Patents by Inventor Akinori Tsubouchi
Akinori Tsubouchi 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).
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Patent number: 8397981Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory storing device-specific information, a display portion, and a control portion that reads the device-specific information from the memory and displays it on the display portion in a form automatically readable (e.g., bar-code form) by an external reading device (e.g., bar-code reader).Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Mitsuteru Tatebe
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Patent number: 8169552Abstract: The present invention relates to a television receiver including a controller, which indicates a plurality of selectable items being involved in contents of a program displayed on a screen, a memory, which holds a plurality of predetermined audio settings corresponding to the plurality of selectable items, and a processor which selects an audio setting from the plurality of predetermined audio settings and outputs the selected audio setting corresponding to an item selected from the plurality of selectable items.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20100188586Abstract: The present invention relates to a television receiver including a controller, which indicates a plurality of selectable items being involved in contents of a program displayed on a screen, a memory, which holds a plurality of predetermined audio settings corresponding to the plurality of selectable items, and a processor which selects an audio setting from the plurality of predetermined audio settings and outputs the selected audio setting corresponding to an item selected from the plurality of selectable items.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20100134690Abstract: The present invention is a television receiver, including a counter which measures a time period for which the television receiver continuously operates, an evaluator which determines whether the time period is more than a predetermined time period and a controller which adjusts a brightness value of a picture to more than a predetermined value when the time period is more than the predetermined time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2008Publication date: June 3, 2010Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Kenichi Iwamoto, Hiroki Gakumura
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Publication number: 20090294522Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory storing device-specific information, a display portion, and a control portion that reads the device-specific information from the memory and displays it on the display portion in a form automatically readable (e.g., bar-code form) by an external reading device (e.g., bar-code reader).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2009Publication date: December 3, 2009Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Mitsuteru Tatebe
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Patent number: 7624413Abstract: There is provided a digital broadcasting receiver capable of making channel selection without making a user conscious of the difference between a physical channel number and a virtual channel number. A CPU uses an OSD display circuit, for example, to display a menu screen, and causes a user to select either a first mode or a second mode. The first mode is a mode for making channel selection by the physical channel number in which a frequency is assigned to a channel by the physical channel number in accordance with a rule, and a second mode is a mode for making channel selection by the virtual channel number in which a frequency corresponds to a channel on the side of the receiver. The CPU automatically makes, when no channel selection can be made by the entered channel number in the selected mode, an attempt to make channel selection corresponding to the other mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20090212904Abstract: An electronic device includes: a memory storing a first lock release code; a comparing portion comparing the first lock release code with a second lock release code that is input with an input device; a controlling portion releasing a lock if the comparing portion finds that the first lock release code matches the second lock release code, and permitting the electronic device to operate normally; and a lock release portion releasing the lock, even if the comparing portion finds that the first lock release code does not match the second lock release code, or no code input is made, when a first predetermined time elapses from a predetermined time point.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicants: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Visual Technology Inc.Inventors: Akihiko Yamashita, Akinori Tsubouchi
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Patent number: 7568212Abstract: There is provided a digital broadcasting receiver capable of making channel selection without making a user conscious of the difference between a physical channel number and a virtual channel number. A CPU uses an OSD display circuit, for example, to display a menu screen, and causes a user to select either a first mode or a second mode. The first mode is a mode for making channel selection by the physical channel number in which a frequency is assigned to a channel by the physical channel number in accordance with a rule, and a second mode is a mode for making channel selection by the virtual channel number in which a frequency corresponds to a channel on the side of the receiver. The CPU automatically makes, when no channel selection can be made by the entered channel number in the selected mode, an attempt to make channel selection corresponding to the other mode.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2002Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Patent number: 7386062Abstract: A digital tuner performs, when it receives a command to tune in on a digital broadcasting channel by a remote control signal, processing for tuning in on the digital broadcasting channel by the command. A broadcasting receiver enters a digital broadcasting received/video displayed state by the digital tuner. At this time, in an analog tuner, a local oscillation frequency on a channel at the time of viewing is not maintained but is changed and set to a frequency for selecting the highest channel 125 in CATV, thereby preventing interference with the digital tuner.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Mitsutaka Murakoshi
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Patent number: 7322039Abstract: A digital and analog broadcasting receiver comprises a main CPU for mainly controlling a digital broadcasting processing system and a sub-CPU for mainly performing processing such as input processing of a remote control signal by a remote control transmitter, and is so configured that the main CPU performs existent station channel search processing on the side of a terrestrial wave digital tuner, the sub-CPU performs existent station channel search processing on the side of a terrestrial wave analog tuner, and channel searches by the main CPU and the sub-CPU are concurrently conducted.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2001Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Takahiro Miyakoshi
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Patent number: 7068322Abstract: A remote control transmitter is provided with an AUDIO key for switching an audio mode in sound multiplex broadcasting and an ENTER key for determining various types of selections. When the ENTER key is operated in a state where the audio mode is temporarily selected by operating the AUDIO key, the state where the audio mode is temporarily selected is treated as the steady selection corresponding to setting on a menu screen.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20050229208Abstract: There is provided a digital broadcasting receiver capable of making channel selection without making a user conscious of the difference between a physical channel number and a virtual channel number. A CPU uses an OSD display circuit, for example, to display a menu screen, and causes a user to select either a first mode or a second mode. The first mode is a mode for making channel selection by the physical channel number in which a frequency is assigned to a channel by the physical channel number in accordance with a rule, and a second mode is a mode for making channel selection by the virtual channel number in which a frequency corresponds to a channel on the side of the receiver. The CPU automatically makes, when no channel selection can be made by the entered channel number in the selected mode, an attempt to make channel selection corresponding to the other mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20030227576Abstract: A remote control transmitter is provided with an AUDIO key for switching an audio mode in sound multiplex broadcasting and an ENTER key for determining various types of selections. When the ENTER key is operated in a state where the audio mode is temporarily selected by operating the AUDIO key, the state where the audio mode is temporarily selected is treated as the steady selection corresponding to setting on a menu screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20030179835Abstract: A digital tuner performs, when it receives a command to tune in on a digital broadcasting channel by a remote control signal, processing for tuning in on the digital broadcasting channel by the command. A broadcasting receiver enters a digital broadcasting received/video displayed state by the digital tuner. At this time, in an analog tuner, a local oscillation frequency on a channel at the time of viewing is not maintained but is changed and set to a frequency for selecting the highest channel 125 in CATV, thereby preventing interference with the digital tuner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Mitsutaka Murakoshi
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Publication number: 20030097656Abstract: A broadcasting receiver comprises a digital tuner and an analog tuner. An OSD circuit and an adder add video data such as characters produced in the receiver to received video data on a channel tuned in to by the digital tuner. A video analog-to-digital processor converts a received video signal on a channel tuned in to by the analog tuner into digital received video data, and the OSD circuit and the adder similarly add the video data such as characters produced in the receiver to the received video data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20020181712Abstract: There is provided a digital broadcasting receiver capable of making channel selection without making a user conscious of the difference between a physical channel number and a virtual channel number. A CPU uses an OSD display circuit, for example, to display a menu screen, and causes a user to select either a first mode or a second mode. The first mode is a mode for making channel selection by the physical channel number in which a frequency is assigned to a channel by the physical channel number in accordance with a rule, and a second mode is a mode for making channel selection by the virtual channel number in which a frequency corresponds to a channel on the side of the receiver. The CPU automatically makes, when no channel selection can be made by the entered channel number in the selected mode, an attempt to make channel selection corresponding to the other mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventor: Akinori Tsubouchi
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Publication number: 20020067437Abstract: A digital and analog broadcasting receiver comprises a main CPU for mainly controlling a digital broadcasting processing system and a sub-CPU for mainly performing processing such as input processing of a remote control signal by a remote control transmitter, and is so configured that the main CPU performs existent station channel search processing on the side of a terrestrial wave digital tuner, the sub-CPU performs existent station channel search processing on the side of a terrestrial wave analog tuner, and channel searches by the main CPU and the sub-CPU are concurrently conducted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2001Publication date: June 6, 2002Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akinori Tsubouchi, Takahiro Miyakoshi