To experience the drive of the near future, visitors were able to sit in Kyocera’s cockpit with its top-class visibility HUD, hi-quality on-board cameras, electronic LCD mirror, hi-res info displays and the “Haptivity” touch transfer system that produces real sensations in the steering and displays.
A cockpit for experiencing the future of driving
You press a button on the display at the side of the driver’s seat to start the drive. When you press this button, you can feel vibration and clicking in your fingertips, even though you have only touched a flat display. That’s the “Haptivity” touch transfer, a system that works by changing pressure and vibration to create an illusion in the fingertips.
As well as that, the company presented a range of technologies such as front and rear vehicle cameras to display high resolution images to enable drivers to check their surrounds, buttons that drivers can use their thumbs to move up and down when they grip the steering to adjust air conditioning temperature, and an HUD in front that features a speedometer and sounds an alarm if the speed limit is exceeded. Because Kyocera’s Haptivity enables the driver to feel screens without looking, and the HUD provides information such as navigation to drivers so that they don’t have to take their eyes off the road, it was easy to see how these technologies will contribute to safer driving in the future.
Kyocera’s cockpit packed with on-board technology
Stereo vehicle camera reference exhibit
In addition to the hands-on demonstration, Kyocera also presented a high-reliability, unique algorithm 25% smaller stereo camera system with automatic correction functions combining the company’s lens technologies and software fostered through its digital camera business, and developmental products such as a 2-meg vehicle digital camera that is dramatically sharper that the conventional VGA types and high transmissivity head-up LCD equipment already adopted overseas.
On-board stereo camera/camera module description panel
Daily Support ― keep check on visceral body fat via smartphone
Introduced by the company MC in a lively dialogue on the main stage, Kyocera presented its unique “Daily Support” lifestyle improvement support service that uses a wearable device and application. With this system, the user downloads an app to a smartphone and records his or her body weight. Then, the wearable “TSUC” device measures paces and calorie consumption which is then sent by the service to the user smartphone for management and viewing. The service is provided jointly with The Association for Preventive Medicine of Japan. One of the functions of this service traces the abdominal girth from above the clothing to estimate visceral body fat, which exhibition visitors could try out for themselves with a smartphone over their clothing.
The Daily Support stage presentation
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Kyocera Corp. : http://www.kyocera.co.jp/
