Patents Assigned to Pioneer Corporation
  • Patent number: 11867522
    Abstract: A map information-providing system, a map information-providing method, and a map information-providing program which can provide map information while suppressing incongruity a recipient feels are provided. A navigation system-(map information-providing system) includes a storage unit-storing map information for navigation (first map information) and map information for autonomous driving (second map information) an updating period thereof is different from the map information for navigation with respect to at least a portion of a period of time, and a map information-providing unit which performs driving guidance by providing at least a portion of items to be provided by the map information for navigation using the map information for autonomous driving in a case where the map information for autonomous driving bad been updated based on newer information than the map information for navigation at a time of performing driving guidance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ippei Nambata, Reiji Matsumoto, Tetsuya Takahashi, Katsumi Amano, Takashi Aoki, Kazuki Oyama, Yuuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11859983
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lane information generating method that can generate lane information of an increasing or decreasing lane which increases or decreases from a traveling lane with high accuracy is provided. By determining characteristic points based not only on traveling trajectory information of a vehicle but also on the shape of the increasing line of the increasing lane increasing from two traveling lanes, a control unit can complementarily using information of a shape of the increasing line at a position at which variation is easily generated in the traveling trajectory, and thus generate the characteristic points as the lane information of an increasing line with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Fujiwara, Takuya Tsukada
  • Patent number: 11864409
    Abstract: A light-emitting unit (140) is formed over a first surface (102) of a substrate (100). A first terminal (112) and a second terminal (132) are formed on the first surface (102) of the substrate (100), and are electrically connected to the light-emitting unit (140). A sealing layer (200) is formed over the first surface (102) of the substrate (100), and seals the light-emitting unit (140). In addition, the sealing layer (200) does not cover the first terminal (112) and the second terminal (132). A cover layer (210) is formed over the sealing layer (200), and is formed of a material different from that of the cover layer (210). In at least a portion of a region located next to the first terminal (112) and a region located next to the second terminal (132), a portion of an end of the cover layer (210) protrudes from the sealing layer (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotsugi Hatakeyama, Shinsuke Tanaka, Shinji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11848804
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmission apparatus of the present invention includes a transmission unit whose voltage-current characteristics have a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and which transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal, an acquisition unit which acquires a digital signal, and a modulation unit which modulates the digital signal into the modulation signal which is a signal using voltage values of three levels or more in an oscillation region which is a voltage region that is equal to or more than a voltage of the local maximum voltage and equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum voltage. The transmission unit preferably transmits a synchronization signal as at least a part of the modulation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11828603
    Abstract: A measurement device includes a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions. The processor is configured to acquire positional information of a measurement object stored in a storage unit, acquire point group information of points indicating a surrounding feature acquired by an external sensor, output reliability of the positional information of the measurement object indicating a center position of the measurement object existing in a predetermined range based on the point group information of points existing in the predetermined range, the predetermined range being determined based on a position of a movable body, and estimate a movable body position based on the positional information of the measurement object and the center position of the measurement object, wherein the processor determines the center position by calculating an average value of the point group information existing in the predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazufumi Fujiya, Tomoaki Iwai, Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11827169
    Abstract: An accident determination device comprising: a first sensor that detects an impact having occurred in a moving object; a second sensor that acquires position information of the moving object; an area determining unit that determines the area attribute of the area where said moving object is located; and a processor that compares impact value of the impact with a determination threshold. The processor sets the determination threshold according to the area attribute defined by the area determining unit. When the area attribute of the area indicates a parking space, the processor sets said determination threshold to be at a lower value than when the area attribute indicates a road. The processor determines whether the accident has occurred based on the result of comparing the impact value with said determination threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Takayoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11822009
    Abstract: A self-position estimation device is mounted on a mobile body and acquires a predicted position of the mobile body. Additionally, the self-position estimation device calculates a difference value between a predicted position of an end point of a lane division line that is obtained based on information on the end point of the lane division line acquired from map information and a measured position of the end point of the lane division line measured in such a manner that a measurement unit mounted on the mobile body performs scanning with a light in a predetermined direction. The self-position estimation device estimates a self-position of the mobile body by correcting the predicted position with a value obtained by multiplying the difference value by a coefficient. Further, the self-position estimation device corrects the coefficient based on an interval of scanning positions of the measurement unit at a position where the end point of the lane division line is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Tomoaki Iwai, Kazufumi Fujiya
  • Patent number: 11796657
    Abstract: A control device 6 acquires an output signal front a lidar unit 7 that can detect a feature existing around a vehicle, and calculates a reference angle ?tag, indicating a tilt angle of a feature to be recognized based on an output signal from the lidar unit 7, with respect to a detection area of the lidar unit 7. The control device 6 then controls the detection area of the lidar unit 7 according to the reference angle ?tag and the tilt information stored in the storage unit 2 and indicating an angle of the feature with respect to a road surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiya Nonaka
  • Patent number: 11781726
    Abstract: A light-emitting device (20) includes a light-emitting region (140). The light-emitting region (140) includes a plurality of light-emitting units (142) and a plurality of light-transmitting units (144), and each of the plurality of light-transmitting units (144) is located between the light-emitting elements (142) adjacent to each other. The light-emitting region (140) is located on a side of one surface (outer surface (202)) of a base material (200) having light-transmitting properties and has an inclination with respect to the one surface (outer surface (202)). The base material (200) is rear glass of an automobile. The base material (200) partitions a region outside a mobile object (region (RG1)) from a region inside the mobile object (region (RG2)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuaki Arai
  • Patent number: 11757380
    Abstract: A driving device that can be prevented from being damaged is provided. Abase member includes a frame-shaped part that rotatably supports a movable part via a shaft part provided on an inner circumference side of the frame-shaped part, and an elastic structural part extending to an outer circumference side of the frame-shaped part. The elastic structural part of the base member is joined to the pedestal, and this allows the difference in amount of thermal deformation generated on the base member and the pedestal to be absorbed by deformation of the elastic structural part, thereby preventing the driving device from being damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shogo Kitazawa
  • Patent number: 11758092
    Abstract: To provide a display control device that enables a passenger to understand when an image shot of the outside of the moving body and reproduced in the moving body was shot. When displaying images shot of the outside of a moving body in the moving body, the display control device, while updating with a lapse of time, how far back in a past from now the image being displayed was shot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Koh
  • Patent number: 11754762
    Abstract: A plurality of light-emitting units (140) are provided on a first surface (100a) of a substrate (100) and are separated from each other. Each light-emitting unit (140) includes a light-transmitting first electrode (110), an organic layer (120), and a light-reflective second electrode (130). The organic layer (120) is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). A light-transmitting region is located between the light-emitting units (140) and transmits light in the thickness direction of a light-emitting device (10). An optical filter (200) overlaps the light-transmitting region and does not overlap the plurality of light-emitting units (140).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Teruichi Watanabe, Hiroki Tan, Isamu Ohshita
  • Patent number: 11750229
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave transmission device according to the present invention includes: a transmission unit that has, in voltage-current characteristics, a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal; and a modulation unit which modulates an acquired digital signal to the modulation signal using first voltage values of two or more levels in a first voltage region, which is equal to or greater than a voltage of the local maximum value and is equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum value, and a second voltage value in a second voltage region, which is less than the voltage of the local maximum value, and a third voltage value in a third voltage region, which is on a higher voltage side than the voltage of the local minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230262395
    Abstract: A speaker device includes: a diaphragm that radiates sound; an edge arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm; an attachment part facing an outer peripheral region of the edge; and a connecting member held between the outer peripheral region of the edge and the attachment part, wherein the edge has a curved portion convexly curved on a sound radiation side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro NIIDERA
  • Patent number: 11709492
    Abstract: An information processing device (20) includes a route acquisition unit (202) and an automatic driving section determination unit (204). The route acquisition unit (202) acquires route information indicating a moving route of a mobile body. The automatic driving section determination unit (204) acquires adaptation coefficients for a plurality of sections included in the moving route indicated by the route information, with reference to an adaptation coefficient storage unit (206) that stores automatic driving adaptation coefficients set for the respective sections. Further, the automatic driving section determination unit (204) determines the automatic driving sections of the mobile body in the moving route, based on the acquired adaptation coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nagata, Makoto Kurahashi, Akira Gotoda
  • Patent number: 11703571
    Abstract: Provided is an optical device capable of suppressing variations in the range for scanning light. This optical device comprises: a light source that emits a laser beam; a MEMS mirror that scans the laser beam toward a predetermined range; and a diffraction grating that guides the laser beam to the MEMS mirror by guiding the laser beam in a direction corresponding to the wavelength thereof. The optical device also comprises an MEMS control unit that performs control such that, by employing a change in the optical path of the laser beam caused through the diffraction grating by a change in the wavelength of the laser beam, variations in the scanning range of the laser beam by the MEMS mirror are suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Sato, Takanori Ochiai, Takuma Yanagisawa, Masakazu Ogasawara, Ryo Izuta
  • Patent number: D995465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Kishimoto
  • Patent number: D994639
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Kishimoto
  • Patent number: D994643
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsubayashi
  • Patent number: D998016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Maho Miyamoto