Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus includes a navigator, an area information extractor, a determiner, a notifier, a travel information obtainer, and a necessary time calculator. The navigator guides a vehicle in accordance with data on a traveling route. The area information extractor extracts a communication difficulty area and a restricted area from the data on the traveling route. The determiner determines whether the restricted area is included in the communication difficulty area. When the restricted area is included in the communication difficulty area, the notifier issues a preliminary notification indicating that the vehicle is to enter the restricted area to a predetermined notified party. The travel information obtainer acquires travel information on the traveling route. The necessary time calculator calculates necessary time to be taken from issuing the preliminary notification to passing through the communication difficulty area.

Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a navigator, an area information extractor that extracts data on a communication difficulty area, a battery residual capacity monitor that monitors a traveling battery residual capacity, a traveling mode selector that receives a selected traveling mode, a travel information manager that determines a communication state in a traveling direction of the vehicle based on the data received from the area information extractor, and calculates a possible traveling distance of the vehicle based on the selected traveling mode and the traveling battery residual capacity, and a notifier that notifies the occupant of travel information on the vehicle. When determining that the vehicle is to travel in the communication difficulty area, the travel information manager proposes a switch to a traveling mode in which the vehicle is able to pass through the communication difficulty area to the occupant via the notifier.

Abstract: A drive assist system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and a drive assist control apparatus. The occupant monitoring apparatus monitors a physical state of an occupant, including a driver, of a vehicle. The determination apparatus determines a traveling state and a stopped state of the vehicle. The drive assist control apparatus executes a control to secure safe traveling upon determining that sleep duration of the occupant is less than a predetermined time and quality of sleep thereof is lower than a predetermined level on the basis of monitoring information acquired by the occupant monitoring apparatus. The drive assist control apparatus includes one or more processors that perform, in a case where determination information from the determination apparatus indicates the stopped state, a control of appropriately restricting the driver's driving operation on the basis of at least the sleep duration and the quality of sleep of the driver.

Abstract: A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, a first determination processor, a second determination processor, and a control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit acquires information including biometric information of the occupant inside and outside the vehicle. The first determination processor and the second determination processor determine a physical fatigue level and a mental fatigue level of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image of the occupant inside the vehicle captured by the imaging unit or the information including the biometric information of the occupant inside and outside the vehicle acquired by the information acquisition unit.

Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses monitor a physical state of an occupant in a vehicle in different methods. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more first processors and one or more first memories. Upon receiving data indicating that the vehicle is in a stopped state from the determination apparatus, the one or more first processors cooperate with one or more programs in the one or more first memories to: make assignment of a part to be monitored and data to be acquired, of the occupant in the vehicle, to be detected by the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses; and detect the physical state of the occupant on the basis of first and second occupant monitoring data from the first and second occupant monitoring apparatuses.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an information receiver, an estimator, and a processor. The information receiver is configured to communicate with a mobile terminal of an occupant of the vehicle, and acquire information related to an action performed by the occupant outside a vehicle compartment of the vehicle. The estimator is configured to estimate a fatigue state including a fatigue degree of the occupant, based on a place identified from the acquired information related to the action. The processor is configured to execute, based on a result of estimating the fatigue state, air conditioning control including setting of a temperature and setting of an air volume on an air conditioning device configured to air condition the vehicle compartment.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a social media information acquisition unit, a collector, a browsing time acquisition unit, an extractor, and a control processor. The social media information acquisition unit communicates with portable devices of occupants in the vehicle to acquire social media information of the occupants from the portable devices. The collector collects search keywords from the social media information of the occupants. The browsing time acquisition unit acquires information on browsing time for each of the search keywords from the social media information. The extractor extracts a common subject based on the search keywords collected from all of the portable devices of the occupants in a communicable state, and the information on the browsing time. The control processor determines content of a proposal to be provided to the occupants in the vehicle based on the common subject, and notifies the occupants of the content of the proposal.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an estimator and a control processor. The estimator is configured to perform estimation of an emotion that an occupant has had since before boarding the vehicle. The control processor is configured to make a comprehensive evaluation of a result of the estimation performed by the estimator to determine the emotion, and perform control of an operation mode of an in-vehicle device based on the emotion.

Abstract: An agent system includes a microphone, a speaker, an interpretation unit, a memory, and a control processor. The microphone collects voices of occupants in the interior of a vehicle compartment of a vehicle. The speaker outputs a voice sound to the interior of the vehicle compartment. The interpretation unit acquires the voices of the occupants collected by the microphone and interprets contents of utterances of the occupants included in the voices acquired. The memory stores data on the utterances interpreted by the interpretation unit and data on the respective occupants who are utterers of the utterances associated with each other. The control processor designates an occupant who has uttered most frequently among the occupants as a listener based on the data stored in the memory, determines topics to be outputted to the listener, and performs control to output the topics as the voice sound via the speaker.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a fatigue state detector, an information provider, and a processor. The fatigue state detector is configured to detect a fatigue degree of an occupant of the vehicle. The information provider is configured to provide various pieces of information related to traveling of the vehicle to the occupant. The processor is configured to change a frequency of providing the various pieces of the information by the information provider, depending on the fatigue degree of the occupant.

Abstract: A vehicle serving as a first vehicle includes a communicator, an identification unit, a collector, and a notification unit. The communicator communicates with one or more second vehicles upon occurrence of a multiple-vehicle accident involving multiple vehicles. The one or more second vehicles include the vehicles involved in the multiple-vehicle accident. The identification unit uniquely identifies a vehicle that is to issue an emergency notification by communicating with the one or more second vehicles. The collector collects accident information from the one or more second vehicles when the first vehicle corresponds to the vehicle that is to issue the emergency notification. The notification unit notifies an emergency notification center of the accident information collected by the collector as notification information.

Abstract: A server apparatus determines whether a vehicle without an emergency notification system is included in accident vehicles based on image data received from peripheral vehicles or peripheral portable devices. When the vehicle without the emergency notification system is included, the server acquires position data on a vehicle having issued an emergency notification. The server requests a base station covering the acquired position to send an information provision request to vehicles and portable devices present in a set target area. The server collects accident information from the peripheral vehicles and the peripheral portable devices, and collects information from the vehicles and the portable devices present in the set target area. The extractor extracts accident information from the information collected from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area based on the position data.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a collection unit, an identification unit, an ID information generation unit, a storage, a determination unit, and a notification unit. The collection unit performs, when an accident occurs, communication connection with a surrounding vehicle including an accident vehicle or a portable device and collect accident information therefrom. The identification unit identifies the accident vehicle based on the collected accident information. The ID information generation unit generates ID information for the accident associated with information regarding the identified accident vehicle. The storage holds a database in which the ID information and the accident information are associated with each other. The determination unit determines that the accident involves multiple vehicles when the database includes multiple pieces of the identical ID information.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a determination unit, an authentication unit, a collector, an information generator, and a control processor. The determination unit determines whether multiple persons have been involved in an accident. The authentication unit performs vehicle-side possessor authentication to authenticate whether a portable device authenticated by portable device-side possessor authentication as is portable device owned by a driver. When the multiple persons have been involved in the accident and the portable device authenticated by the portable device-side possessor authentication corresponds to a portable device that is to send accident information to an emergency notification center, the collector collects information relevant to the accident from other vehicles involved in the accident. The information generator sorts out the information relevant to the accident to generate the accident information.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a storage, an obtainer, an extractor, a comparator, and a notification processor. The storage is configured to store first vehicle data in association with first image data. The obtainer is configured to acquire second vehicle data and second image data. The extractor is configured to extract, from the first vehicle data and the first image data stored in the storage, the first vehicle data that is identical or similar to road data obtained from the second image data. The comparator is configured to compare the second vehicle data acquired by the obtainer with the first vehicle data extracted by the extractor, and obtain a difference value between the second vehicle data and the first vehicle data. The notification processor is configured to execute, when the difference value obtained by the comparator exceeds a predetermined value, a notification that the difference value exceeds the predetermined value.

Abstract: A vehicle includes an information collector, a detector, a setting unit, an accelerator position detector, and a control processor. The information collector collects information regarding an occupant of the vehicle to be used for determining a mood of the occupant. The detector detects the mood of the occupant based on the information. The setting unit performs setting of a sound quality parameter of a traveling sound to be outputted to an interior of a vehicle compartment of the vehicle based on the mood of the occupant. The accelerator position detector detects an accelerator position of the vehicle. The control processor generates the traveling sound based on the sound quality parameter and the accelerator position, and outputs the traveling sound to the interior of the vehicle compartment of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a display unit, a monitoring unit, and a display controller. The display unit is configured to display data including a shared image shared with a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is configured to establish coupling by communication. The monitoring unit is configured to monitor a processing load state. The display controller is configured to control a display mode of the shared image in accordance with the processing load state and an amount of data regarding the shared image.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a mode transition determination unit, and a controller. The mode transition determination unit is configured to make a determination as to whether or not one or both of a driving mode and a travel mode have made a transition. The controller is configured to vary a speed of a state change of interior equipment, based on a result of the determination by the mode transition determination unit.

Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, a determination apparatus, and an occupant state detection apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories store data including traveling-state comparative data and stopped-state comparative data. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors compare the occupant monitoring data with the traveling-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the traveling state, and compare the occupant monitoring data with the stopped-state comparative data on the condition that the vehicle is in the stopped state, to detect a state of the occupant in the vehicle.

Abstract: A safety drive assist apparatus includes an imaging unit, an information acquisition unit, first and second determination processors, and a search control processor. The imaging unit captures an image of an occupant inside a vehicle. The information acquisition unit is provided inside and outside the vehicle and acquires information including biometric information of the occupant. The first and the second determination processors determine physical and mental fatigue levels of the occupant inside the vehicle, respectively, on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit or the information acquired by the information acquisition unit. The search control processor searches for a recommended traveling route and a recommended stop-by point on the basis of a search condition, and propose a result of the search to the occupant. The search condition is based on one or both of determination information obtained by the first determination processor, the second determination processor.