Patents Assigned to Kenwood Corporation
  • Patent number: 10393581
    Abstract: A spectroscope includes a light receiving element and a wavelength selection filter unit. The light receiving element includes a pixel region where a plurality of pixels are disposed. The wavelength selection filter unit is disposed on the pixel region and includes a plurality of wavelength selection filters. The plurality of wavelength selection filters have transmission wavelength characteristics which are different from each other, and split incident light for each wavelength or each wavelength band. The light receiving element generates a light receiving signal by photoelectrically converting light which is split by the wavelength selection filter and is incident on the pixel region, for each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Hagihara, Taiki Kobayashi, Norikazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10396742
    Abstract: A noise squelch processor generates a noise squelch determination signal by comparing a noise level and a threshold value with each other. A carrier detector generates a carrier determination signal indicating whether or not a reception signal is present based on a signal strength of the reception signal. An integrator controller controls an integrator to set a cutoff frequency of the integrator to a second cutoff frequency higher than a first cutoff frequency at a first timing when the carrier detector generates a carrier determination signal indicating that the reception signal is present, and to switch the cutoff frequency of the integrator from the second cutoff frequency to the first cutoff frequency at a second timing after an elapse of a predetermined period from the first timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Shiozawa
  • Patent number: 10388264
    Abstract: A frequency domain converter divides an input signal for each predetermined frame, and generates a first signal X(f, ?) for each first frequency division unit. A noise estimation signal generator generates a signal Y(f, ?) for each second frequency division unit wider than the first frequency division unit. A signal comparator calculates a representative value for each second frequency division unit based on the signal Y(f, ?) stored in a storage unit, and compares the representative value and the signal Y(f, ?) with each other for each second frequency division unit. A mask generator generates a mask M(f, ?), which determines a degree of suppression or emphasis for each first frequency division unit, based on a peak range of the signal X(f, ?), and a comparison result by the signal comparator. The mask application unit multiplies the signal X(f, ?) by the mask M(f, ?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masato Sugano
  • Patent number: 10388253
    Abstract: A display system, a display device, a processing device, a display method, and a program capable of displaying a CG video image with a wide dynamic range are provided. A display system according to an embodiment includes a processor that generates a CG video image according to a scene, and a projector that display the CG video image. The display system generates a normalizing level, a brightness compression level, and a brightness control signal based on brightness information of the scene. The display system generates a video signal including pixel data of a display video image from a rendering video image by compressing brightness of a pixel present in a brightness compression range specified by the brightness compression level and the normalizing level in the rendering video image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryosuke Nakagoshi
  • Patent number: 10375507
    Abstract: A transfer characteristics measurement unit measures first transfer characteristics from left and right sound sources to left and right microphones, respectively. An environmental measurement unit picks up environmental measurement signals output from the left and right sound sources with use of the left and right microphones, sets an amplitude level of transfer characteristics measurement signals and a tap length of the transfer characteristics, picks up sounds with use of the left and right microphones in a state where no sound is output from the left and right sound sources, and measures second transfer characteristics. A correction unit corrects a low frequency range of the first transfer characteristics based on the second transfer characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yumi Fujii, Hisako Murata, Masaya Konishi
  • Patent number: 10364956
    Abstract: Provided is a headlight device which appropriately controls emission of light from a headlight of a traveling vehicle. A headlight device includes an image capturing unit, a vanishing point calculation unit, a headlight, and an emission control unit. The image capturing unit captures an image in a traveling direction of a traveling vehicle. The vanishing point calculation unit calculates a position of a vanishing point in the image, on the basis of an image captured by the image capturing unit. The headlight emits light in a traveling direction of the vehicle. The emission control unit controls emission of light from the headlight on the basis of a position of a vanishing point calculated by the vanishing point calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Koiso
  • Patent number: 10359446
    Abstract: A temperature gradient calculation unit calculates a temperature gradient based on the temperature from the temperature sensor and calculates an average temperature based on the temperature gradient. An offset gradient calculation unit calculates an offset value gradient based on the temperature gradient, the average temperature, and the temporary offset value of the angular speed sensor. A correction value calculation unit calculates the offset value of the angular speed sensor based on the offset value gradient and the temperature gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Kondoh
  • Patent number: 10362209
    Abstract: An operation portion is provided on a first surface of a housing and is operated to remotely operate an imaging device. A signal transmitting and receiving portion is provided on a second surface of the housing connected to the first surface, and is configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from the imaging device. An electrical connection portion is attached to the first surface of the housing or to a surface of the housing facing the same direction as the first surface, and is configured to output a signal, which is received from the imaging device through the signal transmitting and receiving portion, to the outside. Engaging pieces are retractably provided at positions facing each other with the operation portion interposed therebetween, on a third surface and a fourth surface connected to both the first surface and the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiromi Taguchi
  • Patent number: 10354672
    Abstract: An input unit receives a request for transmission of a speech signal to a predetermined group. When the request for transmission is received in the input unit, a determination unit determines a process related to reproduction of the speech signal in a terminal device expected to receive a speech, based on a distance between terminal devices expected to receive the speech signal, excluding the terminal device outputting the request from a plurality of terminal devices belonging to the predetermined group. An output unit outputs the detail determined in the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Eiiti Hosono
  • Patent number: 10356792
    Abstract: A mobile communication unit performs communication using a first communication scheme. A business wireless communication unit performs communication using a second communication scheme. A storage unit stores first information and second information, mapping the first information and the second information to each other, the first information being defined to receive, using the first communication scheme, service from a further communication terminal device capable of communication using the first communication scheme and the second communication scheme, and the second information being defied to perform communication with the further communication terminal device using the second communication scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10356546
    Abstract: A filter generation device includes left and right speakers, left and right microphones, and a processor that generates filters in accordance with transfer characteristics from the left and right speakers to the left and right microphones based on sound pickup signals. The processor includes a direct sound arrival time search unit that searches for a direct sound arrival time by using a time at which an absolute value of an amplitude reaches its maximum, a left and right direct sound determination unit that determines whether signs of amplitudes at the direct sound arrival time match, an error correction unit that, when the signs do not match, corrects cutout timing so that the direct sound arrival times coincide, and a waveform cutout unit that cuts out the transfer characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisako Murata, Masaya Konishi, Yumi Fujii
  • Patent number: 10356434
    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: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Fukushima, Hiroya Nakamura, Masayoshi Nishitani, Motoharu Ueda
  • Patent number: 10347297
    Abstract: A moving picture playback method including detecting a first location in a moving picture display area indicated by a user, detecting a frame at a time point at which the user indicated the first location, determining whether the first location is located in one of two divided areas of the moving picture display area or in the other thereof, generating a first number of thumbnails of frames temporally subsequent to the detected frame when the first location is located in the one of the two divided areas, and generating a second number of thumbnails of frames temporally previous to the detected frame when the first location is located in the other, displaying the generated thumbnails in the moving picture display area, detecting a thumbnail selected from among the displayed thumbnails by the user, and playing back a moving picture at a frame corresponding to the detected thumbnail and subsequent frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Uzaki
  • Patent number: 10346711
    Abstract: A color gamma processing unit subjects an input image to gamma correction for color on a pixel by pixel basis. A GSDF processing unit subjects the input image to gamma correction for monochrome on a pixel by pixel basis. A mixer mixes a gamma corrected value for color provided by the color gamma processing unit with a gamma corrected value for monochrome provided by the GSDF processing unit at a mixing ratio based on a pixel-by-pixel saturation value of the input image, and outputs a gamma corrected value of a pixel in the input image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tamotsu Itou
  • Patent number: 10334433
    Abstract: A communication system is provided in which multiple terminal devices form a group and at least one base station device assigns a channel to each group, so that communication from a terminal device included in a group assigned a channel to the other terminal devices included in the group is performed. In the communication system, a transmitting unit transmits information about authentication to a base station device before communication is started. A receiving unit receives, from a base station device, information about authentication status of at least another terminal device within the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoko Yaginuma, Ichiro Shishido, Shunichi Manabe, Masae Toko, Kazuya Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10334273
    Abstract: In a picture coding device for coding picture signals including a brightness signal and a color-difference signal in a block unit using intra-prediction and coding information regarding an intra-prediction mode, when aspect ratios of pixels of the brightness signal and the color-difference signal are different from each other, a bitstream generator converts a mode number of a first intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are equal to each other into a scaled mode number and derives a second intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroya Nakamura, Motoharu Ueda, Shigeru Fukushima, Toru Kumakura
  • Patent number: 10315517
    Abstract: A first display panel and a second display panel display information used for vehicle driving. An information acquisition unit acquires a condition of the vehicle. A switching unit switches from a first display mode of the first display panel and the second display panel to a second display mode of the first display panel and the second display panel for displaying information of a smaller information volume than an information volume of information displayed in the first display mode, based on the condition of the vehicle acquired in the information acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Segawa, Kiyofumi Tabata, Tatsuo Oi, Akimitsu Ochiai
  • Patent number: 10311769
    Abstract: A uniformity correction data generation unit generates uniformity correction data for an R signal, a G signal, and a B signal. A multiplier multiplies pixel signals of the R signal, the G signal, and the B signal by the uniformity correction data for the R signal, the G signal, and the B signal. The multiplier shifts, from one another, positions of pixels at a time of multiplying the pixel signals of the R signal, the G signal, and the B signal by the uniformity correction data for the R signal, the G signal, and the B signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Ogoshi
  • Patent number: D856303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventors: Yui Ando, Arwa Borsadwala, Satoshi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: D856307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: JVC KENWOOD Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki Maeda