Abstract: In a vehicle control system that controls a vehicle that performs autonomous driving, the vehicle control system includes an autonomous driving control device that generates a target trajectory for autonomous driving of the vehicle, and an vehicle travel control device that executes vehicle travel control that controls steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows the target trajectory. The vehicle travel control device is configured to determine whether an operation request condition for washer operation for ejecting washer solution toward a windshield of the vehicle is satisfied, transmit an approval request for the washer operation to the autonomous driving control device when the operation request condition is satisfied, and execute the washer operation when approval for the approval request is received from the autonomous driving control device.

Abstract: A vehicle control system includes an automatic driving control device that generates a target trajectory used for automatic driving, and a vehicle travel control device that executes vehicle travel control such that a vehicle follows the target trajectory. The vehicle travel control device determines whether an operating condition of travel support control for reducing a risk when the vehicle travels is satisfied based on driving environment information, acquired from a plurality of sensor devices, and executes the travel support control in a case where the operating condition is satisfied. The vehicle travel control device generates risk information based on the driving environment information, and transmits the risk information to the automatic driving control device before the operating condition is satisfied. The automatic driving control device generates or corrects the target trajectory based on the received risk information.

Abstract: A first vehicle includes: a communications device configured to transmit and receive V2V information; an acquisition device configured to acquire driving environment information; and a processing device configured to perform a collision determination process for a second vehicle as an oncoming vehicle. The second vehicle includes a communications device configured to transmit and receive V2V information. In the collision determination process, the processing device recognizes an object around the first vehicle based on the driving environment information. Further, the processing device determines whether or not the second vehicle has a collision risk to collide with the object, based on the driving environment information and the V2V information received from the second vehicle. When the second vehicle is determined to have the collision risk, alert information for the object is formed. The alert information is transmitted to the communications device of the second vehicle.

Abstract: An autonomous driving system includes a control device and a request input device. The control device executes one or more controls of a vehicle including an autonomous traveling control. The request input device sends various requests to the control device by a human operation. The control device executes, during execution of the autonomous traveling control, a process for determining whether an operator who operates the request input device is a qualified person. Then, the control device approves the request when the operator is a qualified person, and disapproves the request when the operator is not a qualified person.

Abstract: A control device executes the following processes: a first process of detecting that autonomous traveling control is not able to be continued and executing stop control of a vehicle; a second process of determining whether a person is present in the vehicle; and a third process of unlocking a door lock of the vehicle when at least one person is present in the vehicle after the vehicle is stopped by the first process.

Abstract: A vehicle control system predicts danger to be avoided by a vehicle based on information related to a surrounding environment of the vehicle. When the danger is predicted, the vehicle control system determines whether an autonomous driving system rejects intervention in autonomous driving, and performs a diagnosis as to whether the autonomous driving system is normal or abnormal. Further, the vehicle control system performs the intervention in the autonomous driving to avoid the predicted danger when the autonomous driving system does not reject the intervention in the autonomous driving or when the autonomous driving system is abnormal even when the autonomous driving system rejects the intervention in the autonomous driving. However, the vehicle control system stops the intervention in the autonomous driving when the autonomous driving system rejects the intervention in the autonomous driving in a state where the autonomous driving system is normal.

Abstract: A vehicle control system controls a vehicle including a stop switch. A recognition sensor is configured to recognize a situation around the vehicle. The vehicle control system executes vehicle traveling control for generating a target trajectory of the vehicle based on a recognition result by the recognition sensor and executing control such that the vehicle follows the target trajectory. The vehicle control system executes the evacuation control that is the vehicle traveling control for evacuating the vehicle to the target position in a case where the vehicle traveling control is normal when the stop switch is pressed. The vehicle control system executes deceleration-and-stop control for decelerating the vehicle to stop the vehicle without using the target trajectory in a case where the vehicle traveling control is abnormal when the stop switch is pressed.

Abstract: A quantitative analysis method, which is performed by an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, includes: a step of acquiring a plurality of spectra at least having a first peak at a first energy position from a sample containing a plurality of elements under different measurement conditions; a step of designating, from among the plurality of spectra, a primary spectrum and a secondary spectrum having a second peak at a second energy position; a first fitting step of performing a fitting on the first peak included in the secondary spectrum to calculate a background intensity at the second energy position due to the first peak; and a second fitting step of performing a fitting on the first peak of the primary spectrum and performing a fitting on the second peak of the secondary spectrum under a condition that the calculated background intensity is included at the second energy position.

Abstract: In a road type determination apparatus, an image information acquiring unit acquires image information in which an image of a travel road on which a vehicle is traveling is captured. A scene determining unit determines a traveling scene of the travel road based on the image information. An ordinary road likelihood calculating unit calculates an ordinary road likelihood that indicates that a type of the travel road of the vehicle is an ordinary road based on the traveling scene. A limited-access road likelihood calculating unit calculates a limited-access road likelihood that indicates that the type of the travel road of the vehicle is a limited-access road based on the traveling scene. A type determining unit determines the type of the travel road of the vehicle based on the ordinary road likelihood and the limited-access road likelihood.

Abstract: There is provided a distance detecting apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a first image captured from a first point of view and a second image captured from a second point of view that is different from the first point of view A selection unit configured to select a representative pixel from the first image, based on a color of an object. A detection unit configured to detect a position in the second image corresponding to the representative pixel and thereby to detect a distance to the object corresponding to the position of the representative pixel.

Abstract: Provided is a data processing apparatus for calculating confidence coefficient data to indicate a confidence of pixel values of a second image data. The apparatus acquires similarity between a pixel value of a first pixel of the first image data corresponding to a target pixel of the confidence coefficient data, and each pixel value of a plurality of second pixels around the first pixel. The apparatus acquires the confidence coefficient by determining an estimated pixel value in the third pixel of the second image data corresponding to the first pixel, based on the similarity of each of the plurality of second pixels, each pixel value of the plurality of fourth pixels around the third pixel and the pixel value of the third pixel and by comparing the pixel value of the third image and the estimated pixel value in the third pixel.

Abstract: The vehicle control system includes a first controller configured to generate a target trajectory for the automated driving, and a second controller configured to execute vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target trajectory. During the automated driving, the second controller controls a travel control amount which is a control amount of the vehicle travel control, acquire driving environment information, and execute preventive safety control for intervening in the travel control amount based on the driving environment information. The first controller includes a memory device in which information of an intervention suppression area is stored. When the vehicle travels in the intervention suppression area during the automated driving, the first controller outputs a suppression instruction for the preventive safety control to the second controller.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to obtain an expected end timing of a first deceleration support control, which is a deceleration support control for a first target, and an expected start timing of a second deceleration support control, which is the deceleration support control for a second target, if there is the first target as a deceleration target ahead of a host vehicle in the traveling direction and if there is the second target as the deceleration target ahead of the first target; and a controller programmed or configured to perform an interpolation deceleration support control of interpolating the first deceleration support control and the second deceleration support control, in a predetermined period including at least a part of an interval between the expected end timing and the predicted start timing, if the interval is less than a first time.

Abstract: A target trajectory generation device generates and outputs target trajectories each including a target position and a target speed of a vehicle. A first target trajectory is intended to perform at least one of steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle. A second target trajectory is intended to decelerate and stop the vehicle. When a malfunctioning device does not exist, a vehicle traveling control device executes vehicle traveling control based on the first target trajectory. When the malfunctioning device exists, the vehicle traveling control device stops the vehicle by executing the vehicle traveling control based on the second target trajectory output before the malfunction occurs, or based on the second target trajectory output from the target trajectory generation device other than the malfunctioning device.

Abstract: There is provided a parallax detecting apparatus. A first obtainment unit obtains a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image that have different viewpoints from each other in a first direction. A second obtainment unit obtains displacement information that specifies a displacement amount in a second direction between positions in the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image corresponding to a same position in a shooting range. The displacement amount varies in conformity with a parallax amount between the positions. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. A calculation unit performs correlation calculation processing with respect to each of a plurality of reference regions corresponding to a plurality of reference positions in the second viewpoint image. A detection unit detects a parallax amount at a base position in the first viewpoint image based on calculated correlations.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided with: a calculator configured to calculate a plurality of controlled variables for decelerating a host vehicle, if there are a plurality of deceleration targets ahead in a traveling direction of the host vehicle, in association with the plurality of deceleration targets; an output device configured to select and output one controlled variable from the plurality of controlled variables; and a controller programmed to perform the deceleration support control on the basis of the one controlled variable. When a deceleration support control is performed on the basis of a first controlled variable as the one controlled variable, the output device outputs a second controlled variable, which is different from the first controlled variable out of the plurality of controlled variables, instead of the first controlled variable as the one controlled variable, on condition that the second controlled variable is greater than a switching controlled variable.

Abstract: An imaging device according to the present invention includes multiple pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction, which are orthogonal to each other. The multiple pixels include distance measurement pixels each including multiple photo-electric converters arranged so as to be adjacent to each other in the row direction. When M and N denote integers not smaller than one, the pixels are arranged at positions shifted in the row direction for every M-number rows by an amount corresponding to a half of the pixel, color filters are arranged in the row direction in an array of N-number columns per cycle, and the color filters are arranged in the column direction in an array of 2MN-number rows per cycle.

Abstract: An image data processing apparatus includes: an image data acquisition unit for acquiring low resolution image data and high resolution image data; and a confidence data determination unit for determining confidence data which indicates a level of confidence in a pixel value in the high resolution image data. The determination unit determines the level of confidence of a target pixel in the high resolution image data based on a comparison between a first and a second evaluation value. The first evaluation value is determined based on pixel values of neighboring pixels in a pixel position in the low resolution image data corresponding to a pixel position of the target pixel in the high resolution image data. The second evaluation value is determined based on the pixel values of the neighboring pixels, using a method that is different from the first evaluation value.

Abstract: Present disclosure provides a lithium ion secondary battery element in which a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer formed by applying a positive electrode active material mixture, a separator, and a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer formed by applying a negative electrode active material mixture are stacked.

Abstract: Provided is a data processing apparatus for calculating confidence coefficient data to indicate a confidence of pixel values of a second image data. The apparatus acquires similarity between a pixel value of a first pixel of the first image data corresponding to a target pixel of the confidence coefficient data, and each pixel value of a plurality of second pixels around the first pixel.