Patents Assigned to TEAC Corporation
  • Patent number: 9699927
    Abstract: A cable is drawn through a first opening of a cable holder from a rear side to a front side, and drawn back through a second opening to the rear side, and drawn again through a third opening to the front side. The cable holder on which the cable is wound is contained in a chamber of a load cell. Central lines of the cable are soldered to a circuit board in the load cell. A male thread of a nut is screwed into a female thread of the chamber, so that the cable holder is pressed against a front side of the chamber via a rubber sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumasa Takahashi, Yoshihito Fujii
  • Patent number: 9674480
    Abstract: There is provided a camera link recorder capable of recording sounds by a clock signal synchronized with a clock signal of a camera. A recorder is linked to a camera by means of an HDMI cable, and others. An HDMI receiver of the recorder reproduces an LRCK signal, which is an audio clock signal of a camera, from the HDMI signal, and outputs the LRCK signal. A CPU outputs a clock signal, which is generated from the LRCK signal when a frequency of the LRCK signal corresponds to a predetermined frequency of an audio CODEC, as a master clock signal to the audio CODEC. In other case, the clock signal generated from the internal clock signal CLK is output as a master clock signal to the audio CODEC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhito Chiba, Ryotaro Hongo, Hirotoshi Shimada
  • Patent number: 9666196
    Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus which can effectively execute compression processing regardless of the mixdown level, and which can thereby carry out the mastering process easily. A DSP mixes down audio signals assigned to a plurality of tracks into a stereo audio signal. When performing the mastering process, the DSP normalizes the stereo audio signal before performing the compression processing, subsequently carries out the compression processing, then performs normalization again so as to produce master data, and records the master data in a recorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 9588731
    Abstract: An electronic device with faders. In order to make it easy for a user to ascertain channel information assigned to each track while viewing a level meter image of the track, a level of a channel of each track is displayed as a bar graph on a display of a multitrack recorder, or the like. Further, a name of a channel assigned to each track is displayed, as assignment information about the track, in a superposed manner at a lower end of a corresponding bar graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shota Terai
  • Patent number: 9584916
    Abstract: There is provided an external stereo microphone device that enables further enhancement of operational feeling achieved when microphones are reoriented. An external 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, 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, and a roller 56 that revolves over an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion 20 in association with rotation of the holder unit 40.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Teac Corporation
    Inventor: Hironao Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 9568991
    Abstract: There is provided an audio data processing device. The device includes an IN terminal to which first audio data from outside are input, a THRU terminal from which the first audio data are output to the outside, an FPGA which signal-processes the first audio data from the IN terminal, an OUT terminal from which second audio data which are signal-processed are output to the outside, and a power supply switch. The FPGA outputs the first audio data from the IN terminal to the THRU terminal without any processing when the power supply switch is in an ON state and is also supplied with operational power and outputs the first audio data from the IN terminal to the THRU terminal without any processing when the power supply switch is in an OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Teac Corporation
    Inventor: Hironobu Narita
  • Patent number: 9565343
    Abstract: A microphone assembly includes a microphone unit and an attachment unit. The attachment unit includes a camera shoe attachment section. A camera shoe extension includes a support arm and a camera shoe attachment section attached to a rear end of the support arm. The support arm is curved into a circular arc shape such that the front end thereof is located higher than the rear end thereof. The camera shoe attachment section of the attachment unit is mounted on a shoe formed on the front end of the support arm. The camera shoe attachment section of the camera shoe extension is mounted on a camera shoe of a digital camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Norio Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9444206
    Abstract: A connector structure for attaching a hand microphone to a voice recorder 11 includes a recorder-side connector, a pre-load applying member and an operation ring. The pre-load applying member applies a pre-load by pushing a rear end of a connector housing of a mikeside connector while the mikeside connector is joined to the recorder-side connector. The position of the pre-load applying member is adjustable in the axial direction of the recorder-side connector by means of the operation ring, so as to apply a proper pre-load to the mikeside connector, thereby stabilizing the joint regardless of variations in axial length of the mikeside connector. As using no coil spring, the connector structure does not provide repulsion during the attaching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoji Kitanishi
  • Patent number: 9418640
    Abstract: A recording apparatus capable of readily setting a desired recording condition at the time of recording a music signal to music data and maintaining the recording conditions even when transmitting the recorded music file data to another equipment. A system controller acquires recording condition parameters employed in recording a voice signal, appends the parameters to music data to generate music file data, and stores the data into SD memory, or the like. Music file data are selected at the time of new recording operation, and recording condition parameters appended to the selected music file data are read, whereby recording conditions are automatically set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Yoshinari
  • Patent number: 9264818
    Abstract: A device that enables easy, reliably performance of a search at a desired position even in the case of a one-bit digital signal. A control section of a digital signal processing device extracts a one-bit digital signal of a predetermined period from a memory section at a position designated by a jog dial and iteratively outputs the signal to a multi-bit converter. The multi-bit converter converts the one-bit digital signal into a multi-bit signal, and a multiplier subjects the multi-bit signal to fade-in and fade-out processing. A ?? modulator re-converts the thus-processed signal into the one-bit digital signal, outputting the digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9264831
    Abstract: A multitrack recorder enables performance of easy identification as to whether a certain track is a monaural type or a stereo type, by means of level meters. The multitrack recorder can set tracks 3 and 4, among a plurality of tracks 1 through 4, to either a monaural type or a stereo type. When track types are stored in memory and when level meters are displayed in a display section, a width of each of track number displays and the number of level displays are changed between the monaural type and the stereo type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Shota Terai
  • Patent number: 9240208
    Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus which can effectively execute compression processing regardless of the mixdown level, and which can thereby carry out the mastering process easily. A DSP mixes down audio signals assigned to a plurality of tracks into a stereo audio signal. When performing the mastering process, the DSP uses a peak value detected during the mixdown to adjust a threshold value for the compression processing, and carries out the compression processing using the adjusted threshold value. Subsequently, the DSP performs normalization processing so as to produce a master data, and records the master data in a recorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 9215021
    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: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9197964
    Abstract: An amplifier unit suitable for a wide variety of uses, which can flexibly support diverse sound recording scenarios, and a mobile electronic device provided with the amplifier unit. An amplifier unit has microphone/line input terminals respectively provided on the topside surface and the left side surface. When a connector is connected to a mobile electronic device, stereophonic sound is recorded using one of the terminals when the mobile electronic device is held in portrait orientation, and using the other terminal when the mobile electronic device is held in landscape orientation. It is possible to switch each of audio signals coming through the two terminals between monophonic and stereophonic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Gotoh, Kazuki Ida
  • Patent number: 9117490
    Abstract: In a CD player, a connection tray is mounted in a cabinet in a shiftable manner among a retracted position, a first projected position, and a second projected position. The connection tray has an upper tray and a lower tray. The upper tray has a first connector, a second connector, and a stopper. The lower tray has an unlock button, a movable plate, and a lock plate. A lock bracket is formed with a lock depression into which a lock boss is inserted to lock the connection tray in the first projected position, in shifting the connection tray forward from the retracted position. In a front surface of the lock bracket, a lock projection is formed. The lock projection receives the lock boss to lock the connection tray in the second projected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Ida
  • Patent number: 9112468
    Abstract: An audio device prevents an excessive volume output in a case such as when a set of headphones is replaced or a power supply is turned ON from OFF. A mute control circuit includes a switch that detects insertion of a headphone plug and a switch that detects a volume position. When no insertion of a headphone plug is detected, a mute mode is activated to output no audio signals. When insertion of a headphone plug is detected and it is not detected that the volume position is set at a mute position or near to the mute position, the mute mode is maintained, while when it is detected that the volume position is set at the mute position or near to the mute position, the mute mode is canceled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9065990
    Abstract: A microphone assembly includes a microphone unit and an attachment unit. The attachment unit includes a camera shoe attachment section to be attached to a camera shoe and a damper housing cylinder fixed to the camera shoe attachment section. A holder is fixed to a lower end of an inner cylinder of a protruding section protruding from the microphone unit. The lower end of the inner cylinder is pivotally supported by a second damper contained in the damper housing cylinder through the holder. The middle portion of the protruding section is supported by a first damper contained in the damper housing cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Norio Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9047920
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for efficiently converting, by means of mixdown, audio signals recorded in multiple tracks into stereo signals. A plurality of audio signals input from an input terminal are recorded into a plurality of tracks of a recording medium. A mixer reads the audio signals recorded in the multiple tracks, subjects the audio signals to mixdown according to a mixer parameter set by an operation section, and records the processed signals as audio signals in the recording medium without reproducing the processed signal in real time. A plurality of mixer parameters are set, and a user can select a desired mixer parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Yoshinari, Shigeyuki Adachi
  • Publication number: 20150062418
    Abstract: A microphone assembly includes a microphone unit and an attachment unit. The attachment unit includes a camera shoe attachment section. A camera shoe extension includes a support arm and a camera shoe attachment section attached to a rear end of the support arm. The support arm is curved into a circular arc shape such that the front end thereof is located higher than the rear end thereof. The camera shoe attachment section of the attachment unit is mounted on a shoe formed on the front end of the support arm. The camera shoe attachment section of the camera shoe extension is mounted on a camera shoe of a digital camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Norio Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20150062425
    Abstract: A microphone assembly includes a microphone unit and an attachment unit. The attachment unit includes a camera shoe attachment section to be attached to a camera shoe and a damper housing cylinder fixed to the camera shoe attachment section. A holder is fixed to a lower end of an inner cylinder of a protruding section protruding from the microphone unit. The lower end of the inner cylinder is pivotally supported by a second damper contained in the damper housing cylinder through the holder. The middle portion of the protruding section is supported by a first damper contained in the damper housing cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsumoto, Norio Matsuura