Patents by Inventor Toyoharu Kuroda

Toyoharu Kuroda 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: 10847030
    Abstract: A parking space search device includes an input receiver, and a controller. The input receiver receives, from an object detector mounted on a vehicle, information related to an object present at a travel direction-side with respect to the vehicle. The controller estimates a parking lot based on the information that the input receiver receives. The controller performs control of, when the estimated parking lot is on one of a left direction and a right direction with respect to the travel direction of the vehicle, shifting a travel route of the vehicle to another one of the left direction and the right direction. The controller searches for a parking space for the vehicle based on the information that the input receiver receives after the travel route of the vehicle is shifted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20190333384
    Abstract: A parking space search device includes an input receiver, and a controller. The input receiver receives, from an object detector mounted on a vehicle, information related to an object present at a travel direction-side with respect to the vehicle. The controller estimates a parking lot based on the information that the input receiver receives. The controller performs control of, when the estimated parking lot is on one of a left direction and a right direction with respect to the travel direction of the vehicle, shifting a travel route of the vehicle to another one of the left direction and the right direction. The controller searches for a parking space for the vehicle based on the information that the input receiver receives after the travel route of the vehicle is shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: TOYOHARU KURODA, HIROYUKI YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 9823761
    Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device used for an electronic apparatus which includes a touch panel that vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation and a vibrating source that is different from the touch panel, includes a predominant frequency acquirer that acquires a main component of a vibrational frequency of the vibrating source as a predominant frequency of vibrations of the vibrating source; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the acquired predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the acquired predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Masashi Sugiyama, Takayuki Nishikawa, Yoichi Nishida, Ryo Yokoyama, Toyoharu Kuroda
  • Patent number: 9258710
    Abstract: From a remote control device, a pairing command including an authentication key is transmitted to a slave device by an infrared ray remote control signal by first depression of a push button. The slave device transmits an authentication key, which is generated based on the received authentication key, through a wireless LAN. By second depression of the push button, the remote control device transmits a pairing command, which includes an authentication key, to a master device by an infrared ray remote control signal. The master device compares the authentication key, which is received through the wireless LAN, and the authentication key, which is received by the infrared ray remote control signal, with each other, and transmits a pairing authorization to the slave device through the wireless LAN if both of the authentication keys coincide with each other. The slave device receives the pairing authorization, and establishes pairing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Toyoharu Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20150277611
    Abstract: In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device used for an electronic apparatus which includes a touch panel that vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation and a vibrating source that is different from the touch panel, includes a predominant frequency acquirer that acquires a main component of a vibrational frequency of the vibrating source as a predominant frequency of vibrations of the vibrating source; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the acquired predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the acquired predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Masashi SUGIYAMA, Takayuki NISHIKAWA, Yoichi NISHIDA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Toyoharu KURODA
  • Patent number: 8963929
    Abstract: An interpreter 11 outputs a drawing request to an animation controller upon interpreting an animation drawing instruction defined with use of a predetermined script variable. The animation controller 12 animation-displays a GUI by executing a program module described in a native language. Upon receiving the drawing request, the animation controller 12 converts the script variable into a native variable in the form of the native language, and animation-displays the GUI while sequentially updating the native variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Hideaki Yajima, Hidehiko Shin
  • Publication number: 20140359732
    Abstract: From a remote control device, a pairing command including an authentication key is transmitted to a slave device by an infrared ray remote control signal by first depression of a push button. The slave device transmits an authentication key, which is generated based on the received authentication key, through a wireless LAN. By second depression of the push button, the remote control device transmits a pairing command, which includes an authentication key, to a master device by an infrared ray remote control signal. The master device compares the authentication key, which is received through the wireless LAN, and the authentication key, which is received by the infrared ray remote control signal, with each other, and transmits a pairing authorization to the slave device through the wireless LAN if both of the authentication keys coincide with each other. The slave device receives the pairing authorization, and establishes pairing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu KURODA
  • Patent number: 8687116
    Abstract: A video output device outputs a plurality of video streams with use of shutter glasses, and dynamically switches between different videos such that in the case where a plurality of viewers are viewing a video output by the video output device, only a viewer who is operating a remote control can view a video stream different from a video stream other viewers are viewing. Operation signals instructing to start or terminate an operation mode are received. In an operation mode, time-sharing output of a first video stream and a second video stream is performed, and synchronizing signals each in synchronization with a time-sharing timing are transmitted. In a normal mode, images that are each generated based on any of images constituting the first video stream are output, and images constituting the second video stream are not output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Muikaichi, Toyoharu Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20120236007
    Abstract: An interpreter 11 outputs a drawing request to an animation controller upon interpreting an animation drawing instruction defined with use of a predetermined script variable. The animation controller 12 animation-displays a GUI by executing a program module described in a native language. Upon receiving the drawing request, the animation controller 12 converts the script variable into a native variable in the form of the native language, and animation-displays the GUI while sequentially updating the native variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Hideaki Yajima, Hidehiko Shin
  • Publication number: 20110285905
    Abstract: To aim to provide a video output device that is capable of output a plurality of video streams with use of shutter glasses, and is capable of dynamically switching between different videos such that in the case where a plurality of viewers are viewing a video output by the video output device, only a viewer who is operating a remote control can view a video stream different from a video stream other viewers are viewing. Operation signals each instructing to start or terminate an operation mode are received. In an operation mode, time-sharing output of a first video stream and a second video stream is performed, and synchronizing signals each in synchronization with a time-sharing timing are transmitted. In a normal mode, images that are each generated based on any of images constituting the first video stream are output, and images constituting the second video stream are not output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Masahiro Muikaichi, Toyoharu Kuroda
  • Patent number: 6611902
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor and an information processing method, which reduces the memory capacity and utilizes a free space in a memory area as a cache area for EPG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Kiyoshi Owada
  • Publication number: 20030037091
    Abstract: A task scheduling device specifies tasks to be executed one at a time. The device performs priority level scheduling in task group units on a round-robin basis, and selects one of the task groups. Then, on a round-robin basis using a timeslice period set for each of the tasks, the device performs priority level scheduling on all the tasks included in the selected task group, and specifies one of the tasks as the execution target. If the timeslice period of a task being executed has yet to elapse when another task group is selected, then next time the task is specified as the execution target, the device executes the task for the remainder of the timeslice period rather than the full timeslice period. In this way, the task scheduling device is able to effectively allocate and control the time period distributed for the execution of each of the tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Kozo Nishimura, Kiyoshi Owada, Toyoharu Kuroda
  • Patent number: 6457174
    Abstract: A code export symbol offset table A 1128 stores sets of the identifier and the offset of the area of a code symbol. In an export symbol import step 1160, the identifier that matches the identifier of a symbol is retrieved from the code export symbol offset table A 1128, the offset corresponding to the retrieved identifier is extracted, and a predetermined calculation is performed to create an absolute address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Kiyoshi Owada, Yoshihiko Motohashi
  • Publication number: 20020059504
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor and an information processing method, which reduces the memory capacity and utilizes a free space in a memory area as a cache area for EPG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Kiyoshi Owada