Abstract: A control apparatus for an object moving in a specific zone while recognizing one or more markers deployed in the specific zone by a camera. The control apparatus is configured to execute detecting whether or not that the specific zone or surroundings of the object is darker than a specified brightness, and when detecting that the specific zone or the surroundings of the object is darker than the specified brightness, operating a lighting device installed in the object to illuminate the one or more markers located around the object.

Abstract: A control device that executes display control to perform emphasis display of a preceding vehicle, includes a detection unit that detects a candidate vehicle for a following target from among a plurality of the preceding vehicles; a calculation unit that calculates, a reduction effect of energy consumption to be obtained when traveling following the candidate vehicle; and an emphasis display setting unit that performs setting for performing emphasis display of the candidate vehicle. Further, when the display control is executed, the emphasis display of the candidate vehicle is performed according to a degree of emphasis set by the emphasis display setting unit.

Abstract: A machine learning method performs training of values of model parameters forming a machine learning model, and is performed in a machine learning system including a vehicle having the machine learning model and a server able to communicate with the vehicle. The machine learning method includes: detecting, by the server, a current processing load of the server; determining, by the server, processing amounts of training respectively performed by the server and the vehicle, based on the processing load; performing, by the server, training of the values of the model parameters in accordance with the determined processing amount in the server; and performing, by the vehicle, training of the values of the model parameters in accordance with the determined processing amount in the vehicle. The server decreases a processing amount at the server when the processing load is relatively high compared to when it is relatively low.

Abstract: A server includes a communication device and a processor. The communication device obtains a power rate unit price dependent on a region where external charging is performed and a time slot when external charging is performed. The processor calculates a first power rate indicating a power rate when the external charging is performed with a first power feeding facility provided at a departure place before departure of a vehicle, calculates a second power rate indicating a power rate when the external charging is performed with a second power feeding facility provided in the vicinity of a traveling route after departure of the vehicle, and when the second power rate is lower than the first power rate, reduces an amount of power feeding during the external charging with the first power feeding facility, as compared with when the second power rate is equal to or higher than the first power rate.

Abstract: A running mode proposal device for proposing a running mode up to a destination of a vehicle is configured to: select a first running route by a predetermined algorithm unrelated to noncontact power supply; project, when assuming the vehicle runs on a predetermined running route, a value of a parameter relating to an electric energy projected as being supplied at a power supply section on the running route to the vehicle; select a second running route by which a projected supplied electric energy will be greater than a predetermined standard electric energy if the projected value of the parameter when assuming the vehicle runs on the first running route is a value indicating the projected supplied electric energy is less than the standard electric energy; and propose, as the running route, the first running route, and, when the second running route is selected, further proposing a second running route.

Abstract: A computing device includes a CPU and a memory. A vehicle travels by consuming first electric power and second electric power. The first electric power is electric power, generation of a unit amount of which causes emission of a first amount of carbon dioxide. The second electric power is electric power, generation of a unit amount of which causes emission of a second amount of carbon dioxide, the second amount being smaller than the first amount. The CPU creates a charging plan based on a first ratio occupied by the second electric power in electric power supplied from a first charging position on a travel route of the vehicle.

Abstract: An ECU controls a vehicle including a power reception unit that can wirelessly receive electric power from a power feeding facility placed on a travel road. The ECU includes a memory in which a user-desired condition is stored, the user-desired condition being a condition under which a user of the vehicle desires on-road power reception, the on-road power reception being power reception from the power feeding facility placed on the travel road, and a processor connected to the memory. When a physical condition for power feeding from the power feeding facility to the vehicle is satisfied and when the user-desired condition stored in the memory is not satisfied, the processor controls the power reception unit to suppress on-road power reception.

Abstract: A vehicle configured to be able to suitably judge whether to be supplied with power by noncontact while running, that is, a vehicle configured to receive power from a ground power supplying apparatus by noncontact, comprising a control device for controlling reception of power from the ground power supplying apparatus while running based on charging scheduled after the vehicle finishes running.

Abstract: A vehicle includes: a controller; a power receiving device that contactlessly receives power from a power transmitting facility; a battery chargeable using the power received by the power receiving device; and a power transmitting device that contactlessly outputs, to another vehicle, the power received by the power receiving device. The other vehicle contactlessly receives power from each of the power transmitting facility and the power transmitting device. When the other vehicle is unable to contactlessly receive the power from the power transmitting facility, the controller controls the power transmitting device to contactlessly output the power received by the power receiving device to the other vehicle in accordance with a request from the other vehicle.

Abstract: A signal emitting apparatus provided in a vehicle to which power is transferred from a ground side power supplying apparatus by noncontact, includes: a signal emitting device for emitting a signal including information relating to the vehicle wirelessly toward the ground side power supplying apparatus; an outside environment acquiring part for acquiring information relating to an outside environment at surroundings of the ground side power supplying apparatus; and a control part for controlling the signal emitting device. The control part changes a mode of wireless signal emission of the signal emitting device in accordance with the outside environment.

Abstract: A vehicle receiving power from a ground power supplying apparatus by noncontact includes: a vehicle side first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by utilizing wide area wireless communication; a vehicle side second communication device for directly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by utilizing short range wireless communication; and a control device for making the vehicle side first communication device transmit vehicle information tied with vehicle identification information to the ground power supplying apparatus and making the vehicle side second communication device transmit the vehicle identification information to the ground power supplying apparatus after the vehicle side first communication device transmits the vehicle information, when the vehicle receives power from the ground power supplying apparatus.

Abstract: The power supply control device includes a processor configured to request noncontact power supply from the power supply apparatus to the vehicle; confirm an intention to utilize a noncontact power supply with an occupant of the vehicle, and stop the request for noncontact power supply if the occupant does not have the intention to utilize.

Abstract: The offer device includes a processor configured to offer candidate vehicles for reservation to a user through a user terminal, and determine a possibility of an area in which operation of an internal combustion engine is banned or restricted being included in a planned running route of the user. The processor is configured to determine an offer mode of the candidate vehicles for reservation based on the possibility.

Abstract: A ridesharing management system which enables a plurality of users using a ridesharing service to share a vehicle as passengers, wherein the vehicle is comprised of a hybrid vehicle, and a boundary is established between the inside of an engine restricted zone in which operation of an internal combustion engine is restricted and the outside of the engine restricted zone. It is predicted whether the SOC amount of the battery will become less than a setting value during travel in the engine restricted zone if traveling through a stop in the engine restricted zone and a stop outside the engine restricted zone due to a pick-up request or drop-off request from a user. A route order that does not result in the SOC amount of the battery becoming less than the setting value during travel in the engine restricted zone is suggested.

Abstract: An alarm device adapted for a hybrid vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor is disclosed. A restriction zone, in which the operation of the internal combustion engine should be restricted, is defined in advance within a zone in which the vehicle can move. An alarm is issued by an alarm device in response to determining that the SOC of a battery of a vehicle, which is about to enter the restriction zone, is lower than a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A vehicle control device including processor being configured to, when driving sections are present inside a restricted region, extract as a restricted driving section from among driving sections present inside the restricted region a driving section through which it is projected the vehicle will be driven in a restricted time period in which operation of internal combustion engines is restricted, and prepare a driving plan able to drive through the restricted driving section in the EV mode.

Abstract: A control system for a hybrid vehicle with an internal combustion engine and an electric motor includes a zone in which the hybrid vehicle can move is divided in advance into a restriction zone in which the operation of the internal combustion engine should be restricted, and an allowable zone in which the operation of the internal combustion engine is permitted. A new route is computed if an SOC of a battery of the hybrid vehicle is lower than a predetermined threshold value while the hybrid vehicle is located within the restriction zone when the hybrid vehicle moves along a computed route, or if the SOC is predicted to be lower than the threshold value while the hybrid vehicle is located within the restriction zone when the hybrid vehicle is assumed to move along the computed route.

Abstract: A boundary is at an engine drive restricted zone where operation of the internal combustion engine is restricted. An adjusting device adjusts of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin using electric power, the humidity inside the cabin using electric power, or the air pollution degree inside the cabin. In response to a prediction that (1) a host vehicle will enter the inside of the engine drive restricted zone and that (2a) the time period for the host vehicle to reach the boundary is within a preset time period or that (2b) the distance between the host vehicle and the boundary is within a preset distance, the value of at least one of the temperature inside the cabin, the humidity inside the cabin, and the air pollution degree inside the cabin is reduced before the host vehicle enters the inside of the engine drive restricted zone.

Abstract: The control device of a vehicle includes a position estimating part configured to estimate a position of the vehicle, and a power output part configured to control the internal combustion engine and the electric motor to output power for running use. The power output part is configured to determine a startup position of the internal combustion engine of the vehicle when the vehicle exits from a low emission zone requesting the internal combustion engine be stopped so that startup positions of internal combustion engines of a plurality of vehicles are dispersed at surroundings of the low emission zone.

Abstract: A control device includes a processor configured to: acquire a remaining capacity of a mobile terminal; and control a charger configured to charge the mobile terminal to charge the mobile terminal in a case where the remaining capacity of the mobile terminal is equal to or less than a predetermined value.