Abstract: A touch panel device includes a touch panel which is equipped with a plurality of electrostatic capacitive sensors of which the electrostatic capacitances vary as an object comes close or comes into contact, a measurement unit which measures the electrostatic capacitance of the electrostatic capacitive sensor, a touch detection unit which detects an object coming close or coming into contact on the basis of a difference between a measured raw value and the base line value, a base line value update unit which updates the base line value to follow the raw value of the electrostatic capacitance of the electrostatic capacitive sensor to correct a variance in electrostatic capacitance of the electrostatic capacitive sensor, a proximity detection unit which detects an object approaching to the touch panel, and an update control unit which controls the update speed on the basis of a detection result of the proximity detection unit.

Abstract: A drive waveform setting unit sets a drive waveform of a drive signal, and a drive current is applied to a drive coil provided in a response force generation mechanism in accordance with the drive waveform. The drive waveform has a first drive section in which a signal intensity increases linearly and a second drive section including a peak. An increase rate of the signal intensity in the second drive section is lower than that in the first drive section. As a result, it is easy to follow the frequency characteristics of a driver circuit, and it is possible to increase a voltage to be applied to a drive coil.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for correcting position error in a navigation system by utilizing user input received via a human-machine interface, where the user input indicates the location of a user as perceived by the user. The navigation system includes a positioning module, navigation sensors, a map database and a human-machine interface that are employed to calculate and display the current position to the user. The method and apparatus are advantageously used in situations with intermittent or unavailable GPS signal, cumulative navigational sensor errors, and cases where map database information is incorrect. The positioning module receives and processes user input from the human-machine interface and analyzes the user input against the result of a map-matching algorithm to correct positioning errors.

Abstract: Provided is a logo-plate component including a release sheet attached to the bottom face of a logo plate having an adhesive layer on the bottom face, the release sheet being provided with a cut-away portion exposing a part of the bottom face of the adhesive layer. Equipment is shipped with the logo-plate component temporarily fixed to an equipment body by the adhesive force of the exposed portion of the adhesive layer inside the cut-away portion of the release sheet. A user for the equipment detaches the temporarily fixed logo-plate component from the equipment body, detaches the release sheet from the logo plate, and fixes the logo plate to the equipment body in a desired orientation with the adhesive layer on the back face of the logo plate.

Abstract: A vibration generation device includes a plunger and a solenoid. The plunger includes a weight portion, a first biasing portion extending from the weight portion along a first direction and a second biasing portion extending from the weight portion along a second direction opposite to the first direction. The solenoid includes a first solenoid that is disposed so as to surround a part of the first biasing portion and operates the plunger in the first direction, and a second solenoid that is disposed so as to surround a part of the second biasing portion and operates the plunger in the second direction. The first solenoid and the second solenoid have a fixing portion for a vibration target, and the weight portion reciprocates between the first solenoid and the second solenoid to vibrate the vibration target.

Abstract: A communication device to be mounted in a vehicle includes a short-range communication unit configured to perform a first wireless communication in a first communication range, a wide-area communication unit configured to perform a second wireless communication in a second communication range larger than the first communication range, a first information acquisition unit configured to acquire first vehicle information from another vehicle located in the first communication range, through the first wireless communication, a communication control unit configured to permit, when the first information acquisition unit has acquired the first vehicle information including predetermined information, acquisition of second vehicle information through the second wireless communication, and a second information acquisition unit configured to acquire, when the acquisition of the second vehicle information through the second wireless communication is permitted, the second vehicle information from another vehicle located i

Abstract: A display control device is connected to a display device, and the display control device includes a storage unit to store moving object information which is acquired on a first cycle in correlation with time information. A generation unit reads the moving object information stored in the storage unit and generates image data. The image data generated by the generation unit is displayed on a second cycle which is longer than the first cycle. The generation unit calculates the moving object information corresponding to a generation start time of the N-th generated image data on the basis of the moving object information which is stored in the storage unit at times before and after the generation start time and generates the (N+1)-th image data.

Abstract: An inclination angle of a display unit having a display is detected, the inclination angle being around an axis of the display unit in the fore-aft direction of a vehicle. The left and right of an image representing a scene behind the vehicle, the image being obtained by photography with a camera, is reversed. The reversed image is inclined through an angle that has the same absolute value as the detected inclination angle in a direction opposite to the direction of the inclination of the inclination angle. A display image range is set on the inclined image. An image in the display image range is extracted and displayed on the display.

Abstract: An on-vehicle display device includes a fixed panel fixed to a vehicle body, a display unit, and a bracket that fixes the display unit to the fixed panel. In the display unit, the display cover plate is provided with an overhang which laterally overhangs from a display area, and the overhang has a back side supported by a support piece of the bracket without being fixed to the fixed panel.

Abstract: When a vehicle stops due to a red light, an image of a scene viewed from a virtual point of view, which moves along a virtual point-of-view moving route, in a virtual line-of-sight direction is displayed on a head-up display. Assuming that a next intersection at which to change lane according to a guidance route is the target intersection, a combination of the virtual point of view and virtual line-of-sight direction is gradually changed from a combination in which a scene is viewed from the point of view of the user in the forward direction of the vehicle to a combination for taking a bird's eye view of a geographic range that includes the current position of the vehicle and then to a combination for taking a bird's eye view of a geographic range that includes the target intersection from a point near the target intersection.

Abstract: The wireless communication device includes an RF front end, a base band processing unit which transfer data of two lines, a communication priority storage unit which stores priority information indicating priorities of transmission and reception of each data type to be transmitted, a priority comparison unit which compares a priority of the data type of a transmission target with a priority of the data type of a reception target on the basis of the priority information in a case where data is transmitted through one line and data is received through the other line at the same time, and a transmission restriction unit which restricts a communication volume of data transmission in one line when the priority comparison unit obtains a comparison result that the priority of the data type of the reception target is high.

Abstract: An electronic device performs an emergency call operation using a secondary battery as a power source, and includes a temperature sensor which detects a temperature of the secondary battery, an intermittent emergency call processing unit which performs the emergency call operation intermittently when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is in a low-temperature state lower than a predetermined value, and a continuous emergency call processing unit which performs the emergency call operation continuously when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is higher than the predetermined value.

Abstract: A following vehicle detection and alarm device comprises a tail camera for shooting an area behind a vehicle of interest at a predetermined frame rate, a frame quantity count unit for counting the number of frames after a following vehicle is shot in a shooting range of the tail camera until the following vehicle reaches a first position behind the vehicle of interest, an alarm instruction output unit for outputting an alarm instruction of notifying the driver of the vehicle of interest that the other vehicle is approaching at a timing set based on the number of frames counted by the frame quantity count unit, and an alarm processing unit for performing a predetermined alarm operation on the driver when the alarm instruction is output by the alarm instruction output unit.

Abstract: A digital amplifier integrated circuit (“IC”), which is a heat-generating electronic component, is mounted on an upper surface of an insulating substrate. The digital amplifier IC is disposed inside a recess of a heat sink. The heat sink includes a peripheral wall having an end face placed on the upper surface of the insulating substrate. A hot-melt resin layer, molded by hot-melt molding, covers the upper surface of the insulating substrate. The hot-melt resin layer is in contact with a side face of the peripheral wall and retains the heat sink on the insulating substrate. The recess of the heat sink has no hot-melt resin therein.

Abstract: A speaker includes spacers that are disposed between a front end portion of a top yoke, which serves as a first member, and a back end portion of a back portion of a frame, which serves as a second member, to form a gap that defines an air passage. When a bobbin and a vibrating plate vibrate in a front-back direction, an airflow through the air passage, which faces a voice coil, is formed between the space around a magnetic gap and the outside. Accordingly, the voice coil is cooled over the entire circumference thereof.

Abstract: A communication apparatus electrically connected to a first antenna through a first cable includes a second antenna that is substitutable for the first antenna; a first ground portion to which a second cable for grounding the first antenna is connected; an antenna detection circuit to detect a state of the first antenna; an antenna switching unit to switch from the first antenna to the second antenna, in a case where the antenna detection circuit detects an abnormality of the first antenna; and an insulating portion to insulate the first ground portion from a second ground portion around the first ground portion, in a case where the antenna detection circuit detects an abnormality of the first antenna.

Abstract: An operation apparatus detects a finger using a sensor disposed on an operation plane and further determines a movement distance of the finger so as to change an operation of a controlled device, such as an in-vehicle air conditioner. A finger touching or approaching the operation plane is detected by an electrostatic sensor. An air volume of the air conditioner which is the controlled device is changed by a movement of the detected finger in an X1 or X2 direction. When the finger is moved by a first distance from a first detected position, the air volume is changed in a predetermined range. Thereafter, every time the finger is moved by a second distance which is different than the first distance, the air volume is changed in a range equivalent to a range in the case of the movement by the first distance.

Abstract: A panel case of a display panel is provided with a first fixing piece extending rearward (in the Y2 direction), and a female threaded hole is formed in the first fixing piece. A support bracket is provided with a second fixing piece extending rearward (in the Y2 direction), and an attachment hole is formed in the second fixing piece. The first fixing piece has a first elongate hole portion opened between the female threaded hole and a first base portion, and the second fixing piece has a second elongate hole portion formed between the attachment hole and a second base portion. Therefore, the fastening force from a fixing screw is less likely to be transmitted to the first base portion of the first fixing piece, and strain of the display panel can be regulated.