Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Suzu
Hirokazu Suzu 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: 8698962Abstract: A content processing device includes an input section, a memory section, a selection section and an output section. The input section is configured to receive content having a video signal and a plurality of audio signals with different audio types. The memory section is configured to store selection information indicative of a predetermined audio type, and order information indicative of a preset order of a plurality of audio types. The selection section is configured to select one of the audio signals based on the selection information and the order information. The output section is configured to output the video signal and the one of the audio signals that was selected by the selection section.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Miyagawa, Seiji Miyabe, Hirokazu Suzu
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Publication number: 20100205645Abstract: A digital television broadcast receiver includes a memory section, a reception section and a control section. The memory section stores a channel list associating selected channel numbers with broadcast signals, respectively. Each of the broadcast signals includes a country identifier indicative of a country from which the broadcast signal is transmitted. The memory section stores reception country information indicative of a country that is preset as a reception country, and compliance information indicative of countries that have a rule to transmit a broadcast signal with a logical channel number for high-resolution broadcast. The control section registers the logical channel number for the high-resolution broadcast of a first broadcast signal if the reception country matches both the country of the country identifier and one of the countries of the compliance information, and if the first broadcast signal includes the logical channel number for the high-resolution broadcast.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu TOKOSHIMA, Koujirou YAMADA, Hirokazu SUZU
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Publication number: 20100201873Abstract: A content processing device includes an input section, a memory section, a selection section and an output section. The input section is configured to receive content having a video signal and a plurality of audio signals with different audio types. The memory section is configured to store selection information indicative of a predetermined audio type, and order information indicative of a preset order of a plurality of audio types. The selection section is configured to select one of the audio signals based on the selection information and the order information. The output section is configured to output the video signal and the one of the audio signals that was selected by the selection section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo MIYAGAWA, Seiji MIYABE, Hirokazu SUZU
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Patent number: 7502590Abstract: In a broadcast receiver, determination is made, as channel search, whether a broadcast wave is valid for reception for all reception directions by a variable directional antenna with respect to only the frequency having the information stored as being invalid for reception in a storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Suzu
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Patent number: 7430399Abstract: A broadcast receiver is connected to a variable directional antenna qualified as an antenna capable of modifying a reception direction of a broadcast wave. When arriving at a prestored timing, the broadcast receiver executes channel search utilizing the variable directional antenna on the condition that the tuner is not currently in operation. In the channel search, determination is made whether a broadcast wave is valid for reception for all reception directions by the variable directional antenna with respect to each of all prestored frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Suzu
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Publication number: 20080235751Abstract: Disclosed is a program data recording apparatus for storing a program data based on a broadcast signal in a storage medium, comprising: a programmed-to-record storage section; a storing control section; an extended program retrieving section; a programmed-to-record program retrieving section; a determining section; a setting section; an updating section, a title storage section for storing the title of the program data stored in the storage medium, a precedence condition storage section for storing the genre of the program and the precedence so as to correspond to each other, and a display control section for determining whether the storing-incompletion information is added to the program data when the program data stored in the storage medium is replayed, and for displaying that a storing of the program data is incomplete on a display section when it is determined that the storing-incompletion information is added to the program data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu SUZU
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Publication number: 20080059737Abstract: Disclosed is a video recording apparatus, including: a storage section which stores a program data set and the program data set is copied onto a storage medium; a copy-complete information grant section which grants copy-complete information in association with one program data set when a copying operation of the one program data set onto the storage medium is completed; a copy-complete information storage section to store copy-complete information; a display control section to display, in a form of a list, titles of program data sets stored in the storage section and a predetermined indication of whether a copying operation of the program data set is completed, based on the copy-complete information; a selecting section to receive a selection of a title of program data set to be deleted; and a selective delete section to delete the program data set selected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu SUZU
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Publication number: 20070174892Abstract: A selection operation of a designated channel for a broadcast signal received via an antenna is performed, so that the broadcast signal of the designated channel is detected and the detected broadcast signal is output to a monitor via a video IC and the like. When the power of a microcomputer is turned on (power supply is started), the microcomputer causes a tuner to perform a channel-selection operation for the channel that has been selected at the time of most recent turn-off of the power (power supply stop). As a result of the channel-selection operation, if the tuner cannot detect the broadcast signal of the channel, the microcomputer displays an image of that channel (an image where an video image is not shown) on the monitor and thereafter displays an image for notifying a user of a measure to be taken through an OSD circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: July 26, 2007Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koujirou Yamada, Seiji Miyabe, Hiroshi Nishigaki, Naruyuki Ohhashi, Hirokazu Suzu, Manabu Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20060116094Abstract: In a broadcast receiver, determination is made, as channel search, whether a broadcast wave is valid for reception for all reception directions by a variable directional antenna with respect to only the frequency having the information stored as being invalid for reception in a storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Suzu
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Publication number: 20060114361Abstract: A broadcast receiver is connected to a variable directional antenna qualified as an antenna capable of modifying a reception direction of a broadcast wave. When arriving at a prestored timing, the broadcast receiver executes channel search utilizing the variable directional antenna on the condition that the tuner is not currently in operation. In the channel search, determination is made whether a broadcast wave is valid for reception for all reception directions by the variable directional antenna with respect to each of all prestored frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Suzu
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Publication number: 20060116072Abstract: A broadcast receiver is connected to a variable directional antenna qualified as an antenna capable of modifying a reception direction of a broadcast wave. The broadcast receiver conducts channel search utilizing the variable directional antenna when determination is made of arriving at a prestored timing. In the channel search, determination is made as to whether a broadcast wave is valid for reception for all reception directions by the variable directional antenna with respect to each of prestored frequencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Suzu
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Publication number: 20040085452Abstract: In a television receiver, when watching starting time for registered watching reserved information has come, a channel selected at present is a watching reserved channel, and an OSD image has been displayed on a display section, the television receiver stops the display of the OSD image and displays an image of a program which is being broadcasted in the watching reserved channel. This prevents a user from missing the watching reserved program owing to the fact that the user has watched an electronic program guide or a setting menu screen and not noticed that the watching starting time of the program has come.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2003Publication date: May 6, 2004Inventor: Hirokazu Suzu