Patents by Inventor Kohei Inamura
Kohei Inamura 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).
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Publication number: 20190341003Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a conversion characteristic for input image data; a correction unit configured to generate corrected image data by performing correction processing on the input image data in accordance with the conversion characteristic that is set; and a display panel configured to display an image based on the generated corrected image data, wherein the setting unit acquires a power related value, which is a value related to a power consumption of the display apparatus, based on the input image data and a first conversion characteristic that is set, and in a case where the acquired power related value is greater than a first threshold, the setting unit changes the setting to a second conversion characteristic of decreasing data brightness of the corrected image data, which corresponds to data brightness of the input image data that is higher than a second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 10210820Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light-emitting unit including a plurality of light sources and a conversion member; a display unit configured to display an image by modulating light from the light-emitting unit; a control unit configured to control respective light-emitting brightness of the plurality of light sources; an estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the respective light-emitting brightness, a first brightness distribution and a second brightness distribution; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing, in which color unevenness due to a difference between the first brightness distribution and the second brightness distribution is reduced, to input image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 9824640Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a light-emitting unit, a light emission amount of which is variably controllable; a display unit configured to display an image by modulating, according to image data, light emitted from the light-emitting unit; and a control unit configured to control the light emission amount of the light-emitting unit according to a maximum and a minimum of a pixel value in a frame. The control unit maximizes the light emission amount of the light-emitting unit irrespective of the maximum when the minimum is larger than a first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Publication number: 20170221426Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light-emitting unit including a plurality of light sources and a conversion member; a display unit configured to display an image by modulating light from the light-emitting unit; a control unit configured to control respective light-emitting brightness of the plurality of light sources; an estimation unit configured to estimate, based on the respective light-emitting brightness, a first brightness distribution and a second brightness distribution; and an image processing unit configured to perform image processing, in which color unevenness due to a difference between the first brightness distribution and the second brightness distribution is reduced, to input image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 9501965Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light-emitting unit capable of separately controlling the emission brightness in each of a plurality of divided regions in a screen; a determining unit configured to determine a target brightness of a predetermined divided region, based on image data corresponding to the predetermined divided region; an estimating unit configured to estimate the brightness of the predetermined divided region when light is emitted by the light-emitting unit at emission brightness which is based on image data in each of the plurality of divided regions; and a control unit configured to control the emission brightness of two or more divided regions including the predetermined divided region based on the difference between the target brightness determined by the determining unit and the brightness estimated by the estimating unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takeshi Ikeda, Kohei Inamura, Mitsuru Tada, Hiroshi Uchiike
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Patent number: 9161011Abstract: An image processing apparatus that corrects gradation of a first image, which is one image from among the image for left eye and the image for right eye, and gradation of a second image, which is the other image from among the image for left eye and the image for right eye, the image processing apparatus comprises: a detection unit that detects parallax between the first image and second image; a correction unit that detects a pixel in the second image corresponding to a pixel in the first image on the basis of the parallax, and corrects a gradation value of the pixel in the first image and a gradation value of the pixel in the second image corresponding to the pixel in the first image by using a single gradation conversion curve.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 9042710Abstract: A video processing apparatus that can be connected to a video playback apparatus includes an input unit configured to input video data from the video playback apparatus, an interpolation unit configured to generate interpolated frame image data of input video data, and an output unit configured to output the interpolated frame image data as interpolated video data, wherein the interpolation unit generates different interpolated frame image data according to a playback mode of the video playback apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kousei Sugimoto, Kohei Inamura, Toshiki Nakatani, Mitsuru Tada, Masaharu Yamagishi, Eiichi Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20140340429Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a light-emitting unit, a light emission amount of which is variably controllable; a display unit configured to display an image by modulating, according to image data, light emitted from the light-emitting unit; and a control unit configured to control the light emission amount of the light-emitting unit according to a maximum and a minimum of a pixel value in a frame. The control unit maximizes the light emission amount of the light-emitting unit irrespective of the maximum when the minimum is larger than a first threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 8780107Abstract: A frequency of each gradation in an image for the left eye histogram is compared with a frequency of each gradation in an image for the right eye histogram. An integration histogram is generated using at least a larger one of the frequency of each gradation in the image for the left eye histogram and the frequency of each gradation in the image for the right eye histogram. A gradation correction parameter is set based on the generated integration histogram. The gradations of the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are corrected using the gradation correction parameter.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki Shindo, Kohei Inamura
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Publication number: 20140055505Abstract: An image display apparatus according to the present invention, includes: a light-emitting unit capable of separately controlling emission brightness in each of a plurality of divided regions in a screen; a determining unit configured to determine target brightness of a predetermined divided region, based on image data corresponding to the predetermined divided region; an estimating unit configured to estimate brightness of the predetermined divided region when light is emitted by the light-emitting unit at emission brightness which is based on image data in each of the plurality of divided regions; and a control unit configured to control emission brightness of two or more divided regions including the predetermined divided region based on a difference between the target brightness determined by the determining unit and the brightness estimated by the estimating unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Ikeda, Kohei Inamura, Mitsuru Tada, Hiroshi Uchiike
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Publication number: 20120275760Abstract: A video processing apparatus that can be connected to a video playback apparatus includes an input unit configured to input video data from the video playback apparatus, an interpolation unit configured to generate interpolated frame image data of input video data, and an output unit configured to output the interpolated frame image data as interpolated video data, wherein the interpolation unit generates different interpolated frame image data according to a playback mode of the video playback apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kousei Sugimoto, Kohei Inamura, Toshiki Nakatani, Mitsuru Tada, Masaharu Yamagishi, Eiichi Matsuzaki
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Patent number: 8244112Abstract: A video processing apparatus that can be connected to a video playback apparatus includes an input unit configured to input video data from the video playback apparatus, an interpolation unit configured to generate interpolated frame image data of input video data, and an output unit configured to output the interpolated frame image data as interpolated video data, wherein the interpolation unit generates different interpolated frame image data according to a playback mode of the video playback apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kousei Sugimoto, Kohei Inamura, Toshiki Nakatani, Mitsuru Tada, Masaharu Yamagishi, Eiichi Matsuzaki
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Publication number: 20110316849Abstract: A frequency of each gradation in an image for the left eye histogram is compared with a frequency of each gradation in an image for the right eye histogram. An integration histogram is generated using at least a larger one of the frequency of each gradation in the image for the left eye histogram and the frequency of each gradation in the image for the right eye histogram. A gradation correction parameter is set based on the generated integration histogram. The gradations of the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are corrected using the gradation correction parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2011Publication date: December 29, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Shindo, Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 8085282Abstract: There is provided an image display apparatus including: a first correction unit for outputting data to determine a lighting time of a first pixel on the basis of data to indicate luminance of the first pixel, wherein the first correction unit carries out first correction to compensate a loss of the luminance of the first pixel; and a second correction unit for outputting data to determine a lighting time of a second pixel on the basis of data to indicate luminance of the second pixel, wherein the second correction unit carries out second correction to compensate a loss of the luminance of the second pixel by predicting a lighting state of the first pixel that is corrected by the first correction.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2007Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Osamu Sagano, Kohei Inamura, Naoto Abe, Hiroshi Saito
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Publication number: 20110279643Abstract: An image processing apparatus that corrects gradation of a first image, which is one image from among the image for left eye and the image for right eye, and gradation of a second image, which is the other image from among the image for left eye and the image for right eye, the image processing apparatus comprises: a detection unit that detects parallax between the first image and second image; a correction unit that detects a pixel in the second image corresponding to a pixel in the first image on the basis of the parallax, and corrects a gradation value of the pixel in the first image and a gradation value of the pixel in the second image corresponding to the pixel in the first image by using a single gradation conversion curve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2011Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Publication number: 20110109795Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: motion vector detecting unit which divides an input video image into a plurality of blocks and detects a motion vector of each of the blocks; telop detecting unit which detects a horizontal telop and a vertical telop from the input video image; first correcting unit which corrects the motion vector of a block that includes the horizontal telop; second correcting unit which corrects the motion vector of a block that includes the vertical telop; control unit which controls the first and second correcting units such that when the horizontal and vertical telops are detected, correction is performed by one of the first and second correcting units, and correction by the other one of the first and second correcting units is omitted; and generating unit which generates the interpolated frame, using the motion vector of each of the blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohei Inamura, Taisuke Nishio
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Patent number: 7924243Abstract: The present invention relates to an image display apparatus for forming an image with a plurality of luminescent spots to be precisely aligned in a matrix. For example, a spacer disposed between an electron source and a face plate causes luminescent spots on the face plate spaced unevenly. The luminescent spots spaced unevenly will produce a visual unevenness in luminance which deteriorates the quality of produced image. By modifying the quantity of light of luminescent spots spaced unevenly, the visual unevenness in luminance is compensated.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Izumi Kanai, Yukio Hiraki, Makiko Mori, Kohei Inamura, Masaru Tada, Toshiyuki Kanda, Tatsuro Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7787055Abstract: A signal processing method comprises the steps of: inputting three signals specifying a color of one pixel; and generating four signals from the input three signals, wherein each of said four signals represents intensities of four different colors to display a color of one pixel by mixing colors, wherein said generating step includes a first converting step of converting the input three signals to two signals representing intensities of two colors among the four colors and a signal representing intensity of a mixed color obtained by mixing (a) the four colors or (b) a plurality of colors among the four colors; and a second converting step of converting the signal representing intensity of the mixed color to a plurality of signals representing intensities of a plurality of colors including at least other two colors different from the two colors.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Seiji Osawa, Yukio Hiraki, Izumi Kanai, Kohei Inamura, Masaru Tada, Nobuhiro Hoshi
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Publication number: 20100013870Abstract: An image display apparatus including a plurality of pixels, a drive circuit for outputting drive signals for driving the pixels, and a correction circuit for correcting an input signal corresponding to a predetermined pixel with a correction value to output a corrected input signal to a side of the drive circuit, wherein the apparatus adopts as the correction value a value reflecting drive states of pixels located in the neighborhood of the predetermined pixel, the value being one having received an adjustment according to a nonlinear characteristic between a value of the input signal and a gray-level display of the pixel on the basis of the value of the input signal corresponding to the predetermined pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohei Inamura
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Patent number: 7643677Abstract: In the image display device according to the present invention, control is performed such that a condition of not using a subsidiary pixel which corresponds to a specific color among the subsidiary pixels constituting a first pixel is selected as a condition for signal processing to output a signal for designating intensity of each subsidiary pixels constituting the first pixel, and a condition of using a subsidiary pixel which corresponds to a specific color among the subsidiary pixel constituting a second pixel is selected as a condition for signal processing to output a signal for designating intensity of each subsidiary pixels constituting the second pixel adjacent to the first pixel in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yukio Hiraki, Izumi Kanai, Kohei Inamura, Seiji Osawa, Masaru Tada, Nobuhiro Hoshi