| FURUNO Electric Company Limited Patent applications |
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| 20140355587 | WIRELESS ACCESS POINT DEVICE AND WIRELESS NETWORK SYSTEM WITH THE SAME - There is provided a configuration in an access point managed by a management device for dealing with a situation in which management by the management device is no longer possible. An access point | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140354468 | RADAR APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASURING RADAR PERFORMANCE - A radar apparatus is provided. The radar apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit radar signals via a radar antenna, a receiver configured to receive reflection waves that are echoes of the radar signals, via the radar antenna, a radar image generating module configured to generate a radar image based on the reflection waves received by the receiver, a performance monitor configured to measure performance of at least one of the transmitter and the receiver, and a controller configured to cause the performance monitor to perform the measurement while the transmission of the radar signals is suspended. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140324292 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND COURSE SETTING METHOD - An information display device includes a preset course information receiver, a symbol display processor, a change mode execution processor, and a preset course information transmitter. The preset course information receiver receives preset course information from an automatic steering device. The symbol display processor displays a symbol representing a preset course on a display screen to correspond to position information of a mobile body based on the preset course information. The change mode execution processor executes a change mode for changing the preset course information based on a fact that the symbol has been designated with a manipulation component. The preset course information transmitter transmits the preset course information changed during the change mode to the automatic steering device. The symbol display processor changes an orientation of the symbol representing the preset course according to a change operation in the preset course information with the manipulation component during the change mode. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140306997 | MOBILE BODY DISPLAY DEVICE AND MOBILE BODY DISPLAY METHOD - A mobile body display device includes an acquisition component, a memory component, an input component, a length adjuster, and a display controller. The acquisition component acquires position and speed of a mobile body. The memory component stores a plurality of display ranges, a number of range rings for each display range, and a reference speed. The input component receives input designating one of the display ranges. The length adjuster adjusts length of a speed vector on a screen such that length of a speed vector indicating the reference speed on the screen is the same as a spacing of the range rings on the screen based on the display range. The display controller displays the mobile body on the screen according to the position, and displays adjacent to the mobile body a speed vector for which heading and length have been set based on the length and the speed. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140244081 | AUTOMATIC STEERING DEVICE, AUTOMATIC STEERING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING AUTOMATIC STEERING PROGRAM - There is provided an automatic steering device with which a heading can be stably controlled even under powerful disturbance. The control computer | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140148133 | MARINE WIRELESS DEVICE AND RECORDED DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A marine wireless device includes a calling unit, a response unit, a communication establishment unit, a call processor, a condition memory unit, and a recorded data processor. The calling unit sends call information requesting the start of communication. The response unit sends response information with respect to the call information sent by a communication partner. The communication establishment unit receives the response information from the communication partner and establishes communication with the communication partner. The call processor executes a voice call with the communication partner with whom the communication establishment unit has established communication. The call memory unit stores as recorded data a voice call executed by the call processor. The condition memory unit stores specific data processing conditions related to recorded data. The recorded data processor varies the processing related to recorded data according to the data processing conditions. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140118187 | TRACKING PROCESSING DEVICE AND TRACKING PROCESSING METHOD - There are provided a tracking processing device and a tracking processing method with which time lag from the receipt of a command to track a target until the movement state of this target is estimated more accurately can be reduced, the calculation burden can be reduced, and the memory capacity can be reduced. A tracking processing device | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140118184 | RADAR DEVICE AND VELOCITY CALCULATION METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide a radar device and a velocity calculation method with which velocity can be calculated more accurately. A radar device | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140104100 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF TRACKING TARGET OBJECT - A target object tracking device is provided. The device includes a memory for storing association information in which a selecting order of target objects is associated with symbols indicating the target objects, respectively, a starting selection accepting module for accepting a selection of the target objects to start tracking thereof, a symbol reading module for reading the symbols for the selected target objects corresponding to the selecting order of the target objects based on the association information, a tracking module for tracking the selected target objects, a symbol displaying module for displaying the symbols read by the symbol reading module, at positions where the target objects tracked by the tracking module are displayed, and a symbol changing module for changing, according to an operation of a user, the association information and displaying the symbols at the positions where the target objects are displayed, based on the changed association information. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140036761 | SATELLITE COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND REMOTE CONTROL METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a satellite communication device which receives instructions from a remote place and automatically carries out a predetermined process. The satellite communication device includes an acquiring section, a storing section, and a control section. The acquiring section acquires instruction information through an artificial satellite by line switching type communication. The storing section stores the instruction information and a registered process by established correspondence. The control section reads out a process corresponding to the instruction information acquired by the acquiring section based on storage contents of the storing section, and carries out the process that has been read out. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20130300597 | TARGET FINDER, HIGH RESOLUTION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND HIGH RESOLUTION PROCESSING METHOD - A high resolution processing device that is provided to a target finder for detecting a presence of a target, and that increases resolution of a received signal received by the target finder, includes a first change amount calculator, a second change amount calculator, a coefficient setting component, and an output signal production component. The first change amount calculator calculates as a first change amount an amount of change in the received signal received by the target finder per unit quantity in one direction of an angle direction and a distance direction. The second change amount calculator calculates as a second change amount an amount of change in the first change amount per unit quantity in the one direction. The coefficient setting component sets at least one coefficient based on the first change amount and the second change amount. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130276688 | AUTOMATIC STEERING DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC STEERING METHOD - There is provided an automatic steering device with which an optimal duty ratio for achieving an optimal rudder turning speed at a cruising speed can be found simply and accurately. An automatic steering device | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130194129 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, RADAR APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME, METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - This disclosure provides an image processing device, which includes a relative trail image memory for storing a relative trail data group indicating relative changes in position of a target object detected by echo signals obtained corresponding to detection signals transmitted while changing a transmitting azimuth direction, with respect to a transmitting position from which the detection signals are transmitted, and an approaching target object determination processing module for determining whether the target object detected with the detection signals is an approaching target object that approaches the transmitting position based on relative trail data existing on the same sweep line among the relative trail data group stored in the relative trail image memory. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130085630 | FISHFINDER DATA DISPLAY DEVICE, FISHFINDER DEVICE, METHOD OF SPECIFYING DESTINATION AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA - A fishfinder data display device is provided. The display device includes a memory for storing fishfinder data obtained by a fishfinder detecting underwater and a location where the fishfinder data is acquired so as to associate the fishfinder data with the location, a display unit for displaying an image created based on the fishfinder data, and a controller, when an operator performs a specifying operation to a predetermined part of the image displayed by the display unit, for reading the location corresponding to the fishfinder data based on the specified predetermined part of the image from the memory, and causing an autopilot device to execute an autopilot operation with the location as a destination. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20120313814 | DISTURBANCE SIGNAL REMOVING DEVICE, RADAR APPARATUS AND METHOD OF REMOVING DISTURBANCE SIGNAL - A disturbance signal removing device is provided. The device includes an antenna for transmitting a modulated pulse signal and a non-modulated pulse signal, and a transmission frequency setter for selectively setting as a transmission frequency band of the modulated pulse signal any one of a plurality of mutually different frequency bands of the modulated pulse signal that are different from a transmission frequency band set to the non-modulated pulse signal. The transmission frequency setter switches between the plurality of transmission frequency bands of the modulated pulse signal. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120299819 | SENSOR IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - This disclosure provides a sensor image display device, which includes a display unit configured to display a sensor image generated based on a signal acquired by a sensor, a selection user interface for allowing a user to select a partial area from an area where the sensor image is displayed, and a sensor image generator for generating the sensor image by performing different signal processing for the selected area and one or more areas other than the selected area. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120195167 | Underwater Detection Device - An underwater detection device for detecting underwater by transmission and reception of an ultrasonic signal is provided. The device includes a transmission module for transmitting the ultrasonic signal underwater, a reception module for receiving an echo signal of the transmitted ultrasonic signal, a bottom detection module for detecting a bottom based on the echo signal from the bottom, a bottom-sediment determination module for calculating probabilities of the bottom sediment on how much the bottom sediment contains each of predetermined bottom sediment types based on the echo signal and a bottom-sediment display module for displaying a texture representing each of the bottom sediment types below the bottom being displayed based on the probabilities. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120154217 | METHOD AND PROGRAM OF ACQUIRING NAVIGATION MESSAGE, GNSS RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND MOBILE TERMINAL - A navigation message acquiring unit acquires bit data per word from a received bit data row. Here, if continuous words constituting one subframe is failed to be acquired in one frame, only a word that is accurately decoded is stored. Here, final two bits in a word immediately prior to the accurately decoded word is also stored along with the accurately decoded word. If all of the words constituting the one subframe are successfully acquired in a plurality of frames, a phase match between the words is performed by using the final two bits in the word stored along with each of the words and immediately prior to the accurately decoded word, a supplemented subframe is formed by joining each of the phased matched words, and the navigation message acquiring unit outputs the supplemented subframe with time-of-week information. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120143408 | STEERING ASSIST SYSTEM AND METHOD USING AUTOPILOT DEVICE - A steering assist system for a vehicle includes a turning device, a steering device, a steering sensor and an autopilot device. The steering device is operable to apply a first turning force to the turning device. The steering sensor detects a steering state of the steering device during which the steering device applies the first turning force. The autopilot device automatically navigates the vehicle to a desired heading of the vehicle. The autopilot device includes an actuator and a steering assist control section. The actuator is operable to apply a second turning force to the turning device. The steering assist control section controls the actuator to apply the second turning force to turn the turning device in the same direction that the first turning force is turning the turning device when the steering sensor detects the steering state of the steering device. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20110319750 | NAVIGATION DATA SHARING SYSTEM AND NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT - A navigation system includes two or more navigation instruments connected with a network, and two or more sensors connected with the network and for detecting information to be used by the navigation instruments. The navigation instrument includes a switch control module for switching between a state in which the navigation instrument functions as a mother unit and as a child unit, a delivery module for transmitting through the network, when one of the navigation instruments functions as the mother unit, representative sensor selection related information to another navigation instrument that functions, the representative sensor selection related information being information about which sensor is to be used among the two or more sensors, and a representative sensor selecting module for selecting the sensor to be used based on the representative sensor selection related information received from the navigation instrument that functions as the mother unit. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20100289690 | RADAR DEVICE - A radar device is disclosed, which includes an antenna for transmitting an electromagnetic wave and receiving an echo signal from a target object while rotating in a horizontal plane, a display module for displaying the target object so as to correspond the echo signal to a position of the target object with respect to the antenna, a speed calculation module for calculating a relative velocity of the antenna and the target object, and a risk level detection module for detecting a risk level of the target object based on the relative velocity of the target object calculated by the speed calculation module. The speed calculation module calculates the relative velocity of the target object based on a change in phases of at least two of the echo signals received at a different time. The display module controls a display mode of the target object based on the risk level. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100283670 | GPS COMPOUND NAVIGATION DEVICE - To provide a GPS compound device having a configuration including a GPS receiver, that accurately determines abnormality in an output from the GPS receiver based on a difference between a GPS pseudorange measurement and a Doppler frequency measurement, when detecting the abnormality in the outputs from the GPS receiver, while avoiding continuation of the abnormality at the time of the abnormality determination resulting from estimation errors of the GPS pseudorange measurement and the Doppler frequency measurement. When the abnormality of the outputs from the GPS receiver are detected, an abnormal period is counted. When the count value is below a predetermined threshold, the outputs from the GPS receiver are treated as abnormal, and after it exceeded the threshold, the outputs from the GPS receiver are treated as normal. Thus, the abnormality of the outputs from the GPS receiver can be determined accurately. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100283628 | Underwater detection device - An underwater detection device for detecting underwater by transmission and reception of an ultrasonic signal is provided. The device includes a transmission module for transmitting the ultrasonic signal underwater, a reception module for receiving an echo signal of the transmitted ultrasonic signal, a bottom detection module for detecting a bottom based on the echo signal from the bottom, a bottom-sediment determination module for calculating probabilities of the bottom sediment on how much the bottom sediment contains each of predetermined bottom sediment types based on the echo signal and a bottom-sediment display module for displaying a texture representing each of the bottom sediment types below the bottom being displayed based on the probabilities. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100225525 | RADAR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF DETECTING A TARGET OBJECT USING RADAR - This disclosure provides a radar device including a transmission module for sequentially transmitting two or more kinds of pulse signals having different pulse widths by a predetermined transmitting pattern, a memory module for storing a predetermined number of pulse reply data corresponding to each kind of the pulse signals, the predetermined number being number of transmissions of the kind of the pulse signals, a pulse integrating module for performing pulse integration of the pulse reply data stored in the memory module for each kind of the pulse signal, and an image generating module for generating a radar image using the results of the pulse integration. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100211315 | GPS COMPOSITE NAVIGATION APPARATUS - In a GPS composite navigation apparatus of a configuration having a GPS receiver, variation in an estimated position, an estimated velocity, and an estimated azimuth of a moving body when the moving body is not moving is resolved, and the GPS/INS integrated navigation system with good response characteristics from a stationary state to a moving state. A stationary detector for determining the stationary state of the moving body is provided, and when it is determined to be the stationary state by the stationary detector, a measurement model used for measurement-update of a Kalman filter is changed, while a changed amount of an error covariance matrix by the update is corrected. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100164827 | DIELECTRIC ANTENNA - This disclosure provides a dielectric antenna including an antenna element for radiating electromagnetic waves at a predetermined frequency in a predetermined direction, and a dielectric member arranged in the radiating direction of the electromagnetic waves radiated from the antenna element. The dielectric member includes two or more dielectric layer portions each extending in a direction perpendicular to the radiating direction of the electromagnetic waves. The two or more dielectric layer portions are arranged at predetermined intervals in the radiating direction of the electromagnetic waves. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100085263 | Slot array antenna - A slot array antenna is provided, which has a high gain and a high efficiency, is controllable of side lobes, and is adaptable to various polarized waves. The slot array antenna includes a radiation waveguide | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100026597 | Antenna - It is an object of the invention to provide an antenna with small side-lobe while narrowing the beam width to a desired one without the antenna increased in weight. Besides, it is also an object of the invention to decrease the manufacturing process less than ever before and reduce the cost. Furthermore, it is also an object of the invention to improve stability when the antenna is turned. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090201766 | UNDERWATER DETECTOR - The present disclosure provides an underwater detector including a power source for applying a predetermined voltage, a voltage control circuit for controlling the voltage based on a control signal, a gate signal generating module for outputting a gate signal, a switching circuit for outputting a reference signal based on the voltage controlled by the voltage control circuit and the gate signal outputted from the gate signal generating module, and a transducer for transmitting an ultrasonic signal underwater, an envelope of which being controlled based on a waveform of the control signal by being applied with the reference signal. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090122642 | Bottom-sediment classification device and method - A device and method for determining bottom sediment is provided. The method includes transmitting a pulse of a pulse width corresponding to a water-bottom depth, extracting a series of amplitude data of water-bottom echo signals from predetermined signals among the water-bottom echo signals received by the transducer at a predetermined time interval, normalizing the extracted series of amplitude data after TVG-processed, calculating two or more feature quantities based on the normalized series of amplitude data in each of segments of the normalized series of amplitude data, and a value corresponding to the water-bottom depth, and generating bottom-sediment classification information indicating the bottom sediment based on the two or more feature quantities. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090079590 | Device for Displaying Other Ship Targets - An apparatus for displaying other ship targets is provided that displays the positions and detailed information concerning substantially all vessels present in a predetermined region around the own ship in a manner that is easy to grasp for the operator. A display screen includes Graphical Position Display Area | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090058718 | Radar apparatus and the like - Methods and apparatuses process sensing signals. A method for redrawing a sensing image when a range is or has been changed, according to one aspect of the present invention, records the sensing image and outputs the sensing image to a display; records additional information displayed upon a screen and outputs the additional information to the display; computes a new image from the recorded sensing image using an image manipulation computer function, so that the computed image fits a new scale of the changed range, and recording the computed image; and computes changes to the recorded additional information to adjust the additional information to the new scale of the changed range, and records the computed additional information. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20080298526 | Code Controller - A code controller that configures a code state at a substantially constant and low storage volume, and furthermore at a substantially constant computational processing amount, regardless of which state position a desired code state is present in within the state area of the code states. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080247275 | Underwater detection apparatus - An underwater detection apparatus for detecting a target by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound signal is provided. The apparatus includes a replica memory module for storing the typical amplitude evolution of a seawall echo during a predetermined time period as a template-replica beforehand, a correlator module for determining a correlation between the amplitude evolution of an echo signal reflected from the target and the template-replica, a seawall detector module for detecting a seawall position based on the correlation, and a seawall display processor module for displaying the seawall on its position in an indicator. | 10-09-2008 |
