Abstract: A moving body state informing apparatus includes a vehicle information acquiring unit 2 that acquires vehicle information indicating various states of a vehicle; a state deciding unit 3 that decides the general state of the vehicle by estimating as a whole the contents of the various states of the vehicle indicated by the vehicle information the vehicle information acquiring unit 2 acquires; and an informing processor 4 that outputs the general state of the vehicle the state deciding unit 3 decides to an output unit 6 to give information.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a purpose information estimator that estimates purpose information indicating a purpose of movement of a user who moves using the mobile object, based on mobile-object-specific information that includes at least one of a usage schedule and a usage history of the mobile object, and user-specific information that includes at least one of an activity schedule and an activity history of the user who moves using the mobile object; a formation-condition determinator that determines a formation condition for a virtual network for the mobile objects of which the purpose information estimated by the estimator is the same or similar, based on the mobile-object-specific information and the user-specific information in the plurality of mobile objects; and a virtual network former that forms a virtual network through which the mobile objects that satisfy the formation condition determined by the determinator among the plurality of mobile objects can communicate with each other.

Abstract: A reference line detection unit 12 extracts an edge from a distorted image taken by a fisheye camera to thereby determine a curved reference line. A distortion parameter calculation unit 13 calculates a distortion parameter such that the reference line is made linear. A distortion correction unit 14 corrects distortion of the distorted image by a distortion correction equation by using the distortion parameter.

Abstract: There is provided: a user input unit 20 for receiving an input of a subject of interest at a moved point; a position detection unit 21a for detecting positional information; a user information detection unit 21 for generating interest information that contains a subject of interest inputted in the unit 20, and the positional information of a point where the corresponding subject of interest is inputted; a communications unit 23, transmissibly connected to a server device 3, for storing in the device 3 the interest information generated by the unit 21 and for acquiring the interest information retrieved in response to a request from among the interest information stored in the device 3; and an output unit 24 for outputting the interest information generated by the unit 21 or interest information acquired by the communications unit 23 to present the resultant to a user.

Abstract: An input device displays a screen including character input buttons to each of which characters are assigned, and each of which specifies one character assigned thereto, as a character to be inputted, according to the number of times that a selection operation is performed thereon, and display area B in which a character to be inputted specified through a selection operation performed on the character input buttons is displayed in order on a display device, specifies candidate characters each of which can be inputted to follow a character string being inputted and displayed in the display area B from the character strings of words each including the character string being inputted, and, when a character to be inputted which is specified to follow the character string is not included in the candidate characters, tones down and displays the character to be inputted immediately after the character string.

Abstract: A facility search device includes: a facility information storage unit that stores facility information; an additional information storage unit that stores additional facility information; a facility search unit that searches for facilities from the facility information and the additional facility information; a sameness determination unit that determines the sameness of facilities based on identifiers contained in the facility information on each of the facilities when the plurality of facilities are searched for by the facility search unit; a facility information synthesis unit that synthesizes the facility information on the facilities determined to be the same by the sameness determination unit among the searched facilities; a display image generation unit that generates images for displaying the searched facilities or the facilities synthesized by the facility information synthesis unit; and a display unit that displays the images generated by the display image generation unit.