This invention relates to a navigation device (200) comprising: a processor (210) that is configured to generate a navigation map of a local environment (497); and a display (240) controllable by said processor (200) to display said navigation map and any markers (489) that relate to marked locations within said local environment (497); characterised in that the navigation device (200) further comprises: an indicator generation module (490) for generating an indicator (491) for each of any marked locations outside of said local environment, said processor (210) being responsive to said indicator generation module (490) to control said display (240) to display any generated indicators (491) in said navigation map (497). A method of generating a navigation map and a computer program are also disclosed.

Navigation device and method

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving support device, capable of performing accurate safety confirmation support while reducing a driver's sense of incongruity. SOLUTION: The driving support device includes an imaging unit which images the circumference of a vehicle; an image generation unit which generates a continuous image formed by converting an image taken by the imaging unit into an image of the circumference of the vehicle as viewed from a virtual view point set within a cabin while continuously changing the viewing direction around the virtual view point; a display unit which displays the continuous image generated by the image generation unit; and a control unit which causes, when a shift position is switched to a forward traveling range or a backward traveling range, the display unit to display the continuous image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Driving support device

A reference line detection unit (12) obtains a curved reference line by extracting edges from a distorted image picked up by a fisheye camera. A distortion parameter calculation unit (13) calculates a distortion parameter so as to make the reference line a straight line. A distortion correction unit (14) corrects the distortion of the distorted image by a distortion correction equation by using the distortion parameter.

Moving object periphery image correction apparatus

In a case where it is determined that a vehicle is in an unparked state within a parking lot for at least a specified time, the parking lot where the vehicle is currently located is determined to be in a congested state, and information that pertains to the parking lot that is determined to be in a congested state is transmitted to a probe center (3) as probe information. The probe center, based on the received probe information, creates parking lot guidance information to provide guidance on the parking lot that is in a congested state, then distributes the created parking lot guidance information to vehicles (4) that are located in the vicinity of the parking lot that is determined to be in a congested state. A navigation device (1) in a vehicle (4) to which the parking lot guidance information is distributed provides guidance that pertains to the parking lot that is in a congested state.

Device, method and computer program for determination of the occupation state of a parking lot

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique precisely proving a guidance about vacant space in a lot including a three-dimensional parking lot with a simple constitution on a vehicle side without requiring a special facility on a parking lot side. SOLUTION: A parking space guidance system includes a vehicle information acquisition unit 11 acquiring vehicle information including unique ID information of other vehicles adjacent to one's own vehicle; an object information acquisition unit 12 acquiring object information of peripheral objects including distance information among the peripheral objects of the own vehicle and the own vehicle; a parking lot map acquisition unit 13 acquiring a parking lot map by performing inter-vehicle communications; a mapping unit 14 mapping the own vehicle on the parking lot map by using vehicle information and object information; a guidance unit 15 guiding the vacant space by using the parking lot map; a short-distance map creation unit 16 creating a relative short-distance map among the own vehicle and the peripheral objects; a parking lot map upgrade unit 18 upgrading the parking lot map using the short-distance map; and a parking lot map transmission unit 19 transmitting the upgraded parking lot map through the inter-vehicle communications. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Parking space guidance system

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle driving support apparatus for accurately checking the position of an object. SOLUTION: The vehicle driving support apparatus 100 is provided with: cameras 10a to 10b for photographing surroundings of a vehicle; a top-view image conversion part 20 for generating a top-view image projecting a road surface on the basis of a photographed side view image; a three-dimensional object detection part 30 for detecting a three-dimensional object included in a redundant area of the top-view image corresponding to each of the cameras; a three-dimensional object position detection part 32 for detecting a horizontal position on the road surface of the detected three-dimensional object; a three-dimensional object correction part 34 for correcting the position of the three-dimensional object by using the horizontal position of the detected three-dimensional object; and a display processing part 42 and display 44 for displaying the top-view image including a three-dimensional object with position corrected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Vehicle driving support apparatus

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle drive assist device capable of reducing the burden on a driver at the time of making a U-turn. SOLUTION: The vehicle drive assist device is equipped with a camera 10 to measure the road width from the vehicle to the road end on the counter-lane side, a road end sensing part 20, a road width deciding part 22, a U-turn possible/not determining part 24 to determine whether the vehicle can make U-turn without switchback turning on the basis of the measured road width, a notification picture preparing part 26 to notify the vehicle driver of the result from determination made by the U-turn possible/not determining part 24, an indication processing part 28, and a display part 30. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Vehicle drive assist device

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an in-cabin article management device capable of positively eliminating forgotten articles when going out in a vehicle. SOLUTION: The in-cabin article management device 100 is provided with an article registration part 112 for carrying out registration of an article 400 to be carried before getting off by an occupant, an article detecting part 120 detecting the article 400 carried by the occupant after the occupant gets in the vehicle again, a lacking article determining part 130 comparing the detected article 400 with the registered article 400 to determine a lacking article 400, and a notifying part 132 carrying out notification when there is a lacking article. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

In-cabin article management device

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user of a vehicle to confirm an empty space in a parking lot in the vehicle stopping state without requiring a large-scale facility, and also to contribute to reduction in the risk of accidents in the parking lot. SOLUTION: In this system for connecting the own vehicle to a plurality of other vehicles so as to be mutually communicable in the parking lot, vehicle body width data of the own vehicle are transmitted from the own vehicle laid in the stopping state (S2), and detection data instructing the vehicle position and lateral empty space distance detected in each of other parked vehicles are transmitted, in response to the data, from the vehicle concerned (S3). In the own vehicle, mapping processing is performed for the position and empty space layout of the vehicle concerned on the basis of the received detection data (S4), and an empty space for parking is retrieved from the processing result (S5, S6, and S8-S10), and the retrieved information is displayed on a screen (S7). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI

Guide system of empty space in parking lot

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a car driving support apparatus capable of obtaining images having less distortions with less labor, after a camera and a lens have been replaced SOLUTION: The car driving support apparatus has the camera 10a or the like, photographing the periphery of a car through a fish-eye lens, a photographed-image storage section 12a or the like for storing a photographed image data and a VRAM 23 The car driving support apparatus further has mapping-table storage sections 32 and 36 for storing a mapping table displaying the relationship of a reading address at a time, when the image data are read from the photographed-image storage section 12a or the like, and a writing address at the time, when the read image data is stored in the VRAM 23 The car driving support apparatus has a top-view image conversion section 20 for writing the image data to the VRAM 23, on the basis of the mapping table and a mapping-table conversion section 34 for correcting the contents of the mapping table, on the basis of the place of a reference set to the photographed image by using the camera 10a or the like COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Tsuboi Shoichi

Papers

Vehicle driving support apparatus

Vehicle drive assist device

In-cabin article management device

Guide system of empty space in parking lot

Car driving support apparatus