Patents Assigned to Pioneer Corporation and
  • Publication number: 20170162181
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic machine including a speaker unit; a housing; and a rotating device. The rotating device rotates the speaker unit with respect to the housing, wherein the speaker unit is provided with an opening portion and a member which is supported by the housing and extends substantially in parallel to a rotational axis of the speaker unit is adapted to passing through the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki WATANABE, Nobuyuki SATO, Takeru MIKI, Toshiya KOSAKA, Eitaro UNNO, Takahiro KUDO, Yoshihiko TAKEDA
  • Patent number: 9672978
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission antenna apparatus (100, 200) is mounted on a wireless power transmitting apparatus configured to transmit electric power in a wireless manner, and is provided with: an antenna coil (10) obtained by winding a conductive member; and a plate-like member (21, 22, 23, 24) containing metal, disposed in surroundings of the antenna coil and in a radial direction of the antenna coil. The plate-like member is disposed such that a plate face thereof crosses a direction of extension of the conductive member. According to the wireless power transmission antenna apparatus, it is possible to improve power transmission efficiency while complying with radio wave protection guidelines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Fujieda
  • Patent number: 9664374
    Abstract: Provided is an illuminated mirror device including: a mirror; a light-emitting part for illumination disposed near the mirror; and driving means for driving the light-emitting part, and detection means for detecting a direction of a face of a person in front of the mirror with respect to the mirror, wherein the driving means controls an emission luminance distribution on a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part on the basis of the face direction detected by the detection means. Also provided is a method for controlling illumination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20170150250
    Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro NIIDERA, Satoshi HACHIYA
  • Publication number: 20170140457
    Abstract: A server device, upon receiving a request signal S1 from a HMD 1 specifying present information, direction and the like, acquires a space ID regarding the position for displaying AR information, and acquires the AR information to be displayed with reference to an AR information table 241 from the space ID. Then, the server device 2 transmits a response signal S2 to the HMD 1 specifying the AR information to be displayed, the display position thereof and the like in order to let the HMD 1 display the AR information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminobu KAKU, Yuji YAMADA, Kenji OMURA
  • Patent number: 9649972
    Abstract: This system for detecting the surrounding: conditions of a moving body forcibly changes the state of at least one of a plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit stats to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) installed inside the moving body if an object to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body is detected in the surroundings of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 9648155
    Abstract: A mobile terminal that performs communication with an onboard device includes: a communication control unit configured to control reception of information instructing to switch a sound source which is transmitted from the onboard device, the information including information indicating an application program which is executed in the terminal serving as the sound source, and transmission of a sound, played by an application program operating in a foreground of the terminal, to the onboard device; a switching unit configured to switch an application program having been in operation in a foreground until immediately before, to a background, on the basis of the received information instructing to switch a sound source, and to switch an application program having been in operation in a background until immediately before, to a foreground; and a sound control unit configured to stop playing a sound of the application program having been in operation in a foreground until immediately before, and to start playing a s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Akama, Naoto Furuyama, Yoshihiro Mishio, Yuji Yokota, Motohiro Kubo, Takuya Katoh
  • Patent number: 9635463
    Abstract: Provided are a vibrating body for speaker device which prevents interlayer from peeling in advance and includes a large effective vibration area, and a speaker device including this vibrating body for speaker device. The vibrating body for speaker device includes a first interlaced fiber member, and a second interlaced fiber member which overlaps with the first interlaced fiber member, and one of the first interlaced fiber member and the second interlaced fiber member includes polyvinyl alcohol fibers containing boron, and an outer circumferential portion of the first interlaced fiber member is larger than an outer circumferential portion of the second interlaced fiber member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, MOGAMI DENKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kawata, Haruki Hoshikawa, Yoshihiro Sato, Takanobu Saito
  • Publication number: 20170110107
    Abstract: An acoustic conversion device for an active noise control is provided. The acoustic conversion device can effectively suppress or remove noise by controlling variation in a lowest resonance frequency. A volume of a closed space is smaller than an equivalent compliance air volume of a speaker unit. Therefore, motion of a vibration plate, an edge and a damper is suppressed, it is possible to restrain the edge and the damper from being deteriorated with time, variation in lowest resonance frequency can be suppressed, phase of emitted sound can be less prone to be deviated from opposite phase of noise, and it is possible to effectively suppress or remove noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junichi IIDA
  • Publication number: 20170103772
    Abstract: During high-frequency interpolation, a harmonic generation unit first generates a harmonic signal for an input compressed audio signal. An HPF unit, having a cutoff frequency, extracts a high frequency component from the compressed audio signal in parallel with the generation of the harmonic signal. An HPF unit, having a cutoff frequency, extracts a high frequency component from the compressed audio signal. An estimation unit estimates a missing band in the compressed audio signal on the basis of a ratio of the signal level of a difference signal to the signal level of an output signal, the difference signal being obtained by subtracting the output signal of the HPF unit from the output signal of the HPF unit. The estimation unit controls the cutoff frequency of a variable HPF unit that extracts a signal component for high-frequency interpolation from the harmonic signal on the basis of the estimated missing band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170103655
    Abstract: Provided is a movement assistance device that is capable of performing effective travel assistance even in a vehicle in which there is no map data or the like. When assisting the movement of a vehicle C, vehicle information that corresponds to a vehicle other than the vehicle C is acquired and it is determined on the basis of the acquired vehicle information whether the vehicle C and the other vehicle are moving along the same road. When the other vehicle and the vehicle C are moving along the same road, road data that is related to the road is acquired from the other vehicle and it is determined whether the vehicle C requires travel assistance in which the road data is used. When it is determined that travel assistance is required, travel assistance in which the road data is used is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masao ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9620964
    Abstract: A power transmission system (1, 2) is provided with a power transmitting apparatus (11, 12, 13) having a power transmission coil (101) and a power receiving apparatus (21, 22) having a power reception coil (201) disposed at a distance from the power transmission coil, and transmits and receives electric power in a wireless manner between the power transmission coil and the power reception coil. The power transmission system is provided with: a foreign body detecting device (106, 206) configured to detect a foreign body positioned in surroundings of the power transmission coil and the power reception coil and detect a relative position of the detected foreign body to the power transmission coil or the power reception coil; and a power controlling device (104) configured to control the power transmitting apparatus to control the transmitted and received electric power according to the detected relative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kyoichi Terao
  • Patent number: 9615166
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic machine that is provided with a speaker and that enables a direction of the speaker to be appropriately and arbitrarily changed. The electronic machine includes a speaker unit, housings, and a rotating device. The speaker unit is supported by the housing. The rotating device includes a first rotating device configured to rotate the speaker unit with respect to the housings about a direction intersecting with an axis of the housings serving as a rotational axis, and a second rotating device configured to rotate the speaker unit with respect to the housings about the axis of the housings serving as a rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Watanabe, Nobuyuki Sato, Takeru Miki, Toshiya Kosaka, Eitaro Unno, Takahiro Kudo, Yoshihiko Takeda
  • Patent number: 9602900
    Abstract: A speaker frame, including: a vibration support portion supporting a vibrating body of a speaker; a magnet support portion arranged inside of said vibration support portion and supporting magnetic circuit portion of said speaker; and a plurality of connection beams connecting said vibration support portion and said magnet support portion, wherein the vibration support portion and the magnet support portion have a circular ring shape having the same major axis length and minor axis length, said plurality of connection beams are arranged radially centering on a central axis from said magnet support portion to said vibration support portion, the central axis being parallel to a direction of an acoustic radiation, and a length of one of said connection beams and a length of another connection beams are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Niidera, Satoshi Hachiya
  • Patent number: 9592741
    Abstract: A charging control apparatus (310) controls wireless charging between one charging apparatus (10) and a vehicle (20) which communicates with the one charging apparatus via a communication relay apparatus (30). The charging control apparatus is provided with: an outputting device (320, 330) for transmitting a first signal which is a signal for designating a signal outputted from the one charging apparatuses, to of the one charging apparatuses; a detecting device (320, 330) for detecting a third signal which is transmitted by wireless communication from the vehicle and which is a signal corresponding to a second signal which is a signal outputted from the one charging apparatus due to the transmitted first signal; and a distinguishing device (310) for correlating the one charging apparatus with the vehicle on the basis of the transmitted first signal and the detected third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirokazu Oishi
  • Patent number: 9590209
    Abstract: A mirror device has a plurality of organic EL elements and a plurality of metal mirror surface portions that are divided by banks made of a light-transmissive dielectric material and aligned on a substrate. Each of the organic EL elements has an organic layer that is formed between a light-transmissive electrode and a reflection electrode and contains a light-emitting layer. Each of the metal mirror surface portions and each of the organic EL elements or each group of the metal mirror surface portions and each group of the organic EL elements are alternately disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Kazuo Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9574761
    Abstract: Provided is an illuminated mirror device including: a mirror; a light-emitting part for illumination disposed near the mirror; and driving means for driving the light-emitting part, and detection means for detecting a direction of a face of a person in front of the mirror with respect to the mirror, wherein the driving means controls an emission luminance distribution on a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting part on the basis of the face direction detected by the detection means. Also provided is a method for controlling illumination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuo Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20170048620
    Abstract: A speaker device includes: a diaphragm that radiates sound; an edge arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm; a frame arranged in an outer periphery of the edge, and including an annular attachment part connected to an outer peripheral region of the edge; and a connecting member arranged between the outer peripheral region and the attachment part and adhered to the outer peripheral region and the attachment part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro NIIDERA
  • Patent number: 9565993
    Abstract: The object lens 21 and the ocular lens 22 are disposed in the lens barrel unit 11 and the relay lens system 23 is disposed therebetween. The image sensor 31 is disposed in the camera unit 12 and the coaxial illumination unit 32 is disposed therearound. The focus position shift member 25 is disposed at the image formation position L1 in the lens barrel unit 11. The light from the coaxial illumination unit 32 is imaged at the image formation position L1 and is shifted to a position L2 by the focus position shift member 25. Since the position L2 positions at a position closer than a focus position, light through the object lens 21 diffuses to illuminate the object 51.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Okuda, Hiroshi Yokota, Toshio Chiba, Hiromasa Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9544168
    Abstract: A sum of products calculation of a predetermined tap number of tap data and a prescribed tap number of coefficients is carried out and a sum of the predetermined number of tap data is calculated. A replica signal is calculated on the basis of the sum of products calculation result, the sum of the tap data, and a correction coefficient. A residual signal is calculated as the difference between the replica and received signals. The predetermined tap number of coefficients is updated based on the predetermined tap number of tap data and the residual signal, and the correction coefficient calculated from the residual signal. Here, the tap data is either a data symbol before the superimposition of a DC component or an estimation thereof. This allows an adaptive FIR filter used in channel estimation of a received signal by a digitally modulated wave whereupon a DC component is superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinori Abe