Patents Assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20230168790
    Abstract: An icon display controlling device includes a priority level setting unit that sets priority levels for each of a plurality of regions partitioned within a display area that can display a plurality of icons each having a display size, the plurality of icons including a first icon having a first display size and a second icon having a second display size that is larger than the first display size of the first icon; a display reducing unit that reduces the second display size of the second icon that is located in the display area, based on at least one of the priority levels; and an icon placing unit that places an additional icon into a vacated region of the plurality of regions within the display area that has been vacated through reducing the display size of the second icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Azusa SHIINA, Yuki MATSUSHITA, Jun SAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230159021
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a vehicle location acquiring unit for acquiring the current location of a vehicle; an object information acquiring unit for acquiring object information that includes information relating to locations of objects in the vicinity of the vehicle; and a target route setting unit for setting a plurality of routes between the current location and a predetermined parking space, identifying the route, of the plurality of routes, with the longest distance to the object, and, based on the identified route, setting a target route for the vehicle to travel from the current location to the predetermined parking space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junya MURAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11657624
    Abstract: An image processor includes a line extraction portion configured to extract a line from an image generated from a vehicle surrounding image captured at a predetermined timing, a tracking determination portion configured to determine whether the extracted line fulfills a predetermined condition or not, a comparing portion configured to compare the line that is determined as fulfilling the predetermined condition with a line that is extracted by the line extraction portion from another image generated from another vehicle surrounding image captured at a predetermined timing in the past to obtain degrees of similarity and coincidence thereof, a parking area line determination portion configured to determine the line as a parking area line when the degrees of similarity and coincidence are equal to or more than a given value, and a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame using the line determined as the parking area line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Shunsuke Kondo, Mamoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230143429
    Abstract: To achieve excellent ease in operations in relation to the display output of an in-vehicle display device. Comprises: image acquiring means for acquiring a captured image wherein the vicinity of a vehicle has been imaged; region setting means for setting a prescribed region between displaying means, installed within a cabin of the vehicle and a position wherein a vehicle occupant is within the cabin of the vehicle; function setting means for setting a display function associated with a prescribed region; viewpoint position detecting means for detecting a position relating to a viewpoint of the vehicle occupant; and image controlling means for controlling the displaying means so as to display the captured image, wherein: when the position relating to the viewpoint is detected as being in a prescribed region, the controlling means execute the display function on the captured image displayed by the displaying means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma SHIOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230143690
    Abstract: A driving assisting device includes a vicinity information acquiring unit for acquiring vicinity information regarding an object in the vicinity of a vehicle; an image generating unit for using the vicinity information to generate an overhead image that shows the vehicle together with the vicinity thereof; a communicating unit for acquiring, through wireless communication, target person information able to identify at least a location of a target person outside of the vehicle; a vehicle location identifying unit for identifying a vehicle location and direction; a location identifying unit for identifying a location of the target person in an overhead image and identifying, in the overhead image, a stopping location that is suitable for boarding of the target person, based on the location and direction of the vehicle, identified by the vehicle location identifying unit; and an output image generating unit for generating an output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuma SHIOGUCHI, Noriaki AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11643071
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes a range setting unit configured to set a search range searching for an obstacle based on a movement range of a host vehicle for a case in which the host vehicle is moved along a parking route, in terms of two directions, and a judgment unit configured to detect an object having a possibility of interfering with the movement of the host vehicle, based on the surrounding condition around the host vehicle, in a case in which the detected object is positioned within the search range, to judge whether the detected object is an obstacle interfering with the movement of the host vehicle along the parking route, and, in a case in which the detected object is positioned outside the search range, not to make judgment whether the detected object is the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Ishinoda, Koki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11645783
    Abstract: Calibration with high accuracy can be realized even when performing the calibration while running on the actual road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Manabu Kawabe, Nobuyuki Matsuyama
  • Publication number: 20230135063
    Abstract: An icon display controlling device includes an area displaying unit for causing a display to display a first display area within which an icon can be placed; a deleting mode switching unit for switching to a deleting mode that enables deletion of a second icon that has already been placed in the first display area, in response to performance of a predetermined operation for placing a first icon in the first display area; and an icon positioning unit for placing the first icon in the first display area upon deletion of the second icon in the deleting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUSHITA, Azusa SHIINA, Jun SAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230135024
    Abstract: A control unit of an imaging device includes a switching unit that switches between a first process that generates the visible light image from the output signals of the R pixels, the G pixels and the B pixels, and generates a first infrared light image from the output signals of the IR pixels, and a second process that causes the imaging unit to execute imaging in a first state. The infrared light emitting unit emits infrared light and a second state wherein the infrared light emitting unit does not emit infrared light, to generate the second infrared light image from the output signals of the IR pixels in the first state and from the difference values ?R, ?G and ?B between the respective output signals of the R pixels, G pixels, and B pixels in the first state and the respective R pixels, G pixels and B pixels in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20230137170
    Abstract: An icon display controlling device includes: an area displaying unit that causes a display to display a display area within which a first icon can be placed; an operation receiving unit configured to receive a selecting operation for the first icon and a moving operation for moving, into the display area, the first icon that was selected by the selecting operation; and an image displaying unit that causes the display to display an image that shows the first icon at a predetermined placement position, determined in advance, within the display area, at a time within a first interval that extends from reception of the selecting operation by the operation receiving unit until immediately prior to movement of the first icon into the display area due to the moving operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki MATSUSHITA, Azusa SHIINA, Jun SAKURA
  • Publication number: 20230135043
    Abstract: A rearward image displaying device includes an imaging portion configured to generate a captured image by imaging, through a camera, to the rear of a vehicle; a first generating portion configured to generate a first rearward image by extracting an image from a region of a portion of the captured image; an incline detecting portion configured to detect an incline angle of the vehicle; a second generating portion configured to extract an image from a region that is another portion of the captured image, based on the incline angle, to generate a second rearward image that is different from the first rearward image; and a display controlling portion configured to displaying the first rearward image and the second rearward image on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20230127893
    Abstract: [Problem] To display the current location of a user appropriately on a deformed map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masashi OOTSUKA
  • Patent number: 11636624
    Abstract: High precision calibration of external parameters is possible even when the surrounding road surface is configured from a plurality of flat surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Kawabe, Morihiko Sakano, Nobuyuki Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11630564
    Abstract: The information processing device includes: an operation detecting unit that determines that a first touch operation has been detected, calculates the length of a virtual line segment connecting the plurality of touched positions detected or the rotation angle with respect to a reference direction for the virtual line segment, and determines whether or not there has been a change in the length or rotation angle of a virtual line segment when coordinate information has been inputted, the touch panel displaying a second screen, and determines that a second touch operation has been detected when it has been determined that there has been a change in the length or rotation angle of the virtual line segment; and an execution instruction issuing unit that issues an instruction to execute the process associated with the change in the length of the virtual line segment or the rotation direction of the virtual line segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11620908
    Abstract: An image processor includes a parking area line detection portion configured to detect a parking area line from an image acquired by an imaging device, a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame based on the detected parking area line, a parking frame selection portion configured to calculate a length ratio of adjacent first and second sides of the set parking frame, determine the parking frame as a display target when the length ratio falls within a predetermined range, and not to determine the parking frame as the display target when the length ratio falls outside the predetermined range, and a display control portion configured to control a display portion for displaying a parking frame image showing the parking frame determined as the display target by the parking frame selection portion so as to keep superimposing the parking frame image onto the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Shunsuke Kondo, Mamoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230094672
    Abstract: The present invention improves the accuracy of detection of a three-dimensional object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayano MIYASHITA, Naoki SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20230103132
    Abstract: To provide a technology wherein screen customization is performed more closely in accordance with the intention of the user, through more properly controlling user operation count.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio TOYODA
  • Patent number: 11610317
    Abstract: An image processor includes an imaging device that captures an image of a road surface around a vehicle V, and a control portion that detects a marker drawn on the road surface from the captured image. The control portion connects a plurality of broken markers to create a single marker when the detected marker is broken into plural.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kaneko, Shunsuke Kondo, Mamoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230067058
    Abstract: An information processing device improves hygiene while minimizing any reduction in icon operating convenience, and comprises: an authentication result acquiring unit that acquires authentication results of a user who operates the device; a display unit displaying one or more operation icons; a touch input detecting unit detecting a touch operation on an operation icon displayed on the display unit; a touch position history recording unit detecting the touched position in the touch operation and records the touched position as a historical record in a predetermined storage unit; a screen generating unit generating a screen to be displayed on the display unit; and an icon position changing unit changing the position of the operation icon on the screen based on the history of the touched position when there is a change in the user identified in the authentication results obtained by the authentication result acquiring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji TAKEUCHI, Masahiko SEKI, Yuichiro NAKAGAWA, Hiroe USHIO, Miku NAGATSUKA
  • Patent number: 11592981
    Abstract: The information processing device includes a display control unit, and an execution instruction issuing unit, wherein the operation detecting unit determining that a second touch operation has been detected when movement has been detected in the touched position on a touch panel detected as a first touch operation, and the execution instruction issuing unit issuing an instruction to execute a process associated with a direction of movement in the touched position moved by the detected second touch operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsushita, Takuma Shioguchi