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).
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Patent number: 11134322Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidenori Minoda
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Publication number: 20210136470Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventor: HIDENORI MINODA
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Patent number: 10993006Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hidenori Minoda
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Publication number: 20200100004Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventor: HIDENORI MINODA
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Publication number: 20180199004Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Hidenori MINODA, Tohru HAYASE, Hideaki TANAKA, Yoshihiro OJIMA
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Publication number: 20120206651Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventor: Hidenori Minoda
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Patent number: 7773073Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Nagata, Hidenori Minoda, Yoshihiko Hori
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Publication number: 20070013659Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2006Publication date: January 18, 2007Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takuya Nagata, Hidenori Minoda, Yoshihiko Hori
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Patent number: 5731770Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 16, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidenori Minoda
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Patent number: 5677900Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 1991Date of Patent: October 14, 1997Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Syuzo Nishida, Yukihiko Haikawa, Takeshi Tanaka, Yukiharu Hosono, Hidenori Minoda, Yoshihiro Okamoto
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Patent number: 5661425Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidenori Minoda, Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Katsuaki Matsufuji
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Patent number: 5521766Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 1994Date of Patent: May 28, 1996Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidenori Minoda, Hiroyuki Ishizaki
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Patent number: 5485447Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 16, 1994Date of Patent: January 16, 1996Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidenori Minoda
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Patent number: 5384674Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 5, 1992Date of Patent: January 24, 1995Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Syuzou Nishida, Yukihiko Haikawa, Hidenori Minoda, Ichiro Nakata
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Patent number: 4869566Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 1989Date of Patent: September 26, 1989Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiromi Juso, Shuzo Nishida, Keizo Okuno, Hidenori Minoda