Patents Assigned to Clarion Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11334211
    Abstract: The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a first display; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the first display between a plurality of layouts according to the detected touch operation, the plurality of layouts being different from each other in sizes and a positional relationship of divided regions, the divided regions being obtained by dividing a display screen of the first display into a plurality of divided regions, wherein the layout setting unit displays, on the display screen, a transition process of the plurality of layouts by way of an animation presenting change of the sizes and the positional relationship of the plurality of divided regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Manabu Morita
  • Patent number: 11334242
    Abstract: Display of a display object is changed more appropriately. A display control device includes: a display region setting unit configured to set a display region in accordance with a screen size of a display; a display control unit configured to control display of at least one or more display objects arranged in an arrangement region provided in the display region; and a priority setting unit configured to set relative priority among the display objects arranged in the same arrangement region, wherein the display control unit sets a size of the arrangement region correspondingly to the display region that is set in accordance with the screen size of the display, and controls display of the display objects based on the priority that is set among the display objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jitsu Ezaki
  • Patent number: 11332163
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle capable of automated driving, and comprises an incident detection processing unit which acquires vehicle information representing a control state of the vehicle, and detects an incident that occurred in the vehicle based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawauchi, Yasushi Nagai, Nobuyoshi Morita, Makoto Kayashima
  • Patent number: 11328428
    Abstract: Technologies for detecting occlusions on a camera of a vehicle by a compute device are disclosed. The compute device may receive one or more images from the camera. The compute device may analyze the images using various algorithms such as optical flow calculations, blurriness detection for portions of the image, edge detection, and circular artifact detection. The analysis may be used to determine the presence of occlusions on the camera, such as water drops, mud, dirt, etc. The compute device may send a command to clean the camera and/or may use the determined presence of occlusions as part analyzing images from the camera for a driver assist system, such as by ignoring portions of the image that are occluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Robert Kahlbaum
  • Patent number: 11326898
    Abstract: A parking assist apparatus includes: a map generation unit that generates an obstacle map showing a position of an obstacle existing in a surrounding of own vehicle based on a detected result of a sonar, and records data indicating existence of the obstacle on the obstacle map; a wheel-stop detection unit that divides the obstacle map generated by the map generation unit into a plurality of areas, counts a number of data pieces in each of the plurality of divided areas, and detects a position of a wheel stop based on the counted number of data pieces in each of the plurality of areas; and a parking position setting unit that sets a parking position for parking the own vehicle based on the position of the wheel stop detected by the wheel-stop detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Kuwahara, Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11318930
    Abstract: A parking assistance device includes: a marking line detector that detects a plurality of marking lines delineating a parking area from an image taken by an imaging unit; a second determiner that determines whether or not the type of parking for parking a vehicle in a parkable area is angle parking, on the basis of the angle obtained between a parking baseline joining the endpoints on the vehicle side of the detected plurality of marking lines and the plurality of marking lines, or the angle obtained between the parking baseline and one marking line selected from among the plurality of marking lines; and a parking position setter that, in the case where the second determiner determines that the type of parking corresponds to angle parking, sets a parking position inside the parkable area in which to park the vehicle, on the basis of the parking baseline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihisa Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11315425
    Abstract: A history information storage apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores history information about a travel history of a vehicle and map data divided into a plurality of sections; a change detection unit that detects a change of the map data; an influence range determination unit that determines a section influenced by the change as an influenced section from among the plurality of sections; a history information control unit that temporarily invalidates the history information about the influenced section; and a navigation unit that calculates a route from a departure place to a destination in consideration of the history information and records, in the history information, a history of a travel of the vehicle which has strayed from the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Arata Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11315347
    Abstract: A solid object detection device includes an overhead view transformation processing unit transforming first and second photographed images photographed by a camera at different timings in travel of a vehicle into first and second overhead view images, respectively, a subtracted image generation unit generating a subtracted image between the first and second overhead view images whose photographing positions are aligned with each other, a solid object position specification unit specifying a position of a solid object present around the vehicle based on the subtracted image, and a masked subtracted image generation unit generating a masked subtracted image in which a region other than a solid object candidate region as a candidate where the solid object appears in the subtracted image is masked and the solid object position specification unit specifies a position of the solid object in the subtracted image based on the masked subtracted image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayano Miyashita, Naoki Shimizu, Hiroaki Andou, Kengo Asaki
  • Patent number: 11293764
    Abstract: A parking assistance device that can, when assisting in angle parking, park a vehicle at a position intended by a driver and in a correct vehicle attitude. The parking assistance device includes a pull-out path computing unit that computes a pull-out path for pulling a vehicle out of a parking space based on parking space information and constraint conditions regarding vehicle behavior, a candidate connection position setting unit that sets a plurality of candidate connection positions the pull-out path, a reachable path computing unit that computes a reachable path that allows the vehicle to reach one of the plurality of candidate connection positions from the initial position, and a parking path setting unit that sets a parking path by connecting the pull-out path and the reachable path. The pull-out path computing unit computes the pull-out path based on the angle of inclination between the road orientation and the parking orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Tagawa, Makoto Ishinoda, Noriyasu Hasejima
  • Patent number: 11292521
    Abstract: An autonomous driving control device and an autonomous driving path computation method capable of computing a driving path without extremely changing a movement of a steering wheel during autonomous driving. A parking control device computes a parking path for automatically parking a vehicle, and includes an acceleration section transition curve computing unit that computes an acceleration section transition curve based on a target steering speed set in advance and an acceleration section target vehicle speed, a deceleration section transition curve computing unit that computes a deceleration section transition curve based on the target steering speed and a deceleration target vehicle speed, and a parking path computing unit that computes a parking path using the acceleration section transition curve and the deceleration section transition curve. The parking path is computed by setting the deceleration section target vehicle speed faster than the acceleration section target vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Hasejima, Takehito Ogata, Shinya Tagawa, Makoto Ishinoda
  • Patent number: 11285971
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle capable of automated driving, and comprises an incident detection processing unit which acquires vehicle information representing a control state of the vehicle, and detects an incident that occurred in the vehicle based on the vehicle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawauchi, Yasushi Nagai, Nobuyoshi Morita, Makoto Kayashima
  • Patent number: 11281652
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a storage unit storing map information divided into zones and used at least for screen display; a map drawing unit generating screen information using the map information; a difference detecting unit calculating, as a difference evaluation value, a magnitude of a difference in zone between the map information before update and the map information after update; and a map updating unit determining an order of updating the zones on a basis of a magnitude of the difference evaluation value to update, for each of the zones, the map information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Atsushi Kubo, Jun Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 11280628
    Abstract: An in-vehicle processing device includes a storage part configured to store route information on routes on which a host vehicle has previously traveled; a candidate point generation part configured to generate a plurality of candidate points in a predetermined zone relative to a stored route of the route information stored in the storage part based on current peripheral information around the host vehicle and current information on the host vehicle; a candidate route generation part configured to generate a plurality of candidate routes by connecting the plurality of candidate points generated by the candidate point generation part; and a route selection part configured to select one of the plurality of candidate routes generated by the candidate route generation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsumi Iwano, Shinya Tagawa, Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11279379
    Abstract: Provided is an assist apparatus for a vehicle leaving a parking space, including an automatic leaving execution unit configured to execute automatic leaving by automatic travel control mode of the vehicle and a switching control unit configured to switch driving of the vehicle from the automatic travel control mode to driver's driving operation mode, in which a state of the vehicle is determined and whether or not to perform a predetermined automatic travel control before switching the drive of the vehicle to the driver's driving operation mode is determined based on the determination result of the state of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sakurai, Yasuhiko Kodate, Toshiyuki Anzai, Katsumi Iwano
  • Patent number: 11275956
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of enabling an accurate determination of line type using a plurality of cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kimiyoshi Machii, Takehito Ogata, Junya Nakamura, Naoki Shimizu, Ayano Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11270452
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a marker detector configured to detect markers including white lines extending in two directions on a road surface based on an image signal from an imager that takes an image of the road surface around a vehicle, a parking frame detector configured to compute adjacent markers on the road surface among the detected markers, and to detect a parking frame defined by the adjacent markers based on a distance between the adjacent markers, and a shape estimator configured to detect extending directions of the white lines of the markers that are included in the detected parking frame, and to estimate a shape of the parking frame based on the extending directions of the detected white lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11265412
    Abstract: A cooperation system is a cooperation system including a mobile terminal and an in-vehicle apparatus that can be coupled according to a plurality of cooperation schemes by using one or more physical couplings, wherein the mobile terminal includes: an app that outputs at least one of an audio signal and an image signal as output data; a cooperation control section that determines the cooperation scheme to be used for transmission of the output data, based on the cooperation scheme that is operatively functioning; and a library that transmits the output data to the in-vehicle apparatus by using the cooperation scheme determined by the cooperation control section, and the in-vehicle apparatus includes: a protocol control section that receives the output data from the library by using the cooperation scheme; and an output section that reproduces the output data received by the protocol control section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Maiko Yoshiura
  • Patent number: 11265651
    Abstract: A frequency compressor of a vibration output apparatus generates a compressed signal by converting frequency components of a mid-band signal into low-band frequency components of a low-band signal by increasing the total number of samples by a factor of n and thus compressing the frequency of amplitude information included in mid-band frequency components of the mid-band signal to 1/n. If the level of a low-band envelope signal is lower than a predetermined threshold level, a vibration signal generator generates a vibration signal by combining the compressed signal with the low-band signal consisting of the low-band frequency components of an acoustic signal. If the level of the low-band envelope signal is higher than the predetermined threshold level, the vibration signal generator generates a vibration signal by directly using the low-band signal. A vibration output unit outputs a vibration on the basis of the generated vibration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Fujita
  • Patent number: 11251890
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus comprises a weighting circuit configured to, within a particular control target band, perform weighting amplitude spectra of a priority audio signal and a non-priority audio signal taking frequency masking and time masking into account, an amplitude changer configured to relatively amplify an amplitude spectrum of the priority audio signal within the control target band based on the amplitude spectrum to which the weighting has been applied, a phase changer configured to make a phase spectrum of the non-priority audio signal approach a phase spectrum of the priority audio signal, within the control target band, based on the amplitude spectrum to which the weighting has been applied, and a mixer configured to mix the priority audio signal and the non-priority audio signal after the amplitude spectrum and the phase spectrum are changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazutomo Fukue
  • Patent number: 11249486
    Abstract: A parking assistance device assists in re-parking a vehicle that has been parked with its position and orientation deviated from ideal ones, by repositioning the vehicle to be at a correct position and in a correct orientation. A parking assistance device is adapted to assist in parking a vehicle in a parking space provided on one side of a road, and includes a parking path setting unit that sets a parking path of from the initial position of the vehicle on the road to a target parking position in the parking space, a positional deviation determination unit that determines whether there is any positional deviation between the vehicle and the parking space when the vehicle has been parked along the parking path, and a repositioning path computing unit configured to compute a repositioning path when a positional deviation is determined to be present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Ishinoda, Shinya Tagawa, Noriyasu Hasejima