Patents Assigned to Clarion Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10198287
    Abstract: An information presentation device includes: a situation estimation unit configured to identify one or more tasks based on input information that has been input and task information indicating one or more tasks indicating a situation; a load estimation unit configured to identify one or more sub-tasks based on each of the identified tasks and sub-task information indicating, for each situation of a task, one or more sub-tasks, which are work elements, having a possibility of being executed by a worker, and to acquire a load demand amount based on the identified sub-tasks and sub-task demand amount information indicating a load demand amount, which is a mental load for each sub-task; a capacity level estimation unit configured to acquire a capacity level based on the acquired load demand amount; and a presentation information selection unit configured to select information to be presented based on the capacity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Sekimoto, Naoki Mori, Shintaro Takada
  • Patent number: 10192309
    Abstract: A camera calibration device that captures images of at least one marker with at least two cameras and calibrates installation states of the at least two cameras based upon the captured images by the at least two cameras, includes: an extracting unit that extracts a feature amount of the at least one marker based upon the captured images by the at least two cameras; a primary calibration unit that calculates a position of each of the at least two cameras in a marker coordinate system, based upon the feature amount; and a secondary calibration unit that preforms coordinate transformation of the position of each of the cameras in the marker coordinate system calculated by the primary calibration unit, into a position of each of the cameras in a vehicle coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Toshiyuki Aoki, Tsukasa Okada, Keiji Sato
  • Patent number: 10184801
    Abstract: A guide route matching with the characteristic of vehicle control is searched to reduce the frequency at which re-search of a guide route is executed. A navigation device includes an information input unit for acquiring a control condition for controlling the traveling of the vehicle as control characteristic information from an autonomous driving control device, and a route searching unit for searching a guide route for the vehicle satisfying the control condition based on the control characteristic information acquired by the information input unit. Accordingly, the guide route matching with the control characteristic of the vehicle can be searched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Takeuchi, Akio Sumizawa
  • Patent number: 10179592
    Abstract: To make a notification to the driver so that the driver can distinguish or recognize the notification. A vehicle notification device (1a) inputs a first sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a predetermined frequency range, to a vibrator (4), calculates frequency characteristics of a vibration in the vehicle interior, detects a frequency range in which the signal level of vehicle-travel-time frequency characteristics is higher than the signal level of vehicle-stop-time frequency characteristics by a predetermined level amount or more, generates a second sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a range obtained by excluding the detected frequency range from the predetermined frequency range of the first sweep signal, and outputs the second sweep signal from the vibrator (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Fujita, Takeshi Hashimoto, Kenji Kono
  • Patent number: 10169667
    Abstract: A position of a moving object is reliably detected with high accuracy using only an image around a vehicle. A rear camera mounted on a vehicle obtains an original image around the vehicle, a movement region detector detects a moving object from the original image, and a difference calculator detects the moving object from a bird's-eye view image of the vehicle generated by a bird's-eye view image processor. A moving object position identifying part identifies a position of the moving object based on a distance from the vehicle to the moving object detected by the movement region detector or the difference calculator, a lateral direction position of the moving object, and an actual width of the moving object detected by the movement region detector when a detected object determination part determines that the moving objects detected by the movement region detector and the difference calculator are the same moving object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takehito Ogata, Kenji Kato, Naoki Shimizu, Takafumi Hagi, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Patent number: 10168702
    Abstract: Travelling corresponding to characteristics of autonomous driving can be performed. An autonomous driving control device 3 mounted on a vehicle and controlling autonomous driving, includes a storage unit 32 that stores map data 32a, a route extraction unit 311 that extracts a plurality of routes from an origin O to a destination D based on the map data 32a, a determination unit 312 that determines whether or not to change to another route in response to a situation of an intersection when the vehicle approaches the intersection while the vehicle is traveling in one route of the routes extracted by the route extraction unit 311, and an autonomous driving control unit 313 that controls autonomous driving based on the determination of the determination unit 312.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Jun Li, Kentaro Daikoku, Takaaki Shiina, Hiroaki Senoo, Shinichi Amaya
  • Patent number: 10161753
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus and a map data management system are provided that can appropriately update a map. The in-vehicle apparatus 3 includes a storage unit 16 that stores parcel data PD constituted by a plurality of files in accordance with meshes of the map, and a control unit 10 that, when a vehicle 2 enters a single mesh of the map, updates the version of lower-level parcel files DPF corresponding to meshes at the periphery of the single mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kubo
  • Publication number: 20180365002
    Abstract: An electronic device including a first microcomputer, a second microcomputer, and communication part configured to communicate with an external device is provided. The first microcomputer has a first storage configured to store a first program, and a first controller configured to execute a first process by using the first program stored in the first storage. The second microcomputer has a second storage configured to store a second program, and a second controller configured to execute a second process by using the second program stored in the second storage. The second controller of the second microcomputer acquires, from the external device, difference data for updating the first program stored in the first storage of the first microcomputer by using the communication part, and updates the first program stored in the first storage of the first microcomputer by using the acquired difference data and the second program stored in the second storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko NAKAGAWA, Kazuya TAKAHASHI, Mitsuya KATO, Hisanori KAWAKITA, Nozomi TOYOZAKI, Kazunori TSUNASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10157348
    Abstract: Provided are a co-occurrence word data generating unit configured to generate co-occurrence word data including a co-occurrence word that is a vocabulary used along with a predetermined keyword in posted data in all periods and an appearance frequency of the co-occurrence word, from among pieces of posted data posed in a plurality of different periods; and a related data generating unit configured to generate related data including the co-occurrence word as a usual related word when a temporal variation in the appearance frequency of the co-occurrence word is smaller than a first threshold value and the appearance frequency is higher than a second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masao Ishiguro, Kazushige Hiroi, Akio Hayashi, Haruhiko Sawajiri, Yasuki Horibe
  • Patent number: 10157187
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technology capable of allowing a user to search and retrieve facilities in an appropriate manner. An information terminal includes a facility storage unit for storing information on facilities, a first facility search unit for searching and retrieving the facilities stored based on a designated search condition, and a second facility search unit for requesting, via a network, a facility information providing device for providing the information on the facilities to provide facility information based on the designated search condition. It is determined which of the first and second facility search units is to be used to search and retrieve the facilities, and the results retrieved by the first or the second unit are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Sumizawa
  • Patent number: 10152158
    Abstract: To improve the detection accuracy of an operation for an object displayed on a display screen without corrupting display on the display screen. A navigation device 100 includes: an acceleration sensor 130 which measures an acceleration; a display control unit 202 which displays an object for receiving an instruction of processing on a display panel of a display unit; an operation determination unit 204 which detects an operation for an object 165; and a setting unit 203 which sets a reaction region 167 detectable as an operation for the object 165 by the operation determination unit 204. The setting unit 203 changes the range of the reaction region 167 according to the magnitude and direction of the acceleration measured by the acceleration sensor 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichiro Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20180345993
    Abstract: To make a notification to the driver so that the driver can distinguish or recognize the notification. A vehicle notification device (1a) inputs a first sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a predetermined frequency range, to a vibrator (4), calculates frequency characteristics of a vibration in the vehicle interior, detects a frequency range in which the signal level of vehicle-travel-time frequency characteristics is higher than the signal level of vehicle-stop-time frequency characteristics by a predetermined level amount or more, generates a second sweep signal whose frequency is changed in a range obtained by excluding the detected frequency range from the predetermined frequency range of the first sweep signal, and outputs the second sweep signal from the vibrator (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro FUJITA, Takeshi HASHIMOTO, Kenji KONO
  • Patent number: 10147434
    Abstract: A signal processing device comprises: a band detecting means for detecting a frequency band which satisfies a predetermined condition from an audio signal; a reference signal generating means for generating a reference signal in accordance with a detection band by the band detecting means; a reference signal correcting means for correcting the generated reference signal on the basis of a frequency characteristic thereof; a frequency band extending means for extending the corrected reference signal up to a frequency band higher than the detection band; an interpolation signal generating means for generating an interpolation signal by weighting each frequency component within the extended frequency band in accordance with a frequency characteristic of the audio signal; and a signal synthesizing means for synthesizing the generated interpolation signal with the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Tetsuo Watanabe, Yasuhiro Fujita, Kazutomo Fukue
  • Publication number: 20180342068
    Abstract: A tracking device includes: an imaging unit that inputs an image into an image input unit; a first moving body detection unit that calculates an optical flow and detects a position and a direction of movement of a moving body based on the calculated optical flow; a second moving body detection unit that detects a position and a direction of movement based on a plurality of overhead images generated; a third moving body detection unit that detects a position and a direction of movement by integrating detection results from the first and second moving body detection units; a tracked moving body confirmation unit that determines a moving body to be tracked based on detection results from the first to third moving body detection units; an estimation unit that estimates a future position and direction of movement; and a tracking unit that tracks the tracked moving body and identifies a position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyasu HASEJIMA, Takehito OGATA, Kenji KATOU
  • Patent number: 10137778
    Abstract: A content startup control device includes: a reception unit that receives an instruction from a user to select a content; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires information from a vehicle and/or information on traveling as vehicle information; a startup recording unit that stores the vehicle information, which is acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit when the content is selected or started up in response to the instruction received by the reception unit, as a startup record of the content; a condition creation unit that creates a startup condition under which the content is to be started up based on the startup record; and a content startup control unit that, if the vehicle information acquired from the vehicle information acquisition unit corresponds to the startup condition, proposes startup of a content related to the startup condition or starts up the content related to the startup condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Noriyuki Abe, Kimio Okamoto, Tetsuya Yamada, Takuya Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20180326902
    Abstract: To allow the driver to identify a notification vibration even in a situation in which the notification vibration may be masked depending on the road conditions. A vehicle notification device (1) randomly extract one of a plurality of pieces of signal data by the number of vibrators (exciters EX1 to EX4), each of the pieces of signal data being different in a combination of an initial frequency and a target frequency and generates a plurality of sweep signals by changing the frequency from the initial frequency to the target frequency of the extracted piece of signal data in cycles. A plurality of notification vibrations whose frequencies change in different frequency ranges are outputted by outputting the generated sweep signals, individually from the vibrators (exciters EX1 to EX4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi HASHIMOTO, Kenji KONO, Yasuhiro FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20180332209
    Abstract: To obtain a color signal having a wide dynamic range (i.e., high sensitivity) and color reproducibility similar to human vision characteristics regardless of the amount of the near infrared components contained in light captured by an imaging device. The imaging device is configured to receive light which has transmitted through the filters selectively transmit light having different wavelengths from each other, to generate an output signal RAW0 by converting the received light using the image pickup element 102 having the plurality of pixels, and to remove, by a removal rate E (Rr) determined in accordance with the ratio Rr of near infrared light component calculated for each pixel, the near infrared light component for each pixel from the generated output signal RAW0, to thereby generate an infrared-separated signal (Ra, Ga, Ba).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahide KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20180313659
    Abstract: An external information saving unit sets a reference word related to a situation of a change element at reception of external information and associates and saves the external information and the reference word in an information DB. An external information extraction unit extracts a search word from search information input by a user and extracts the external information associated with the reference word, in which a matching rate with the search word is equal to or greater than a predetermined level, from the external information saved in the information DB. An extracted information output unit displays the external information extracted by the external information extraction unit on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10116325
    Abstract: When compressing an arrangement of fixed-length records in a columnar direction, a data compression device carries out data compression aligned with the performance of a data decompression device by computing a number of rows processed with one columnar compression from the performance on the decompression device side, such as the memory cache capacity of the decompression device or the capacity of a primary storage device which may be used by an application, and the size of one record. Thus, while improving compression ratios of large volumes of data, including an alignment of a plurality of fixed-length records, decompression performance is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Yasushi Nagai, Tatsuaki Osafune, Ryoichi Fukunaga, Takahiro Okubo, Taiki Imai
  • Patent number: D832351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yusuke Oshima