A method for controlling door motions of a controllable door of a motor vehicle, wherein a control device and a sensor arrangement are assigned to the door, and the door includes a controllable motion influencing device. A motion of a door wing of the door can be controlled and influenced by the motion influencing device to alternate between a closed position and an open position. The sensor arrangement includes a surround sensor and monitors the surroundings of the door. The control device captures the signals from the sensor arrangement and evaluates the movement of an object in the surroundings of the door relative to the door and actively moves the door wing of the door, to prevent a collision with the object or to reduce its effects.

Techniques for controlling a protection apparatus are provided. An example method includes detecting an offset collision or diagonal collision, and activating a suitable protection apparatus for protecting the side or head of a passenger at a timing in accordance with the degree of collision. An example controller may include a level calculation part for calculating a level of a front face collision, a ΔV.sub.offset calculation part for making an offset adjustment of a speed (ΔV), and a determination part for determining an offset collision or diagonal collision based on the level of the front face collision and the ΔV.sub.offset.

The control apparatus (200) is an apparatus that controls the travel of a target vehicle (10). The control apparatus (200) detects a partial object (20) using a sensor. The partial object (20) is a part of an object riding on the target vehicle (10) and is jutting outside the target vehicle (10). Furthermore, the control apparatus (200) outputs information (travel information) relating to travel of the target vehicle (10) based on the detected partial object (20). For example, the travel information is control information for travel control of the target vehicle (10) and notification information indicating information relating to the partial object (20).

The partition wall for commercial vehicles comprises at least one fixed plate (20) and a sliding door (10) able to slide with respect to said fixed wall (20), predisposed to separate the cockpit of the vehicle from the loading compartment. The sliding door (10) is provided, along the upper edge and along the bottom edge, with a plurality of sliding wheels (11, 12) predisposed to slide respectively on an upper guide (13) and on a lower guide (14) associated with the structure of the vehicle. The sliding wheels (11, 12) have a grooved profile predisposed to be coupled with a corresponding rail (19) of said guides (13, 14) having conjugated profile.

The invention relates to an airbag (10) for restraining a vehicle occupant (12) in an automotive vehicle, comprising an inflatable cushion portion (20) for damping an occupant impact and two inflatable tube portions (22) laterally opposed in the mounted state of the airbag (10) which are arranged on the occupant side on the cushion portion (20), wherein the tube portions (22) are connected to each other by a slide layer (24) arranged on the occupant side on the cushion portion (20) and are laterally movable at least in portions relative to the cushion portion (20). Furthermore, the invention also relates to a method for manufacturing an airbag (10) as well as an airbag module (18) comprising said airbag (10).

An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate vertical direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values with respect to a vertical direction of a range image, from the range image having distance values according to distance of a road surface in a plurality of captured images captured by a plurality of imaging parts; set a search range corresponding to a predetermined reference point in the vertical direction distribution data and extract a plurality of pixels from the search range; and detect a road surface, based on the plurality of extracted pixels.

An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate vertical direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values with respect to a vertical direction of a range image, from the range image having distance values according to distance of a road surface in a plurality of captured images captured by a plurality of imaging parts; set a search range corresponding to a predetermined reference point in the vertical direction distribution data and extract a plurality of pixels from the search range; and detect a road surface, based on the plurality of extracted pixels.

Behavior information input unit receives stop-behavior information about vehicle from automatic-driving control device. Image-and-sound output unit outputs inquiry information for inquiring of an occupant whether a possibility of collision between an obstacle and vehicle is to be excluded from a determination object in automatic-driving control device to notification device, when a distance from one point on a predictive movement route of the obstacle to the obstacle is greater than or equal to a first threshold, and a speed of the obstacle is less than or equal to a second threshold. Operation signal input unit receives a response signal for excluding the collision possibility from the determination object. Command output unit outputs a command to exclude the collision possibility from the determination object to automatic-driving control device.

An information processing device comprises an accident notification accepting unit, a withdrawal notification accepting unit and an area identifying unit. The accident notification accepting unit accepts from a mobile object an accident notification containing accident determination information indicating that it is determined that an accident has occurred in said mobile object and occurrence site information indicating the site where it is determined that the accident has occurred. The withdrawal notification accepting unit accepts a withdrawal notification to withdraw said accident notification. The area identifying unit records the occurrence site information contained in the accident notification withdrawn by said withdrawal notification and identifies a withdrawal-notification prone area based on the recorded occurrence site information.

An information processing device comprises an accident notification accepting unit, a withdrawal notification accepting unit and an area identifying unit. The accident notification accepting unit accepts from a mobile object an accident notification containing accident determination information indicating that it is determined that an accident has occurred in said mobile object and occurrence site information indicating the site where it is determined that the accident has occurred. The withdrawal notification accepting unit accepts a withdrawal notification to withdraw said accident notification. The area identifying unit records the occurrence site information contained in the accident notification withdrawn by said withdrawal notification and identifies a withdrawal-notification prone area based on the recorded occurrence site information.