Abstract: A wobble determination device 1 appropriately determines the wobble of a vehicle and does not cause inconvenience for a driver. The wobble determination device 1 includes a steering determination unit 41 that determines whether the driver of a vehicle performs sudden steering after a non-steering state of the driver is maintained for a predetermined period of time and performs sudden return steering over a steering position in the non-steering state in a direction opposite to a direction of the sudden steering after the sudden steering and a wobble determination unit 42 that determines that the vehicle wobbles when the steering determination unit 41 determines that the steering of the driver is the sudden return steering which is performed over the steering position in the non-steering state.

Abstract: An approaching vehicle detection apparatus includes: a sound information detection unit configured to detect sound information around an own vehicle; a sound source detection unit configured to detect a sound source around the own vehicle based on the detected sound information; an approaching vehicle determination unit configured to determine whether the sound source is a vehicle approaching the own vehicle; and a vehicle state changing unit configured to change a vehicle state of the own vehicle to a vehicle state where the own vehicle sound is able to be suppressed when the own vehicle sound generated from the own vehicle is able to be suppressed by changing the vehicle state of the own vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle information transmitting apparatus transmits information to a driver by optical stimulus, and determines whether or not to change a mode of the stimulus on the basis of at least one of information about the driver, an operation input, and a behavior of a vehicle, the information about the driver, the operation input, and the behavior being obtained after the transmission of the information. The vehicle information transmitting apparatus may change the mode of the stimulus when determining that the information is not considered by the driver. Further, the vehicle information transmitting apparatus may change the mode of the stimulus when determining that a cause that the information is not considered resides in the mode of the stimulus.

Abstract: A warning device includes: a host vehicle information acquisition unit; a moving object information acquisition unit that acquires moving object information around the host vehicle; an intersection determination unit that determines whether a course of the host vehicle and a course of the moving object intersect; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance from the host vehicle to an intersection position; an estimated crossing-time calculation unit that calculates a time that elapses before the moving object arrives at the intersection position; a threshold setting unit; and a warning unit that alerts a driver when the time is smaller than a threshold, wherein the threshold is set larger as the distance becomes larger, and is set larger when the host vehicle speed vehicle is equal to or lower than the predetermined speed than when the host vehicle speed is higher.

Abstract: An alerting apparatus issues an alert regarding a moving obstacle to a driver of a host vehicle when the host vehicle enters an intersection of a crossroad that is connected to a traveling road on which the host vehicle is traveling, and the traveling road, in a left-hand traffic jurisdiction. This alerting apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU is configured to issue the alert regarding the moving obstacle when it is determined that a path of the moving obstacle intersects with an intersect determination range, and set the intersect determination range to be shorter in length in a front-rear direction of the host vehicle when the traveling direction of the host vehicle is a left turn than when the traveling direction of the host vehicle is a right turn.

Abstract: A spectrum measurement device that recognizes objects to be measured on the basis of spectral data of observed light that is detected by a spectrum sensor capable of measuring wavelength information and light intensity information. The spectrum measurement device comprises a lighting device capable of projecting light that includes a wavelength region with a high atmospheric absorption index and recognizes the distance from a vehicle to an object to be measured through a computation that uses spectral data of observed light that is obtained from the object to be measured whereupon light of at least the wavelength region with the high atmospheric absorption index is projected.

Abstract: A spectrometer recognizes a measurement target on the basis of the spectral data set of observed light detected by a spectral sensor capable of measuring wavelength information and light intensity information. The spectrometer is provided with a spectral data processor. Spectral data sets are detected at two different positions by the spectral sensor, and the processor subtracts a first spectral data set from a second spectral data set, or divides the first spectral data set by the second spectral data set to calculate one phase correlation spectral data set, which is correlated to the spectral data sets at the two different positions. The processor simultaneously identifies the measurement target corresponding to the two different positions on the basis of the correlation spectral data set.

Abstract: A vehicle information transmission device includes: a display device that displays light in a first mode at a position of a vehicle body, at which visual recognition of a certain object is prompted, when the visual recognition is prompted and that displays light in a second mode different from the first mode on the vehicle body when the visual recognition is not prompted or when the visual recognition is prompted; and a control unit that adjusts light in the second mode on the basis of light in the first mode when the visual recognition is prompted.

Abstract: In a vehicle emergency evacuation device which stops a running vehicle automatically or keeps a stop state of a stopped vehicle in a driver's emergency, a stop keeping process is executed to keep the stop state without conducting an intention confirmation process of the execution start of an emergency evacuation process when the emergency evacuation process is required, e.g. when an abnormality or a deterioration in the driver's condition arises or when the driver requests the emergency evacuation process, under a condition that the vehicle has stopped before a signal, a road crossing or a railroad crossing, thereby ensuring the safety of the vehicle.

Abstract: To provide a vehicle information transmitting device capable of resolving the bothersome that occurs when the light is strong. According to the present embodiment, a plurality of light sources 10a is arranged in an array form of plural rows or plural columns in the light source panel 10 so that light can be irradiated in a horizontal direction (right and left direction) and vertical direction (height direction, up and down direction). The light source panel 10 includes a diffusion plate 10b and a shaft member 10c for entirely or partially adjusting the transmitting degree (blurring degree of light) of the light of the light source 10a in association with the arrangement position of the light source 10a, and a plurality of springs 10d that plays the role of a fail safe for maintaining the distance between the light source 10a and the diffusion plate 10b in a maximum state at the time of malfunctioning.

Abstract: A sound collection device 1 collects a sound using a microphone 3 and includes a guide portion 6 configured to guide a sound generated from a target object to the microphone 3 and a discharge portion 7 configured to facilitate the discharge of a foreign material, which gets into the guide portion 6, to the outside of the guide portion 6. Even when a foreign material, such as rain or dust which is to get into the microphone 3, reaches the guide portion 6, the discharge portion 7 is configured to discharge the foreign material to the outside of the guide portion 6. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an object, such as rain or dust, from being accumulated in the vicinity of the microphone 3, and to prevent the object from getting into the microphone 3. As a result, it is possible to improve the sound collection performance.

Abstract: To provide a driving assistance apparatus that can detect an intersection at which driving assistance is required with a high degree of precision so that the driving assistance can be provided more appropriately, a driving assistance apparatus 2 includes: a vehicle speed acquisition unit 64 that obtains information indicating a vehicle speed of a vehicle 1; an assistance condition determination unit 98 that determines whether or not an assistance activation condition, which is a condition for providing a driver of the vehicle 1 with driving assistance, is satisfied on the basis of whether or not a vehicle speed V obtained by the vehicle speed acquisition unit 64 is equal to or lower than a reference vehicle speed V1, and on the basis of information relating to an intersection or a preceding vehicle in front of the vehicle 1; and an assistance execution unit 100 that executes, as the driving assistance, assistance including at least one of warning issuance to the driver, braking control, and steering control w

Abstract: An other-vehicle detection apparatus includes: a sound source device mounted on a first vehicle and configured to output a non-audible region sound of a predetermined frequency range set in advance; a sound collection device mounted on the first vehicle and configured to collect sound information around the first vehicle; and a distinction device configured to distinguish a second vehicle based on a non-audible region sound included in the sound information collected by the sound collection device of the first vehicle.

Abstract: A wobble determination device 1 appropriately determines the wobble of a vehicle and does not cause inconvenience for a driver. The wobble determination device 1 includes a steering determination unit 41 that determines whether the driver of a vehicle performs sudden steering after a non-steering state of the driver is maintained for a predetermined period of time and performs sudden return steering over a steering position in the non-steering state in a direction opposite to a direction of the sudden steering after the sudden steering and a wobble determination unit 42 that determines that the vehicle wobbles when the steering determination unit 41 determines that the steering of the driver is the sudden return steering which is performed over the steering position in the non-steering state.

Abstract: An approaching vehicle detection apparatus includes: a sound information detection unit configured to detect sound information around an own vehicle; a sound source detection unit configured to detect a sound source around the own vehicle based on the detected sound information; an approaching vehicle determination unit configured to determine whether the sound source is a vehicle approaching the own vehicle; and a vehicle state changing unit configured to change a vehicle state of the own vehicle to a vehicle state where the own vehicle sound is able to be suppressed when the own vehicle sound generated from the own vehicle is able to be suppressed by changing the vehicle state of the own vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a spectrum measuring apparatus for shortening such a measurement time period for an object being measured including two or more mutually different measurement portions as is required for the spectrum measurements of the lights from individual measurement portions. The spectrum measuring apparatus comprises a slit group having two or more slits, a spectroscope for separating the lights extracted by the slit group, for the individual slits, and a measuring unit for measuring the intensities of the individual components, which are separated by the spectroscope, for the slits. The individual slits extract such ones of the lights coming from an object being measured including two or more mutually different measurement portions, as come from the individual measurement portions.

Abstract: A movement trajectory generator 1 that generates a movement trajectory of a vehicle is provided, which includes traveling environment recognition means 10, 11, and 21 for recognizing a traveling environment, movement strategy generation means 22 for generating movement strategies for positioning in a road area according to the traveling environment that is recognized by the traveling environment recognition means, presenting means 12, 23, and 27 for presenting a passenger setting information of the movement strategies, setting means 12 and 28 for receiving an operation for the passenger to set the movement strategies based on the setting information of the movement strategies presented by the presenting means, and movement trajectory generation means 29 for generating the movement trajectory based on the movement strategies set by the setting means.

Abstract: In order to provide a driving assistance device capable of inhibiting execution of driving assistance in a scene other than an intersection at which the driving assistance is required, a driving assistance device is provided with a microphone mounted on an own vehicle and configured to detect sound information around the own vehicle, an assistance executing unit configured to execute the driving assistance, and an assistance determining unit configured to determine whether the driving assistance is executed and determine an assistance level at the time of executing the driving assistance, based on a reverberating sound of a sound emitted from the own vehicle and included in the sound information detected by the microphone.

Abstract: To provide a driving assistance apparatus that can detect an intersection at which driving assistance is required with a high degree of precision so that the driving assistance can be provided more appropriately, a driving assistance apparatus 2 includes: a vehicle speed acquisition unit 64 that obtains information indicating a vehicle speed of a vehicle 1; an assistance condition determination unit 98 that determines whether or not an assistance activation condition, which is a condition for providing a driver of the vehicle 1 with driving assistance, is satisfied on the basis of whether or not a vehicle speed V obtained by the vehicle speed acquisition unit 64 is equal to or lower than a reference vehicle speed V1, and on the basis of information relating to an intersection or a preceding vehicle in front of the vehicle 1; and an assistance execution unit 100 that executes, as the driving assistance, assistance including at least one of warning issuance to the driver, braking control, and steering control w

Abstract: An emergency evacuation device of a vehicle that executes an automatic vehicle stop control based on a command of a driver is disclosed. The emergency evacuation device comprises a driver's physiological condition estimation portion that estimates a driver's physiological condition; a driver's command input portion, operated by the driver, that receives a driver's command input and outputs a command of an execution of an automatic vehicle stop control in accordance with the command input; and an automatic vehicle stop control portion that executes the automatic vehicle stop control in response to the command from the driver's command input portion, wherein based on the driver's physiological condition estimated in the driver's physiological condition estimation portion, the structure of the driver's command input portion, for example, the arrangement of receptor(s) of the driver's command input portion receiving the command from the driver is changed.