Patents by Inventor Kentaro Eto
Kentaro Eto 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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Publication number: 20150194135Abstract: This information terminal (1) includes a terminal display portion (12) and a control portion (11) performing control of transmitting an image signal configured to display an image on an external display device (2). The control portion is configured to perform control of acquiring information about the posture of the external display device and transmitting the image signal of the image according to the posture of the external display device to the external display device on the basis of the information about the posture which has been acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Norihiro Higashi, Kentaro Eto, Keisuke Tsukamoto, Keita Nishimura, Hidetoshi Ishihara
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Publication number: 20140375675Abstract: An image output apparatus includes an image processing component, an OSD production component and an output component. The image processing component is configured to perform an image processing on input image data to generate processed image data. The OSD production component is configured to produce OSD data that specifies color data according to a display characteristic of a display apparatus that is configured to be connected to the image output apparatus. The output component is configured to combine the OSD data with the processed image data to output output image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Hidetoshi Ishihara, Keisuke Tsukamoto, Kentaro Eto, Keita Nishimura, Norihiro Higashi
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Patent number: 8875214Abstract: In a television, which can be connected to a portable information terminal, it is possible to display video based on the data of a multimedia file stored on a storage medium even in cases where there is no built-in decoder. In cases where a TV itself does not possess a decoder which can decode the data of a multimedia file selected by the user from the multimedia files stored on the USB memory, the CPU of the TV transmits to a smartphone the data of the selected multimedia file and a decoding request command to request that the data be decoded, thus receiving a video signal and/or an audio signal obtained by various types of decoders of the smartphone. Consequently, the CPU of the TV can output video and/or audio to a display unit and a speaker on the basis of the data of the selected multimedia file.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2013Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Ishihara, Norihiro Higashi, Keita Nishimura, Kentaro Eto, Keisuke Tsukamoto
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Publication number: 20120134643Abstract: A TV receiver which is connected to a BD player via a HDMI cable. The TV receiver comprises a display and a BD loader. When the BD player receives the command to perform a reproduction, the BD player transmits the CEC command for instructing the TV receiver to turn the power on. The TV receiver detects whether or not a BD disc is put in the BD loader. As a result of the detection, when the BD disc is put in the BD loader and also when the display can display a superimposed image, the TV receiver displays image contents read out from the BD disc on the display. Subsequently, the TV receiver displays a message which prompts the user to select whether or not to eject the BD disc. When “YES” is selected, the TV receiver ejects the BD disc.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Keisuke Tsukamoto, Masaki Horimoto, Yoshiyuki Kunita, Kentaro Eto
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Patent number: 8006579Abstract: Provided is an electric linear actuator advantageous in downsizing and weight reduction. The electric linear actuator includes: a housing; a motor held by the housing; a nut member rotatably held with respect to the housing; a screw shaft threadedly engaged with the nut member; a drive shaft directly coupled with the motor; a rotation transmitting member rotatably supported about the drive shaft; a rotary driven member fixed to the nut member and rotated in accordance with the rotation transmitting member; a clutch member to which rotation of the drive shaft is transmitted, and which is provided so as to freely advance and retract in an axial direction of the drive shaft, and in which meshing with the rotation transmitting member is effected at an engagement position, and meshing with the rotation transmitting member is cancelled at a retraction position; and a setting lever capable of setting the clutch member to one of the advance position and the retraction position.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroomi Kuribayashi, Kentaro Eto, Kaoru Hoshide
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Patent number: 7880816Abstract: On a display unit, icons representing types of video signals supplied to respective ones of a plurality of input terminals are displayed. When a user operates a remote and selects an icon representing the type of desired video signal, a video image derived from the video signal of the desired type supplied to the input terminal that corresponds to the selected icon is displayed on the display unit. In such a situation, arrangement of icons on the display unit can be changed by a user instruction given by an operation of the remote. Further, the icons also show shapes of the input terminals, and therefore, the user can easily confirm to which input terminal of which shape the device supplying the video signal of the type indicated by the icon is to be connected.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Kinoshita, Kentaro Eto
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Patent number: 7667781Abstract: A television set carries out communications with a remote control. When the television set displays a picture based on a picture signal subjected to quality adjustment, a signal level of a quality adjustment parameter is obtained, and the data indicating the obtained signal level is transmitted to the remote control. The remote control displays the received data. The user checks the displayed data, and enters data for changing the signal level so that the remote control transmits the entered data to the television set. The television set receives the changed level data, and adjusts the quality relating to the picture signal based on the received level data. The television set displays the picture of the quality adjusted according to the signal level changed by the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Yamamoto, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20090288511Abstract: Provided is an electric linear actuator advantageous in downsizing and weight reduction. The electric linear actuator includes: a housing; a motor held by the housing; a nut member rotatably held with respect to the housing; a screw shaft threadedly engaged with the nut member; a drive shaft directly coupled with the motor; a rotation transmitting member rotatably supported about the drive shaft; a rotary driven member fixed to the nut member and rotated in accordance with the rotation transmitting member; a clutch member to which rotation of the drive shaft is transmitted, and which is provided so as to freely advance and retract in an axial direction of the drive shaft, and in which meshing with the rotation transmitting member is effected at an engagement position, and meshing with the rotation transmitting member is cancelled at a retraction position; and a setting lever capable of setting the clutch member to one of the advance position and the retraction position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroomi KURIBAYASHI, Kentaro ETO, Kaoru HOSHIDE
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Patent number: 7451955Abstract: A wall-mounting structure allowing an object to be supported such as furniture or an electrical appliance to freely move on the wall surface and capable of preventing the aesthetic appearance of the wall surface from being impaired, including a mounting plate to which the object to be supported is fixed and slide support members for movably supporting the mounting plate on the wall surface, in which each of the slide support members is composed of a track rail which has a substantially rectangular section and ball rolling surfaces on the both side surfaces thereof, and moving blocks assembled with the track rail through a large number of balls.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2004Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Teramachi, Kaoru Hoshide, Kentaro Eto
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Patent number: 7440036Abstract: Even when a user is by the immediate side of a screen of a large screen television receiver such as a plasma TV receiver, the user can view an image displayed on the screen entirely by contracting the image to be displayed, and power consumption of the television receiver can be reduced. When the user choose a contraction mode for displaying the image with contraction, the video signal processor performs pixel skipping of video data corresponding to predetermined pixels to video data of a television signal received by a tuner. The display panel displays a contracted image with an initial contraction ratio at an initial display position on a screen of the display panel with using the processed video data. The contraction ratio and the display position of the contracted image on the screen of the display panel can be varied optionally by operating a wireless remote controller, corresponding to a distance between the user and the screen of the display panel or according to the user's predilection.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2005Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehiro Onomatsu, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20070051861Abstract: A wall-mounting structure allowing an object to be supported such as furniture or an electrical appliance to freely move on the wall surface and capable of preventing the aesthetic appearance of the wall surface from being impaired, including a mounting plate to which the object to be supported is fixed and slide support members for movably supporting the mounting plate on the wall surface, in which each of the slide support members is composed of a track rail which has a substantially rectangular section and ball rolling surfaces on the both side surfaces thereof, and moving blocks assembled with the track rail through a large number of balls.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2004Publication date: March 8, 2007Applicant: THK CO. LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Teramachi, Kaoru Hoshide, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20060158838Abstract: On a display unit, icons representing types of video signals supplied to respective ones of a plurality of input terminals are displayed. When a user operates a remote and selects an icon representing the type of desired video signal, a video image derived from the video signal of the desired type supplied to the input terminal that corresponds to the selected icon is displayed on the display unit. In such a situation, arrangement of icons on the display unit can be changed by a user instruction given by an operation of the remote. Further, the icons also show shapes of the input terminals, and therefore, the user can easily confirm to which input terminal of which shape the device supplying the video signal of the type indicated by the icon is to be connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2006Publication date: July 20, 2006Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Kinoshita, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20060132656Abstract: A television set carries out communications with a remote control. When the television set displays a picture based on a picture signal subjected to quality adjustment, a signal level of a quality adjustment parameter is obtained, and the data indicating the obtained signal level is transmitted to the remote control. The remote control displays the received data. The user checks the displayed data, and enters data for changing the signal level so that the remote control transmits the entered data to the television set. The television set receives the changed level data, and adjusts the quality relating to the picture signal based on the received level data. The television set displays the picture of the quality adjusted according to the signal level changed by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Yamamoto, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20050243212Abstract: Even when a user is by the immediate side of a screen of a large screen television receiver such as a plasma TV receiver, the user can view an image displayed on the screen entirely by contracting the image to be displayed, and power consumption of the television receiver can be reduced. When the user choose a contraction mode for displaying the image with contraction, the video signal processor performs pixel skipping of video data corresponding to predetermined pixels to video data of a television signal received by a tuner. The display panel displays a contracted image with an initial contraction ratio at an initial display position on a screen of the display panel with using the processed video data. The contraction ratio and the display position of the contracted image on the screen of the display panel can be varied optionally by operating a wireless remote controller, corresponding to a distance between the user and the screen of the display panel or according to the user's predilection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehiro Onomatsu, Kentaro Eto
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Patent number: 6829108Abstract: The object of the present invention is to further improve a lens barrel moving mechanism of a liquid crystal projector and to provide a lens moving mechanism which has simple structure and is capable of achieving the smooth and high precision movement of a lens barrel, and a liquid crystal projector employing the lens moving mechanism. The present invention provides a lens moving mechanism for moving a lens retaining member 20, which retains a lens barrel 15 provided therein with a projection lens for projecting light with image information, in the directions of Z axis and X axis. The lens moving mechanism comprises first and second guiding mechanisms 23, 23, 24, 24 including a track member, a movable member, and a plurality of rolling members arranged between a rolling member running surface of the track member and a rolling member running surface of the movable member, whereby the lens barrel 15 is guided by the first and the second guiding mechanisms 23, 23, 24, 24 in the directions of Z axis and X axis.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroki Koba, Susumu Takehara, Kaoru Hoshide, Minoru Kouchi, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20040172149Abstract: An order-based production system (1) provides a user with drawing software through an Internet (NW). A user can design a decoration pattern on a cake by vector graphics using this drawing software. Data output from the drawing software is transmitted to the order-based production system (1) and used for a cake processing performed by a processing device 3. This can facilitate ordering and producing an order-made product having high originality.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventor: Kentaro Eto
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Patent number: 6778340Abstract: In a lens mounting mechanism, by rotating a ring member through touching lugs of the ring member and aligning grooves of a base member and recesses of the ring member in the circumferential direction, and then inserting a lens barrel into a hole portion, the lens barrel is moved to the hole portion without being interfered by projections of a barrel mounting member, so that the lens barrel can be inserted into the hole portion until a flange portion abuts against an opening end surface. Then, by touching the lugs of the ring member and rotating the ring member to displace the recesses from the grooves of the base member in the circumference direction, the projection of the barrel mounting member is locked by the ring member and the barrel mounting member is fixed to the base member, so that the lens barrel can be mounted to the apparatus body.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Minoru Kouchi, Kentaro Eto, Takashi Ogata
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Publication number: 20040070851Abstract: The object of the present invention is to further improve a lens barrel moving mechanism of a liquid crystal projector and to provide a lens moving mechanism which has simple structure and is capable of achieving the smooth and high precision movement of a lens barrel, and a liquid crystal projector employing the lens moving mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventors: Hiroki Koba, Susumu Takehara, Kaoru Hoshide, Minoru Kouchi, Kentaro Eto
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Publication number: 20040027692Abstract: In a lens mounting mechanism, by rotating a ring member through touching lugs of the ring member and aligning grooves of a base member and recesses of the ring member in the circumferential direction, and then inserting a lens barrel into a hole portion, the lens barrel is moved to the hole portion without being interfered by projections of a barrel mounting member, so that the lens barrel can be inserted into the hole portion until a flange portion abuts against an opening end surface. Then, by touching the lugs of the ring member and rotating the ring member to displace the recesses from the grooves of the base member in the circumference direction, the projection of the barrel mounting member is locked by the ring member and the barrel mounting member is fixed to the base member, so that the lens barrel can be mounted to the apparatus body.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaoru Hoshide, Minoru Kouchi, Kentaro Eto, Takashi Ogata