Patents Assigned to SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11706393
    Abstract: A projection-type display device includes: an operation signal detector, configured to receive an operation signal that indicates adjustment content of a projected image that was instructed by way of an operation unit; an installation state detector, configured to detect, as an installation state of the projection-type display device, a first state and a second state that is rotated 90 degrees from the first state around an axis that is parallel to an optical axis of a projection lens; and a controller that, upon detecting a signal that corresponds to a first direction by way of the operation signal detector in the first state and the second state, adjusts the projected image by causing the projected image to shift in the first direction, or adjusts the projected image by causing a correction-object site in the projected image to move in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Ueda
  • Publication number: 20230217078
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a method including: causing a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a user to select a time range and a single digital display as a locale; and causing, based on the user selecting the time range and the single digital display as the locale, the user display to display, on the GUI, a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on the single digital display, each of the plurality of media content being ordered according to analysis insight for the single digital display selected and the time range selected. The analysis insight may include at least opportunity to see (OTS) counts of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard VENTURA, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Patent number: 11645970
    Abstract: A display device is in a multi-monitor system in which a plurality of display devices are connected using a daisy chain to display an image signal. The display device may include, but is not limited to, a reception unit configured to receive signal information that is information regarding a display of the image signal on a display device from the display device connected to an own display device; a comparison unit configured to compare the received signal information and signal information of the image signal in the own display device; and an output unit configured to output an instruction to perform a reset on at least one of the plurality of display devices when the two types of signal information are determined to be different as a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 11620732
    Abstract: A multi-projection system for projecting an image from a plurality of projectors onto a three-dimensional object, includes a master projector and a slave projector. The slave projector estimates an amount of blur in an image projected from the projector itself on a plurality of planes of the three-dimensional object, and provides the estimated amount of blur in the image to the master projector. The master projector estimates an amount of blur in an image projected from the projector itself on a plurality of planes of the three-dimensional object, and determines a region of the image projected from the plurality of projectors for each of the plurality of planes based on the amount of blur in the image estimated by the master projector and the amount of blur in the image estimated by the slave projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hisakazu Aoyanagi
  • Patent number: 11617013
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a method including: causing a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a user to select a time range and a single digital display as a locale; and causing, based on the user selecting the time range and the single digital display as the locale, the user display to display, on the GUI, a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on the single digital display, each of the plurality of media content being ordered according to analysis insight for the single digital display selected and the time range selected. The analysis insight may include at least impression counts that are counts of views by people of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Patent number: 11586720
    Abstract: A display system includes: a transmission device that transmits image data; a reception device that is connected to the transmission device and receives the image data; and a display device that displays an image indicated by the image data received by the reception device. The reception device creates a connection code, creates a security key, which is used for connection with the transmission device, from the connection code, and transmits the connection code to the display device to cause the display device to display it. The display device displays the connection code. The transmission device creates the security key from the connection code having been inputted, and is connected to the reception device by using the security key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 11573758
    Abstract: A display device includes: a video playback unit configured to play video media including multiple frames; a first memory unit configured to store a video signal of the video media that is being played; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a readout control signal representing a readout timing for playing each frame in the video media in a first display device different from an own display device in a multi-display system formed from multiple display devices; a readout control unit configured to cause frames of the video signal corresponding to the readout controls signal to be sequentially read out from the first memory unit in accordance with the acquired readout control signal; and a display control circuit configured to display, on a display unit, the frames of the video signal that have been read out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Mihara
  • Patent number: 11567589
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit and an association unit. The acquisition unit acquires first information, generated by processing a detection result which is output from a first sensor provided outside an electronic writing instrument, which includes a trajectory traced by the electronic writing instrument in writing of an object on a display image and second information, generated by processing a detection result which is output from a second sensor provided in the electronic writing instrument to detect a movement of the electronic writing instrument, which includes a trajectory traced by the electronic writing instrument in writing of the object on the display image. The association unit associates the object with the electronic writing instrument using the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Asano
  • Patent number: 11562712
    Abstract: A video reproduction device includes a calibration image generator configured to generate calibration images to be displayed by a display and a display device; a receiver configured to receive, from an image capturing device, a captured image in which the calibration image displayed by the display and the calibration image displayed by the display device are captured or information generated on the basis of the captured image; a corrected data calculator configured to calculate color-component-corrected data from a color component difference between the calibration image displayed by the display and the calibration image displayed by the display device; and a second video signal output configured to perform color correction on a video signal representing the same video as the video signal that is output to the display according to the corrected data obtained by the corrected data calculator and output a color-corrected video signal to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Araki
  • Patent number: 11546152
    Abstract: A display device connected to a signal source outputting a video signal using an encryption protocol and that transmits the encryption key to the signal source includes: a transmission unit that transmits an own encryption key uniquely set for the display device and an encryption key transmitted from another display device connected to the display device as a lower device to the signal source and another display device connected as an upper device; and a stop instruction unit that instructs another display device corresponding to a predetermined encryption key included in an encryption key group based on the order of the own encryption keys included in the encryption key group to stop transmitting the encryption key received when the own encryption key is included in the encryption key group including a plurality of encryption keys transmitted from another display device connected as the lower device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Koyanagi
  • Patent number: 11545058
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a video signal processing unit that receives a video signal and outputs a predetermined type of signal; an arithmetic processing unit that transfers a correction segment data corresponding to a different segment between a current unevenness correction data and a previous unevenness correction data; and an unevenness correction unit that corrects the predetermined type of signal based on the current unevenness correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sunagare
  • Patent number: 11509955
    Abstract: A display system includes: a plurality of secondary display units that respectively display a plurality of videos; a primary display unit that displays at least one of the plurality of videos; a detection unit that detects a number of viewers of each of the plurality of secondary display units; and a control unit that causes the primary display unit to display a same video as the video being displayed by the secondary display unit having a highest number of viewers among the plurality of secondary display units, based on the numbers of viewers detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Patent number: 11487319
    Abstract: An image display device has an image display unit including a display for displaying images and a backlight arranged behind the display to illuminate the display. The image display device includes an opening formed behind the image display unit, an optical sensor which detects light passing through the opening, and a sensor holder which holds the optical sensor, and the opening includes a protruding diaphragm and a passage hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Saito
  • Patent number: 11460900
    Abstract: A video display apparatus includes a power source that supplies first electric power and supplies second electric power that is different from the first electric power to an external device, a current detector that detects a current value when the second electric power is supplied to the external device, an electric power supply controller that includes a plurality of electric power supply modes and performs control that supplies electric power corresponding to one electric power supply mode among the plurality of electric power supply modes to the external device as the second electric power, and a controller that performs control that limits the first electric power when the current value detected by the current detector reaches a predetermined first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuta Nagano
  • Patent number: 11438652
    Abstract: A display system includes a main display unit configured to display a video; a plurality of subordinate display units configured to display a plurality of videos, respectively; a detection unit configured to detect the number of viewers of the main display unit and the respective numbers of viewers of the plurality of subordinate display units; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to switch a video displayed on a subordinate display unit of the plurality of subordinate display units to the same video as a video displayed on the main display unit when the number of viewers of the main display unit detected by the detection unit is equal to or more than a first predetermined value and the number of viewers of the subordinate display unit is less than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Patent number: 11422359
    Abstract: A projector, a rotational phase control device, a program for the rotational phase control device, and a wheel rotational speed control method include: a phosphor wheel that emits a plurality of different color lights at a cycle corresponding to a rotational speed when excitation light is irradiated; a color wheel into which the lights emitted from phosphor wheel enter; and a rotational phase control device that controls a rotational speed and a phase of color wheel in accordance with a rotational speed and a phase of phosphor wheel so that a phase relationship between phosphor wheel and color wheel is not changed and so that a rotational speed ratio between phosphor wheel and color wheel is equal to a rotational speed ratio between phosphor wheel and color wheel in a steady state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kato
  • Patent number: 11415869
    Abstract: An electronic device includes blowers. Blowers cool liquid crystal panels for light modulation mounted on illumination optical system for outputting light to a projection lens, respectively, and are disposed on the opposite side to the side where the projection lens of three liquid crystal panels is disposed and are arranged side by side along a first direction facing two liquid crystal panels of three liquid crystal panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kawase
  • Patent number: 11393411
    Abstract: A multi-display system includes: a master display device; a first slave display device; an optical measuring instrument to measure luminance and color displayed by a first image display unit of the master display device; and a deterioration factor calculating unit to calculate a deterioration factor on the basis of a first set of measurement parameters, which represent the luminance and the color measured by the optical measuring instrument, and of initial values of the first set of measurement parameters. The master display device performs adjustment on the basis of the first set of measurement parameters. The first slave display device performs adjustment on the basis of a second set of measurement parameters of a second image display unit of the first slave display device, wherein the second set of measurement parameters are calculated from the deterioration factor and from initial values of the second set of measurement parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Abe
  • Patent number: 11388369
    Abstract: A video device includes: a first video signal terminal to which a video signal cable for transmitting a video signal is detachably connected; a second video signal terminal which is of the same shape as that of the first video signal terminal, and to which the video signal cable is detachably connected; a detection unit which detects a predetermined state in the first video signal terminal and the second video signal terminal; a first video signal switch which connects the first video signal terminal to either an input unit or an output unit; a second video signal switch which connects the second video signal terminal to either the input unit or the output unit; and a control unit which controls a connection state of the first video signal switch and a connection state of the second video signal switch according to a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 11373571
    Abstract: The present invention has a communication portion configured to establish an image transmission system for receiving an image signal from an image transmitting device via a network; and a connection information management portion configured to set the total number of the image transmission systems established for each of a plurality of the image transmitting devices as the number of connections, wherein the connection information management portion does not change the number of connections even if the image transmission system is disconnected, when the image transmitting device shifting into a power saving mode causes the image transmission system to be disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eisaku Ishii