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PREDICTION APPARATUS, PREDICTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

A prediction apparatus for predicting a remaining capacity value of a battery of a vehicle includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions for executing a process including acquiring usage rec…

DRIVE·Oct 30·1 min read

B60L58/12 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

CONTROL APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

A control apparatus includes circuitry configured to communicate with a second control apparatus at a different base from the control apparatus in a power supply system, before performing power interc…

DRIVE·Jul 17·1 min read

H02J3/38 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

PATH SEARCH APPARATUS, PATH SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM

A route search device includes a memory and a processor configured to divide a communication network including a plurality of nodes and an edge connecting the nodes into a plurality of areas based on …

DRIVE·Apr 17·1 min read

G01C21/3446 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

A wireless communication management apparatus () includes a remaining capacity prediction unit () and a time setting unit (). The remaining capacity prediction unit () predicts a remaining capacity (B…

DRIVE·Feb 29·1 min read

H04W52/0261 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

OPTICAL POWER RECEPTION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND OPTICAL POWER RECEPTION METHOD

A light receiving portion of a photodiode is connected to an external light source via an optical transmission line. A power storage unit stores electrical energy generated by the photodiode. A bias c…

DRIVE·Oct 26·1 min read

H04B10/807 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ESTIMATION METHOD, ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND ESTIMATION PROGRAM

An estimation method includes acquiring sensor information acquired by a sensor mounted on a first vehicle belonging to a vehicle line, acquiring position information on a location of the first vehicl…

DRIVE·Oct 19·1 min read

G01C21/3841 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

IMPACT ANALYSIS METHOD, FEATURE AMOUNT EXTRACTION METHOD, IMPACT ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

Information regarding an impact occurring in a vehicle is analyzed from an observed signal by a sensor installed in the vehicle. An acquisition unit () acquires an observed signal by a sensor (S) inst…

DRIVE·Oct 12·2 min read

B60R21/0136 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, AND POSITION ESTIMATION PROGRAM

A position estimation unit estimates, for each movement in a predetermined section, a plurality of position candidates of a position estimation target on the basis of position information and sensor i…

DRIVE·Jul 27·2 min read

G01C21/3848 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ROUTE GUIDANCE APPARATUS, ROUTE GUIDANCE METHOD, AND PROGRAM

A route guidance apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a route search unit that performs a route search based on a route search instruction from a user including info…

DRIVE·Jul 13·1 min read

G01C21/3461 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

MANAGEMENT DEVICE, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

A management device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of inputs of road map data, refer to the road map data and generate a first polygon representing a lane region, gene…

DRIVE·May 25·1 min read

G01C21/3867 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

AUDIO SPOT SYSTEM AND AUDIO SPOT FORMING METHOD

An audio spot forming system (S) is an audio spot forming system which transmits an alert sound to a vehicle traveling on a road, the audio spot forming system including a first parametric speaker (1)…

DRIVE·May 11·1 min read

H04R1/403 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

NOTIFICATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM

A notification method is a notification method of providing a notification of a warning indicating that an infant is left unattended in an automobile, the notification method including: a detection st…

DRIVE·Apr 13·1 min read

B60Q9/00 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

GENERATION DEVICE, GENERATION METHOD, AND GENERATION PROGRAM

A generation device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of inputs of road map data including longitude/latitude data on lane information indicating a center line of a lane,…

DRIVE·Mar 23·1 min read

G01C21/3867 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

GENERATION DEVICE, GENERATION METHOD, AND GENERATION PROGRAM

A generation device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a plurality of inputs of road map data including longitude/latitude data on a road shoulder line and longitude/latitude data on …

DRIVE·Mar 23·1 min read

G01C21/3867 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

POWER MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, POWER DISTRIBUTION CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM

Provided is a power management apparatus for controlling power distribution from a location that includes a storage battery and a current control type converter to another location that includes a sto…

DRIVE·Feb 16·1 min read

H02J7/342 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ABSOLUTE COORDINATE ACQUISITION METHOD

An absolute coordinate acquisition method is an absolute coordinate acquisition method for acquiring absolute coordinates of an underground pipeline, the method including: a marking step S of setting …

DRIVE·Nov 3·1 min read

G01C15/02 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

DIRECTION CALCULATION APPARATUS, DIRECTION CALCULATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

Provided is a technique for more accurately calculating a direction to be presented to a guided person using a force sensation presentation device gripped by the guided person, taking into account geo…

DRIVE·Oct 27·2 min read

G01C21/08 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE, INFORMATION PRESENTING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PRESENTING PROGRAM

An information provision device includes: a simulation execution unit that executes a simulation of a movement of moving bodies on multiple routes from a point of departure to a destination on a basis…

DRIVE·Oct 20·1 min read

G01C21/3423 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

PREPROCESSING DEVICE, DETERMINATION SYSTEM, PREPROCESSING METHOD, AND PREPROCESSING PROGRAM

A preprocessing device includes processing circuitry configured to acquire coordinate information of respective vertexes of a polygon for inside/outside determination and divide the polygon for inside…

DRIVE·Oct 20·1 min read

G01C21/20 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

LINK INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, LINK INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE, AND LINK INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM

Information relating to each link based on location information of a user can be generated with high accuracy even without measuring the location information at a high frequency. A map matching unit (…

DRIVE·Oct 6·1 min read

G01C21/30 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

GUIDE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, GUIDE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

A guidance information processing device includes a first specifying unit that refers to a first storage unit storing position information of individual facilities, and specifies one or more of the fa…

DRIVE·Sep 29·1 min read

G01C21/3484 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ABNORMALITY ESTIMATING APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETECTION APPARATUS, ABNORMALITY DETECTION METHOD, AND ABNORMALITY DETECTION PROGRAM

Provided is an anomaly detection device capable of acquiring a degree of anomaly required for anomaly detection even when a feature pattern of time series data changes over time. The anomaly detection…

DRIVE·Sep 15·2 min read

B60R21/0132 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

INFORMATION PROCESSING EQUIPMENT, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS, AND PROGRAMS

An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program, which are capable of determining an owner of an attachment attach…

DRIVE·Aug 25·2 min read

G01B11/026 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

WALKING ROUTE DETERMINATION DEVICE, WALKING ROUTE DETERMINATION METHOD, AND WALKING ROUTE DETERMINATION PROGRAM

A link combination extraction unit () acquires all the combination of link candidates from among link candidates having an angle with respect to a movement direction of a pedestrian equal to or smalle…

DRIVE·Aug 18·2 min read

G01C21/367 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

DANGER DETECTION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM, AND DANGER LOCATION DETECTION APPARATUS

A danger detection system for detecting a danger on a road, the danger that changes over time and may not be a danger due to the change over time, the danger detection system including a vibration acq…

DRIVE·Aug 11·2 min read

B60Q5/006 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

POLYGON SEARCH METHOD

A polygon retrieving method includes converting a random polygonal area indicating a shape of each lane of a road within a predetermined unit area on a map into polygonal information indicated using c…

DRIVE·Aug 11·1 min read

G01C21/3867 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ROAD CONDITION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM

A road condition estimation device includes: a reception unit that receives pieces of sensor information from automobiles respectively, each piece of sensor information including positional informatio…

DRIVE·Aug 11·1 min read

B60W40/068 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE, ROUTE SEARCH METHOD, AND ROUTE SEARCH PROGRAM

Routes can be found while improving the convenience of guidance for users. A route-searching device includes a search-condition acquisition unit that acquires search conditions for searching a route i…

DRIVE·Jul 14·2 min read

G01C21/343 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

MOVING NUMBER ESTIMATING DEVICE, MOVING NUMBER ESTIMATING METHOD, AND MOVING NUMBER ESTIMATING PROGRAM

An intersection determination is made regarding whether or not a traffic route included in map information intersects a boundary between areas on a basis of the traffic route and an area shape between…

DRIVE·Jul 14·2 min read

G01C21/3453 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ANOMALY DETECTION APPARATUS, METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

An abnormality detection device includes: a vibration acquisition unit configured to acquire an acoustic signal generated during passage of a vehicle on a road; a frequency domain conversion unit conf…

DRIVE·Jul 14·1 min read

B60W40/06 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

POSITION MEASURING METHOD, DRIVING CONTROL METHOD, DRIVING CONTROL SYSTEM, AND MARKER

A position measurement method includes a step of acquiring an image of the surroundings at a self-position, a step of detecting an area in which a circular shape appears in the image, and a step of me…

DRIVE·Jul 7·1 min read

G06V20/56 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS CONVERTING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME

Provided are a frequency characteristics converting apparatus, a frequency characteristics converting method, and a program that make natural reproduced sound of a speaker compatible with howling prev…

DRIVE·Jun 16·1 min read

H04R3/02 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

STRUCTURE DETECTION APPARATUS, STRUCTURE DETECTION METHOD, AND STRUCTURE DETECTION PROCESSING PROGRAM

A structure detection device according to an embodiment includes: a reading processing unit that reads, as three-dimensional point group data on an object present in a three-dimensional space, data in…

DRIVE·Jun 2·1 min read

G06T7/593 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

A learning apparatus includes an input unit configured to input route information indicating a route including one or more paths of a plurality of paths and moving body number information indicating t…

DRIVE·May 12·1 min read

G01C21/3423 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

GUIDE TEXT GENERATION APPARATUS, GUIDE SYSTEM, GUIDE TEXT GENERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM

A guidance text generation device that generates a guidance text for a user includes a route generation unit that generates a route including nodes from a point of departure to a destination, the node…

DRIVE·Apr 28·2 min read

G01C21/3632 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING DESTINATION

A personal remaining movement estimation unit () estimates information relating to a remaining movement of a user on the move based on a movement trajectory of the user on the move, a personal destina…

DRIVE·Mar 3·1 min read

G01C21/3484 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

A learning device includes: input means for inputting route information on a set of routes each constituted by one or more ways, and passing mobile object information that indicates the number of pass…

DRIVE·Feb 17·1 min read

G06K9/00805 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE, ROUTE SEARCH METHOD, AND PROGRAM

It is intended to allow an appropriate route search to be performed even with a geographical NW in which accessibility information includes an uninvestigated link. A route appropriateness value calcul…

DRIVE·Jan 13·2 min read

G01C21/3461 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

CENTER LINE SIMPLIFICATION DEVICE, NETWORK DATA GENERATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM

Centerlines for generating network data of an indoor space can be simplified while the amount of calculation is limited. A centerline simplification unit 240 performs processing of deleting centerline…

DRIVE·Dec 2·1 min read

G06T11/203 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION

CONVERSATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME

A conversation support system supports conversation of passengers in an automobile. Seats of at least two or more rows are placed in the automobile, and the conversation support system includes a spee…

DRIVE·Oct 7·1 min read

H04R27/00 NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION