Abstract: In an automatic parking system, a marker recognizing unit performs recognition of a predetermined number of markers located respectively at predetermined locations in a parking garage. A marker deter miner performs determination of whether there is a problem in recognition of at least one marker in the predetermined number of markers in accordance with information resulting from the recognition performed by the marker detector. An output unit outputs marker state information resulting from the determination performed by the marker determiner.

Abstract: In an automatic parking system, a marker recognizing unit performs recognition of a predetermined number of markers located respectively at predetermined locations in a parking garage. A marker deter miner performs determination of whether there is a problem in recognition of at least one marker in the predetermined number of markers in accordance with information resulting from the recognition performed by the marker detector. An output unit outputs marker state information resulting from the determination performed by the marker determiner.

Abstract: An automated parking system includes an automated parking vehicle and an information terminal. The vehicle includes a parking control device and a communication device. The parking control device controls the vehicle to cause the vehicle to search for and park in a vacant parking slot by means of autonomous travel. The communication device transmits automated parking status information to the information terminal when no vacant parking slot is found. Furthermore, the communication device receives an instruction about status control of the vehicle from the information terminal. The information terminal includes a communication device. The parking control device controls the vehicle according to the instruction about the status control of the vehicle that has been received from the information terminal.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a travel information acquisition unit, a first information acquisition unit, a second information acquisition unit, a collision determination unit, a driving control unit, a presence determination unit, and an early control unit. When the presence determination unit determines that a moving object is present ahead of the own vehicle in its traveling direction in a case where the moving object is not detected by a detection device which is mounted on the own vehicle, the early control unit performs early control for advancing a timing at which the moving object is detected by the detection device and the driving control unit performs control so that the own vehicle performs avoidance driving action.

Abstract: An automated parking system includes an automated parking vehicle and an information terminal. The vehicle includes a parking control device and a communication device. The parking control device controls the vehicle to cause the vehicle to search for and park in a vacant parking slot by means of autonomous travel. The communication device transmits automated parking status information to the information terminal when no vacant parking slot is found. Furthermore, the communication device receives an instruction about status control of the vehicle from the information terminal. The information terminal includes a communication device. The parking control device controls the vehicle according to the instruction about the status control of the vehicle that has been received from the information terminal.

Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus recognizes a travel road on which a vehicle is traveling, acquires a traveling state of the vehicle, and determines whether or not the vehicle will deviate from the travel road based on the recognition result of the travel road and the traveling state of the vehicle. The apparatus determines whether to perform, as a prevention method for preventing from the travel road, a method in which either of steering control and brake control of the vehicle is performed, or a method in which a period over which either of the steering control and the brake control is performed and a period over which both of the steering control and the brake control are performed are set. The apparatus sets a steering amount for the steering control and a brake amount for the brake control when the deviation prevention control is performed based on the prevention method.

Abstract: A vehicle apparatus is applied to a vehicle and enables automatic driving to a destination without requiring a driving operation by a user. The apparatus includes an information obtaining section that obtains information indicating that the automatic driving is used by the user as charged automatic driving, and a usage parameter calculation section which calculates a usage parameter which is at least one of a usage time period and a usage distance of the charged automatic driving by the user, based on the information obtained by the information obtaining section.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a travel information acquisition unit, a first information acquisition unit, a second information acquisition unit, a collision determination unit, a driving control unit, a presence determination unit, and an early control unit. When the presence determination unit determines that a moving object is present ahead of the own vehicle in its traveling direction in a case where the moving object is not detected by a detection device which is mounted on the own vehicle, the early control unit performs early control for advancing a timing at which the moving object is detected by the detection device and the driving control unit performs control so that the own vehicle performs avoidance driving action.

Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus recognizes a travel road on which a vehicle is traveling, acquires a traveling state of the vehicle, and determines whether or not the vehicle will deviate from the travel road based on the recognition result of the travel road and the traveling state of the vehicle. The apparatus determines whether to perform, as a prevention method for preventing from the travel road, a method in which either of steering control and brake control of the vehicle is performed, or a method in which a period over which either of the steering control and the brake control is performed and a period over which both of the steering control and the brake control are performed are set. The apparatus sets a steering amount for the steering control and a brake amount for the brake control when the deviation prevention control is performed based on the prevention method.

Abstract: In an apparatus, a first unit obtains a picked-up image in a travelling direction of a vehicle, and a second unit determines whether or not a driver of the vehicle is about to perform in parking of the vehicle or is performing parking of the vehicle. A third unit estimates, based on the obtained picked-up image, a target parking area of the vehicle when it is deter mined that the driver of the vehicle is about to perfoim parking of the vehicle or is perfoi ming parking of the vehicle. A fourth unit sets, based a position of the estimated target parking area relative to the vehicle, a display mode for the obtained picked-up image. A fifth unit generates, based on the picked-up image and the display mode for the picked-up image, an image to be displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An axial direction control device obtains information regarding a road gradient in front of a road on which a motor vehicle drives. The axial direction control device adjusts an optical axis of headlamps and an image acquiring axis of an in-vehicle camera to an optimum direction on the basis of the acquired information before the motor vehicle has reached a road gradient change point. The road gradient is changed at the road gradient change point. Because the axial direction control device quickly changes the axial direction of each of the headlamps and the camera to an optimum direction before the road gradient is changed, driver safety and comfort is enhanced.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured for setting an assistance region for assisting a driver's recognition of a circumstance around a vehicle. The assistance region is indicative of at least one of: an imaging region of a device for picking up an image of the imaging region, and a particular image-processing region in the picked-up image. In the apparatus, a first unit estimates, based on a travelling condition of the vehicle, a turning parameter indicative of how the vehicle is turning or is about to turn. The turning parameter includes a turning course of the vehicle. A second unit sets the assistance region to an outside of the turning course of the vehicle.

Abstract: An electronic control unit (ECU) having multiple layers of distributed network control functionality is used to facilitate development of complicated vehicle control network system. That is, for example, three layers of distributed network control functionality are devised in the ECU. The three layers of functionality include a so-called application layer that provides a structurally functional framework of function reusability, extensibility and independence as well as an interface (I/F) for functional context, a so-called system infrastructure layer that uniformly manages system resources for an entire system development scheme based on a rule, and a so-called hardware abstraction layer that controls hardware system as an abstractive object including electrical property of devices such as ECUs, sensors and/or actuators as well as a network itself.