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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160134985 | PROPAGATION DELAY CORRECTION APPARATUS AND PROPAGATION DELAY CORRECTION METHOD - A propagation delay tune correction apparatus comprising a means for generating a frequency spectrum signal by performing short-term Fourier transform on an audio signal; a means for setting a propagation delay time for each of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands a means for calculating a phase control amount for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands on a basis of the propagation delay time set for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands; a means for generating a phase control signal by smoothing the calculated phase control amount for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency hands; a means for controlling a phase of the frequency spectrum signal for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands on a basis of the generated phase control signal; and a means for generating an audio signal on which a propagation delay correction is performed by performing inverse short-term Fourier transform on the frequency spectrum signal of which the phase is controlled for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands. | 05-12-2016 |
20160129836 | DRIVE ASSIST DEVICE - Display of a drive assist by a virtual image is understandably presented to a driver. | 05-12-2016 |
20160126915 | FILTER COEFFICIENT GROUP COMPUTATION DEVICE AND FILTER COEFFICIENT GROUP COMPUTATION METHOD - A filter coefficient group computation device is configured from a means for performing inverse Fourier transform on a frequency characteristic inputted through an input means; a means for performing short-term Fourier transform on a numerical string obtained by the inverse Fourier transform; a means for performing windowing on a frequency domain signal, obtained by the short-term Fourier transform, using a function of which a window length shortens as frequency increases; a means for performing short-term inverse Fourier transform on the frequency domain signal after the windowing; a means for performing overlap addition on a numerical string obtained by the short-term inverse Fourier transform; and a means for determining a numerical string after the overlap addition as a filter coefficient group which forms a filter having the frequency characteristic inputted through the input means. | 05-05-2016 |
20160123749 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATING SYSTEM, AND OPERATING METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus for operating a vehicle, when the vehicle is running, and an application is instructed through voice. An in-running operation acceptance/denial list is produced, i.e., a list of words meaning an operation to be inhibited from being executed during the time when the vehicle is running. A command acceptance/denial executing portion of the onboard apparatus determines if the command corresponding to the content, which a user speaks, can be operated or not, during the time when the vehicle is running, by referring this list and a title of the command operable through voices included in the application, and when the vehicle is running, an execution of that command is instructed to an application controller portion, if being determined operable, by referring to a running condition of the vehicle, and if being determined inoperable, the execution of that command is not instructed to the application controller portion. | 05-05-2016 |
20160104499 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device comprises: a band detecting means for detecting a frequency band which satisfies a predetermined condition from an audio signal; a reference signal generating means for generating a reference signal in accordance with a detection band by the band detecting means; a reference signal correcting means for correcting the generated reference signal on the basis of a frequency characteristic thereof; a frequency band extending means for extending the corrected reference signal up to a frequency band higher than the detection band; an interpolation signal generating means for generating an interpolation signal by weighting each frequency component within the extended frequency band in accordance with a frequency characteristic of the audio signal; and a signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the generated interpolation signal with the audio signal. | 04-14-2016 |
20160073219 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND BLUETOOTH COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication device comprises: a free band calculation means that calculates a free band for Bluetooth™ communication based on a condition of communication with a communicating party's device; a service selection means that selects a service which can be assigned to the free band, from among a service group by a Bluetooth profile for making communication with the communicating party's device wireless, based on predetermined service selection information; a service assigning means that assigns the selected service to the free band; and a service control means that controls communication with the communicating party's device for the service assigned to the free band. | 03-10-2016 |
20160004321 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, GESTURE DETECTION METHOD, AND GESTURE DETECTION PROGRAM - It is possible to operate a device while reducing erroneous recognition of a device even when a line of sight does not face the device in an accurate direction. An information processing device that detects a motion of a user includes a detecting unit that detects the motion of the user and a face direction of the user from an image photographed by an imaging unit, a detected motion determining unit that determines whether or not the motion detected by the detecting unit is an operation on the information processing device based on the face direction of the user and position information of the information processing device stored in a storage unit, and a display content control unit that causes a display unit to reflect the motion when the detected motion determining unit determines that the motion detected by the detecting unit is the operation on the information processing device. | 01-07-2016 |
20160004076 | HEAD-UP DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - Proper display is performed in consideration of a characteristic that a vehicle head-up display device | 01-07-2016 |
20150382109 | DIGITAL AMPLIFIER, THREE-VALUE SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD AND SPEAKER - Noise is reduced when three-value output is performed. In a digital amplifier | 12-31-2015 |
20150357984 | RECEIVING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR RECEIVING DEVICE - There are provided a receiving device that can enhance the degree of freedom of sound volume correction by a construction of quantitatively variably controlling the gain of an antenna amplifier, and a method of controlling the receiving device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150336510 | Lane Departure Judgment Apparatus, Lane Departure Warning Apparatus and Vehicle Control System Using the Same - A lane departure judgment apparatus is configured to detect a lane-dividing line based on image information output from an image-capturing device that acquires an image of an area outside a vehicle, and to judge whether or not departure of the vehicle from the lane-dividing line occurs based on a distance between the vehicle and the lane-dividing line, wherein when an angle of the vehicle with respect to the lane-dividing line thus detected is constant, the distance between the vehicle and the lane-dividing line to be used to judge whether or not departure of the vehicle occurs is changed according to whether the vehicle is being driven on a road having a lane-dividing width that is greater than a predetermined width or on a road having a lane-dividing width that is smaller than a predetermined width. | 11-26-2015 |
20150334385 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED ENVIRONMENT RECOGNITION DEVICE - A vehicle-mounted environment recognition device includes an imaging unit that acquires an image taken by an imaging device; an image self-diagnosis unit that diagnoses contamination of a lens of the imaging device with respect to the image acquired by the imaging unit; an application execution unit that executes an application selected from a predetermined application group; and a fail determination unit that determines, on the basis of a diagnosis result from the image self-diagnosis unit, whether the lens contamination state is in an endurance range of the application and, if within the endurance range, sets the operation of the application executed by the application execution unit to a suppression mode. If outside the endurance range, contamination removal control is implemented, or a fail determination is made for the application. Contamination removal and fail determination can be implemented utilizing parameter adjustment and hardware, or an image-based self-diagnosis can be conducted. | 11-19-2015 |
20150326975 | VOICE COIL SPEAKER - A voice speaker in which a signal line is properly designed to suppress deterioration of sound quality is provided. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319548 | DIGITAL SPEAKER SYSTEM AND ELECTRICAL CONNECTION METHOD FOR DIGITAL SPEAKER SYSTEM - A digital speaker system that effectively uses the characteristic of a signal processing circuit is constructed. A digital speaker system | 11-05-2015 |
20150312541 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE - An image pickup device includes an image pickup section that picks up an image and is sensitive to at least the red, green, and blue ranges of visible light, and the infrared range; an extraction region processing section that sets regions in an image picked up by the image pickup section; an infrared extraction processing section that extracts infrared range signal information from the regions that were set by the extraction region processing section; a visible light extraction processing section that extracts visible light range signal information from the regions that were set by the extraction range processing section; a white balance processing section that conducts white balance processing on the image using a prescribed color gain; and a system control section that controls the white balance processing section. The system control section performs control so that the color gain of the white balance processing section is a prescribed value. | 10-29-2015 |
20150308854 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - An information display device for displaying predetermined information while overlapping the predetermined information with a landscape having a prediction unit that obtains information on a route at a traveling front side and predicts a visual-line movement destination of a user on the basis of the obtained information, and a display controller that changes a display position for the predetermined information on the basis of a prediction result of the prediction unit. | 10-29-2015 |
20150304775 | DISTORTION SOUND CORRECTION COMPLEMENT DEVICE AND DISTORTION SOUND CORRECTION COMPLEMENT METHOD - A device and method relates to reducing distortion of signal. The device includes a first filter unit for generating a correction band signal, a signal level detection unit for detecting a signal level of the correction band signal, a first lookup table unit for determining a control signal, a second lookup table unit for determining a correction amount, a correction band extraction signal generation unit for generating a correction band extraction signal, a correction signal generation unit for generating a correction signal, a first edge detection unit for generating an overtone signal from the correction band extraction signal, a filter unit for suppressing high-frequency range and low-frequency range signal levels of the overtone signal, a first amplification unit for amplifying the overtone signal, a second filter unit for generating a complement signal from the overtone signal, and an output signal generation unit for generating an output signal. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302574 | On-Vehicle Control Device - An on-vehicle control device includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image from an image-capturing device that captures the image of surroundings of a vehicle; an overhead view image generating unit that generates an overhead view image from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, the overhead view image being a plan view of the surroundings of the vehicle seen from above the vehicle; a white line recognizing unit that recognizes possible white lines on a road surface in the overhead view image; a white line information saving unit that saves information including positional information of the possible white lines recognized by the white line recognizing unit; a white line position predicting unit that predicts a position of a possible white line to be reached, based on information about a previous possible white line saved by the white line information saving unit and vehicle behavior information; and a white line judging unit that excludes, among the possible white lines recognized by the white line recognizing unit, a possible white line that extends in a radial direction from the image-capturing device in the overhead view image and satisfies a predetermined condition. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302261 | On-Vehicle Image Processing Apparatus - An on-vehicle image processing apparatus includes: a photographing device configured to photograph a road surface around a vehicle so as to obtain a photographed image; an image creation section configured to create an overhead view image showing a situation where a circumference of the vehicle is looked down from above the vehicle, based on the obtained photographed image; an extraction section configured to extract a road surface sign around the vehicle by using the created overhead view image; a detection section configured to detect one or more noises among at least a road surface noise, an obstruction noise, and an attached substance noise that are to be observed when the extraction section extracts the road surface sign; and a parking frame recognition section configured to recognize a parking frame based on one of a partial photographing region in the photographed image and a partial overhead view region in the overhead view image, depending on the detected noise. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302257 | On-Vehicle Control Device - An on-vehicle control device includes: an image acquiring unit that acquires a captured image from an image-capturing device, the image-capturing device capturing an image of surroundings of a vehicle; a judged range dividing unit that divides a predetermined judged range of an image-capturing range of the image-capturing device into a plurality of regions; a feature point extracting unit that extracts a feature point having predetermined characteristics in the surroundings of the vehicle from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit; a point accumulating unit that accumulate points for a region where there is the feature point extracted by the feature point extracting unit, among the plurality of regions, for a plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring unit in time series; and a judging unit that judges whether a foreign matter is adhered to the image-capturing device based on scores resulting from accumulating points of the plurality of regions. | 10-22-2015 |
20150298548 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND BROWSER CONTROL METHOD - When a browser is displayed on an in-vehicle information processing device, an appropriate display screen is displayed according to a driving state of a vehicle. While moving, web content is processed based on a restriction rule so that a moving image or the like is not reproduced. Further, when an operation of switching a display from another application other than the browser to the browser or an operation of switching a display to another web content on the browser is input to an in-vehicle terminal, the driving state of the vehicle is determined. In a state in which the vehicle stops, web content is displayed without change, and in a state in which the vehicle is moving, when processed web content is being stored, the processed web content is read and displayed, and when processed web content is not being stored, web content is read, processed based on the restriction rule, and then displayed. | 10-22-2015 |
20150283903 | RESTRICTION INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND RESTRICTION INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - Provided is a technology for dealing with display restrictions more easily. A restriction information distribution apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing software restriction information, component layout setting information, and component validity setting information; a communication unit for receiving, from an external device, software identification information, model identification information of an output device, and location information; a restriction information distribution unit for transmitting the software restriction information corresponding to the software identification information to the external device; a location determination unit for determining the region based on the location information; and a layout distribution unit for specifying the component layout setting information corresponding to the model identification information and transmits, together with the component validity setting information corresponding to the region, the component layout setting information to the external device. | 10-08-2015 |
20150254574 | RELATED DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, RELATED DATA GENERATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided are a co-occurrence word data generating unit configured to generate co-occurrence word data including a co-occurrence word that is a vocabulary used along with a predetermined keyword in posted data in all periods and an appearance frequency of the co-occurrence word, from among pieces of posted data posed in a plurality of different periods; and a related data generating unit configured to generate related data including the co-occurrence word as a usual related word when a temporal variation in the appearance frequency of the co-occurrence word is smaller than a first threshold value and the appearance frequency is higher than a second threshold value. | 09-10-2015 |
20150254059 | INTERACTION HISTORY MANAGEMENT DEVICE, INTERACTION DEVICE AND INTERACTION HISTORY MANAGEMENT METHOD - An interaction history management device includes an interaction control unit configured to accept an input of an operation by audio and generate a reply by audio in response to the operation, an interaction history storage unit configured to store information that identifies an audio content of the accepted operation and information that identifies an audio content of the reply, an execution unit configured to store an identifier to the interaction history storage unit as associating with the reply when a predetermined process related to the accepted operation is executed normally, and an external data deletion unit configured to, when an instruction to delete information used in the predetermined process is accepted, delete the information, identify an identifier of the predetermined process in which the information to be deleted is used, and delete at least the audio content of the reply associated with the identifier from the interaction history storage unit. | 09-10-2015 |
20150220793 | Image Processing Device - An image processing device includes: an image acquisition unit that obtains a photographic image of an area outside of a vehicle captured and output by a camera; a sun decision unit that calculates a sun position which indicates, at least, a solar elevation and makes a decision as to whether or not the solar elevation is equal to or lower than a predetermined elevation; an opacity detection unit that detects clouding of a lens surface of the camera; a vehicle detection unit that detects another vehicle, different from the vehicle, based upon image information of a first image area in the photographic image; and a control unit that suspends detection of the other vehicle by the vehicle detection unit if the opacity detection unit detects opacity in, at least, the first image area and the sun decision unit decides that the solar elevation is equal to or lower than the predetermined elevation. | 08-06-2015 |
20150203076 | LENS CLEANING APPARATUS - A turbidity degree calculating unit calculates a degree of the white turbidity U on a surface of the lens based on a brightness gradient g of an image I (x, y), and a lens cleaning control unit sets a lens cleaning mode for spraying at least one of the cleaning fluid and the compressed air, which is performed by the lens cleaning unit, based on the calculated turbidity degree U. | 07-23-2015 |
20150201120 | IN-VEHICLE IMAGE RECOGNIZER - An in-vehicle image recognizer effectively detects a moving object from an image even when a lens has grime. In a detection sensitivity adjustor ( | 07-16-2015 |
20150201066 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - An input/output limitation information storage unit stores input/output limitation information in which limitation processing for limiting operation input to the application and display output from the application is prescribed by associating the limitation processing with the application. A determination unit acquires a vehicle state of a vehicle, and determines the limitation processing to be applied to the operation input to the application and the display output from the application on the basis of the application running on the terminal device, the vehicle state, and the input/output limitation information. The limitation unit performs the limitation processing determined by the determination unit for the operation input detected by the input control unit and transmitted to the communication control unit, and the display output received by the communication control unit and transmitted to the output control unit. | 07-16-2015 |
20150198449 | Route Calculation System, Navigation Device, and Route Calculation Method - A route calculation system includes: a route selection probability calculation unit that calculates a route selection probability of each route; a weighting parameter acquisition unit that acquires at least two kinds of weighting parameters representing degrees of influences of at least a route traveling distance and a route traveling time on the route selection probability; a weighting parameter selection unit that selects at least two kinds of weighting parameters corresponding to a specified set of a starting point and ending point combination related to a combination of a departure point and a destination; and a recommended route calculation unit that calculates a recommended route based on at least two kinds of link costs including a link traveling distance and a link traveling time and based on the at least two kinds of weighting parameters corresponding to the specified set of the starting point and ending point combination. | 07-16-2015 |
20150195266 | Authentication Device and Authentication Program - It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication technology that is more convenient. A device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: equipment information creating request receiving means for receiving an equipment information creating request issued by external equipment; date/time obtaining means for obtaining information for identifying a date/time; path display identifier identifying means for identifying a path display identifier that is associated with a request source identifier of a request source of the equipment information creating request received by the equipment information creating request receiving means; and output means for outputting, to the external equipment, in response to the equipment information creating request, at least the path display identifier identified by the path display identifier identifying means and the information for identifying a date/time. | 07-09-2015 |
20150142865 | SERVICE PROVISION SYSTEM, SERVICE COMPUTER, AND TERMINAL - A service provision system comprises a first terminal, a service computer, and a user registration module. The first terminal includes an application management module to which second identification information is assigned, for managing the application to which first identification information is assigned, and an anonymous personal data transmission module for transmitting the anonymous personal data including the first identification information and the second identification information. The user registration module transmits user registration data including the second identification information and third identification information, in a case of inputting third identification information. The service computer stores, in a case of receiving the anonymous personal data, the first identification information, the second identification information, and the anonymous personal data in association with each other, and stores, in a case of receiving the user registration data, the second identification information and the third identification information in association with each other. | 05-21-2015 |
20150142302 | ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE AND ROUTE SEARCH METHOD - A technology for searching for a recommended route matched to a search condition is provided for route search that involves substitution with a learned route. A route search device comprises: a storage means to store therein, as learned routes, routes corresponding to sections where traveling deviated from recommended routes have been performed; a setting means to set a search condition matched a recommended route; a recommended-route search means to find a recommended route on the basis of the search condition; an application means to select any one of the learned routes that is applicable to the thus found recommended route, and apply the selected learned route to the recommended route; and a display means to display the recommended route to which the learned route has been applied. The storage means stores therein category information of the learned routes in association with the respective learned routes. The application means selects, from the storage means, any one of the learned routes that is associated with the category information matched to the search condition. | 05-21-2015 |
20150095037 | VEHICULAR DEVICE, SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The technique is implemented by a vehicular device for performing dialogs with the driver. This device has: a communication portion for communicating with a server; an output portion for outputting speech information to the driver; an input portion for inputting information based on speech uttered by the driver; and a controller for controlling the communication portion, the output portion, and the input portion. When trigger information for starting a dialog process in the vehicular device or in the server is generated, the controller receives information indicative of the type of a first dialog forming a starting point of the dialog process and information indicative of the type of a second dialog forming an ending point of the dialog process from the server and carries out the dialog process based on the received information. The second dialog is different in type from the first dialog. | 04-02-2015 |
20150046516 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, DATA OUTPUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A first apparatus inquires the second apparatus about whether a first data can be transmitted, in a case where the transmission is approved by the second apparatus, transmits the data to the second apparatus, and in a case where the transmission is not approved by the second apparatus, receives data from the second apparatus and outputs the data with its own data to a storage medium, and the second apparatus determines that a data is transmitted from the first apparatus on the basis of a condition pertaining to a second data communications channel, and upon having determined to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, receives the data from the first apparatus and transmits the data with its own data to a server via the second data communications channel, and upon having determined not to approve the transmission from the first apparatus, transmits its own data to the first apparatus. | 02-12-2015 |
20150030171 | ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an acoustic signal processing device for producing an output sound meeting listener's preferences by adjusting attack sound, reverberation, and noise component. The device includes: an FFT section for transforming an input audio signal from a time-domain to a frequency-domain to calculate a frequency spectrum signal and for generating a first amplitude spectrum signal and a phase spectrum signal; an attack component controller ( | 01-29-2015 |
20150012750 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND SERVER, ON-BOARD TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL USED THEREFOR - Inherent terminal identification information and a terminal unique key are stored in an on-board terminal, and server-side terminal identification information and a server-side terminal unique key, which are same information as the above terminal identification information and terminal unique key are stored in a server. And, the on-board terminal transmits the terminal identification information to the server via a communication terminal, and the server performs terminal authentication according to the server-side terminal identification information, and if the authentication is success, transmits encrypted software for the on-board terminal of which authentication was success to the communication terminal. The communication terminal transmits the encrypted software to the on-board terminal, and the on-board terminal obtains a software unique key, which is encrypted by the server-side terminal unique key by the server, via the communication terminal, decrypts the encrypted software using the software unique key, and installs it. | 01-08-2015 |
20140354452 | PARKING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - It is an object of the present invention to provide in real time, to a user, an overhead view video in which a parking space is displayed on a display screen, even if a vehicle is moved. A parking assistance system ( | 12-04-2014 |
20140295803 | Information Display Apparatus and Information Display Method - The information display part displays screen information for notifying the user that the electronic mail has been received when the portable terminal device has received the electronic mail while first screen information is displayed, in addition to the first screen information or instead of the first screen information, and continues to display second screen information when the portable terminal device has received the electronic mail while the second screen information is displayed, without displaying the screen information for notifying the user that the electronic mail has been received, and displays the screen information for notifying the user that electronic mail has been received after display of the second screen information is finished. | 10-02-2014 |
20140288728 | VEHICLE-ONBOARD APPARATUS SYSTEM, PORTABLE TERMINAL, AND VEHICLE-ONBOARD MACHINE - A vehicle-onboard apparatus system, comprises a portable terminal and a vehicle-onboard machine that are configured to be coupled to each other for communication. The portable terminal and the vehicle-onboard machine each store operation logs including operation contents thereof. When an operation of the vehicle-onboard machine and an operation of the portable terminal relate to each other, an operation log resulting from the operation of the vehicle-onboard machine and an operation log resulting from the operation of the portable terminal are associated with each other by first identification information. The vehicle-onboard machine makes a user to recognize the first identification information corresponding to an operation causing detected predetermined state. When the portable terminal receives an input of the first identification information presented by the vehicle-onboard machine, the portable terminal acquires the operation log associated with the input first identification information. The portable terminal analyzes the acquired operation log. | 09-25-2014 |
20140278103 | Route Search Method - A route search method includes: a step in which the computer generates a first network by, for each of nodes and each of links, generating a plurality of duplicates thereof; a step in which the computer generates a second network by adding first additional links to the first network; and a step in which the computer searches for a route from a duplicate of a node corresponding to the departure point to a duplicate of a node corresponding to the destination point, using the second network. The first additional links are links for which predetermined non negative link costs are set, and in each of which a node of an end point of a duplicate of each of the links is changed to a node of an end point of another duplicate of the each of the links. | 09-18-2014 |
20140244146 | Vehicle Wrong-Way Travel Detection Device - A vehicle wrong-way travel detection device includes a map information storage unit where map information is stored, a decision-making point setting unit that sets, based upon the map information stored in the map information storage unit, the connecting point located ahead along a subject vehicle traveling direction as a decision-making point, a wrong-way travel decision-making area setting unit that sets wrong-way travel decision-making areas for at least one of a plurality of roads connected to the decision-making point, and a wrong-way travel decision-making unit that makes a decision, based upon the direction of traffic flow set for a unidirectional traffic road connected to the decision-making point and the subject vehicle traveling direction, as to whether or not the subject vehicle is traveling against the flow of traffic on the unidirectional traffic road. | 08-28-2014 |
20140242969 | PROGRAM EXPANDING SYSTEM, SERVER FOR USE THEREIN, PROGRAM EXPANDING METHOD AND PROGRAM MANAGING PROGRAM - A program manager operating on a smartphone transmits information of an onboard apparatus and a program ID list of the smartphone to the server. The server determines the possibility of an expansion of one or more programs, and the difference between charge/free provisioning of the program. If a function expansion condition of the program is met, the server transmits it to the smartphone. The program manager of the smartphone inquires as to possibility/impossibility of expansion, and a password (when there is a charge), and transmits the authentication information and the password (if there is a charge), which are produced from an onboard apparatus ID, a random number, secret data unique to the onboard apparatus, etc., to the server. The server transmits function expansion data to the smartphone, when succeeding the authentication, and the program management portion executes the function expansion of the program. | 08-28-2014 |
20140207363 | Energy Consumption Calculation Device, and Energy Consumption Calculation Method of Same - An energy-consumption calculation device includes an energy-consumption estimation unit to estimate energy consumption in a predetermined section; an actual energy consumption identification unit to identify an actual energy consumption supplied in the predetermined section by an energy-supply unit; an energy-consumption correction unit to correct the energy consumption in the predetermined section estimated by the energy consumption estimation unit in accordance with a difference between the energy consumption in the predetermined section estimated by the energy consumption estimation unit and the actual energy consumption in the predetermined section identified by the actual energy consumption identification means; and display unit adapted to identify and display, by using the energy consumption in the predetermined section corrected by the energy consumption correction means, a possible travel range by which travel is possible with a suppliable energy amount of the energy supply unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140200745 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, SOUND OPERATING SYSTEM, AND SOUND OPERATING METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An information processing apparatus for operating a vehicle, when the vehicle is running, and an application is instructed through voice. An in-running operation acceptance/denial list is produced, i.e., a list of words meaning an operation to be inhibited from being executed during the time when the vehicle is running. A command acceptance/denial executing portion of the onboard apparatus determines if the command corresponding to the content, which a user speaks, can be operated or not, during the time when the vehicle is running, by referring this list and a title of the command operable through voices included in the application, and when the vehicle is running, an execution of that command is instructed to an application controller portion, if being determined operable, by referring to a running condition of the vehicle, and if being determined inoperable, the execution of that command is not instructed to the application controller portion. | 07-17-2014 |
20140182001 | Service Management Apparatus, Program, and Service Management Method - A service management apparatus is provided that allows management of a shared license among devices, including a user storage unit storing a user and at least one associated terminal; a license information storage unit storing a license including a terminal to be permitted to use a predetermined service and license information for identifying a setting limitation; a setting request reception unit receiving a setting request for the license including information for identifying the terminal that has issued the setting request and the user; an associated terminal identification processing unit identifying the terminal that is associated with the user included in the request; a license identification processing unit identifying the license that each terminal to be identified is permitted to use and is settable to the terminal that has issued the request; and a license setting processing unit setting the identified license to the terminal that has issued the request. | 06-26-2014 |
20140172231 | CONTROL APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND PORTABLE TERMINAL - A control apparatus to be connected to a route guidance apparatus, comprising: a hand information detection part for detecting information on a hand of a user from a taken image; and an operation command generation part for outputting a control command to at least one of the route guidance apparatus and a plurality of apparatus connected to the route guidance apparatus, the operation command generation part being configured to output the control command to the at least one of the route guidance apparatus and the plurality of apparatus based on a direction of the hand of the user detected by the hand information detection part. | 06-19-2014 |
20140100772 | Navigation System - A navigation system includes: a storage unit having stored therein roadmap data, first statistical traffic information data pertaining to a first area which are created based upon a first standard related to a time applicable to the first area, and second statistical traffic information data pertaining to a second area which are created based upon a second standard related to a time applicable to the second area; a search unit that searches for a recommended route; and an estimated time of arrival calculation unit that calculates an estimated time of arrival based upon the roadmap data, the first statistical traffic information data and the second statistical traffic information data. The estimated time of arrival calculation unit executes calculation processing of the estimated time of arrival in compliance with the first standard and the second standard. | 04-10-2014 |
20140092047 | Information Terminal On-Board Information System, On-Board Device, and Information Terminal Program - A portable information terminal that is connected to an in-vehicle device comprises: a first display unit; a display control unit that generates a first screen image for display upon the first display unit, and a second screen image for display upon a second display unit that is comprised in the in-vehicle device; and a screen image output unit that outputs the second screen image to the in-vehicle device. | 04-03-2014 |
20140085469 | Calibration Method and Apparatus for In-Vehicle Camera - Calibration method of cameras is performed by using images generated by imaging a peripheral area of a vehicle by the cameras, wherein the peripheral area of a vehicle includes a calibration index pre-set on a road surface where the vehicle is positioned. The cameras are mounted on the vehicle, and the calibration index includes intersections formed by at least two first parallel straight lines and two second parallel straight lines having different inclination from the two first parallel straight lines. The camera calibration method includes steps of generating a bird's-eye-view video by viewpoint-converting each of the images based on a first camera parameter that is stored in advance; recognizing the intersections from the generated bird's-eye-view video; and calculating a second camera parameter, via which a non-deviated bird's-eye-view video can be generated, based on the recognized intersections and information on positions and poses of the cameras. | 03-27-2014 |
20140067256 | Position Calculation Method and Position Calculation Apparatus - A position calculation method includes: by using a current position of a mobile object, a link candidate point position, an error variance of positions of a plurality of links included in a region around the current position, and an error variance of azimuths of the plurality of links, calculating, an evaluation value that corresponds to a probability that the mobile object is traveling upon a road corresponding to each link candidate point, for each link including the each link candidate point; and calculating the current position based upon the evaluation value, by taking the mobile object as being positioned at a link candidate point, among a plurality of link candidate points, for which the probability is highest. | 03-06-2014 |
20140057611 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND OPERATING SYSTEM - A wireless communication terminal has input devices for inputting an operation content for operating an application, a communicator for transmitting the operation content input from the input devices to a server, and receiving a server processing result as a result of predetermined processing executed by the server, and a controller determining in accordance with the application as an operation target based on the operation content whether the operation based on the operation content input before interruption of the communication is continued after the communication with the server is recovered, when the communication with the server is interrupted after the operation content is input from the input means and before a server processing result corresponding to the operation content is received from the server. | 02-27-2014 |
20140053215 | Receiving Device - Provided is a receiving device that without interrupting a program being viewed is capable of switching the channel to the program in a destination reception area. When reception is good, a plurality of receiving units select the same channel and receive a program; and when reception worsens, the plurality of receiving units is divided into units for program reception and units for channel searching. The receiving units for program reception continue receiving the program, and the receiving units for channel searching search for a relay station and switch to a relay station channel having better reception than the channel being viewed. In a case where a relay station channel with good reception cannot be found, series broadcast stations in the same network are searched and a switch is made to a channel of a series broadcast station in the same network that has better reception than the channel being viewed. | 02-20-2014 |
20140044273 | DIRECT SOUND EXTRACTION DEVICE AND REVERBERANT SOUND EXTRACTION DEVICE - A direct sound extraction device includes: a spectrum transform unit that transforms an input signal, which includes a reverberant sound in a direct sound and on which a Fourier transform process has been performed, to a first amplitude spectrum signal Lfa; a low-pass filter unit ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140038669 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE SAME - In a system in which an in-vehicle apparatus and a smartphone are connected to each other, screen display switching cannot be performed with priorities of all the applications taken into account as respective terminals carry applications. A management block is provided in an in-vehicle apparatus or in a smartphone. The management block holds priority definitions for starting and displaying applications on both terminals. In response to external input to both terminals, the management block selects the application to be started and displayed. The management block identifies the terminal carrying the selected application, and transmits to the identified terminal a request to start the application and to switch display output accordingly. | 02-06-2014 |
20140032102 | Navigation Device and Cruising Range Display System - A navigation device includes: a degradation coefficient determination unit that determines a degradation coefficient representing a degradation level of a battery that supplies a vehicle with electric power; a current location calculation unit that calculates a current location of the vehicle; a vicinity map display unit that displays a vicinity map of the current location of the vehicle on a display screen; a cruising range calculation unit that calculates a first cruising range of the vehicle based on a remaining amount of the battery and a full charge amount of the battery contained in charging information received from the battery; a second cruising range calculation unit that calculates a second cruising range, which is smaller than the first cruising range, based on the degradation coefficient and the first cruising range; and a cruising range display unit that performs a display representing the second cruising range on the vicinity map. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029763 | DIGITAL SPEAKER SYSTEM - A digital speaker system that can perform both enhancement of reproduction capability and simplification of construction is provided with a construction using plural speaker units for one audio channel. The digital speaker system has a first signal processor | 01-30-2014 |
20130325478 | DIALOGUE APPARATUS, DIALOGUE SYSTEM, AND DIALOGUE CONTROL METHOD - Dialogue apparatus configured to carry out a dialogue with a driver and including storage, concentration degree measuring and dialogue units. The storage unit maintains a preference database in which a dialogue candidate of content for a dialogue with the driver and a dialogue effect indicating a degree of improving driver's degree of concentration on driving, are associated with each other. The concentration degree measuring unit measures the driver's degree of concentration on driving. The dialogue unit selects a dialogue candidate based on the dialogue effect in the preference database when the degree of concentration measured by the concentration degree measuring unit falls below a predetermined threshold, then carries out a dialogue by the selected dialogue candidate, and based on the degree of concentration before and after carrying out the dialogue, calculates the dialogue effect of the dialogue, and updates the dialogue effect of the preference database. | 12-05-2013 |
20130311086 | Navigation Apparatus - A navigation apparatus includes: a map information storage unit that stores road information; a position estimation unit that estimates the position of the vehicle; a map matching unit that specifies link candidate points corresponding to the position of the vehicle; a parallel roads determination unit that detects links of parallel roads that extend mutually parallel to one another; a traveling link determination unit that, for each link of the parallel roads, determines whether it is a traveling link upon which the vehicle is traveling, or a parallel link that extends parallel to the traveling link; and a link position correction unit that obtains position correction amounts for nodes of the traveling link and of the parallel link on the basis of the distance between the link candidate point that corresponds to the traveling link and the position of the vehicle. | 11-21-2013 |
20130278791 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus has an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels having input-output characteristic which non-linearly changes according to input and a plurality of color filters in a plurality of colors arranged on respective pixels; an output signal linear convertor converting a first output signal from the image pickup device into a second output signal which is predicted to be output from the image pickup device on the assumption that the image pickup device outputs the second output signal which linearly changes all over a range of the input brightness; a color signal generator generating color signals in the plurality of colors on each pixel based on the second output signal; a brightness signal generator generating a brightness signal from the first output signal; and a color brightness composition part combining the color signals and the brightness signal to generate an image signal. | 10-24-2013 |
20130274998 | In-Vehicle Information System, In-Vehicle Apparatus And Information Terminal - An in-vehicle information system includes: an information terminal; and an in-vehicle apparatus. At least one of the information terminal and the in-vehicle apparatus decides whether or not a vehicle is currently in a traveling state. The in-vehicle apparatus includes a display unit with a display screen, and restricts an image area ranging over part of or all of the display screen to be obscured from view when deciding that the vehicle is currently in a traveling state. The information terminal includes an application stored therein, outputs an image corresponding to the application to the in-vehicle apparatus, and outputs regulatory information pertaining to an image area to be restricted within the image corresponding to the application, to the in-vehicle apparatus. The in-vehicle apparatus sets an image area in the display screen to be restricted by using the regulatory information output by the information terminal. | 10-17-2013 |
20130261888 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM - An input/output limitation information storage unit stores input/output limitation information in which limitation processing for limiting operation input to the application and display output from the application is prescribed by associating the limitation processing with the application. A determination unit acquires a vehicle state of a vehicle, and determines the limitation processing to be applied to the operation input to the application and the display output from the application on the basis of the application running on the terminal device, the vehicle state, and the input/output limitation information. The limitation unit performs the limitation processing determined by the determination unit for the operation input detected by the input control unit and transmitted to the communication control unit, and the display output received by the communication control unit and transmitted to the output control unit. | 10-03-2013 |
20130235201 | Vehicle Peripheral Area Observation System - To provide a vehicle peripheral area observation system that can, with a simple configuration, detect a pedestrian who has a possibility of hitting against the vehicle by removing an appearance motion due to water vapor or a light source fluctuation. A water vapor region is detected from motion information and luminance information from videos captured with an on-vehicle camera, and recognition of a moving object in the water vapor region is invalidated for a given period of time. | 09-12-2013 |
20130226447 | On-Board Apparatus - An on-board apparatus includes: a map data storage unit in which map data that include altitude information are stored; a subject vehicle position detection unit that detects a subject vehicle position; and a calculation target geographical point setting unit that sets a calculation target geographical point based upon the subject vehicle position, wherein a road grade at the calculation target geographical point is calculated based upon altitudes of a plurality of geographical points that include at least a geographical point present ahead of the calculation target geographical point and a geographical point present behind the calculation target geographical point. | 08-29-2013 |
20130204528 | Route Guidance System, Route Guidance Server Apparatus and Navigation Terminal Apparatus - A navigation terminal apparatus includes: terminal map data; a route search unit that searches for a traveling route, through which a mobile object is to travel, based upon a specific search condition pertaining to a travel cost; and an updating unit that updates route data expressing the traveling route by replacing a first road link group making up a route segment accounting for at least part of the traveling route with a second road link group making up another route segment, with a start point and an end point thereof matching the start point and the end point of the route segment accounting for at least part of the traveling route. The another route segment is included in route information obtained from the external apparatus; and the route data include position reference data pertaining to positions of all road links constituting the traveling route and cost data pertaining to travel costs of all the road links. | 08-08-2013 |
20130194424 | EXPOSURE CONTROLLER FOR ON-VEHICLE CAMERA - An exposure controller for an on-vehicle camera mounted on a vehicle is capable of performing exposure control such that a predetermined subject such as a lane marker can be imaged with a constant contrast regardless of variation of peripheral brightness and directions of the variation. An exposure controller images information imaged by an imaging part based on a second exposure property having linearity, the second exposure property being obtained by converting a first exposure property having non-linearity, calculates a target density value with which pixels in a window set in the image are to be imaged based on brightness values corresponding to density values of the pixels in the window, sets a third exposure property for obtaining the calculated target density value, and performs imaging with the set third exposure property. | 08-01-2013 |
20130190978 | In-Car Information System, In-Car Device, and Information Terminal - An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations. | 07-25-2013 |
20130181672 | Reservation System, Navigation Device, Battery Charger and Server - Reservation system realizing more efficient reservation of charging. The reservation system comprises a navigation device and a battery charger. The navigation device generates reservation information of a charge, and sends the reservation information to the battery charger. The battery charger makes a schedule by using the reservation information, and performs charging according to the schedule. Further, the battery charger makes again a schedule according to an arrival time of a booked vehicle. | 07-18-2013 |
20130179689 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND IN-VEHICLE TERMINAL - [Objective] When installing software into an in-vehicle terminal from a server, it is required to prevent the software from being installed into an unsuitable terminal, and to reduce time and efforts for data input and download, thereby improving the convenience of the user. | 07-11-2013 |
20130174173 | DATA PROCESSOR AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing method has a device control thread for each peripheral device capable of an independent operation, a CPU processing thread for each data processing that is performed by a CPU, a control thread equipped with a processing part for constructing an application. The control thread checks an output from the thread related with each processing part, performs with a higher priority from the processing part in which output data of the preprocessing part as a configuration of the application exists and that is near termination, and instructs execution of the each device control thread and the CPU processing thread, and data input/output. Each of device control thread and CPU processing thread processes the data according to the instructions, and sends a processing result and a notification to the control thread. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173084 | Information System for Automotive, On-Vehicle Device and Server Device - An information system for automotive includes a plurality of on-vehicle devices each installed in a vehicle and a server device connected with the on-vehicle devices via a communication network. The plurality of on-vehicle devices each include an acceleration/deceleration change detection unit that detects an acceleration/deceleration change of the vehicle equipped with the on-vehicle device and a transmission unit that transmits acceleration/deceleration information pertaining to the detected acceleration/deceleration change. The server device includes a reception unit that receives the acceleration/deceleration information, a statistical parameter calculating unit that calculates statistical parameters to be used to estimate an extent of energy consumption or energy regeneration based upon the received acceleration/deceleration information, and an estimating unit for estimating the extent of energy consumption or energy regeneration based upon the calculated statistical parameters. | 07-04-2013 |
20130135534 | RECEIVER APPARATUS - Receiver apparatus comprises: first and second receiving systems; a demodulation/diversity combining means for combining demodulated signals of first and second receiving systems; a selection means for selecting and outputting an output of either one of first and second receiving systems; and a control means for controlling the operations of the whole receiver apparatus. Control means causes to execute a first composite operation, either one of the receiving systems is caused to continue reception operation while the other receiving system is caused to perform channel search to search a channel satisfying a predetermined condition, further the selection means is caused to select output of the resulting receiving system for performing continuous reception operation. If no channel to be received is found, the control means controls to interchange the receiving system for performing continuous reception operation and the receiving system for performing channel search, and to perform a second composite operation. | 05-30-2013 |
20130135474 | Automotive Camera System and Its Calibration Method and Calibration Program - Provided is a calibration method for an automotive camera system that can easily calibrate intrinsic parameters and extrinsic parameters of an image taking unit. A calibration method for an automotive camera system | 05-30-2013 |
20130124615 | RETRIEVAL TERMINAL DEVICE, RETRIEVAL SERVER DEVICE, RETRIEVAL TREE COMPRESSION METHOD, AND CENTER-LINKED RETRIEVAL SYSTEM - A retrieval tree data storing unit configured to store node information corresponding to the relationship between information configuring data to be retrieved and information of a lower layer configuring the data rather than the information and retrieval tree data corresponding to entity identification information for identifying entity data representing an entity of the data to be retrieved which is specified by the information or the lower information included in the node information; an input controlling unit configured to output a candidate of the data to be retrieved based on the information or the lower information inputted by a user and the node information stored in the retrieval tree data unit; and an entity data acquiring unit configured to transmit to the retrieval server device a retrieval request including the entity identification information corresponding to the information or the lower information included in the candidate of the data to be retrieved. | 05-16-2013 |
20130096823 | Navigation Device and Guidance Method for Information Relating to Destination - Provided is a configuration for helping a user achieve an objective (an errand) to be executed in a destination in a navigation device. Specifically provided is a navigation device for performing guidance using map information. Said navigation device acquires and stores information relevant to a destination, the information including an objective which a user intends to execute in the destination, and at the time of arrival at the destination or departure from the destination, outputs and notifies the user of the information relevant to the destination. | 04-18-2013 |
20130080580 | OBJECT DATA ALLOCATION METHOD, OBJECT DATA ALLOCATION SYSTEM AND SERVER APPARATUS, CLIENT DEVICE AND PROGRAM THEREOF - In the case of delivering first-edition data, a distribution data amount increases, resulting in increases in lengths of download time and update time. In a data allocation system including a vehicle-mounted device coupled to a server via a network, the server creates from a data group held by the in-vehicle device difference data indicating a difference(s) between object data and analogous data obtained by combining together analogous data blocks similar to the object data, and delivers allocation information of the difference data and analogous data to the in-vehicle device. This in-vehicle device prepares analogous data from its owning data group in accordance with the allocation information of the analogous data received, and rebuilds for installation the object data from the prepared analogous data and received difference data. | 03-28-2013 |
20130073194 | VEHICLE SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR RECOGNIZING EXTERNAL WORLDS - Preferably, an object such as a vehicle is detected regardless of a distance up to the object. A device for recognizing external worlds that analyzes an image acquired by capturing the vicinity of a self-vehicle includes: a processing area setting unit setting a first area of the image indicating a short range and a second area of the image indicating a long range, a first object detecting unit detecting the object by means of a first classifier in the set first area, a second object detecting unit detecting the object by considering even a background pattern by means of a second classifier in the set second area, a rectangular correction unit correcting a detected object rectangular shape and a time to collision (TTC) computing unit computing a prediction time up to a collision based on the detected object rectangular shape. | 03-21-2013 |
20130035858 | Navigation Device, Guidance Method Thereof and Route Search Method Thereof - Disclosed is navigation technology for providing guidance for HOV lanes in a more readily understandable manner. A navigation device is provided with: a storage unit adapted to store, for each predetermined segment of road, lane information including whether or not it is possible to enter or exit lanes which can be used when a predetermined condition is fulfilled (hereafter referred to as conditional lanes); a route search unit adapted to search for a recommended route to a destination; and a lane guidance unit adapted to provide entry/exit guidance in a road segment where a conditional lane can be entered or exited. If a segment where a conditional lane can be exited and a segment where the conditional lane can be entered, which is before the segment which can be exited, are on the recommended route, the lane guidance unit provides entry guidance in the segment where the lane can be entered. | 02-07-2013 |
20130030691 | Navigation Device and Guidance Method Thereof - Disclosed is navigation technology for providing guidance for HOV lanes in a more readily understandable manner. A navigation device is provided with: a storage unit adapted to store lane information including the set-up of lanes which can be used when a predetermined condition is fulfilled (hereafter referred to as conditional lanes); a route guidance unit adapted to provide guidance for a recommended route to a destination; and a guidance unit adapted to provide guidance for entrances and exits for conditional lanes. If travelling along a conditional lane makes it impossible to continue without deviating from the recommended route, the guidance unit provides guidance that the conditional lane should not be entered from an entrance to the conditional lane or inhibits guidance on the presence of an entrance to the conditional lane. | 01-31-2013 |
20130022219 | VOICE COIL SPEAKER - There is provided a voice coil speaker containing a bobbin having multilayer voice coils formed thereon in which the bobbin and a circuit board are properly arranged. In a voice coil speaker equipped with a bobbin having multilayer voice coils formed thereon and a diaphragm connected to the bobbin, the bobbin and the diaphragm being provided in a speaker body, an audio signal processing circuit board for processing an audio signal is disposed ahead of the diaphragm, and plural output terminals for outputting to the multilayer voice coils are arranged in the peripheral direction of the audio signal processing circuit board. | 01-24-2013 |
20130018578 | Navigation Device Having In-Tunnel Position Estimation FunctionAANM Matsuo; ShigeruAACI Hitachinaka-shiAACO JPAAGP Matsuo; Shigeru Hitachinaka-shi JPAANM Tanaka; KatsuakiAACI Hitachinaka-shiAACO JPAAGP Tanaka; Katsuaki Hitachinaka-shi JP - A navigation device that includes a map data base in which map information is stored and a positioning unit that determines a current position based upon a radio wave signal received from a satellite, contains: a tunnel detection unit that detects a tunnel that is present ahead on a road where the navigation device is moving; a travel data acquisition unit that acquires travel data of another vehicle from an information center; and a position estimation unit that in case the tunnel detection unit detects a presence of a tunnel ahead on a road and the travel data acquisition unit acquires from the information center travel data of another vehicle that has traveled through the detected tunnel, estimates a current position of the navigation device in the detected tunnel using a travel speed in the detected tunnel in the acquired travel data as a movement speed of the navigation device. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018547 | Environment Recognizing Device for a Vehicle and Vehicle Control System Using the SameAANM Ogata; TakehitoAACI HitachiAACO JPAAGP Ogata; Takehito Hitachi JPAANM Muramatsu; ShojiAACI HitachinakaAACO JPAAGP Muramatsu; Shoji Hitachinaka JPAANM Tsutsui; TakashiAACI AtsugiAACO JPAAGP Tsutsui; Takashi Atsugi JPAANM Nakamura; KatsuyukiAACI SaitamaAACO JPAAGP Nakamura; Katsuyuki Saitama JPAANM Morinaga; MitsutoshiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Morinaga; Mitsutoshi Tokyo JP - An environment recognizing device for a vehicle is provided that can correctly detect a preceding vehicle in a scene, such as for instance the dusk, which is under an illumination condition different from that in the daytime. The device detects a vehicle external shape while detecting vehicle taillights, and determines a region in which the vehicle external shape and the vehicle taillights move in synchronization, as a vehicle. | 01-17-2013 |
20130013203 | Navigation Device and Method of Searching Route by the Same - Provided are navigation technologies capable of preferentially guiding a vehicle to a route of a driving lane that can be available if given conditions are met. A navigation device is provided with a storage unit adapted to store lane information including the presence or absence of a driving lane that can be available if given conditions are met (hereinafter referred to as a conditional lane), a conditional-lane determining unit adapted to determine whether a vehicle equipped with the navigation device meets the conditions for driving in the conditional lane, and a route searching unit adapted to search a recommended route to a destination, wherein said route searching unit uses lane information to preferentially search for a route which utilizes a road including the conditional lane, when the conditional-lane determining unit determines that the aforementioned conditions are met. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013139 | Information Terminal and Cruise Controller for Electric-Powered Vehicle - Disclosed is an information terminal for electric-powered vehicles or a cruise controller therefor to provide a driver with a traveling method that can shorten a total required time to a destination including a charging time. An information terminal for electric-powered vehicle configured to calculate a required time for the vehicle to travel a route from a current position to a destination in accordance with map information, includes: route setting means that searches for a route to the destination; recharging place setting means that sets a charging place on a way of the route to the destination set by the route setting means; and charging facility information acquisition means that acquires information on the charging place set by the recharging place setting means. A recommended vehicle speed or a vehicle speed range including the recommended vehicle speed at a section to the charging place is calculated. | 01-10-2013 |
20120330651 | VOICE DATA TRANSFERRING DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, VOICE DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD, AND VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A voice data transferring device intermediates between an in-vehicle terminal and a voice recognition server. In order to check a change in voice recognition performance of the voice recognition server, the voice data transferring device performs a noise suppression processing on a voice data for evaluation in a noise suppression module; transmits the voice data for evaluation to the voice recognition server; and receives a recognition result thereof. The voice data transferring device sets a value of a noise suppression parameter used for a noise suppression processing or a value of a result integration parameter used for a processing of integrating a plurality of recognition results acquired from the voice recognition server, at an optimum value, based on the recognition result of the voice recognition server. This makes it possible to set a suitable parameter even if the voice recognition performance of the voice recognition server changes. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327238 | VEHICLE SURROUNDINGS MONITORING DEVICE - A virtual-screen setup unit sets up a virtual screen in a seam of images captured by an image capturing unit, the virtual screen being orthogonal to a road surface and extending in a direction from a near side to a far side of the vehicle. A virtual-screen projection image generation unit performs conversion of the images captured by the image capturing unit for projection onto the virtual screen, and thereby generates a virtual-screen projection image. The virtual-screen projection image is displayed on the image display unit. | 12-27-2012 |
20120327236 | Vehicle Periphery Monitoring System - With a simple configuration, a vehicle periphery monitoring system that easily detects pedestrian that has a possibility to collide with a vehicle to which the monitoring system is installed. Based on a change rate in the size of the image of the observation object captured at a preset time interval by an onboard camera | 12-27-2012 |
20120322423 | Hands-Free Device for Mobile-Phone Handset and Phone Book Registration Method - A hands-free device for a mobile-phone handset includes: a read unit that detects connection of a mobile-phone handset and reads identifying information of the mobile-phone handset connected; a phone book creation unit that creates a phone book for each piece of the identifying information; and a change unit that changes the identifying information assigned to the phone book to identifying information of another mobile-phone handset. | 12-20-2012 |
20120320210 | Lane Departure Warning Device - It is an object to provide a lane departure warning device capable of generating almost no false warning if a driver performs an avoiding operation of a lane departure. | 12-20-2012 |
20120316775 | Navigation Device, Route Guidance Method, and Program - Disclosed is technology for providing guidance in a manner that facilitates travel along a guidance route when there is a road which has a carpool lane. A navigation device ( | 12-13-2012 |
20120287262 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION APPARATUS - An in-vehicle information apparatus according to the invention includes a main unit having a display device, and a navigation unit providing a navigation function to the main unit. The navigation unit includes a navigation processing unit which executes a process concerning the navigation function, a sub unit providing an addition function to the navigation unit, and a navigation unit screen generating unit which generates a navigation unit screen for displaying information concerning a function which the navigation unit provides. The main unit includes an operation unit which receives an input for selecting a function from a user, a main unit screen generating unit which generates a main unit screen for displaying information concerning a function which the main unit provides, and a video selector which selects one of the navigation unit screen and the main unit screen and provides the selected one to the display device. The addition function provided by the sub unit is executed by an interruption process, and the video selector selects one of the navigation unit screen and the main unit screen based on the function inputted to the operation unit and the addition function executed by the interruption process. | 11-15-2012 |
20120271737 | Navigation Device - A navigation device includes: a data storage unit that stores map data including information relating to a map, and information relating to positions and usage fees of facilities; a budget range determination unit that determines a range of budget desired by a user; a facility search unit that searches the facilities under a predetermined search condition; and a display unit that displays a facility list that lists up a facility, for which the usage fee complies with the range of budget, out of the searched facilities searched by the facility search unit is indicated with emphasis. | 10-25-2012 |
20120259539 | Navigation Device and Guiding Method Thereof - Disclosed is a navigation device capable of guiding HOV lanes more intelligibly. The device comprises a storage unit that stores installation information relating to traffic lanes that become passable when predetermined conditions are satisfied (hereinafter referred to as “conditional traffic lanes”) and a guiding unit that guides entrances to the conditional traffic lanes. The guiding unit displays entrance guide images for guiding the car in which the device is installed to the entrances to the conditional traffic lanes instead of images that have been displayed until then when the position of the car approaches the entrances to the conditional traffic lanes. | 10-11-2012 |
20120253662 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM IN WHICH PROGRAM IS STORED - An aspect of the invention is an information terminal device includes a widget management unit for managing execution of a widget being a monofunctional program for performing display on the display part of a display device. The widget management unit includes a policy determination unit for determining the operation policy, including operation restriction and priority, concerning a display state at the display device in the widget, and a reliability determining unit for determining the reliability representing the reliability of the widget in the widget. When the state of the movement calculated by a navigation unit becomes a preset state, the widget management unit regulates the display state of the widget according to the operation restriction and the reliability, and performs display, while preferentially displaying guidance state and positional information calculated by the navigation unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20120252370 | HANDS-FREE TERMINALS AND HANDS-FREE SYSTEM FOR CARS - A user of a hands-free phone cannot determine with which speech quality the distant side of communication is listened to, and does not know which action to be required to improve the speech quality. In the case of the present invention, a function of presenting an action to be implemented by the user to improve the speech quality at the opposite party is mounted on the hands-free terminal. For the presentation here, it is assumed that the hands-free terminal according to the present invention has a function of estimating the speech quality at the distant side, a function of estimating an action to be implemented by the user to improve the estimated speech quality, and a function of presenting the estimated action to the user. | 10-04-2012 |
20120249789 | VEHICLE PERIPHERAL IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A vehicle peripheral image display system is provided, in which a semitransparent vehicle interior image is clearly distinguished from a virtual camera image regardless of a surrounding environment condition where a real camera image is obtained and a blind spot external situation can be clearly visually confirmed through according to a positional relationship with the vehicle. In a see-through side-view monitor system an image processing control unit includes an image processor performing a viewpoint conversion of an external image from a side camera into a virtual camera image viewed from a driver's viewpoint, a luminance-hue sensor judging luminance and hue of the external image, a luminance-hue conversion block automatically adjusting luminance and hue of a semitransparent vehicle interior image and a superimposing circuit superimposing the semitransparent vehicle interior image on the virtual camera image. | 10-04-2012 |
20120242834 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING SYSTEM - A vehicle periphery monitoring system is provided, in which by matching a behavior of a semitransparent tire image with an operation from a driver's viewpoint, a feeling of strangeness is reduced, an intuitive space perception is assisted and also a moving direction and a behavior of a vehicle can be easily perceived. In a side-view monitor system an image processing controller converts a real camera image including a blind spot into an image to be viewed from a driver's viewpoint to generate a blind spot image, and superimposes a semitransparent vehicle image which is obtained by making a vehicle viewed from the driver's viewpoint semitransparent and a semitransparent tire image which is obtained by making a tire semitransparent and displaying a behavior following a handle operation viewed from the driver's viewpoint on the blind spot image. | 09-27-2012 |
20120221207 | SENSOR CONTROLLER, NAVIGATION DEVICE, AND SENSOR CONTROL METHOD - Conventional navigation devices are equipped with technology that supports the driving of a driver by detecting the surroundings of a vehicle using a plurality of sensors such as cameras. However, because complex arithmetic processing is carried out using the detection results from the plurality of sensors, the processing load increases and other processes requiring a rapid response can be delayed. As a result, consideration has been given to decreasing the amount of arithmetic processing and reducing the processing load by uniformly decreasing the processing area for information detected by the sensors. However, if the processing area is uniformly decreased, information necessary for driving support may not be obtained. Provided is a sensor control technology that better obtains information necessary for driving support: a sensor controller, characterised by carrying out predetermined processing by changing the processing area of the information acquired by the sensors according to the vehicle driving conditions. | 08-30-2012 |
20120212612 | Lane Departure Warning Apparatus and Lane Departure Warning System - There is provided a lane departure warning apparatus capable of preventing false warnings and absence of a warning regarding lane departure which is attributed to special road geometries such as junctions and tollgates. The lane departure warning apparatus for outputting a warning signal upon determining departure of a vehicle from a lane, performing the steps of: when one dividing line in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle is non-detected, estimating a position of the one dividing line based on a position of the other dividing line as a first estimation dividing line; estimating a position of the non-detected one dividing line based on a position of the one dividing line prior to non-detection as a second estimation dividing line; and comparing the first estimation dividing line with the second estimation dividing line to determine lane departure. | 08-23-2012 |
20120209523 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, SERVER DEVICE, NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - Provided is a navigation technique which allows a person other than a user who received a route guide to operate a navigation device through an interaction process. The navigation device is characterized by being provided with an instruction reception unit, a process unit, and an output unit. The instruction reception unit receives an instruction for a process from an external device. The process unit executes a process in accordance with the instruction received by the instruction reception unit. The output unit outputs output information which is obtained as the result of the process executed by the process unit. | 08-16-2012 |
20120209506 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY METHOD - Provided is a navigation technique for aiding a user to develop a plan for traveling around a plurality of destinations. The navigation device causes a display unit to display a first display area and a second display area. The first display area displays icon information for specifying a facility and positional information thereof. The second display area displays a time line of a predetermined period. When the user disposes a plurality of pieces of icon information on the time line, the navigation device retrieves a route for traveling around the disposed facilities in order. As to icon information of a facility at which the user cannot arrive at the time corresponding to a position where the icon information is disposed, the navigation device indicates that the icon information is inappropriate. | 08-16-2012 |
20120194680 | PEDESTRIAN DETECTION SYSTEM - Disclosed is a pedestrian detection system including a pedestrian detection device ( | 08-02-2012 |
20120191341 | WEB BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM, TRAVEL PLANNING ASSIST METHOD AND CENTER SERVER - Provided is a Web bulletin board system ( | 07-26-2012 |
20120173574 | Information Retrieving Apparatus, Information Retrieving Method and Navigation System - An information retrieving apparatus is provided which has excellent usability using voice inputs. Search queries input by a user via a touch panel or the like are used as voice recognition vocabulary. Further, the search queries are edited by use of morpheme information and/or other information in a database, thereby providing such voice recognition vocabulary that can be easily uttered by the user. | 07-05-2012 |
20120162243 | Display Control Device and Display Layer Combination Program - A display control device includes: a transparent color information storage unit that stores transparent color information; a run-length counter that calculates a run-length specifying the number of consecutive pixels having the same color information; a combination calculation unit that combines the image data for the plurality of display layers; and a combined image display unit that outputs the combined image data to a display device. If the color information for a total of run-length pixels calculated by the run-length counter is a transparent color, the combination calculation unit performs combination by ignoring the image data for the total number run-length of consecutive pixels. | 06-28-2012 |
20120158291 | ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE AND ROUTE SEARCH METHOD - Conventionally, there has been a learning route-search device that stores therein, as deviation sections, actual traveling routes deviated from optimum routes, and performs route search by substituting, with any one of the deviation sections, a route found by the device if a starting point and an ending point of this deviation section are included in the found route. Such a device substitutes a route with a corresponding one of the deviation sections without exception, and therefore, may sometimes find a circuitous route that is not desired by a user. Provided is a technology by which learned routes are applied in a more appropriate manner in accordance with routes to be found. A route search device is provided with a deviation determining unit adapted to determine whether or not a route deviated from a route found by a route search unit has been taken in travelling. If a route deviated from the route has been taken in travelling, the route search device stores, in association with one another, a road link relating to a position at which the deviated route has started, a road link relating to a position at which retaking of the found route has started, and the deviated route taken in the travelling. The route search device then substitutes at least a part of the foregoing found route with the thus stored route. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158285 | Method and Apparatus for Route Searching - Provided is a route through which a user can smoothly travel and on which an evaluation of traveling environment is reflected. A route search system includes a user input receiving unit which uses a delay time from an expected travel time as an index indicating comfort of a route and selects a factor such as traffic conditions and pedestrians set as a condition that a user desires avoidance, a delay time calculation unit which calculates a delay time from an expected arrival prediction time according to map information, traffic information, and traveling environment information so as to reduce a delay as far as possible due to the selected factor, and calculates a cost based on the delay time, and a route search unit which calculates a cost of a link used for a route search from the delay time, and searches a route by using the calculated cost. | 06-21-2012 |
20120124571 | ONLINE UPDATE METHOD FOR VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE - When a power supply is cut off on updating programs, improper data remains since the power source to be supplied to the vehicle-mounted device is unstable. The check for the improper data and restoration processing are required for a reactivation processing implemented by an update processing unit so that the update is completed correctly, therefore, the user is waited. In contrast, the update processing also implemented by the update processing unit for a time period during which the power source becomes unstable is interrupted, and implemented for the time period during which the power source voltage is stable. In consequence, the update processing is carried on steadily without making the user wait. | 05-17-2012 |
20120120115 | Map Display Device - A map display device according to the present invention includes: a display monitor; a map display control means for bringing up a map with an icon displayed therein at the display monitor and scrolling the map in response to a scroll instruction; an icon detecting means for detecting an icon present in a specific area beyond a range of a display screen at the display monitor; and an indicator display control means for displaying an indicator indicating a direction along which the map should be scrolled in order to bring up on display the icon detected by the icon detecting means. | 05-17-2012 |
20120101728 | ROUTE SEARCH DEVICE AND ROUTE SEARCH METHOD - A technology for searching for a recommended route matched to a search condition is provided for route search that involves substitution with a learned route. A route search device comprises: a storage means to store therein, as learned routes, routes corresponding to sections where traveling deviated from recommended routes have been performed; a setting means to set a search condition matched a recommended route; a recommended-route search means to find a recommended route on the basis of the search condition; an application means to select any one of the learned routes that is applicable to the thus found recommended route, and apply the selected learned route to the recommended route; and a display means to display the recommended route to which the learned route has been applied. The storage means stores therein category information of the learned routes in association with the respective learned routes. The application means selects, from the storage means, any one of the learned routes that is associated with the category information matched to the search condition. | 04-26-2012 |
20120046046 | Navigation Device - A navigation device includes: a hands-free call unit that is connected to a mobile-phone handset and provides a hands-free call; an acquisition unit that acquires from the mobile-phone handset data related to a phone number stored in the mobile-phone handset; a display control unit that displays a screen based upon the data related to the phone number acquired by the acquisition unit; a storage unit in which the screen displayed by the display control unit when power is turned off is stored; and a redisplay control unit that calls and redisplays the screen stored in the storage unit when the power is turned on again after having been turned off. | 02-23-2012 |
20120026333 | VEHICLE PERIPHERY MONITORING DEVICE AND VEHICLE PERIPHERY IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD - From a plurality of imaging units ( | 02-02-2012 |
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20110267364 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE - Disclosed is an in-vehicle device for displaying a meter image in real time, wherein the processing load is reduced without deterioration of the appearance of the meter image. The in-vehicle device stores therein a plurality of basic images which can indicate a first measured value and a second measured value both of which are measured values relating to the vehicle. According to the acquired first and second measured values, the in-vehicle device selects a predetermined basic image out of the plurality of basic images, transmits a partial area of the selected basic image, and synthesizes these basic images, to thereby generate a meter image to be displayed. | 11-03-2011 |
20110246192 | Speech Quality Evaluation System and Storage Medium Readable by Computer Therefor - In prediction of a speech quality evaluation score such as a phone speech, even when a background noise exists, a subjective opinion score is predicted with high precision. A speech quality evaluation system that outputs a predicted value of the subjective opinion score for an evaluation speech such as a far-end speech of a phone, includes a speech distortion calculation unit conducts, after calculating frequency characteristics of the evaluation speech, a process of subtracting given frequency characteristics from frequency characteristics of the evaluation speech, and calculates the speech distortion on the basis of the frequency characteristics after the subtracting process has been conducted, and a subjective evaluation prediction unit that calculates the predicted value of the subjective opinion score on the basis of the speech distortion. | 10-06-2011 |
20110228985 | APPROACHING OBJECT DETECTION SYSTEM - An approaching object detection system, approaching object can be accurately detected while reducing the load on a calculation processing. A first moving region detection unit ( | 09-22-2011 |
20110202274 | Navigation Device and Map Data Product - A navigation device includes: a storage unit that stores map data divided into a plurality of files for a predetermined map range; an acquisition unit that acquires map updating data for updating the map data; an extraction unit that extracts at least one file from among the map data files; and an updating unit that updates the map data by storing new map data files based upon the map updating data in the storage unit, after having deleted the map data files from the storage unit with the exception of the file extracted by the extraction unit. | 08-18-2011 |
20110179080 | Map Update Data Delivery Method, Map Update Data Delivery Device and Terminal Device - A map update data delivery method includes: storing update unit data compiled in correspondence to each set of update data used to update map data in a specific version to map data in another version for a map element by incorporating update data for another map element that must also be updated in coordination with a change made for the map element; searching for base update data needed to update a map data for a map element designated as an update target in a map area specified at a terminal as a map data update target; searching for related update data with a relation to contents of update data included in the base update data searched; and transmitting the base update data and the related update data to the terminal. | 07-21-2011 |
20110175928 | Map Display Device and Map Display Method - A map display device, including a map display control unit that causes a map to be displayed on a display monitor and causes a facility icon to be displayed being superimposed on a map; an indication unit that indicates a portion of an area of a map displayed on the display monitor; a specification unit that specifies a facility icon existing in an indicated area indicated by the indication unit from among facility icons displayed on the display monitor; and a changer that changes a display mode of a specified facility icon specified by the specification unit into a display mode in which a visibility of image information on a map is not disturbed. | 07-21-2011 |
20110169958 | Lane Determining Device and Navigation System - Provided is a lane determining device that is capable of quickly and accurately determining the lane traveled by a host vehicle traveling on a road with a plurality of lanes in each direction. A lane determining device that determines the lane traveled by the host vehicle traveling on a road with a plurality of lanes in each direction comprises: road geometry obtaining means that obtains road geometry; imaging means that images the road; division line recognition means that recognizes a division line from an image imaged by the imaging means; first path computation means that computes a path of the host vehicle by repeatedly computing a distance from the division line recognized by the division line recognition means to the imaging means; second path computation means that computes a path of the host vehicle based on the road geometry obtained by the road geometry obtaining means and on autonomous navigation; third path computation means that computes a path of the host vehicle based on a first path computed by the first path computation means and on a second path computed by the second path computation means; and traveled lane determination means that determines the lane traveled by the host vehicle based on a third path computed by the third path computation means. | 07-14-2011 |
20110128996 | IBOC BROADCAST RECEIVER - A broadcast receiver suitable for receiving broadcast signals transferred by use of signal format of IBOC system. The broadcast receiver comprises a receiving means that holds information related to channels that can be acquired by a digital signal decoding process. If information related to a channel is to be used and is held by the information holding means, then it is used. | 06-02-2011 |
20110109649 | Map Display Device - There are provided: a map display control unit that brings up a map on display at a display monitor; a stormy weather condition information reception unit that receives stormy weather condition information; and a stormy weather condition information display control unit that provides a storm path forecast, indicating a predicted path of a storm, based upon the stormy weather condition information by superimposing the storm path forecast over the map on display at the display monitor. The stormy weather condition information display control unit displays the storm path forecast by using a fan-shaped range centered on a current position of the storm with an arc thereof passing through a predicted position that the storm is estimated to assume. | 05-12-2011 |
20110106431 | Navigation Device, Navigation Method and Navigation System - A navigation device receives a differential map data from a map delivery server via a communication line. The map delivery server checks whether there is a new intersection on a navigation route searched by the navigation device after updating a map data. The navigation device acquires a differential map data containing the intersection from the map delivery server. Then, an update map data selection section determines whether the intersection can be updated in time. An update order determination section updates the differential map data which can be updated in time in ascending order of time required to reach the intersection. | 05-05-2011 |
20110085681 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE - There is provided an acoustic processing device capable of maintaining volume and reproducing audio signals with good sound quality independent of the media audio encoding format, sound source type or sound source volume setting. In the acoustic processing device ( | 04-14-2011 |
20110081029 | ACOUSTIC PROCESSING DEVICE - There is provided an acoustic processing device capable of applying acoustic processing matching listener's sense to reproduce an audio signal with satisfactory sound quality in terms of auditory sense irrespective of the characteristics of a sound source. The acoustic processing device ( | 04-07-2011 |
20110077857 | ROUTE SELECTION METHOD FOR A VEHICULAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A route selection method for a vehicular navigation system in which at least two popular routes are identified between an origin and a destination, each of which contains at least one road link. For each identified route, a complex array from time t | 03-31-2011 |
20110077855 | Navigation System - A navigation system includes: a storage unit having stored therein roadmap data, first statistical traffic information data pertaining to a first area which are created based upon a first standard related to a time applicable to the first area, and second statistical traffic information data pertaining to a second area which are created based upon a second standard related to a time applicable to the second area; a search unit that searches for a recommended route; and an estimated time of arrival calculation unit that calculates an estimated time of arrival based upon the roadmap data, the first statistical traffic information data and the second statistical traffic information data. The estimated time of arrival calculation unit executes calculation processing of the estimated time of arrival in compliance with the first standard and the second standard. | 03-31-2011 |
20110066361 | On-Vehicle Information Terminal and Information Distribution System - An on-vehicle information terminal includes a traffic information obtaining unit that obtains traffic information including at least either weather information or event information through wireless communication, a decision-making unit that makes a decision, based upon at least either the weather information or the event information, as to whether or not telematics information provided by a distribution server via a mobile communication network is to be downloaded, and a download unit that downloads the telematics information via the mobile communication network if the decision-making unit has determined that the telematics information is to be downloaded. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066315 | On-Vehicle Information Terminal and Information Distribution System - An on-vehicle information terminal includes a traffic information obtaining unit that obtains traffic information through wireless communication, a telematics information obtaining unit that obtains telematics information provided from a distribution server via a mobile communication network, a selection unit that selects either the traffic information or the telematics information when contents of the traffic information and contents of the telematics information are different, and a traffic condition indicating unit that indicates road traffic conditions based upon either the traffic information or the telematics information having been selected by the selection unit. | 03-17-2011 |
20110043539 | Map Display Device - A map display device includes: a display control unit that displays, at a display monitor, meshes partitioning a map into equal parts assuming a predetermined areal size and a map for which one of a plurality of scaling factors can be selected, by superimposing the meshes on the map; a storage unit in which map data constituted with mesh data corresponding to the map partitioned into the meshes are stored; an input accepting unit that accepts an input; a detection unit that detects a specific mesh selected through input at the input accepting unit among the meshes displayed via the display control unit; a reception unit that receives from an external source mesh data corresponding to the mesh detected by the detection unit and; and an update unit that updates map data stored in the storage unit by using the mesh data received via the reception unit. | 02-24-2011 |
20110041135 | DATA PROCESSOR AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing method has a device control thread for each peripheral device capable of an independent operation, a CPU processing thread for each data processing that is performed by a CPU, a control thread equipped with a processing part for constructing an application. The control thread checks an output from the thread related with each processing part, performs with a higher priority from the processing part in which output data of the preprocessing part as a configuration of the application exists and that is near termination, and instructs execution of the each device control thread and the CPU processing thread, and data input/output. Each of device control thread and CPU processing thread processes the data according to the instructions, and sends a processing result and a notification to the control thread. | 02-17-2011 |
20110025683 | Map Display Device - A map display device includes: a map display control unit that displays a map at a display monitor; a weather information reception unit that receives weather information; and a weather information display control unit that displays the received weather information by superimposing the weather information over the map, wherein: if a plurality of sets of weather information for a plurality of geographical areas are allocated to a map area corresponding to a single pixel at the display monitor, a set of weather information for a geographical area with weather information thereof indicating a largest weather information numerical value, among the plurality of sets of weather information for the plurality of geographical areas, is displayed at the single pixel. | 02-03-2011 |
20110018818 | Map Display Device - A circular contour is drawn by hand so as to surround icons | 01-27-2011 |
20100332524 | Name Searching Apparatus - In a destination search function, a narrow search function for displaying the number of hits and next candidates, when an index having data on the number of hits and the next candidate characters is held and a narrow search is speeded up referring to the index during a search. Only about a narrow search result in which the hit numbers is large such that a search time is elongated when referring to numbers, indexes in which the number of hits and next candidate characters as the narrow search result are computed are previously stored. At the time of performing the narrow search, when the number of hits is small and the numbers and the next candidates are not registered, the numbers is counted. When the number of hits and the next candidate characters are registered in the index, the narrow search results are computed by using its registration result. | 12-30-2010 |
20100332132 | Route Guidance Server, Navigation Apparatus, Route Guidance System, and Route Guidance Method - A position coordinate based route transmitted from a server is reconstructed as a route of link numbers or node numbers in map data of navigation apparatus without error. A route guidance server searches a route from a start point to end point designated by a navigation apparatus; selects all or a part of nodes included in the searched route as route nodes; sets complementary points to the respective selected route nodes on the route and at a distance longer than a predetermined distance from the respective route nodes; and transmits information including coordinate information on the route nodes and complementary points as route information to the navigation apparatus. Then, based on the coordinate information on the route nodes and complementary points transmitted from the server, the navigation apparatus identifies the route nodes and road links connecting the route nodes by identification numbers in map data the navigation apparatus it self has. | 12-30-2010 |
20100332127 | Lane Judgement Equipment and Navigation System - There is provided lane judgement equipment that is capable of quickly and accurately judging the lane that a vehicle is traveling in on a road with plural lanes in each direction. Lane judgement equipment | 12-30-2010 |
20100332121 | Navigation Device, Route-Search Server, and Route-Search System - A server device | 12-30-2010 |
20100332120 | Car Navigation System, Program and Method for Updating Map Data - A car navigation system | 12-30-2010 |
20100328100 | Apparatus and Method for Generating Statistic Traffic Information - A statistic DB creation processing section creates a statistic traffic DB, based on past actual traffic data (probe DB or VICS DB), and stores it in a statistic DB storage section. A reference-link-candidate extraction processing section extracts a complement target link (temporal missing link) from the statistic traffic DB, and further extracts complementary-reference-link-candidates for the complement target link, according to plural extraction rules to extract complementary-reference-link-candidates. A complement-evaluation application processing section calculates correlation coefficients of the statistic traffic data of the complementary-reference-link-candidates to the statistic traffic data of the complement target link for the respective extraction rules, assigns a priority order to the extraction rules in the order of higher correlation coefficient, and complements the missing data of the statistic traffic data of the complement target link by the use of the statistic traffic data of the complementary reference link extracted by the extraction rule of the highest priority. | 12-30-2010 |
20100314227 | INPUT DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE DEVICE - A technique of preventing permeation of liquid and dust to electronic parts within a housing of an input device for an in-vehicle device. | 12-16-2010 |
20100307896 | INPUT DEVICE FOR IN-VEHICLE DEVICE - A technique of preventing permeation of liquid and dust to electronic parts within a housing of an input device for an in-vehicle device. | 12-09-2010 |
20100299063 | Current Position Determining Device and Current Position Determining Method - Provided is a technology capable of improving the accuracy of determining a position of an own vehicle in the vicinity of a branch point, in a current position determining device. The current position determining device identifies a detection range according to states of a road on which a vehicle is traveling to detect a lane change, to thereby determine a current position of the vehicle based on information on the detected lane change. | 11-25-2010 |
20100299057 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING ROUTE IN ROUTE VERIFICATION SYSTEM - In a route verification method for verifying a route that allows arrival at a destination in a shortest time, a server obtains, via a network, route information including a starting point and destination of a vehicle having a car navigation device, calculates a route with a shortest required time from the starting point to the destination based on the route information obtained from a plurality of vehicles, and transmits route information with the shortest required time to a terminal device, and the terminal device displays on a display the route with the shortest required time and a route on which the target vehicle runs from the starting point to the destination, wherein the route with the shortest required time is calculated using a link travel time, in the time to be expected that the target vehicle runs, included in the route information obtained from the plurality of vehicles. | 11-25-2010 |
20100222907 | HIGH-FREQUENCY INTERPOLATION DEVICE AND HIGH-FREQUENCY INTERPOLATION METHOD - It is possible to generate an interpolation signal in which spectrum in frequency characteristics develops in a continuous manner according to a reproduced music without increasing the sampling rate (sampling frequency) in up-sampling processing. A high-frequency interpolation device | 09-02-2010 |
20100208917 | AUDITORY SENSE CORRECTION DEVICE - There is provided an auditory sense correction device capable of adding favorable loudness characteristics to an output sound without depending on sound source characteristics of an audio signal even when a high-frequency band or a low-frequency band of the audio signal has already been subjected to loudness correction. The auditory sense correction device | 08-19-2010 |
20100192088 | Map Display Device - Weather information is acquired and stored from a satellite radio broadcast. On the basis of this weather information, weather information image data is created for displaying the weather information superimposed upon a map. When the weather information display map is scrolled, the range of the map data shifts. Together therewith, the range of the weather information image data also shifts. After a map has been drawn on the basis of the map data for the shifted range, icons or the like that describe the weather information are drawn as superimposed upon this map on the basis of the weather information image data for the shifted range. Then the image data stored in the image memory is read in, and the weather information display map that has been drawn is display upon the display monitor. | 07-29-2010 |
20100161192 | VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A vehicle operation support system includes a navigation device, and a drive control device. The navigation device includes: part for storing road information including branch point information; and part for acquiring road curvature information with reference to the road information, and providing the drive control device with the road curvature information, before a vehicle reaches the branch point. The road curvature information includes information about curvature of first and second road sections extending forward from a branch point. The drive control device estimates entrance of the vehicle into one of the first and second road sections as a selected road section, and controls a driving state of the vehicle by operating an actuator with reference to information about curvature of the selected road section, in response to estimation of entrance of the vehicle into the selected road section. | 06-24-2010 |
20100138150 | Navigation Device and Navigation Method - Provided is a technology of a navigation device which is capable of identifying an intersection or the like based on designation of an incomplete name of a street in which an input of a first keyword and an input of a second keyword are received, and a connection point of a first street having a street name which includes at least in part the first keyword and a second street having a street name which includes at least in part the second keyword is identified, to thereby save the user, who is not always familiar with the geography of a search target area, from the inconvenience of inputting a complete name of the first street, based on which the second street is retrieved and selected and an intersection point of the first street and the second street is identified. | 06-03-2010 |
20100114473 | Navigation Device and Navigation Method - A central device uses a link shape compression unit to compress information of shape of ups and downs of a road link obtained from a three-dimensional road map, and calculates a geometry parameter based on variation of energy of a vehicle travelling on the road link. An on-board terminal device estimates the vehicle's average travelling pattern by using a travel-pattern-estimation unit based on the geometry parameter calculated by the central device, a link-travelling time estimated from statistically-stored traffic information, and a link length. The on-board terminal device further calculates fuel consumption of the vehicle travelling on each road link based on the estimated travelling pattern and parameters of the vehicle by using a fuel-consumption calculation unit, and then, searches a fuel-efficient route by using the fuel consumption as a link cost. The on-board terminal device has a vehicle-type selector for selecting a type of the vehicle. The present invention can reduce data size of information processed by the on-board terminal device, and facilitate application of a fuel-efficient route search to various types of vehicles. | 05-06-2010 |
20100036594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING TRAFFIC DATA - Method and apparatus for determining traffic data The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining traffic data. The method comprises the steps of providing statistical data relating to traffic at links of a street map, providing condition data relating to links of the street map, and determining traffic data based on the statistical data and the condition data. | 02-11-2010 |
20100004034 | Hands-free phone-call device and tone quality control device - Constant phone-call quality is kept irrespective of setting of a tone adjusting function of a cellular phone under connection. There is provided a sound collector for collecting voices and converting the voices to a voice signal, a communication unit for communicating with a cellular phone terminal according to a predetermined communication protocol, and a reproducing unit for reproducing the voice signal received in the communication unit. A hands-free phone-call device for enabling the cellular phone terminal to execute hands-free phone call is provided with a signal processor for subjecting a voice signal to signal processing of adjusting tone quality to a predetermined state, and a controller for obtaining information on a tone adjusting function from the cellular phone terminal when the cellular phone terminal having the tone adjusting function for adjusting the tone quality during phone call is connected to communicate, and transmitting a predetermined command when it is determined that the tone adjusting function of the cellular phone terminal can be stopped or not, whereby the tone adjusting function of the cellular phone terminal is stopped and then the signal processor is made to execute the signal processing. | 01-07-2010 |
20090295202 | ACOUSTIC SEAT VIBRATORY-BONE-CONDUCTION TYPE - In a seat, a bass acoustic vibration transmission section and a treble acoustic vibration transmission section are arranged distinctively with respect to a seat occupant, such that those two acoustic vibration transmission sections are disposed independently of each other, thereby achieving both of the following two effects: an acoustic performance worthy of acoustic seat; and a seating comfort essentially required as a seat. | 12-03-2009 |
20090271400 | Point of Interest Search Device and Point of Interest Search Method - A point of interest (POI) search device includes: a static POI data storage means for storing therein a static POI data registered in advance; an added POI data storage means for storing therein an added POI data added or changed; a deleted POI data storage means for storing therein a deleted POI data for identifying a POI data which is not subjected to a search anymore, among the static POI data; a search keyword setting means; a computation switch means for computing the number of POI data matching the search keyword from among the static POI data and switching a computation processing of computing the number of POI data according to the computed number of POI data; and a POI search means for computing the number of POI data, using at least the static POI data and the added POI data according to the switched computation processing. | 10-29-2009 |
20090187336 | Map Update Server, Map Update System, and Car Navigation System - An update information providing server for providing data of an updated portion in map data composed of plural kinds of the data includes: a map data storage unit configured to store incremental update data of a difference between the data at a predefined time and newest data, and a data size of the incremental update data; an update request receiving unit configured to receive from a user terminal a map data update request including a capacity of a recording medium, and priority information for specifying a data kind of the data to be preferentially updated; an update order information making unit configured to make update order information; an update information transmission unit configured to extract the incremental update data from the storage unit, to make update information including the extracted incremental update data and the update order information, and to transmit the made update information to the user terminal. | 07-23-2009 |
20090154724 | ON-VEHICLE ACOUSTICS APPARATUS - There is provided an acoustic apparatus whose front-side exterior appearance construction can be freely changed and which can be easily added with a new function. | 06-18-2009 |
20090099721 | Abnormality reporting device for vehicle and control program - There are provided an abnormality reporting device that can generate vibration which can be easily perceived by a driver even when the driver is in a vibrating vehicle during running, and a control program therefore. | 04-16-2009 |
20090049462 | Disc Player - There is provided a disc player which does not require any complicated mechanism for holding discs different in diameter at the terminal portion of the loading passage and implements thin design of the apparatus. | 02-19-2009 |
20090025018 | Disc Player, and Control Method and Control Program for the Same - There is provided a disc player which does not require any mechanism for guiding a disc to the center inside a main body and any dedicated mechanism for preventing double insertion of discs, and can surely detect the disc diameter of not only general discs, but also partially-transparent discs. In order to attain this object, a disc player for loading a disc inserted in an insertion port into the inside of the main body to reproduce the disc is provided with a pair of gate members | 01-22-2009 |