US 12,238,459 B2
Rendezvous assistance apparatus, rendezvous assistance system, and rendezvous assistance method
Mitsuo Shimotani, Tokyo (JP); Tadashi Miyahara, Tokyo (JP); Yoshinori Ueno, Tokyo (JP); Yusuke Arai, Tokyo (JP); Keisaku Fukuda, Tokyo (JP); and Kuniyo Ieda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/636,643
Filed by MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 22, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/045734
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/100190, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0295017 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 7/183 (2013.01) [H04N 23/66 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A rendezvous assistance apparatus that assists a rendezvous of a first mobile unit and a second mobile unit, the rendezvous assistance apparatus comprising:
a first acquisition circuitry that acquires a first image of an outside of the first mobile unit;
a first communication controller that performs control to cause the first mobile unit to transmit first transmit information to the second mobile unit, the first transmit information including the first image acquired by the first acquisition circuitry, and performs control to cause the first mobile unit to receive first receive information transmitted by the second mobile unit that received the first transmit information, the first receive information including a position of at least part of the second mobile unit in the first image, the position decided by a user of the second mobile unit; and
a first controller that performs control to cause a first display of the first mobile unit to display a first display object on the basis of the first receive information received by the first mobile unit, the first display object indicating the position of at least part of the second mobile unit accompanied with the first image or a landscape of the outside of the first mobile unit corresponding to the first image; wherein
the first acquisition circuitry acquires, as the first image that is a peripheral image, an image captured by one or more image capturing devices provided on the first mobile unit.