Simmons & Simmons

An in-vehicle device (21-1) mounted on a hub vehicle (20-1) that serves as a hub that provides data, the in-vehicle device (21-1) comprising a control unit (213-1) configured to: receive predetermined data relating to a predetermined area from an information processing device (10); generate a Service Set Identifier (SSID) including a time stamp of a time when the predetermined data are acquired or generated and area information for identifying the predetermined area; and transmit the predetermined data to a client vehicle (20-2) that receives the data provided from the hub vehicle (20-1) when the client vehicle (20-2) determines to acquire the predetermined data based on the time stamp and the area information included in the SSID.

A method for detecting a driving event includes receiving video data from one or more vehicle-mounted cameras. The method includes generating one or more video embeddings in an embedding space based on the video data. The method includes generating one or more text embeddings of a natural language input in the embedding space. The natural language input corresponds to a driving event description. The method includes comparing the one or more video embeddings and the one or more text embeddings in the embedding space. The method includes determining at least one similarity value between the one or more video embeddings and the one or more text embeddings based on the comparison. The method includes detecting the driving event when the at least one similarity value is above a detection threshold.

An information processing apparatus (10) for controlling a plurality of displays (21, 22, 23, 24) having a first display (21, 24) and a second display (22, 23) includes a controller (100) configured to execute outputting, in response to the start of driving of a vehicle (1), information to display, on the second display (22, 23), first content displayed on the first display (21, 24) while the vehicle (1) is stopped.

An in-vehicle system includes a display device (22, 23) and an information processing apparatus (10) configured to output information via the display device (22, 23), wherein the display device (22, 23) includes a pair of display units (27) that are provided in a forward portion of a driver's seat (2) in a passenger compartment, are disposed at positions on both sides of a steering wheel (4) while protruding rearward of an instrument unit (21) disposed in front of the steering wheel (4), and have touch panels (25); and the information processing apparatus (10) has a controller (100) configured to execute outputting, to the display device (22, 23), information for changing the screens of the pair of display units (27) according to a drive mode.

A computing device can monitor an in-vehicle temperature of a vehicle. The computing device can receive one or ore images of an environment within the vehicle depicting a driver of the vehicle. The computing device can determine the in-vehicle temperature of the vehicle satisfies a temperature threshold. The computing device can execute a machine learning model using at least the one or more images to detect the driver is in a thermal distress state. The computing device can generate a message in the vehicle requesting driver input. The computing device can generate a real-time video feed depicting the driver to a remote computing system. By limiting the image processing to instances in which the in-vehicle temperature satisfies the temperature threshold, the computing device can increase the accuracy of the machine learning model and reduce the frequency of thermal-distress related alerts.

An in-vehicle apparatus (100) includes a communication unit (101) configured to perform wireless communication, a storage unit (102) storing data that is restricted from being transferred outside a region, and a control unit (103) configured to, when the control unit (103) receives predetermined identification information from a wireless communication apparatus (40) by performing wireless communication with the wireless communication apparatus (40) via the communication unit (101) during a process in which the vehicle (10) moves outside the region, delete the data from the storage unit (102).

An information processing device (10) includes a control unit (12), in which the control unit (12) is configured to receive vehicle information from each of a plurality of vehicles (20) indicating at least one of status and position of each of the vehicles (20), decide on hub vehicles (20-1) to serve as hubs for providing data, from among the vehicles (20) based on the vehicle information, transmit predetermined data to the hub vehicles (20-1), decide on, for each of the hub vehicles (20-1), client vehicles (20-2, 20-3) with which the predetermined data is to be shared, based on the vehicle information, and transmit, to each of the hub vehicles (20-1), information for identifying the corresponding client vehicles (20-2, 20-3), to share the predetermined data with the client vehicles (20-2, 20-3).

An in-vehicle device includes a first communication circuit (111) that supports a mobile communication standard, a second communication circuit (112) that supports a wireless local area network communication standard or a short-range wireless communication standard, a memory (102), and a processor (103). The processor (103) is configured to receive identification information linked to a first region via the second communication circuit by performing wireless local area network communication or short-range wireless communication with a wireless communication device via the second communication circuit. The processor (103) receives a profile corresponding to the first region as a second profile from the information processing device by the mobile communication via the first communication circuit, and stores the second profile in the memory (102) by overwriting a first profile stored in the memory (102).

A control device (15) according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit (153) configured to execute: acquiring a state of a vehicle (1); and controlling the directivity of an antenna (11) provided in the vehicle (1) based on the state of the vehicle (1). A control device (15) according to another embodiment of the present disclosure includes a control unit (153) configured to execute: receiving a state of a vehicle (1) from a sensor (141) configured to acquire information indicating the speed and the position of the vehicle (1); and controlling the directivity of an antenna provided in the vehicle (1) based on the state of the vehicle (1).

A terminal apparatus (10) includes a memory (12) that stores first identification information for identifying a user, a communication unit (13) that performs communication with a smart key (20) including an NFC tag that stores second identification information for identifying the user, the smart key corresponding to a vehicle of the user and being held by the user, and a control unit (11) configured to read the second identification information from the NFC tag via the communication unit (13), determine whether the first identification information matches the second identification information, and when the first identification information matches the second identification information, authenticate the user.