Patents by Inventor Akifumi KONO

Akifumi KONO has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8834008
    Abstract: This display module includes a display cell, a board, a light guide plate formed with a first engaging portion, and a holding member formed with a second engaging portion coming into contact with the first engaging portion to engage with the first engaging portion. At least either the first engaging portion or the second engaging portion is formed in a shape allowing the light guide plate to move in a direction orthogonal to the board in response to expansion or contraction of the light guide plate when the light guide plate expands or contracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akifumi Kono
  • Patent number: 8830407
    Abstract: A display device includes a display component, a light source, a light guide plate, a spacer member, and a biasing member. The display component displays images. The light source emits light. The light guide plate guides the light emitted from the light source to the display component. The light guide plate has a light incident face on which the light emitted from the light source is directly incident. The spacer member is disposed in a region other than where the light guide plate and the light source are opposite each other such that the spacer member maintains a specific spacing between the light source and the light incident face of the light guide plate. The biasing member is arranged to bias one of the light source and the light guide plate towards the other of the light source and the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Sasaoka, Yuto Suzuki, Akifumi Kono
  • Publication number: 20140218618
    Abstract: A display device includes a display device body, a display portion arranged on the front side, a light source, a light source substrate, a light guide plate having a light incident surface, and a heat sink arranged to be opposed to the light incident surface of the light guide plate between the light guide plate and the light source substrate, including a light source arrangement hole configured to arrange the light source and a spacer portion arranged to be opposed to the light incident surface of the light guide plate between the light guide plate and the light source substrate and keeping an interval between the light incident surface of the light guide plate and the light source at a prescribed interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa SASAOKA, Akifumi KONO
  • Publication number: 20140118628
    Abstract: This display device includes a display device body, a display portion arranged on the front side of the display device body, configured to display an image, a light source supplying light to the display portion, a first light guide plate arranged to be opposed to the light source, having a light incident surface including a side surface on which light emitted from the light source is incident and a light emitting surface provided on a side surface opposite to the light incident surface to emit the light incident from the light incident surface, a second light guide plate arranged to overlap with the first light guide plate, guiding the light emitted from the light emitting surface of the first light guide plate to the display portion, and a first reflective member arranged between the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi HORIUCHI, Akifumi KONO
  • Publication number: 20140118630
    Abstract: A display device includes a display component, a light source, a light guide plate, a spacer member, and a biasing member. The display component displays images. The light source emits light. The light guide plate guides the light emitted from the light source to the display component. The light guide plate has a light incident face on which the light emitted from the light source is directly incident. The spacer member is disposed in a region other than where the light guide plate and the light source are opposite each other such that the spacer member maintains a specific spacing between the light source and the light incident face of the light guide plate. The biasing member is arranged to bias one of the light source and the light guide plate towards the other of the light source and the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromasa SASAOKA, Yuto SUZUKI, Akifumi KONO
  • Publication number: 20130094669
    Abstract: An audio signal processing apparatus which includes an input analysis unit which analyses the characteristics of an input signal and generates an input sound feature value; an environment analysis unit which analyses the characteristics of the environmental sound and generates an environmental sound feature value; a mapping control information generation unit which generates mapping control information as control information of amplitude conversion processing to the input signal by application of the input sound feature value and the environmental sound feature value; and a mapping process unit which performs amplitude conversion on the input signal based on a linear or non-linear mapping function determined according to the mapping control information and generates an output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Kono, Toru Chinen, Minoru Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20120275625
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device including an analysis unit for analyzing a characteristic of an input signal, and generating an analysis feature, a mapping control information determination unit for determining, based on the analysis feature and information that is generated by learning and that is for obtaining mapping control information from the analysis feature, the mapping control information, and a mapping processing unit for performing amplitude conversion on the input signal based on a linear or non-linear mapping function decided based on the mapping control information, and generating an output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Akifumi KONO, Toru CHINEN, Minoru TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20120249892
    Abstract: This display module includes a display cell, a board, a light guide plate formed with a first engaging portion, and a holding member formed with a second engaging portion coming into contact with the first engaging portion to engage with the first engaging portion. At least either the first engaging portion or the second engaging portion is formed in a shape allowing the light guide plate to move in a direction orthogonal to the board in response to expansion or contraction of the light guide plate when the light guide plate expands or contracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akifumi KONO
  • Publication number: 20120249923
    Abstract: This display module includes a display cell, a light source, a light guide plate, and a reflective sheet arranged on a side opposite to the display cell with respect to the light guide plate. A projecting portion protruding toward the light guide plate and coming into contact with the light guide plate is formed on a surface of the reflective sheet closer to the light guide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akifumi KONO