Patents Assigned to Kenwood Corporation
  • Patent number: 10310259
    Abstract: An image rendering apparatus includes a light source unit, an optical scanner, a scanner control unit configured to control a frequency for the optical scanner to scan the laser light in the main scanning direction, and a light source driving unit. The scanner control unit multiplies the frequency by n and the light source driving unit changes time intervals at which pixels are rendered on scanning lines in the main scanning direction to 1/nth and controls the light source unit in such a way that the light source unit renders a plurality of pixels corresponding to one scanning line at least once during n scans in the main scanning direction and in such a way that the light source unit will not render pixels on scanning line(s) other than the scanning lines on which the pixels have been rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuya Nakano
  • Patent number: 10313608
    Abstract: A projection controller controls an infrared projector to selectively and sequentially project first to third infrared lights. An imaging unit images an object in a state where the first to third infrared lights are projected so as to generate first to third frames. An image processing unit synthesizes the first to third frames to generate a frame of an image signal. The projection controller sets an interval between a first timing and a second timing shorter than an interval between the first timing and a third timing. The first timing is the middle point of the period in which the second infrared light is projected. The second timing is the middle point of the period in which the first or third infrared light is projected. The third timing is the middle point of the one frame period of the first or third frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10300376
    Abstract: A display device comprises a display, a storage configured to store a game video of a game of baseball captured in advance and scorebook data corresponding to the game, and a controller configured to extract from the game video, when score information of a specific player included in the scorebook data is selected, a displayed video including an at-bat video of the specific player in an at-bat related to the selected score information, and when the specific player advanced to base, also a base-running video of the specific player related to the selected score information as a runner in the at-bat to cause the display to display the displayed video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Inagaki, Tatsushi Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 10298425
    Abstract: The present disclosure is aimed at making an adjustment operation for sound quality evaluation of a radio device easy. A radio repeater includes: a reception unit configured to receive a radio signal from a first radio terminal; a relay equalizer configured to adjust a frequency characteristic of the radio signal based on a configuration; a configuration reflection unit configured to reflect configuration information on the frequency characteristic received via a communication line in a configuration of the relay equalizer; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the radio signal that has been adjusted to a second radio terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoshi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 10298891
    Abstract: An image drawing apparatus includes a light source unit that outputs a laser light, a sensor that measures an index regarding brightness of the laser light, a scanner that reflects and scans the laser light, and an image processor that controls the light source unit, outputs the laser light to a drawing area narrower than a scanning area of the scanner so that an image based on image data that has been input is drawn, outputting an adjustment laser light to adjust the brightness of the laser light to an outside of the drawing area, stops the output of the adjustment laser light when a period (e.g., variable) until the time the output of the adjustment laser light becomes stable is passed after the output of the adjustment laser light is started, and adjusts the laser light brightness based on the index regarding the adjustment laser light brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyofumi Tabata
  • Patent number: 10291888
    Abstract: A projection display device includes: a light source device which emits source light; a first polarizer passes the source light in a first polarization state; a reflective liquid crystal panel; an illumination optical system which causes the source light to be incident to the reflective liquid crystal panel; a second polarizer passes the source light in the first polarization state from the first polarizer, and reflects the source light in a second polarization state from the reflective liquid crystal panel; a projection optical system which projects the source light reflected by the second polarizer; a support member which includes an outer member that supports the first polarizer and the reflective liquid crystal panel and an inner member that is fixed to the outer member in an internal space of the outer member and supports the second polarizer; and a seal mechanism which seals the internal space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Takatsugu Aizaki, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10271419
    Abstract: A heat dissipating structure includes an integrated circuit; a bracket; a heat sink; a housing; a first fastening member that is inserted into a first fastening hole provided to the bracket, and is inserted into a fastening hole provided to the heat sink, and that assembles the integrated circuit to the bracket and the heat sink, while a surface of the integrated circuit contacts with the bracket, and another surface contacts with the heat sink; and a second fastening member that is inserted into a second fastening hole provided to the bracket, and into a fastening hole provided to the housing, and assembles the bracket to the housing. The heat sink includes one surface that contacts with the housing, the one surface being on a side opposite to a surface contact with the integrated circuit, and the one first fastening member is positioned spaced from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Moribayashi, Tatsuo Saito, Kazuaki Yanagimura, Hiromi Sekito
  • Patent number: 10270483
    Abstract: A quadrature detection unit subjects an FM signal to quadrature detection using a local oscillation signal and outputs a base band signal. A first correction unit and a second correction unit correct the base band signal using a DC offset correction value. A DC offset detection unit subjects the corrected base band signal to rectangular to polar conversion and derives the DC offset correction value such that amplitudes in a plurality of phase domains defined in an IQ plane approximate each other. An FM detection unit subjects the corrected base band signal to FM detection and generates a detection signal. An addition unit adds an offset to the detection signal. An AFC unit generates a control signal for controlling a frequency of a local oscillation signal based on the detection signal to which the offset is added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Okuhata
  • Patent number: 10271063
    Abstract: A merging motion information candidate generation unit derives, when information indicating whether or not to derive a merging motion information candidate shared for all prediction blocks in a coding block is information indicating the derivation of a merging motion information candidate shared for all the prediction blocks in the coding block, a plurality of merging motion information candidates shared for all the prediction blocks in the coding block. A merging motion information selection unit selects one merging motion information candidate from the plurality of merging motion information candidates and uses the selected merging motion information candidate in a prediction block subject to coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Hiroya Nakamura, Shigeru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10261580
    Abstract: A mirror device with a display function includes a display panel, a half mirror, a switching unit, and a direction changing unit. The display panel displays an image. The half mirror is provided on a display surface of the display panel. The switching unit performs switching between a mirror mode operation, in which the display of the image on the display panel is stopped and a mirror surface of the half mirror is used, and a display mode operation in which the image is displayed on the display panel. The direction changing unit changes a direction of the display surface or the mirror surface in response to the switching of the mode operation performed by the switching unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoyo Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10264387
    Abstract: An out-of-head localization processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes headphones, left and right microphones, a measurement unit configured to measure left and right headphone transfer characteristics, respectively, an inverse-filter calculation unit configured to calculate inverse filters of the headphone transfer characteristics, a correction unit configured to calculate correction filters by correcting the inverse filters, and an input unit configured to receive a user input. The correction unit corrects the inverse filters by using a predefined correction function in a first frequency band. The correction unit corrects the inverse filters according to a correction pattern selected based on the user input in a second frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako Murata, Masaya Konishi, Yumi Fujii
  • Patent number: 10262445
    Abstract: An imaging unit captures an image. A communication unit communicates with a base station device and acquires ease information related to ease of communication with at least one base station device and associated with positional information. A display unit displays an image captured by the imaging unit, and displays the ease information in the image, associating the positional information in the ease information with coordinates in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori Suzuki, Ichiro Shishido
  • Patent number: 10260894
    Abstract: A determiner determines execution of rerouting. A notifier notifies the execution of rerouting if the determiner determines the execution of rerouting. A searcher executes a rerouting search if the determiner determines the execution of rerouting. A measurer measures the distance by which a navigation device has moved along a guide route, which is a result of the rerouting search by the searcher. In a case in which the determiner determines execution of next rerouting, the notifier notifies the execution of rerouting if the measured distance is longer than a threshold value and does not notify the execution of rerouting if the measured distance is smaller than or equal to the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Mannami, Atsushi Saito, Hiroyuki Nakajima, Shimpei Kamaya, Yasuma Suzuki, Makoto Inada
  • Patent number: 10264359
    Abstract: In a speaker damper, art sections are disposed on warp reference lines and warp reference lines. Straight sections are disposed so as to intersect intermediate reference lines at right angles. By adopting this configuration, wave parts can be adjusted so that they are less likely to expand/contract on the warp reference lines and the warp reference lines in comparison with related-art concentric circular wave parts. Further, the wave parts can be adjusted so that they are more likely to expand/contract on the intermediate reference lines. In this way, the speaker damper can perform uniform vibrating motions throughout the entire speaker damper with a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kawai, Akira Shigeta, Satoshi Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 10251070
    Abstract: A first acquisition unit acquires theoretical values of received intensity of radio waves from a transmission point received at a plurality of reception points. A second acquisition unit defines a reception point associated with one of a plurality of theoretical values of received intensity acquired by the first acquisition unit as a measurement point and acquires a measured value of received intensity at the measurement point thus defined. A determination unit that determines a correction range in accordance with a difference between the measured value of received intensity acquired by the second acquisition unit and the theoretical value of received intensity at the measurement point acquired by the first acquisition unit. A correction unit corrects the theoretical value of received intensity at the reception point included in the correction range determined by the determination unit, based on the measured value of received intensity acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Sunao Takeuchi, Ichiro Shishido
  • Patent number: 10250886
    Abstract: A prediction information derivation unit derives inter prediction information candidates from inter prediction information of coded prediction blocks neighboring a prediction block subject to coding within the same picture as the prediction block subject to coding and inter prediction information of a prediction block in a coded picture that is different from the prediction block subject to coding. The prediction information derivation unit determines an inter prediction information candidate to be used for inter prediction of the prediction block subject to coding from the inter prediction information candidates that have been derived. A second bitstream generation uni codes an index that indicates the inter prediction information candidate based on the number of the inter prediction information candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Nakamura, Hideki Takehara, Shigeru Fukushima, Motoharu Ueda
  • Patent number: 10244251
    Abstract: There is provided a picture encoding device that encodes a picture and encodes a difference quantization parameter in a unit of a quantization coding block which is divided from the picture and is a management unit of a quantization parameter. A quantization parameter calculator derives a quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded. A prediction quantization parameter derivation unit derives a prediction quantization parameter using the quantization parameters of a plurality of quantization coding blocks which precede the quantization coding block to be encoded in order of encoding. A difference quantization parameter generator derives a difference quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded, using a difference between the quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded and the prediction quantization parameter. A first bitstream generator encodes the difference quantization parameter of the quantization coding block to be encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Masayoshi Nishitani, Motoharu Ueda
  • Patent number: 10230982
    Abstract: N (N?2) time stretch units receive N channels of second image data which are obtained by dividing each line of first image data by N and are composed of a first number of bits. Each N time stretch unit arranges pixels of the N channels in the order of the pixels of the corresponding line of the first image data within a period which is obtained by stretching a one-line period of the second image data. The N time stretch units generate third image data including N lines of the first image data. N encoders encode each coding target pixel of the third image data outputted from the N time stretch units using a difference between the target pixel and a peripheral pixel to generate encoded data composed of a second number of bits which is smaller than the first number of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maki Takami, Hideki Aiba
  • Patent number: D842857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Hideyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: D845946
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Takahashi