Patents by Inventor Takaaki Sekiguchi

Takaaki Sekiguchi 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: 11441911
    Abstract: A navigation system includes an operation input unit, a temporary storage unit, and a control unit that executes processing concerning the navigation operation using the information for applications. The control unit sets analysis priority levels for analysis processing performed for each of the kinds of the map information and sets generation priority levels for each of the kinds of the information for applications, performs, with at least one kind of map information as an analysis target, the analysis processing generates the information for applications in order according to the generation priority levels based on results of the analysis processing respectively obtained for the map information set as the analysis target, saves the generated information for applications in the temporary storage unit, and executes processing concerning the navigation operation using the information for applications saved in the temporary storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Kageyama, Takaaki Sekiguchi, Shinichi Amaya, Yuuki Takaoka
  • Patent number: 11315425
    Abstract: A history information storage apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores history information about a travel history of a vehicle and map data divided into a plurality of sections; a change detection unit that detects a change of the map data; an influence range determination unit that determines a section influenced by the change as an influenced section from among the plurality of sections; a history information control unit that temporarily invalidates the history information about the influenced section; and a navigation unit that calculates a route from a departure place to a destination in consideration of the history information and records, in the history information, a history of a travel of the vehicle which has strayed from the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Arata Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11281652
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a storage unit storing map information divided into zones and used at least for screen display; a map drawing unit generating screen information using the map information; a difference detecting unit calculating, as a difference evaluation value, a magnitude of a difference in zone between the map information before update and the map information after update; and a map updating unit determining an order of updating the zones on a basis of a magnitude of the difference evaluation value to update, for each of the zones, the map information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Atsushi Kubo, Jun Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 11163632
    Abstract: A log transmission apparatus is a log transmission apparatus connected to a log collection apparatus via a communication network, and includes an application execution unit which outputs a log, an environment change management unit which generates an environment code as information indicating a change in a state of the log transmission apparatus, and a transmission unit which transmits the log and the environment code to the log collection apparatus, in which the environment change management unit generates the environment code indicating a change in the state during a period from a previous output to present output of the log by the application execution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Megumi Tsuchiyama, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 11035677
    Abstract: A route information conversion system includes a route information transmission apparatus and a route information reception apparatus. The route information transmission apparatus includes: a route search unit that generates a search result of a route with reference to first map data; a position reference information generation unit that generates position reference information indicating a road corresponding to the search result; and a peripheral road information generation unit that generates peripheral road information indicating a road branching from the road corresponding to the search result. The route information reception apparatus includes: a route information restoration unit that restores route information on second map data from the position reference information; and a route match determination unit that determines whether the search result on the first map data and the route information on the second map data match each other with reference to the peripheral road information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaaki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20200402400
    Abstract: A history information storage apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores history information about a travel history of a vehicle and map data divided into a plurality of sections; a change detection unit that detects a change of the map data; an influence range determination unit that determines a section influenced by the change as an influenced section from among the plurality of sections; a history information control unit that temporarily invalidates the history information about the influenced section; and a navigation unit that calculates a route from a departure place to a destination in consideration of the history information and records, in the history information, a history of a travel of the vehicle which has strayed from the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Arata HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200284595
    Abstract: A navigation system includes an operation input unit, a temporary storage unit, and a control unit that executes processing concerning the navigation operation using the information for applications. The control unit sets analysis priority levels for analysis processing performed for each of the kinds of the map information and sets generation priority levels for each of the kinds of the information for applications, performs, with at least one kind of map information as an analysis target, the analysis processing generates the information for applications in order according to the generation priority levels based on results of the analysis processing respectively obtained for the map information set as the analysis target, saves the generated information for applications in the temporary storage unit, and executes processing concerning the navigation operation using the information for applications saved in the temporary storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuhiko KAGEYAMA, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Shinichi AMAYA, Yuuki TAKAOKA
  • Patent number: 10514263
    Abstract: The present invention performs route guidance that excludes a difficult-to-travel section appropriately and provides an alternative route with favorable route quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Maru, Takaaki Sekiguchi, Shinichi Amaya, Arata Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190347249
    Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a storage unit storing map information divided into zones and used at least for screen display; a map drawing unit generating screen information using the map information; a difference detecting unit calculating, as a difference evaluation value, a magnitude of a difference in zone between the map information before update and the map information after update; and a map updating unit determining an order of updating the zones on a basis of a magnitude of the difference evaluation value to update, for each of the zones, the map information stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Atsushi KUBO, Jun OOTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20190196898
    Abstract: A log transmission apparatus is a log transmission apparatus connected to a log collection apparatus via a communication network, and includes an application execution unit which outputs a log, an environment change management unit which generates an environment code as information indicating a change in a state of the log transmission apparatus, and a transmission unit which transmits the log and the environment code to the log collection apparatus, in which the environment change management unit generates the environment code indicating a change in the state during a period from a previous output to present output of the log by the application execution unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Megumi TSUCHIYAMA, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20190162544
    Abstract: A route information conversion system includes a route information transmission apparatus and a route information reception apparatus. The route information transmission apparatus includes: a route search unit that generates a search result of a route with reference to first map data; a position reference information generation unit that generates position reference information indicating a road corresponding to the search result; and a peripheral road information generation unit that generates peripheral road information indicating a road branching from the road corresponding to the search result. The route information reception apparatus includes: a route information restoration unit that restores route information on second map data from the position reference information; and a route match determination unit that determines whether the search result on the first map data and the route information on the second map data match each other with reference to the peripheral road information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180376309
    Abstract: Information is transferred from a device to which the information is temporarily provided to another more suitable device as required, and hence it is possible to continue usage of a service or content comfortably on the device to which the information is transferred. Provided is an information transfer system including: an in-vehicle terminal; an information terminal; and a server, wherein the in-vehicle terminal includes a transfer information extraction module configured to extract, as transfer information, a part of acquired notification information that is to be transferred to the information terminal, wherein the server includes a notification information extraction module configured to transmit the transfer information acquired from the in-vehicle terminal to the information terminal at a predetermined timing, and wherein the information terminal includes a transfer information display module configured to display the transfer information acquired from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Akihiro KONDO, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20180366089
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to appropriately display secondary information on a head-mounted display in relation to primary information displayed on a main display device even when a wearer moves or takes their eyes off the main display device. In order to achieve the above purpose, this collaborative head-mounted display system calculates the positional information of the head-mounted display wearer's gaze with respect to the primary information from a camera image acquired from the head-mounted display and the position of the head-mounted display wearer's gaze with respect to the camera image. The collaborative head-mounted display system then selects and displays the secondary information associated with the calculated positional information, and changes how the secondary information is displayed depending on whether or not the wearer is looking at the primary information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Takashi MATSUBARA, Takashi KANEMARU, Naokazu UCHIDA, Masaki WAKABAYASHI, Naoki MORI
  • Patent number: 10116325
    Abstract: When compressing an arrangement of fixed-length records in a columnar direction, a data compression device carries out data compression aligned with the performance of a data decompression device by computing a number of rows processed with one columnar compression from the performance on the decompression device side, such as the memory cache capacity of the decompression device or the capacity of a primary storage device which may be used by an application, and the size of one record. Thus, while improving compression ratios of large volumes of data, including an alignment of a plurality of fixed-length records, decompression performance is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Yasushi Nagai, Tatsuaki Osafune, Ryoichi Fukunaga, Takahiro Okubo, Taiki Imai
  • Publication number: 20180304901
    Abstract: A driver can be presented with a route option giving high driving comfort. A receiver receives a plurality of route options from a terminal device mounted on a vehicle. A driving plan generation module sets, for each of the plurality of received route options, a traveling time of a section in which automatic driving of the vehicle is to be used and a traveling time of a section in which the vehicle is to be manually driven. A comfort calculation module calculates driving comfort of a driver for each of the plurality of route options based on the traveling time of the section in which automatic driving of the vehicle is to be used and the traveling time of the section in which the vehicle is to be manually driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingzhu DUAN, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Yasushi NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20180238697
    Abstract: The present invention performs route guidance that excludes a difficult-to-travel section appropriately and provides an alternative route with favorable route quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori MARU, Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Shinichi AMAYA, Arata HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9804821
    Abstract: An interaction history management device includes an interaction control unit configured to accept an input of an operation by audio and generate a reply by audio in response to the operation, an interaction history storage unit configured to store information that identifies an audio content of the accepted operation and information that identifies an audio content of the reply, an execution unit configured to store an identifier to the interaction history storage unit as associating with the reply when a predetermined process related to the accepted operation is executed normally, and an external data deletion unit configured to, when an instruction to delete information used in the predetermined process is accepted, delete the information, identify an identifier of the predetermined process in which the information to be deleted is used, and delete at least the audio content of the reply associated with the identifier from the interaction history storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CLARION, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qingzhu Duan, Takaaki Sekiguchi, Yasushi Nagai
  • Patent number: 9739625
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for operating a vehicle, when the vehicle is running, and an application is instructed through voice. An in-running operation acceptance/denial list is produced, i.e., a list of words meaning an operation to be inhibited from being executed during the time when the vehicle is running. A command acceptance/denial executing portion of the onboard apparatus determines if the command corresponding to the content, which a user speaks, can be operated or not, during the time when the vehicle is running, by referring this list and a title of the command operable through voices included in the application, and when the vehicle is running, an execution of that command is instructed to an application controller portion, if being determined operable, by referring to a running condition of the vehicle, and if being determined inoperable, the execution of that command is not instructed to the application controller portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: CLARION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Sekiguchi, Naoki Mori, Atsushi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9426273
    Abstract: A program manager operating on a smartphone transmits information of an onboard apparatus and a program ID list of the smartphone to the server. The server determines the possibility of an expansion of one or more programs, and the difference between charge/free provisioning of the program. If a function expansion condition of the program is met, the server transmits it to the smartphone. The program manager of the smartphone inquires as to possibility/impossibility of expansion, and a password (when there is a charge), and transmits the authentication information and the password (if there is a charge), which are produced from an onboard apparatus ID, a random number, secret data unique to the onboard apparatus, etc., to the server. The server transmits function expansion data to the smartphone, when succeeding the authentication, and the program management portion executes the function expansion of the program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Clarion Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Shimizu, Takashi Matsumoto, Takaaki Sekiguchi, Mitsunori Maru, Qingzhu Duan, Haruhiko Sawajiri
  • Publication number: 20160123749
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for operating a vehicle, when the vehicle is running, and an application is instructed through voice. An in-running operation acceptance/denial list is produced, i.e., a list of words meaning an operation to be inhibited from being executed during the time when the vehicle is running. A command acceptance/denial executing portion of the onboard apparatus determines if the command corresponding to the content, which a user speaks, can be operated or not, during the time when the vehicle is running, by referring this list and a title of the command operable through voices included in the application, and when the vehicle is running, an execution of that command is instructed to an application controller portion, if being determined operable, by referring to a running condition of the vehicle, and if being determined inoperable, the execution of that command is not instructed to the application controller portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: CLARION Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki SEKIGUCHI, Naoki MORI, Atsushi SHIMIZU