| Clarion Co., Ltd. Patent applications |
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| 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 |
| 20110292030 | Map Display Device - A map display device | 12-01-2011 |
| 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 |
