Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090097882 | PRODUCTION APPARATUS AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF WIRED MEMBER USING ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC METHOD - Disclosed is a production apparatus of a wired member, including: a mask forming unit that forms a mask on a transfer substrate by using a toner in accordance with an electrophotographic method so as to be transferable to a member to be wired, the mask corresponding to a wiring pattern to be formed on the member to be wired; a mask transferring unit that transfers the mask formed on the transfer substrate by the toner to the member to be wired; a conductive film forming unit that supplies a conductive material onto the mask-transferred side of the member to be wired to form a film of the conductive material thereon; and a mask removing unit that removes the mask from the member to be wired on which the film of the conductive material has been formed. | 04-16-2009 |
20110162695 | SOLAR CELL USING CARBON NANOTUBES AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A solar cell includes a p-type semiconductor substance, and an n-type semiconductor substance. The p-type semiconductor substance and the n-type semiconductor substance form a pn junction or a pin junction, and the p-type semiconductor substance or the n-type semiconductor substance includes a structure film having a plurality of carbon nanotubes electrically connected to each other. | 07-07-2011 |
20110216393 | Display method and display device - The invention provides a display method for displaying an image by deposition of metal fine particles. The display method includes at least depositing metal fine particles, from an electrolytic solution that has at least a metal ion of the metal particles and that is provided between a pair of substrates having at least one translucent substrate, onto a surface of any one of the pair of substrates by imparting one stimulus. A concentration of the metal ion of the metal fine particles in the electrolytic solution after imparting the stimulus is about 200 mmol/l or less. The invention further provides a display device which uses the display method. | 09-08-2011 |
20130080168 | AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS - An audio analysis apparatus includes the following components. A strap has an end portion connected to a main body and is used to hang the main body from a user's neck. A first audio acquisition device is at the end portion or in the main body. Second and third audio acquisition devices are at positions separate from the end portion by substantially the same predetermined distances, on the respective sides of the strap extending from the user's neck. An analysis unit discriminates whether an acquired sound is an uttered voice of the user or another person by comparing audio signals of acquired by the first and second or third audio acquisition devices and detects an orientation of the user's face by comparing the audio signals acquired by the second and third audio acquisition devices. A transmission unit transmits the analysis result to an external apparatus. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080169 | AUDIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS, AUDIO ANALYSIS TERMINAL - An audio analysis system includes a terminal apparatus and a host system. The terminal apparatus acquires an audio signal of a sound containing utterances of a user and another person, discriminates between portions of the audio signal corresponding to the utterances of the user and the other person, detects an utterance feature based on the portion corresponding to the utterance of the user or the other person, and transmits utterance information including the discrimination and detection results to the host system. The host system detects a part corresponding to a conversation from the received utterance information, detects portions of the part of the utterance information corresponding to the user and the other person, compares a combination of plural utterance features corresponding to the portions of the part of the utterance information of the user and the other person with relation information to estimate an emotion, and outputs estimation information. | 03-28-2013 |
20130080170 | AUDIO ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND AUDIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM - An audio analysis apparatus includes the following components. A main body includes a discrimination unit and a transmission unit. A strap is used for hanging the main body from a user's neck. A first audio acquisition device is provided to the strap or the main body. A second audio acquisition device is provided to the strap at a position where a distance between the second audio acquisition device and the user's mouth is smaller than the distance between the first audio acquisition device and the user's in a state where the strap is worn around the user's neck. The discrimination unit discriminates whether an acquired sound is an uttered voice of the user or of another person by comparing audio signals of the sound acquired by the first and second audio acquisition devices. The transmission unit transmits information including the discrimination result to an external apparatus. | 03-28-2013 |
20130126361 | Method for Manufacturing Silver Triangular Pyramid Particles and Silver Triangular Pyramid Particles - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing silver triangular pyramid particles including: forming an electric field in an electrolytic solution including silver ions and a surfactant to reduce the silver ions into silver triangular pyramid particles. | 05-23-2013 |
20130166298 | VOICE ANALYZER - A voice analyzer includes an apparatus body, a strap that is connected to the apparatus body to make the apparatus body hung from a neck of a wearer, a first voice acquisition unit that acquires a voice of a speaker and is disposed in either a left or right strap when viewed from the wearer, a second voice acquisition unit that acquires the voice of the speaker and is disposed in the opposite strap in which the first voice acquisition unit is disposed, and an arrangement recognition unit that recognizes arrangements of the first and second voice acquisition units, when viewed from the wearer, by comparing a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit with sound pressure of a heart sound of the wearer acquired by the second voice acquisition unit. | 06-27-2013 |
20130166299 | VOICE ANALYZER - A voice analyzer includes an apparatus body, a strap that is connected to the apparatus body and is used to hang the apparatus body from a neck of a user, a first voice acquisition unit provided in the strap or the apparatus body, a second voice acquisition unit provided at a position where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of the user is smaller than a distance of a sound wave propagation path from the mouth of the user to the first voice acquisition unit, and an identification unit that identifies a sound, in which first sound pressure acquired by the first voice acquisition unit is larger by a predetermined value or more than second sound pressure acquired by the second voice acquisition unit, on the basis of a result of comparison between the first sound pressure and the second sound pressure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173266 | VOICE ANALYZER AND VOICE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A voice analyzer includes a first voice acquisition unit provided in a place where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of a user is a first distance, plural second voice acquisition units provided in places where distances of sound wave propagation paths from the mouth of the user are smaller than the first distance, and an identification unit that identifies whether the voices acquired by the first and second voice acquisition units are voices of the user or voices of others excluding the user on the basis of a result of comparison between first sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and second sound pressure calculated from sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by each of the plural second voice acquisition units. | 07-04-2013 |
20130185076 | MOTION ANALYZER, VOICE ACQUISITION APPARATUS, MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND MOTION ANALYSIS METHOD - A motion analyzer includes a motion detection unit that detects motion of a part of a body of a subject, a speaking detection unit that detects speaking of the subject, and a determination unit that determines that the subject has performed predetermined motion when motion of a part of the body is detected by the motion detection unit and speaking of the subject is detected by the speaking detection unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191127 | VOICE ANALYZER, VOICE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - A voice analyzer includes a plate-shaped body, a plurality of first voice acquisition units that are placed on both surfaces of the plate-shaped body and that acquire a voice of a speaker, a sound pressure comparison unit that compares sound pressure of a voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit placed on one surface of the plate-shaped body with sound pressure of a voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit placed on the other surface and determines a larger sound pressure, and a voice signal selection unit that selects information regarding a voice signal which is associated with the larger sound pressure and is determined by the sound pressure comparison unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20140088966 | VOICE ANALYZER, VOICE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A voice analyzer includes a voice information acquiring unit that acquires information about voices acquired by a first voice acquiring unit which acquires the voice and is worn by a first wearer and a second voice acquiring unit which acquires the voice and is worn by a second wearer from each of the wearers, and a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between the first wearer and the second wearer on the basis of (a) speaker identification information, which is information for determining whether the voice acquired by the first voice acquiring unit and the voice which is the same as that acquired by the first voice acquiring unit and is acquired by the second voice acquiring unit are spoken by the wearers or other persons, and (b) a phase difference between sound waves with plural frequencies included in the voices. | 03-27-2014 |
20140108011 | SOUND ANALYSIS APPARATUS, SOUND ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A sound analysis apparatus includes a sound information obtaining section chat obtains information relating to a sound acquired by a sound acquiring section that acquires the sound and distinguishes a spoken voice of a wearer from a spoken voice of another person, a phase difference deriving section that derives a relationship between a frequency and a phase difference with respect to the sound acquired by the plural sound acquiring sections, a dispersion deriving section that derives a dispersion that is the level of irregularity of the derived phase difference, and a distance deriving section that derives a distance between the wearer and the other person using a first dispersion derived in a case where the sound is distinguished as the spoken voice of the other person and a second dispersion derived in a case where the sound is distinguished as the spoken voice of the wearer. | 04-17-2014 |
20150332674 | VOICE ANALYZER AND VOICE ANALYSIS SYSTEM - A voice analyzer includes a first voice acquisition unit provided in a place where a distance of a sound wave propagation path from a mouth of a user is a first distance, plural second voice acquisition units provided in places where distances of sound wave propagation paths from the mouth of the user are smaller than the first distance, and an identification unit that identifies whether the voices acquired by the first and second voice acquisition units are voices of the user or voices of others excluding the user on the basis of a result of comparison between first sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by the first voice acquisition unit and second sound pressure calculated from sound pressure of a voice signal of the voice acquired by each of the plural second voice acquisition units. | 11-19-2015 |
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20090267409 | POWER LINE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A power line communication apparatus includes power lines disposed independently and individually, for connecting various loads to a battery by way of fuses, respectively, an inductor means disposed at an end portion of each of the above-mentioned power lines on a side connected to the above-mentioned battery, and an information means for transmitting information by way of each of the above-mentioned power lines. | 10-29-2009 |
20090319174 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A navigation apparatus includes an unregistered road detecting means for setting up a detection start point and a detection end point for an unregistered road on registered roads which are respectively located before and behind sections in which matching result data indicates a free state, respectively, the matching result data indicating a matching state when the vehicle is traveling each of the registered roads, for performing a coordinate transformation on a traveling path which is created from positioning data and which is extending between the two points so that the traveling path has coordinates which match with the coordinates of a registered road between them, and for detecting the coordinates of the unregistered road from a portion of the coordinate-transformed traveling path which does not overlap any registered road, and a road data generating means for creating road data about the unregistered road from the coordinates of the unregistered road. | 12-24-2009 |
20100057352 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A map information processing apparatus includes a road matching means ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100179755 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A map information processing apparatus includes: a new road detecting unit ( | 07-15-2010 |
20100332128 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A map information processing apparatus includes a map information storage unit ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110141066 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE - A display input device is comprised of a touch panel | 06-16-2011 |
20110164063 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE - A display input device is comprised of a touch panel | 07-07-2011 |
20110208428 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A navigation apparatus is provided which displays an own-vehicle driving condition without making it difficult to view a map display. The navigation apparatus includes own-vehicle location determination means | 08-25-2011 |
20110221776 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - A display input device is comprised of a touch panel | 09-15-2011 |
20110234639 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE - A display input device is comprised of a touch panel 1 for carrying out a display of information and an input of information, a vibration detection sensor (proximity sensors | 09-29-2011 |
20110276263 | MAP DISTRIBUTION SERVER, MAP INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND MAP DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM USING THESE MAP DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND MAP INFORMATION TERMINAL - A map distribution system that implements navigation using desired map data in which the degree of reliability of information about an object, such as a road or a facility, is taken into consideration is provided. A map distribution server | 11-10-2011 |
20110285657 | DISPLAY INPUT DEVICE - A display input device includes a control unit for correcting horizontal coordinates of an object to be detected on an xy coordinate plane extending on a touch panel | 11-24-2011 |
20110313659 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a map information storage section ( | 12-22-2011 |
20110313661 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a map information storage section ( | 12-22-2011 |
20110313823 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a map information storage section ( | 12-22-2011 |
20120123677 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE - A map display device includes: current location calculating unit for calculating a current location; specific region dedicated database for storing map data permitted only inside a specific region; specific region permitted database for storing data for displaying the inside of the specific region outside the specific region; outside-specific-region database for storing map data of the outside of the specific region available both inside and outside the specific region; controller for generating display data for displaying a map of the outside of the specific region using map data from the outside-specific-region database, and generating display data for displaying an image of a permitted map attribute to the inside of the specific region using the data from the permitted database, when the current location is outside the specific region; and display unit for displaying an image of the map or the permitted map attribute based on the display data. | 05-17-2012 |
20120151440 | SOFTWARE LIBRARY RECONSTRUCTION DEVICE, SOFTWARE LIBRARY RECONSTRUCTION METHOD, AND NAVIGATION DEVICE USING THIS SOFTWARE LIBRARY RECONSTRUCTION METHOD - Disclosed is a software library reconstruction device which extracts program elements which are used for the execution of a function from among program elements which construct a general-purpose software library | 06-14-2012 |
20120235947 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - In order to enable the user to intuitively and easily perform an operation of changing the display of a map thereon while maintaining the viewability of the map, a map information processing device in accordance with the present invention includes a display unit for displaying a map, a three-dimensional input unit for detecting a three-dimensional position of an object to be detected with respect to a display surface of the display unit, and a control unit for displaying a map having the same display center as an original display position with a scale according to the distance between the object to be detected which is detected by the three-dimensional input unit and the display surface on the display unit. | 09-20-2012 |
20120239736 | MAP DISTRIBUTION SERVER, MAP INFORMATION TERMINAL, AND MAP DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM USING THESE MAP DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND MAP INFORMATION TERMINAL - A map distribution system that implements navigation using desired map data in which the degree of reliability of information about an object, such as a road or a facility, is taken into consideration is provided. A map distribution server | 09-20-2012 |
20120284661 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A map information processing device extracts objects having a relation therebetween which satisfies a predetermined requirement from among objects each of which is a search target, and selects an object which the user desires from among the objects extracted thereby by prompting the user to input the name of one of the objects according to a row of characters defined by identifier character information showing the row of a predetermined number of characters from the head of a character string showing the name of the object. | 11-08-2012 |
20120323439 | VEHICLE APPROACH NOTIFICATION DEVICE - A vehicle approach notification device | 12-20-2012 |
20120323492 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system | 12-20-2012 |
20120323875 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system includes data management data that determines storage locations of real data from data definition information indicating a data structure of a map DB | 12-20-2012 |
20120331006 | DATA ACCESS METHOD AND DATA ACCESS DEVICE - An information processing apparatus has data management data that determines storage locations of real data in a data group in accordance with data definition information indicating a data structure of the data group, and a data access program that describes an access function to the real data whose data structure is specified in accordance with the data definition information, and gains access to the real data of the data group by executing the data access program while determining the storage locations of the real data by referring to the data management data. | 12-27-2012 |
20130070065 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a video image playback device | 03-21-2013 |
20130076876 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a screen composition processing unit for generating a right-eye image or video image and a left-eye image or video image for planar display or for three-dimensional stereoscopic display of an image or video image, a video image playback device | 03-28-2013 |
20130090845 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND MOBILE DATA TERMINAL - A navigation apparatus displays map display contents of a mobile phone terminal | 04-11-2013 |
20130093393 | CHARGING CONTROL APPARATUS - Disclosed is a charging control apparatus including: a communication unit | 04-18-2013 |
20130093860 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a stereoscopic display monitor | 04-18-2013 |
20130144522 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE - According to a map display device, from current location information acquired by a current location acquiring unit | 06-06-2013 |
20130201303 | 3DIMENSION STEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed is a 3Dimension stereoscopic display device including a video image playback device | 08-08-2013 |
20130261968 | NAVIGATION DEVICE - A navigation device includes a data relation definition analysis unit | 10-03-2013 |
20130275428 | NAVIGATION DEVICE - Disclosed is a navigation device including a navigation function performing unit 13 | 10-17-2013 |
20130282265 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, NAVIGATION DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - A map display device includes a position information acquiring unit for acquiring the present position of a vehicle; a map data storage unit for storing map data; a remaining energy acquiring unit for acquiring a residual quantity of energy for driving the vehicle and equipment mounted on the vehicle; a range calculating unit for computing a range the vehicle can travel with the remaining energy, using a moving energy consumption rate which is energy consumption per unit time required for moving the vehicle and a driving energy consumption rate Eci which is energy consumption per unit time required for driving the equipment mounted on the vehicle; and an output control unit for displaying the range on a map using the map data. | 10-24-2013 |
20130297644 | RELATION INFORMATION GENERATING METHOD, RELATION INFORMATION GENERATING DEVICE, AND DATABASE DATA STRUCTURE - Disclosed is a relation information generating device including a data relation definition input unit | 11-07-2013 |
20140052370 | MOBILE-BODY NAVIGATION DEVICE AND MOBILE-BODY NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A mobile-body navigation device includes a communication device | 02-20-2014 |
20140104082 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE - In an information display device having a display screen and driven by receiving power supply from a battery, there is provided with a plurality of display patterns each of which the display range is reduced from a full screen display state displayed on the whole of the display screen, and the screen is switched to any one of the plurality of display patterns in accordance with a battery remaining capacity and a display content, and displayed. | 04-17-2014 |
20140207357 | VEHICLE-SIDE SYSTEM - The present invention aims to provide a vehicle-side system capable of enhancing convenience for drivers who are driving vehicles having an auto-cruise function. A vehicle-side system of the present invention is mounted on a vehicle having an auto-cruise function and is capable of receiving traffic conditions from outside the vehicle. The vehicle-side system includes a position detector that detects vehicle position information that is information regarding the position of the vehicle, a receiver that receives traffic conditions, an auto-cruise setting unit that makes settings including a setting of a predetermined speed at which the auto-cruise function causes the vehicle to travel, and a controller that performs control to change the settings made by the auto-cruise setting unit on the basis of the traffic conditions received by the receiver, the settings in the auto-cruise setting unit, and the vehicle position information detected by the position detector. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207362 | CENTER-SIDE SYSTEM AND VEHICLE-SIDE SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of estimating a waiting time at an energy refilling facility for each of drive types. A center-side system includes a center-side receiver that receives, from a vehicle-side system, probe vehicle position information and drive type information that is information regarding a drive type of a probe vehicle. Then, the center-side system includes: a traffic condition estimation unit that estimates a traffic condition, which includes a drive type-classified number of vehicles, based on the probe vehicle position information and the drive type information, which are received by the center-side receiver; and a center-side transmitter that transmits, to an outside, the traffic condition estimated by the traffic condition estimation unit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140240348 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method for displaying a plurality of map drawing pictures so as to improve convenience for a user. The map display device according to the present invention includes an input/display unit that receives input of user operation and displaying a first drawing object related to map information in a first drawing picture and a second drawing object related to map information in a second drawing picture; and a controller for controlling an overlapping state between the first drawing picture and a partial area of the second drawing picture in accordance with input of user operation received by the input/display unit and outputting, to the input/display unit, a picture in which the second drawing object masks the first drawing object in such an overlapped portion. | 08-28-2014 |
20140282156 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method that displays a plurality of map drawing pictures. The device and the method therefor can facilitate comprehension of relevance between drawing objects included respectively in the map drawing pictures. The map display device according to the present invention includes an input/display unit that receives input of user operation related to display of a drawing picture and displays a first drawing object related to map information in a first drawing picture and a second drawing object related to map information in a second drawing picture; and a controller that controls an overlapping state between the first drawing picture and the second drawing picture in accordance with input of user operation received by the input/display unit and outputs, to the input/display unit, a picture in which one of the first and second drawing objects masks the other one in a portion where the first and second drawing pictures are overlapped with each other. | 09-18-2014 |
20140298224 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method for simultaneously displaying a plurality of map drawing pictures so as to improve convenience for a user. The map display device includes an input unit that receives input of user operation related to display of a drawing picture, and a controller for controlling an overlapping state between first and second drawing pictures in accordance with input of user operation and outputting, to a display unit, a picture in which one of the first and second drawing objects masks the other one in a portion where the first and second drawing pictures are overlapped with each other. The controller changes display of one of the first and second drawing pictures in association with input of user operation to the other one. | 10-02-2014 |
20140313229 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - A map display method display a plurality of drawing pictures. The device and the method facilitate comprehension of relevance between drawing objects included in the drawing pictures. The map display device includes an input/display unit receiving user operation input related to drawing picture display and displays a first drawing object related to map information in a first drawing picture and a second drawing object related to map relevant information in a second drawing picture; and a controller controlling an overlapping state between the first drawing picture and the second drawing picture in accordance with input of user operation received by the input/display unit and outputs, to the input/display unit, a picture in which one of the first and second drawing objects masks the other one in a portion where the first and second drawing pictures are overlapped with each other. | 10-23-2014 |
20140327703 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a map display device and a map display method that facilitate comprehension of relevance between drawing objects in a plurality of map drawing pictures and improve user operability. The map display device according to the present invention includes: a controller that controls an overlapping state between the first and second drawing pictures in accordance with the input of user operation and outputting, to a display unit, a picture in which one of the first and second drawing objects masks the other in a portion in which the first and second drawing pictures overlap each other. The controller controls the overlapping state to prevent the priority drawing object in the first drawing picture from becoming invisible in the drawing picture display. | 11-06-2014 |
20150066354 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that can facilitate setting of an object, such as a favorite team. An information output device includes a database that associates and stores a region on a map and a sport team related to the region, a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a self-vehicle, and a favorite team setting processing unit that sets a favorite team from among sport teams. Moreover, the information output device includes a determination processing unit that specifies the region corresponding to the self-vehicle position acquired by the position acquisition unit and determines the sport team associated with the specified region in the database as an object to be set by the favorite team setting processing unit or a candidate for the object. | 03-05-2015 |
20150097785 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a touch panel | 04-09-2015 |
20150116235 | INFORMATION APPARATUS - An information apparatus includes a liquid crystal display unit | 04-30-2015 |
20150116336 | DISPLAY DEVICE - It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of saving energy in a drawing process while avoiding damage on the convenience of a display device. In order to achieve this object, a display device of the present invention includes an information processing executing unit having a normal mode prepared as an operation mode for a normal drawing process and one or more energy-saving modes prepared as operation modes for drawing processes in which energy is consumed less than in the normal mode. The information processing executing unit executes information processing in the operation mode. The display device includes: an operation mode determining unit that determines an operation mode; a controller that controls the operation of the information processing executing unit; and a drawing unit that executes a drawing process. | 04-30-2015 |
20150130729 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel | 05-14-2015 |
20150134240 | IMITATION SOUND GENERATION SYSTEM AND MAP DATABASE - An imitation sound generation system is provided that accurately informs a user of a road environment corresponding to a current location, by an imitation sound. A navigation apparatus, which serves as an imitation sound generation system, includes a map data storage apparatus that stores road network data including data regarding links each representing each road in a road network, a vehicle information acquiring unit that acquires a current location, and a travelling road determining unit that specifies a link to which the current location belongs. The map data storage apparatus stores a plurality of pieces of imitation sound data each being associated with each link. A controller determines a piece of imitation sound data that is associated with the link to which the current location belongs, on the basis of the plurality of pieces of imitation sound data. | 05-14-2015 |
20150181011 | IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION TERMINAL - An object is to provide a technique capable of displaying appropriate information on a passenger display unit used for a passenger other than a driver. An in-vehicle information terminal includes an in-vehicle device I/F and a controller. The in-vehicle device I/F is capable of communicating with an in-vehicle device having RSE monitors, and is capable of obtaining terminal position information indicating positions of communication terminals in a vehicle. The controller associates the RSE monitors and the communication terminals with each other, based on pre-registered display unit position information indicating the positions of the RSE monitors in the vehicle, and the terminal position information obtained by the in-vehicle device I/F. | 06-25-2015 |
20150191117 | VEHICLE APPROACH NOTIFICATION SOUND GENERATING APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus that is capable of generating a vehicle approach notification sound in a suitable range according to a vehicle speed. The vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus of the present invention is characterized by including a vehicle speed calculating unit that calculates a vehicle speed, a vehicle external speaker that outputs a vehicle approach notification sound for notifying of approach of the vehicle, and a general controller that controls a directivity angle width representing a breadth of directivity of the vehicle approach notification sound or a directivity direction of the vehicle approach notification sound, wherein the general controller controls the directivity angle width or the directivity direction according to the speed calculated by the vehicle speed calculating unit. | 07-09-2015 |
20150203031 | VEHICLE APPROACH NOTIFICATION SOUND GENERATING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus that communicates with another vehicle so as to be capable of generating a vehicle approach notification sound different from another vehicle. The vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus of the present invention includes a vehicle approach notification sound acquiring unit that acquires the vehicle approach notification sound output from another vehicle, a similarity distance calculating unit that calculates a similarity distance between the vehicle approach notification sound of the own vehicle output from a vehicle approach notifying unit and the vehicle approach notification sound of another vehicle acquired by the vehicle approach notification sound acquiring unit, a communication unit that is communicable with another vehicle, and a controller that communicates with another vehicle via the communication unit, makes adjustment whether the vehicle approach notification sound of another vehicle or the own vehicle is to be changed, and when the vehicle approach notification sound of the own vehicle is to be changed, makes control to change the vehicle approach notification sound of the own vehicle so that the similarity distance calculated by the similarity distance calculating unit is a predetermined threshold or more. | 07-23-2015 |
20150206434 | ON-VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an on-vehicle information processing device that is capable of sufficiently calling attention of a driver of an own vehicle. The on-vehicle information processing device according to the present invention includes: an other-vehicle position detector that detects a position of another vehicle existing in a vicinity of an own vehicle; a communication unit that acquires, via communication, other-vehicle information including driver dynamic information from the other vehicle whose position is detected by the other-vehicle position detector, the driver dynamic information indicating a current state of activity of a driver of the other vehicle; and a controller that controls calling attention of a driver of the own vehicle or traveling of the own vehicle based on the driver dynamic information acquired by the communication unit. | 07-23-2015 |
20150211880 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A navigation apparatus that acquires position information regarding a specific information device enables its own position relative to the specific information device to be easily grasped. The navigation apparatus includes a communication unit that communicates with the specific information device, an own position calculator that calculates its own position, an other person's position acquiring unit that acquires the position of the specific information device via the communication unit, an other person's moving direction acquiring unit that obtains a moving direction of the specific information device, and a display/input unit configured to display a map. The display/input unit displays a map with the moving direction of the specific information device oriented up. | 07-30-2015 |
20150212683 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY INFORMATION OPERATION METHOD - An information display device includes: a processor configured to execute a program and a memory that stores the program which, when executed by the processor, results in performance of steps including, causing, when the user operation is a gesture operation associated with a screen image movement-or-modification type function of controlling display information on the display surface in a control direction set in accordance with a gesture direction, a continuation icon for executing the screen image movement-or-modification type function to be displayed on the display surface, and executing, when the user operation is an execution instruction operation with respect to the continuation icon, the screen image movement-or-modification type function in the control direction that is the same as that of the gesture operation involved in appearance of the continuation icon. | 07-30-2015 |
20150233729 | MAP DISPLAY DEVICE, NAVIGATION DEVICE AND MAP DISPLAY METHOD - A map display device includes a position information acquiring unit for acquiring the present position of a vehicle; a map data storage unit for storing map data; a remaining energy acquiring unit for acquiring a residual quantity of energy for driving the vehicle and equipment mounted on the vehicle; a range calculating unit for computing a range the vehicle can travel with the remaining energy, using a moving energy consumption rate which is energy consumption per unit time required for moving the vehicle and a driving energy consumption rate Eci which is energy consumption per unit time required for driving the equipment mounted on the vehicle; and an output control unit for displaying the range on a map using the map data. | 08-20-2015 |
20150234572 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY INFORMATION OPERATION METHOD - A memory stores a program which, when executed by a processor, results in performance of steps including, causing, when a user operation is a gesture operation associated with a screen image movement-or-modification type function of controlling display information on a display surface in a control direction set in accordance with a gesture direction, a composite icon to be displayed on the display surface, the composite icon having multiple icons that are each associated with the screen image movement-or-modification type function but assigned different control directions, and executing, when the user operation is an execution instruction operation with respect to any of the icons of the composite icon, the screen image movement-or-modification type function in the control direction assigned to the icon with respect to which the execution instruction operation is performed. | 08-20-2015 |
20150243166 | IN-VEHICLE TRAFFIC INFORMATION NOTIFICATION DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an in-vehicle traffic information notification device which, even when it is difficult to specify a traveling route of an own car, can notify adequate traffic information to users. A passage probability calculator of the traffic information notification device calculates a passage probability which is a probability that the own car passes an occurrence position of each traffic hazard obtained by a traffic information receiver, based on a current position of the own car detected by a current position detector and traveling history data stored in a traveling history data storage. A display unit and a sound output unit notify occurrence information of the traffic hazard to the user by a mode corresponding to the passage probability of the traffic hazard. | 08-27-2015 |
20150345970 | DESTINATION PREDICTION APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to predict a destination easily, and a destination display method for displaying a predicted destination. The destination prediction apparatus of the present invention includes: a behavior history acquiring unit that acquires, the behavior history; a visit history acquiring unit that acquires the visit history; a similar behavior date-and-time extractor that performs a similarity determination between a behavior within a predetermined period prior to a present date and time and a behavior in another period with reference to the behavior history and that extracts a date and time of the behavior in another period determined to be similar as a similar behavior date and time from the behavior history; and a destination candidate extractor that extracts, as a destination candidate, a location visited within a predetermined period before or after the similar behavior date and time from the visit history. | 12-03-2015 |