Patents by Inventor Mamoru Oda
Mamoru Oda 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: 9860642Abstract: In a one-to-many audio wireless transmission system in which a plurality of speaker devices on an audio reception side are provided with respect to one source device, in a case where an error has occurred in a certain speaker device, a possibility of the same error occurring in other speaker devices is reduced. A speaker device (2a, 2b) includes an error detection unit (23) which detects an error regarding sound output and transmits error information which is information regarding an error detected by the error detection unit (23) to a source device (1) by using wireless communication. The source device (1) transmits an operation request corresponding to the error information by using wireless communication to speaker devices other than the speaker device which has transmitted the error information.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Rin, Mamoru Oda
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Publication number: 20170013359Abstract: In a one-to-many audio wireless transmission system in which a plurality of speaker devices on an audio reception side are provided with respect to one source device, in a case where an error has occurred in a certain speaker device, a possibility of the same error occurring in other speaker devices is reduced. A speaker device (2a, 2b) includes an error detection unit (23) which detects an error regarding sound output and transmits error information which is information regarding an error detected by the error detection unit (23) to a source device (1) by using wireless communication. The source device (1) transmits an operation request corresponding to the error information by using wireless communication to speaker devices other than the speaker device which has transmitted the error information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yasuhiro RIN, Mamoru ODA
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Publication number: 20150215575Abstract: A relay apparatus (10) is provided with a first signal transmitting device compliant with one second signal transmitting device compliant with another standard, a first obtaining device, a second obtaining device, a generating device and a controlling device. If the relay apparatus is connected to an output apparatus via the first signal transmitting device and is connected to a first unit via the second signal transmitting device, the first obtaining device obtains first information about the first unit; a second obtaining device obtains second information about a second unit connected to the output apparatus; a generating device generates third information that allows selection and operation of each of first and second units, on the basis of first and second information, and transmits the third information to the output apparatus; and a controlling device controls the first unit according to a command signal outputted from the output apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Pioneer Digital Design and Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Yasuhiro Rin, Mamoru Oda, Takeshi Hashimoto, Yukitaka Shimizu, Satoshi Saito, Shinichiro Kinoshita, Tomoo Nishigaki, Akio Hosokawa
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Patent number: 8743286Abstract: A peripheral control system enhances expandability in the operation of peripheral by enabling the customization and display of operation panels for each of the peripherals, regardless of whether any operation panel exists at the display device side. The peripheral control system is configured by connecting a TV and a recorder via an HDMI connection. The TV stores operation panel information that includes array information for arraying, on the screen, image data of the operation buttons that comprise the operation panel of the recorder. The recorder stores image data of the operation buttons, and sends, according to operation panel information obtained from the TV, the aforementioned stored image data of the operation buttons in association with the array information to the TV. The TV disposes and displays image data of the operation buttons sent from the recorder, at a position that is in accordance with the array information.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mamoru Oda, Kenichi Kimura, Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshinori Satoh
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Publication number: 20120188454Abstract: A peripheral control system enhances expandability in the operation of peripheral by enabling the customization and display of operation panels for each of the peripherals, regardless of whether any operation panel exists at the display device side. The peripheral control system is configured by connecting a TV and a recorder via an HDMI connection. The TV stores operation panel information that includes array information for arraying, on the screen, image data of the operation buttons that comprise the operation panel of the recorder. The recorder stores image data of the operation buttons, and sends, according to operation panel information obtained from the TV, the aforementioned stored image data of the operation buttons in association with the array information to the TV. The TV disposes and displays image data of the operation buttons sent from the recorder, at a position that is in accordance with the array information.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Mamoru Oda, Kenichi Kimura, Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshinori Satoh
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Patent number: 7929931Abstract: A broadcast receiver which can receive broadcast by directly selecting a discretionary broadcast station from all the receivable broadcast stations. The broadcast receiver is provided with a broadcast receiving section having broadcast station searching means for searching a carrier frequency of the receivable broadcast station. The receivable carrier frequencies searched by the broadcast station searching means are displayed as a list of broadcast station information on a display section, a specification from the list of broadcast station information displayed on the display section is accepted by operation of an operating section, and broadcast of the carrier frequency corresponding to the accepted specification is permitted to be received by the broadcast receiving section.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Haruhiko Nakamura, Haruhito Watanabe, Mamoru Oda
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Publication number: 20100045802Abstract: Conventionally, there have been a problem that when an imaging device performs aberration correction by itself, the imaging device has to have high processing ability and a large storage capacity and a problem that since the object subjected to aberration correction is image data read from an analog film by means of a scanner or the like, a region on an analog film from which the gray scale is lost is corrected as the gray scale is lost. To solve the problems, the present invention provides an imaging device in which the image captured by a digital imaging device and information for aberration correction embedded in the image as tag data of the Exif format are transmitted to an image reproducing device and aberration correction is performed in the image reproducing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Inventors: Mamoru Oda, Tomoo Nishigaki
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Publication number: 20090124226Abstract: A broadcast receiver which can receive broadcast by directly selecting a discretionary broadcast station from all the receivable broadcast stations. The broadcast receiver is provided with a broadcast receiving section having broadcast station searching means for searching a carrier frequency of the receivable broadcast station. The receivable carrier frequencies searched by the broadcast station searching means are displayed as a list of broadcast station information on a display section, a specification from the list of broadcast station information displayed on the display section is accepted by operation of an operating section, and broadcast of the carrier frequency corresponding to the accepted specification is permitted to be received by the broadcast receiving section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2005Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Haruhiko Nakamura, Haruhito Watanabe, Mamoru Oda
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Patent number: 6542202Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus capable of improving signal level while reducing noise component no matter a video signal of what illuminance is input is provided, which apparatus includes a video signal amplifying circuit amplifying an input video signal and outputting a video signal of a predetermined image size in accordance with a gain control coefficient, a frame addition circuit connected to the video signal amplifying circuit for adding outputs of the video signal amplifying circuit by a predetermined number of frames, a first signal level detecting circuit connected to the video signal amplifying circuit and calculating the gain control coefficient and a multiplication coefficient in accordance with an output of the video signal amplifying circuit, and a first multiplier connected to the frame addition circuit and the first signal level detecting circuit and receiving as inputs an output of the frame addition circuit and the multiplication coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 1999Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Mitsuhiko Takeda, Mamoru Oda
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Publication number: 20030001975Abstract: A video signal processing apparatus capable of improving signal level while reducing noise component no matter a video signal of what illuminance is input is provided, which apparatus includes a video signal amplifying circuit amplifying an input video signal and outputting a video signal of a predetermined image size in accordance with a gain control coefficient, a frame addition circuit connected to the video signal amplifying circuit for adding outputs of the video signal amplifying circuit by a predetermined number of frames, a first signal level detecting circuit connected to the video signal amplifying circuit and calculating the gain control coefficient and a multiplication coefficient in accordance with an output of the video signal amplifying circuit, and a first multiplier connected to the frame addition circuit and the first signal level detecting circuit and receiving as inputs an output of the frame addition circuit and the multiplication coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 1999Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventors: MITSUHIKO TAKEDA, MAMORU ODA
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Patent number: 6271875Abstract: It comprises a head position-detecting device, a modeling data memory, a CPU, a coordinates transformation device, a compression transformation device, a polygon code memory, a polygon cache, an internally divided value generator, a rendering device, a display controller, a display and a restoration transformation device. The pixel of the image is selected roughly in the moving direction of the observer.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1998Date of Patent: August 7, 2001Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hajime Shimizu, Mamoru Oda, Akihito Mori
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Patent number: 6236398Abstract: A media selecting device enabling a user to easily select any desired one of a plurality of selectable media. The media selecting device according to the present invention can easily select any one of a plurality of hierarchically-related icons by turning a rotary disk-type knob. The user presses a first change-over button to access the icon selected by the disk-type knob, and to display icons of a lower hierarchical layer or to display a deciding medium represented by icons. The user can press a second change-over button to cancel the selected icon, and to display icons of an upper hierarchical layer. Furthermore, the displayed icons have different three-dimensional shape and location information, and are disposed in a three-dimensional virtual space, thus increasing visibility and control of the device.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 1998Date of Patent: May 22, 2001Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kunio Kojima, Mamoru Oda, Takeshi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 6222548Abstract: An image processing system, including a main CPU, a main storage, a three-dimensional image processor and a CRT for a display unit. The system further includes a system bus that connects the main CPU with the three-dimensional image processor to perform data transfer. In a preferred embodiment, the three-dimensional image processor also includes a command analyzer, a model data accumulating memory, a coordinate transformation processor, a viewing transforming circuit, a texture processing circuit and an image memory and video control circuit. The image processing system of the present invention makes it possible to reduce a load on the main CPU, which shortens data transfer time and thereby improves processing speed of the system.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1997Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mamoru Oda
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Patent number: 5815169Abstract: A frame memory device for graphics includes a frame memory made up of a pair of memories and a memory controller for controlling the frame memory and is able to smoothly access the frame memory and is improved in its rendering speed. Each memory is logically divided into two banks A and B. Addresses in the thus divided bank are arranged in a checker pattern. The memory controller simultaneously selects bank addresses horizontally and vertically adjacent to a bank address currently being accessed.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1996Date of Patent: September 29, 1998Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mamoru Oda
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Patent number: 5731810Abstract: A character code storage device stores character codes together with display permission information (display levels) attached to every character code. A font data storage device stores font data together with display level values attached to every dot constituting a font. A dot-display-value synthesizer synthesizes these two data and controls dot-display for representing a character according to two kinds of information--display permission information and display level values. The display permission information from a display-permission-value register is reflected at every display level value of dots constituting a font corresponding to the character. When each dot is read from a display circuit, its display level value is also read out and transferred to a display control unit. The transferred dot is compared with a display-permission-level value stored. Dot data which does not meet the condition will not be sent to the display circuit. Consequently, this dot is masked.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Mamoru Oda