Patents Assigned to Clarion Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11245866
    Abstract: A display control device is disposed in a vehicle in which a camera photographing a first captured image indicating an image on a rear right side of the vehicle and a display displaying the first captured image are mounted. The display control device includes an image acquiring unit acquiring the first captured image from the camera and a display control unit controlling the first captured image displayed on the display. The display control unit causes the display to display one of a narrow angle image indicating a part of the first captured image and a wide angle image indicating an image in a range wider than the narrow angle image in the first captured image and to display the first captured image such that a size of a first region in displaying the wide angle image is larger than a size of the first region displaying the narrow angle image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akiko Arakawa
  • Patent number: 11226719
    Abstract: An information processing device, includes: a gesture detection unit that recognizes gestures by a user; an output information control unit that controls output information to a display unit; and a device control unit, wherein: if the gesture detection unit has detected that the user has raised a hand for a certain time period, then the output information control unit displays upon the display unit a plurality of candidates for selection in association with gestures for operation; and if the gesture detection unit has detected a predetermined gesture by the user, the device control unit considers that, among the candidates for selection displayed upon the display unit, a candidate corresponding to the gesture that has been detected has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Takada, Takashi Matsubara, Naoki Mori
  • Patent number: 11204753
    Abstract: A server which communicates with an in-vehicle terminal, a communication terminal, or a vehicle communication device, upon receiving at least one of either configuration information of in-vehicle terminal software or configuration information of vehicle software from any information source among the in-vehicle terminal, the communication terminal, or the vehicle communication device, generates, based on the received information and identification information for identifying the communication path used by the information source, at least one among software to be distributed for distributing the information source as a communication target and which includes update information of the vehicle software or update information of the in-vehicle terminal software, a list of vehicle software to be updated or a list of in-vehicle terminal software to be updated as information which was excluded from the software to be distributed, and sends at least one among the generated software to be distributed, the list of vehicl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Matsumoto, Tsuyoshi Hano, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 11206742
    Abstract: A device casing is configured to include a first casing member provided with a hole including a guide hole and a fitting hole that communicates with the guide hole, and a second casing member provided with a protrusion at a position corresponding to the hole, the second casing member being configured to be fixed with respect to the first casing member by fitting the protrusion to the fitting hole. The guide hole guides movement of the protrusion that entered within the guide hole in an oblique direction when fixing the second casing member with respect to the first casing member so that the second casing member can get close to the first casing member in a state where the second casing member is guided in the oblique direction. The protrusion that moved in the oblique direction along the guide hole, passed through the guide hole and reached inside the fitting hole fits to the fitting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Morita, Sachiko Toshimori
  • Patent number: 11205081
    Abstract: An arithmetic apparatus includes: a sensor acquisition unit that collects sensor information about the surroundings of a vehicle; a feature point extraction unit that extracts a feature point of an object; a target point detection unit that expresses the position of the feature point with spatial coordinates and detects it as a target point; a road edge presumption unit that presumes a segment between the target points, which are continuously aligned, as a road edge; and a blockade judgment unit that judges whether or not to cancel the road edge, on the basis of information about an area behind the presumed road edge, which is obtained from the sensor information, where the area behind the road edge is an area opposite the sensor at the other side of the presumed road edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Mandai, Takehito Ogata, Yongdok Ri
  • Patent number: 11180082
    Abstract: An object is to provide a warning output device, a warning output method, and a warning output system that make it possible to appropriately output warning. A warning output device includes: a driver's state acquisition unit configured to acquire inattentive driving information indicating that a driver performs inattentive driving; a vehicle state acquisition unit configured to acquire a vehicle state; a vehicle warning reception unit configured to receive vehicle warning, which is warning corresponding to the vehicle state; an adaptive rule acquisition unit configured to acquire adaptive rule information generated when the driver performs inattentive driving and the warning is received; and an output unit configured to output inattentive driving warning, which is warning related to inattentive driving when the driver's state acquisition unit acquires the inattentive driving information and the vehicle state satisfies a predetermined condition specified in the adaptive rule information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Akachi, Masashi Koga, Hiroshige Furugori, Hiroki Abe, Hiroshi Sugihara, Makoto Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 11168991
    Abstract: A problem of the present invention is to provide a road specifying device which estimates an appropriate own vehicle position even when autonomous driving maps are not prepared for all roads in a driving assisting function which can automate and assist part or all of a driving operation of a passenger, and correctly perform traveling control of the autonomous driving. The road specifying device according to the present invention specifies a road on which an own vehicle is traveling based on autonomous driving map data including road data, navigation map data including data which is the road data and whose contents partially overlaps that of the autonomous driving map data, and position information of the own vehicle whose position is measured by an external positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akihiro Kawabata
  • Patent number: 11170075
    Abstract: Provided is an information terminal connected to a communication terminal which is connectable to one or more other information terminals, wherein the information terminal comprises a communication unit which receives, from the communication terminal, a connection history with the other information terminals which were previously connected to the communication terminal, and a license transfer management unit which extracts an information terminal among the other information terminals that satisfies a license transfer condition based on the received connection history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Haruhiko Sawajiri
  • Patent number: 11163632
    Abstract: A log transmission apparatus is a log transmission apparatus connected to a log collection apparatus via a communication network, and includes an application execution unit which outputs a log, an environment change management unit which generates an environment code as information indicating a change in a state of the log transmission apparatus, and a transmission unit which transmits the log and the environment code to the log collection apparatus, in which the environment change management unit generates the environment code indicating a change in the state during a period from a previous output to present output of the log by the application execution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Megumi Tsuchiyama, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 11158190
    Abstract: A recommended driving output device, system, and method allow for outputting preferable information to a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Akachi
  • Publication number: 20210323539
    Abstract: A parking position at which an own-vehicle 1 can be parked can be stably displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji MUTO
  • Patent number: 11153700
    Abstract: A signal delay adjustment device for individually setting delay times of audio signals supplied to a plurality of speakers and individually delaying the audio signals supplied to the plurality of speakers with set delay times to adjust output timings of sounds among the plurality of speakers is configured to include a setting part to set a delay time applied to the audio signal for each speaker, and a delay part for individually delaying the audio signal to be supplied to the plurality of speakers based on the delay time set by the setting part. The delay part gradually changes the delay time to be applied to the audio signal over a predetermined time so that the delay time to be applied to the audio signal reaches the delay time set by the setting part over the predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Morita, Takeshi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11143511
    Abstract: Provided is an on-vehicle processing device that can estimate the position of a vehicle with higher accuracy. A storage unit stores a parking lot point group including a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of an object in a parking lot coordinate system. A sensor input unit acquires peripheral information from a camera. A movement information acquisition unit acquires movement information. A local peripheral information creation unit generates local peripheral information expressing second point group data including a position of the vehicle in a local coordinate system and a plurality of coordinates of points of a part of the object in the local coordinate system on the basis of the peripheral information and the movement information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Morihiko Sakano, Takehito Ogata, Shinya Tagawa, Masahiro Kiyohara, Yoshitaka Uchida
  • Patent number: 11142124
    Abstract: An adhered-substance detecting apparatus capable of detecting adhered substances such as water droplets, mud, and dust, including those with ambiguous outlines, which adhere to, for example, a lens for an imaging apparatus, and a vehicle system equipped with the adhered-substance detecting apparatus are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Mandai, Takehito Ogata, Daisuke Fukuda, Shuzo Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11134204
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image with a first spatial resolution; a distance acquisition unit that acquires a distance image which is depth information with a second spatial resolution that is a resolution lower than the first spatial resolution; an image recognition unit that extracts an area including a three-dimensional object area corresponding to a three-dimensional object in the captured image; a distance calculation unit that calculates depth information of the three-dimensional object area on the basis of the distance image; a correction unit that corrects coordinate transformation information for coordinate transformation of the captured image on the basis of the depth information of the three-dimensional object area calculated by the distance calculation unit; and a viewpoint transformed image generation unit that generates a viewpoint transformed image obtained by the coordinate transformation of the captured image by using the coordin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Higuchi, Kazuhiko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11127378
    Abstract: Display of display objects is changed as appropriate in accordance of situation change. A display control device includes: a display control unit configured to set an arrangement region on a display region of a display and control display of at least one or more display objects arranged in the arrangement region, the arrangement region having a virtual three-or-more-dimensional coordination system; and a situation determination unit configured to determine at least one situation of environment and a user, wherein the display control unit modifies the arrangement region in accordance with change of the situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jitsu Ezaki
  • Patent number: 11117593
    Abstract: An information system includes an in-vehicle terminal that is mounted on a host vehicle and a server that communicates with the in-vehicle terminal. The server includes a running history DB in which a running history of the host vehicle is stored for each driver, a driving skill-level determination unit, a driving skill-level DB in which a driving skill-level determined by the driving skill-level determination unit is stored, and a distribution information control unit that distributes driving assistance information based on the driving skill-level stored in the driving skill-level DB to the in-vehicle terminal. The driving skill-level determination unit determines a driving skill-level of a driver based on the running history stored in the running history DB and a driving skill element definition list representing a difficulty level of driving predefined for each driving skill element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Kondo, Keita Shimada
  • Patent number: 11115425
    Abstract: An in-vehicle apparatus is an in-vehicle apparatus connected to a server via a network and mounted on a vehicle. The in-vehicle apparatus includes: a log collection unit configured to collect a log; a log storage unit for accumulation of at least a part of the log; a log priority information storage unit storing log priority information indicating a priority of a log to be accumulated in the log storage unit; an accumulation log determination unit configured to determine a log to be accumulated in the log storage unit based on the log priority information; a communication unit configured to transmit the log accumulated in the log storage unit to the server; and a log priority table management unit configured to update the log priority information stored in the log priority information storage unit based on an update command from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eriko Ando, Yasushi Nagai, Nobuyoshi Morita
  • Patent number: 11106787
    Abstract: An information processing device including a security function related to information security and an information processing function related to predetermined information processing, includes: a control unit which performs control processing for realizing the security function and the information processing function; and a storage unit which stores information related to the security function and the information processing function, wherein: when the control unit detects an occurrence of a predetermined event related to the security function or the information processing function, the control unit determines an operation content of the security function based on the information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Hakuta, Eriko Ando, Makoto Kayashima, Nobuyoshi Morita
  • Patent number: 11104257
    Abstract: A notification apparatus (1a) includes a first signal converter (50) disposed in a cushion of a seat (80) and configured to convert a vibration transmitted to the seat (80) into a seat vibration signal, a second signal converter (60) disposed in a position other than the cushion and configured to detect a transmitted vibration and to convert into an input vibration signal, a level difference calculator (30a) configured to calculate a signal level difference ?G by subtracting a signal level of the seat vibration signal from a signal level of the input vibration signal, a notification aspect determination unit (100) configured to determine a notification aspect for making a notification to a user, on the basis of a value of the signal level difference ?G, and a notification execution unit (55) configured to, when acquiring notification information, make the notification on the basis of the notification aspect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Fujita