Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Electronics Corporation

Hiroaki Shibasaki

Yoshiya Nonaka

Takehiko Shioda

Hideki Amano

Junichi Yoshio

Kenichi Kawasaki

Keiichi Yamauchi

Takayuki Iijima

Shinichi Gayama

Katsuaki Yamanoi

Soichi Toyama

Yukitaka Saito

Naohiko Ichihara

Osamu Yoshizawa

Jun Shinohara

Masae Shimada

To provide an information generation device and the like that, when generating transmission data of inter-mobile body communication having a limited data amount, generate information that can be effectively used by a mobile body on a reception side. An information generation devicemountable on a mobile body (), the information generation deviceestimating a control attribute concerning driving control for another mobile body existing in a communicable range from a position of the mobile body (), the control attribute being a control attribute of mobile bodies relatively large in number, (S) and generating information for transmission transmitted to the other mobile body, the information for transmission including mobile body information of an item prioritized according to the estimated control attribute among a plurality of items of mobile body information including information concerning the driving control for the mobile body () (S).

Information generation device, information generation method, and program for information generation device

Provided is a determination device capable of safely and reliably causing a vehicle on a side road to enter and merge into a main road when merging into the main road. Information is acquired that indicates the vehicle status of vehicles CA, etc., and vehicles Ca, etc., that are traveling on a side road SR that merges with a main road MR on which the vehicles CA, etc., are traveling. When, on the basis of said information, an intervehicular space is to be formed between the vehicles CA, etc., that will make it possible for a vehicle Ca, etc., to enter, the vehicles CA, etc., are caused to form an interval on the basis of the acceleration applied to each of the vehicles CA, etc., and the entering vehicle Ca, etc., is allowed to move to a position in the intervehicular space.

Determination device, determination method, and program for determination

A detecting unit of an information presentation apparatus detects information concerning driver gaze directed toward a screen displaying map information indicating a current position of a mobile object. A determining unit determines information concerning specific items to be given to a driver from among predetermined information items. An obtaining unit obtains the information determined by the determining unit based on the map information. A generating unit generates guidance information that provides, by sound, the information obtained at the obtaining unit. An output unit outputs the guidance information generated by the generating unit.

Information presentation apparatus, information presentation method, information presentation program, and computer-readable recording medium

The content reproducing apparatus () includes an acquiring unit (), a requesting unit (), and an accepting unit (). The acquiring unit () acquires information concerning purchase target content. The requesting unit () makes a purchase request for the purchase target content acquired by the acquiring unit (). The accepting unit () accepts the purchase target content distributed by the content distributing apparatus based on the purchase request by the requesting unit () from the content managing apparatus that manages the content reproducing apparatus ().

Content purchasing and distributing method

A method and a system are provided for recording/reading information data using a first recording medium and a second recording medium each having its own identification data. The method comprises reading first encrypted information data encrypted in accordance with an identification data of the first recording medium and recorded in said first recording medium; encrypting the first encrypted information data in accordance with an identification data of the second recording medium, so as to produce second encrypted information data; recording the second encrypted information data in the second recording medium; reading the second encrypted information data from the second recording medium and decoding the second encrypted information data in accordance with the identification data of the second recording medium; and restoring the second encrypted information data into the first encrypted information data and recording the information data in the first recording medium.

Method of and system for recording and reproducing information data

In an advertisement information providing system, a destination is set based on the identification number assigned for each store, published by an advertisement provider. When the user arrives at the setup destination and visits the corresponding storeor purchases a commodity in the store, the storepays cooperation money to the advertisement provider

Advertisement information providing system

A contents presenting system includes: an analyzing unit which collects and analyzes user's conversation to output an analysis result; a contents acquiring unit which acquires contents from a contents database based on the analysis result; and a contents presenting unit which presents the acquired contents to the user. Since the analysis result of user's conversation includes a factor representing the environment where the user is talking, by determining contents based on the analysis result, it is possible to provide the contents which is suited for the environment where the user is present.

Contents presenting system and method

A car audio apparatus forms a piconet together with information terminals that can communicate information with the car audio apparatus using a BT radio communication system so that information can be communicated in the piconet, acquires the attribute information of each information terminal that can communicate information with the car audio apparatus, and determines and collects music files that can be played in the car audio apparatus based on the attribute information. A list of the obtained music files is displayed on a display section of the car audio apparatus.

Information processing system, information processing method of information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing program

An electronic system has (i) an information outputting apparatus having an output device for outputting a content information including at least one of an audio information and a video information and (ii) a navigation apparatus having an input device for inputting a destination in a movement of a movable body and a calculate device for calculating a necessary time length required for the movable body to arrive at the destination. A controlling apparatus is provided with: a selecting device for selecting the content information to be outputted during the movement of the movable body until the arrival at the destination, on the basis of an output time length information indicative of a time length required to output the content information, in response to the calculated necessary time length; and an output controlling device for controlling the output device so as to output the content information selected by the selecting device.

Apparatus for and method of controlling electronic system for movable body, electronic system for movable body, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave

An information reading/recording method and system are provided for effecting data transmission among a plurality of information processing apparatuses. The method and the system include reading and transmitting information data recorded on a recording medium of one information processing apparatus, in accordance with a transmission request from another information processing apparatus. The method and system also includes rendering ineffective a predetermined unit amount of information data recorded on the recording medium of the one information processing apparatus, at a time a predetermined unit amount of information data has already been transmitted therefrom, and recording the predetermined unit amount of information data that has already been transmitted therefrom. In addition, the method and system include recording the predetermined unit amount of transmitted information data in the another information processing apparatus which has received the transmitted information data.

A recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a program data reading-out device, a classification information storage device, a program data storage device and a controlling device. The program data reading-out device reads out program data from a recording medium. The program data and identification information for identifying the program data are recorded on the medium. The classification information storage device previously holds classification information for classifying the program data in association with the identification information. In the program data storage device, the program data can be written in and read out. The controlling device collates, when receiving a program recording command, the identification information between the medium and the classification information storage device, classifies the program data into groups in accordance with the classification information corresponding to the program data, and controls operation for recording the program data on the program data storage device, while controlling operation of reproducing predetermined program data which belong to the selected group when receiving a program reproduction command.

Record and playback apparatus and recording method

An information recording apparatus includes recording means for recording information onto a recording medium; detection means for detecting vibrations or possibilities of vibrations of the apparatus; and recording control means for prohibiting or suspending recording of the information onto the recording medium in accordance with a detection result of the detection means.

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Hiroaki Shibasaki