A mobile terminal including a display configured to display information; a short range communication module configured to exchange a signal with an external control device; and a controller configured to receive the signal from the external control device, determine a context at a timing point of receiving the signal, and control an operation corresponding to the signal to be performed in the determined context. Further, the operation includes at least one of activation/deactivation of the display, an activation/deactivation of a lock mode of the mobile terminal, a volume operation and a camera operation.

Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof

A computing device may be configured to receive sensor information indicative of respective characteristics of vehicles on a road of travel of a first vehicle. The computing device may be configured to identify, based on the respective characteristics, a second vehicle that exhibits an aggressive driving behavior manifested as an unsafe or unlawful driving action. Also, based on the respective characteristics, the computing device may be configured to determine a type of the second vehicle. The computing device may be configured to estimate a distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle. The computing device may be configured to modify a control strategy of tire first vehicle, based on the aggressive driving behavior of the second vehicle, the type of the second vehicle, and the distance between the first vehicle and the second vehicle; and control the first vehicle based on the modified control strategy.

A method to detect nearby aggressive drivers and adjust driving modes

A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus that extracts a body present in the surroundings of a vehicle as an object, based on an image captured by an infrared imaging device, including a binarized object extraction device that extracts a binarized object from image data obtained by binarizing a gray scale image of the image; a horizontal edge detection device that detects a horizontal edge in the gray scale image; a horizontal edge determination device that determines whether or not the horizontal edge detected by the horizontal edge detection device exists in a prescribed range from the top end or bottom end of the binarized object extracted by the binarized object extraction device; and an object type determination device that determines a type of object based on a determination result of the horizontal edge determination device

Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus

A method for detecting a clear path of travel for a vehicle utilizing analysis of a plurality of images generated by a camera device located upon the vehicle includes monitoring the images. The images are analyzed including determining a clear path upon which a potential road surface can be estimated from other portions of the images that do not indicate a potential road surface, and determining an image of a traffic infrastructure indication. The method further includes determining the content of the traffic infrastructure indication, modifying the clear path based upon the content of the traffic infrastructure indication, and utilizing the modified clear path in navigation of the vehicle.

Enhanced clear path detection in the presence of traffic infrastructure indicator

There is provided an information processing device including a display section configured to display a first object in a virtual three-dimensional space having a depth direction of a display screen, an operation section configured to acquire an operation for moving the first object in at least the depth direction, and a controller configured to move the first object on the display screen in accordance with the acquired operation, to execute, when a region of the first object overlaps a first overlap determination region, a first process to one or both of the first and second objects, and to execute, when the region of the first object overlaps a second overlap determination region, a second process to one or both of the first and second objects. The first overlap determination region may be a region obtained by extending the second overlap determination region in at least the depth direction.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

A traffic information detector (100) comprises a drive unit (101) having a camera installed therein and defining the direction of the camera, a control unit (102) for controlling the drive of the drive unit (101), a sensor section (103) having various sensor functions, a storage section (104) for storing various information, an information input section (105) for inputting information, an information output section (106) for outputting image information or the like, a vehicle information interface (I/F) (107) for connecting an external image processor, a computer, or the like, an external device interface (I/F) (108) for connecting all devices incorporating a car navigation device, a computer, and an image processing means, and an image processing section (109) for performing a predetermined image processing on an acquired image.

Traffic information detector, traffic information detecting method, traffic information detecting program, and recording medium

A route guidance system has memory means that is provided outside a mobile body and where images at guidance waypoints are stored as data, and has distance measuring means that measures the distance from the current position of the mobile body to the next guidance waypoint. The route guidance system further has image demand generation means for generating an image demand for the next guidance waypoint when the distance measured by the distance measuring means is not more than a first predetermined distance, transmission means provided outside the mobile body and reading from the memory means an image of the next guidance waypoint in response to the image demand and transmitting the image to the mobile body, and display control means for receiving at the mobile body the image transmitted from the transmission means and displaying the image on a display device.

Route Guidance System and Method

A bicycle map is displayed on a screen. The bicycle map includes travel route information obtained by associating map information and cyclist information regarding bicycle travel routes. First, bicycle positional information regarding a bicycle being running is acquired, by use of a positioning system and also bicycle-related information when the bicycle positional information is acquired. Second, travel route information obtained by associating the bicycle positional information with the bicycle-related information is created and stored in a storage device. Then, pieces of travel route information created by the same or different information processing apparatuses are merged, and merged running route information is displayed with the map information on the screen.

Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method and bicycle map

An image corresponding to image data obtained by imaging by a camera is divided into a plurality of image pieces and each of the image pieces is subjected to a color analysis process, a fractal dimension analysis process, and an artificial object amount recognition process. According to a combination of the results obtained by the three processes, a part of a landscape contained in each of the image pieces is classified and the entire characteristic of the landscape contained in the image is judged according to the classification result.

Image analysis device and image analysis method

A drive control apparatus (100) uses a calculating unit (103) to calculate a danger index indicative of the possibility of occurrence of a dangerous event for a mobile body based on information of the mobile body acquired by an information acquiring unit (101). A notifying unit (104) notifies a passenger of the possibility of occurrence of a dangerous event for the mobile body. A control unit (106) controls a driving unit (102) to stop the drive if a determining unit (105) determines that the danger index is greater than a predetermined value.

Ryujiro Fujita

Papers

Traffic information detector, traffic information detecting method, traffic information detecting program, and recording medium

Route Guidance System and Method

Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method and bicycle map

Image analysis device and image analysis method

Drive control apparatus, drive control method, drive control program, and recording medium