Patents by Inventor Hiroto Kawauchi

Hiroto Kawauchi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • 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: 10720897
    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 with plural microphones and a processing unit (12) that amplifies the environmental sound collected by the sound collection unit (11) and causes the amplified sound to be output to an inside of the vehicle. The processing unit (12) sets an amplification factor of the environmental sound collected by some microphones to be different from an amplification factor of the environmental sound collected by other microphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto Kawauchi, Yoichi Okuyama, Akimitsu Fujiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20190280664
    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 with plural microphones and a processing unit (12) that amplifies the environmental sound collected by the sound collection unit (11) and causes the amplified sound to be output to an inside of the vehicle. The processing unit (12) sets an amplification factor of the environmental sound collected by some microphones to be different from an amplification factor of the environmental sound collected by other microphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto KAWAUCHI, Yoichi OKUYAMA, Akimitsu FUJIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20190279505
    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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroto KAWAUCHI, Akimitsu FUJIYOSHI, Yoichi OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100228863
    Abstract: A content distribution system in which, when it is detected that an incommunicable area is present in a moving direction of a client terminal, the client terminal transmits a change request signal, requesting an increase of the confirmation interval of a keep-alive signal, to the content distribution server before the client terminal enters the incommunicable area. When the change request signal is received during distribution of content data, the content distribution server increases the confirmation interval of the keep-alive signal, thereby allowing the session of content distribution to be maintained while the client terminal is in motion within the incommunicable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroto Kawauchi
  • Publication number: 20050232598
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to extract thumbnail picture having a higher index function, to arrange thumbnail pictures of the respective titles recorded in recording medium onto an easily understandable picture such as title picture of entertainment program. When one of a plurality of titles is selected and a criteria thumbnail picture Si is set by a user, a selected thumbnail picture Si is extracted as criteria fragment information (criteria frame), and its frame number is stored in memory S [i] (i=0). Then, the correlation of the criteria thumbnail picture Si in each frame of each title is found with respect to titles T[1]-T[Tn], thereby automatically detecting the frame number of a frame having the highest correlation and storing the same in memory S[i].
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventor: Hiroto Kawauchi