Patents Assigned to Alpine Electronic, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9774685
    Abstract: A power control program (mobile terminal connection program) 300 is configured to include a mobile terminal connection unit 302 which connects a plurality of mobile terminals 20 and enables charging of power supplied from a battery, a usage state monitoring unit 304 which monitors usage states of the connected mobile terminals 20, a cranking detection unit 306 which detects cranking based on the voltage supplied from the battery, and a control unit 308 which controls power supply of the mobile terminal connection unit 302 based on monitoring information of the usage state monitoring unit 304 when the cranking is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONIC, INC.
    Inventor: Koichi Narita
  • Patent number: 7010567
    Abstract: A map-data distribution method distributes map data from a map-data distribution server to a client and causes the client to draw a map image. The map-data distribution method includes steps of causing the map-data distribution server to store a plurality of map components obtained by dividing the map data, causing the server to send the map data to the client in an order according to the map component, and causing the client to store the received data in a temporary memory while causing the client to start to draw the map image using one of the received data and the data stored in the temporary memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Alpine Electronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Daishi Mori