Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Pioneer System Technology Corporation

Futek Electronics Co., Ltd

Mitsuo Yasushi

Masatoshi Yanagidaira

Hiroshi Satoh

Tatsuya Fukuda

Kazuhiro Akiyama

Satoshi Saitoh

Kazuyuki Uchiyama

Takashi Morishige

Kenta Isozaki

Jun Cheng

Kayoko Takashima

Koji Watanabe

Takashi Iizawa

Takehiko Shioda

Yoshio Saito

Hiroshi Sato

Shinichi Gayama

Kazumi Sugaya

Yuichi Kimikawa

Yoshikazu Takeuchi

Chihiro Hirose

Susumu Ohsawa

Hidekazu Yoshida

Haruo Okada

Kyoichiro Fujii

Hirofumi Shimokawa

Motoji Hashimoto

Kunio Yarita

Naoki Murakami

Kota Kakisaka

Takeshi Fukami

A vibration control device that while responding to music being played, generates a vibration that gives desired arousal effect and/or relaxing effect regardless of the contents is provided, the vibration control device controlling a vibration device that generates vibration according to the music being played and gives a stimulus to a user includes a vibration signal acquisition unit for acquiring a vibration signal representing the vibration in which a stimulus intensity falls within a predetermined stimulus intensity range, and an output unit for outputting the vibration signal acquired by the vibration signal acquisition unit to the vibration device.

Vibration control device, vibration control method, vibration control program, and recording medium

A vibration control device which can make a user recognize a vibration by using a plurality of vibration units appropriately is provided. In a first vibration pattern, by interposing a low-vibration period (Ti) between a first standard vibration period (T) and a second standard vibration period (T), a user recognizes more easily a vibration by a vibration unit which vibrates in the second standard vibration period (T). Therefore, even when the user's weight acts on the vibration unit which vibrates in the second standard vibration period (T) lightly, the vibration of this vibration unit is easily recognized.

Vibration control device

A vibration control device is provided which enables an awakening effect for a user to be increased while making it difficult to give discomfort to the user. A harmonic signal generating section of a vibration control device is configured to successively output a plurality of alternating signals for driving a vibration unit. By way of the plurality of alternating signals which is successively output and has a frequency ratio represented with a predetermined integer ratio, vibration generated with the plurality of alternating signals can more easily awaken a user while making it difficult to give discomfort to the user.

A sleepiness calculation device is provided. In a smartphone, I/F obtains heart rate of the subject measured by a heartbeat sensor and measurement time, determines active state of a subject in the state discriminant section, and send it to a server. Next, in the server, a correction section obtains sleepiness baseline heart rate from a sleepiness baseline heart rate table storing sleepiness baseline heart rate of the subject for each active state according to an active state sent from the smartphone. Next, the sleepiness baseline heart rate obtained by the correction section is corrected based on fatigue degree, sleep time, and state of meals. Thereafter, the corrected sleepiness baseline heart rate (correction sleepiness baseline heart rate) is sent to the smartphone. Sleepiness level calculation section of the smartphone calculates sleepiness level of the subject based on correction sleepiness baseline heart rate and heart rate obtained by I/F.

Sleepiness calculation device

A travel distance estimating apparatus () estimates a travel distance of a moving body in a given section through which the moving body travels (hereinafter referred to as a 'travel interval'). A current position acquiring unit () acquires the current position of the moving body. A variable acquiring unit () acquires information related to the speed of the moving body in the travel interval. An estimating unit () estimates based on a consumed energy estimating equation, energy consumption and a travelable distance for travel through the travel interval. A correcting unit () corrects information related to the moving body and used as variables of the consumed energy estimating equation. A storage unit () stores information related to roads associated with a travel history of the moving body. A display unit () displays map data including information related to travelable distance calculated by the estimating unit ().

Travel distance estimating apparatus, travel distance estimating method, travel distance estimating program, and recording medium

First, an extracting unit extracts chord progression of a tune to be reproduced. Then, a timing detector detects the timing of variation of the chord progression extracted by the extracting unit. Subsequently, an add-tone reproducing unit combines an add-tone with the tune to be reproduced according to the timing detected by the timing detector. The add-tone reproducing unit can also move a sound image to reproduce the tune or reproduce the tune as an arpeggio.

Music composition reproducing device and music composition reproducing method

A dummy sound generating apparatus includes a dummy sound information storage unit that stores one or more dummy sounds, and an outer generating unit that generates one of the one or more dummy sounds outside of the vehicle upon reception of a dummy sound generation instruction signal. The dummy sound generating apparatus also includes a generation place information storage unit that stores information on a place where a dummy sound is to be generated a current position information acquiring unit that acquires information on a current position of the vehicle, and a control unit that outputs a dummy sound generation instruction signal to the outer generating unit when the current position acquired by the current position information acquiring unit matches with information on a place stored in the generation place information storage unit.

Dummy sound generating apparatus and dummy sound generating method and computer product

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide an system which can detects degradation in a driving mental state of a driver, that is, sleepiness, fatigue, fret, and so on during driving of a vehicle and notifies the driver of the degradation to encourage safe driving and can reproduce sound such as music matching the taste of the user such as a driver while maintaining awakening of the driver of a mobile unit. The reproduction controlling system for a mobile unit, is provided with a system controlling reproducing device for reproducing a piece of sound data stored in a database during traveling of the mobile unit, a driving information acquiring device for acquiring driving information indicating a driving state of the mobile unit, the driving information including at least heartbeat variation information, an audio component information acquiring device for analyzing an audio component included in the sound data and acquiring audio component information, a judging device for judging mental and physical states of the driver based on the acquired driving information, a selecting device for selecting the sound data to be reproduced; and a control device for controlling the reproducing device to reproduce the selected sound data.

Sound reproduction system and method based on physical and mental states of a drive

A heart-rate measuring apparatus is provided a database, acquisition unit, production unit, search unit, cross-correlation processing unit, and calculation unit. In the database, one or more sets of electrocardiogram (ECG) waveform data, serving as reference waveform data, of persons being examined are stored in advance. The acquisition unit acquires a heartbeat signal from a person being examined. The production unit produces ECG waveform data based on the acquired heartbeat signal. On the basis of the produced ECG waveform data, the search unit searches the database for reference waveform data of the person. The cross-correlation processing unit performs cross-correlation processing between the produced ECG waveform data and the searched reference waveform data, and the calculation unit calculates the heart rate based on the cross-correlated ECG waveform data using values of R-R intervals of the waveform.

System, method, program, and medium for measuring heart rate

A mobile communication device which selects one of a plurality of radio transmitting/receiving devices different at least in data communication speed from one another in accordance with the type of data to be transmitted or received, and controls a data communication by the selected one radio transmitting/receiving device.

Mobile communication device and method

A navigation system for a movable body is provided with: a current position detection device () for detecting a current position of a movable body; a map information presentation device () for presenting map information corresponding to the detected current position; a route condition information presentation device () for presenting route condition information indicating a current condition of a route on which the movable body is driving; and a driving route presentation device () for performing a presentation indicating that the movable body can overtake, in case that the movable body on the route can overtake on the basis of the presented map information and the presented route condition information.

Navigation system and navigation method for movable body, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave

While detecting a missing section from a biological signal acquired from a human body and while storing the biological signal values obtained at n (where n is a natural number) consecutive points in time, weighted addition is conducted on the biological signal values obtained at n points in time. In outputting its result as a final biological signal, the biological signal value at each of points in time included in the missing section is changed to an average value of the biological signal values at points in time which are not in the missing section.

Biological information detection apparatus

A heart-rate variability analysis apparatus comprises an electrocardiogram information detecting unit, heart-rate signal calculating unit, breathing signal calculating unit, and heart-rate-variability information providing unit. Of these, the electrocardiogram information detecting unit detects electrocardiogram information about an object to be diagnosed. The heart-rate signal calculating unit calculates a heart rate signal indicative of a heart rate of the object from the electrocardiogram information. The breathing signal calculating unit calculates, from the heart rate signal, a breathing signal in which a breathing state of the object is reflected. The heart-rate-variability information providing unit provides variability information of the heart rate of the object in which the breathing state of the object is reflected, on the basis of both of the heart rate signal and the breathing signal. Thus, the heart-rate fluctuations can be measure with higher-precision.

Apparatus and method for analyzing heart-rate variability based on electrocardiogram information

A fatigue-level estimation apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a heat rate calculator and a fatigue level estimator. The heart rate calculator receives a signal indicative of a heartbeat of an object to be estimated to calculate a heart rate signal changing sequentially in time. The fatigue level estimator estimates a fatigue level of the object by detecting a sharp and transient rise in the heartbeat in the heart rate signal. The fatigue-level estimation has less influence resulting from individual differences, while still maintaining high reliability in the estimation.

Apparatus and method for estimating fatigue level

A driver mental condition information system in which physiological data of the driver of a vehicle is detected and the mental condition of the driver is calculated as a mental condition evaluation value in accordance with the physiological data, thereby indicating the mental condition of the driver, using the mental condition evaluation value along with a threshold value.

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Mitsuo Yasushi