Sony Corporation

Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Jidosha Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Amano

Takumi Arie

Hideyuki Uemura

Takao Takahashi

Takeshi Ota

Kenji Nagashima

Eiji Yamamoto

Isao Watanabe

Shinichi Hasegawa

Takeshi Araki

Hideki Sakai

Yasuo Mutoh

Yuichi Ando

Masahiro Nobori

Tatsuya Akashi

Takashi Takinami

Takanobu Toritani

Satoru Hara

Miyuki Matsumoto

Yoshimi Nakada

Shoji Shirakawa

Tomoaki Nishiyama

Ryota Yasui

A support structure for a front wiper device for a vehicle having an annular pivot cap which surrounds, under a deck garnish, a periphery of a pivot on which a base end portion of a wiper arm is supported is provided. The pivot cap includes a bottom plate section that is in an annular shape surrounding the periphery of the pivot, and is extended to a vehicle front side, and a flange section extending upward from an edge portion of the bottom plate section. The flange section is opened at a vehicle front side, and is provided with an opening. In a region at a vehicle rear side and at an electric motor side, of the bottom plate section, a protrusion that protrudes upward from a region at a side opposite to the electric motor is included.

Support structure for front wiper device for vehicle

To use the same onboard apparatus and navigation system in many kinds of vehicles. A table in which manufacturers and vehicle types are connected with designs and functions has been previously stored in a navigation system module. The navigation system moduleitself sends the center controllera query about vehicle information (the country that manufactured, manufacturer, vehicle type, using country, manufacturing number), recognizes the vehicle information supplied from the center controller, and automatically sets the screen design, function, etc., suitable to the vehicle on which the onboard apparatus is mounted.

Onboard apparatus, navigation system, and method for setting display screen

An information providing apparatus allowing appropriate confirmation of contents of information which assists travel of a mobile object, presented by an image display section, even when the image display section providing information which assists travel of the mobile object as an image display is placed under a condition producing vibration not smaller than a predetermined level. The equipment has an image display section () mounted in a vehicle and allowing image display of information which assists travel of the vehicle, a vibration sensor () detecting vibration not smaller than a predetermined level produced on the image display section () and sending a detection output signal, and an operation control section () modifying a display mode of information presented as an image display by the image display section (), into the one having contents of the information are more readily recognizable, when the detection output signal from the vibration sensor () expresses that the image display section () is in a vibration-sustained state in which vibration not smaller than a predetermined level is sustained over a duration of time not shorter than a predetermined duration.

Information providing apparatus

The present invention allows a reproducing device that can be used in various device environmental conditions to execute adequate output operation according to a device environmental condition. When reproducing a content signal of audio and video, a reproducing device determines a device environmental condition as the coupling state of the reproducing device and surroundings of the reproducing device. Subsequently, the reproducing device implements control according to output part information and control information that are set with being associated with the device environmental condition. Based on the output part information, either or both of a main-body output unit and an external output unit are controlled as a part for outputting audio or video. In addition, control corresponding to the registered control information is executed inside the device, or details of the control are indicated to a coupled external device.

Reproducing device and reproducing method

Disclosed herein is an electronic device including: a reader configured to read information from a noncontact-type communications device storing unique identification information; and a controller configured to determine whether the identification information read by the reader is already registered or not yet registered and, if the identification information is found already registered, get user setting information corresponding to the identification information to execute setting processing on the basis of the user setting information and, if the identification information is found not yet registered, execute processing for registering the identification information.

Electronic device and electronic device operation control method

Front-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a front part of a vehicle internal space, rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a rear part of the vehicle internal space, and a connection adapted to connect the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment and the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment is described. Rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment controls the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment via a keyboard or game controller, thereby allowing a passenger to control the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment in a straightforward manner from the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment instead of the driver operating the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment. The rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment can be denied access to overwriting information related to music data in the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment.

In-vehicle equipment system

A drawing processing apparatus and method wherein scrolling display which provides no sense of incongruity is achieved in 3D display. 3D information is produced using information in a drawing object range extracted as a predetermined range on map data. The drawing object range of an object of the 3D drawing process is moved in response to a scrolling operation. While the drawing object range is moved, 3D image data are successively produced using the drawing object range at every point of time and outputted to implement 3D display on a display screen. Thereupon, the drawing object range to be used for the 3D drawing is moved such that individual portions in the drawing object range are moved by movement amounts determined with reference to a distance in a perpendicular direction at a reference position in the drawing object range.

Drawing processing apparatus, display apparatus, drawing processing method and navigation apparatus

The present invention allows an existing single-sequentialized navigation main unit to be virtually multi-sequentialized with simple structure. An intervention devicereceives from a front monitorand a rear monitoracquisition requests which request various kinds of screens from a navigation main unit. In response to the acquisition requests, the intervention deviceperforms a mediating process or an adjusting process for various kinds of screens which are received from the navigation main unitand are scheduled to be output to the front monitorand the rear monitor. Therefore, even if the intervention devicereceives a plurality of acquisition requests from the front monitorand the rear monitor, the intervention devicecan sequentially send the acquisition requests one by one to the navigation main unit. Accordingly, this allows the navigation main unitto be virtually multi-sequentialized.

Navigation intervention apparatus, intervention method and vehicle navigation system

A vehicle-mounted apparatus includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) reading unit for reading an RFID signal from an RFID tag attached to an article placed in a vehicle, a system controller for determining the nature of the article in the vehicle on the basis of the read RFID signal, and an user interface unit for outputting the nature. The system controller determines whether the article placed in the vehicle is dangerous or not. If the article is determined to be dangerous, the system controller outputs information for warning a user via the user interface unit.

Vehicle-mounted apparatus and method for outputting information about articles in vehicle

A navigation apparatus includes a command input block from which the user inputs a command signal, a current positional data supply unit, a data reading unit for reading from a CD-ROM map data, voice guidance data, object data about an object displayed on a map of the navigation apparatus, and sound data symbolizing a geographical location corresponding to the object on the map, and a controller for displaying the map and the object onto a display device and sounding the voice guidance and sound data from a speaker.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Amano