Hitachi, Ltd.

Xanavi Informatics Corporation

Clarion Co

Hcx Corporation

Tadashi Kamiwaki

Mariko Okude

Masahiko Saito

Kozo Nakamura

Soshiro Kuzunuki

Michio Morioka

Shinya Ohtsuji

Hiroshi Ohno

Yoshinori Endo

Katsuaki Tanaka

Yoshibumi Fukuda

Yoshitaka Atarashi

Shigeru Matsuo

Tomoaki Nakamura

Makoto Shioya

Takayuki Uchida

Yukio Miyazaki

Yukihiro Kawamata

Takashi Nakahara

Akio Amano

Yoshiki Kobayashi

Takanori Yokoyama

Osamu Tomobe

Kunihiko Tsunedomi

Taro Inoue

Hiroaki Nakanishi

Toshihiro Kujirai

Hideo Hiroshige

Masaru Shimada

Manabu Niie

Keiji Kuwahara

A display control device includes: a transparent color information storage unit that stores transparent color information; a run-length counter that calculates a run-length specifying the number of consecutive pixels having the same color information; a combination calculation unit that combines the image data for the plurality of display layers; and a combined image display unit that outputs the combined image data to a display device. If the color information for a total of run-length pixels calculated by the run-length counter is a transparent color, the combination calculation unit performs combination by ignoring the image data for the total number run-length of consecutive pixels.

Display control device and display layer combination program

A map update data delivery method includes: storing update unit data compiled in correspondence to each set of update data used to update map data in a specific version to map data in another version for a map element by incorporating update data for another map element that must also be updated in coordination with a change made for the map element; searching for base update data needed to update a map data for a map element designated as an update target in a map area specified at a terminal as a map data update target; searching for related update data with a relation to contents of update data included in the base update data searched; and transmitting the base update data and the related update data to the terminal.

Map update data delivery method, map update data delivery device and terminal device

A computer system having a plurality of operating systems and a module for switching the operating systems in view of priorities of tasks to be performed by each of the operating systems. Each of the operating systems performing a plurality of processes or threads in accordance with the priorities assigned to these processes or threads has a module for notifying the computer system of the priority of the currently executing process or thread. The computer system includes a module for translating the priorities sent from each operating system into priorities (normalized priorities) common-throughout the computer system, and a module for comparing the normalized priorities obtained by the priority translation module in order to select and execute preferentially the operating system having a common priority higher than that of any other operating system.

Computer executing multiple operating systems

A navigation apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving program via a communication unit, a driving determining section for determining whether a vehicle equipped with the navigation apparatus is running or not if receiving a start request for the program, and an execution control section for activating the program if it is determined that the vehicle is running by the driving determining section and also if the program received by the receiving section is authorized. The executing control section cancels executing the program if it is determined that the vehicle is running by the driving determining section and also if the program received by the receiving section is not authorized.

Navigation apparatus and processing method of the same

In an on-vehicle terminal system operating a plurality of operating systems, control of peripheral devices connected to the on-vehicle terminal system can be continued even if one of the operating systems is stopped. A second operating system monitors an operating status of a first operating system using an OS status monitoring function. When the first operating system stops, a list recording allocation of the peripheral devices is updated to switch the allocation to the second operating system. By doing so, an interrupt signal from a peripheral device is allocated to the second operating system, and accordingly the second operating system can control the peripheral device.

On-vehicle terminal system

A technology for preventing a driver from being distracted even if a navigation operates on an input device in the rear seat. A navigation system, connected to a combination of an output/input devices of a driver and to a combination of an output device and an input device of a fellow passenger, comprises a setting information storage unit storing setting information indicating whether or not information generated is to be output to the output device of the driver and an output processing unit, to the output device of the driver according to the setting information read from the setting information storage unit. When operation information enters from the input device of the fellow passenger, the setting information, stored in the setting information storage unit for the processing, changes to the information indicating that information is not output to the output device of the driver.

Navigation system and output controlling method therefor

In order to provide a speech input system for having access from a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a portable phone, or a stationary terminal such as a home telephone, a TV set, or a PC to a network through speech, and receiving a service from a provider for providing map information, music information, broadcast program information, and telephone information, the speech input system comprises speech input terminalsprovided with a speech input/output mean, and an access status display mean, a speech portal serverprovided with a speech recognizing mean for receiving a speech to recognize it as a text, a command converting mean for checking the recognized text with a command text dictionary, and separating it into a command text and an object text, and a conversation control mean for having an access to, and receiving a service from a provider which provides different information based on the separated texts, and providing the speech input terminal with the service, and a providerfor searching information based on the command text and the object text received from the speech portal server, and serves the speech portal server with a search result.

Speech input system, speech portal server, and speech input terminal

The object of the invention is to execute a program installed additionally on an in-vehicle unit, realizing improved visual recognition while the vehicle is driving. A programto be installed additionally is downloaded along with its attribute datafrom the service center systeminto the program administrating sectionof the in-vehicle unit, and they are managed in relation to each other. When the program is executed, the vehicle conditionis compared with the attribute datarelated to the program and the program operation is controlled accordingly. When executing a program installed additionally on an in-vehicle unit, visual recognition of the display screen can be maintained even while the vehicle is driving.

In-vehicle unit and service center system

The present invention is characterized in that the car navigation system for, at the time of desiring map information, traffic information, and other required information in a car, inquiring an information distribution service provider for distribution the information is composed of a moving terminal device which can be operated by inputting and outputting voice, a communication device, an audio interactive server which can input and output voice and data, is connected to an external device and the Internet on the basis of audio interactions by the voice recognition process and voice synthesis process, and executes information transfer, and one or a plurality of information distribution service providers connected to the Internet for distributing information such as map information and traffic information.

Audio interactive navigation system, moving terminal device, and audio interactive server

In a display apparatus where a plurality of operating systems are operated on a single processor, the plurality of operating systems share one and the same display in different display environments one example of which is a color pallet. In order to implement this configuration, the display apparatus includes the following configuration components: The plurality of operating systems, a display switching processing unit for switching the displays of the plurality of operating systems, graphics-drawing frames corresponding to the plurality of operating systems, and a display environment changing processing unit for changing, in correspondence with the display switching performed by the display switching processing unit, the display environments such as the color pallet, a color mode, and a frame address.

Method, apparatus and navigation apparatus for sharing display by plural operating systems

A computer system is provided with a scheme to making the input and output device provided in a computer in common for a plurality of operating system, in a multiple operating system control unit operating a plurality of mutually distinct operating systems on one computer system. The computer system includes a plurality of operating systems, and OS switching unit for switching a plurality of operating systems. The OS switching means makes reference to a preferential interrupt table on the basis of an interrupt factor for switching to corresponding operating system and calls interrupt processing means incorporated in the operating system.

Computer system with multiple operating system operation

An operating system (OS) supports logical storage and comprises a framework and a plurality of modules to realize exchange of modules including a memory management module. The OS exchanges modules online and has a logical address space as well as a fixed physical space whose physical addresses and logical addresses are equal to each other, and the fixed physical space has the framework and an inheritance buffer. Information is inherited between old and new modules to be exchanged, by the inheritance buffer.

Method for exchanging modules in operating system by using inheritance buffer presented in virtual space to store inherited information of old module and read by new module thereafter

A distributed processing system capable of realizing efficient management of a multiplicity of objects in a large scale distributed processing comprises an objectification unit which makes it possible to handle an assembly of objects as one object and a message transfer unit by which a request for a processing to one object provided by objectification by the objectification unit is made to an optimal one of plural objects subjected to objectification.

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Tokai, Japan

Tadashi Kamiwaki