Abstract: Disclosed is a display control device mounted in a vehicle and including: an irradiation control unit for controlling an irradiating unit that irradiates a road surface with reference light; and a projection control unit for controlling a projecting unit that projects an image onto a reflecting unit that reflects the image, in which the irradiation control unit instructs the irradiating unit to perform irradiation with the reference light, the irradiation corresponding to set irradiation distance information, and the projection control unit instructs the projecting unit to perform projection of an image in such a way that a virtual image corresponding to the irradiation distance information is visually recognized by an occupant of the vehicle, and also controls either a projection position or a projection size of the image projected by the projecting unit on the basis of an instruction of the occupant.

Abstract: An operation restriction control device includes processing circuitry configured to set restriction on the manual operation input to a valid state in a case where a vehicle is traveling, set the restriction on the manual operation input to an invalid state when a voice command corresponding to release of the restriction on the manual operation input is input to the first operation input device by a passenger in the vehicle in a state where the restriction on the manual operation input is set to a valid state, and set the restriction on the manual operation input to a valid state when a duration during which a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle is directed to the in-vehicle information device has exceeded a first reference time in a state where the restriction on the manual operation input is set to an invalid state.

Abstract: A gesture recognition result acquiring unit (2a) acquires a gesture recognition result indicating a recognized gesture from a gesture recognition device (11). A voice recognition result acquiring unit (2b) acquires a voice recognition result that is provided by voice recognition of an uttered voice and that indicates function information corresponding to an utterance intention from a voice recognition device (13). A control unit (2d) registers the gesture and the function information in a storage unit (2c) while bringing the gesture and the function information into correspondence with each other, by using the gesture recognition result acquired from the gesture recognition result acquiring unit (2a) and the voice recognition result acquired from the voice recognition result acquiring unit (2b).

Abstract: Included here are: a speech recognition unit for performing speech recognition on a speaker's speech; a keyword extraction unit for extracting a preset keyword from a result of the speech recognition; a conversation determination unit for referring to a keyword extraction result and determining whether or not the speaker's speech is a conversation; and an operation command extraction unit for extracting a command for operating an apparatus from the speech recognition result when the speech is determined not to be a conversation, and not extracting the command from the speech recognition result when the speech is determined to be a conversation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display control device mounted in a vehicle and including: an irradiation control unit for controlling an irradiating unit that irradiates a road surface with reference light; and a projection control unit for controlling a projecting unit that projects an image onto a reflecting unit that reflects the image, in which the irradiation control unit instructs the irradiating unit to perform irradiation with the reference light, the irradiation corresponding to set irradiation distance information, and the projection control unit instructs the projecting unit to perform projection of an image in such a way that a virtual image corresponding to the irradiation distance information is visually recognized by an occupant of the vehicle, and also controls either a projection position or a projection size of the image projected by the projecting unit on the basis of an instruction of the occupant.

Abstract: A display control device includes a depth distance setting unit for setting a depth distance of a display object corresponding to display object information; a binocular parallax setting unit for setting a binocular parallax value of the display object depending on the set depth distance; a binocular parallax correcting unit for correcting the set binocular parallax value; a different display mode setting unit for changing a display mode of the display object based on a corrected amount of the binocular parallax value; and a display controller for outputting, to the display device, a stereoscopic vision image including the display object based on either the set binocular parallax value or the corrected binocular parallax value, in which the correction lowers the binocular parallax value in part of a depth distance range, and the different display mode setting unit changes a size of the display object depending on the corrected amount.

Abstract: A speech recognition unit recognizes speech within a preset period. A determination unit determines whether the number of utterers in a vehicle is singular or plural. A recognition control unit adopts a recognition result relating to speech uttered after receiving an indication that an utterance is about to start when the number of utterers is plural, and when the number of utterers is singular, adopts a recognition result regardless of whether the recognition result relates to speech uttered after the indication is received or the recognition result relates to speech uttered in a case where the indication is not received. A control unit performs an operation corresponding to the recognition result adopted by the recognition control unit.

Abstract: According to a navigation device of the invention, at the time of performing turning guidance for a user who drives a vehicle, it is possible to perform the guidance in a way easy-to-understand for the user. Namely, a presentation of a preceding vehicle is made using an actual image or a graphic image of a vehicle that is the same as the actually seen vehicle, so that the user who drives the vehicle in traveling will understand that he/she only has to follow the preceding vehicle actually traveling ahead. This results in such route guidance that does not cause misunderstanding of a turning point and is very easy-to-understand.

Abstract: Onboard information device mounted on vehicle to provide information for supporting passenger includes voice acquisition unit that continually detects and acquires voice the passenger utters while the onboard information device is operating; voice recognition unit that recognizes speech contents of the voice the voice acquisition unit acquires; vehicle state detector that detects vehicle state including environmental state in the vehicle, surrounding state of the vehicle or operating state of the vehicle; output controller that creates display data or voice data from the speech contents recognized by the voice recognition unit according to the vehicle state the vehicle state detector detects, and that controls output of the display data or voice data; and output unit that outputs the display data or voice data the output controller creates. It can perform effective conversation support in real time according to recognition result obtained by continually recognizing speech contents of the passenger.

Abstract: According to a navigation device of the invention, at the time of performing turning guidance for a user who drives a vehicle, it is possible to perform the guidance in a way easy-to-understand for the user. Namely, a presentation of a preceding vehicle is made using an actual image or a graphic image of a vehicle that is the same as the actually seen vehicle, so that the user who drives the vehicle in traveling will understand that he/she only has to follow the preceding vehicle actually traveling ahead. This results in such route guidance that does not cause misunderstanding of a turning point and is very easy-to-understand.

Abstract: Onboard information device mounted on vehicle to provide information for supporting passenger includes voice acquisition unit that continually detects and acquires voice the passenger utters while the onboard information device is operating; voice recognition unit that recognizes speech contents of the voice the voice acquisition unit acquires; vehicle state detector that detects vehicle state including environmental state in the vehicle, surrounding state of the vehicle or operating state of the vehicle; output controller that creates display data or voice data from the speech contents recognized by the voice recognition unit according to the vehicle state the vehicle state detector detects, and that controls output of the display data or voice data; and output unit that outputs the display data or voice data the output controller creates. It can perform effective conversation support in real time according to recognition result obtained by continually recognizing speech contents of the passenger.

Abstract: A voice recognition device includes a voice input unit 11 for inputting a voice of an uttered button name to convert the voice into an electric signal, a voice recognition processing unit 12 for performing a voice recognition process according to a sound signal sent thereto, as the electric signal, from the voice input unit, a button candidate detecting unit 13 for detecting, as a button candidate, a button having a button name which partially matches a voice recognition result acquired by the voice recognition processing unit, a display control unit 15 for, when a plurality of candidate buttons are detected by the button candidate detecting unit, producing a screen showing a state in which at least one of the plurality of button candidates is selected, and a display unit 16 for displaying the screen produced by the display control unit.

Abstract: A speech recognizing apparatus includes a speech start instructing section 3 for instructing to start speech recognition; a speech input section 1 for receiving uttered speech and converting to a speech signal; a speech recognizing section 2 for recognizing the speech on the basis of the speech signal; an utterance start time detecting section 4 for detecting duration from the time when the speech start instructing section instructs to the time when the speech input section delivers the speech signal; an utterance timing deciding section 5 for deciding utterance timing indicating whether the utterance start is quick or slow by comparing the duration detected by the utterance start time detecting section with a prescribed threshold; an interaction control section 6 for determining a content, which is to be shown when exhibiting a recognition result of the speech recognizing section, in accordance with the utterance timing decided; a system response generating section 7 for generating a system response on the b

Abstract: A voice recognition system used for onboard equipment having a genre database (DB) that stores search target vocabularies in accordance with respective genres. It has a mike 1 for outputting speech sounds as spoken data; a first voice recognition dictionary 2a for recognizing words of search target genres in the genre DB; a second voice recognition dictionary 2b for recognizing words outside the search target genres; a voice recognition unit 3 for recognizing the speech sounds by collating the spoken data delivered from the mike with the vocabularies contained in the first and second voice recognition dictionaries; an interactive control unit 4 for outputting, when a word delivered from the voice recognition unit as a recognition result is a word obtained using the second voice recognition dictionary, a message so stating as presentation information; and a presentation unit 5 for presenting the presentation information to an outside.

Abstract: A voice recognizing apparatus includes a voice start instructing section 3 for instructing to start voice recognition; a voice input section 1 for receiving uttered voice and converting to a voice signal; a voice recognizing section 2 for recognizing the voice on the basis of the voice signal; an utterance start time detecting section 4 for detecting duration from the time when the voice start instructing section instructs to the time when the voice input section delivers the voice signal; an utterance timing deciding section 5 for deciding utterance timing indicating whether the utterance start is quick or slow by comparing the duration detected by the utterance start time detecting section with a prescribed threshold; an interaction control section 6 for determining a content, which is to be shown when exhibiting a recognition result of the voice recognizing section, in accordance with the utterance timing decided; a system response generating section 7 for generating a system response on the basis of the d

Abstract: A voice recognition device includes a voice input unit 11 for inputting a voice of an uttered button name to convert the voice into an electric signal, a voice recognition processing unit 12 for performing a voice recognition process according to a sound signal sent thereto, as the electric signal, from the voice input unit, a button candidate detecting unit 13 for detecting, as a button candidate, a button having a button name which partially matches a voice recognition result acquired by the voice recognition processing unit, a display control unit 15 for, when a plurality of candidate buttons are detected by the button candidate detecting unit, producing a screen showing a state in which at least one of the plurality of button candidates is selected, and a display unit 16 for displaying the screen produced by the display control unit.

Abstract: A voice recognition system used for onboard equipment having a genre database (DB) that stores search target vocabularies in accordance with respective genres. It has a mike 1 for outputting speech sounds as spoken data; a first voice recognition dictionary 2a for recognizing words of search target genres in the genre DB; a second voice recognition dictionary 2b for recognizing words outside the search target genres; a voice recognition unit 3 for recognizing the speech sounds by collating the spoken data delivered from the mike with the vocabularies contained in the first and second voice recognition dictionaries; an interactive control unit 4 for outputting, when a word delivered from the voice recognition unit as a recognition result is a word obtained using the second voice recognition dictionary, a message so stating as presentation information; and a presentation unit 5 for presenting the presentation information to an outside.

Abstract: Voice operation device includes: voice recognition dictionary for storing plurality of groups of synonyms provided for plurality of functions of devices to be operated and each includes at least one word; voice recognition unit that checks voice data from voice taking unit against words stored in voice recognition dictionary to recognize word corresponding to voice; device control unit that controls devices to be operated based on word recognized by voice recognition unit; recognition history storage unit that sequentially stores words recognized by voice recognition unit; and dictionary update unit that updates voice recognition dictionary in such way that words which are determined to have been recognized at low frequencies in the past, based on recognition history stored in recognition history storage unit, are deleted except at least one of word which is left in each group of plurality of groups of synonyms in order to be checked.