In a display unit of the present invention, an instrument frame body (speedometer frame body, power meter frame body) are changed to a map frame body in a process that the road image is stepwise reduced and display to the map image by switching from a road display state to a map display state. Further, the map frame body is changed to the instrument frame body in a process that the map image is stepwise enlarged and displayed to the road image by switching from the map display state to the road display state.

The present disclosure provides a method comprising identifying at least one of a characteristic and an identity of an item for delivery from an origin to a destination; identifying a plurality of possible routes between the origin and the destination using mapping information, the mapping information including for each of the plurality of possible routes, a characterization of each of a plurality of route segments comprising the possible route; evaluating the plurality of possible routes in view of the identified at least one of the item characteristic and the item identity to select one of the plurality of possible routes; and providing the selected one of the plurality of possible routes to a vehicle, wherein the vehicle delivers the item from the origin to the destination via the identified route.

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for assigning chargers to electric vehicles. The method comprises clustering chargers into at least one charger cluster, receiving charging reservation requests from the electric vehicles during a predetermined period of time, clustering the electric vehicles into at least one electric vehicle cluster, determining a charging priority between the electric vehicles based on the at least one electric vehicle cluster and assigning the chargers to the electric vehicles based on the determined charging priority. As a result of this, an efficient charging reservation is proposed to a user, so that it is possible to help the user utilize time efficiently.

A configuration is achieved in which display data selected on the basis of characteristic information acquired while a vehicle is traveling is displayed on a display unit inside the vehicle. The configuration has a data processing unit that executes display control of data output to the display unit provided inside a mobile device. The data processing unit acquires characteristic information while the mobile device is traveling, and decides, on the basis of the acquired characteristic information, display data to be output to the display unit. The data processing unit selects display data recorded corresponding to the acquired characteristic information from a characteristic-information corresponding display data storage database, generates an AR image obtained by superimposing the selected display data on a real object image that is an image captured by a camera mounted on the mobile device, and outputs the AR image to the display unit.

An information display device includes: a display section that displays a view of a situation ahead of a vehicle and guidance information; a learning section that classifies and learns targets appearing on a travel route and visible through the display section as: a first target necessary to be visible, a second target necessary to be visible under the setting condition, or a third target not necessary to be visible, and a display control section configured to: prohibit display of the guidance information in a prohibited region with the first target, permit display of the guidance information in a permitted region with the third target, and either prohibit display of the guidance information in a conditional region with the second target and the setting condition is met, or permit display of the guidance information in the conditional region with the second target and the setting condition is not met.

To predict a likelihood of an error by a user when traversing a route and take preemptive action, a computing device receives a request by a user for navigation directions from a starting location to a destination location via a route. The computing devices provides the set of navigation directions to the user, which includes navigation instructions each including a maneuver and a location on the route for the maneuver. For an upcoming maneuver on the route, the computing device determines a likelihood that the user will incorrectly perform the maneuver. In response to determining that the likelihood is above a threshold likelihood and prior to the user arriving at the location for the maneuver, the computing device generates an alternative set of navigation directions for navigating from a location off the route to the destination location via an alternative route.

A system for generating guidance information for a driver includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores guidance history of the driver. The processor generates a feature value based on match/mismatch of guidance types abstracted from the guidance history. The processor determines a guidance type for the driver on the basis of the feature value. The processor generates information for issuing guidance of the determined guidance type to the driver according to driver monitoring information.

A setting device including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to, when occurrence of a secondary disaster is predicted after occurrence of a disaster, set a region in which the secondary disaster is predicted to a charging-prohibited zone in which use of a charging facility for charging a battery installed in a vehicle is prohibited.

A vehicle surroundings information displaying system comprises: a map image acquiring unit for acquiring a map image of the surroundings of a vehicle; a first display image generating unit for generating a first display image by combining the map image and a vehicle mark; a surroundings information image generating unit for generating a surroundings information image that shows surroundings information for the vehicle based on point cloud data that indicate distances from a vehicle, acquired by a distance sensor; an overhead image acquiring unit for acquiring an overhead image of the surroundings of the vehicle; a second display image generating unit for generating a second display image by combining the map image, the vehicle image, the overhead image, and the surroundings information image; and a display controlling unit for switching the image displayed on the display panel between the first display image and the second display image.

An agent device includes an acquirer configured to acquire an utterance of a user of a first vehicle, and a first agent controller configured to perform processing for providing a service including causing an output device to output a response of voice in response to an utterance of the user of the first vehicle acquired by the acquirer. When there is a difference between a service which is utilized in the first vehicle and is available from one or more agent controllers including at least the first agent controller and a service which is utilized in a second vehicle and is available from one or more agent controllers, the first agent controller provides information on the difference.