Patents Assigned to Kenwood Corporation
  • Patent number: 10856304
    Abstract: A quality score calculator calculates first quality information indicating a degree of quality of a signal received from a terminal apparatus. A communication interface acquires second quality information indicating a degree of quality of a signal received by another base station apparatus from the terminal apparatus. A controller compares the first quality information calculated and the second quality information acquired and determines which indicates a higher quality. A communication interface and a wireless transmitter transmit the signal received from the terminal apparatus when it is determined that the quality of the first quality information is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Shimoshimano, Ichiro Shishido
  • Patent number: 10856351
    Abstract: A first reception unit receives a sound signal destined to a second terminal device in a second communication system supporting one way communication from a first terminal device in a first communication system supporting two way communication. A first transmission unit transmits the sound signal received in the first reception unit to the second terminal device. A second reception unit receives a sound signal destined to the first terminal device from the second terminal device. A second transmission unit transmits the sound signal received in the second reception unit to the first terminal device. A storage unit stores the sound signal received in the first reception unit if the second transmission unit is transmitting the sound signal received in the second reception unit. The first transmission unit transmits the sound signal stored in the storage unit when reception of the sound signal in the second reception unit is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomohiro Azami
  • Patent number: 10847078
    Abstract: A storage device stores dither patterns composed of a three-dimensional block consisting of the number H of dots in a horizontal direction×the number V of lines in a vertical direction×the number F in a frame direction. Each value from a minimum value to a maximum value of dither values of n bits is written in each address of the storage device. When each value is written into the storage device, processing of obtaining a spatiotemporal density value indicating a degree of density of an address in which a dither value has already been written in a three-dimensional predetermined area centered on each of the addresses in which a new dither value is writable, and processing of selecting an address having the smallest spatiotemporal density value among the addresses in which a new dither value is writable and writing a dither value are repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Aiba
  • 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: 10818249
    Abstract: A control device is a control device that controls, based on an image signal for display of an image for each frame period, driving of a liquid crystal display apparatus, and the control device includes: a period dividing unit that divides a frame period into a first period and a second period later than the first period; a signal calculating unit that calculates, based on the image signal, a first signal value and a second signal value for driving of a liquid crystal element of the liquid crystal display apparatus; and a liquid crystal driving unit that drives the liquid crystal element with the first signal value in the first period, and drives the liquid crystal element with the second signal value in the second period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10809178
    Abstract: An analysis device includes a turntable, an optical pickup, and a controller. The turntable holds a disc for specimen analysis having a reaction region on which fine particles binding to substances to be detected are captured per track. The optical pickup emits laser light to the reaction region, receives a reflected light from the reaction region, and generates a reception level signal of the light. The controller sequentially generates a plurality of measurement gate signals per track for counting the number of the fine particles captured on the reaction region, counts the number of the fine particles per measurement gate signal from the reception level signal, compares measurement results obtained in positions having a symmetric relation with each other in the reaction region, and defines a measurement-result-correction target region for correcting the number of the fine particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigehiko Iwama, Masahiro Yamamoto, Atsushi Saito
  • Patent number: 10812737
    Abstract: There is provided an on-vehicle display controller including a video data acquiring unit configured to acquire captured video data obtained through imaging by an imager that is configured to image surroundings of a vehicle, a detecting unit configured to detect at least one following vehicle in the captured video data, an identifying unit configured to identify a lower part of the following vehicle detected by the detecting unit, a display video data generating unit configured to set a clipping area of the captured video data so as to include the lower part of the following vehicle identified by the identifying unit, and generate display video data by performing clipping the clipping area from the captured video data, and a display controller configured to cause a display used in the vehicle to display the display video data generated by the display video data generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Wada, Takeshi Yamazaki, Toshiya Endo, Hiroki Takahashi, Takuji Teruuchi
  • Patent number: 10805704
    Abstract: An earphone includes a speaker unit, a housing that receives the speaker unit therein, and a baffle that is arranged within the housing and supports an opposite surface of the speaker unit, which is opposite to a sound emission surface of the speaker unit, to define a first space between the opposite surface and the baffle. The baffle includes a vent hole through which the first space communicates with a second space that is opposite to the first space with respect to the baffle. A fourth space through which the first space communicates with a third space on a side of the sound emission surface of the speaker unit is defined between a side surface of the speaker unit and an inner surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Miwa
  • Patent number: 10785518
    Abstract: A server of a video management system includes a control unit that, upon receiving the video transmission request and the affiliation information transmitted from the terminal, determines whether the video transmission request and the affiliation information correspond to a first case in which the affiliation destination indicated by the affiliation information and the affiliation destination of the affiliation video data are the same, a second case in which the affiliation destination indicated by the affiliation information and the affiliation destination of the affiliation video data are the same for a group and are different for a team, or a third case in which the affiliation destination indicated by the affiliation information and the affiliation destination of the affiliation video data are different for a group, the control unit transmitting the match video data to the terminal in the first case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Onoda, Jiro Uzaki
  • Patent number: 10778356
    Abstract: In a terminal device, a communication unit performs communication using one of a plurality of time slots in a communication channel. A switching unit switches a time slot for transmission when a predetermined switching condition is determined to be met by referring to a reception signal received in the communication unit and maintains the time slot for transmission until the switching condition is determined to be met again by referring to the reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoshi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Koike
  • Patent number: 10779072
    Abstract: A vent passage forming structure includes a penetration hole portion, a groove portion and a vent passage forming plate. The penetration hole portion is formed on a housing of an earphone. A space on one side of the housing communicates with a space on the other side of the housing through the penetration hole portion. The groove portion is formed on a surface of the housing on the one side thereof to be connected with the penetration hole portion. The vent passage forming plate covers the penetration hole portion and a part of the groove portion. A vent passage through which the space on the one side communicates with space on the other side, is formed by a hole space that is an inner space of the penetration hole portion, and a groove space that is surrounded by the groove portion and the vent passage forming plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kamimura
  • Patent number: 10771885
    Abstract: A headphone device includes a head pad, a band, and a sleeve. The head pad has a curved shape with a first radius of curvature. The band extends from an edge of the head pad into a curved shape with a second radius of curvature different from the first radius of curvature, and supports a housing, via a hanger, housing a speaker unit. The sleeve has a curved shape with the first radius of curvature and is slidable along the head pad to cover the band so as to change the radius of curvature at a part of the band covered with the sleeve to approximate to the first radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinji Kamimura
  • Patent number: 10761387
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element, a wiring substrate having a second terminal, and a light shielding mask. The liquid crystal display element includes a first substrate having a first terminal and a display pixel unit, and a second substrate disposed at a side where illumination light is irradiated to the first substrate. A bonding wire has an arch shape, is formed such that a top of the bonding wire is lower than an upper surface of the second substrate, is joined to the first terminal by first bonding, and is joined to the second terminal by second bonding. The light shielding mask has a light transmitting region corresponding to the display pixel unit and is disposed at a side where the illumination light is irradiated to the liquid crystal display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Monjuji
  • Patent number: 10762859
    Abstract: A display device includes a display pixel unit and a signal processing unit. The display pixel unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The signal processing unit determines a correction value corresponding to a target pixel based on differences between gradation data of the target pixel and gradation data of peripheral pixels disposed in the horizontal direction, the vertical direction, and an oblique direction with respect to the target pixel, respectively, among the plurality of pixels, increases or decreases a pixel value of the target pixel based on the correction value, and corrects the gradation data of the target pixel to reduce the differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuki Nakajima, Takeshi Makabe, Shunsuke Izawa
  • Patent number: 10748301
    Abstract: A corneal reflex position detection device includes a pupil detecting unit that detects the center position of the pupil from an image of an eye of a test subject; and a corneal reflex detecting unit that detects the corneal reflex area from the image. The corneal reflex detecting unit enlarges, in a stepwise manner, a detection target area with reference to the center position of the pupil, to detect whether or not a high-luminance area having the luminance to be equal to or greater than a luminance threshold value is present in the image; and, if the high-luminance area is detected, determines that the high-luminance area represents the corneal reflex area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Hakoshima
  • Patent number: D894867
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeong-ju Choe
  • Patent number: D895572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Maeda, Satoshi Yoshimura, Yui Ando
  • Patent number: D897395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Arimoto, Shuji Tanifuji
  • Patent number: D900061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Masaya Mihara
  • Patent number: D902181
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Maeda, Satoshi Yoshimura, Jeong-ju Choe