Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Kon

Yoshihiko Kon 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: 8165548
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes an analog demodulation unit, a digital demodulation/decoding unit, a delay unit, a reception state detecting unit, first/second processing units, and a mixing processing unit. The analog demodulation unit demodulates a first audio signal. The digital demodulation/decoding unit demodulates and decodes a second audio signal. The delay unit delays at least one of the first and second audio signals, to be outputted as third and fourth audio signals. The reception state detecting unit outputs an analog reception state signal. The first/second audio processing units control at least one of volume and quality of the third/fourth audio signals, to be outputted as fifth and sixth audio signals. The mixing processing unit mixes the fifth and sixth audio signal at a predetermined ratio, outputted according to a reception state of at least one of a broadcast wave of analog broadcasting and the broadcast wave of digital broadcasting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kon, Seiya Kamimura
  • Patent number: 7921147
    Abstract: A filtering integrated circuit comprises: a storing circuit; a filter coefficient calculating unit configured to receive frequency information that identifies a characteristic frequency of an output signal in a filtering process, and to set filter coefficients calculated based on the frequency information in the storing circuit; and a filtering unit configured to output the output signal after applying a filtering process to an inputted signal based on the filter coefficients set in the storing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kon, Kazuhiro Kimura, Takahiro Takeda
  • Publication number: 20100233988
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes an analog demodulation unit, a digital demodulation/decoding unit, a delay unit, a reception state detecting unit, first/second processing units, and a mixing processing unit. The analog demodulation unit demodulates a first audio signal. The digital demodulation/decoding unit demodulates and decodes a second audio signal. The delay unit delays at least one of the first and second audio signals, to be outputted as third and fourth audio signals. The reception state detecting unit outputs an analog reception state signal. The first/second audio processing units control at least one of volume and quality of the third/fourth audio signals, to be outputted as fifth and sixth audio signals. The mixing processing unit mixes the fifth and sixth audio signal at a predetermined ratio, outputted according to a reception state of at least one of a broadcast wave of analog broadcasting and the broadcast wave of digital broadcasting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicants: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., SANYO SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kon, Seiya Kamimura
  • Publication number: 20080016136
    Abstract: A filtering integrated circuit comprises: a storing circuit; a filter coefficient calculating unit configured to receive frequency information that identifies a characteristic frequency of an output signal in a filtering process, and to set filter coefficients calculated based on the frequency information in the storing circuit; and a filtering unit configured to output the output signal after applying a filtering process to an inputted signal based on the filter coefficients set in the storing circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kon, Kazuhiro Kimura, Takahiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 7110557
    Abstract: Volume adjustment is performed in small steps at a DSP (12) and volume adjustment is performed in wide steps at electronic volume circuits (18L, 18R). Adjustment only by the DSP (12) is performed for a small volume range less than or equal to a predetermined level. For a volume higher than or equal to the predetermined level, fine adjustment by the DSP (12) at the transient period of volume adjustment is combined to reduce the increment of variation so that the volume adjustment is performed gradually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kon, Takashi Uchino, Hiroshi Kaneko, Takahiko Masumoto
  • Publication number: 20010026624
    Abstract: Volume adjustment is performed in small steps at a DSP (12) and volume adjustment is performed in wide steps at electronic volume circuits (18L, 18R). Adjustment only by the DSP (12) is performed for a small volume range less than or equal to a predetermined level. For a volume higher than or equal to the predetermined level, fine adjustment by the DSP (12) at the transient period of volume adjustment is combined to reduce the increment of variation so that the volume adjustment is performed gradually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Publication date: October 4, 2001
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kon, Takashi Uchino, Hiroshi Kaneko, Takahiko Masumoto