Patents Assigned to Kenwood Corporation
  • 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: 11029517
    Abstract: A virtual image display device includes: a display unit that generates an image display light by modulating an illumination light; and a projection optical system that includes a concave mirror for reflecting the image display light toward a virtual image presentation plate and a convex lens provided between the display unit and the concave mirror. The display unit is provided at a position closer to the convex lens than a focal point, within a meridional plane, of a composite optical system formed by the virtual image presentation plate and the projection optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Kobayashi
  • 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: 11010019
    Abstract: A camera thumbnail image acquisition unit acquires a first thumbnail image from a camera. A distribution server thumbnail image acquisition unit acquires a second thumbnail image from a distribution server. A thumbnail image selection unit selects one of the first thumbnail image and the second thumbnail image as a thumbnail image that should be displayed. A camera information acquisition unit acquires camera information including streaming execution information indicating whether the camera is streaming. The thumbnail image selection unit refers to the streaming execution information to select the second thumbnail image as the thumbnail image that should be displayed when the camera is streaming and to select the first thumbnail image as the thumbnail image that should be displayed when the camera is not streaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Takehara, Akinori Suyama, Tatsumi Naganuma, Satoru Hirose
  • Patent number: 10962531
    Abstract: A first sample solution including exosomes including first to third detection target substances is mixed with a first buffer solution including first nanoparticles including first binding substances which bind to the first detection target substances. The first detection target substances and the first binding substances are bound together, so as to form first complexes of the exosomes and the first nanoparticles. The first complexes are isolated from a mixed solution of the first sample solution and the first buffer solution. The second detection target substances and the second binding substances are bound together, so as to capture the first complexes on a substrate. The second binding substances are fixed onto the substrate. A second buffer solution including second nanoparticles including third binding substances which bind to the third detection target substances is reacted with the first complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Itonaga, Yuichi Hasegawa, Koji Tsujita, Masayuki Ono, Shigehiko Iwama, Makoto Igarashi
  • Patent number: 10947006
    Abstract: A packaging box includes a shelf portion which partitions an interior of the packaging box into an upper space and a lower space, an inner flap which is located above the shelf portion as an inner lid and which is bendable to a closed position where the inner flap faces the shelf portion while extending parallel thereto, and a hold-down piece which is disposed at a position facing the inner flap at the closed position in the shelf portion and which has a first bent portion bendable to protrude outward in a middle portion of the hold-down piece, the hold-down piece formed by cutting and raising the shelf portion to be capable of standing in a tilted state where a distal end side thereof extends toward a first side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Yakabe, Hideki Samata, Noriyuki Hara, Makiko Katsuyama, Akemi Ichiyanagi, Kazuhiro Kuramoto, Norio Sato, Shinichi Sakano
  • 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: 10931627
    Abstract: A communication device is connected via a network, to a terminal device and another communication device for configuring an IP address of the terminal device. The communication device includes an address configuration information acquisition unit and an address configuration unit. The address configuration information acquisition unit acquires, from one of the terminal device and the other communication device, information indicating whether an IP address of the terminal device has been configured, and, in a case an IP address of the terminal device has been configured, information on the IP address configured. The address configuration unit configures an IP address of the terminal device in which an IP address has not been configured and which is not associated with the other communication device based on the information acquired by the address configuration information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuo Terajima, Yasutoshi Sakai, Kenta Uesaka
  • Patent number: 10917604
    Abstract: A captured image displaying device generates a video signal for causing a thumbnail image of a video taken by an imaging device to be displayed on a map. A synthesis unit generates a video signal for synthesizing and displaying a thumbnail image of a video of an imaging device in an image display area provided in association with an imaging position of the imaging device on a map. When there are imaging positions of a plurality of imaging devices in the image display area, the synthesis unit generates a video signal that causes thumbnail images of videos of the plurality of imaging devices to be switched and displayed in the image display area in a predetermined sequence, or generates a video signal that splits the image display area and causes the thumbnail images of the videos of the plurality of imaging devices to be displayed in split areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Takehara
  • 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: 10893270
    Abstract: An image encoding device adapted to segment an image into blocks and encode the image in units of blocks resulting from segmenting the image is provided. A block segmentation unit recursively segments the image into rectangles of a predetermined size to generate a block subject to encoding. A bitstream generation unit encodes block segmentation information of the block subject to encoding. The block segmentation unit includes: a quartering unit that quarters a target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks; and a halving unit that halves a target block in recursive segmentation in a horizontal or vertical direction to generate two blocks. When previous recursive segmentation is halving, the halving unit prohibits a target block subject to current recursive segmentation from being segmented in the same direction as a direction in which the block was segmented in the previous recursive segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Fukushima
  • Patent number: 10880527
    Abstract: When gradation of a mixed video signal is equal to or less than a predetermined gradation, a subframe data generator generates subframe data so that an applied voltage to a display element is turned off during a first predetermined period from a start of the frame of a video signal for a visible light image or a video signal for an infrared light image. A light source controller turns on a visible light source after a lapse of a second predetermined period from a start of the frame of the video signal for a visible light image, and turns off the visible light source at the timing when the frame of the video signal for a visible light image is ended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki Nakajima, Takeshi Makabe, Takaaki Saiki
  • 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: 10866233
    Abstract: An analysis device includes a turntable, an optical pickup, and a controller. The turntable holds a specimen analysis disc having reaction regions on which nanoparticles binding to substances to be detected are captured. The optical pickup emits laser light to each reaction region, receives a reflected light from each reaction region, and generates a light reception level signal. The controller sequentially generates a plurality of measurement gate signals for counting the number of the nanoparticles captured on each reaction region, counts the number of the nanoparticles of each of the measurement gate signals based on the light reception level signal, specifies a measurement gate section in each reaction region according to a measurement result per measurement gate signal, and adds up the number of the nanoparticles of the respective measurement gate signals in the measurement gate section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiko Iwama, Makoto Itonaga, Yuichi Hasegawa, Koji Tsujita, Masayuki Ono
  • 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: 10866957
    Abstract: A group forming unit acquires position information of a subject that is a user or a terminal device, and forms a group including a plurality of subjects on the basis of time series data of the position information pertaining to the plurality of subjects. A point calculator calculates, on the basis of the time series data of the position information, a characteristic action amount indicating the degree of being matched with a predetermined action pattern in which influence of a subject in the group is high, for each of the plurality of subjects included in the group formed in the group forming unit, and calculates a point for each of the subjects on the basis of the characteristic action amount. An item selector selects an item to be presented to the group such that a subject having a high point calculated in the point calculator is prioritized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenta Suzuki, Ichiro Shishido
  • 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: D911309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Yu Sakata
  • Patent number: D911995
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Suzuki