Patents by Inventor Katsunori Arakawa

Katsunori Arakawa 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: 9500862
    Abstract: Provided is a display information generation apparatus that displays information in a manner so that it becomes possible to immediately and intuitively recognize the information, which is for guiding a mobile body. A navigation apparatus provided with a display that moves together with a vehicle is provided with a display data generation unit that acquires position information indicating the position of the vehicle, acquires, on the basis of the acquired position information, distance information indicating the distance from the position of the vehicle of facilities positioned along the road along which the vehicle is moving, and, on the basis of the acquired position information and distance information, displays an icon indicating the facilities at both sides of the road at the display arranged in order of the order of appearance accompanying the motion of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Oishi, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Katsunori Arakawa, Seiichi Hasebe, Shota Satou, Ryuichiro Matsumoto, Mineki Miyasaka, Jun Oosugi
  • Publication number: 20150293354
    Abstract: Provided is a display information generation apparatus that displays information in a manner so that it becomes possible to immediately and intuitively recognize the information, which is for guiding a mobile body. A navigation apparatus provided with a display that moves together with a vehicle is provided with a display data generation unit that acquires position information indicating the position of the vehicle, acquires, on the basis of the acquired position information, distance information indicating the distance from the position of the vehicle of facilities positioned along the road along which the vehicle is moving, and, on the basis of the acquired position information and distance information, displays an icon indicating the facilities at both sides of the road at the display arranged in order of the order of appearance accompanying the motion of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya OISHI, Tsuyoshi SAKAMOTO, Katsunori ARAKAWA, Seiichi HASEBE, Shota SATOU, Ryuichiro MATSUMOTO, Mineki MIYASAKA, Jun OOSUGI
  • Patent number: 7246000
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided that warns a vehicle of a harsh braking-applied vehicle based on information sent from the harsh braking-applied vehicle. The apparatus includes a reception device, a position detection device, a forward side vehicle judgment device, and a warning device. The reception device receives the information indicating that harsh braking has been applied to the harsh braking-applied vehicle and information indicating a position of the harsh braking-applied vehicle. The position detection device detects a position of the vehicle to be warned, and the forward side vehicle judgment device determines if the harsh braking-applied vehicle is in front of the vehicle to be warned based on the positions of the harsh braking-applied vehicle and the vehicle to be warned. The warning device warns the vehicle to be warned when the harsh braking-applied vehicle is in front of the vehicle to be warned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Odagawa, Fumio Matsushita, Takehiko Shioda, Katsunori Arakawa
  • Patent number: 7046698
    Abstract: A communicating apparatus performs an asynchronous communication with a base station. The communicating apparatus is provided with: a receiving device for receiving a down link signal, which is transmitted from the base station and in which a division signal is inserted for each of constant time intervals; a detecting device for detecting division signals out of the received down link signal, in phase to the constant time intervals; an adding device for adding the detected division signals over a predetermined time duration, which is longer than the constant time interval, with matching phases for each of the constant time intervals, so as to generate accumulated additional values; and a memory device for storing the accumulated additional values generated by the adding device, to thereby perform synchronization capturing with the base station on the basis of the accumulated additional values added over the predetermined time duration and stored in the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Takehiko Shioda, Katsunori Arakawa, Osamu Yamazaki, Masami Suzuki, Yasuteru Kodama, Masahiro Okamura, Takayuki Akimoto, Hiroto Inoue
  • Patent number: 7043440
    Abstract: When the quick traverse play back command (or, quick returning play back command) of the audio information by the compression audio information is given to the play back apparatus, by the control of the control section, the special audio according to the temporarily stored data stored in the first storage means is repeatedly played back, instead of the play back of the audio by the ordinary play back operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Shioda, Masami Suzuki, Satoshi Odagawa, Takayuki Akimoto, Masahiro Okamura, Yasuteru Kodama, Manabu Nohara, Katsunori Arakawa, Osamu Yamazaki, Hiroto Inoue
  • Patent number: 6980814
    Abstract: A mobile communication system including a plurality of base stations arranged in a communication area, each emitting a radio wave inherent thereto and a mobile station moving in the communication area and communicating with respective base stations via the transmitted radio waves. There is previously stored a location correlation data group including correlation data representing correlation situations of a plurality of arriving radio waves produced by the transmitted radio waves at respective ones of a plurality of sampling locations within the communication area, the location correlation data corresponding to respective locations. Upon reception of radio waves at a current location of the mobile station, current correlation data is calculated representing correlation situations among received arriving radio waves for the respective mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Takehiko Shioda, Yasuteru Kodama, Masami Suzuki, Hiroto Inoue, Katsunori Arakawa, Satoshi Odagawa, Osamu Yamazaki, Masahiro Okamura, Takayuki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20050125394
    Abstract: The song search apparatus comprises a song feature information database which stores song feature information comprised of constituent word information indicating a plurality of constituent words of each song and sound feature information indicating sound feature of each song, a search process unit which generates first lyric feature information subjectively characterizing lyrics of each song based on the constituent word information, an input unit which inputs a search word, and a search word feature information database which, for every search word, distinguishably stores search word feature information composed by the first lyric feature information and the sound feature information. The song search apparatus compares the search word feature information with the sound feature information and the first lyric feature information, and extracts songs characterized by the first lyric feature information and the sound feature information, which have the best similarity to the search word feature information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Yasunori Suzuki, Takehiko Shioda, Satoshi Odagawa, Katsunori Arakawa
  • Patent number: 6904358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for displaying a map in a display unit of a mobile terminal device such that the relationship between a moving direction of the mobile terminal device and a direction of the displayed map is easily understandable. When the system detects that the mobile terminal device exists in a particular region on a path, it sends map data of the region to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device receives the map data and displays a map of the region such that the moving direction of the portable terminal device is aligned with a top of the map displayed in the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Katsunori Arakawa, Yasuteru Kodama
  • Publication number: 20040245853
    Abstract: A harsh braking-applied vehicle warning apparatus is to give a warning of existence of a harsh braking-applied vehicle to a vehicle to be warned, on the basis of a harsh braking information sent from the harsh braking-applied vehicle. The apparatus comprises a reception device, a position detection device, a forward side vehicle judgment device and a warning device. The reception device receives the-harsh braking information, which includes information indicating that the harsh braking has been applied to the harsh braking-applied vehicle, and another information indicating a position of the harsh braking-applied vehicle. The position detection device detects a position of the vehicle to be warned. The forward side vehicle judgment device judges as whether or not the harsh braking-applied vehicle is a preceding vehicle, which drives in front of the vehicle to be warned, on the basis of the positions of the harsh braking-applied vehicle and the vehicle to be warned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Odagawa, Fumio Matsushita, Takehiko Shioda, Katsunori Arakawa
  • Patent number: 6813508
    Abstract: A mobile communication apparatus and method which extract surrounding base stations within a certain defined area centered at a present location of a mobile unit, carry out an arithmetic operation for obtaining a specified weighting coefficient with respect to each of the extracted surrounding base stations on the basis of a direction of each of the extracted surrounding base stations from the present location of the mobile unit and a traveling direction of the mobile unit carry out a further arithmetic operation for weighting a value of the electric field strength of a signal recieved from each of the surrounding base stations with the weighting coefficient of a corresponding surrounding base station to provide a weighted electric field strength of each of the extracted surrounding base station, and select the one base station from the extracted surrounding base stations depending on a value of the weighted electric field strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiko Shioda, Katsunori Arakawa, Osamu Yamazaki, Masami Suzuki, Yasuteru Kodama, Manabu Nohara, Hiroto Inoue, Masahiro Okamura, Takayuki Akimoto
  • Patent number: 6731675
    Abstract: A receiving device is provided with a DLL circuit of a reduced scale. An inverse spreading processing to ensure the synchronism with a received signal and a processing to inversely spread original data in the received signal are performed by a time-sharing operation using one inverse spreading circuit and one integrator. During a period in which synchronous data for detecting a slot duration included in the received signal is received, the synchronous data is alternately inversely spread by an early code and a late code and sample-hold circuits alternately sample and hold the integrated output. Further, based on the difference (error signal) between sample-hold signals, the early code, the late code and a reference code outputted from a code sequence generator are synchronized with the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Osamu Yamazaki, Yasuteru Kodama, Masami Suzuki, Katsunori Arakawa, Hiroto Inoue, Satoshi Odagawa, Takehiko Shioda, Masahiro Okamura, Takayuki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20020061755
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for displaying a map in a display unit of a mobile terminal device such that the relationship between a moving direction of the mobile terminal device and a direction of the displayed map is easily understandable. When the system detects that the mobile terminal device exists in a particular region on a path, it sends map data of the region to the mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device receives the map data and displays a map of the region such that the moving direction of the portable terminal device is aligned with a top of the map displayed in the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Publication date: May 23, 2002
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Katsunori Arakawa, Yasuteru Kodama
  • Publication number: 20020049063
    Abstract: A mobile communication system including a plurality of base stations arranged in a communication area each for emitting a radio wave inherent thereto and a mobile station moving in the communication area and communicating with respectives of the base stations via the transmitted radio waves. There is previously stored a location correlation data group including correlation data representing correlation situations of a plurality of arriving radio waves produced by the transmitted radio waves at respectives ones of a plurality of sampling locations within the communication area as location correlation data in correspondence with the respective locations. Upon reception of the arriving radio waves at a current location of the mobile station, there is calculated current correlation data representing correlation situations among the received arriving radio waves for the respective mobile station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Takehiko Shioda, Yasuteru Kodama, Masami Suzuki, Hiroto Inoue, Katsunori Arakawa, Satoshi Odagawa, Osamu Yamazaki, Masahiro Okamura, Takayuki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20010036220
    Abstract: A receiving device is provided with a DLL circuit of a reduced scale. An inverse spreading processing to ensure the synchronism with a received signal and a processing to inversely spread original data in the received signal are performed by a time-sharing operation using one inverse spreading circuit and one integrator. During a period in which synchronous data for detecting a slot duration included in the received signal is received, the synchronous data is alternately inversely spread by an early code and a late code and sample-hold circuits alternately sample and hold the integrated output. Further, based on the difference (error signal) between sample-hold signals, the early code, the late code and a reference code outputted from a code sequence generator are synchronized with the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Osamu Yamazaki, Yasuteru Kodama, Masami Suzuki, Katsunori Arakawa, Hiroto Inoue, Satoshi Odagawa, Takehiko Shioda, Masahiro Okamura, Takayuki Akimoto
  • Publication number: 20010029456
    Abstract: When the quick traverse play back command (or, quick returning play back command) of the audio information by the compression audio information is given to the play back apparatus, by the control of the control section, the special audio according to the temporarily stored data stored in the first storage means is repeatedly played back, instead of the play back of the audio by the ordinary play back operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Takehiko Shioda, Masami Suzuki, Satoshi Odagawa, Takayuki Akimoto, Masahiro Okamura, Yasuteru Kodama, Manabu Nohara, Katsunori Arakawa, Osamu Yamazaki, Hiroto Inoue