Patents by Inventor Norikazu Nara
Norikazu Nara has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11915495Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Tetsuro Murakami, Naoto Sakata
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Patent number: 11859993Abstract: Based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist is determined, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area is stored as parking information, the parking information is referenced when it is determined that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and guidance information is output as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Makoto Orino, Takaaki Yashiro
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Patent number: 11413962Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: an assistance processing unit that executes assistance processing for providing a user with specified information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a list according to a sequential order of the assistance processing executed by the assistance processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Makoto Orino, Takaaki Yashiro, Toshihiro Mochizuki, Norimasa Kishi
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Patent number: 11408747Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: a map information storage unit that stores map information; a communication control unit that acquires traffic information; a travel history database in which a travel history of the vehicle with respect to each road is recorded; a route estimation unit that estimates a travel route of the vehicle by using the map information and the travel history database; a traveling time calculation unit that calculates actual traveling time of the vehicle with respect to the travel route and calculates predicted traveling time required when traveling the travel route estimated by the route estimation unit by using the traffic information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a map screen indicating the travel route and display the actual traveling time and the predicted traveling time together with the map screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Makoto Orino, Takaaki Yashiro, Toshihiro Mochizuki, Norimasa Kishi
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Publication number: 20220219699Abstract: A possibility that driving assistance suitable for a road environment will be not provided is reduced. An on-board apparatus, which navigates a vehicle based on the map information including information indicating a road network including a plurality of links respectively corresponding to a plurality of roads and a plurality of nodes respectively corresponding to a plurality of intersections and information indicating road attributes in the road network, includes an image capturing unit and a support control unit. The image capturing unit captures an image of at least a part around the vehicle. The support control unit associates supplementary information, which is information including recognition result information indicating a result of image recognition of the captured image, with link information of a target link, which is a link corresponding to a point related to the image capturing of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.,Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Tetsuro MURAKAMI, Naoto SAKATA
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Publication number: 20220172493Abstract: A sitting height estimation ECU is mounted on a vehicle and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of a driver sitting in a driver's seat; a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a landmark on a face of the driver from the image; a crown estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a crown of the driver on the basis of the position of the landmark; and a sitting height estimation unit configured to estimate a sitting height of the driver on the basis of an estimation result obtained by the crown estimation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Tetsuro MURAKAMI, Naoto SAKATA
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Publication number: 20220027445Abstract: A first server apparatus is communicably connected to each of a second server apparatus having a server-less function and a vehicle and includes an obtaining unit obtaining, from the vehicle, start position information indicating a start position of the vehicle, start date-and-time information indicating a start date and time of the vehicle, parking position information indicating a parking position of the vehicle, and parking date-and-time information indicating a parking date and time of the vehicle, an estimating unit estimating a date and time at which the vehicle is started based on the start position, the start date and time, the parking position and the parking date and time, and an instructing unit instructing the second server apparatus to activate a personal authentication program in accordance with an estimation result by the estimating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Naoto SAKATA, Tetsuro MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20210348936Abstract: Based on position information indicating a position of a vehicle on a map, whether the vehicle has arrived at an entrance of an area in a vicinity of a destination of the vehicle where road links do not exist is determined, a history of the vehicle having parked in the area is stored as parking information, the parking information is referenced when it is determined that the vehicle has arrived at the area, and guidance information is output as information which guides the vehicle based on recommendation information and which includes at least a parking position in the area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Akihiro KONDO, Noriyuki ABE, Norikazu NARA, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO
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Publication number: 20210199447Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication section; a generation section that based on position information pieces received by the communication section from an in-vehicle device, generates trip data including position information pieces of departure points and arrival points of a vehicle in which the in-vehicle device is mounted; an extraction section that based on the trip data, extracts a plurality of first candidate areas associated with position information pieces set as departure points, a number of which is equal to or exceeding a predetermined value, and for each of the plurality of first candidate areas, second candidate areas associated with position information pieces set as arrival points, a number of which is equal to or exceeding a predetermined value, in a case of departure from the departure points in the first candidate area; an acquisition section that acquires usage information pieces of lands including the first candidate areas and the second candidate areas; and an estimation section thaType: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2019Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Megumi KAWATA, Norikazu NARA
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Patent number: 11035689Abstract: An information processing device is installed in a vehicle and comprises an action history DB which stores a plurality of action histories including a combination of a content that was played based on an instruction of a user and a situation in which the content was played, and an automatic playing unit which, when a current elapsed time as an elapsed time from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON or a current travel distance as a travel distance from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON matches any one of the action histories of the action history DB, plays a content included in the matching action history.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Takashi Matsumoto, Akihiro Kondo, Makoto Orino, Takaaki Yashiro
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Publication number: 20200326201Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: a travel history database in which a travel history of the vehicle is recorded with respect to each road; and a display control unit that has a display unit display a map screen, wherein the display control unit has the display unit display each road included within a display range of the map screen in a display form according to a travel frequency of the vehicle on the basis of the travel history database.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI, Norimasa KISHI
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Publication number: 20200318986Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: a map information storage unit that stores map information; a communication control unit that acquires traffic information; a travel history database in which a travel history of the vehicle with respect to each road is recorded; a route estimation unit that estimates a travel route of the vehicle by using the map information and the travel history database; a traveling time calculation unit that calculates actual traveling time of the vehicle with respect to the travel route and calculates predicted traveling time required when traveling the travel route estimated by the route estimation unit by using the traffic information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a map screen indicating the travel route and display the actual traveling time and the predicted traveling time together with the map screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI, Norimasa KISHI
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Publication number: 20200317054Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes: an assistance processing unit that executes assistance processing for providing a user with specified information; and a display control unit that performs control to display a list according to a sequential order of the assistance processing executed by the assistance processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO, Toshihiro MOCHIZUKI, Norimasa KISHI
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Patent number: 10528311Abstract: A display device that is to be connected with an information terminal includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up on display the screen based upon the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the information terminal, displacement quantity information corresponding to a quantity of displacement from the display position of the cursor to the touch position.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Katsuya Matsuyuki, Noriyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20190025072Abstract: An information processing device is installed in a vehicle and comprises an action history DB which stores a plurality of action histories including a combination of a content that was played based on an instruction of a user and a situation in which the content was played, and an automatic playing unit which, when a current elapsed time as an elapsed time from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON or a current travel distance as a travel distance from a time that an ignition switch of the vehicle was most recently turned ON matches any one of the action histories of the action history DB, plays a content included in the matching action history.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Akihiro KONDO, Makoto ORINO, Takaaki YASHIRO
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Patent number: 10018732Abstract: A portable terminal includes a GPS unit configured to receive a GPS signal, a GPS processing section configured to detect GPS accuracy at an interval and detect the position of a vehicle on the basis of the GPS signal received by the GPS unit, and an information processing section configured to detect entrance timing, which is timing when the GPS accuracy is detected when the vehicle is located at an entrance point of a multi-storey parking structure, on the basis of transition of the GPS accuracy detected by the GPS processing section at the interval.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Stephen Chiu, Megumi Kawata
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Publication number: 20180136779Abstract: A display device configured to be connected to an information terminal, includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up the screen on display based on the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits operation information in correspondence to the touch operation to the information terminal. The transmission unit transmits the operation information in a delay when the touch operation is performed continuously.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Katsumi SANO, Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Katsuya MATSUYUKI
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Patent number: 9846506Abstract: A display device configured to be connected to an information terminal, includes: a video reception unit that receives video information about a screen including a cursor from the information terminal; a touch panel that brings up the screen on display based on the video information received by the video reception unit and detects a touch position specified by a touch operation; and a transmission unit that transmits operation information in correspondence to the touch operation to the information terminal. The transmission unit transmits the operation information in a delay when the touch operation is performed continuously.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Katsumi Sano, Yusuke Matsumoto, Katsuya Matsuyuki
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Patent number: 9766801Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Hidetaka Suzuki, Kimio Okamoto
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Publication number: 20170176601Abstract: A portable terminal includes a GPS unit configured to receive a GPS signal, a GPS processing section configured to detect GPS accuracy at an interval and detect the position of a vehicle on the basis of the GPS signal received by the GPS unit, and an information processing section configured to detect entrance timing, which is timing when the GPS accuracy is detected when the vehicle is located at an entrance point of a multi-storey parking structure, on the basis of transition of the GPS accuracy detected by the GPS processing section at the interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Stephen CHIU, Megumi KAWATA