Abstract: A map display device includes a position information acquiring unit for acquiring the present position of a vehicle; a map data storage unit for storing map data; a remaining energy acquiring unit for acquiring a residual quantity of energy for driving the vehicle and equipment mounted on the vehicle; a range calculating unit for computing a range the vehicle can travel with the remaining energy, using a moving energy consumption rate which is energy consumption per unit time required for moving the vehicle and a driving energy consumption rate Eci which is energy consumption per unit time required for driving the equipment mounted on the vehicle; and an output control unit for displaying the range on a map using the map data.

Abstract: A virtual image display 2 can display a display object being a virtual image which can be visually recognized from a driver's seat of a vehicle through a windshield in a virtual image position defined by a virtual image direction which is a direction of the virtual image on a basis of a specific position of the vehicle and a virtual image distance which is a distance to the virtual image on a basis of the specific position. A display control device 1 includes a relative position acquisition part 11 obtaining a relative position of an information-to-be-provided object which is a point or a feature associated with information with which a driver of the vehicle is provided, using the display object, and the vehicle and a controller 13 controlling a display of the virtual image display 2. The controller 13 changes a virtual image distance of the display object in accordance with the relative position of the information-to-be-provided object corresponding to the display object and the vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a conversion object acquirer and a message converter. The conversion object acquirer acquires a message in a car, which is transmitted and received in the car between an information terminal for driver seat and any other information terminal, as a conversion object message, during a period from the time when the message is generated by a transmitting-end terminal to the time when the message is provided to a user by a receiving-end terminal. The message converter determines the type of a message conversion process on the basis of terminal attribute information of the receiving-end terminal and converts the conversion object message in accordance with the message conversion process which is determined, to thereby acquire a converted message.

Abstract: A virtual image display can display a display object being a virtual image which can be visually recognized from a driver's seat of a vehicle through a windshield in a virtual image position defined by a virtual image direction which is a direction of the virtual image and a virtual image distance which is a distance to the virtual image. A display control device includes a relative position acquisition part obtaining a relative position of an information-to-be-provided object which is a point or a feature associated with information with which a driver of the vehicle is provided, using the display object, and the vehicle and a controller controlling a display of the virtual image display. The controller changes a virtual image distance of the display object in accordance with the relative position of the information-to-be-provided object corresponding to the display object and the vehicle.

Abstract: A virtual image display can display a display object being a virtual image in a virtual image position determined by a virtual image direction which is a direction of the virtual image and a virtual image distance which is a distance to the virtual image. A display control device includes a relative position acquisition part for obtaining a relative position of an attention object and the vehicle and a controller for controlling a display of the virtual image display. When the controller displays the visual guidance object which is a display object to guide a visual line of a driver to the attention object, the controller changes the virtual image direction and the virtual image distance of the visual guidance object in accordance with time so that the visual guidance object seems to move toward the position of the attention object as viewed from the driver.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that enables to adequately alert a driver to an attention target. The display control apparatus is provided with: an information acquisition unit for acquiring attention information that includes at least any one of a property of an attention target to which a driver of a vehicle that is traveling should be alerted, a relative position and a relative direction, with respect to the vehicle, of the attention target; and a control unit. The control unit controls, on the basis of the attention information acquired by the information acquisition unit, at least a virtual image distance from between the virtual image distance and a virtual image direction of a corresponding display object that is a display object corresponding to the attention target.

Abstract: A map display method display a plurality of drawing pictures. The device and the method facilitate comprehension of relevance between drawing objects included in the drawing pictures. The map display device includes an input/display unit receiving user operation input related to drawing picture display and displays a first drawing object related to map information in a first drawing picture and a second drawing object related to map relevant information in a second drawing picture; and a controller controlling an overlapping state between the first drawing picture and the second drawing picture in accordance with input of user operation received by the input/display unit and outputs, to the input/display unit, a picture in which one of the first and second drawing objects masks the other one in a portion where the first and second drawing pictures are overlapped with each other.

Abstract: Infrastructure clarity of a planned section that is a road section included in a planned travel route is specified based on infrastructure clarity information. The infrastructure clarity is clarity of a road infrastructure that is used as a detection object by a lane detection apparatus. The infrastructure clarity information is information recording the infrastructure clarity for a plurality of lanes for one-way traffic on a per road section basis. A road link used in a map database is adopted as the road section. Control contents of autonomous travel in the planned travel route are set based on the infrastructure clarity of the planned section and an autonomy level condition. The autonomy level condition is a condition by which control contents at a higher level are selected among a plurality of autonomy levels as the infrastructure clarity becomes higher.

Abstract: A vehicle projection control device of the present invention includes: a projection controller that controls a projection device to project an image to a surrounding of an own vehicle; a connection point detector that detects a connection point between a road on which the own vehicle is traveling (own vehicle traveling road) and another road (connected road) connected to the own vehicle traveling road; and an overlapping traveling area detector that detects an overlapping traveling area at the connection point. The overlapping traveling area is an area that permits traveling of both another vehicle to enter the connection point from a connected road and the own vehicle. The projection controller projects an image to the overlapping traveling area detected by the overlapping traveling area detector by using the projection device.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method for displaying a plurality of map drawing pictures so as to improve convenience for a user. The map display device according to the present invention includes an input/display unit that receives input of user operation and displaying a first drawing object related to map information in a first drawing picture and a second drawing object related to map information in a second drawing picture; and a controller for controlling an overlapping state between the first drawing picture and a partial area of the second drawing picture in accordance with input of user operation received by the input/display unit and outputting, to the input/display unit, a picture in which the second drawing object masks the first drawing object in such an overlapped portion.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a tactile sensation control system and a tactile sensation control method. The system includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: acquiring operation area information on at least one operation area for operation by the user on the operation surface and on an operation type corresponding to the operation area, and controlling the tactile sensation on the operation surface so that the operation area in the acquired operation area information causes the user to have a tactile sensation according to the operation type corresponding to the operation area. The operation area includes a gesture operation area receiving a gesture operation by the user, and an icon operation area receiving an icon operation by the user.

Abstract: An information display control system includes: a display controller that makes a display unit of an own vehicle display an image; an own vehicle position acquiring part that acquires position information about the own vehicle; a feature data acquiring part that acquires feature data including position information about a feature; and a difficult-to-visually-recognize feature detector that detects a difficult-to-visually-recognize feature that is a feature existing in a position where the feature is visually recognizable from the own vehicle but in a state of being difficult to recognize visually. The display controller makes the display unit display an image indicating the position of a difficult-to-visually-recognize feature based on the position information about the feature included in the feature data and the position information about the own vehicle acquired by the own vehicle position acquiring part.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a tactile sensation control system and a tactile sensation control method, which allow a user to perform convenient operation with no visual concentration on a display screen. The system includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: detecting an operation by the user to the operation surface, and controlling, when it is detected in the detecting that the user is operating one of an icon operation and a gesture operation, the tactile sensation on the operation surface while the user is operating the one of the icon operation and the gesture operation so that a tactile sensation on an area receiving the one of the icon operation and the gesture operation changes with a lapse of time in accordance with a predetermined tactile sensation change rule.

Abstract: A map display device includes a position information acquiring unit for acquiring the present position of a vehicle; a map data storage unit for storing map data; a remaining energy acquiring unit for acquiring a residual quantity of energy for driving the vehicle and equipment mounted on the vehicle; a range calculating unit for computing a range the vehicle can travel with the remaining energy, using a moving energy consumption rate which is energy consumption per unit time required for moving the vehicle and a driving energy consumption rate Eci which is energy consumption per unit time required for driving the equipment mounted on the vehicle; and an output control unit for displaying the range on a map using the map data.

Abstract: A map display device includes a position information acquiring unit for acquiring the present position of a vehicle; a map data storage unit for storing map data; a remaining energy acquiring unit for acquiring a residual quantity of energy for driving the vehicle and equipment mounted on the vehicle; a range calculating unit for computing a range the vehicle can travel with the remaining energy, using a moving energy consumption rate which is energy consumption per unit time required for moving the vehicle and a driving energy consumption rate Eci which is energy consumption per unit time required for driving the equipment mounted on the vehicle; and an output control unit for displaying the range on a map using the map data.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an information providing system and an information providing method capable of providing information with high reliability, and provide an information equipment capable of transmitting information which contributes to the information to be provided by the information providing system, to the information providing system. The information providing system of the present invention includes a processor to execute a program and a memory to store the program. The program, when executed by the processor, performs processes of acquiring facility use information and service providing information, checking the facility use information with the service providing information, and updating availability information indicating an availability state of the facility on the basis of a check result obtained in the checking. The checking includes checking the facility use information with the service providing information on a one-to-one basis.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method that facilitate comprehension of relevance between drawing objects in a plurality of map drawing pictures and improve user operability. The map display device according to the present invention includes: a controller that controls an overlapping state between the first and second drawing pictures in accordance with the input of user operation and outputting, to a display unit, a picture in which one of the first and second drawing objects masks the other in a portion in which the first and second drawing pictures overlap each other. The controller controls the overlapping state to prevent the priority drawing object in the first drawing picture from becoming invisible in the drawing picture display.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus that acquires position information regarding a specific information device enables its own position relative to the specific information device to be easily grasped. The navigation apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with the specific information device, an own position calculator that calculates its own position, an other person's position acquiring unit that acquires the position of the specific information device via the communication unit, an other person's moving direction acquiring unit that obtains a moving direction of the specific information device, and a display/input unit configured to display a map. The display/input unit displays a map with the moving direction of the specific information device oriented up.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus that is capable of generating a vehicle approach notification sound in a suitable range according to a vehicle speed. The vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus of the present invention is characterized by including a vehicle speed calculating unit that calculates a vehicle speed, a vehicle external speaker that outputs a vehicle approach notification sound for notifying of approach of the vehicle, and a general controller that controls a directivity angle width representing a breadth of directivity of the vehicle approach notification sound or a directivity direction of the vehicle approach notification sound, wherein the general controller controls the directivity angle width or the directivity direction according to the speed calculated by the vehicle speed calculating unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus that communicates with another vehicle so as to be capable of generating a vehicle approach notification sound different from another vehicle.