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20100262327 | Driving support systems, methods, and programs - Driving support systems, methods, and programs detect an operation of a vehicle that is determined as dangerous driving, determine whether the detected operation is an avoidance operation to avoid a factor to be avoided in the vicinity of the vehicle, and obtain information related to an operation accompanying the detected operation when the detected operation is determined to be the avoidance operation. The systems, methods, and programs determine whether the detected operation is an appropriate avoidance operation based on the obtained information, and determine that the detected operation is not dangerous driving when the detected operation is determined to be the appropriate avoidance operation. | 10-14-2010 |
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20080274895 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING FILM AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method of preparing an oxide superconducting film, the method includes reacting a metal acetate containing metal M selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than three carbon atoms, reacting barium acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having two carbon atoms, reacting copper acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than two carbon atoms, respectively, followed by refining reaction products, dissolving the reaction products in methanol such that a molar ratio of the metal M, barium and copper is 1:2:3 to prepare a coating solution, and coating a substrate with the coating solution to form a gel film, followed by calcining and firing the gel film to prepare an oxide superconducting film. | 11-06-2008 |
20100113281 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING FILM AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method of preparing an oxide superconducting film, the method includes reacting a metal acetate containing metal M selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than three carbon atoms, reacting barium acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having two carbon atoms, reacting copper acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than two carbon atoms, respectively, followed by refining reaction products, dissolving the reaction products in methanol such that a molar ratio of the metal M, barium and copper is 1:2:3 to prepare a coating solution, and coating a substrate with the coating solution to form a gel film, followed by calcining and firing the gel film to prepare an oxide superconducting film. | 05-06-2010 |
20100204049 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING FILM AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - The present invention relates to a method of preparing an oxide superconducting film, the method includes reacting a metal acetate containing metal M selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than three carbon atoms, reacting barium acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having two carbon atoms, reacting copper acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than two carbon atoms, respectively, followed by refining reaction products, dissolving the reaction products in methanol such that a molar ratio of the metal M, barium and copper is 1:2:3 to prepare a coating solution, and coating a substrate with the coating solution to form a gel film, followed by calcining and firing the gel film to prepare an oxide superconducting film. | 08-12-2010 |
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20090005929 | Vehicle behavior learning apparatuses, methods, and programs - Vehicle behavior learning apparatuses, methods, and programs acquire image information of an area around a vehicle and perform image recognition of a particular feature included in the image information. The apparatuses, methods, and programs detect a behavior of the vehicle and acquire relation information indicating the relationship between the detected behavior of the and the recognized particular feature before the recognition of the behavior. The apparatuses, methods, and programs store detected behavior information including behavior property information indicating a property of the detected behavior of the vehicle and the acquired relation information associated with the behavior in a memory and produce learned behavior information indicating a result of learning of the behavior related to the particular feature on the basis of the stored detected behavior information. | 01-01-2009 |
20090005979 | Vehicle position recognition device and vehicle position recognition program - A vehicle location recognition apparatus includes a link determination unit which accurately determines a link traveled by a vehicle from among a plurality of links meeting at a narrow-angle branch point, on the basis of vehicle location information and road information, travel history information representing a route traveled by the vehicle at the branch point. The vehicle location recognition apparatus includes a history information generation unit for generating travel history information for the determined link. The travel history information is stored in a learning database. On the basis of the travel history information, a learning unit generates learned priority information representing the priorities of the respective links meeting at a branch point and used in the determination by the link determination unit. | 01-01-2009 |
20090005980 | Vehicle-position-recognition apparatuses, methods, and programs - Vehicle-position-recognition apparatuses, methods, and programs acquire current position information indicating a current position of a vehicle and acquire road information indicating at least one road based on a connection relationship between plural links. The apparatuses, methods, and programs determine a link where the vehicle travels based on the current position information and the road information and generate travel-history information indicating a route that the vehicle travels at a point where a link is branched based on the determined link. The apparatuses, methods, and programs acquire an image of an area surrounding the vehicle, recognize a recognition target in the acquired image, and store the generated travel-history information in the memory in association with information indicating the recognition of the recognition target. The apparatuses, methods, and programs generate learning-priority information indicating a priority of each link branched out at the branch point based on the stored travel-history information and the stored recognition information, the generated learning-priority information usable to determine on which of the links branched out at the branch point that the vehicle is traveling. | 01-01-2009 |
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20080208460 | Lane determining device, method, and program - Devices, methods, and programs obtain vehicle position information indicating a current position of a vehicle, and based on the vehicle position information, obtain road information including positions and forms of lane markings around the current position of the vehicle. Based on the road information, the devices, systems, and methods determine whether a branch point exists on the road in a forward direction of the vehicle. If a branch point exists, the devices, methods, and programs obtain image information of an area before the branch point, and determine whether no lane marking is imaged or is partly imaged in the image information of the area before the branch point. If there is no lane marking or only a partial lane marking imaged in the area before the branch point, the devices, methods, and programs obtain image information of the branch point including a captured image of a lane marking, and determine a lane in which the vehicle is traveling after the branch point based on an imaging order of the lane marking, a form of the lane marking, a position of the lane marking in the image information of the branch point, and the road information. | 08-28-2008 |
20080240505 | Feature information collecting apparatuses, methods, and programs - Apparatuses, methods, and programs acquire vehicle position information that represents a current position of a vehicle, acquire image information of a vicinity of the vehicle, and carry out image recognition processing of a target feature that is included in the image information to determine a position of the target feature. The apparatuses, methods, and programs store recognition position information that is based on the acquired vehicle position information and that represents the determined recognition position of the target feature. The apparatuses, methods, and programs determine an estimated position of the target feature based on a set of a plurality of stored recognition position information for the target feature, the plurality of stored recognition position information for the target feature being stored due to the target feature being subject to image recognition processing a plurality of times. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240506 | Feature information management apparatuses, methods, and programs - Apparatuses, methods and programs store a plurality of target types, each target type having recognition attribute information indicating the likelihood that the target type will be recognized based on a type of road or a type of area. The apparatuses, methods and programs acquire vehicle position information indicating a current position of a vehicle, acquire image information in the vicinity of the vehicle, and acquire road attribute information about a road on which the vehicle is traveling, the road attribute information acquired based on the vehicle position information. The apparatuses, methods and programs determine a target type defining a target for image recognition within the image information, the target type being determined based on the acquired road attribute information and the stored recognition attribute information, and perform image recognition of a target feature included in the image information, the target feature being of the determined target type. | 10-02-2008 |
20080240573 | Feature information collecting apparatus and feature information collecting method - Feature information collecting apparatuses, methods, and programs acquire vehicle position information that represents the current position of a vehicle, acquire image information for a vicinity of the vehicle, and carry out image recognition processing on recognition target objects that are included in the image information. The apparatuses, methods, and programs store recognition information in a memory that represents a result of the image recognition of the recognition target objects in association with information for the recognition position of the recognition target objects, the recognition position determined based on the vehicle position information. The apparatuses, methods, and programs extract, as learned features, recognition target objects that can be repeatedly recognized by image recognition based on a plurality of sets of recognition information related to the same position, the plurality of sets of recognition information being stored due to the image information for the same position being recognized a plurality of times by image recognition. | 10-02-2008 |
20080243312 | Vehicle behavior learning apparatuses, methods, and programs - Vehicle behavior learning apparatuses, methods, and programs store pieces of feature information including position information and attribute information of a plurality of target features. The apparatuses, methods, and programs obtain vehicle position information that shows a current position of a vehicle, obtaining image information of surroundings of the vehicle, and obtain one of the stored pieces of feature information corresponding to the surroundings of the vehicle based on the vehicle position information. The apparatuses, methods, and programs perform an image recognition for recognizing a target feature contained in the image information that corresponds to the obtained piece of feature information, detect a behavior of the vehicle that is performed within a predetermined range from a position of the recognized target feature, and store, based on the vehicle position information, the detected behavior in correspondence with information of a position in which the detected behavior was detected. The apparatuses, methods, and programs extract, based the detected behavior being stored a plurality of times at the same position, the detected behavior as a learned behavior, output learned behavior information including attribute information of the detected behavior and the position information of the detected behavior, each of which are kept in correspondence with the piece of feature information of the recognized target feature. | 10-02-2008 |
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20130131893 | VEHICLE-USE INFORMATION COLLECTION SYSTEM - A vehicular information collection system which collects information from a vehicle. The vehicular information collection system includes a vehicle information output portion that outputs vehicle information to a collection destination, a presentation portion that presents a query relating to sensory evaluation based on the vehicle information output from the vehicle information output portion to a driver, a receiving portion that receives a driver's reply to the query presented by the presentation portion, and a reply output portion that outputs the driver's reply received by the receiving portion to the collection destination. With this configuration, a query relating to sensory evaluation based on vehicle information is presented to request a reply from the driver, thereby collecting vehicle information taking the sensory evaluation of the driver into consideration. | 05-23-2013 |
20140324334 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND CENTER SERVER - An information processing system includes a center server, a first moving object that performs communication with the center server, and a second moving object that performs communication with the center server. The first moving object includes a submission information acquisition unit that acquires submission information related to a travel guiding, and a submission information transmission unit that transmits the submission information to the center server. The center server includes a guiding information accumulation unit that accumulates guiding information which is based on the submission information. The second moving object includes a travel guiding execution unit that executes the travel guiding for the second moving object with respect to the traveling route to the preset destination. The travel guiding execution unit executes the travel guiding using the guiding information of the guiding information accumulation unit. | 10-30-2014 |
20140350854 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD - An information providing system includes an obtaining portion that obtains image information captured by a moving object traveling on a road, and an information providing portion that provides the obtained image information, and additional information related to the image information. | 11-27-2014 |