Patents Assigned to Clarion Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10452351
    Abstract: For an information processing device capable of accepting user's voice and executing processing based on the voice, convenience for a user is improved. A control portion 20 of an in-vehicle device 12 includes a non-voice operation mode and a voice operation mode as operation modes, and in the case that the operation mode is the non-voice operation mode, displays an operation button on a touch panel 26, and when it is detected that the operation button is operated, executes the processing corresponding to the operated operation button, and in the case that the operation mode is a voice operation mode M2, displays on the touch panel 26 an example phrase image indicating an example of a phrase to be uttered by the user in the case of making the processing corresponding to the operation button be executed instead of the operation button, and when voice data based on the phrase indicated by the example phrase image is generated, executes the processing corresponding to the operation button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Maki Adachi, Takao Yahiro, Fukuya Iguchi, Kenta Yasutomo, Hiroshi Kato
  • Patent number: 10437695
    Abstract: A fault information providing server which is connected to a processing server group configured from a plurality of servers, and which provides information related to a fault that occurred in the processing server group to a user of a service provided by the processing server group, comprises: a fault occurrence/recovery management unit which manages fault occurrence of the processing server group; a log management unit which manages log information related to a history of service provided by each server of the processing server group; a rule management unit which manages rules related to a service impact representing an impact on the service caused by the fault; a service impact calculation unit which calculates the service impact based on the log information and the rules; and a service impact notification unit which notifies the service impact calculated by the service impact calculation unit to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Sobue, Yasushi Nagai, Hiroyoshi Endou, Kyousuke Tsurusu, Tatsuaki Osafune
  • Publication number: 20190302845
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to enable a cover to be firmly fixed with a compact structure. The display apparatus includes: a one-side cover 16 that covers a casing 15 from one of front and rear sides; an other-side cover 17 that covers the casing 15 from the other of the front and rear sides; and a cover member 18 that covers the side surface of the one-side cover 16 from the periphery, wherein the one-side cover 16 includes a fitting claw 22 protruding to the other-side cover 17 side, the other-side cover 17 includes a fitting section 32 into which the fitting claw 22 is to be inserted, the cover member 18 includes an engagement hole 50 that engages with the fitting claw 22 in the fitting section 32, and the casing 15 receives the fitting section 32 from the inside of the other-side cover 17 to maintain an engaged state of the fitting claw 22 with the engagement hole 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio KOMAZAKI, Shuji KASAI, Masao HORIE
  • Patent number: 10401184
    Abstract: The information processing device of the present invention comprises a pattern storage unit which stores a plurality of user patterns containing a classification pattern as a pair of input information that is input based on an input operation related to a predetermined setting item and one among a plurality of operation results that may be selected as a result of the input operation, for each of the plurality of pieces of input information that are mutually different; an operation result information input unit to which is input operation result information related to operation results selected by the user with regard to each of the one or more input operations previously performed by the user; a pattern specification unit which specifies one user pattern among the plurality of stored user patterns based on the input operation result information; and an operation result selection unit which selects one operation result among a plurality of operation results derived from one of the input operations performed by
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 10396745
    Abstract: An audio processor (1) includes a first filter coefficient calculator (31) that calculates a first filter coefficient so as to correspond to first gains for respective bands set by a user, a second filter coefficient calculator (32) that if values of third gains for respective bands of the first filter coefficient are greater than an absolute value of a second gain set by the user, calculates a second filter coefficient by limiting the values of the third gains for the respective bands to the amplitude value of the second gain, and a filtering unit (35) that filters an audio signal that has been transformed into a frequency-domain signal, using the second filter coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Watanabe, Takeshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10387413
    Abstract: Provided is a search result evaluation system connected with a search device and that evaluates search results of the search device, the search result evaluation system including: a search unit that transmits a search query to the search device; and an evaluation unit that, if the evaluation unit receives search results from the search device, determines whether specifications of the search device have been modified, by evaluating the received search results, wherein, if the evaluation unit determines that the specifications of the search device have been modified, the evaluation unit outputs an anomaly signal to notify a manager of the search result evaluation system that the specifications of the search device have been modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Honma, Kazuaki Shima
  • Patent number: 10375205
    Abstract: A data delivery system capable of reducing processing load of a server is provided. A control server includes a selecting unit selecting a TCU to which update data is to be delivered based on priority levels set in association with TCUs which are delivery targets, a message generating unit generating and transmitting a message inquiring as to whether or not the TCU is ready to accept update data to the TCU selected by the selecting unit, and a delivery control unit receiving a response message transmitted from the TCU in response to the transmitted message, selecting a TCU to which update data is to be delivered based on the received response message and requesting a delivery server to deliver update data to the selected TCU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kawamura, Yoshitaka Sumitomo
  • Patent number: 10375500
    Abstract: A propagation delay tune correction apparatus comprising a means for generating a frequency spectrum signal by performing short-term Fourier transform on an audio signal; a means for setting a propagation delay time for each of a plurality of predetermined frequency bands; a means for calculating a phase control amount for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands on a basis of the propagation delay time set for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands; a means for generating a phase control signal by smoothing the calculated phase control amount for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands; a means for controlling a phase of the frequency spectrum signal for each of the plurality of predetermined frequency bands on a basis of the generated phase control signal; and a means for generating an audio signal on which a propagation delay correction is performed by performing inverse short-term Fourier transform on the frequency spectrum signal of which the phase is controll
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Tetsuo Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fujita, Kazutomo Fukue
  • Publication number: 20190232841
    Abstract: A vibration generator includes a vibration transmission member and an exciter. The vibration transmission member is disposed in a seat beneath a seat surface of the seat so as to extend longitudinally in a horizontal direction of the seat surface and is able to transmit a vibration in an extending direction of the vibration transmission member in which the vibration transmission member extends longitudinally. The exciter includes a voice coil, a permanent magnet disposed in the vicinity of the voice coil, a yoke supporting the permanent magnet. The exciter transmits the vibration to the vibration transmission member as the yoke and the voice coil approach or leave to each other. The yoke and the voice coil approach or leave in the same direction as the extending direction of the vibration transmission member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji KONO
  • Patent number: 10362396
    Abstract: A phase control signal generation device generating a phase control signal for each of frequency bands for an audio signal converted into a frequency domain, the phase control signal generation device comprising: a setting change means that is able to change setting of a propagation delay time for each of predetermined frequency bands; a difference obtaining means that obtains a difference between propagation delay times before and after setting change; an updating means that updates a phase control amount of the frequency band for which the propagation delay time is changed, based on the obtained difference; and a phase control signal generating means that generates a phase control signal of each frequency band by performing a smoothing process for the phase control amount in a frequency domain using the updated phase control amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Tetsuo Watanabe, Hideyuki Morita, Takatomi Kumagai, Yasuhiro Fujita, Kazutomo Fukue
  • Patent number: 10354358
    Abstract: An image generation device performs coordinate transformation, based on a coordinate transformation table, to a two-dimensional first image having a span in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and acquired by overlooking and imaging an object from a first viewpoint at a first depression angle, and generates and outputs a second image which was obtained by overlooking the object from a second viewpoint which is different from the first viewpoint at a second depression angle which is different from the first depression angle. The coordinate transformation table is a table for transforming coordinates of a plurality of first selected pixels selected from a plurality of first pixels constituting the first image into coordinates of second selected pixels corresponding to a plurality of second pixels constituting the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Mitsuo Nakajima, Katsuo Onozaki, Yoshitaka Uchida, Takayuki Shioya
  • Patent number: 10356376
    Abstract: In a vehicle-mounted camera system, an appropriate white balance correction processing according to a situation is executed to a long exposure time image and a short exposure time image shot in variously changing illumination environments. A vehicle-mounted camera system includes a vehicle-mounted camera that performs relatively long exposure time shooting and short exposure time shooting, a signal processing device (signal processing device) that executes a white balance correction processing for each of a long exposure time image and a short exposure time image, composes these images after the white balance correction processing, and generates a high dynamic range image, and a system control part (processing switch device) that obtains an illumination environment in which the vehicle is placed, and switches the white balance correction processing for the long exposure time image and the white balance correction processing for the short exposure time image according to the illumination environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Usui, Norihiko Nakano, Takahide Kojima
  • Patent number: 10354675
    Abstract: There is provided a signal processing device, comprising: a frequency detecting means that detects a frequency satisfying a predetermined condition from an audio signal; an offset means that gives an offset to the detected frequency by the frequency detecting means in accordance with a frequency property at the detected frequency or around the detected frequency; a reference signal generating means that generates a reference signal by extracting a signal from the audio signal based on the detected frequency offset by the offset means; an interpolation signal generating means that generates an interpolation signal based on the generated reference signal; and a signal synthesizing means that performs high band interpolation by synthesizing the generated interpolation signal and the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Tetsuo Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fujita, Kazutomo Fukue, Takatomi Kumagai
  • Patent number: 10349220
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: an in-vehicle storage unit which stores an in-vehicle device ID as an identifier; a first communication unit which sends the in-vehicle device ID to a portable terminal; a vehicle position acquisition unit; and a second communication unit which sends the in-vehicle device ID and the vehicle position to the server, the portable terminal includes: a portable storage unit which stores a portable terminal ID as an identifier for identifying the portable terminal; a portable terminal position acquisition unit; and an authentication information sending unit which sends, to the server, authentication information, and the server associates the portable terminal ID and the in-vehicle device ID based on a difference between the portable terminal position included in the received authentication information and the received vehicle position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Hano
  • Patent number: 10346694
    Abstract: When a vehicle starts, a surrounding state is securely provided to a driver. When a vehicle operation detector detects that there is a possibility that a parked vehicle starts, a vehicle surrounding state recognizer recognizes a state of surrounding of the vehicle based on images imaged by a plurality of cameras imaging a plurality of different areas of the surrounding of the vehicle. A parking style determiner determines a parking style executed in parking at a position where the vehicle now parks based on a recognition result of the vehicle surrounding state recognizer. A monitoring area setter sets a monitoring area where a driver is required to pay attention when the vehicle is started based on a determination result of the parking style determiner. A vehicle surrounding state provider provides a driver with information provision in the monitoring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kota Irie, Daisuke Fukuda, Kenji Kato, Shinya Tagawa
  • Patent number: 10339396
    Abstract: An image convertor converts an original image captured by a front camera. The original image includes a road surface around a vehicle. A three-dimensional object detector detects from a virtual image a three-dimensional object having a height from the road surface. A vehicle accessibility determiner determines whether the vehicle can access to the inside of the detected three-dimensional object or to a clearance among other three-dimensional objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Ohizumi
  • Patent number: 10337878
    Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal sends a spoken voice as a voice signal to a relay server, and the relay server includes a voice recognition unit which converts the received voice signal into a string, and a control unit which searches for information stored in a main database or a temporary storage database by using the string and sends a search result to the in-vehicle terminal, and, upon searching for information stored in the main database, stores the search result in the temporary storage database. Upon receiving a voice signal, when the search result is stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the temporary storage database by using the string converted from the received voice signal, and, when the search result is not stored in the temporary storage database, the control unit searches for information stored in the main database by using the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Takashi Yamaguchi, Hideki Takano, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: D860155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Muneki Sugita
  • Patent number: D860156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Omura
  • Patent number: D860157
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Katsuno, Muneki Sugita