Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100057352 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A map information processing apparatus includes a road matching means ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100063727 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A map information processing apparatus includes: a vehicle position calculation unit | 03-11-2010 |
20100223000 | Onboard information terminal and map information providing apparatus and map information providing system using them - A map information providing system has a map information providing apparatus | 09-02-2010 |
20100332128 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A map information processing apparatus includes a map information storage unit ( | 12-30-2010 |
20110175931 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND DATA STRUCTURE OF MAP INFORMATION - A map information processor includes a map information storage unit | 07-21-2011 |
20110231089 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A map information processing device includes a map information storage unit | 09-22-2011 |
20110231090 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A map information processing device includes a map information storage unit | 09-22-2011 |
20110231093 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - A map information processing device includes: a map information storage unit 23 for storing map information; a sensor information input unit 22 for inputting sensor information used for calculation of a current position; a navigation processing unit 25 for calculating the current position by using the map information read from the map information storage unit, and the sensor information inputted from the sensor information input unit, and for, when determining, from the above-mentioned calculated current position, that a vehicle has entered a tunnel shown by the above-mentioned read map information, calculating the number of tunnels excising forwardly and continuously at intervals of a predetermined distance or less from the above-mentioned tunnel to generate a map image about a map including the above-mentioned calculated number of tunnels; and an output control unit 26 for outputting the map image generated by the navigation processing unit 25. | 09-22-2011 |
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 |
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 |
20120130944 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - Disclosed is a map information processing device including an update information acquiring unit for acquiring update information for updating map information including regional map files and mesh management information, and a processor for updating each regional map file of the map information by using the update information, in which each regional map file stores mesh information, the mesh management information includes mesh management records, each mesh management record includes file identifying information for identifying a regional map file including a corresponding mesh, version information about the version of the regional map file, and mesh storage location information showing the storage location of the mesh information in the regional map file, and the file identifying information of a mesh management record corresponding to a mesh stored in a plurality of regional map files determines the latest version of a regional map file. | 05-24-2012 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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20110053071 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide a toner comprising: a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the toner has a core shell structure, and wherein the core contains at least one resin selected from the group consisting of a hybrid resin and a polyester resin, where the hybrid resin is a resin in which a polyester resin and a vinyl resin are chemically bonded to each other, and the shell contains a resin prepared by polymerizing at least a styrene monomer and an ester monomer represented by the following General Formula (1): | 03-03-2011 |
20110053077 | COLORED RESIN PARTICLE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - The present invention provides a method for producing a colored resin particle, the method including: preparing an oil phase in which at least a resin and a colorant are dissolved or dispersed in an organic solvent; preparing an aqueous phase containing at least a surfactant in an aqueous medium; dispersing the oil phase in the aqueous phase to prepare a colored particle dispersion liquid so as to form core particles; causing resin fine particles to adhere to surfaces of the core particles by adding at least the resin fine particles to the colored particle dispersion liquid, in which the core particles have been formed; removing the solvent from the colored particle dispersion liquid to obtain colored resin particles, washing the colored resin particles, and drying the colored resin particles, wherein an inorganic base is dissolved in the colored particle dispersion liquid. | 03-03-2011 |
20110164901 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A toner containing core particles each containing at least a resin A having a polyester skeleton and a colorant; and vinyl resin fine particles each of which encapsulates a resin B having at least a polyester skeleton and an endothermic peak measured by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at 40° C. to 110° C., wherein the vinyl resin fine particles are attached onto each of the core particles. | 07-07-2011 |
20110250533 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a toner for an electrostatic image developer, including: a core particle obtained by dispersing, in an aqueous medium, an oil phase prepared by dissolving or dispersing at least a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent in an organic solvent; and a shell layer formed of vinyl resin fine particles present on a surface of the core particle, wherein the shell layer has protruding portions formed of the vinyl resin fine particles, and wherein the vinyl resin fine particles contain 80% by mass or more of an aromatic compound which has a vinyl-polymerizable functional group, and a vinyl resin which forms the vinyl resin fine particles has a weight average molecular weight of 8,000 to 16,000. | 10-13-2011 |
20110287356 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic image developing toner including toner core particles each containing at least a first resin and a colorant, and fine resin particles formed of a second resin, wherein part of each of the fine resin particles is embedded in each of the toner core particles, and the remaining part of the fine resin particle is exposed on a surface of the toner core particle to form a protrusion, and wherein when a rate of the part of the fine resin particle to the fine resin particle is indicated by an embedment rate, an average of the embedment rates in the fine resin particles is 40% to 80%. | 11-24-2011 |
20120219321 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A toner including a binder resin, a colorant and protruding portions on a surface of the toner, wherein the average length of long sides of the protruding portions is 0.1 μm or greater, but less than 0.5 μm, wherein the standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protruding portions is 0.2 or less, and wherein the protruding portions have a coverage of 30% to 90%. | 08-30-2012 |
20120237253 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, TONER CONTAINER AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic image developing toner including: toner particles; wherein the toner particles each contain: a core particle including a first resin and a colorant; and fine resin particles each formed of a second resin and existing in a surface of the core particle, wherein part of each fine resin particle is embedded in the core particle to form an embedded region, and the remaining part of the fine resin particle is exposed on the surface of the core particle to form an exposed region, and wherein each toner particle satisfies an expression of R | 09-20-2012 |
20120237267 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic image developing toner including: toner particles each containing binder resin and colorant; and an external additive supported on the toner particles, wherein the toner particles each have protrusions on surface thereof, average of lengths of long sides of the protrusions is 0.10 μm or more but less than 0.50 μm, standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protrusions is 0.20 or less, coverage rate of the protrusions on the surface of each toner particle is 30% to 90%, the external additive includes at least two different particles including external additive (A) and one or more external additives (B), external additive (A) has longest average primary particle diameter among the external additives and charged to have the opposite polarity to the toner particles, and at least one of the external additives (B) is charged to have the same polarity as the toner particles. | 09-20-2012 |
20120251938 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING COLORED RESIN PARTICLES, COLORED RESIN PARTICLES, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A method for producing colored resin particles including: dissolving or dispersing at least binder resin and colorant in organic solvent to prepare oil phase; dissolving resin A and basic compound in aqueous medium to prepare aqueous phase, the resin A having solubility <2.0 g/100 g water having temperature 25° C. and pH 3.0 and solubility ≧2.0 g/100 g water having temperature 25° C. and pH 10.0; dispersing the oil phase in the aqueous phase to prepare core particle dispersion liquid; dispersing resin particles in aqueous medium to prepare resin particle dispersion liquid, and adding the resin particle dispersion liquid to the core particle dispersion liquid so that the resin particles are attached onto the core particles, to prepare dispersion liquid containing particles each having the core particle and the resin particles attached thereonto; removing the organic solvent from the dispersion liquid; washing the particles; and drying the particles. | 10-04-2012 |
20120264048 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Provided is a toner including: toner particles, each toner particle containing a toner base particle, wherein the toner contains a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner base particle has protrusions at a surface thereof, wherein an average of lengths of long sides of the protrusions is 0.1 μm or more but less than 0.5 μm, a standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protrusions is 0.20 or less, and a coverage rate of the protrusions is 30% to 90%, wherein a resin forming the protrusions is prepared through polymerization of a monomer mixture containing at least a monomer having a sulfonic acid group, and wherein the monomer mixture contains styrene in an amount of 90% by mass or more and the monomer having a sulfonic acid group in an amount of 0.1% by mass to 5% by mass. | 10-18-2012 |
20130029260 | TONER, DEVELOPER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER - A toner including: a core particle; and fine resin particles, the core particle containing at least a binder resin, a releasing agent and a colorant, wherein the toner is in shape of particles, and each toner particle has a sea-island structure having the core particle and island portions, which are convex portions formed from the fine resin particles on surface of the core particle, wherein the binder resin contains first and second resins, and the fine resin particles are made of third resin, wherein the first resin is crystalline resin, and the second and third resins are non-crystalline resin, wherein the second resin has glass transition temperature (Tg2) and the crystalline resin has melting point (Tc1) where Tg2 is higher than Tc1, and wherein the third resin has glass transition temperature (Tg3) and the toner has glass transition temperature (Tgt) wherein Tg3 is higher than Tgt. | 01-31-2013 |
20130244157 | TONER, DEVELOPER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner, including: a binder resin; releasing agent-encapsulating capsules; and a colorant, wherein the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules each include: a capsule formed of a resin (I) which is different from the binder resin; and a releasing agent (RA) which is encapsulated in the capsule, and the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules exist in the binder resin, and wherein 50% to 100% of the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules exist in a region from a surface of the toner to a depth of 0.10 times a volume-average particle diameter of the toner. | 09-19-2013 |
20130344427 | TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a silicone oil-treated external additive, wherein the silicone oil-treated external additive contains free silicone oil, and a total amount of the free silicone oil is 0.2% by mass to 0.5% by mass relative to the toner, and wherein the toner has the average circularity of 0.96 to 1. | 12-26-2013 |
20140038095 | TONER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner including: toner particles each including a toner base particle and an external additive attached thereon, where the toner base particle includes a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the toner base particles each have protrusions on a surface thereof, an average of lengths of long sides of the protrusions is 0.10 μm or more but less than 0.50 μm, a standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protrusions is 0.2 or less, a coverage rate of the protrusions on the surface of the toner base particle is 10% to 90%, and the external additive includes fine inorganic particles whose surfaces have been treated with an amino group-containing silane coupling agent. | 02-06-2014 |
20140050504 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic image developing toner including: toner base particles each including a binder resin and a colorant; and an external additive, wherein the toner base particles each have protrusions on a surface thereof, an average of lengths of long sides of the protrusions is 0.1 μm or more but less than 0.5 μm, a standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protrusions is 0.2 or less, a coverage rate of the protrusions on the surface of each toner base particle is 10% to 90%, and the external additive includes an external additive (A) which is fine inorganic particles each containing silicone oil. | 02-20-2014 |
20140147779 | TONER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE TONER - A toner is provided. The toner includes a crystalline resin and a non-crystalline resin, and has a thermal property such that when the toner is heated after being firstly heated to 60° C. followed by cooling in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the toner has a clear peak specific to melting of the crystalline resin at a temperature T1, and when the toner is heated after being firstly heated to 80° C. followed by cooling in the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the toner does not have a clear peak specific to melting of the crystalline resin at a temperature not higher than the temperature T1. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147780 | TONER - A toner is prepared by wet granulation methods, including a monoester wax having carbon atoms of from 36 to 46 on average as a release agent. The toner has a DSC endothermic energy amount (ΔH1) originating from the wax of from 10 to 12 mJ/mg and a DSC endothermic energy amount (ΔH2) originating from the wax of from 0.6 to 0.9 times as much as ΔH1 after a part of the wax is separated by hexane extraction from the toner. The hexane extraction includes mixing 1 g of the toner in 7 ml of n-hexane to prepare a mixture; stirring the mixture at 120 rpm for 1 min by a pot mill to prepare a dispersion; and subjecting the dispersion to suction filtration. | 05-29-2014 |
20140147784 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus, including:
| 05-29-2014 |
20140356774 | LATENT ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - A toner including: a core particle containing at least a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent; and a shell on a surface of the core particle, wherein the toner gives a supernatant having a transmittance of 50% to 95% with respect to light having a wavelength of 800 nm, where the supernatant is formed after 3 g of the toner is added to 40 g of ion-exchange water containing 0.5% by mass of sodium dodecyl sulfate, followed by stirring for 90 min and by irradiating with ultrasonic waves of 20 kHz and 80 W for 5 min, and a liquid containing the toner dispersed therein is centrifugated at 3,000 rpm for 5 min. | 12-04-2014 |