Patents by Inventor Takehiko Shioda
Takehiko Shioda 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: 9528892Abstract: There is provided a measuring device capable of measuring a propulsion force and a loss force by using a simple method. A first detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge disposed such that detection directions are parallel to a longitudinal direction of a crank are connected, detecting bending deformation x occurring in the crank, and a second detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a third strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the crank and a fourth strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crank are connected, detecting bending deformation y and tensile deformation z occurring in the crank are included.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Nobuo Mioka, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda
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Publication number: 20150355042Abstract: There is provided a measuring device capable of measuring a propulsion force and a loss force by using a simple method. A first detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge disposed such that detection directions are parallel to a longitudinal direction of a crank are connected, detecting bending deformation x occurring in the crank, and a second detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a third strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the crank and a fourth strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crank are connected, detecting bending deformation y and tensile deformation z occurring in the crank are included.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuteru KODAMA, Nobuo MIOKA, Ryujiro FUJITA, Takehiko SHIODA
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Patent number: 9182304Abstract: A power meter includes a first measurement unit 7 that measures a force applied to a first pedal B322 and calculates predetermined first information (power and/or torque) on the first pedal B322, and a second measurement unit 6 that measures a force applied to a second pedal B321 and calculates second information (power and/or torque) on the second pedal B321, which is the same kind of the first information. The first measurement unit 7 transmits first information data indicating the first information to the second measurement unit 6, and the second measurement unit 6 adds the first information to the second measurement information and transmits an added value data indicating an added value obtained by adding the first information to the second information.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Namiki, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Akio Fukushima, Yasuteru Kodama, Ryushin Kametani
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Patent number: 9010201Abstract: A measurement module that measures force being applied to a man-powered machine includes: a strain sensor that detects strain of a crank of the bicycle configured to transmit force being applied from a user through the crank and one front gear selected among one or more front gears; an MM magnetic sensor that detects the crank passing through a predetermined position; and an MM control part. The MM control part calculates a rotation angle of the crank based on an elapsed time from a time the crank passes through the predetermined position that the sensor has detected, calculates force applied to the crank based on a strain amount of the crank that the strain sensor has detected, associates the rotation angle with the force applied to the crank to calculate distribution of the force applied from the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Ryushin Kametani
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Publication number: 20140283622Abstract: There are provided a versatile power meter, a power measurement method, a program and a recording medium. The power meter includes a first measurement unit 7 that measures a force applied to a first pedal B322 and calculates predetermined first information (power and/or torque) on the first pedal B322, and a second measurement unit 6 that measures a force applied to a second pedal B321 and calculate second information (power and/or torque) on the second pedal B321, which is the same kind of the first information. The first measurement unit 7 transmits first information data indicating the first information to the second measurement unit 6, and the second measurement unit 6 adds the first information to the second measurement information and transmits an added value data indicating an added vale obtained by adding the first information to the second information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Tsuyoshi Namiki, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Akio Fukushima, Yasuteru Kodama, Ryushin Kametani
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Patent number: 8700067Abstract: A mobile phone (1) of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section (8) configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section (110) for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section (8) and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section (111) for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (110), and a mobile phone notification section (112) notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (111). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Akihiro Azuma, Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8700091Abstract: A mobile phone (1) in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (50); a transmission setting section (21) for registering, on the transmission setting database (50), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section (12) for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (50), the image data transmitting section (12) transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Syuji Daioku, Azusa Umemoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20130205916Abstract: A measurement module that measures force being applied to a man-powered machine includes: a strain sensor that detects strain of a crank of the bicycle configured to transmit force being applied from a user through the crank and one front gear selected among one or more front gears; an MM magnetic sensor that detects the crank passing through a predetermined position; and an MM control part. The MM control part calculates a rotation angle of the crank based on an elapsed time from a time the crank passes through the predetermined position that the sensor has detected, calculates force applied to the crank based on a strain amount of the crank that the strain sensor has detected, associates the rotation angle with the force applied to the crank to calculate distribution of the force applied from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuteru Kodama, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Ryushin Kametani
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Publication number: 20130210583Abstract: There are provided a pedaling-goal setting apparatus, a pedaling-goal setting method, a pedaling-goal setting program and a recording medium having the pedaling-goal setting program storing thereon. The pedal-goal setting apparatus includes a riding posture detection sensor 5 that detects the riding posture of the cyclist, a slope detection sensor 6 that detects the slope of the ground, and the running manner detection sensor 7 that detects the running manner of the cyclist. A cycle computer 1 connected to these sensors calculates the optimal target value based on signals transmitted from these sensors 5 to 7 and target data, and displays the optimal target value on a display part 2, as a benchmark to correct pedaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Ryushin Kametani, Ryujiro Fujita, Takehiko Shioda, Yasuteru Kodama
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Patent number: 8423052Abstract: It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Pioneer CorporationInventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
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Patent number: 8310545Abstract: A road view analyzing apparatus and a road view analyzing method that can obtain an accurate analysis result on a road view in front of a vehicle are provided. The road view analyzing apparatus includes a camera that is mounted on the vehicle to photograph a view in front of the vehicle, image dividing means for dividing the image of the view in front of the vehicle photographed by the camera into a plurality of areas with diagonal lines, and analyzing means for separately analyzing content of the image in each of the plurality of areas.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Ryujiro Fujita, Hiroto Inoue, Naohiko Ichihara, Takehiko Shioda
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Publication number: 20120088523Abstract: A mobile phone (1) of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section (8) configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section (110) for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section (8) and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section (111) for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (110), and a mobile phone notification section (112) notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (111). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2010Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicants: Pioneer Corporation, Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Akihiro Azuma, Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20110270935Abstract: A communication (on-board) device 10 of the invention has: a communication unit 110 communicating with a portable device 30; an unconfirmed information obtaining unit 120 obtaining unconfirmed information from the portable device 30 which a user has not confirmed at the portable device 30 at the time of communication establishment by the communication unit 110; and an information output unit 150 displaying or outputting audibly the obtained unconfirmed information. In this case, it is preferable that unread mail information regarding one or more electronic mails unread at the time of the communication establishment and/or missed call information regarding one or more missed calls received before the communication has been established be obtained as the unconfirmed information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Tozaki, Takehiko Shioda, Kazunori Hashimoto, Kunihiro Minoshima, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20110258267Abstract: A vehicle-mounted device or the like is provided by which a content of an electronic mail can be notified by a driver without disturbing safety driving. A vehicle-mounted device 10 has: a communication unit 110 which communicates with a portable device having an electronic mail function; an electronic mail obtaining unit 120 which obtains from the portable device 30 an electronic mail received by the portable device 30; a mail output length calculation unit 150 which calculates mail output length which is output length of the obtained electronic mail text; a destination setting unit 180 which sets a destination; and a text output unit 220 which displays or outputs audibly the electronic mail text based on the mail output length calculated by the mail output length calculation unit 150 and a predetermined condition corresponding to the destination set by the destination setting unit 180.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Tozaki, Takehiko Shioda, Kazunori Hashimoto, Kunihiro Minoshima, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima
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Publication number: 20110237184Abstract: An on-board device 10 has: a communication unit 110 that carries out communication with a portable device 30 that has a transfer reservation function of place information indicating an arbitrary place; a place information acquisition unit 130 that acquires the place information from the portable device 30 after the communication is established; a place information determination unit 140 that determines a category of processing relating to the place information acquired by the place information acquisition unit 130; a place information processing unit 200 that at least registers a place or sets a destination using the place information based on the category determined by the place information determination unit 140; and a route guidance unit 180 that guides a route to a destination when the destination has been set.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kunihiro Minoshima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Shuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima
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Publication number: 20110213551Abstract: An on-board device 10 of the invention has: a destination setting unit 110 with which a destination is set; a route guidance unit 130 that provides route guidance for a vehicle until a parking location that corresponds to the destination; a destination information transmitter 140 that transmits destination information indicating the destination to a portable device 30; and an arrival confirmation information receiver 160 that receives from the portable device 30 arrival confirmation information indicating that the destination has been reached. The route guidance unit 130 ends the route guidance for the vehicle to the parking location when the destination information has been transmitted or the arrival confirmation information has been received.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2009Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicants: PIONEER CORPORATION, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto, Nobuhiro Ishizuka, Ken Murayama, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Shuji Daioku
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Publication number: 20110205153Abstract: A mobile phone (1) in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (50); a transmission setting section (21) for registering, on the transmission setting database (50), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section (12) for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (50), the image data transmitting section (12) transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Nobuo Kusumoto, Syuji Daioku, Azusa Umemoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20110183627Abstract: It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2009Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicants: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Toru Ueda, Junichi Shirakawa, Syuji Daioku, Nobuo Kusumoto, Akira Tojima, Takehiko Shioda, Akihiro Tozaki, Kunihiro Minoshima, Kazunori Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7834261Abstract: First, an extracting unit extracts chord progression of a tune to be reproduced. Then, a timing detector detects the timing of variation of the chord progression extracted by the extracting unit. Subsequently, an add-tone reproducing unit combines an add-tone with the tune to be reproduced according to the timing detected by the timing detector. The add-tone reproducing unit can also move a sound image to reproduce the tune or reproduce the tune as an arpeggio.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Yasushi, Masatoshi Yanagidaira, Takehiko Shioda, Shinichi Gayama, Haruo Okada
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Patent number: RE43379Abstract: A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in accordance with an input operation, and a music piece having the chord change degree corresponding to the set sensitivity word is detected in accordance with the chord change degree of each of the plurality of music pieces.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yasunori Suzuki, Yasuteru Kodama, Satoshi Odagawa, Takehiko Shioda, Shinichi Gayama