Abstract: An image processing apparatus for use with an endoscope, and including a processor comprising hardware. The processor is configured to obtain an object distance, calculate dimensional characteristics defining apparent dimensions of an object in an image acquired by the endoscope, calculate scale information defining a relationship between the apparent dimensions and actual dimensions based on the object distance and the dimensional characteristics, and generate an indication pattern representing the actual dimensions based on the scale information.

Abstract: Provided are an own-vehicle position estimation device and an own-vehicle position estimation method which are capable of estimating the position of an own vehicle with high accuracy, including not only one-dimensional distances of movement but also two-dimensional directions of cornering. There are provided a vehicle position estimation unit 2 for calculating the position of a vehicle based on an output from a sensor for detecting a behavior of the vehicle, a wireless position estimation unit 1 for communicating with a wireless device 101 installed at an arbitrary position and for calculating the relative positions of the vehicle and the wireless device 101, and a position estimation parameter correction unit 3 for correcting parameters used for calculating at least the position of the vehicle and information about the cornering angle of the vehicle by the vehicle position estimation unit 2.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control device capable of avoiding the collision with an obstacle by performing an appropriate collision assessment and appropriate driving assistance having considered a detection error of the obstacle. The vehicle control device 100 includes a collision assessment unit 3 which assesses whether or not there is a possibility of an ego vehicle and an obstacle colliding with each other, and a driving assistance control unit 4 which performs driving assistance for avoiding the collision. The collision assessment unit 3 includes a region setting unit 31 which sets an ego vehicle region and an obstacle region, a location prediction unit 33 which predicts future locations of the ego vehicle region and the obstacle region, and an overlap assessment unit 34 which assesses that there is a possibility of collision when the ego vehicle region and the obstacle region overlap at the future location.

Abstract: An electronic control device incorporated in a vehicle includes: a sensor detection information acquiring unit that acquires detection information from a first external environment sensor and detection information from a second external environment sensor, the first external environment sensor and second external environment sensor being incorporated in the vehicle; a sensor detection information integrating unit that specifies a correspondence relationship between an environmental element indicated in detection information from the first external environment sensor and an environmental element indicated in detection information from the second external environment sensor; and a sensor detectable area determining unit that determines a relationship between a relative position and a detection capability at the first external environment sensor, based on a state of detection by the first external environment sensor of an environmental element detected by the second external environment sensor, the state of dete

Abstract: A battery depletion prevention apparatus including a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor and the memory are configured to perform registering an information of a user, acquiring an information of a remaining battery capacity of a vehicle, predicting a possibility of a battery depletion of the vehicle based on the information of the remaining battery capacity, and transmitting a use request command for requesting the user to use the vehicle for charging a battery of the vehicle to a user terminal of the user based on the possibility of the battery depletion.

Abstract: A vehicle service providing apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory. The memory is configured to perform storing map data including route position data. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring reservation application data for using the vehicle including destination data, calculating a route to the destination base on the map data stored and the destination data acquired, acquiring parcel data including fee revenue data for a delivery of the parcel, determining whether the user satisfies a predetermined requirement for delivering the parcel when using the vehicle based on the parcel data in the acquiring and the route calculated in the calculating, deciding the incentive based on the parcel data in the acquiring when it is determined that the user satisfies the predetermined requirement; and outputting incentive data of the incentive in the deciding to the user.

Abstract: In a tilt parking mode, “a target parking position” can be accurately determined without changing a camera tilt angle and an HMI display range, and can be notified to a driver, so that the usability can be improved. A parking support device includes an external field recognition unit such as a camera and a sonar, which recognizes an external field, an information holding unit which holds information of a parking frame line recognized by the external field recognition unit, a parking region extraction unit which extracts a parking region from information of the parking frame line, a parking position determination unit which determines a target parking position from the parking region, and a path calculation unit which calculates a parking path from a current position of an own vehicle up to the target parking position.

Abstract: The present invention realizes a vehicle control device that, even when power characteristics of a power generation device and a power transmission device changes, senses degradation of vehicle components, corrects a drive instruction to the power transmission device, and is thereby capable of stabilizing vehicle behavior over a long term. The present invention, in a predetermined vehicle environment state, measures fluctuation in drive power and acceleration in a transient region by using vehicle behavior sensors 4, performs comparison with a reference fluctuation, and thereby senses degradation of vehicle components. The drive instruction to the transmission 16-side is corrected in accordance with the degradation of vehicle components that is sensed.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a plurality of imaging units that images an outside world of a vehicle, a surrounding screen image composition unit that combines a plurality of captured images captured by the plurality of imaging units to generate a surrounding screen image, a collision determination unit that determines whether an obstacle is present on a traveling route of the vehicle, an alarm screen image generation unit that selects, from a plurality of captured images, a captured image in which the obstacle is imaged to generate an alarm screen image including the selected captured image, and a display screen image switching unit that performs a process of displaying the surrounding screen image when the collision determination unit determines that the obstacle is not present, and displaying the alarm screen image when the collision determination unit determines that the obstacle is present.

Abstract: A vehicle state evaluation apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory.

Abstract: The present invention sets an appropriate parking route according to a surrounding situation. A vehicle control device which controls traveling of a vehicle includes: a surrounding environment recognition unit which recognizes a surrounding environment of an own vehicle, detects a parking space, sets a target parking position and a travelable space; and a vehicle control unit which guides and controls the own vehicle to the target parking position in the travelable space. The vehicle control unit guides and controls the own vehicle to the target parking position without traveling the own vehicle in a space behind the target parking position.

Abstract: To reduce a sense of discomfort to the occupants. A control device 100a includes a surrounding environment recognition unit 1 and a guidance unit 10. The surrounding environment recognition unit 1 recognizes the surrounding environment of an own vehicle 900 and sets a target parking position 901 and a travelable space of the own vehicle 900. The guidance unit 10 guides and controls the own vehicle 900 to the target parking position 901. The guidance unit 10 changes a traveling state of the own vehicle 900 according to the size of the travelable space.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle control device for allowing the occupant to easily confirm the presence or absence of an obstacle for the own vehicle through a screen image.

Abstract: A battery depletion prevention apparatus including a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor and the memory are configured to perform registering an information of a user, acquiring an information of a remaining battery capacity of a vehicle, predicting a possibility of a battery depletion of the vehicle based on the information of the remaining battery capacity, and transmitting a use request command for requesting the user to use the vehicle for charging a battery of the vehicle to a user terminal of the user based on the possibility of the battery depletion.

Abstract: There is a problem that it takes a long time to park a vehicle because the vehicle has to be returned to a position outside the parking frame and parked. In step S160, the correction judgment unit 142 judges from the necessary correction amounts calculated in steps S140 and S150 and the remaining distance to the re-targeted parking position that is re-recognized, whether or not correction of the parking route with this remaining distance is possible. In a case where it is judged in step S160 that correction with the remaining distance r2 is impossible, the vehicle is stopped in step S171. Even if it is judged in step S160 that the correction is impossible, when the vehicle is moved backward toward the parking frame is parked, the vehicle is obliquely parked in the parking frame and cannot be fit neatly in the parking frame. In step S172, a parking route including a turnabout is regenerated with respect to the re-targeted parking position calculated in step S130 while the stopped state is maintained.

Abstract: In a tilt parking mode, “a target parking position” can be accurately determined without changing a camera tilt angle and an HMI display range, and can be notified to a driver, so that the usability can be improved. A parking support device includes an external field recognition unit such as a camera and a sonar, which recognizes an external field, an information holding unit which holds information of a parking frame line recognized by the external field recognition unit, a parking region extraction unit which extracts a parking region from information of the parking frame line, a parking position determination unit which determines a target parking position from the parking region, and a path calculation unit which calculates a parking path from a current position of an own vehicle up to the target parking position.

Abstract: In a continuously variable transmission of an electric actuator system from which a hydraulic pressure generator such as an oil pump is excluded, it is necessary to cut off power supply to an actuator and turn a motor into an inoperative state similarly in a hydraulic actuator system in order to prevent unintended sudden acceleration or deceleration when a fail state is formed due to microcomputer failure of an electronic control device. As a result, a belt-slipping state occurs causing traveling failure. Thus, a master CPU (for control) and a slave CPU (for monitoring), which are configurations of an existing electronic control device are used. Both CPUs have monitoring functions configured to perform mutual monitoring. In addition, the existing electronic control device is also considered as a monitoring device via a network to provide a monitoring configuration among the three devices to accurately specify the failure part (CPU).

Abstract: The present invention provides a parking assist apparatus capable of improving convenience when a passenger of a vehicle gets on and off. According to the present invention, the parking assistance apparatus acquires information on parking candidate frames, and where an own vehicle can park, from a front camera, a right camera, a rear camera, and a left camera configured to acquire information on a surrounding environment of the own vehicle, and from surrounding environment information acquired by these cameras. The parking assistance apparatus detects surrounding environment information and of the parking candidate frames, and from the surrounding environment information and information on the parking candidate frames, and determines a target parking position where the own vehicle parks based on the information on the parking candidate frames, the surrounding environment information, and the preference information related to getting on and off of a passenger who rides on the own vehicle.

Abstract: A user reliability evaluation apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring an image of a vehicle used by a user of a vehicle renting service and a location information of a photographing location of the image of the vehicle; detecting a degree of dirt of the vehicle based on the image of the vehicle acquired; evaluating a state of the vehicle based on the degree of dirt of the vehicle detected; acquiring a user evaluation of the state of the vehicle made by the user with respect to the degree of dirt of the vehicle; and determining a user reliability including a use manner of the vehicle based on an evaluation result of the state of the vehicle evaluated based on the degree of dirt of the vehicle detected and the user evaluation acquired.

Abstract: A vehicle state evaluation apparatus includes an electronic control unit having a microprocessor and memory.