Patents by Inventor Akihiko Ito

Akihiko Ito 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: 9019264
    Abstract: In one unit period of a display period, each first pair of scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to pixels of one scanning line of the first pair of scanning lines is supplied to each signal line. In another unit period, each second pair of scanning lines is selected and a gray scale potential corresponding to pixels of one scanning line of the second pair of scanning lines is supplied to each signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20150109270
    Abstract: When a 2D display is performed, a controller causes a first selection signal to be in an active state during a given period, and causes a second selection signal to be in the active state during another given period after causing the first selection signal to be in a non-active state. When a 3D display is performed, the controller causes the first selection signal to be in the active state at a given timing point, cause the second selection signal to be in the active state during a period when the first selection signal is in the active state, and thereby cause an overlapping period to arise during a period which is part of a selection period for selecting signal lines corresponding to the first selection signal, and which is part of another selection period for selecting signal lines corresponding to the second selection signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Akihiko ITO
  • Patent number: 9001164
    Abstract: A plurality of pixels are arranged corresponding to interconnection between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of signal lines. A drive circuit alternately displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image on the plurality of pixels every display period. Specifically, the drive circuit sequentially selects the scan lines and supplies a preparation potential corresponding to given grayscale potential (for example, black grayscale) to each of the pixels corresponding to the scan line in a selection state, during a preparation of each of the display periods, and sequentially selects the scan lines and supplies grayscale potential that is in response to an assigned grayscale of the corresponding pixel to each of the pixels corresponding to the scan line in the selection state, during a drive period that starts before selecting the scan line during the preparation of each of the display periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 8966536
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including a display control unit that, when display information of one content among a plurality of contents is selected on a display screen, creates a next display screen containing display information of at least any of a plurality of contents relevant to the one content, wherein the display information contained in the next display screen is display information of contents according to a selection sequence of a plurality of display information having been selected before among the plurality of contents relevant to the one content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Kazuhiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 8943525
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: storage configured to store a rarity level of each of a plurality of pieces of content, and access history of a user, the plurality of pieces of content being accessed by the user; and a controller configured to determine, based on the stored access history, rarity levels of a predetermined number or more of pieces of content, the pieces of content being accessed by the user in a predetermined unit time, to calculate a preference level of the user based on the determined rarity level, and to create information showing the calculated preference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Tetsuo Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20150001115
    Abstract: A heat-sensitive transfer recording medium of the invention comprises a supply core about which a heat-sensitive recording sheet is wound, a take-up core to which one end of the heat-sensitive transfer recording medium is fixed for winding up the heat-sensitive transfer recording medium, and a tape fixing the heat-sensitive transfer recording sheet and the take-up core therewith, the tape having a longitudinal elasticity of not larger than about 1.0×107 Pa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Kosuke Kinoshita, Yasuhiro Miyauchi, Ken Oshinomi
  • Patent number: 8918815
    Abstract: The television (1) includes: an infrared radiation receiver (119) which receives from a user an instruction to select a program cell; and a CPU (118) which generates a user interface screen of an electronic program table to be displayed on an LCD (110). The CPU (118) generates the user interface screen of the electronic program table such that a time zone item column located in a left direction of a selected program cell and a time zone item column located in a right direction of the selected program cell are indicated with deep blue, and other time zone item columns are indicated with light blue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Aya Minehara, Ai Terashima, Yoshinori Oonishi, Kinya Fujimoto, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Ohmura, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yuhji Ohi, Keiichiro Sato, Yumiko Saimen, Akihiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20140333607
    Abstract: An electro-optic device includes an electro-optical panel and a polarization axis conversion unit that emits transmission lights corresponding to a first image or a second image with the polarization axis of the first image intersecting the polarization axis of the second image, by converting the polarization axis of the lights emitted from the electro-optical panel. The electro-optic device further includes a scanning signal supply unit supplying scanning signals through the plurality of scanning lines and an image signal supply unit supplying a first image signal corresponding to a first image to the plurality of pixel sections during a first field period and supplying a second image signal corresponding to a second image to the plurality of pixel sections during a second field period through the plurality of data lines, the first field period and the second field period being divided into a plurality of subfield periods respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventor: Akihiko ITO
  • Publication number: 20140320480
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, an electro-optical device displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image for each display period. The driving circuit supplies a gradation potential to each of the pixels according to a specific gradation using image data which corresponds to the unit period in each of a plurality of unit periods in each of the display periods, and sequentially selects one or more scanning lines in a plurality of lines and supplies a gradation potential to each of the signal lines according to a specific gradation of each of the pixels which corresponds to the one or more scanning lines in a selected state in a unit period in each of the display periods. A driving control section executes overdrive of each of the pixels in the driving circuit in a first unit period in each of the display periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tokumura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 8872989
    Abstract: A driving circuit applies a voltage according to an assigned grayscale during each unit period of each display period, in such a manner that the applied voltage to a liquid crystal element during one of the unit periods and the applied voltage to the liquid crystal element during the other of the unit periods are opposite in polarity during each of the display periods, and an overdrive control unit enables the drive circuit to perform overdrive of a compensation grayscale according to a display image during the corresponding display period and to a display image during the immediately preceding display period during each of the first and second unit periods of each of the display periods, during each of the display periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tokumura, Akihiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20140282731
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including a display control unit that, when display information of one content among a plurality of contents is selected on a display screen, creates a next display screen containing display information of at least any of a plurality of contents relevant to the one content, wherein the display information contained in the next display screen is display information of contents according to a selection sequence of a plurality of display information having been selected before among the plurality of contents relevant to the one content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Kazuhiro Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140232808
    Abstract: Provided is a heat-sensitive transfer recording medium having a base material, and an undercoating layer and a dye layer sequentially laminated and formed on the base material. The undercoating layer is formed by applying and then drying an undercoating layer-forming application liquid containing polyvinyl pyrrolidone and polyvinyl alcohol whose tensile strength measured based on JIS K 7113 is not lower than 8 kg/mm2. The dye layer is formed by applying and then drying a dye layer-forming application liquid containing an anthraquinone compound as a thermal migratory dye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Ono, Yasuo Sugishita, Takehito Yamato, Akihiko Ito, Ken Oshinomi
  • Patent number: 8810494
    Abstract: An electro-optical device displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image for each display period. The driving circuit supplies a gradation potential to each of the pixels according to a specific gradation using image data which corresponds to the unit period in each of a plurality of unit periods in each of the display periods, and sequentially selects the scanning lines in a plurality of lines and supplies a gradation potential to each of the signal lines according to a specific gradation of each of the pixels which corresponds to any of the scanning lines out of the plurality of lines in a selected state in a unit period in each of the display periods. A driving control section executes overdrive of each of the pixels in the driving circuit in each of two or more unit periods which include the unit period in each of the display periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tokumura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 8803763
    Abstract: An electro-optical device displays a right-eye image and a left-eye image for each display period. In each of the display periods, a driving circuit executes first synchronization selection driving where a first group where scanning lines are segmented into units of two is sequentially selected and a gradation potential is supplied to each of the signal lines according to a gradation in the odd rows, and executes second synchronization selection driving where a second group which is different to the first group is sequentially selected and a gradation potential is supplied to each of the signal lines according to a gradation in the even rows. A display control circuit which controls the driving circuit so that the gradation potential is supplied to each of the signal lines according to a specific gradation which corresponds to the first scanning lines of a display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Tokumura, Akihiko Ito
  • Patent number: 8799962
    Abstract: Provided is a display control device including a display control unit that, when display information of one content among a plurality of contents is selected on a display screen, creates a next display screen containing display information of at least any of a plurality of contents relevant to the one content, wherein the display information contained in the next display screen is display information of contents according to a selection sequence of a plurality of display information having been selected before among the plurality of contents relevant to the one content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Kazuhiro Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20140185871
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a trigger recognition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a trigger and recognize predetermined trigger information included in the captured image, and a content acquisition unit configured to acquire a content including augmented reality information which is based on a state at a time of capturing the captured image or a state of content acquisition in a past and which corresponds to the predetermined trigger information recognized by the trigger recognition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: AKIHIKO ITO, TETSUO MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140125572
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes, on a substrate, three sub-pixels, three sampling switches, three data lines, three image signal lines, and three lead wiring lines. The three sub-pixels correspond to red, green and blue, respectively. The three sub-pixels are included in a unit pixel. The three sampling switches correspond to the three sub-pixels, respectively. The three data lines electrically connect the three sub-pixels and the three sampling switches with each other, respectively. The three image signal lines, which are provided on a side opposite to the three sub-pixels with respect to the three sampling switches, correspond to the three sampling switches, respectively. The three lead wiring lines electrically connect the three sampling switches and the three image signal lines with each other, respectively. Among the three sampling switches, a sampling switch corresponding to green is disposed close to the three image signal lines compared to other two sampling switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko ITO
  • Patent number: 8659526
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes, on a substrate, three sub-pixels, three sampling switches, three data lines, three image signal lines, and three lead wiring lines. The three sub-pixels correspond to red, green and blue, respectively. The three sub-pixels are included in a unit pixel. The three sampling switches correspond to the three sub-pixels, respectively. The three data lines electrically connect the three sub-pixels and the three sampling switches with each other, respectively. The three image signal lines, which are provided on a side opposite to the three sub-pixels with respect to the three sampling switches, correspond to the three sampling switches, respectively. The three lead wiring lines electrically connect the three sampling switches and the three image signal lines with each other, respectively. Among the three sampling switches, a sampling switch corresponding to green is disposed close to the three image signal lines compared to other two sampling switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Ito
  • Publication number: 20140053175
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: storage configured to store a rarity level of each of a plurality of pieces of content, and access history of a user, the plurality of pieces of content being accessed by the user; and a controller configured to determine, based on the stored access history, rarity levels of a predetermined number or more of pieces of content, the pieces of content being accessed by the user in a predetermined unit time, to calculate a preference level of the user based on the determined rarity level, and to create information showing the calculated preference level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Ito, Tetsuo Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20130318554
    Abstract: The television (1) includes: an infrared radiation receiver (119) which receives from a user an instruction to select a program cell; and a CPU (118) which generates a user interface screen of an electronic program table to be displayed on an LCD (110). The CPU (118) generates the user interface screen of the electronic program table such that a time zone item column located in a left direction of a selected program cell and a time zone item column located in a right direction of the selected program cell are indicated with deep blue, and other time zone item columns are indicated with light blue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aya Minehara, Ai Terashima, Yoshinori Oonishi, Kinya Fujimoto, Kazunori Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Ohmura, Yukimi Kawaguchi, Yuhji Ohi, Keiichiro Sato, Yumiko Saimen, Akihiko Ito