Pioneer Corporation

Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takehiko Shioda

Yasuteru Kodama

Manabu Nohara

Hiroto Inoue

Satoshi Odagawa

Osamu Yamazaki

Masami Suzuki

Takayuki Akimoto

Masahiro Okamura

Ryujiro Fujita

Katsunori Arakawa

Shinichi Gayama

Yasunori Suzuki

Naohiko Ichihara

Akihiro Tozaki

Kazunori Hashimoto

Kunihiro Minoshima

Hiroshi Iwamura

Akira Tojima

Yukitaka Saito

Junichi Shirakawa

Syuji Daioku

Nobuo Kusumoto

Toru Ueda

Yukinori Yamamoto

Akio Fukushima

Hiroaki Shibasaki

Toshio Tabata

Ryushin Kametani

Yoshihiro Kawazoe

Masahiro Araya

Mitsuo Yasushi

Keiichi Yamauchi

Masatoshi Yanagidaira

Azusa Umemoto

Hajime Kobayashi

Soichi Toyama

Akihiro Azuma

Tsuyoshi Namiki

Nobuo Mioka

Jun Cheng

Haruo Okada

Shinichi Sugie

Hideki Amano

Masae Shimada

Fumio Matsushita

Hidenobu Kato

Ikuru Yoshida

Kazuya Abe

Reiji Matsumoto

Masayuki Yamazaki

There is provided a measuring device capable of measuring a propulsion force and a loss force by using a simple method. A first detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a first strain gauge and a second strain gauge disposed such that detection directions are parallel to a longitudinal direction of a crank are connected, detecting bending deformation x occurring in the crank, and a second detection circuit that is a bridge circuit, to which a third strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the crank and a fourth strain gauge disposed such that a detection direction is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crank are connected, detecting bending deformation y and tensile deformation z occurring in the crank are included.

Measuring device

A power meter includes a first measurement unitthat measures a force applied to a first pedal Band calculates predetermined first information (power and/or torque) on the first pedal B, and a second measurement unitthat measures a force applied to a second pedal Band calculates second information (power and/or torque) on the second pedal B, which is the same kind of the first information. The first measurement unittransmits first information data indicating the first information to the second measurement unit, and the second measurement unitadds the first information to the second measurement information and transmits an added value data indicating an added value obtained by adding the first information to the second information.

Power meter, power measurement method, program and storage medium

A measurement module that measures force being applied to a man-powered machine includes: a strain sensor that detects strain of a crank of the bicycle configured to transmit force being applied from a user through the crank and one front gear selected among one or more front gears; an MM magnetic sensor that detects the crank passing through a predetermined position; and an MM control part. The MM control part calculates a rotation angle of the crank based on an elapsed time from a time the crank passes through the predetermined position that the sensor has detected, calculates force applied to the crank based on a strain amount of the crank that the strain sensor has detected, associates the rotation angle with the force applied to the crank to calculate distribution of the force applied from the user.

Measurement apparatus and method

A mobile phone () in accordance with the present invention includes: a transmission setting database (); a transmission setting section () for registering, on the transmission setting database (), a piece of image data to be transmitted to a data receiving device; and an image data transmitting section () for transmitting, to the data receiving device, the piece of image data registered on the transmission setting database (), the image data transmitting section () transmitting the piece of image data to the data receiving device in response to a transmission request received from the data receiving device. Therefore, according to a data transmission device in accordance with the present invention, it is possible to transmit a desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device without forcing a user to again carry out operation of transmitting the piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device, even in a case where the user cannot transmit the desired piece of additional-information-containing data to the data receiving device.

Data transmission device, data transmission method, data communication system, program, and recording medium

A mobile phone () of the present invention includes a mobile phone storage section () configured to store both of (i) data including positional information and (ii) data including no positional information, a positional information extraction section () for identifying the data including the positional information from among the data stored in the mobile phone storage section () and extracting the positional information to be used as a standard for setting a predetermined area, a mobile phone determination section () for setting the predetermined area on a basis of the positional information extracted by the positional information extraction section (), and a mobile phone notification section () notifying the user of the mobile phone when the current position of the mobile phone enters within the predetermined area set by the mobile phone determination section (). Hence, the user can easily register the positional information.

Notification device, notification system, method for controlling notification device, and computer readable recording medium having a control program recorded thereupon

It is possible to present identification information of a sender in such a manner that the identification information is easily understood by a user. Included are: a wireless communication section () for carrying out data communication with the navigation device (); and a line communication section () for carrying out data communication with the communication device (), and an address sending section () for sending, to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (), first identification information for identifying the communication device (); a position receiving section () for receiving position information from the communication device () via the line communication section (); a position sending section () for sending the position information to the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); a message receiving section () for receiving a message from the navigation device () via the wireless communication section (); an address adding section () for adding, to the message, second identification information for identifying the communication device (); and a message sending section () for sending, to the communication device () via the line communication section (), the message to which the second identification information is added.

Communication device, information presentation device, communication method, program, and recording medium

A road view analyzing apparatus and a road view analyzing method that can obtain an accurate analysis result on a road view in front of a vehicle are provided. The road view analyzing apparatus includes a camera that is mounted on the vehicle to photograph a view in front of the vehicle, image dividing means for dividing the image of the view in front of the vehicle photographed by the camera into a plurality of areas with diagonal lines, and analyzing means for separately analyzing content of the image in each of the plurality of areas.

Apparatus and method for analyzing road view

A music selecting apparatus and method, which are capable to indicate a music piece matching with the sensitivities of the user. A degree of chord change is stored as data for each of a plurality of music pieces, a sensitivity word for music selection is set in accordance with an input operation, and a music piece having the chord change degree corresponding to the set sensitivity word is detected in accordance with the chord change degree of each of the plurality of music pieces.

Music selecting apparatus and method

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 routing guide system has memory means provided outside a mobile body for storing data of images at a plurality of guide points. The routing guide system also has distance measuring means for measuring the distance from the current position of the mobile body to the next guide point. The routing guide system also has image request generation means for generating an image request for the next guide point when the distance measured by the distance measuring means is not more than a first predetermined distance. The routing guide system also has transmission means provided outside the mobile body for reading from the memory means an image of the next guide point in response to the image request and for transmitting that image to the mobile body. The routing guide system also has display control means for causing the mobile body to receive the image transmitted from the transmission means and causing a display device to display the image.

Routing guide system and method

A routing guide system includes route calculating means for calculating the route of a vehicle to a destination, image providing means for reading from storage means scenery images on the route calculated by the route calculating means, and display means for displaying the scenery images on the calculated route generated by the image providing means. The routing guide system also includes route confirming means for confirming as a set route the route calculated by the route calculating means, according to an operation, during or after display of the scenery images on the calculated route by means of the display means.

Route guidance system and method

An interactive information providing apparatus is provided with: an output component that provides an information requesting output for requesting a user for information; an input component that receives from the user input information to the information requesting output; and an interaction controller component that controls the output component and the input component according to a scenario, to carry on a dialogue with the user. In the apparatus, the interaction controller component changes a level at which the output component requests a user for information, according to an importance parameter associated with the scenario.

Interactive information providing apparatus, interactive information providing program, and storage medium having stored same

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 song selection device stores song characteristic quantities of a plurality of songs. A user operates the song selection device to enter personal properties and a sensibility word. The song selection device selects a song having a song characteristic quantity corresponding to the personal properties and the sensibility word. The song selection device may select a plurality of songs.

Song selection apparatus and method

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Takehiko Shioda