Patents Assigned to Pioneer Corporation
  • Autonomous driving assistance device, control method, program and storage medium
    Patent number: 10942517
    Abstract: A driving assistance device 1 performs autonomous driving based on an output from a sensor unit 13 that acquires information on surroundings of a vehicle or information on the state of the vehicle. The driving assistance device 1 stores an autonomous driving determination table Tj based on autonomous driving compatibility information 24. By referring to the autonomous driving determination table Tj based on sensor information 23 on the sensor unit 13 and road element information Ie on a predetermined road section, the driving assistance device 1 determines a set of an autonomous driving function Fc and an automation level Lv that can be performed in the predetermined road section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignees: PIONEER CORPORATION, INCREMENT P CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Koda, Kenji Mito, Kazuhiro Nakao, Makoto Hatano
  • Information processing device, measurement device and control method
    Patent number: 10942031
    Abstract: A server device 4 stores on a storage unit 42 an advanced map database 43 which includes feature information associated with a feature. The server device 4 receives, from vehicle mounted devices 1 equipped with external sensors 31 which measure features, difference information Idf indicative of a difference between feature information and the actual feature corresponding to the feature information. In accordance with the degree of reliability Rdf which is calculated based on a plurality of the difference information Idf, the server device 4 sends to the vehicle mounted device 1 a raw data request signal SR for requesting the transmission of raw data which is measurement data of the actual feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Koda, Kenji Mito
  • Sound output control device, sound output control method and program
    Patent number: 10945075
    Abstract: In the sound output control device, the sound output units arranged at left and right front parts and left and right rear parts output sound. The delay unit gives a delay to the sounds outputted by the sound output units arranged at the left and right rear parts. The control unit determines a delay amount based on acoustic characteristic of the sounds outputted by the sound output units and collected at each of left and right front listening positions and left and right rear listening positions, and sets the determined delay amount to the delay unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Inoue, Nobuaki Tanoue
  • Top emission type light emitting element
    Patent number: 10937977
    Abstract: A light emitting element includes a flexible plate-like portion having a glass substrate, and an organic functional layer formed on one surface side of the glass substrate. The organic functional layer includes a light emitting layer. When the plate-like portion is curved in a prescribed curving direction, and one surface of the plate-like portion is a concave surface, and the other surface thereof is a convex surface, a surface which is positioned on the concave surface side among both surfaces of the glass substrate is referred to as a first surface. When the plate-like portion is curved in a curving direction, and the one surface of the plate-like portion is a concave surface, and the other surface thereof is a convex surface, a compressive stress is applied to a portion whose distance from the first surface of the glass substrate is less than or equal to L (L>T/2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takeru Okada
  • Optical device
    Patent number: 10935854
    Abstract: An optical device comprising first and second optical elements. The first optical element has: a first liquid crystal element; a first transmissive member formed on the first liquid crystal element and having a light incident surface on which external incident light is incident and a first light-outputting surface through which light reflected by the first liquid crystal element is outputted; and a second transmissive member having a second light-outputting surface through which transmitted light having been transmitted through the first liquid crystal element is outputted. The second optical element has: a second liquid crystal element; and a third transmissive member formed on the second liquid crystal element and joined to the first light-outputting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hirokazu Hashikawa
  • INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR RECORDING INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20210056784
    Abstract: Outside image information corresponding to an outside image of the outside of a moving body photographed from the moving body is acquired, autonomous driving information indicating the state of autonomous driving control of the moving body is acquired, based on the outside image information and the autonomous driving information, display information for simultaneously displaying at least a part of the outside image and the autonomous driving state image indicating the state of the autonomous driving control of the moving body at the time of photographing the outside image is acquired, and the display information is recorded in a recording medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Morimichi NOZAWA, Takayoshi KOBAYASHI, Masao NAKANE
  • Light-emitting device
    Patent number: 10928567
    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: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruichi Watanabe, Hiroki Tan, Isamu Ohshita
  • Speaker device
    Patent number: 10932025
    Abstract: A speaker device includes: a diaphragm; a coil directly or indirectly attached to the diaphragm; a yoke having a notch on a bottom surface thereof; a frame to which the coil and the yoke are attached; and a first terminal provided on the frame and electrically connected to the coil. The first terminal is provided at a position corresponding to the notch of the yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuaki Watanabe
  • Light-emitting device
    Patent number: 10930876
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of the light-emitting units (140) includes a first electrode (110), an organic layer (120), and a second electrode (130). The first electrode (110) is light-transmitting, and the second electrode (130) is light-reflective. The organic layer (120) is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). The light-transmitting regions (104 and 106) are located between the plurality of light-emitting units (140). A sealing member (170) covers the plurality of light-emitting units (140) and the light-transmitting regions (104 and 106). The sealing member (170) is fixed directly or through an insulating layer (174) to at least one of a structure (for example, the second electrode 130) formed on a substrate (100), and the substrate (100). In addition, a haze value of the light-emitting device (10) is equal to or less than 2.0%, preferably equal to or less than 1.4%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeru Okada, Ayako Yoshida
  • Navigation apparatus
    Patent number: 10921144
    Abstract: Provided is a navigation apparatus with which a user or the like is able to be aware of an avoidance recommended region or the like on a route and is also able to be aware of specific avoidance recommendation property. With a navigation apparatus, a route search portion searches a route to a destination, and a communication control portion acquires avoidance recommended region information from an avoidance recommended region database that stores the avoidance recommended region information acquired from a server. Furthermore, based on the avoidance recommended region on the route searched by the route search portion, the indication portion indicates the presence of the avoidance recommended region on the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Hirabayashi, Kazuo Murata
  • Electromagnetic wave detecting apparatus and method of setting acquisition timing of detection signal
    Patent number: 10914631
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave detecting apparatus is provided with: a plurality of detecting devices each of which is configured to detect an electromagnetic wave; a voltage applying device configured to apply bias voltage to each of the plurality of detecting devices; an obtaining device configured to obtain a detection signal outputted from each of the plurality of detecting devices; and a setting device configured to set acquisition timing of the detection signal for each of the plurality of detecting devices, on the basis of the bias voltage, which is applied to each of the plurality of detecting devices, and the detection signal of each of the plurality of detecting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Tanaka
  • SPEAKER DEVICE
    Publication number: 20210029456
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro NIIDERA
  • System for detecting surrounding conditions of moving body
    Patent number: 10899270
    Abstract: Systems for detecting the surrounding conditions of a moving body are provided. An example system includes a plurality of lighting devices installed inside the moving body and a sensor configured to detect the surrounding condition. The system is configured to forcibly change the state of at least one of the plurality of lighting devices (change from an unlit state to a lighting state or a blinking state, change in the emission color, or change in the luminance) when the sensor detects an object, to which attention must be paid during traveling of the moving body, in the surroundings of the moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Kato
  • Optical device
    Patent number: 10904963
    Abstract: An optical device includes a light emitting device and a sensor device (light receiving element). The light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements, and a plurality of light transmission portions. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface is opposite to the first surface. The plurality of light emitting elements is positioned at the first surface side of the substrate. Each of the plurality of light transmission portions is positioned between adjacent light emitting elements. The light emitting device is light-transmissive by the plurality of light transmission portions. Light from the plurality of light emitting elements is mainly output from the second surface of the substrate. An amount of light emitted from each of the light emitting elements and leaked to the outside of the first surface of the substrate is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuaki Arai, Shinichi Ishizuka
  • Processing device, server device, output method, and non-transitory storage medium
    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
  • Security device, security control method, program, and storage medium
    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
  • Speaker box for automobile
    Patent number: D906285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushige Miyake
  • Speaker for automobile
    Patent number: D906288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsubayashi
  • Speaker for automobile
    Patent number: D906289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yusuke Matsubayashi
  • Bracket for automobile speaker
    Patent number: D911155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayami Kondo, Ryu Ito, Shun Shirahata, Hiroyuki Dohi, Masato Tsuruya