Abstract: A driver assistance system according to the present invention has an other-vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires travel direction information of an other-vehicle; a storage unit in which a spot where the visibility of a driver in a vehicle is reduced and information on a direction, associated with the spot, in which the visibility of the driver of the vehicle is reduced are stored in association with each other; a visibility determination unit that determines whether or not the visibility of a driver in the other-vehicle is reduced on the basis of the travel direction information acquired by the other-vehicle information acquisition unit and the information on the direction in which the visibility is reduced stored in the storage unit; and a warning processing unit that warns a driver of an own-vehicle that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced if the visibility determination unit determines that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced.

Abstract: A collision risk calculation device includes: a movement information obtaining unit that obtains a speed and a movement direction of an obstacle; and a risk map generator that generates a risk map indicating a range within which the obstacle can exist after one unit of time and degree of risk of collision of an own vehicle with the obstacle within the range, on a basis of the speed and the movement direction of the obstacle obtained by the movement information obtaining unit, wherein the risk map generator changes the range in left and right directions with respect to a traveling direction of the obstacle, on a basis of the speed of the obstacle in the traveling direction.

Abstract: A driving assist apparatus includes an image acquisition part to acquire a captured image around a vehicle, a position information acquisition part to acquire position information of a first object existing around the vehicle and detected by a sensor, a detection range determination part to determine a detection range of the first object within the captured image based on the position information of the first object, and an object recognition part to perform image processing on, within the captured image, an image existing in a range other than the detection range of the first object, thereby to recognize a second object that is different from the first object. Hence, a processing time taken for recognizing the second object from the captured image can be shortened.

Abstract: The present invention provides an edge detection apparatus, an edge detection method, and a program that are capable of improving the rate of detection of edges for edges having small variations in image information in an image.

Abstract: A driving-support-image generation device of the present invention includes: a driving-support-image memory that stores a plurality of driving-support images each indicative of a message content of a messaging object posted on a road or around a road; and an image generator that selects from among the driving-support images stored in the driving-support-image memory, one or plural driving-support images on the basis of a pre-set order of priority, and generates using the thus-selected driving-support images, an image to be displayed on a display in a vehicle.

Abstract: A driving-support-image generation device of the present invention comprises: a character recognizer that recognizes a character in an image indicative of a message content of a messaging object posted on a road or around a road; and an image processor that generates, based on the character recognized by the character recognizer and driving-support information related to the character, a driving-support image obtained by modifying the image of the messaging object into an image matched to the driving-support information.

Abstract: A moving image display includes a data forming unit 10 for extracting encoded data from received data; a decoding unit 13 for decoding moving image data from the encoded data extracted by the data forming unit 10, and for detecting not only error information at the decoding, but also visual characteristic information indicating a feature of a picture to be displayed; a storage unit 14 for storing the moving image data decoded by the decoding unit 13 as still image data; and a switching control unit 15 for outputting, as display data, the moving image data decoded by the decoding unit 13 or the still image data stored in the storage unit 14 in accordance with the error information and visual characteristic information detected by the decoding unit 13.

Abstract: A broadcast receiver stores history information about switching between sending-out stations, the history information including broadcast display state information, in a storage unit 7 while bringing the history information into correspondence with position information about a position of a vehicle, and compares current broadcast display state information acquired at a current position of the vehicle with broadcast display state information in history information which is extracted from the storage unit 7 and which corresponds to a position which is the same as the current position to determine that a sending-out station corresponding to history information which provides a display state which is the same as the display state of a broadcast wave currently being received as the vehicle travels is a switching destination.

Abstract: A display control device is provided with a switch for selecting whether to permit or not to permit an operation of displaying a second display source on a second display by an operational instruction of a first input device, and only when the switch is set to an operable condition, the display control device performs display control of the second display source on the second display by the operational instruction of the first input device.