Page 6 of this Kenwood manual - not the same radio, but the same KRR-C001 part and a good description of it.
http://www.catlog.net/_Descarregas/M...d%20TM-231.pdf
Presumably the discrete external pull up resistors and the complex ladder network inside the package combine to produce the desired voltage output for each possible binary input value.
Maybe the choice of value for the external resistors determines the size of the output voltage swing?