Abstract: A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.

Abstract: A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to detect whether or not a vehicle that is about to use a facility is under share ride by a plurality of persons, and permit the vehicle to use the facility or providing an economic merit associated with usage of the facility to the vehicle, when having detected that the vehicle is under share ride.

Abstract: A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.

Abstract: A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.

Abstract: A vehicle is configured to be capable of traveling on a road, and includes: a control unit that controls each unit constituting the vehicle; and a projection unit that is capable of projecting an image on the road by control from the control unit, and the projection unit projects a road marking on the road. The road marking is a crosswalk or a marking for traveling of a particular vehicle. The vehicle further includes a traffic signal unit that selectively outputs a color of at least two different colors by control from the control unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute the processing of obtaining specific information, from a vehicle having an advertisement display unit, which is to be used to distribute an advertisement to be displayed by the advertisement display unit on the outside of the vehicle, selecting a plurality of vehicles based on the specific information, and controlling the plurality of vehicles to cause their advertisement display units to display the advertisement cooperatively.

Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to identify a plurality of vehicles which enters a parking lot by analyzing an image which is captured at an entrance of the parking lot, to select parking positions which are different in the parking lot and in which moving routes from the entrance of the parking lot to the parking positions do not interfere with movement and parking of other vehicles in the parking lot for the plurality of vehicles, and to transmit the selected parking positions and the moving routes to the parking positions to the plurality of vehicles.

Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.

Abstract: A vehicle is configured to be capable of traveling on a road, and includes: a control unit that controls each unit constituting the vehicle; and a projection unit that is capable of projecting an image on the road by control from the control unit, and the projection unit projects a road marking on the road. The road marking is a crosswalk or a marking for traveling of a particular vehicle. The vehicle further includes a traffic signal unit that selectively outputs a color of at least two different colors by control from the control unit.

Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a memory and a processor that includes hardware. The processor is configured to select a first parking position in a parking lot for a vehicle which is able to travel autonomously and from which an occupant has alighted in an alighting space provided in an entrance of the parking lot, to cause the vehicle to travel autonomously from the alighting space to the first parking position and to park at the first parking position by transmitting information of the first parking position to the vehicle, and to cause the vehicle to travel autonomously from the first parking position to the second parking position and to park at the second parking position based on information which is received from a terminal which is carried by the occupant.

Abstract: A parking lot management device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to identify a plurality of vehicles which enters a parking lot by analyzing an image which is captured at an entrance of the parking lot, to select parking positions which are different in the parking lot and in which moving routes from the entrance of the parking lot to the parking positions do not interfere with movement and parking of other vehicles in the parking lot for the plurality of vehicles, and to transmit the selected parking positions and the moving routes to the parking positions to the plurality of vehicles.

Abstract: A road abnormality detection apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor having hardware, wherein the processor is configured to: receive, from a traveling vehicle, a road image indicating an image of a surface of a road or a periphery of the road and image capturing position information indicating a position where the road image is captured; recognize a road facility included in the road image and a position of the road facility based on the road image and the image capturing position information; determine whether or not abnormality exists in the road facility by comparing the road facility included in the road image and correctness information that is prepared in advance; and accumulate, in the memory, facility position information indicating the position of the road facility that the abnormality exists in when it is determined that the abnormality exists in the road facility.

Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute the processing of acquiring information relating to the circumstances of travelling of a vehicle that is capable of outputting an advertisement by a display apparatus arranged to face outward, determining the amount of information of the advertisement to be output on the basis of the circumstances of travelling, and selecting the advertisement to be output to the display apparatus on the basis of the amount of information thus determined.

Abstract: A controller provided at an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire information indicating driving history regarding traveling of a vehicle, specify a traveling section having a distance equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, in which the vehicle repeatedly travels at a frequency equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency, on the basis of the information indicating the driving history, and send a notification to a driver of the vehicle for encouraging the driver to provide ride sharing using the vehicle in the specified traveling section.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to execute the processing of obtaining specific information, from a vehicle having an advertisement display unit, which is to be used to distribute an advertisement to be displayed by the advertisement display unit on the outside of the vehicle, selecting a plurality of vehicles based on the specific information, and controlling the plurality of vehicles to cause their advertisement display units to display the advertisement cooperatively.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for displaying an advertisement using one or more vehicles having a display apparatus provided on the outside, including a control unit configured to execute processing comprising the step of obtaining location information of a first user who sees the advertisement, the first finding step of finding a first advertisement-displaying vehicle located in the vicinity of the first user, the second finding step of finding a second advertisement-displaying vehicle on the basis of a designation by the first user, and the display step of sending the advertisement displayed by the first advertisement-displaying vehicle to the second advertisement-displaying vehicle to display the advertisement by the second advertisement-displaying vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to execute the processing of: acquiring information relating to the environment around a vehicle that is capable of outputting an advertisement by a plurality of outwardly facing display apparatuses provided at different positions; selecting a display apparatus to which the advertisement is to be output from among the plurality of display apparatuses on the basis of the environment around the vehicle; and outputting the advertisement to the selected display apparatus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises a storage unit configured to store travel record information that contains identification data of advertisements displayed respectively by display apparatuses provided on a plurality of vehicles and records of location information of the vehicles by which the advertisements are displayed, the identification data of the advertisements and the records of location information being associated with each other; a controller configured to: receive a data retrieval request sent from a user terminal and containing information about the location of the user terminal, pick up one or more vehicles located close to the user terminal on the basis of the data retrieval request and the travel record information, create a list of advertisements displayed by the picked-up vehicles, and send the list of advertisements to the user terminal.