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).
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Patent number: 10847030Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Hiroyuki Yoshida
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Publication number: 20190333384Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: TOYOHARU KURODA, HIROYUKI YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9823761Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Masashi Sugiyama, Takayuki Nishikawa, Yoichi Nishida, Ryo Yokoyama, Toyoharu Kuroda
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Patent number: 9258710Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventor: Toyoharu Kuroda
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Publication number: 20150277611Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Masashi SUGIYAMA, Takayuki NISHIKAWA, Yoichi NISHIDA, Ryo YOKOYAMA, Toyoharu KURODA
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Patent number: 8963929Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Hideaki Yajima, Hidehiko Shin
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Publication number: 20140359732Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Toyoharu KURODA
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Patent number: 8687116Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masahiro Muikaichi, Toyoharu Kuroda
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Publication number: 20120236007Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Hideaki Yajima, Hidehiko Shin
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Publication number: 20110285905Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Masahiro Muikaichi, Toyoharu Kuroda
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Patent number: 6611902Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2001Date of Patent: August 26, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Kiyoshi Owada
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Publication number: 20030037091Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventors: Kozo Nishimura, Kiyoshi Owada, Toyoharu Kuroda
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Patent number: 6457174Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Kiyoshi Owada, Yoshihiko Motohashi
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Publication number: 20020059504Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Toyoharu Kuroda, Kiyoshi Owada