Patents by Inventor Kimio Okamoto
Kimio Okamoto 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).
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Patent number: 10896676Abstract: A server system includes: a related word storage unit that stores information representing a relation between a plurality of registered words; a content storage unit that stores information about a content corresponding to any one of the plurality of words; a communication unit that acquires an input word; a related word search unit that searches for a related word, which is related to the acquired input word, by using the related word storage unit; and a content determination unit that provides a user with any of information about a content corresponding to the input word and information about a content corresponding to the related word.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Makoto Orino, Takuya Fujieda, Kimio Okamoto, Noriyuki Abe
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Publication number: 20190115020Abstract: A server system includes: a related word storage unit that stores information representing a relation between a plurality of registered words; a content storage unit that stores information about a content corresponding to any one of the plurality of words; a communication unit that acquires an input word; a related word search unit that searches for a related word, which is related to the acquired input word, by using the related word storage unit; and a content determination unit that provides a user with any of information about a content corresponding to the input word and information about a content corresponding to the related word.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Makoto ORINO, Takuya FUJIEDA, Kimio OKAMOTO, Noriyuki ABE
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Patent number: 10137778Abstract: A content startup control device includes: a reception unit that receives an instruction from a user to select a content; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires information from a vehicle and/or information on traveling as vehicle information; a startup recording unit that stores the vehicle information, which is acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit when the content is selected or started up in response to the instruction received by the reception unit, as a startup record of the content; a condition creation unit that creates a startup condition under which the content is to be started up based on the startup record; and a content startup control unit that, if the vehicle information acquired from the vehicle information acquisition unit corresponds to the startup condition, proposes startup of a content related to the startup condition or starts up the content related to the startup condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Noriyuki Abe, Kimio Okamoto, Tetsuya Yamada, Takuya Fujieda
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Patent number: 10056079Abstract: An in-vehicle device according to the present invention includes a voice input receiving unit that receives input information with a voice, an output control unit that transmits the input information to a predetermined external device, and then outputs a plurality of received content candidates according to order of a priority degree of the content candidates, and a content execution unit that executes the content candidate upon receipt of specification of any of the output content candidates.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Matsumoto, Takuya Fujieda, Noriyuki Abe, Makoto Orino, Kimio Okamoto
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In-vehicle terminal that measures electric field strengths of radio waves from information terminals
Patent number: 9813170Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal includes: a measurement unit that measures electric field strengths of radio waves for wireless communication emitted from information terminals located in a vicinity thereof; a main terminal identifying unit that identifies a predetermined main terminal among the information terminals; and a communication unit that establishes wireless communication with the identified main terminal and transmits a first electric field strength for another information terminal than the main terminal measured by the measurement unit, via the wireless communication to the main terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kimio Okamoto, Noriyuki Abe, Yusuke Matsumoto, Tetsuya Yamada, Takuya Fujieda -
Patent number: 9766801Abstract: An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Hidetaka Suzuki, Kimio Okamoto
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Publication number: 20170012721Abstract: An in-vehicle terminal includes: a measurement unit that measures electric field strengths of radio waves for wireless communication emitted from information terminals located in a vicinity thereof; a main terminal identifying unit that identifies a predetermined main terminal among the information terminals; and a communication unit that establishes wireless communication with the identified main terminal and transmits a first electric field strength for another information terminal than the main terminal measured by the measurement unit, via the wireless communication to the main terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Kimio OKAMOTO, Noriyuki ABE, Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Tetsuya YAMADA, Takuya FUJIEDA
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Publication number: 20170011129Abstract: An in-vehicle device according to the present invention includes a storage unit that stores keyword information in which a keyword and the degree of evaluating the keyword are associated, and output determination information in which the degree of evaluating the keyword and an output method according to the degree of evaluating the keyword are associated, an information evaluation unit that evaluates the object information to be output using the keyword information, and an output control unit that outputs the object information to be output by the output method identified using the output determination information according to the degree of the evaluation performed by the information evaluation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Noriyuki ABE, Kimio OKAMOTO, Tetsuya YAMADA, Takuya FUJIEDA
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Publication number: 20170011743Abstract: An in-vehicle device according to the present invention includes a voice input receiving unit that receives input information with a voice, an output control unit that transmits the input information to a predetermined external device, and then outputs a plurality of received content candidates according to order of a priority degree of the content candidates, and a content execution unit that executes the content candidate upon receipt of specification of any of the output content candidates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Takuya FUJIEDA, Noriyuki ABE, Makoto ORINO, Kimio OKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160303973Abstract: A content startup control device includes: a reception unit that receives an instruction from a user to select a content; a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires information from a vehicle and/or information on traveling as vehicle information; a startup recording unit that stores the vehicle information, which is acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit when the content is selected or started up in response to the instruction received by the reception unit, as a startup record of the content; a condition creation unit that creates a startup condition under which the content is to be started up based on the startup record; and a content startup control unit that, if the vehicle information acquired from the vehicle information acquisition unit corresponds to the startup condition, proposes startup of a content related to the startup condition or starts up the content related to the startup condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Inventors: Yusuke MATSUMOTO, Noriyuki ABE, Kimio OKAMOTO, Tetsuya YAMADA, Takuya FUJIEDA
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Publication number: 20160154561Abstract: An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2016Publication date: June 2, 2016Inventors: Ryohei KATO, Noriyuki ABE, Norikazu NARA, Hidetaka SUZUKI, Kimio OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9288665Abstract: An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Hidetaka Suzuki, Kimio Okamoto
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Patent number: 9244696Abstract: An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal includes a storage unit in which applications are stored and a control unit that executes an application manager. The application manager has a launch function that enables execution of the application stored in the storage unit in the foreground and a communication function that enables execution of communication processing in the background to allow the information terminal and the in-car device to exchange information.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Kimio Okamoto, Ryohei Kato, Masafumi Naitou, Katsuya Matsuyuki
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Publication number: 20150283903Abstract: Provided is a technology for dealing with display restrictions more easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro KONDO, Noriyuki ABE, Kimio OKAMOTO, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI
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Patent number: 9080884Abstract: Provided is a navigation technique which allows a person other than a user who received a route guide to operate a navigation device through an interaction process. The navigation device is characterized by being provided with an instruction reception unit, a process unit, and an output unit. The instruction reception unit receives an instruction for a process from an external device. The process unit executes a process in accordance with the instruction received by the instruction reception unit. The output unit outputs output information which is obtained as the result of the process executed by the process unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Takashi Shioya, Kimio Okamoto, Hiroaki Takatsuki, Takaaki Ishii
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Publication number: 20150024731Abstract: An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Hidetaka Suzuki, Kimio Okamoto
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Patent number: 8924145Abstract: Provided is a Web bulletin board system (10) capable of lessening the burden in forming a travel plan when a group of people plan a trip. This Web bulletin board system (10) comprises a center server (20) which deems character strings indicated by predetermined symbols in messages in a chat to be destinations and automatically generates a list of destinations.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Kimio Okamoto, Takashi Shioya, Hiroaki Takatsuki, Takaaki Ishii
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Patent number: 8886398Abstract: An information terminal includes: an operation assignment information storage unit that stores operation assignment information; an actuation information reception unit that receives from an in-car device actuation information; an assignment unit that, on the basis of the operation assignment information and the actuation information, assigns some among a plurality of operations in the information terminal to each of one or more actuations among a plurality of types of actuation that can be inputted with an actuation unit provided to the in-car device respectively, according to priority levels; an actuation signal reception unit that receives an actuation signal outputted from the in-car device; and a conversion unit that, on the basis of the result of assignment by the assignment unit, converts the actuation signal into an operating command that corresponds to one among the plurality of operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryohei Kato, Noriyuki Abe, Norikazu Nara, Hidetaka Suzuki, Kimio Okamoto
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Publication number: 20140092047Abstract: A portable information terminal that is connected to an in-vehicle device comprises: a first display unit; a display control unit that generates a first screen image for display upon the first display unit, and a second screen image for display upon a second display unit that is comprised in the in-vehicle device; and a screen image output unit that outputs the second screen image to the in-vehicle device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Clarion Co., LtdInventors: Norikazu Nara, Noriyuki Abe, Ryohei Kato, Kimio Okamoto
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Publication number: 20130305262Abstract: An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal includes a storage unit in which applications are stored and a control unit that executes an application manager. The application manager has a launch function that enables execution of the application stored in the storage unit in the foreground and a communication function that enables execution of communication processing in the background to allow the information terminal and the in-car device to exchange information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki ABE, Kimio OKAMOTO, Ryohei KATO, Masafumi NAITOU, Katsuya MATSUYUKI