Patents by Inventor Masao Kurino

Masao Kurino 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).

  • Publication number: 20210241703
    Abstract: To provide a control device capable of reducing power consumption of a display device. A display controller is a control device of a display device including a display including a plurality of light sources to be independently controlled. The display controller performs display processing that involves monitoring an update of an image to be displayed on a screen of the display, and causing a light source corresponding to a display region of the updated image to glow more brightly than another light source, the light source and the other light source being included in the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIOMI, NAOKO GOTO, NAOTO INOUE, AYA OKAMOTO, OSAMU TERANUMA, MASAO KURINO, YUKI KATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210233479
    Abstract: To provide a control device capable of reducing power consumption of a display device. A display controller is a control device of a display device including a display including a plurality of light sources to be independently controlled. In accordance with levels of unimportance or levels of importance each corresponding to one of display items displayed by one or more applications of the display device, the display controller controls brightness of a light source corresponding to a display region for the one display item. The light source is included in the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIOMI, NAOKO GOTO, NAOTO INOUE, AYA OKAMOTO, OSAMU TERANUMA, MASAO KURINO, YUKI KATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210134236
    Abstract: To provide a control device capable of reducing power consumption of a display device. A display controller is a control device of a display device including a display including a plurality of light sources to be independently controlled. The control device performs first display processing that involves causing a light source, corresponding to a display region for notice information, to glow more brightly than another light source if the notice information is displayed on a part of the display when the display device is in a lock state. The notice information presents a user a notice, and the light source and the other light source are included in the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIOMI, NAOKO GOTO, NAOTO INOUE, AYA OKAMOTO, OSAMU TERANUMA, MASAO KURINO, YUKI KATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20150074603
    Abstract: A focus frame (500) (i) is provided on a menu screen (410) on which a number of menu items to be selected (121a, 121b, 121c, 122a, and 122b) and the like are displayed and (ii) is located around a specific menu item to be selected (121a). A mark, such as an arrow, indicating a direction in which a menu item is selectable is put close to each of an upper side, a lower side, a right side, and a left side of the focus frame (500) so that a viewer can easily select a target menu item in accordance with an instruction indicated by the mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroki Abe, Hironori Inoue, Masao Kurino, Yosuke Iga, Takamasa Shimizu