Patents Assigned to TEAC Corporation
  • Patent number: 10181318
    Abstract: A device is provided which adds a desired delay (echo) effect while suppressing increase in the cost with a simple structure. A CPU of an audio device activates a plurality of media players A, B, C, . . . for reproducing an audio file. The audio file is reproduced as an original sound by one of the plurality of media players, and a delay sound with respect to the original sound of the audio file is reproduced by another media player, and is added to the original sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Kaname Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 10121508
    Abstract: A multitrack recorder includes a display unit and a control unit. The control unit displays on the display unit a level meter image indicating information on a corresponding track with respect to each of a predetermined number of tracks, and also first number images indicating the respective numbers of some of the tracks so as to be associated with the corresponding respective level meter images irrespective of the states of the some tracks, and, when a focused track is generated among the tracks displayed, temporarily displays a second number image indicating the number of the focused track so as to be associated with the corresponding level meter image. The second number image is displayed in a manner such that at least one of a size, a position, and a color is different from that of the first number image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Dai Sato
  • Patent number: 10074399
    Abstract: A control device is provided which mixes and records two types of audio signals processed under standards different from each other; in particular an audio signal of ASIO standard and an audio signal of WDM standard. An audio interface is connected to a computer, and an audio signal is input to the computer. A mixer module of the computer mixes an audio signal effect-processed by an ASIO application and an audio signal reproduced by a WDM application, outputs the mixed audio signal to the audio interface, and to the WDM application, and records the sound. The mixer module automatically switches between presence/absence of the effect process and between presence/absence of mixing according to a mode which is set in an operation panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kaname Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 10063333
    Abstract: A device is provided which mixes and records two types of audio signals processed under standards different from each other; in particular, an audio signal of ASIO standard and an audio signal of WDM standard. An audio interface is connected to a computer, and an audio signal is input to the computer. A mixer module of the computer mixes an audio signal which is effect-processed by an ASIO application and an audio signal which is reproduced by a WDM application, outputs the mixed signal to the audio interface, supplies the mixed audio signal to the WDM application, and records the sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kaname Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 10033209
    Abstract: Portable electronic equipment which prevents an unwanted decrease in capacity of an internal battery of an external device, such as a smartphone, by cutting off feeding as necessary when connected to the external device, such as the smartphone, through a USB. The portable electronic equipment has a USB connector for connection with the external device, a feeding switch for turning on or off feeding to the secondary battery through a VBUS line, and a CPU. The CPU subjects the feeding switch to ON-control at all times or OFF-control at all times, or displays a selection menu for selecting feeding or unfeeding when the external device is connected to the USB connector. When a user selects feeding, the feeding switch undergoes ON-control. When the user selects unfeeding, the feeding switch undergoes OFF-control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Nakayama, Takayuki Honda, Kunihiro Oribe
  • Patent number: 10028009
    Abstract: A sound recording apparatus is provided which is HDMI-connected to a camera and another device, which outputs a video image signal from the camera to the other device without processing, and which outputs to the other device, without degradation, an audio signal recorded separately from the camera. A sound recording apparatus is HDMI-connected to a camera and a backup image recording apparatus. The sound recording apparatus includes an HDMI receiver that receives an HDMI signal transmitted from the HDMI-connected camera, a controller that embeds an audio signal which is input from a microphone which is connected to the apparatus in an audio channel portion of the HDMI single, and an HDMI transmitter that outputs to the backup image recording apparatus the video image signal included in the HDMI signal and the audio signal embedded by the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryotaro Hongo
  • Patent number: 10019134
    Abstract: An edit processing apparatus for enhancing user operability. The edit processing apparatus has an output device for displaying a target to be edited; and a CPU that displays on the output device edit menus for the target in accordance with a relative positional relationship between a position of the target and a cursor position on the output device and a frequency of selection made at the cursor position in the past.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kaname Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 10020022
    Abstract: A multitrack recording system is disclosed. A multitrack recording/reproducing apparatus records a first audio signal with a multitrack recording apparatus into any of a plurality of channels (tracks). In the meantime, a smartphone records a second audio signal as a sound record file into a recording medium. A Wi-Fi connection is established between the sound recording apparatus and the smartphone, and the sound record file is transferred from the smartphone to the recording/reproducing apparatus. The recording/reproducing apparatus stores the sound record file into a remaining channel where the first audio signal is not recorded among the plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Susumu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9990956
    Abstract: In a recording system comprising a plurality of recording apparatuses connected in cascade to increase the number of audio channels, a desired audio signal can be monitored. In the recording apparatus, when a digital audio signal is input from a digital input terminal and an analog audio signal is input from an analog audio input terminal, the analog audio signal is converted to a digital signal, which is further embedded in the digital audio signal and output from an output terminal. When an operation unit designates a channel to be used for monitor output, among the digital audio signal input from a digital input terminal and a digital audio signal obtained by converting the analog audio signal to the digital signal, an audio signal of the channel which is designated is output for monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 9978427
    Abstract: A device capable of continuing to record data even when a volume of data in a storage medium reaches a capacity limit in the middle of recording the data in the storage medium. A CPU of a data recorder divides data, which are to be recorded in one recording session, into a plurality of small files, and sequentially records the small files into memory. When a volume of data in the memory reaches a capacity limit of the memory, the earliest small file among the small files that are recorded in the memory and that make up the recording session is deleted, and the small files are continually recorded in an available space created by deletion. After completion of recording, all the small files making up the recording session are coupled and recorded in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikeda, Eiji Ueda
  • Patent number: 9966921
    Abstract: A multi-band limiter, a sound recording apparatus, and a program are provided having a multi-band limit function with a flat frequency characteristic while removing a dead zone of the multi-band limiter. A multi-band limiter is provided including an overlap filter unit (200) that divides an input sound signal into low-band, middle-band, and high-band components such that the components overlap each other between adjacent bands, limiters (202, 204, 208, 210, 214, 216) that apply a limit process to limit a level in each band, trimming filter units (206, 212, 218) that apply a trimming process to trim an overlapping signal component in each of the limit-processed components, and an adder (220) that combines and outputs the trimming-processed components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Shimada, Shigeyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 9966104
    Abstract: A control device is provided which mixes and outputs two types of audio signals processed under standards different from each other; in particular, an audio signal of ASIO standard and an audio signal of WDM standard. An audio interface is connected to a computer, and an audio signal is input to the computer. A mixer module of the computer mixes an audio signal which is effect-processed by an ASIO application and an audio signal reproduced by a WDM application, outputs the mixed audio signal to the audio interface, and also outputs the mixed audio signal to the WDM application and records the sound. In each step of the process, double buffering is used to reduce sound drop-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Omata
  • Patent number: 9900693
    Abstract: An XY-type microphone unit and a sound recording apparatus are provided which can effectively record a high-res sound source or the like. The XY-type microphone unit includes a left microphone unit and a right microphone unit. The left microphone unit includes a high-band microphone unit of the left microphone unit which collects sounds of a high band and a low-band microphone unit of the left microphone unit which collects sounds of low band. The right microphone unit includes a high-band microphone unit of the right microphone unit which collects sounds of a high band and a low-band microphone unit of the right microphone unit which collects sounds of a low band. Vibration plates of the high-band microphone unit, the low-band microphone unit, the high-band microphone unit, and the low-band microphone unit are placed on approximately the same straight line in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Hironao Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 9899981
    Abstract: A multi-band limiter, a sound recording apparatus, and a program are provided having a multi-band limit function with a flat frequency characteristic while removing a dead zone of a multi-band limiter. A cross-over filter unit divides an input sound signal into a low-band component, a middle-band component, and a high-band component so that the adjacent bands cross at ?6 dB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotoshi Shimada, Shigeyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 9888310
    Abstract: There is provided audio equipment capable of being miniaturized by sharing a plurality of types of input terminals and output terminals and reducing footprints of the terminals. The audio equipment has a CPU, ROM, RAM, a USB connector, an SD card, a DAC (D/A converter), a changeover section, an amplifier, a PHONE (headphone) terminal, a DIGITAL I/O LINE-IN terminal, a switch, and a display section. The DIGITAL I/O LINE-IN terminal is a terminal which shares a digital audio optical input terminal, a digital audio coaxial input terminal, a digital audio coaxial output terminal, and an analog audio input terminal. The switch sets the terminal by switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio Nakayama, Takayuki Honda, Kunihiro Oribe
  • Patent number: 9811310
    Abstract: An audio apparatus includes a controller configured to set one of operation units as a master and another as a slave, and to cooperatively operate the slave operation unit while maintaining the level difference with the master operation unit. When an operation value of one of the operation units reaches the maximum or the minimum, the controller stores a level difference at that point in a memory, temporarily cancels the cooperative operation between the operation unit and the master operation unit, and allows for operation of the master operation unit and an operation unit that has not reached the maximum or the minimum. When the master operation unit is operated in a reverse direction and the level difference between the master operation unit and the operation unit matches the level difference stored in the memory, the controller restores the cooperative operation between the operation unit and the master operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Hirotoshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 9736965
    Abstract: A playback device for an aircraft has a casing; a circuit board; a power unit placed away from the circuit board in a first direction; a heat sink attached to the circuit board; a cooling fan that is placed on an opposite side of the power unit with reference to the circuit board and spaced from a periphery of the casing and that sends an exhaust stream to the heat sink; a partition interposed between the circuit board and the power unit; and first outlets for letting out exhaust streams into which an exhaust stream has diverged upon collision against the partition after passing through the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kaku, Koujiro Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 9729962
    Abstract: There is provided an external stereo microphone device that makes it possible to change orientations of microphones over a wide range. An external stereo microphone attached to a mobile electronic device includes a pair of symmetrically-positioned microphones 60, a holder unit 40 having a pair of holders 46 symmetrically positioned so as to accommodate the pair of microphones 60 respectively and a joint 48 for joining the pair of holders 46 together, and a case 14 having a substantially-cylindrical portion 20 that rotatably supports the holder unit 40 and a body 18 that accommodates a circuit board 22 of the case 14. The joint 48 is a substantially-plate-shaped region that joins outer circumferential edges of the holders 46 together and that has a circumferential width which is one-half or less of an entire circumference of the holder unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Hironao Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 9705459
    Abstract: An electronic device with faders. In order to enable a user to readily ascertain which of a plurality of faders belongs to the same group and which one of the faders in the group is a master fader, indicators of all of the faders in the group are lighted when the thus-set master fader in the grouped faders is operated. When the user operates slave faders, the operation is revoked, and only the indicator corresponding to the master fader is lighted or blinked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9706025
    Abstract: There is provided a transportable electronic device in which a configuration related to a protective cover can be simplified. A transportable digital photo frame includes a cylindrical main unit that is divided into four areas along the circumferential direction, and a tubular cover that houses at least a part of the main unit to protect the circumferential surface of the main unit, the tubular cover having an opening formed in its circumferential surface for exposing one area to the outside. The tubular cover is rotatable relative to the main unit so that the areas protected by the tubular cover can be switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikeda, Eiji Ueda