Patents by Inventor Taku Oikawa

Taku Oikawa 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: 11332045
    Abstract: An operation system for a vehicle includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire a first signal indicating whether a seat in the vehicle is facing forward or rearward, and generate a display screen by arranging at least two operation elements in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The display screen is displayed on an operation panel installed in the vehicle. The processor reverses the arrangement of the at least two operation elements in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in accordance with the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Taku Oikawa, Takashi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11267394
    Abstract: A projection apparatus for use with a movable body is provided. The projection apparatus includes a parking controller configured to cause the movable body to automatically move to a parking space, and a projector configured to project light onto a road surface in vicinity of the movable body. When the parking controller causes the movable body to automatically park in the parking space, the projector projects the light onto the road surface located within a predetermined distance from the movable body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Taku Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20210061135
    Abstract: An operation system for a vehicle includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire a first signal indicating whether a seat in the vehicle is facing forward or rearward, and generate a display screen by arranging at least two operation elements in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle. The display screen is displayed on an operation panel installed in the vehicle. The processor reverses the arrangement of the at least two operation elements in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle in accordance with the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Taku OIKAWA, Takashi ICHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10755711
    Abstract: There is provision of an information presentation device including a displaying unit, an input receiving unit configured to receive an input from a user, an answer generating unit configured to generate an answer sentence in response to the input received by the input receiving unit, an additional information acquiring unit configured to acquire additional information related to a word contained in the answer sentence generated by the answer generating unit, a voice outputting unit configured to output the answer sentence by sound, and an information outputting unit configured to output the additional information on the displaying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Taku Oikawa, Tomoko Kanamori
  • Publication number: 20200156534
    Abstract: A projection apparatus for use with a movable body is provided. The projection apparatus includes a parking controller configured to cause the movable body to automatically move to a parking space, and a projector configured to project light onto a road surface in vicinity of the movable body. When the parking controller causes the movable body to automatically park in the parking space, the projector projects the light onto the road surface located within a predetermined distance from the movable body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventor: Taku OIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20190122664
    Abstract: There is provision of an information presentation device including a displaying unit, an input receiving unit configured to receive an input from a user, an answer generating unit configured to generate an answer sentence in response to the input received by the input receiving unit, an additional information acquiring unit configured to acquire additional information related to a word contained in the answer sentence generated by the answer generating unit, a voice outputting unit configured to output the answer sentence by sound, and an information outputting unit configured to output the additional information on the displaying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Taku OIKAWA, Tomoko KANAMORI
  • Patent number: 9139127
    Abstract: In one embodiment, left and right frame elements are provided in such a manner as to be movable in a horizontal direction. The left frame element has a shape of the left half of a circular ring and the right frame element has a shape of the right half of the circular ring. The frame elements are horizontally positioned away from each other such that the left frame element surrounds the left side of a circular meter image displayed on a display and the right frame element surrounds the right side of another circular meter image displayed on the display. Two frame interpolation part images are arranged and displayed on the display in a form that the two frame interpolation part images couple upper edges of the left and right frame elements to each other and couple lower edges of the left and right frame elements to each other, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Yasumoto, Taku Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20140292828
    Abstract: In one embodiment, left and right frame elements are provided in such a manner as to be movable in a horizontal direction. The left frame element has a shape of the left half of a circular ring and the right frame element has a shape of the right half of the circular ring. The frame elements are horizontally positioned away from each other such that the left frame element surrounds the left side of a circular meter image displayed on a display and the right frame element surrounds the right side of another circular meter image displayed on the display. Two frame interpolation part images are arranged and displayed on the display in a form that the two frame interpolation part images couple upper edges of the left and right frame elements to each other and couple lower edges of the left and right frame elements to each other, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Yasumoto, Taku Oikawa
  • Patent number: 7382967
    Abstract: In a video disk player for playing back a disk containing a plurality of music pieces, each recorded as a combination of video data and corresponding audio data, a picture-search process section for mainly searching the video data includes an audio-data buffer memory, and upon receipt of a picture search instruction, audio data of a music piece previously designated to be continuously played back is recorded. When the picture search is performed, the video data of the music pieces contained in the disk is sequentially played back for a predetermined time interval, for example, 30 seconds, on the basis of an instruction of a video-data playback control section for search. On that occasion, the video disk player continuously plays back the audio data of the specific music piece recorded in the buffer memory regardless of change-over of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Taku Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20040126102
    Abstract: In a video disk player for playing back a disk containing a plurality of music pieces, each recorded as a combination of video data and corresponding audio data, a picture-search process section for mainly searching the video data includes an audio-data buffer memory, and upon receipt of a picture search instruction, audio data of a music piece previously designated to be continuously played back is recorded. When the picture search is performed, the video data of the music pieces contained in the disk is sequentially played back for a predetermined time interval, for example, 30 seconds, on the basis of an instruction of a video-data playback control section for search. On that occasion, the video disk player continuously plays back the audio data of the specific music piece recorded in the buffer memory regardless of change-over of the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventor: Taku Oikawa
  • Patent number: D550637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Taro Iwamoto, Taku Oikawa, Ikuo Inouchi