Patents by Inventor Junichiro Onaka

Junichiro Onaka 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).

  • Publication number: 20180011556
    Abstract: An operation member 30 of an operation input device 20 includes a finger sensor 54 adapted to detect each of a plurality of fingers gripping the operation member 30. A controller 36 specifies the number of gripping fingers Ngf which is the number of fingers 300 gripping the operation member 30 based on the detection result of the finger sensor 54 and switches, in accordance with the number of gripping fingers Ngf, a type of an operation command corresponding to the operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuko Minyu, Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20170310906
    Abstract: An image display device 12 includes a camera 20 for imaging a rear of a vehicle 10, a reference position detection section 80 for detecting a reference position indicating a relative position of eyes 104 of an operator 100 relative to a display part 50, and an image control section 82 for extracting a part of an imaged image of the camera 20 thereby to display it as a circumferential image on the display part 50 and changing an extraction range of the imaged image in accordance with the reference position. The image control section 82 increases or decreases a movement amount of the extraction range relative to a change amount of the reference position in comparison with the case of a normal mirror 120.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20170297496
    Abstract: An image control unit of an image display device provides, on display screens of a display unit, a captured-image-only region in which only a captured image is displayed when the display unit displays the captured image, and multiple-image regions in which the captured image or a different image that is different from the captured image is selectively displayed when the display unit displays the captured image. In an embodiment, the image control unit fixes a position of the captured-image-only region on the display screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Patent number: 9760270
    Abstract: A vehicular electronic device such that volume increase/decrease adjustment can be easily performed using a volume switch displayed on a touch-panel type display unit. Upon detection of a touch operation in a reference volume switch region displayed in an operation region of the display unit, an operation area enabling volume increase/decrease is enlarged from the reference volume switch region to a wide-region volume switch region. Thus, the operation for increasing or decreasing (adjusting) volume (volume increase/decrease operation) can be easily performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Tomohisa Manabe, Junichiro Onaka
  • Patent number: 9665342
    Abstract: Provided is a radio client terminal such that a license for music distribution in a radio system is not required and such that music matching the preferences of the user can be played back at the appropriate times while audio content from a radio broadcast is being received and played back. The radio client terminal is configured so that music stored in advance in the storage unit of the radio client terminal according to the preferences of the user is played back after introductory audio from introductory audio content is output during the interval between playback of audio content and audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Shintani, Nobuaki Asahara, Junichiro Onaka
  • Patent number: 9389755
    Abstract: An operation input unit detects an operation position corresponding to an operation input; a display processing unit changes a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of the operation position; a processing control unit continues a process of changing the display item to be displayed on the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration; and an item selecting unit selects any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20160188289
    Abstract: Provided is a radio client terminal such that a license for music distribution in a radio system is not required and such that music matching the preferences of the user can be played back at the appropriate times while audio content from a radio broadcast is being received and played back. The radio client terminal is configured so that music stored in advance in the storage unit of the radio client terminal according to the preferences of the user is played back after introductory audio from introductory audio content is output during the interval between playback of audio content and audio content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Hidekazu SHINTANI, Nobuaki ASAHARA, Junichiro ONAKA
  • Publication number: 20160062626
    Abstract: A vehicular electronic device such that volume increase/decrease adjustment can be easily performed using a volume switch displayed on a touch-panel type display unit. Upon detection of a touch operation in a reference volume switch region displayed in an operation region of the display unit, an operation area enabling volume increase/decrease is enlarged from the reference volume switch region to a wide-region volume switch region. Thus, the operation for increasing or decreasing (adjusting) volume (volume increase/decrease operation) can be easily performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Mototsugu Kubota, Tomohisa Manabe, Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20150253950
    Abstract: A manipulating device includes a rotating shaft; a rotating member having a predetermined width direction along the rotating shaft; a display unit configured to display a menu configured by an array of a plurality of items or display a predetermined set value; and a control unit configured to execute a first control of selecting an item from the menu according to a rotational manipulation of the rotating member or changing the set value. The manipulating device includes an axial position detecting unit configured to detect a position where a pointing element approaches or contacts the rotating member in a direction intersecting a rotational direction of the rotating member. The control unit executes a second control different from the first control, according to the position detected by the axial position detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Junichiro Onaka, Naotoshi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20150091881
    Abstract: An operating device includes: an operating member; a rotation detecting unit; a capacitance detecting unit; a display unit; a storage unit; and a controller. In a case where the capacitance detecting unit detects a switch from presence of contact between the operating member and a finger of an operator to absence of the contact therebetween in a state where a rotational speed detected by the rotation detecting unit is a predetermined rotational speed or higher, the controller allows a scroll display of a plurality of display items to automatically continue regardless of a rotation state of the operating member after a timing of the switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Patent number: 8947454
    Abstract: In a display device for a vehicle displays information on a second layer of a first display screen when a display state is changed, the display device displays, on the second layer of the second display screen, an icon corresponding to the information, the display device displays a predetermined image so that the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen is different from the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the second display screen, thereafter, the display device gradually changes the image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen so that a part of or the entirety of the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen is the same as the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the second display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuko Hashikawa, Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20140289631
    Abstract: An operation input unit detects an operation position corresponding to an operation input; a display processing unit changes a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of the operation position; a processing control unit continues a process of changing the display item to be displayed on the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration; and an item selecting unit selects any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20140164932
    Abstract: A vehicle coordinating system includes a mobile electronic device and an in-vehicle electronic device that can be communicatively connected to each other. An in-vehicle calculation section selects, as a mobile-side item, only a function operable by an operation section on a steering wheel from the in-vehicle electronic device among the functions of the mobile electronic device. The in-vehicle calculation section produces a coordinated operation menu by combining the mobile-side item and the items for the functions of the in-vehicle electronic device and displays the coordinated operation menu on an in-vehicle display section in the in-vehicle electronic device so as to allow the coordinated operation menu to be operated by the operation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitomi Takatsudo, Yuji Yokota, Junichiro Onaka
  • Patent number: 8665331
    Abstract: An in-vehicle image display apparatus includes an image capture device and a display. An image generator is configured to combine the plurality of images captured by the image capture device and to generate a bird's eye view image in which a point of view has been changed. An operatio n device is capable of being operated by a vehicle occupant. An operation device includes a first switch provided in a central area of the operation device in a front view to be used to display the bird's eye view image in the display. The second switches are provided at positions around the central area to be used to display the plurality of images in the display. The positions correspond to the plurality of areas around the vehicle in a case in which the central area is considered as a vehicle position of the vehicle when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20130190977
    Abstract: In an operating device for a vehicle, a first peripheral edge is set so as to correspond to a relative positional relationship in which a plurality of switches is arranged, and a predetermined position is set so that a gap between a second end opposite a first end of an image and a second peripheral edge of a display screen in a movement direction of the image becomes larger than a gap between the first end of the image and a first peripheral edge of the display screen in the movement direction of the image, in a state where the image stops at the predetermined position on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichiro Onaka, Masatoshi Kubota
  • Patent number: 8471401
    Abstract: A switch device for a vehicle including: a first switch that enables input by a rotation operation or a tilting operation; a second switch that enables input by a predetermined operation; an operation direction detector that detects the operation direction of the rotation direction of the first switch or the tilting operation of the first switch; and a controller that is capable of controlling an on-vehicle equipment in accordance with the input operations to the first switch and the second switch, wherein the controller, in the case of the second switch being located substantially on an extension of the operation direction of the first switch, prohibits execution of a control of the on-vehicle equipment in accordance with an input operation to the second switch until a predetermined time from after the operation direction of the first switch is detected by the operation direction detector elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20120218295
    Abstract: In a display device for a vehicle displays information on a second layer of a first display screen when a display state is changed, the display device displays, on the second layer of the second display screen, an icon corresponding to the information, the display device displays a predetermined image so that the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen is different from the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the second display screen, thereafter, the display device gradually changes the image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen so that a part of or the entirety of the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the first display screen is the same as the predetermined image displayed on the first layer of the second display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuko Hashikawa, Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20110317014
    Abstract: An in-vehicle image display apparatus includes an image capture device and a display. An image generator is configured to combine the plurality of images captured by the image capture device and to generate a bird's eye view image in which a point of view has been changed. An operation device is capable of being operated by a vehicle occupant. An operation device includes a first switch provided in a central area of the operation device in a front view to be used to display the bird's eye view image in the display. The second switches are provided at positions around the central area to be used to display the plurality of images in the display. The positions correspond to the plurality of areas around the vehicle in a case in which the central area is considered as a vehicle position of the vehicle when viewed from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro ONAKA
  • Publication number: 20110062010
    Abstract: A switch device for a vehicle including: a first switch that enables input by a rotation operation or a tilting operation; a second switch that enables input by a predetermined operation; an operation direction detector that detects the operation direction of the rotation direction of the first switch or the tilting operation of the first switch; and a controller that is capable of controlling an on-vehicle equipment in accordance with the input operations to the first switch and the second switch, wherein the controller, in the case of the second switch being located substantially on an extension of the operation direction of the first switch, prohibits execution of a control of the on-vehicle equipment in accordance with an input operation to the second switch until a predetermined time from after the operation direction of the first switch is detected by the operation direction detector elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka