Patents Assigned to Kenwood Corporation
  • Patent number: 10230975
    Abstract: A prediction information deriving unit derives the inter-prediction information candidates from inter-prediction information of a prediction block neighboring to a coding target prediction block or a prediction block present at the same position as or near the coding target prediction block in a coded picture at a temporally different position from the coding target prediction block. A candidate supplementing unit supplements inter-prediction information candidates having the same prediction mode, reference index, and motion vector until the number of inter-prediction information candidates reaches the designated number of candidates when the number of inter-prediction information candidates is smaller than the designated number of candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Nakamura, Shigeru Fukushima, Hideki Takehara
  • Patent number: 10230883
    Abstract: An imaging unit images an object in a state where first to third infrared lights are each selectively and sequentially projected so as to generate first to third frames. An electronic shutter controller controls a period and timing in which the imaging unit is exposed such that an interval between a first timing, which is the middle point of the period in which the imaging unit is exposed in the state where the second infrared light is projected, and a second timing, which is the middle point of the period in which the imaging unit is exposed in the state where the first or third infrared light is projected, is set shorter than an interval between the first timing and a third timing, which is the middle point of the one frame period of the first or third frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10222275
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a light source which emits source light having a first wavelength, a fluorescent substance which excites fluorescent light having a second wavelength by the source light and emits the source light and the fluorescent light as illumination light, a fly-eye lens, and a light shielding unit. In the illumination light, a first wavelength component in a first region which is a portion of a region in a cross-sectional view with respect to the traveling direction of the light is smaller than that in a second region which is a region other than the first region. The light shielding unit includes a diaphragm unit which shields the illumination light L and a filter which shields the light having the second wavelength of the illumination light in the second region and transmits the light having the first wavelength of the illumination light in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Takatsugu Aizaki, Shinji Kikuma
  • Patent number: 10222685
    Abstract: A projection image display device includes: a light source that emits a blue illumination light; a phosphor that produces, in a region irradiated by the blue illumination light, a yellow illumination light including a component in a red band and a component in a green band from a portion of the blue illumination light and that reflects the blue illumination light and the yellow illumination light; and a filter that reflects a portion of the blue illumination light reflected by the phosphor toward the phosphor. The filter reflects the portion of the blue illumination light so as to be imaged at a position displaced from a region on a phosphor surface irradiated by the blue illumination light, and the phosphor produces a yellow illumination light also from the blue illumination light reflected by the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Kikuma, Takatsugu Aizaki, Yasuki Arihara
  • Patent number: 10218995
    Abstract: A first super-resolution enlarger (103) works on moving pictures input with a standard resolution, implementing a process for a super-resolution enlargement including information on frequency components in the spatial and temporal directions that has been potentially contained in the input moving pictures but unable to express to a sufficient degree by the standard resolution, and provides super-resolution enlarged signals, which are returned to the standard resolution at a first resolution converter (104). The super-resolution enlarged signals as returned to the standard resolution are encoded at a second encoder (107). A first encoder (102) encodes moving pictures input with the standard resolution, and a multiplexer (109) multiplexes a sequence of encoded bits from a first encoder (102), a sequence of encoded bits from the second encoder (107), and the like. The second encoder (107) employs local decoded signals in the first encoder (102) or processed signals thereof, as reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoru Sakazume
  • Patent number: 10209608
    Abstract: A liquid crystal projector apparatus includes: a plurality of display elements configured to individually modulate light of color components different from one another; and a controller configured to control the individual temperatures of the plurality of display elements. When the temperature of the display element in which a temperature rise rate is slowest among the plurality of display elements does not reach a predetermined temperature, the controller controls so that the temperatures of other display elements stay within a predetermined range that takes as a reference the temperature of the display element in which the temperature rise rate is slowest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiro Kohno, Mitsuharu Fukuda, Yoji Motomiya
  • Patent number: 10212758
    Abstract: A first communication unit communicates with a first communication terminal device by using a first communication scheme. A second communication unit communicates with a second communication terminal device by using a second communication scheme capable of communication over a longer distance than the first communication scheme. A search instruction communicating unit communicates a search instruction to the second communication terminal device via the second communication unit, the search instruction including an identifier identifying a first communication terminal device, and instructing the second communication terminal device to search for the first communication terminal device by using the first communication scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Makinouchi, Hikaru Sueta, Eiiti Hosono
  • Patent number: 10200693
    Abstract: There is provided a picture coding device that performs intra prediction coding of a picture signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in units of blocks and codes information relating to an intra prediction mode. When the intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of coding blocks, in a case where a chroma format is 4:2:2, in a mode for setting a chroma intra prediction mode in accordance with the luma intra prediction mode, an intra prediction unit sets the chroma intra prediction mode based on the luma intra prediction mode and the chroma format and makes an intra prediction of the chroma signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Nakamura, Shigeru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10187592
    Abstract: An imaging unit images an object in a state where an infrared projector projects infrared light. The imaging unit generates an imaging signal. A determination unit analyzes the relationship between the amount of environmental visible light and the amount of infrared light. A controller controls the imaging device, according to the relationship between the amount of environmental visible light and the amount of infrared light, analyzed by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sasao, Satoru Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 10186234
    Abstract: A mirror device with a display function includes a room mirror with a display function, a direction detection unit, and a switching unit. The room mirror with a display function includes a display panel that displays an image and a half mirror that is provided on a display surface of the display panel. The direction detection unit detects a direction of the room mirror with a display function. The switching unit performs, according to the direction of the room mirror with a display function detected by the direction detection unit, 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomoko Kimura
  • Patent number: 10178327
    Abstract: An imaging unit causes each exposure corresponding to one frame period of respective second image signals in a first mode, and causes each exposure in divided sections of one frame period of the respective second image signals under different imaging conditions in a second mode. An image processing unit generates frames of respective first image signals based on each imaging signal read out in such a manner as to correspond to each exposure corresponding to one frame period in the first mode, and generates frames of the respective first image signals based on each imaging signal read out in such a manner as to correspond to each exposure of the divided sections in the second mode. An image output unit sequentially outputs frames of the second image signals set to a signal format common to the first mode and the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Sekiguchi, Takayoshi Sasao
  • Patent number: 10176306
    Abstract: An application program is installable in an information processing apparatus. A detection unit detects the activation of the application program. After the activation of the application program is detected by the detection unit, an acquisition unit acquires the history of an operation performed by a user on the application program. A determination unit determines, using as a parameter the history of the operation acquired by the acquisition unit, the termination of evaluation of the application program performed by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Shimoshimano
  • Patent number: 10176618
    Abstract: A positioning unit identifies first positional information of a mobile terminal device. A communication unit acquires second positional information identified in the other mobile terminal device. An imaging unit captures an image of a surrounding environment. An acquisition unit acquires information related to a status dependent on an environment surrounding the other mobile terminal device. A display unit displays, in a captured image, another device icon indicating another positioning unit, and displays the acquired information in association with the other device icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Fuminori Suzuki, Ichiro Shishido
  • Patent number: 10171832
    Abstract: A motion vector predictor candidate generating unit makes a prediction based on a motion vector of one of coded neighboring blocks that are neighboring to a coding target block in space or time and generates a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A motion vector predictor redundant candidate removing unit removes the motion vector predictor candidates having identity among the motion vector predictor candidates predicted based on a coded neighboring block that is neighboring in space from a motion vector predictor candidate list with at least one being left. A motion vector predictor selecting unit selects a motion vector predictor from the plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A first bitstream generating unit codes information representing the selected motion vector predictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Hideki Takehara
  • Patent number: 10171829
    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: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Masayoshi Nishitani, Motoharu Ueda
  • Patent number: 10171759
    Abstract: A first projection controller of an imaging device controls a first infrared projector, capable of projecting infrared light with multiple wavelengths, to selectively project the infrared light with the multiple wavelengths. An imaging unit of the imaging device images an object in a state where the first infrared projector projects the infrared light. A synchronous signal transmitter transmits outward a synchronous signal for synchronizing a timing of projecting infrared light from a second infrared projector controlled by a second projection controller included in another imaging device other than the imaging device, with a timing of projecting the infrared light from the first infrared projector controlled by the first projection controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Sekiguchi, Takayoshi Sasao
  • Patent number: 10170077
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-projector system including: projectors; an image outputting apparatus; and an adjusting apparatus to adjust images. Each of the projectors includes: a light-emitting unit to emit the modulated light; and a color adjusting unit to adjust colors of the projected image. The image outputting apparatus includes an outputting unit to output the first adjustment image and the second adjustment image as the input images of the projectors. The adjusting apparatus includes: an imaging unit to take a projected image and to output a captured image; an analyzing unit to analyze an image of the overlapping area from the captured image so as to determine a color component; and a controller for controlling the color adjusting unit of the first projector so that the color of the overlapping area is an achromatic color in accordance with the color component determined as a result of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Okamoto, Ryosuke Nakagoshi
  • Patent number: 10171831
    Abstract: A motion vector predictor candidate generating unit makes a prediction based on a motion vector of one of coded neighboring blocks that are neighboring to a coding target block in space or time and generates a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A motion vector predictor redundant candidate removing unit removes the motion vector predictor candidates having identity among the motion vector predictor candidates predicted based on a coded neighboring block that is neighboring in space from a motion vector predictor candidate list with at least one being left. A motion vector predictor selecting unit selects a motion vector predictor from the plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A first bitstream generating unit codes information representing the selected motion vector predictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Hideki Takehara
  • Patent number: D840375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu Sakata
  • Patent number: D840376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yu Sakata