Patents Assigned to JVC Kenwood Corporation
  • Patent number: 11266307
    Abstract: An evaluation device includes a display screen; a gaze point detection unit that detects a position of a gaze point of an examinee; an area setting unit that sets a specific area for a first indicator on the display screen; a determination unit that determines whether the gaze point is present in the specific area based on the position thereof; a display controller that displays a second indicator at a different position from the first indicator when determining that the gaze point is present in the specific area; a arithmetic unit that determines whether the examinee has recognized the second indicator; and an evaluation unit that evaluates a visual function of the examinee based on a determination result from the arithmetic unit. The display controller doesn't display the second indicator when determining that the gaze point isn't present in the specific area after the second indicator has been displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Hakoshima
  • Patent number: 11271764
    Abstract: A chat terminal device includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The communication unit acquires match situation data representing the situation of a match and chat data representing a chat content corresponding to the match from a server to which the match situation data and the chat data are uploaded, the storage unit stores the match situation data and the chat data which are acquired by the communication unit, in association with upload time at which the data are uploaded to the server, and the control unit causes different areas of a display unit to display the match situation data and the chat data which are stored in the storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Onoda, Jiro Uzaki, Masaki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11241152
    Abstract: An evaluation device includes: a display screen configured to displays images; a gaze point detection unit configured to detect a position of a gaze point of an examinee who observes the display screen; a display controller configured to display an indicator at an offset position having a predetermined relative positional relationship with the gaze point on the display screen based on a detection result of the position of the gaze point; an arithmetic unit configured to determine whether the examinee has recognized the indicator; and an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a visual function of the examinee based on a determination result from the arithmetic unit, wherein the arithmetic unit is further configured to determine that the examinee has recognized the indicator when the gaze point moves toward the indicator and thus the offset position is located outside the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Hakoshima
  • Patent number: 11153895
    Abstract: There is provided a communication device including a transmission unit that transmits predetermined information to a base station in accordance with a transmission order of its own and a transmission cycle preset in the communication device of its own, a receiving unit that receives, from other communication device, a reception signal and a transmission order preset in the other communication device, and a control unit that extends the transmission cycle of the communication device of its own when the receiving unit receives a specific signal, compares the transmission order of its own with the transmission order of the other communication device to calculate a transmission timing for transmitting the predetermined information to the base station, and controls the transmission unit to transmit the predetermined information to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Koki Nishiguchi
  • Patent number: 11117520
    Abstract: A display control device includes a video data acquiring unit that acquires video data from a plurality of cameras photographing a periphery of a vehicle, a bird's-eye view video generator that applies view point conversion processing and synthesis processing to the video data to generate a bird's-eye view video, an adjacent information acquiring unit that acquires first obstacle information serving as information about obstacles around the vehicle when the vehicle has moved backward and entered the parked state, and second obstacle information serving as the information about the obstacles around the vehicle when the vehicle moves forward to exit the parked state, a comparing unit that compares the first obstacle information with the second obstacle information to determine whether the number of obstacles around the vehicle has increased when the vehicle exits the parked state, and a display controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shimizu, Ichiro Ishida, Takuji Teruuchi, Naoto Hayashi, Noboru Katsumata
  • Patent number: 11069337
    Abstract: A voice-content control device includes a voice classifying unit configured to analyze a voice spoken by a user and acquired by a voice acquiring unit to classify the voice as either one of a first voice or a second voice, a process executing unit configured to analyze the acquired voice to execute processing required by the user, and a voice-content generating unit configured to generate, based on content of the executed processing, output sentence that is text data for a voice to be output to the user, wherein the voice-content generating unit is further configured to generate a first output sentence as the output sentence when the analyzed voice has been classified as the first voice, and generate a second output sentence in which information is omitted as compared to the first output sentence as the output sentence when the analyzed voice has been classified as the second voice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Tatsumi Naganuma
  • Patent number: 11070776
    Abstract: Divided periods by dividing a frame of a video signal are produced. A display element is ON-OFF controlled on a pixel-by-pixel basis according to a video signal in accordance with the divided periods preassigned to each gradation. The light amount of a light source for emitting light to the display element is controlled so that a first light amount in a first divided period corresponding to the lowest gradation except black display becomes a light amount lower than a second light amount in a second divided period other than the first divided period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuki Nakajima, Takatsugu Aizaki
  • Patent number: 11060884
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive information, an input unit configured to receive input of state information indicating a state of a movable object, and a controller configured to determine whether a predetermined state change has occurred in the movable object based on the input state information, acquire, as attention information, state-changed position information indicating a state-changed position that is a position of the movable object when the predetermined state change has occurred and attention voice information including an attention content for the state-changed position as voice when it is determined that the predetermined state change has occurred, and cause the communication unit to transmit the acquired attention information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 11032479
    Abstract: A bird's-eye view video generation device includes a video data acquisition unit configured to acquire video data from multiple cameras configured to capture videos of surroundings of a vehicle, a bird's-eye view video generator configured to generate a bird's-eye view video from a virtual viewpoint above the vehicle by performing viewpoint conversion processing on the acquired video data to synthesize the viewpoint-converted videos, an obstacle information acquisition unit configured to acquire information from at least one detector configured to detect at least one obstacle around the vehicle and to specify a position thereof, and a display controller configured to display the bird's-eye view video in a display, wherein, when the position of the obstacle overlaps a synthesis boundary between the videos, the bird's-eye view video generator is further configured to generate a bird's-eye view video obtained by changing the position of the virtual viewpoint of the bird's-eye view video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoki Sakuragi
  • Patent number: 11029174
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a communication unit configured to transmit and receive information, an input unit configured to receive input of state information indicating a state of a movable object, and a controller configured to determine whether a predetermined state change has occurred in the movable object based on the input state information, acquire, as attention information, state-changed position information indicating a state-changed position that is a position of the movable object when the predetermined state change has occurred and attention voice information including an attention content for the state-changed position as voice when it is determined that the predetermined state change has occurred, and cause the communication unit to transmit the acquired attention information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Naoyuki Okada
  • Patent number: 11019994
    Abstract: A visual performance examination device includes an image data obtaining unit that obtains image data of the right eye and image data of the left eye of a test subject who is irradiated with a detection light emitted from a light source; a position calculating unit that, based on the image data of the right eye, calculates first-type relative position data indicating the relative position between the pupil and the corneal reflex of the right eye, and, based on the image data of the left eye, calculates second-type relative position data indicating the relative position between the pupil and the corneal reflex of the left eye; and an evaluating unit that, based on the first-type relative position data and the second-type relative position data, outputs evaluation data about the visual performance of the test subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Hakoshima
  • Patent number: 11023039
    Abstract: A visual line detection apparatus includes a light source, a position detection unit configured to detect positions of pupil centers and positions of corneal reflection centers, a curvature radius calculation unit configured to calculate corneal curvature radii from a position of the light source and the positions of the corneal reflection centers, a viewpoint detection unit configured to detect viewpoints from the positions of the pupil centers and the corneal curvature radii, an extraction unit configured to extract pupil parameters indicating sizes of the pupils of the right and left respective eyeballs from the image of the eyeballs, and a correction unit configured to correct the viewpoint of the left eyeball and the viewpoint of the right eyeball on the basis of the pupil parameters and calculate a synthesized viewpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Hakoshima
  • Patent number: 10930156
    Abstract: An image data acquisition unit acquires image data from a rear camera. A display image generation unit generates display image data obtained by superimposing a pair of predicted course lines and a plurality of assisting lines on the acquired image data. An extraction unit extracts a marked-off space boundary in a width direction of a marked-off parking space from the image data. A positional relation determination unit determines a positional relation between the extracted marked-off space boundary and the assisting line on the display image data. The display image generation unit changes a displaying format of an assisting line located on an outer side of the marked-off space boundary extracted by the extraction unit from a displaying format of an assisting line located on an inner side of the marked-off space boundary. A display control unit displays an image based on the display image data on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Hayashi, Takuji Teruuchi
  • Patent number: 10896324
    Abstract: A line-of-sight detection device includes an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data of a face of a subject irradiated with detection light emitted from at least one light source, a line-of-sight detection unit that detects a line of sight of the subject based on the image data, an image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data to generate a feature image of the face and an eyeglasses reflection image indicating a reflection image of the at least one light source on eyeglasses worn on the face, and a display controller that causes a display device to display the feature image and the eyeglasses reflection image in a different display form in a composite image in which the feature image and the eyeglasses reflection image are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Shudo, Shuji Hakoshima
  • Patent number: 10873720
    Abstract: A bird's-eye view video generation device includes a video data acquiring unit configured to acquire video data of surroundings video of a vehicle captured by cameras; a bird's-eye view video generator configured to generate a bird's-eye view video displaying a predetermined display area around the vehicle by performing viewpoint conversion and synthesizing processings on the video data of the surroundings videos with a vehicle icon; a reference object detector configured to detect a reference object around the vehicle; an orientation specifying unit configured to specify a relative orientation of the reference object with respect to the vehicle; a superimposing processor configured to generate a superimposed bird's-eye view video by superimposing information representing the relative orientation on the bird's-eye view video based on the vehicle icon or the information representing the relative orientation; and a display controller configured to cause a display panel to display the superimposed bird's-eye vie
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Asayama, Noboru Katsumata, Takuji Teruuchi
  • Patent number: 10869033
    Abstract: In a case where a partition mode in which luma signals are partitioned horizontally and vertically is set when an intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of minimal coding blocks set in advance, an intra prediction unit is configured to make an intra prediction of a chroma signal in units of prediction blocks of the intra prediction of chroma signals within the minimal coding block set in accordance with a chroma format. A second bitstream constructing unit constructs a bitstream of information relating to a luma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of luma signals and information relating to a chroma intra prediction mode of a prediction block of chroma signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Nakamura, Shigeru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10855934
    Abstract: A bird's-eye view image generation device includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires periphery image data obtained by photographing a periphery of a vehicle; an obstacle information acquisition unit that acquires positional information of an obstacle detected in the periphery of the vehicle; a bird's-eye view image generation unit that generates a bird's-eye view image obtained by combining periphery images acquired by the image data acquisition unit, the periphery images having been subjected to viewpoint conversion processing so that a virtual viewpoint is positioned at a position at which the vehicle and the obstacle can be overlooked, based on the positional information of the obstacle acquired by the obstacle information acquisition unit; and a display control unit that causes a display panel to display the bird's-eye view image generated by the bird's-eye view image generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Hayashi, Katsuhiko Kubo
  • Patent number: 10832401
    Abstract: A diagnosis assisting apparatus includes a display, an imaging unit configured to image a subject, a line of sight detecting unit configured to detect a line of sight direction of the subject from a picked-up image imaged by the imaging unit, a point of view detecting unit configured to detect a point of view of the subject in a display region of the display based on the line of sight direction, and an output controller configured to display a diagnostic image including a natural image and a geometrical image, and the point of view detecting unit detects the point of view of the subject in a case where the diagnostic image is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shuji Hakoshima, Katsuyuki Shudo, Masaru Ninomiya, Makoto Kito
  • Patent number: D911309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Yu Sakata
  • Patent number: D929366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Mihara, Yu Sakata