Abstract: An information provision system includes: a risk recognition unit that recognizes a predetermined risk faced by a mobile body; and an agent control unit. The agent control unit: sets an emotion of the agent according to an emotional level associated with happiness and sadness; and when the emotion of the agent is set to a first emotional level, modifies the emotion of the agent to a second emotional level having a degree of happiness lower than that of the first emotional level and outputs warning speech via the agent, when switching from a state in which the predetermined risk is not recognized by the risk recognition unit to a state in which the predetermined risk is recognized by the risk recognition unit.

Abstract: An attention calling system includes: a monitoring-target object recognition section that recognizes a monitoring-target object existing around a moving object; and an attention calling control section that executes attention calling processing for a user. When the monitoring-target object is recognized by the monitoring-target object recognition section in a state where a predetermined output via sound or light from a predetermined area around the user is being performed by the output device, the attention calling control section executes, as the attention calling processing, processing of reducing an output level of the predetermined output from a direction of the monitoring-target object to less than an output level of the predetermined output from directions other than the direction of the monitoring-target object. The direction of the monitoring-target object is a direction from the user toward the monitoring-target object.

Abstract: An interface apparatus includes: a user state recognition unit that recognizes a state of a user having boarded a mobile body; a response output control unit that controls an output mode of a notification to be output by a first output apparatus used in the mobile body, according to the state of the user recognized by the user state recognition unit; and an operation recognition notification unit that executes operation recognition notification processing of outputting, by a second output apparatus used in the mobile body, an operation recognition notification when a predetermined operation of the user is recognized by the user state recognition unit, an output mode of the operation recognition notification being changed in conjunction with the predetermined operation.

Abstract: An information provision system includes: a user state recognition unit that recognizes a state of a user in a mobile body; a user emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotional level of the user based on a predetermined index value, based on a recognition result of the state of the user; and an agent control unit that provides, using an anthropomorphic agent, the user with an HMI that performs speech output in a mode corresponding to an emotional level of the agent based on the predetermined index value. The agent control unit controls the emotional level of the agent to be a target level for changing the emotional level of the user to fall outside of a predetermined determination range, when the emotional level of the user estimated by the user emotion estimation unit falls within the predetermined determination range.

Abstract: A vehicle display device includes a detection unit that detects a risk index that is present in front of a vehicle and has a possibility of coming into contact with the vehicle, and a display control unit that displays an image on a windshield of the vehicle. The display control unit momentarily displays a visibility-reducing image on the windshield in a range other than a risk index range corresponding to the risk index detected by the detection unit, the visibility-reducing image reducing visibility for a driver of the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle notification apparatus includes: an object detection unit that detects an object existing around a vehicle; a first notification unit that notifies existence of the object around the vehicle to a driver of the vehicle via voice or a sound other than voice; a second notification unit that notifies the existence of the object around the vehicle to the driver via a mode other than voice and the sound; and a decision unit that decides notification order between the first notification unit and the second notification unit, according to a degree of risk of the vehicle coming into contact with the object. The first notification unit and the second notification unit perform notification in accordance with the notification order decided by the decision unit.

Abstract: An attention attracting device includes: a risk index value acquisition unit acquiring, based on outputs of a plurality of sensors mounted on a vehicle, a risk index value indicating a collision risk between a target object present in front of the vehicle and the vehicle; and a notification control unit outputting a voice in a language to notify a driver of the vehicle of the target object when a target object with the risk index value equal to or greater than a first threshold value is detected, and being configured to notify the driver of a change in the risk index value using a method other than a notification by the voice in the language when the risk index value changes by a value equal to or greater than a second threshold value while notifying the driver of the target object by outputting the voice in the language.

Abstract: An attention attracting device includes: a notification determination unit, when a target object whose risk index value is within a setting range is detected, determining types of notification to a driver and a level of notification for each type of notification, based on the risk index value; and a notification execution unit notifying the driver, the notification determination unit determining, when a plurality of target objects with the risk index value within the setting range are detected, a level of notification for a target object with the risk index value being low such that a level of notification corresponding to at least one type of notification used to notify of the target object with the risk index value being low is lower than the level of notification corresponding to at least one type of notification used to notify of a target object with the risk index value being high.

Abstract: An attention attracting device includes: a risk index value acquisition unit that acquires a risk index value; a geographical characteristic acquisition unit that acquires a geographical characteristic of a driver of a vehicle; a driver status recognition unit that recognizes a status of the driver of the vehicle; a driver emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of the driver based on a recognition result of the status of the driver D; and a notification determination unit that determines a level of notification to notify the driver of the presence of a risk and a type of an HMI device to be used for notification, based on the emotion of the driver estimated by the driver emotion estimation unit, the geographical characteristic of the driver acquired by the geographical characteristic acquisition unit, and the risk index value acquired by the risk index value acquisition unit.

Abstract: A sight-line guidance apparatus is a sight-line guidance apparatus that guides a line of sight of a driver of a vehicle, and includes: a first detection unit that detects a target existing in front of the vehicle; and a display control unit that displays a sight-line guidance sign on a windshield of the vehicle when the first detection unit detects the target. The sight-line guidance sign guides the line of sight of the driver to the target. The display control unit displays the sight-line guidance sign in such a manner that the sight-line guidance sign moves from a display start position of the sight-line guidance sign toward the target in accordance with a change in movement speed. The change is made based on a degree of risk that is a degree of probability of the vehicle coming into contact with the target.

Abstract: A sight-line guidance apparatus is a sight-line guidance apparatus that guides a line of sight of a driver of a vehicle, and includes: a detection unit that detects a target existing in front of the vehicle; and a display control unit that displays a sight-line guidance sign on a windshield of the vehicle when the detection unit detects the target. The sight-line guidance sign guides the line of sight of the driver to the target. The display control unit displays the sight-line guidance sign in such a manner that the sight-line guidance sign moves from a display start position of the sight-line guidance sign toward the target in accordance with a change in movement speed. The change is made according to a type of the target.

Abstract: A safety support device includes an object detection camera and a radar device, which serve as detectors, and a controller that controls a dual-purpose speaker and a dual-purpose speaker, which serve as three-dimensional sound outputters, and a monaural speaker that serves as a sound outputter, based on detection information of a monitoring camera that serves as a monitor. The controller selects, in accordance with the positions of the ears of a driver, which are detected by the monitoring camera, whether to cause the dual-purpose speaker and the dual-purpose speaker to output a three-dimensional sound or to cause the dual-purpose speaker, the dual-purpose speaker, and the monaural speaker to output a sound.

Abstract: A safety assist device includes an object detection camera and a radar that detect the presence of an object and a position of the object on a lateral side or a rear side of an own vehicle, a vehicle speed sensor that detects a vehicle speed of the own vehicle, a driver's seat-side display and a passenger's seat-side display that are provided on a lateral side of a driver's seat inside the own vehicle, and a controller that causes the driver's seat-side display and the passenger's seat-side display to display a signal in response to the presence of the object detected by the object detection camera, the radar, and the like. The controller moves a position at which the signal is displayed toward a front side in a display range of the driver's seat-side display and the passenger's seat-side display in accordance with an increase in the vehicle speed detected.

Abstract: A safety support device includes an object detection camera and a radar device, which serve as detectors, and a controller that controls a dual-purpose speaker and a dual-purpose speaker, which serve as three-dimensional sound outputters, and a monaural speaker that serves as a sound outputter, based on detection information of a monitoring camera that serves as a monitor. The controller selects, in accordance with the positions of the ears of a driver, which are detected by the monitoring camera, whether to cause the dual-purpose speaker and the dual-purpose speaker to output a three-dimensional sound or to cause the dual-purpose speaker, the dual-purpose speaker, and the monaural speaker to output a sound.

Abstract: An air-conditioning duct structure of an aircraft includes an air-conditioning duct that is provided on each of a starboard side and a port side and guides conditioned air to a vicinity of a ceiling of a cabin in the aircraft. The air-conditioning duct includes a blowout portion and a blowout upstream portion. The blowout portion blows out the conditioned air to the cabin from an outboard side of the ceiling to an inboard side of the ceiling and toward a lower part than the ceiling, and the blowout upstream portion communicates with an upstream side of the blowout portion. In addition, the blowout portion or the blowout upstream portion is curved to cause a terminal end side of the blowout portion to be inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A transport device includes a first rotary part that rotates; a second rotary part that contacts the first rotary part, that forms a pinch region where an object to be transported is pinched between the second rotary part and the first rotary part, and that rotates together with the first rotary part; and a positioning mechanism that positions the second rotary part with respect to the first rotary part. The positioning mechanism includes a swing part that supports one end portion side of the second rotary part, that is supported at one end portion side of the first rotary part, and that is swingable around a rotation center of the first rotary part; and a fixing section that fixes the swing part.

Abstract: A paper transport device includes: a paper transport path that includes plural pairs of transport units provided in a direction intersecting with a direction of transport of paper, and transports paper in a predetermined direction; an opening and closing unit that is opened and closed to expose a part of the paper transport path; and a guide unit that has a guide surface on one side of the paper transport path and is rotatably supported about a rotation shaft between a guide posture for guidance of the paper and an opening posture for opening of the guide surface through rotation from the guide posture, when the opening and closing unit is opened.

Abstract: An air-conditioning duct structure of an aircraft includes an air-conditioning duct that is provided on each of a starboard side and a port side and guides conditioned air to a vicinity of a ceiling of a cabin in the aircraft. The air-conditioning duct includes a blowout portion and a blowout upstream portion. The blowout portion blows out the conditioned air to the cabin from an outboard side of the ceiling to an inboard side of the ceiling and toward a lower part than the ceiling, and the blowout upstream portion communicates with an upstream side of the blowout portion. In addition, the blowout portion or the blowout upstream portion is curved to cause a terminal end side of the blowout portion to be inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction.

Abstract: A transport device includes a first rotary part that rotates; a second rotary part that contacts the first rotary part, that forms a pinch region where an object to be transported is pinched between the second rotary part and the first rotary part, and that rotates together with the first rotary part; and a positioning mechanism that positions the second rotary part with respect to the first rotary part. The positioning mechanism includes a swing part that supports one end portion side of the second rotary part, that is supported at one end portion side of the first rotary part, and that is swingable around a rotation center of the first rotary part; and a fixing section that fixes the swing part.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including an image former that forms an image on a recording material; a covering part that is provided in the apparatus body and leaves an inside of the apparatus body open by being opened in an opening direction with respect to the apparatus body; a reversing unit that is housed by the apparatus body and discharges part of the recording material on which the image is formed by the image former externally of the apparatus body, and reverses a transport direction of the recording material; and a guiding unit that is provided adjacent to a downstream side of the covering part in the opening direction, guides the recording material discharged through the apparatus body by the reversing unit, and when the covering part is opened with respect to the apparatus body, the guiding unit moves relatively with respect to the covering part in an opposite direction of the opening direction.