Abstract: Because a road surface illumination apparatus is configured so as to include a vehicle state detector 3 configured to detect the traveling direction of a vehicle on the basis of vehicle information acquired by a vehicle information acquisition unit 2, and an illumination pattern selector 4 to select an illumination pattern expressing the traveling direction detected by the vehicle state detector 3 from among illumination patterns held therein and provided for traveling directions, and to cause an illumination device 7 to illuminate at least a road surface in a direction different from the traveling direction with the selected illumination pattern, the road surface illumination apparatus can provide a notification of the traveling direction of the vehicle intuitively to persons outside the vehicle who are existing in the direction other than the traveling direction.

Abstract: A rear-road surface illumination apparatus is provided which includes: an avoidance determiner 30 to determine whether to provide a display to induce a following vehicle to avoid a vehicle, on the basis of vehicle information; and a controller 9 to cause an illumination light 10 to illuminate a rear road surface with light having illumination information that induces the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle when the avoidance determiner 30 determines to provide a display to induce the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle. Therefore, the rear-road surface illumination apparatus can indicate the existence of the vehicle to the following vehicle, to give the existence of the vehicle prominence, and can also make it easy to notify the driver of the following vehicle about what the driver of the vehicle desires the driver of the following vehicle to do.

Abstract: Because a road surface illumination apparatus is configured so as to include a vehicle motion predictor 2 to predict the motion which a vehicle is going to perform from now on in accordance with vehicle information acquired by a vehicle information acquisition unit 1, and a light animation setting unit 3 to set a light animation expressing the motion predicted by the vehicle motion predictor 2, and to cause an illumination device 4 to illuminate a road surface with the animation before the vehicle performs the motion, the road surface illumination apparatus can intuitively notify the motion which the vehicle is going to perform from now on to persons outside the vehicle.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to allow execution of a target function by an operation means that is easy to operate for a user. In order to achieve the object, a user interface system according to the present invention includes a function-means storage section 5 that stores candidates for a plurality of functions and candidates for a plurality of operation means for issuing an instruction to execute each function, an estimation section 3 that estimates a function intended by a user, and the operation means for issuing the instruction to execute the function, from among the candidates stored in the function-means storage section 5, based on information related to a current situation, and a presentation section 6 that presents the candidate for the function estimated by the estimation section 3, together with the candidate for the operation means for executing the function.

Abstract: It is configured that, when an operation of selecting a type is accepted by an operation acceptance processing unit 8, an item re-selection unit 9 re-selects one or multiple information processing items from among information processing items that are included in a plurality of information processing items stored in an information-processing item storage unit 2, and are information processing items of the type for which the operation of selecting is accepted, except for an information processing item already displayed on a liquid-crystal display 6.

Abstract: A first function likelihood determination unit outputs likelihood of each function candidate based on history. A second function likelihood determination unit outputs likelihood of each function candidate based on predetermined product specifications. A weighting amount determination unit determines weighting amounts for the history and product specifications. A likelihood integration unit integrates, based on the weighting amounts, the likelihood of each function candidate based on the history and the likelihood of each function candidate based on the product specifications. An output unit presents the function candidates in accordance with the integrated likelihood of each of the function candidates.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle-mounted display control device including: a vehicle state acquiring unit that acquires information related to a state of a vehicle as information to be provided to a driver; an urgency determining unit that determines urgency of the information acquired by the vehicle state acquiring unit; and a display mode deciding unit that decides a display mode so that the information will be displayed in a display area based on a result of determination by the urgency determining unit.