Patents by Inventor Ichiro Yasukura

Ichiro Yasukura 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: 6466182
    Abstract: A video image displaying apparatus and video image displaying method, applicable to the supplying, by arranging a plurality of picture displaying devices for instance on the inner walls of a tunnel, of consecutive articulated images by the plurality of picture displaying devices to occupants of a train to provide consecutive articulated images using these still pictures without, for instance, causing trouble to the performance by the driver of the mobile object. Blinking of still pictures at terminal displaying apparatuses is started and ended after waiting for the passage of a prescribed part of the mobile object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsu Shigetomi, Masaomi Yamamoto, Ichiro Yasukura
  • Patent number: 6466183
    Abstract: A video display apparatus with a plurality of display devices arrayed in a line with a predetermined interval at portions which may be watched by passengers on a moving vehicle, a video signal supplying device for supplying a still picture video signal to the plurality of display devices, and an intermittent display control dence for energizing the plurality of display devices simultaneously and controlling a still picture video signal display time and a video display stop time at such an interval as to obtain a clear picture. A video signal which represents successive motions on the whole of a picture as seen from a moving vehicle is supplied to respective display devices. Since a picture is given by an electrical signal, it is sufficient that the contents of the picture may be changed by rewriting the contents of a video memory. Therefore, any pictures may be displayed, and a plurality of pictures may also be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masaomi Yamamoto, Ichiro Yasukura, Tetsuo Maruyama, Yutaka Choji