Patents Assigned to Pioneer Corporation
  • Patent number: 10861331
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a processing device (10) which includes a sound collection unit (11) that collects an environmental sound outside a vehicle, a filter unit (14) that performs filtering for emphasizing a sound characterizing a current position of the vehicle of which the environmental sound is collected, from the environmental sound collected by the sound collection unit (11), and a processing unit (12) that causes the environmental sound including the filtered sound to be output to the inside of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Kawauchi, Akimitsu Fujiyoshi, Yoichi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 10857979
    Abstract: The above security device determines whether there occurs screening between a movable body such as a vehicle and a user, and controls the security level in accordance with the determination result. Specifically, the security device sets the security level high when there occurs screening between the movable body and the user, and sets the security level low when there occurs no screening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Saito, Tatsuya Fukuda, Yasunori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10846825
    Abstract: A display control apparatus enabling a desired item to be displayed with excellent visibility by means of a simple operation is provided. An interface 1 of a terminal apparatus SV acquires associated information in which an orientation of display on a display D, a moving direction of an operation position to a touch panel TP, and a display state on the display D controlled by movement of the operation position are associated with each other. The interface 1 also acquires direction information indicating the moving direction of the operation position. A control unit 3 controls the display state on the display D in accordance with the orientation of the display and the moving direction indicated by the direction information based on the associated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Osawa
  • Patent number: 10848860
    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: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Niidera, Satoshi Hachiya
  • Publication number: 20200363509
    Abstract: An optical device comprises a diffraction grating that guides a laser light emitted from a light source to a direction having an angle depending on the wavelength, and guides a reflection light resulting from the guided laser light having been reflected by an object and ambient light to respective directions in angles depending on the wavelengths of these lights. The optical device further comprises a light reception element that receives the light guided by the diffraction grating. The reflection light of the laser light is incident on the diffraction grating at the same angle as the angle at which the laser light has been guided by the diffraction grating, and is guided by the diffraction grating at the same angle as the angle at which the laser light has been incident on the diffraction grating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto SATO, Takanori OCHIAI, Takuma YANAGISAWA, Masakazu OGASAWARA, Ryo IZUTA
  • Publication number: 20200363197
    Abstract: An optical device comprises: a line sensor having a plurality of light reception elements that receive incident light including reflection light resulting from laser light having been emitted from a light source and reflected by an object, and including ambient light; a diffraction grating that guides the incident light to the plurality of light reception elements by diffracting the incident light to a direction depending on the wavelength; and a control unit that detects the reflection light on the basis of the light reception amounts of the light reception elements. The diffraction grating is configured to guide, to one of the plurality of light reception elements, a wavelength within a predetermined range that includes the wavelength of the laser light emitted from the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto SATO, Takanori OCHIAI, Takuma YANAGISAWA, Masakazu OGASAWARA, Ryo IZUTA
  • Patent number: 10841705
    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. An inner diameter of the attachment part is less than an inner diameter of the outer peripheral region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Niidera
  • Patent number: 10839824
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shin Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 10840480
    Abstract: A standard direction (S) is a horizontal direction (a direction along X direction in the drawing). A base material (200) is supported by a frame body (250) so that a second surface (204) of the base material (200) is oriented obliquely upward from the standard direction (S). Thereby, a reference direction (R) is oriented obliquely upward from the standard direction (S). A light distribution of light from a light-emitting region (242) (more specifically, a light-emitting unit (172)) has a maximum value in a first direction (D1). The first direction (D1) is different from the standard direction (S). Specifically, an angle formed between the first direction (D1) and the reference direction (R) is greater than an angle formed between the standard direction (S) and the reference direction (R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kitahara
  • Patent number: 10840601
    Abstract: A horn antenna array is provided with a plurality of horn antennas arranged in one direction. Each of the plurality of horn antennas includes two pairs of inclined planes, which define a frustum-shape horn, and on an electromagnetic wave incident side of the horn, ends of a pair of inclined planes arranged in the one direction out of the two pairs of inclined planes project from ends of the other pair of inclined planes out of the two pairs of inclined planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Ochiai, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Tatsuya Kawano, Masakazu Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10801954
    Abstract: An inspection apparatus is provided with: an irradiating device configured to irradiate a sample in which a plurality of layers are laminated with a terahertz wave; a detecting device configured to detect the terahertz wave from the sample to obtain a detected waveform; and an estimating device configured to estimate a position of a first boundary surface on the basis of a second boundary surface pulse wave and a library, the second boundary surface pulse wave appearing in the detected waveform to correspond to a second boundary surface that is farther from an outer surface than the first boundary surface, the library representing an estimated waveform of the terahertz wave from the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takanori Ochiai, Masakazu Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10790469
    Abstract: A substrate (100) includes a resin material. A first stacked film (210) is configured by laminating multiple layers and is formed on a first surface (102) of the substrate (100). A light-emitting unit (140) is formed over the first stacked film (210) and includes an organic layer. A second stacked film (220) is configured by laminating multiple layers and covers the light-emitting unit (140). A third stacked film (310) is configured by laminating multiple layers and is formed on a second surface (104) of the substrate (100). The third stacked film (310) is the same stacked film as the first stacked film (210), and the fourth stacked film (320) is the same stacked film as the second stacked film (220).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Seki, Shinsuke Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10779076
    Abstract: A damper and a speaker apparatus includes the damper, which suppresses damage to an oscillatory system from an excessive input signal, enabling an efficiency increase of the speaker apparatus. As a damper has a planar surface, undue deformation of the oscillatory system due to an excessive input signal is suppressed, and damage to the oscillatory system can be suppressed. Furthermore, since the deformation of a corrugation portion by a normal input signal is hardly prevented, a reduction in sound pressure of the speaker apparatus with respect to an input signal is suppressed, enabling an increase in efficiency. Furthermore, the planar surface is extended at a height in a thickness direction different from that of an attachment portion. Thus, rising portions are deformed when a voice coil bobbin is oscillated, enabling suppression of rupture of the damper in the vicinity of a boundary between the planar surface and the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10770687
    Abstract: A standard direction (S) is a horizontal direction (a direction along X direction in the drawing). A base material (200) is supported by a frame body (250) so that a second surface (204) of the base material (200) is oriented obliquely upward from the standard direction (S). Thereby, a reference direction (R) is oriented obliquely upward from the standard direction (S). Light from the light-emitting system (20) has standard chromaticity in the standard direction (S). In addition, the light from the light-emitting system (20) has first chromaticity and second chromaticity in a first side direction (S1) and a second side direction (S2), respectively, the first side direction (S1) and the second side direction (S2) being symmetric with respect to the standard direction (S). A difference between the first chromaticity and the standard chromaticity is smaller than a difference between the second chromaticity and the standard chromaticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Kitahara
  • Patent number: 10764529
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing apparatus which enables, when a large display is used in front of a console, easy and smooth detachment of the display itself, including touch sensor groups which respectively detect a contact with or a close approach to a display unit which is supported by a casing and which includes a display surface, from the display surface F side, and detect a contact with or a close approach to the display unit from the back surface side; and a control unit which enables detachment of the display unit from a joining arm which couples the casing and the display unit, in the case where the display unit is fixed to the joining arm, and when the contact with or the close approach from the display surface side is detected and the contact with or the close approach from the back surface side is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mizuki Tomono, Yukihito Wada
  • Patent number: 10730742
    Abstract: An actuator (1) is provided with: a movable part (120); a support part (110, 210) which supports the movable part; and a plurality of torsion bars (230) (i) each of which connects the movable part and the support part along a long direction such that the movable part is capable of swinging around a rotational axis which is along the long direction and (ii) which are arranged along a short direction; the farther each torsion bar is from the rotational axis, the smaller a spring constant of each torsion bar is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, PIONEER MICRO TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenjiro Fujimoto, Yuuichi Yamamura
  • Patent number: D892074
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Mitsunaga
  • Patent number: D892766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: D897311
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: D897312
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsubayashi