Patents by Inventor Kinshirou Suzawa

Kinshirou Suzawa 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).

  • Television apparatus and method for controlling the same
    Patent number: 8446533
    Abstract: In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasushi Shikata, Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Katsuhiro Ito, Tomoki Kuroda, Kiyohiro Uemura, Masaki Tamura, Masatsugu Sasaki, Kinshirou Suzawa
  • TELEVISION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20100053471
    Abstract: In an AV system in which a television apparatus and a recorder are individually connected to an AV amplifier through an HDMI, in the case where sound is output from the AV amplifier, if insertion of headphones into the television apparatus is detected, control information to switch the destination of the audio data is transmitted from the television apparatus to the AV amplifier. The AV amplifier switches the destination of the audio data that is input from the recorder from a speaker output section to the television apparatus in accordance with the control information. Thus, even if the headphones are inserted into the television apparatus while the AV amplifier is outputting sound reproduced by the recorder, the sound can be output from the headphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasushi Shikata, Takashi Yamamoto, Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Katsuhiro Ito, Tomoki Kuroda, Kiyohiro Uemura, Masaki Tamura, Masatsugu Sasaki, Kinshirou Suzawa