Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Tada

Mitsuru Tada 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: 11975821
    Abstract: Provided is a flight device that can surely perform transformation operations of legs supporting a fuselage base in landing. A flight device 10 includes: a fuselage base 14; a first leg 26 provided on the fuselage base 14 and transformable between a flight state and a landing state; a second leg 27 provided on the fuselage base 14 as a separate body from the first leg 26 and transformable between the flight state and the landing state; a first drive unit 281 and a second drive unit 282 configured to drive transformation operations of the first leg 26 and the second leg 27; and an operation interconnecting mechanism 16 configured to interconnect the first leg 26 and the second leg 27 in terms of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Ishikawa Energy Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Ishikawa, Taro Fukuda, Takuma Takezawa, Nobuyuki Tada
  • Patent number: 11968444
    Abstract: A control apparatus capable of setting a suitable correction parameter while reducing user's troublesome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Azusa Oka, Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20230179730
    Abstract: A control apparatus capable of setting a suitable correction parameter while reducing user's troublesome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Azusa OKA, Mitsuru TADA
  • Publication number: 20230177665
    Abstract: A color correction data generating apparatus capable of performing color matching not depending on changes in the photographing position of the camera and the color tone of the light source is provided. The color correction data generating apparatus, which obtains a plurality of images obtained by photographing a predetermined subject with a plurality of image pickup apparatuses, includes at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as following units, an output unit inputting an image of a predetermined subject region included in the obtained image into a learned model that machine learning has been already performed, and outputting an inferred image obtained by inferring the image of the predetermined subject region included in an image obtained when photographing the predetermined subject under a prescribed photographing condition, and a generating unit generating color correction data that matches color characteristics of a plurality of inferred images outputted by the output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20220130340
    Abstract: An apparatus that displays a video in accordance with an input signal, the apparatus includes a backlight including a plurality of light sources, a panel configured to display the video by modulating light from the backlight, a determination section configured to determine an amount of light of each of the plurality of light sources subframe by subframe, a controller configured to control the plurality of light sources in accordance with the determined amounts of light, and an acquisition section configured to acquire a statistic in a plurality of areas subframe by subframe in accordance with the input signal. The determination section is configured to determine the amount of light of each of the plurality of light sources in accordance with the statistic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 11158288
    Abstract: The invention is a display device and method for correcting the amount of emitted light and brightness level from multiple light sources, which illuminate an object that is being imaged and displayed by a display module. The device and system include multiple temperature sensors that correspond to each of the multiple positions in the display module. The device and system also include a computer processor, which operates as a correction unit to individually correct the brightness for each of the multiple light sources based on the detected temperatures, detected by the temperature sensors, respectively, and the dispersion of the plurality of temperatures. The correction unit also performs (1) the temperature correction processing, to individually correct each of the multiple measured temperatures based on the dispersion; and (2) the brightness correction processing, to individually correct each of the brightness levels of the multiple light sources based on the corrected temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 11107426
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a backlight module; a first panel configured to transmit light irradiated from the backlight module; a second panel configured to display an image on a screen by transmitting the light transmitted through the first panel; and a control unit configured to control a transmittance of the first panel based on a second image generated by applying smoothing to at least a part of a first image. A strength of smoothing applied to a first region of the first image corresponding to a center of the screen is lower than a strength of smoothing applied to a second region of the first image, the second region being different from the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirotaka Furuta, Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 11011102
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display unit configured to display an image based on input image data on a screen; and a control unit configured to execute control to reduce an upper limit value of a display brightness range of a second area, which is different from a first area, of the screen of the display unit below an upper limit value of a display brightness range of the first area of the screen of the display unit, so that a power consumption of the display unit does not exceed a predetermined power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasuo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210097941
    Abstract: A control apparatus controls a display apparatus including a light-emitting module and a display panel configured to display an image based on image data on a display surface by modulating light emitted from the light-emitting module. The control apparatus includes at least one memory containing instructions and at least one processor which, by executing the instructions, functions as a control unit configured to control the display apparatus so that a patch image for calibration of the display apparatus is displayed on the display surface. In a case where an emission brightness of the light-emitting module is controlled in accordance with the image data, the control unit controls the display apparatus so that a patch image that is smaller than the display surface is displayed on the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Masatsugu Sasaki, Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 10964276
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a light emission unit including a plurality of light sources that emit light; a display unit displays an image by modulating the light on the basis of frames; a determination unit determines a luminescence intensity of each of the light sources for each sub-frame; and a control unit controls lighting of each of the light sources for each sub-frame at the luminescence intensity, wherein the determination unit (1) determines a leakage light quantity, wherein the leakage light quantity is a transmission quantity of light from other light sources that is generated due to response delay in modulation by the display unit, for each region of the display unit corresponding to each of the light sources, and (2) determines the luminescence intensity in accordance with the difference of the leakage light quantity between the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasuo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210035528
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display module configured to display an image by causing a plurality of light sources to emit light; a plurality of temperature sensors corresponding to a plurality of positions in the display module respectively; and at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: a correction unit configured to individually correct each of brightnesses of the plurality of light sources based on a plurality of temperatures detected by the plurality of temperature sensors respectively and dispersion of the plurality of temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Patent number: 10535288
    Abstract: An information outputting method for a displaying apparatus comprises: an image acquiring step of acquiring image data; an identifying step of identifying a first image characteristic of a first display image which is displayed using a first display characteristic of a first displaying apparatus and is based on the image data, and of identifying a second image characteristic of a second display image which is displayed using a second display characteristic of a second displaying apparatus different from the first displaying apparatus and is based on the image data; and an information outputting step of outputting notification information based on a difference between the first image characteristic and the second image characteristic. Thus, it becomes possible to enable a user to grasp that a difference in image quality may occur among the plurality of display apparatuses respectively having different characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20190295477
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a light emission unit including a plurality of light sources that emit light; a display unit displays an image by modulating the light on the basis of frames; a determination unit determines a luminescence intensity of each of the light sources for each sub-frame; and a control unit controls lighting of each of the light sources for each sub-frame at the luminescence intensity, wherein the determination unit (1) determines a leakage light quantity, wherein the leakage light quantity is a transmission quantity of light from other light sources that is generated due to response delay in modulation by the display unit, for each region of the display unit corresponding to each of the light sources, and (2) determines the luminescence intensity in accordance with the difference of the leakage light quantity between the regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasuo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10424270
    Abstract: In a display apparatus, a light-emitting unit emits light of a first color; a converting unit emits light of the first color, a second color, and a third color responding to irradiation of the light of the first color from the light-emitting unit; a detecting unit outputs a first detected value in accordance with brightness of the light of the first color, and a second detected value in accordance with brightness of the light of the second color; a correcting unit corrects components corresponding to the first color, the second color, and the third color of input image data, based on the first and second detected values, and a display unit displays an image on a screen by transmitting the light emitted from the converting unit, based on the corrected input image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaru Tomabechi, Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20190279581
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a backlight module; a first panel configured to transmit light irradiated from the backlight module; a second panel configured to display an image on a screen by transmitting the light transmitted through the first panel; and a control unit configured to control a transmittance of the first panel based on a second image generated by applying smoothing to at least a part of a first image. A strength of smoothing applied to a first region of the first image corresponding to a center of the screen is lower than a strength of smoothing applied to a second region of the first image, the second region being different from the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Hirotaka Furuta, Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20190259342
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a light-emitting member; a first transmissive panel configured to transmit a light emitted from the light-emitting member, based on first image data of which spatial high frequency components are less than spatial high frequency components of second image data; a second transmissive panel configured to display an image on a display surface by transmitting a light, which is emitted from the light-emitting member and transmitted through the first transmissive panel, based on the second image data; and a detector configured to detect brightness of external light, wherein in a case where the brightness of the external light is high, the spatial high frequency components of the first image data are less than the spatial high frequency components of the first image data in a case where the brightness of the external light is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Takehito Fukushima, Takeshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10342092
    Abstract: A light source apparatus includes: a light source unit; and a control unit configured to perform lighting control, wherein the light source unit emits first color light at a first timing, and emits second color light at a second timing which delays after the first timing by a predetermined period, in accordance with the lighting control, and the control unit performs a plurality of times of lighting control based on the predetermined period, so that at least a part of a period in which the light source unit emits the second color light in accordance with a first lighting control overlaps with at least a part of a period, in which the light source unit emits the first color light in accordance with a second lighting control, which is performed after the first lighting control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20190189063
    Abstract: A light emission control apparatus includes: a transmittance determining unit that determines, based on image data, a temporal change in transmittance of a display unit of the display apparatus in a frame period; and a pulse determining unit that determines, based on a determination result by the transmittance determining unit, for each of partial periods in the frame period, a pulse width, a pulse amplitude, and a pulse position of a pulse supplied to a light-emitting unit of the display apparatus, wherein the pulse determining unit determines a pulse position for each partial period so that the pulse is set in a period where the transmittance in the partial period is relatively high, and determines, for a stable period, a pulse width and a pulse amplitude that are different from those of an unstable period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsu Kitani, Mitsuru Tada
  • Publication number: 20190139500
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a backlight module; a first panel transmitting a light from the backlight module based on a first image data; a second panel transmitting a light from the first panel based on a second image data; and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit to perform the operations of the following units: an acquiring unit configured to acquire an input image data; and a generating unit configured to generate the first image data and the second image data based on the input image data, wherein the generating unit generates the first image data and the second image data such that a decline in transmittance of the second panel due to an increase in a line-of-sight angle becomes larger than a decline in transmittance of the first panel due to the increase in the line-of-sight angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Tetsu Kitani, Yasuhiro Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20190088193
    Abstract: A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display unit configured to display an image based on input image data on a screen; and a control unit configured to execute control to reduce an upper limit value of a display brightness range of a second area, which is different from a first area, of the screen of the display unit below an upper limit value of a display brightness range of the first area of the screen of the display unit, so that a power consumption of the display unit does not exceed a predetermined power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Mitsuru Tada, Takeshi Ikeda, Yasuo Suzuki