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20090240426 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION METHOD - A navigation device and the like capable of preventing a user from falsely recognizing an intersection to take a turn even when another intersection is present near a guidance target intersection. The navigation device that performs route navigation by displaying a guiding symbol superimposed on a photographed image includes: an adjacent intersection detection unit that calculates a distance between a guidance target intersection and an intersection adjacent to the guidance target intersection; and a guidance display control unit that controls guidance details to be displayed. The guidance display control unit sets timing for indicating a path to be taken at the guidance target intersection by using the guiding symbol based on the distance between intersections calculated by the adjacent intersection detection unit. | 09-24-2009 |
20090262145 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an information display device for presenting, to a user, a correspondence between a position in an actual landscape and a position on a map image. In an information display device (IDA, IDAr), a photographed image acquisition section ( | 10-22-2009 |
20090271105 | MAP DISPLAYING DEVICE - A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: display means ( | 10-29-2009 |
20100036601 | DESTINATION PREDICTION APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - To provide a destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination more accurately than before. A destination prediction apparatus which predicts a destination of a mobile object includes: a stay characteristic accumulating unit ( | 02-11-2010 |
20100153000 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system generating a display which enables an intuitive and instant grasp of a distance to a guide point (such as a guide target intersection) is provided. The navigation system displays an object on a route between the vicinity of a vehicle position and the guide point, and includes a object display control section ( | 06-17-2010 |
20100161208 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - Provided is a navigation apparatus operable to, in route guidance using a photographed image, dynamically set a frequency of updating a guide arrow in accordance with circumstances. The navigation apparatus performs the route guidance by displaying the photographed image, comprising: a searching section ( | 06-24-2010 |
20110196604 | MAP DISPLAYING DEVICE - A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: a display unit for displaying map information stored in a map database; a search unit for calculating travel time information regarding a travel time to an arbitrary point accessible from a reference point; and a time information drawing unit for displaying the travel time information in a superimposed manner on the display unit by varying a display form in accordance with the scale of a map and/or with the running state of a user's vehicle. | 08-11-2011 |
20110213552 | MAP DISPLAYING DEVICE - A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: a display unit for displaying map information stored in a map database; a search unit for calculating travel time information regarding a travel time to an arbitrary point accessible from a reference point; and a time information drawing unit for displaying the travel time information in a superimposed manner on the display unit by varying a display form in accordance with the scale of a map and/or with the running state of a user's vehicle. | 09-01-2011 |
20120112698 | CHARGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CHARGING SYSTEM - A charging system includes a parked car number detecting unit configured, in a case where vehicles parked in a parking area are divided into a first vehicle group owned by an individual and a second vehicle group shared by a plurality of persons, to detect the number of parked cars or a parking rate of the first vehicle group; and a charging control device configured to charge electric vehicles in the first and second vehicle groups. The charging control device includes a priority determining unit configured to determine the priority of which one of the first and second vehicle groups is preferentially charged according to the number of parked cars or the parking rate detected by the parked car number detecting unit; and a charging electric power supplying unit configured to charge the electric vehicles according to the determined priority. | 05-10-2012 |
20120223670 | POWER CONTROL DEVICE, POWER CONTROL METHOD, AND POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - The control device ( | 09-06-2012 |
20120280673 | VOLTAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The voltage control apparatus ( | 11-08-2012 |
20130134946 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - A power control apparatus includes: a control unit that controls discharged power of a first battery and discharged power of a second battery; and a power acquisition unit that acquires a total power to be supplied from the first and second batteries to a load device connected to the first and second batteries. The control unit: in a first period, changes the discharged power of the first battery according to a change in the acquired total power, and changes the discharged power of the second battery toward a first direction in which the discharged power of the second battery approximates the discharged power of the first battery; and, in a second period after the first period, changes the discharged power of the second battery according to the change in the acquired total power, and changes the discharged power of the first battery toward a second direction opposite the first direction. | 05-30-2013 |
20130150993 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING A CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL APPARATUS - A method for designing a control apparatus includes: determining first, second and third threshold values; setting a first weighting function for calculating a first controlled variable by being multiplied by a difference between a control target value and an output value of a storage battery, a second weighting function for calculating a second controlled variable by being multiplied by the output value of the storage battery, and a third weighting function for calculating a third controlled variable by being multiplied by an integrated value of the output value of the storage battery; and determining a transfer function of the control apparatus in accordance with an H-infinity control theory such that the first controlled variable, the second controlled variable and the third controlled variable are respectively smaller than the first, second and third threshold values. | 06-13-2013 |
20130285610 | POWER CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND STORAGE BATTERY UNIT - A control apparatus includes: a target value obtaining unit obtaining a total target value of power to be discharged from storage batteries; an SOH obtaining unit obtain information on a state of health for each of the storage batteries; a charge control unit determining how the power of the total target value is divided among and discharged from each of the storage battery. The charge control unit (i) compares the state of health of a first storage battery and the state of health of a second storage battery, and, in the case where the state of health of the second storage battery is higher than the state of health of the first storage battery, (ii) discharges from the second storage battery second power lower than first power which is discharged from the first storage battery. | 10-31-2013 |
20140236375 | ELECTRIC POWER CONDITIONING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING ELECTRIC POWER - The electric power conditioning device, connected to an apparatus and an electric storage device in a house, comprises an electric power receiving section, a communication section and an operation section. The electric power receiving section, connected to a commercial power supply, acquires a total electric power consumption amount of the commercial power supply. The operation section makes comparison as to whether an integrated value obtained by integrating the total electric power consumption amount and an electric power consumption amount which is an amount of electric power expected to be consumed when the apparatus is operated exceeds a predetermined value. When the integrated value does not exceed, the operation section transmits a use permission signal to the apparatus via the communication section. When the integrated value exceeds, the electric power conditioning device transmits to the electric storage device a supply electric power inquiring signal via the communication section. | 08-21-2014 |
20140333265 | DEGRADATION STATE ESTIMATING METHOD AND DEGRADATION STATE ESTIMATING APPARATUS - Provided is a degradation state estimating method which decreases degradation in a secondary battery caused by estimating the degradation state. The degradation state estimating method is a method of estimating the degradation state of a secondary battery, includes: controlling application of current to the secondary battery; obtaining, as measurement information, at least a voltage value of the secondary battery measured while the current is flowing through the secondary battery; and estimating the degradation state of the secondary battery, based on a model for estimating the degradation state of the secondary battery and the measurement information obtained in the obtaining. In the controlling, at least one of a current value of the current and duration during which a predetermined current value is maintained is determined according to a provisional degradation state of the secondary battery. | 11-13-2014 |
20140354239 | CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL METHOD, CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CHARGE AND DISCHARGE CONTROL APPARATUS - A charge or discharge control method includes: receiving a power instruction value with respect to a power storage apparatus; obtaining a remaining state of charge (SOC) and a target SOC which is a target value of the SOC of the power storage apparatus; controlling charge or discharge of the power storage apparatus according to the power instruction value when the power instruction value is received; wherein, in the controlling, a delay time is determined according to a difference between the target SOC and the remaining SOC, and the power storage apparatus is controlled according to the power instruction value at a timing when the delay time passes after the power instruction value is received. | 12-04-2014 |