Patents by Inventor Hidenori Minoda

Hidenori Minoda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11134322
    Abstract: Provided is a wearable speaker system that can obtain a higher sense of presence through reproduction of bass. A wearable speaker system includes an enclosure, in which a first speaker unit and a first opening portion that is an end of a first bass reflex duct are disposed in a first end region of the enclosure, in which a second speaker unit and a second opening portion that is an end of a second bass reflex duct are disposed in a second end region, in which each of the first and second speaker units and includes a speaker and a passive radiator that faces in an opposite direction from the speaker, and in which a space between the speaker and the passive radiator included in each of the first and second speaker units and is connected to a space in the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidenori Minoda
  • Publication number: 20210136470
    Abstract: Provided is a wearable speaker system that can obtain a higher sense of presence through reproduction of bass. A wearable speaker system includes an enclosure, in which a first speaker unit and a first opening portion that is an end of a first bass reflex duct are disposed in a first end region of the enclosure, in which a second speaker unit and a second opening portion that is an end of a second bass reflex duct are disposed in a second end region, in which each of the first and second speaker units and includes a speaker and a passive radiator that faces in an opposite direction from the speaker, and in which a space between the speaker and the passive radiator included in each of the first and second speaker units and is connected to a space in the enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: HIDENORI MINODA
  • Patent number: 10993006
    Abstract: To provide a wearable speaker system that can obtain a higher sense of presence through reproduction of bass. A wearable speaker system includes an extendable bellows tube including a first end and a second end; a first speaker unit which is connected to the first end and of which an inside communicates with an inside of the bellows tube; a second speaker unit which is connected to the second end and of which an inside communicates with the inside of the bellows tube; a first bass reflex duct having one end that is open to an outside in the first speaker unit and the other end that is open to the inside of the bellows tube; and a second bass reflex duct having one end that is open to the outside in the second speaker unit and the other end that is open to the inside of the bellows tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidenori Minoda
  • Publication number: 20200100004
    Abstract: To provide a wearable speaker system that can obtain a higher sense of presence through reproduction of bass. A wearable speaker system includes an extendable bellows tube including a first end and a second end; a first speaker unit which is connected to the first end and of which an inside communicates with an inside of the bellows tube; a second speaker unit which is connected to the second end and of which an inside communicates with the inside of the bellows tube; a first bass reflex duct having one end that is open to an outside in the first speaker unit and the other end that is open to the inside of the bellows tube; and a second bass reflex duct having one end that is open to the outside in the second speaker unit and the other end that is open to the inside of the bellows tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: HIDENORI MINODA
  • Publication number: 20180199004
    Abstract: A speaker system that can form an optimal sound field in a wide range, that easily promotes a reduction in size (slimming down), and that hardly causes a deterioration in sound quality even when used as a television set is provided. A speaker system (100) includes two speakers (120) having sound output surfaces opposing to one another. The speaker system (100) includes a diffuser (110) between the two speakers (120). The diffuser (110) reflects sound emitted by the two speakers (120) inward of a specific half space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Hidenori MINODA, Tohru HAYASE, Hideaki TANAKA, Yoshihiro OJIMA
  • Publication number: 20120206651
    Abstract: A speaker system of a television receiver (1) includes a plurality of speakers each consisting of at least two speaker units of the same kind positioned in such a manner that acoustic-wave-radiating surfaces thereof face each other, and the distance between said at least two speaker units is larger than the diameter of each of said at least two speaker units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: Hidenori Minoda
  • Patent number: 7773073
    Abstract: The subject of the present invention is for offering an operation equipment and an operation system that can select directly either of a plurality of indication keys arranged on an operation screen according to posture of an equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Nagata, Hidenori Minoda, Yoshihiko Hori
  • Publication number: 20070013659
    Abstract: The subject of the present invention is for offering an operation equipment and an operation system that can select directly either of a plurality of indication keys arranged on an operation screen according to posture of an equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Nagata, Hidenori Minoda, Yoshihiko Hori
  • Patent number: 5731770
    Abstract: When digital audio data is input, the data is temporarily stored in a ring buffer memory. A clock generator adjusts an output transfer clock cycle so that the difference between the count of an address counter for writing data and the count of an address counter for reading data always falls within a predetermined range. An input rate calculating circuit calculates an average transfer rate at which the input data is transferred. The clock generator increases or decreases the transfer rate of the output data so that the average transfer rate of the output data becomes equal to the average transfer rate of the input data. Consequently, a fluctuation of the transfer rate of the output data is prevented, and thus deterioration of the quality of output signals of digital data is prevented. Moreover, reproduction of output signals becomes available with the use of a synchronous sampling rate converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidenori Minoda
  • Patent number: 5677900
    Abstract: In a data recording apparatus which sequentially records recording data on a magnetic tape (T), when a plurality of continuously recorded data files F(i) are rewritten into new data files F(I) having smaller data quantities, recording areas which remain without being rewritten into the new data files F(I) are rewritten into unrecorded areas NR containing no data. Further, when rewriting into new data files G(I) which have larger data quantities, reserve areas SP are provided, in which data has not been previously recorded, and overflow data is written into the reserve areas SP at the time of rewriting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Syuzo Nishida, Yukihiko Haikawa, Takeshi Tanaka, Yukiharu Hosono, Hidenori Minoda, Yoshihiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 5661425
    Abstract: A phase control circuit adjusts the width of a PLL clock signal so that a PLL clock signal generated from a master clock signal MCK is in synchronization with an EFM signal. A velocity detector detects offset in velocity by counting a pulse width of an EFM signal with a master clock signal MCK. The phase control circuit alters the pulse width of a PLL clock signal according to the detected offset in velocity to alter the average frequency of a PLL clock signal in proportion to offset of the rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Minoda, Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Katsuaki Matsufuji
  • Patent number: 5521766
    Abstract: In a data recording and reproducing apparatus for writing the video signals read out from a magnetic tape (11) alternately into image memories, and reading out and reproducing the video signals from the image memory not used for writing video signals, the video signal read out from the image memory when the memory indication switch (SW1) is manipulated is directly held in the image memory, and when reproducing the video signal executed in succession, using the image memory in which video signals is not preserved, writing of video signal from the magnetic tape (11) into image memory and reading from the image memory are effected. In this reproducing action, when the reproduction indication switch (SW2) is manipulated, and previously preserved video signal is read out from the image memory and reproduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidenori Minoda, Hiroyuki Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 5485447
    Abstract: In a high-speed dubbing method, calculations are executed to find waiting time by which the amount of remaining audio data stored in a memory is minimized upon completion of a data transferring process to the next recordable area, and by stopping the recording operation for the waiting time, the amount of the remaining audio data in the memory is always kept minimum, immediately before the accessing process and the track jumping process with respect to the next recordable area. Therefore, even if any disturbance occurs during the dubbing operation with respect to a plurality of intermittent recordable areas, it is possible to eliminate the overflow of the audio data, and to improve the reliability of the dubbing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hidenori Minoda
  • Patent number: 5384674
    Abstract: A TOC region is provided on a DAT tape. In the TOC region reduced still image data is recorded as one still image and is obtained by reducing each still picture data recorded in each of a plurality of still picture/audio composite data regions provided subsequently to the TOC region. A first address of each still picture/audio composite data is also recorded in the TOC region. At the time of reproduction, the TOC region is reproduced and the still image based on the reduced still image data is shown on a display. When an operator selects a specific still image among the plurality of displayed still pictures, the corresponding still picture/audio composite data is reproduced based on an address corresponding to the selected still picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1995
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Syuzou Nishida, Yukihiko Haikawa, Hidenori Minoda, Ichiro Nakata
  • Patent number: 4869566
    Abstract: A connector with a plug having a protruding piece and a jack for accepting it can transmit not only electrical signals but also light signals between devices connected thereby. Optical fibers for transmitting light signals therethrough are placed longitudinally inside the protruding piece of the plug and the jack includes not only electrodes for transmitting electrical signals but also a light emitting element to transmit light signals into the plug through the optical fibers or a light receiving element for receiving light signals transmitted through the optical fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromi Juso, Shuzo Nishida, Keizo Okuno, Hidenori Minoda