Patents Assigned to DENSO TEN LIMITED
  • Patent number: 11107489
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes a generator, an output controller, and an echo canceller. The generator generates an output sound signal by combining an over-the-phone sound signal with a system sound signal different from the over-the-phone sound signal. The output controller outputs, to a loudspeaker, the output sound signal generated by the generator. The echo canceller cancels the output sound signal from an input sound signal input via a microphone located in a vicinity of the loudspeaker. The output controller suppresses a level of the system sound signal to be output from the loudspeaker so as not to be greater than a predetermined value within a range in which a volume value for the over-the-phone sound signal is settable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Katsuaki Hikima, Atsushi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11099805
    Abstract: A reproduced data output apparatus includes: a reproduced data receiver section to receive a reproduced data of a content from an external instrument having a reproduction function of the content; a report determiner section to determine whether an operation status report signal indicating that a status of a present operation of the external instrument is a status of a different operation is reported from the external instrument, in response to that an occurrence of an event is identified during a status of a first operation being identified as a status of a present operation of the external instrument; and a command transmission controller section to transmit a command that requires a re-start of the first operation to the external instrument, in response to that the operation status report signal is determined to be reported from the external instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, PIONEER CORPORATION, DENSO TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Eiji Nakai, Kazushige Hayashi, Jun Yuyama, Yoshinobu Orui, Go Takahashi, Hirotaka Nakahara, Kenji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11100342
    Abstract: An image processing device includes: a calculation unit which calculates chroma values of pixels of image data taken by a shooting device based on differences between R values or G values and B values, respectively; a correction unit which corrects luminance values of pixels that satisfy a prescribed condition for being a yellow pixel using the calculated chroma values as emphasis amounts, respectively; and a detection unit which detects a line drawn on a road surface based on the corrected luminance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yasutaka Okada, Hiroaki Sano, Tetsuo Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshihara, Jun Kanetake, Ryo Yoshimura, Tomoki Shidori
  • Patent number: 11093786
    Abstract: An extraneous-matter detecting apparatus according to an embodiment includes a region setting unit, a computing unit, and a state setting unit. The region setting unit sets, for a captured image captured by an image capturing device provided in a vehicle, a plurality of divided regions. The computing unit computes a representative value of luminance in a target region for detecting an adhesion of an extraneous matter. The target region includes the plurality of divided regions. The state setting unit sets, based on a vehicle speed and the representative value of luminance in the target region, a transition state of information that indicates an adhesion state of an extraneous matter in the divided region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Ikeda, Nobunori Asayama, Takashi Kono, Yasushi Tani, Daisuke Yamamoto, Tomokazu Oki, Teruhiko Kamibayashi
  • Patent number: 11092960
    Abstract: A remote vehicle control device includes: a display unit; an operation unit configured for controlling a vehicle; a signal generating unit configured to generate control signals for the vehicle, based on operations on the operation unit; a communication unit configured to perform communication with the vehicle and another remote vehicle control device; and an authority managing unit that manages a control authority for the vehicle. Synthetic images showing a surrounding area of the vehicle as seen from a virtual viewpoint each are generated on the basis of plural images acquired by plural on-board cameras mounted on the vehicle, respectively, and the display unit displays the synthetic images. The communication unit transmits the control signals to the vehicle. The authority managing unit performs transfer of the control authority for the vehicle in cooperation with the another remote vehicle control device via the communication unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Fumiaki Bando, Minoru Maehata, Miki Hitotsuya
  • Publication number: 20210249623
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light emitting panel having a light emitting surface; a cover panel configured to cover the light emitting surface; and a cooling unit that is arranged in a space between the cover panel and the light emitting panel and configured to cool the light emitting panel. The cooling unit includes a frame portion that surrounds an outer periphery of the space, and a coolant configured to be supplied into the space from outside of the space and discharged from the space to the outside of the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Atsushi YAMAWAKI, Takeshi MORITA
  • Publication number: 20210237660
    Abstract: A rear seat display device is provided in a vehicle at a position viewable from a rear seat of the vehicle. The rear seat display device includes a display, a built-in speaker, and a controller that (i) acquires a signal relating to control of a sound to be output to a vehicle speaker mounted in the vehicle from an in-vehicle audio device, the vehicle speaker being a different speaker than the built-in speaker, and (ii) controls a sound to be output from the built-in speaker based on the signal relating to the control of the sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Miho IWASE, Masahiro KOHARAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20210241982
    Abstract: A switch apparatus according to one embodiment includes an operation portion, a surface film and a light source. The operation portion has an elongated shape with first and second opposite ends in a longitudinal direction of the operation portion, receives a pressing operation of a user at least at one of the first and second ends, and is translucent. The surface film is formed on a surface of the operation portion and is translucent. The light source is arranged on a back-surface side of the operation portion and emits light toward the at least one of the first and second ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Syohhei YOSHII
  • Publication number: 20210243520
    Abstract: A speaker unit has at least a part that is installed in a first space separated by a wall from a second space in which a sound to be output by the speaker unit is listened to. The speaker unit includes a first speaker, a second speaker, a speaker connector that interconnects the first speaker and the second speaker so that back surfaces of the first speaker and the second speaker oppose each other, a first spacer that interconnects the first speaker and a first opening of the wall, and a second spacer that interconnects the second speaker and a second opening of the wall. The first speaker, the second speaker, the speaker connector, the first spacer and the second spacer are integrally connected to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Yuuichi NAKAJIMA, Kazuhiko HAMADA, Keiichiroh TANAKA, Migiwa GOTO
  • Patent number: 11079850
    Abstract: In an input apparatus, under a state where contact of a manipulating body to a predetermined position on a manipulation surface is detected, a second low frictional force between the manipulation surface and the manipulating body is provided by vibrating the manipulation surface. The second low frictional force is smaller than a frictional force between the manipulation surface and the manipulating body when the manipulation surface is not vibrated. In response to determining the movement of the manipulating body from the predetermined position towards a target position on the manipulation surface, a first low frictional force between the manipulation surface and the manipulating body is provided by a predetermined time by vibrating the manipulation surface. The first low frictional force is smaller than the second low frictional force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, DENSO TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Tetsuya Tomaru, Tatsuya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11076223
    Abstract: A speaker device in an embodiment includes a panel and an actuator. The actuator is provided on the panel. The actuator includes a diaphragm, a piezoelectric element, and a vibration transmission portion. The piezoelectric element is provided on at least one of principal surfaces of the diaphragm. The vibration transmission portion is provided on the diaphragm and abuts the panel without making contact with the piezoelectric element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Ikeda, Shizuka Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 11067598
    Abstract: An inspection data output device according to an embodiment includes an input unit, a generation unit, and an output unit. Information on a portion to be inspected in a circuit board is supplied to the input unit. The generation unit generates emphasis data in which an output signal path being a signal path on the circuit board and being a signal path capable of detecting an output signal of the portion to be inspected is emphasized more than another signal path. The output unit outputs the emphasis data to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Sakatoshi Machimura, Takuya Hibino, Hikoichi Yonetani, Tatsuya Takaoka, Soichiro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11069993
    Abstract: In the mounting structure of the connector shield, the connector shield includes an upper plate, a pair of side plates, and a mounting portion provided on a lower edge side of each of the side plates, and the mounting portion includes a retainer that includes a foot protruding downward from a first position of a lower edge of the side plate, and a locking hook protruding forward or rearward from the foot in a first direction, and a positioning protrusion that protrudes downward from a second position shifted from the first position of the lower edge of the side plate in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Toshiaki Takaki
  • Patent number: 11069987
    Abstract: A radar device includes: reception array antennas each including virtual antennas constructed from plural transmission antennas and plural reception antennas; and a transmission control unit which controls transmission waves transmitted from the transmission antennas, the plural transmission antennas include: a first transmission antenna group having at least two of the transmission antennas that are spaced from each other by a prescribed first interval; and a second transmission antenna group having at least one of the transmission antenna that is spaced, by a prescribed second interval, from a synthesized antenna that is the first transmission antenna group as regarded as a single antenna; and the transmission control unit is capable of switching between: a first mode and a second mode as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Ohguchi
  • Patent number: 11071230
    Abstract: A heat dissipation structure of a heat generating component includes a heat conductive plate that includes a heat receiving connecting part thermally connected to the heat generating component and a heat dissipation connecting part thermally connected to the chassis and an air cooling fan that generates cooling air for cooling the heat conductive plate. The heat conductive plate further includes a first heat dissipation area from which heat is dissipated by flowing the cooling air along a surface of the plate and a second heat dissipation area that is bent and extends from the first heat dissipation area so as to cross an advancing direction of the cooling air that flows along the surface of the plate at the first heat dissipation area, and from which heat is dissipated by receiving the cooling air that has flown along the surface of the plate at the first heat dissipation area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Toshiaki Takaki
  • Patent number: 11061130
    Abstract: A radar apparatus includes: a detection portion that transmits a radio wave to a target and receives a radio wave reflected on the target so as to detect instantaneous data; and an allocation portion that allocates the instantaneous data to prediction data of the target so as to take continuity of the target; and the allocation portion corrects velocity of the instantaneous data and velocity of the prediction data respectively as velocities made in line with a predetermined direction set as a reference, so as to allocate the instantaneous data to the prediction data based on at least magnitudes of the respectively corrected velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Seiya Fujitsu, Shinya Aoki
  • Patent number: 11057985
    Abstract: A printed wiring board according to an embodiment includes a wiring board body, a first connection part and a second connection part. In the first connection part, a heat-receiving front surface is a first land formed on a front surface of the wiring board body. A heat-receiving back surface is formed on a back surface of the wiring board body. A main-heat conducting part is a through-hole that inter-connects the heat-receiving front surface and the heat-receiving back surface. In the second connection part, a second land is formed on the front surface of the wiring board body. The second land is not connected to any conductor pattern formed on the back surface of the wiring board body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Katada, Kotaro Hosogi, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Toshiyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11035932
    Abstract: A radar device includes a signal generating unit that generates a transmission signal; an output unit that outputs a transmission wave based on the transmission signal, at each of predetermined angles; a receiving unit that receives the reflected waves of the transmission wave from targets; and a deriving unit that derives information on the targets on the basis of reception signals related to the reflected waves. The signal generating unit generates a first transmission signal including at least one modulated signal as the transmission signal related to the transmission wave to be output at a first angle, several times, at intervals of a predetermined idle running time, and generates a second transmission signal including at least one modulated signal, as the transmission signal related to the transmission wave to be output at each of second angles different from the first angle, in each interval of the idle running time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Toshihiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11037266
    Abstract: An attached substance detection device according to an embodiment includes a calculation unit and a determination unit. The calculation unit calculates a score of a divided region that is provided by dividing a predetermined target region, based on an edge intensity in each pixel region of a captured image that is captured by an image-capturing device. The determination unit determines whether or not the target region is an attached substance region where an attached substance is attached to a lens of the image-capturing device, based on the score that is calculated by the calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Ikeda, Nobunori Asayama, Takashi Kono, Yasushi Tani, Daisuke Yamamoto, Tomokazu Oki, Teruhiko Kamibayashi
  • Patent number: 11032141
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus includes: a memory, a signal processor, and a microcomputer. The memory stores a setting file including: a common portion that holds at least one common parameter that is used in common for functions performed by the signal processing apparatus; individual portions that each individually hold parameters; and a changer that holds change information to change the at least one common parameter. The microcomputer (a) reads the common portion and the individual portions from the memory, and sends the read portions to the signal processor, and (b) selects one of the functions, and controls the signal processor in accordance with the selected function and the change information so that the signal processor uses i) the parameter in the individual portion corresponding to the selected function, and ii) the at least one common parameter of the common portion that has been changed based on the change information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventor: Kazuya Yoshimi