Patents by Inventor Manabu Nohara

Manabu Nohara 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: 10706833
    Abstract: The active noise control device detects noise, and delays a phase of a detected noise signal in a low frequency band. In a non-closed-type noise control device, since there occurs such a phenomenon that the phase of the noise signal advances in the low frequency band, the correction unit performs a correction to cancel the phase advance by delaying the phase. By outputting the noise reduction sound based on the phase-corrected noise signal, the noise is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Akihiro Iseki
  • Publication number: 20180322858
    Abstract: The active noise control device detects noise, and delays a phase of a detected noise signal in a low frequency band. In a non-closed-type noise control device, since there occurs such a phenomenon that the phase of the noise signal advances in the low frequency band, the correction unit performs a correction to cancel the phase advance by delaying the phase. By outputting the noise reduction sound based on the phase-corrected noise signal, the noise is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Manabu NOHARA, Akihiro ISEKI
  • Patent number: 9484010
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device obtains error signals corresponding to a cancellation error between vibration noise and control sounds generated by multiple speakers, from microphone(s), and actively controls the vibration noise. A basic signal generating unit generates a basic signal based on a vibration noise frequency. An adaptive notch filter unit generates control signals provided to each of the multiple speakers by applying a filter coefficient to the basic signal. A reference signal generating unit generates a reference signal from the basic signal based on multiple transfer characteristics from the multiple speakers to the one or more microphones. A filter coefficient updating unit updates the filter coefficient used by the adaptive notch filter unit so as to minimize the error signals. A controlling unit changes amplitude of the control signals of the speakers based on a similarity between the transfer characteristics and characteristics of the vibration noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Yoshiki Ohta, Kensaku Obata, Yusuke Soga
  • Patent number: 9226066
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device is preferably used for canceling a vibration noise by making a speaker generate a control sound. Concretely, the active vibration noise control device includes an attenuating unit which attenuates a control signal generated by an adaptive notch filter, and provides the attenuated control signal to the speaker, when amplitude of a filter coefficient is larger than a threshold. Therefore, it is possible to suppress continuous ups and downs of the filter coefficient during an occurrence of an abnormality. Hence, it becomes possible to appropriately suppress an occurrence of a cyclic abnormal sound and an increase in the vibration noise during the occurrence of the abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Manabu Nohara, Yusuke Soga, Shin Hasegawa, Hisashi Kihara
  • Patent number: 8891781
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device having a pair of speakers, including: a basic signal generating unit generating a basic signal based on a vibration noise frequency; an adaptive notch filter generating a first control signal provided to one speaker using a first filter coefficient and generating a second control signal provided to the other speaker using a second filter coefficient to cancel the generated vibration noise; a microphone detecting cancellation error between the vibration noise and the control sounds and outputting an error signal; a reference signal generating unit generating a reference signal based on a transfer function from the speakers to the microphone; a filter coefficient updating unit updating first and second filter coefficients, minimize the error signal; and a phase difference limiting unit limiting a phase difference between control sounds generated by different speakers. Therefore, it becomes possible to appropriately ensure a uniform and wide noise-cancelled area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Yoshitomo Imanishi, Tomomi Hasegawa, Manabu Nohara, Yusuke Soga
  • Publication number: 20130279712
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device obtains error signals corresponding to a cancellation error between vibration noise and control sounds generated by multiple speakers, from microphone(s), and actively controls the vibration noise. A basic signal generating unit generates a basic signal based on a vibration noise frequency. An adaptive notch filter unit generates control signals provided to each of the multiple speakers by applying a filter coefficient to the basic signal. A reference signal generating unit generates a reference signal from the basic signal based on multiple transfer characteristics from the multiple speakers to the one or more microphones. A filter coefficient updating unit updates the filter coefficient used by the adaptive notch filter unit so as to minimize the error signals. A controlling unit changes amplitude of the control signals of the speakers based on a similarity between the transfer characteristics and characteristics of the vibration noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Yoshiki Ohta, Kensaku Obata, Yusuke Soga
  • Publication number: 20130195282
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device is preferably used for canceling a vibration noise by making a speaker generate a control sound. Concretely, the active vibration noise control device includes an attenuating unit which attenuates a control signal generated by an adaptive notch filter, and provides the attenuated control signal to the speaker, when amplitude of a filter coefficient is larger than a threshold. Therefore, it is possible to suppress continuous ups and downs of the filter coefficient during an occurrence of an abnormality. Hence, it becomes possible to appropriately suppress an occurrence of a cyclic abnormal sound and an increase in the vibration noise during the occurrence of the abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ohita, Manabu Nohara, Yusuke Soga, Shin Hasegawa, Hisashi Kihara
  • Publication number: 20120195439
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device is preferably used for cancelling a vibration noise by making a speaker generate a control sound. The active vibration noise control device includes a step-size parameter changing unit which changes a step-size parameter used for updating a filter coefficient. The step-size parameter changing unit calculates a parameter-for-change based on the filter coefficient updated by using a basic step-size parameter, and changes the basic step-size parameter by a minimum value in the previously calculated parameter-for-change. Therefore, it is possible to appropriately change the step-size parameter by using the minimum value of the parameter-for-change. Hence, it becomes possible to effectively suppress a divergence of an adaptive notch filter due to a secular change of the speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Manabu Nohara, Yusuke Soga, Kensaku Obata, Akihiro Iseki
  • Patent number: 8179340
    Abstract: A two-dimensional code pattern includes: a boundary pattern in which each of pixels in a group are set into a turn-on state or a turn-off state; a rotation detection pattern in which each pixel belonging to a group in each block is set into the turn-on state or the turn-off state by a light emitting pattern which can detect a rotational angle upon reading of the block; and an information pattern in which both of each pixel belonging to a first quadrant region in the block and each pixel belonging to a third quadrant region are set into the turn-on state or the turn-off state according to first information data and both of each pixel belonging to a second quadrant region and each pixel belonging to a fourth quadrant region are set into the turn-on state or the turn-off state according to second information data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Ryoji Noguchi, Manabu Nohara, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomoaki Iwai, Yusuke Soga
  • Publication number: 20120033821
    Abstract: An active vibration noise control device having a pair of speakers, including: a basic signal generating unit generating a basic signal based on a vibration noise frequency; an adaptive notch filter generating a first control signal provided to one speaker using a first filter coefficient and generating a second control signal provided to the other speaker using a second filter coefficient to cancel the generated vibration noise; a microphone detecting cancellation error between the vibration noise and the control sounds and outputting an error signal; a reference signal generating unit generating a reference signal based on a transfer function from the speakers to the microphone; a filter coefficient updating unit updating first and second filter coefficients, minimize the error signal; and a phase difference limiting unit limiting a phase difference between control sounds generated by different speakers. Therefore, it becomes possible to appropriately ensure a uniform and wide noise-cancelled area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiki Ohta, Yoshitomo Imanishi, Tomomi Hasegawa, Manabu Nohara, Yusuke Soga
  • Publication number: 20100170950
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a reading apparatus of an information code, a reading method, and a display reading system of the information code, in which even if symbol areas serving as references when sampling a photograph image signal obtained by photographing a display screen are not provided in the information code, information code data representing the information code can be obtained from the photograph image signal. When reading the information code displayed on a display apparatus, first, an image signal obtained when all pixel cells of the display apparatus have emitted light is extracted as a first image signal from the photograph image signal obtained by photographing the display screen of the display apparatus. Further, an image signal obtained for a period of time during which the information code is displayed is extracted as a second image signal from the photograph image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoaki Iwai, Manabu Nohara, Takayuki Akimoto, Yusuke Soga, Ryoji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20100164912
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method and device for reading an information code in which an information code displayed on a display can be read without increasing the circuit size of the display device. To read the information code displayed on the display in a predetermined area during each frame display interval, a synchronization signal synchronized with each of the frame display intervals is generated based on noise emitted from the display, and the information code is restored from a captured image signal obtained by capturing a screen of the display as an image in accordance with the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Soga, Manabu Nohara, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomoaki Iwai, Ryoji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20100085333
    Abstract: An input system (1) comprise: a display (11) for displaying an image including coordinate information on the display surface; a plurality of indicators (12) having (i) a detecting means for detecting the image displayed on the display surface, and (ii) a transmitting means for transmitting transmission information generated according to the coordinate information contained in the detected image; and a controller (13) having (i) a receiving means for receiving the transmission information, (ii) a generating means for generating drawing information indicating the path along which each of the indicators moves on the display surface according to the transmission information, and (iii) a control means for controlling the display so as to perform the drawing processing corresponding to the drawing information generated by the generating means. The display displays an image by emitting a plurality of pulses and displays the coordinate information by using part of the pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Inventors: Takayuki Akimoto, Manabu Nohara, Tomoaki Iwai, Yusuke Soga, Ryoji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20100007666
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display method and device for displaying an information code, in which an information code can be displayed on a display without affecting the image being displayed. A one subfield among N subfields is used as a subfield for displaying an information code as a two-dimensional code, and the other subfields are used as subfields for displaying a primary image, in a process in which intermediate brightness is displayed using the N subfields for each unit display interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Manabu Nohara, Toru Akiyama, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomoaki Iwai, Yusuke Soga
  • Publication number: 20090207101
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a two-dimensional code pattern which can be precisely read out at a high speed, a two-dimensional code pattern display device, and its reading device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Ryoji Noguchi, Manabu Nohara, Takayuki Akimoto, Tomoaki Iwai, Yusuke Soga
  • Publication number: 20060104311
    Abstract: A data transmission terminal apparatus and a data transmission method for maintaining a data transmission between the terminals irrespective of the state of a clock signal associated with a transmission data packet. The data transmission terminal apparatus multiplexes an image data signal and an other data signal to generate a data packet synchronized to a reference clock signal included in the image data signal, and relays the generated data packet to a transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Soga, Manabu Nohara, Tomoaki Iwai
  • 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: 7043257
    Abstract: A positioning apparatus for determining a present position of a mobile station by using radio waves coming from a plurality of base stations arranged within a communication area is provided. The positioning apparatus receives the radio waves coming from the plurality of base stations to generate reception signals corresponding to the respective radio waves, and determines propagation ranges of the radio waves coming from the respective base stations. The apparatus further derives propagation ranges of direct waves coming from the respective base stations from the determined propagation ranges. Then, the present position of the mobile station is determined by performing positioning operation using the derived propagation ranges of the direct waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Manabu Nohara
  • 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