Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.

Abstract: A possibility that driving assistance suitable for a road environment will be not provided is reduced. An on-board apparatus, which navigates a vehicle based on the map information including information indicating a road network including a plurality of links respectively corresponding to a plurality of roads and a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to a plurality of intersections and information indicating road attributes in the road network, includes an image capturing unit and a support control unit. The image capturing unit captures an image of at least a part around the vehicle. The support control unit associates supplementary information, which is information including recognition result information indicating a result of image recognition of the captured image, with link information of a target link, which is a link corresponding to a point related to the image capturing of the image.

Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.

Abstract: A first server apparatus is communicably connected to each of a second server apparatus having a server-less function and a vehicle and includes an obtaining unit obtaining, from the vehicle, start position information indicating a start position of the vehicle, start date-and-time information indicating a start date and time of the vehicle, parking position information indicating a parking position of the vehicle, and parking date-and-time information indicating a parking date and time of the vehicle, an estimating unit estimating a date and time at which the vehicle is started based on the start position, the start date and time, the parking position and the parking date and time, and an instructing unit instructing the second server apparatus to activate a personal authentication program in accordance with an estimation result by the estimating unit.

Abstract: The module connector can accommodate a miniaturized module such as a camera module and reliably fix the module in an electrically connected state, and make the connector itself in lower profile. With this connector (100), a housing (110) has a concave container (110a) that accommodates an inserted camera module (200) in which a plurality of pads are disposed its bottom face. A contact (130) has: an arm (131) that projects from the bottom face of the container (110a) to the interior of the container (110a) and that elastically deforms; and, at the tip of the arm (131), a contact point part (133) that is swingable in the insertion direction of the camera module (200) by means of elastic deformation of the arm (131) and that contacts a pad.

Abstract: The module connector can accommodate a miniaturized module such as a camera module and reliably fix the module in an electrically connected state, and make the connector itself in lower profile. With this connector (100), a housing (110) has a concave container (110a) that accommodates an inserted camera module (200) in which a plurality of pads are disposed its bottom face. A contact (130) has: an arm (131) that projects from the bottom face of the container (110a) to the interior of the container (110a) and that elastically deforms; and, at the tip of the arm (131), a contact point part (133) that is swingable in the insertion direction of the camera module (200) by means of elastic deformation of the arm (131) and that contacts a pad.

Abstract: A vehicular seating apparatus includes an assistant driver's seat mounted in the interior of a driver cabin of a vehicle and above a service hole on an engine deck raised at a central part of a floor located in the proximity of a driver's seat. The apparatus includes a transverse displacement mechanism for displacing the assistant driver's seat in the transverse direction and a transverse leap-up mechanism for upwardly turning the assistant driver's seat about one end of a seat cushion of the assistant driver's seat located at the side of the driver's seat. A seat frame is provided with a longitudinal slide mechanism for slidably displacing the assistant driver's seat in the longitudinal direction. The apparatus assures that a driver can walk by the side of the assistant driver's seat to reach the rear part of a driver cabin while maintaining good engine service performance. Further, the driver can enjoy excellent driving comfort by virtue of various operations for displacement.

Abstract: An improved pillar construction for use in a motor vehicle which includes a pillar inner panel and a pillar outer panel rigidly combined to each other so as to define a closed cross section. The pillar inner panel is formed with a raised portion of arcuate cross section extending along an entire length of the pillar inner panel and protruding toward the interior of the motor vehicle, with a reinforcing pipe member of metallic material being welded along the inner surface of the raised portion so as to provide the pipe member fixed to the interior of the closed cross section defined by the pillar inner panel and pillar outer panel for reinforcement of the pillar.