Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090154712 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF OUTPUTTING SOUND INFORMATION - An azimuth and distance calculator calculates the relative direction and distance to the next intersection to be guided, based on information on the intersection supplied from storage for received information on an object to be guided and information on the moving histories of a user. Then, the calculator converts the relative direction into a horizontal angle and the distance to an elevation angle, and passes the angles to a stereophony generator. The stereophony generator creates output sound information having a sound image localized outside of a headphone and outputs the information to the headphone. In this manner, the user can accurately understand the distance to the object. | 06-18-2009 |
20100030461 | SYSTEM, NAVIGATION METHOD, MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION SET - When traveling to a destination reported in a television broadcast or the like, the user has had to make a memo while watching the television and, when actually traveling by car, the user has had to enter necessary information into an in-vehicle terminal by looking at the memo. A broadcast provider broadcasts a travel program together with travel destination information related to it, and a television terminal presents the received broadcast and travel destination information to the user. If the user desires to travel to the destination thus presented, the television terminal downloads the received travel destination information into a memory card. When the user goes out by car at a later date, the in-vehicle information terminal acquires the travel destination information from the memory card, a route setting section sets the route by using travel destination location information contained in the travel destination information, and a communication section acquires real-time information by using a method of connection to a real-time information having the travel destination information. | 02-04-2010 |
20120283929 | RIDING TYPE VEHICLE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING RIDING TYPE VEHICLE - A vehicle includes a contact-position-dependent type operational intention determining unit that detects a change in posture of a rider using posture sensors for a backrest disposed in areas of a backrest with which left and right shoulder blades of the rider come into contact, and thereby determines whether there is an operational intention of the rider; and a left-right amount-of-change comparison type turn intention determining unit that determines, only when it is determined that there is an operational intention, whether there is a left or right turn intention of the rider from a difference between sensor output values located left-right symmetrically. | 11-08-2012 |
20130259573 | ARTIFICIAL SOIL STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - An artificial soil structure includes a water shield layer provided on a soil layer and including water repellent sand processed by water repellent treatment, a water retentive layer provided on the water shield layer and including water retentive sand with no water repellent treatment, and a water repellent soil body provided partially in the water shield layer so as to penetrate the water shield layer and be in contact with the soil layer and the water retentive layer, the soil body including sand processed by water repellent treatment, wherein the water shield layer has water infiltration pressure higher than that of the water repellent soil body. | 10-03-2013 |
20140031981 | AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION APPARATUS, AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR AUTONOMOUS LOCOMOTION APPARATUS - The autonomous locomotion apparatus has a human information acquisition unit which detects a person. When there is probability of contact between the detected person and the autonomous locomotion apparatus based on movement information of the person, the autonomous locomotion apparatus controls a traveling speed or a rotational speed of the autonomous locomotion apparatus to perform a guide operation which presents a path of the autonomous locomotion apparatus which is intended to cause the person to predict, so that it causes the person to avoid the path without giving the person a sense of uneasiness. | 01-30-2014 |
20140048542 | WATER STORAGE STRUCTURE - A water storage structure includes an impermeable layer including a plurality of hydrophobic particles, a water retentive layer provided on the impermeable layer and capable of holding a predetermined volume of liquid, and a pavement layer provided on the water retentive layer and including a tube penetrating from a first surface to a second surface. | 02-20-2014 |
20140334877 | WATER COLLECTING STRUCTURE - A water repellent sand layer that is made of water repellent sand and serves as a water shield layer is provided to be slanted between upper and lower soil layers, a water conveying belt portion is provided to include at least one or both of gravel and a culvert that are provided between the water repellent sand layer and the upper soil layer, and a water shield wall is provided at a slant downstream side. Water falling and permeating from a ground surface into the soil layer is blocked by the water repellent sand layer, flows downward in the water conveying belt portion located above the water repellent sand layer to the slant downstream side, and is blocked by the water shield wall at the slant downstream side, so that the collected water is recovered from a drain hole in the culvert that penetrates the water shield wall. | 11-13-2014 |
20150014145 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM INCLUDED IN DESALINATION SYSTEM, DESALINATION SYSTEM, AND DESALINATION METHOD - In a desalination system, a water-repellent particle layer is provided at a lower portion of a water tank and composed of water-repellent particles. A devolatilizing layer is provided below the layer. Liquid is provided in the tank and is heated for evaporation, and obtained vapor passes through the particle layer and is liquefied at the devolatilizing layer, so that freshwater is obtained from the liquid. The particle layer includes a first and a second particle layers composed of discriminable first and second particles. A particle measuring unit measures an amount of the second water-repellent particles. A decision unit decides whether or not the measured amount of the second water-repellent particles is equal to or more than a predetermined value. A controller alerts when the decision unit decides that the amount of the second particles is equal to or more than the predetermined value. | 01-15-2015 |
20150014146 | DESALINATION SYSTEM AND DESALINATION METHOD - A desalination system includes a water tank, a water-repellent particle layer located at a lower portion of the tank and composed of water-repellent particles, and a devolatilizing layer located below the water-repellent particle layer. Liquid is introduced to the tank, the introduced liquid is heated to be evaporated into water vapor, and the water vapor passes through the water-repellent particle layer and is liquefied at the devolatilizing layer, so that fresh water is obtained from the liquid. The desalination system further includes a liquid level controller for determining a level of the liquid introduced to the tank in accordance with information on relationship between information corresponding to an amount of the liquid introduced to the tank and a surface level of the liquid in the tank, and an introduced amount controller for adjusting the amount of the liquid introduced to the tank in accordance with the determined liquid surface level. | 01-15-2015 |