object by coordinates in a second coordinate system set based on a position and an attitude of the position estimation object at a predetermined starting timing, and estimates a position of the position estimation object in the first coordinate system based on a comparison result; and a comparison range adjusting unit that shrinks a coordinate range used for the comparison by the position estimating unit in the second coordinate system data when the position estimation object is turning.

Abstract: A route information conversion system includes a route information transmission apparatus and a route information reception apparatus. The route information transmission apparatus includes: a route search unit that generates a search result of a route with reference to first map data; a position reference information generation unit that generates position reference information indicating a road corresponding to the search result; and a peripheral road information generation unit that generates peripheral road information indicating a road branching from the road corresponding to the search result. The route information reception apparatus includes: a route information restoration unit that restores route information on second map data from the position reference information; and a route match determination unit that determines whether the search result on the first map data and the route information on the second map data match each other with reference to the peripheral road information.

Abstract: An information processing device is installed in a vehicle and comprises an action history DB which stores a plurality of action histories including a combination of a content that was played based on an instruction of a user and a situation in which the content was played, and an automatic playing unit which, when a current elapsed time as an elapsed time from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON or a current travel distance as a travel distance from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON matches any one of the action histories of the action history DB, plays a content included in the matching action history.

Abstract: An object is to enable a state of a vehicle to be precisely estimated by a Kalman filter. A navigation system 1 includes an observation unit 21 that observes an observable concerning a variation of the vehicle, based on an output from a sensor, and an estimation unit 22 that estimates a state quantity indicating a state of the vehicle by a Kalman filter, and the estimation unit 22 calculates a prediction value of the state quantity of the vehicle, calculates an error covariance matrix of the prediction value, by the Kalman filter to which an error of the observable is inputted as an error of the state quantity which is in a relation of calculus with the observable, and calculates an estimation value of the state quantity of the vehicle and an error covariance matrix of the estimation value by the Kalman filter, based on the prediction value and the error covariance matrix of the prediction value which are calculated.

Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display region are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a pointer being provided at an intersection of division lines dividing a display screen of a display into three or more divided regions; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the display between a plurality of layouts set in advance according to the detected touch operation performed on the pointer. As a transition process of the plurality of layouts, the layout setting unit moves the pointer and deforms the division lines and the three or more divided regions imitating an elastic object according to drag as the touch operation performed on the pointer.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a sideline detector configured to detect sidelines of boundary lines of parking sections next to each other in a vehicle width direction by an edge detection process to an image, each of the sidelines being a pair of a rising edge and a falling edge, and to acquire an end point of each of the sidelines at which the pair is not detected, a rear-end edge identifying part configured to identify a rear-end edge of the parking section based on an end point away from the vehicle among the end points acquired by the sideline detector, and a parking frame setting portion configured to identify the parking section based on the two sidelines detected by the sideline detector and the rear-end edge identified by the rear-end edge identifying part, and to set a parking frame based on the parking section.

Abstract: Highly precise detection of occurrence of an abnormality in an out-of-service area is enabled. A server 5 includes an area identification unit 24A identifying an out-of-service area in which communication with an information communication device 3 is disabled, a determination unit 24B determining whether the information communication device 3 enters the out-of-service area or not by using the position information of the information communication device 3, a computation unit 24C calculating an expected stay time in which the information communication device 3 stays in the out-of-service area, and a notification control unit 24D executing notification processing for notifying predetermined information to a notification destination if it is determined that the information communication device 3 enters the out-of-service area and when an elapsed time from a time when communication with the information communication device 3 is disabled exceeds the expected stay time.

Abstract: This vehicle control system (1) is configured from a vehicle control device (2) installed in a vehicle and a server (40) connected to the vehicle control device (2) via a network. The server (40) is equipped with: a virtual lane generation section which generates virtual lane information relating to a virtual lane virtually set on a road on the basis of at least the travelling locus of another vehicle other than the vehicle; and a server communication section (42) which transmits, to the vehicle control device, the virtual lane information generated by the virtual lane generation section. The vehicle control device (2) is equipped with: a vehicle communication section (14) which receives the virtual lane information from the server (40); a target course generation section (28) which generates a target course of the vehicle on the basis of the virtual lane information; a vehicle control section (39) which causes the vehicle to move along the target course generated by the target track generation section (28).

Abstract: A white balance adjustment device includes a statistics acquisition portion and a correction portion. The statistics acquisition portion includes an area setting portion including a luminance area setting portion configured to set a plurality of luminance ranges, and an average value calculation portion configured to calculate an average value of color difference values of the image signal in each of the plurality of luminance ranges set by the luminance area setting portion. The correction portion includes a correction function determination portion configured to determine a correction function of the color difference values of the image signal based on the average value of the color difference values calculated by the average value calculation portion, and a color difference correction portion configured to correct the color difference values of the image signal based on the correction function determined by the correction function determination portion.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted image processing device 1000 acquires an image around a host vehicle 10, senses a feature amount of a target object present on a road surface from the image, and relative position coordinates with respect to the host vehicle 10, acquires information of a three-dimensional object around the host vehicle 10 and relative position coordinates of the three-dimensional object, distinguishes whether the feature amount is a feature amount of a feature on the road surface or a feature amount of a feature on the three-dimensional object by using a positional relationship between the feature amount and the three-dimensional object, and recognizes the target object by using a feature on the road surface. As a result, a vehicle-mounted image processing device, which is capable of avoiding misrecognition of a part of a three-dimensional object as a target object when sensing the target object present on a road surface such as a parking bay by using a camera image, is provided.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device 4 includes an image acquisition unit 42 that acquires an image photographed by a camera 2 including a lens, a storage unit 7, a dirt detection unit 6 that detects dirt on the lens on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquisition unit 42 and that stores dirt region information indicating a region where the dirt exists in the image into the storage unit 7, a dirt removal information generation unit 8 that generates dirt removal information indicating a region where the dirt on the lens is removed, and a rewriting unit 12 that rewrites the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information. Accordingly, it is possible to rewrite the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information.

Abstract: A cleaning device configured to clean a lens includes a piping, a member having a flow path connected to the piping and a discharge outlet configured to discharge fluid flowed from the piping into the flow path toward the lens, and a drive part configured to change a position on the lens where the fluid is sprayed by moving the member with respect to the lens with the discharge outlet facing the lens while the fluid is discharged from the discharge outlet.

Abstract: A display control device is disposed in a vehicle in which a camera photographing a first captured image indicating an image on a rear right side of the vehicle and a display displaying the first captured image are mounted. The display control device includes an image acquiring unit acquiring the first captured image from the camera and a display control unit controlling the first captured image displayed on the display. The display control unit causes the display to display one of a narrow angle image indicating a part of the first captured image and a wide angle image indicating an image in a range wider than the narrow angle image in the first captured image and to display the first captured image such that a size of a first region in displaying the wide angle image is larger than a size of the first region displaying the narrow angle image.