Patents by Inventor Yukari Mizumura
Yukari Mizumura 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: 20070153140Abstract: A broadcast receiver has a GPS reception section for clocking, a TV tuner for receiving a broadcast wave of TV broadcast, and a display for displaying video information of a program transmitted by a broadcast wave, and displays video information of a plurality of programs received on a single screen of the display at the same time every hour on the hour. Accordingly, the user (viewer) can check the program contents of channels that can be received at the time of day.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2007Publication date: July 5, 2007Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetsugu Kubota, Rie Yamashita, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Toshiyuki Murata
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Patent number: 7239356Abstract: A broadcast receiver has a GPS reception section for clocking, a TV tuner for receiving a broadcast wave of TV broadcast, and a display for displaying video information of a program transmitted by a broadcast wave, and displays video information of a plurality of programs received on a single screen of the display at the same time every hour on the hour. Accordingly, the user (viewer) can check the program contents of channels that can be received at the time of day.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Hidetsugu Kubota, Rie Yamashita, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Toshiyuki Murata
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Patent number: 7136712Abstract: In a digital acoustic reproducing apparatus 10 for selecting and outputting one sound information from a sound information source 11 having plural kinds of sound information with at least the number of channels or different data formats, there are provided sound information readout member 12 for reading sound information out of the sound information source 11, information acquisition member 18 for acquiring information about data formats capable of decoding by a decoder 21 to which the sound information read out is supplied or information about the number of speakers 30 to which the sound information decoded by the decoder 21 is supplied, and sound information selection member 14 for selecting sound information to be outputted to the decoder 21 based on the acquired information.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2002Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Yukari Mizumura, Hidetsugu Kubota, Toshiyuki Murata, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Rie Yamashita, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7133085Abstract: A display control apparatus has a display panel, which is placed in its inactive state through a user's operation when not being used, on the one hand, and is placed in is active state when being used, on the other hand. After completing the display of video, the display panel is received automatically, thus ensuring protection of the display panel. It also prevents a beginning part of video from being hidden for a user. All video can be displayed on the display panel that stands up in its prescribed active state. In the display control apparatus, a rotary motor driver and a slider motor driver are used for placing the display panel received in a receiver. An encoder detects whether or not the display panel is placed in its prescribed active state. When the active state of the display panel is detected, an output controller outputs a video signal to the display panel for display.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2001Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Kenji Morita, Hitoshi Sato, Toshiyuki Murata, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita
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Patent number: 7092585Abstract: An image processing apparatus which is capable of displaying moving images with more actions for longer period of time. The apparatus is equipped with: an image data ROM 6 which stores a plurality of static image information and moving image information that includes a plurality of element static image information each of which has less amount of information than that of an static image information; and a graphic device 7 that reads static and moving image information from the image data ROM 6 and performs image processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Kenji Morita, Hitoshi Sato, Toshiyuki Murata, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita
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Patent number: 7002548Abstract: A drive controller for controlling to change the orientation of a display surface of a display in accordance with the seating position of occupants aboard a vehicle. A display unit is rotatably mounted on a vehicle. A controller automatically rotates the display unit to a first position where the display surface is oriented toward a driver seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the driver seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a third position where the display surface is oriented toward a front passenger seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the front passenger seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a second position where the display surface is oriented toward the middle point between the driver seat and the front passenger seat, on detecting both of the occupants are seated respectively in the driver seat and the front passenger seat.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita, Hidetsugu Kubota, Toshiyuki Murata
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Patent number: 6995755Abstract: A display controller for controlling display on a display surface of a display unit mounted on a vehicle. The display unit is rotatably mounted on the vehicle. A CPU of a controller recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that a display surface of a display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface, inhibits display of the moving picture on the display unit. The CPU of the controller, recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that the display surface of the display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface rotates the display unit to a position where an occupant of the driver's seat cannot watch the moving picture.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 7, 2006Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita, Hidetsugu Kubota, Toshiyuki Murata
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Patent number: 6735152Abstract: An information playback apparatus which can perform scan playback capable of being performed with finer settings. When a unit cycle B and a playback time A within the unit cycle B are specified and the start of the scan playback of playback data recorded in a DVD is specified, playback control data having address information and information of the playback order appended to each piece of data in the smallest basic units of the playback data is read out from the DVD, whereby the scan playback of the playback data is performed by managing the playback time A in every unit cycle B. Also, when access-inhibited data is present within the playback data, the scan playback of playback data is performed except the access-inhibited data.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Murata, Rie Yamashita, Hidetsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20040042763Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus capable of recording the operating command outputted corresponding to the user's input operation while the menu is reproduced, and automatically executing the recorded operating command, when the same DVD is again reproduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Morita, Yukari Mizumura
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Publication number: 20040027485Abstract: A broadcast receiver has a GPS reception section for clocking, a TV tuner for receiving a broadcast wave of TV broadcast, and a display for displaying video information of a program transmitted by a broadcast wave, and displays video information of a plurality of programs received on a single screen of the display at the same time every hour on the hour. Accordingly, the user (viewer) can check the program contents of channels that can be received at the time of day.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetsugu Kubota, Rie Yamashita, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Toshiyuki Murata
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Publication number: 20030125873Abstract: A display controller for controlling display on a display surface of a display unit mounted on a vehicle. The display unit is rotatably mounted on the vehicle. A CPU of a controller recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that a display surface of a display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface, inhibits display of the moving picture on the display unit. The CPU of the controller, recognizing that the vehicle is traveling, that the display surface of the display unit is oriented toward the driver's seat, and that a moving picture is displayed on the display surface rotates the display unit to a position where an occupant of the driver's seat cannot watch the moving picture.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Applicant: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita, Hidetsugu Kubota, Toshiyuki Murata
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Publication number: 20030122782Abstract: A drive controller for controlling to change the orientation of a display surface of a display in accordance with the seating position of occupants aboard a vehicle. A display unit is rotatably mounted on a vehicle. A controller automatically rotates the display unit to a first position where the display surface is oriented toward a driver seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the driver seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a third position where the display surface is oriented toward a front passenger seat, when an occupant is seated solely in the front passenger seat. The controller rotates the display unit to a second position where the display surface is oriented toward the middle point between the driver seat and the front passenger seat, on detecting both of the occupants are seated respectively in the driver seat and the front passenger seat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2002Publication date: July 3, 2003Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita, Hidetsugu Kubota, Toshiyuki Murata
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Publication number: 20030053380Abstract: An information playback apparatus which can perform scan playback capable of being performed with finer settings. When a unit cycle B and a playback time A within the unit cycle B are specified and the start of the scan playback of playback data recorded in a DVD is specified, playback control data having address information and information of the playback order appended to each piece of data in the smallest basic units of the playback data is read out from the DVD, whereby the scan playback of the playback data is performed by managing the playback time A in every unit cycle B. Also, when access-inhibited data is present within the playback data, the scan playback of playback data is performed except the access-inhibited data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2002Publication date: March 20, 2003Applicant: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Sato, Yukari Mizumura, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki Murata, Rie Yamashita, Hidetsugu Kubota
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Publication number: 20030055517Abstract: In a digital acoustic reproducing apparatus 10 for selecting and outputting one sound information from a sound information source 11 having plural kinds of sound information with at least the number of channels or different data formats, there are provided sound information readout member 12 for reading sound information out of the sound information source 11, information acquisition member 18 for acquiring information about data formats capable of decoding by a decoder 21 to which the sound information read out is supplied or information about the number of speakers 30 to which the sound information decoded by the decoder 21 is supplied, and sound information selection member 14 for selecting sound information to be outputted to the decoder 21 based on the acquired information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2002Publication date: March 20, 2003Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Yukari Mizumura, Hidetsugu Kubota, Toshiyuki Murata, Takamasa Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Sato, Rie Yamashita, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20020051165Abstract: An image processing device and image data conversion method, which, in the case where a plurality of images are to be displayed simultaneously on the same display screen, realizes the expression of colors suited to the designs of the respective images, without biasing of the tints of the respective images displayed on the screen, by a simple arrangement and without making the ROM capacity large. N-bit image data and color pallet data corresponding to each of the n-bit image data are stored in a ROM, and in the process of transferring the image data via an image data processing part to a VRAM, the image data are converted into m-bit (where n<m) image data that are then subject to processing by a GDC (Graphics Display Converter) as they are and displayed on display monitor. Here, image data processing part converts the n-bit image data to m-bit image data by collation of the n-bit image data with the m-bit color pallet data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Kenji Morita, Hitoshi Sato, Toshiyuki Murata, Rie Yamashita, Yukari Mizumura
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Publication number: 20020051098Abstract: A display control apparatus has a display panel, which is placed in its inactive state through a user's operation when not being used, on the one hand, and is placed in is active state when being used, on the other hand. After completing the display of video, the display panel is received automatically, thus ensuring protection of the display panel. It also prevents a beginning part of video from being hidden for a user. All video can be displayed on the display panel that stands up in its prescribed active state. In the display control apparatus, a rotary motor driver and a slider motor driver are used for placing the display panel received in a receiver. An encoder detects whether or not the display panel is placed in its prescribed active state. When the active state of the display panel is detected, an output controller outputs a video signal to the display panel for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Morita, Hitoshi Sato, Toshiyuki Murata, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita
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Publication number: 20020012437Abstract: An attribute of each audio stream is inspected by a discriminator 14. The frequency character of a frequency character adjustor 11 is automatically adjusted corresponding to an attribute of each discriminated audio stream, thereby obtaining an appropriate sound field for each selected audio stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: Pioneer CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Murata, Hitoshi Sato, Rie Yamashita, Yukari Mizumura, Kenji Morita
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Publication number: 20020001453Abstract: In a video reproduction apparatus, OSD data indicative of information about a title and chapters are superposed on a video accompanied by captions serving as a sub-video. The display position of a caption is first determined, then a position at which the OSD data should be displayed is set so as not to overlap with the caption. In the first display pattern, the caption-display position is located nearest to the lower side of the screen, while the OSD-display position nearest to the upper side thereof. In the second display pattern, the caption-display position is located nearest to the upper side of the screen, while the OSD-display position nearest to the lower side thereof. In the third display pattern, the caption-display position is located nearest to the right side of the screen, while the OSD-display position nearest to the left side thereof. Accordingly, both caption and OSD data can be seen with no obstacles, providing video display with superior visibility.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: Yukari Mizumura, Hitoshi Sato, Rie Yamashita, Kenji Morita, Toshiyuki Murata, Hidetoshi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20010026646Abstract: An image processing apparatus which is capable of displaying moving images with more actions for longer period of time. The apparatus is equipped with: an image data ROM 6 which stores a plurality of static image information and moving image information that includes a plurality of element static image information each of which has less amount of information than that of an static image information; and a graphic device 7 that reads static and moving image information from the image data ROM 6 and performs image processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2001Publication date: October 4, 2001Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Morita, Hitoshi Sato, Toshiyuki Murata, Yukari Mizumura, Rie Yamashita