Patents Assigned to Pioneer Corporation
  • Patent number: 11417854
    Abstract: A plurality of light-emitting devices (10) include a plurality of light-emitting devices (10a), a plurality of light-emitting devices (10b), and a plurality of light-emitting devices (10c). The plurality of light-emitting devices (10) are aligned on a reflecting member (20). Six light-emitting devices (10c) are aligned in a straight line along one direction. Four light-emitting devices (10b) are aligned surrounding a region facing one ends of the six light-emitting devices (10c). Each of four light-emitting devices (10a) are aligned with each of the four light-emitting devices (10b) outside the four light-emitting devices (10b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Okada, Chihiro Harada, Ayako Yoshida, Takashi Chuman
  • Patent number: 11411194
    Abstract: A light-emitting device (20) includes a first light-emitting member (10a) and a second light-emitting member (10b). Each of the first light-emitting member (10a) and the second light-emitting member (10b) includes a first surface (12) and a second surface (14), and light is emitted from the first surface (12). The first light-emitting member (10a) includes a first region (16a) and a second region (16b), the first region (16a) of the first light-emitting member (10a) being located on the second surface (14) side of the second light-emitting member (10b) and the second region (16b) of the first light-emitting member (10a) being located on the first surface (12) side of the second light-emitting member (10b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ayako Yoshida, Takashi Chuman, Makoto Matsukawa, Takeru Okada, Chihiro Harada, Akira Hirasawa
  • Patent number: 11402836
    Abstract: A server device efficiently acquires information of a surrounding area of a movable body for updating map information while suppressing communication load. Condition information indicating a condition of autonomous driving is received from a first movable body capable of autonomous driving based on a state of a surrounding area of the first movable body and a map, and a request for state information is transmitted to a second movable body capable of transmitting the state information indicating a state of a place where the first movable body has moved, and when the received condition information indicates that the autonomous driving has been possible, transmission of the request is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itaru Takemura, Hiroshi Nagata, Makoto Matsumaru, Kyoichi Terao, Akira Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11397518
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle lighting device intended to improve convenience and safety. A vehicle lighting device includes a light disposed in a vehicle interior, a controller controlling the light, and a detecting unit detecting position or motion of a detecting object by detecting a detection object at a plurality of positions, and the controller controls the light when the position or motion of the detection object is detected by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Abe, Satoshi Suzuki, Kenji Kawamura, Shingo Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20220232324
    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. The edge has a curved portion that is convexly curved to an opposite side to a side facing the connecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Niidera
  • Patent number: 11378406
    Abstract: The determination device acquires a first distance information measured by a measurement unit and indicating a distance from a movable body to an object, and a second distance information estimated by an estimation unit and indicating the distance from the movable body to the object. Also, the determination device acquires own position accuracy information of the movable body. Then, the determination device determines presence or absence of deviation larger than a predetermined value between a position of the object in map information and the position of the object in real environment, based on a difference value of the distances indicated by the first distance information and the second distance information and the own position accuracy information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Patent number: 11381893
    Abstract: Provided is a bracket for a speaker, the bracket being capable of ensuring the strength when the speaker is attached by using an attachment plate, and also enhancing the workability in folding of the attachment plate when the speaker is attached without using the attachment plate; the present invention includes: a frame-shaped support portion which supports a speaker; and a mounting member which is used for attaching the speaker supported by the support portion to the outside and is provided in the support portion, wherein a plurality of grooves having different extension directions are continuously formed on a base part of the mounting member, the base part connecting the mounting member and the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayami Kondo, Ryu Ito, Shun Shirahata, Masato Tsuruya, Hiroyuki Dohi
  • Patent number: 11371853
    Abstract: The parking lot area is estimated based on the information acquired by driving vehicles. The information processing device acquires position information including a parking position from a movable body, and estimates parking lot information related to a parking lot existing in an out-of-road area based on the position information of plural movable bodies entered the out-of-road area. By analyzing movements and/or parking positions of the movable bodies in the out-of-road area, information related to the parking lot can be estimated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Kamada
  • Patent number: 11347349
    Abstract: A terminal device such as a smartphone displays a first image on a display unit, and outputs a second image including the first image as a part to a display device such as a navigation device. Also, the terminal device obtains relative position information indicating a relative positional relation of the first image with respect to the second image from an external server. When a user makes a touch input to the second image displayed on the display device, the input position is transmitted from the display device to the terminal device. The terminal device obtains the conversion necessity information indicating whether or not the input position on the second image needs to be converted based on the relative position information, and converts the input position on the second image to the input position on the first image based on the relative position information when the conversion is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shunichiro Nagao
  • Patent number: 11348344
    Abstract: A line detection device (10) includes a first detection unit (100) and a second detection unit (200). The first detection unit (100) extracts a pixel located in a range having a predetermined color from an image including a traveling path on which a mobile object travels, and specifies a line of a first color included in the image using a distribution of the extracted pixel in the image. After execution by processing by the first detection unit (100), the second detection unit (200) extracts a pixel located in a luminance range having a predetermined luminance from the image and specifies a line of a second color which is included in the image and is different from the first color using a distribution of the extracted pixel in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taro Nagase
  • Patent number: 11335890
    Abstract: An end (that is, an end (130b)) of a second electrode (130) of a k-th light-emitting unit (152(k)) on a second side (S2) exists on the outer side of an end (152b) of the k-th light-emitting unit (152(k)) by the width WR(k) of an overlapping region (OR). In one example, the width WR(k) is equal to or greater than d×tan(arcsin(sin ?l(k)/ns)) and equal to or less than 3d×tan(arcsin(sin ?l(k)/ns)) (d×tan(arcsin(sin ?l(k)/ns))?WR(k)?3d×tan(arcsin(sin ?l(k)/ns))).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ayako Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11337004
    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. A width of the connecting member is greater than a width of the outer peripheral region of the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Niidera
  • Patent number: 11333602
    Abstract: A fluid measuring apparatus is provided with: an irradiating device configured to irradiate a fluid with light; a light receiving device configured to receive light scattered by the fluid; a detecting device configured to detect a backflow of the fluid on the basis of a received light signal of the light receiving device; and a calculating device configured to calculate estimated concentration information indicating a concentration of the fluid, on the basis of a detection result of the detecting device and the received light signal of the light receiving device. By this, even if the backflow temporarily occurs in the fluid, the fluid concentration can be accurately measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, NIKKISO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tateishi, Wataru Onodera, Tomoya Murakami, Akari Agata, Genki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11320473
    Abstract: A capacitance detection apparatus is provided with: a parallel circuit in which a first series circuit and a second series circuit are connected in parallel, wherein a tested body and a first resistance element are connected at a first node in the first series circuit, and a reference capacitance element and a second resistance element are connected at a second node in the second series circuit; a power supply circuit configured to apply an alternating current voltage with a specific frequency to the parallel circuit; an inductor element connected between the first node and the second node and configured to increase a phase difference in the voltage with the specific frequency between the first and second nodes; and an output device configured to output an electric signal corresponding to a capacitance of the tested body on the basis of the phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Okuda
  • Patent number: 11318950
    Abstract: In cases when it is determined that a measured yaw angle (?L) can be calculated on the basis of the output of a LIDAR (12), a control unit (15) calculates the measured yaw angle (?L) as the estimated yaw angle (?E), and performs calibration processing on a gyro sensitivity coefficient (A), a gyro offset coefficient (B), a steering angle sensitivity coefficient (C) and a steering angle offset coefficient (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Ryoko Niihara
  • Patent number: 11312324
    Abstract: An accident determination device which determines whether an accident has occurred in a moving object based on an impact having occurred in said moving object, comprising: an impact detecting unit that detects an impact having occurred in said moving object; an accident determining unit that compares impact value of the impact detected by said impact detecting unit with a determination threshold so as to determine whether an accident has occurred in said moving object; and a threshold setting unit that sets said determination threshold according to an area attribute of the area where said moving object is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: D954016
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Mitsunaga
  • Patent number: D954017
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Mitsunaga
  • Patent number: D952604
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Meiji Kitamura
  • Patent number: D957359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuto Horiuchi