Patents by Inventor Shigenori Shibue
Shigenori Shibue 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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Patent number: 10971056Abstract: Provided is a display device that individually corrects luminance of an image to be displayed in a part of an image display area and an image to be displayed in the other area. The display device includes a display unit to display an entire image, and a luminance correction controller to correct luminance of the entire image. The entire image is an image in which a first image displayed in a first display area being an area except a second display area is superimposed by a second image displayed in the second display area that is set in a part of the image display area. The luminance correction controller respectively corrects the luminance of the first and second images by using the first and second luminance correction coefficients. The display unit displays first and the second images each having corrected luminance respectively in the first and second display areas.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Matoba, Shigenori Shibue, Yoshinori Asamura
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Publication number: 20200380909Abstract: Provided is a display device that individually corrects luminance of an image to be displayed in a part of an image display area and an image to be displayed in the other area. The display device includes a display unit to display an entire image, and a luminance correction controller to correct luminance of the entire image. The entire image is an image in which a first image displayed in a first display area being an area except a second display area is superimposed by a second image displayed in the second display area that is set in a part of the image display area. The luminance correction controller respectively corrects the luminance of the first and second images by using the first and second luminance correction coefficients. The display unit displays first and the second images each having corrected luminance respectively in the first and second display areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takashi MATOBA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Yoshinori ASAMURA
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Patent number: 10726769Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of suppressing a power consumption of an LED. An LED display device includes voltage supply parts, which can supply a multiple types of voltages being different from each other and a driver which drives an LED display using the multiple types of voltages. The driver switches a combination of an LED array in a lighting target group which is one of the plurality of groups being subject to lighting-up and the multiple types of voltages which should be supplied in parallel with the LED array, under a time sharing control, and turns on some LEDs, which should be turned on by the voltages which should be supplied to the LED array, in the plurality of LEDs included in the LED array in the lighting target group.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Yoneoka, Shigenori Shibue, Yoshinori Asamura
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Publication number: 20200111408Abstract: The LED display device includes a display part including a display module including a plurality of LED elements, a first temperature detecting part, first and second aging display parts including at least one measurement LED element equivalent to the LED elements, a luminance measurement part measuring a luminance of the measurement LED elements, a second temperature detecting part, an accumulated lighting time storage part storing accumulated lighting times of the plurality of LED elements, a luminance decreasing rate storage part storing a relationship between an accumulated lighting time of the measurement LED elements and a luminance decreasing rate of the measurement LED elements, and a luminance correction coefficient calculating part calculating the luminance correction coefficient with reference to the plurality of LED elements, in which the luminance correction coefficient calculating part corrects the luminance correction coefficient based on the temperatures detected by the first and second temperaType: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoyuki MACHIDA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Yoshinori ASAMURA
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Patent number: 10403802Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an LED panel and an LED display that enhance orientation properties of LEDs and the efficiency of light use with a simple configuration. It is a different object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing the LED display panel, the method reducing an increase in process step. An LED display panel according to an aspect of the present invention includes the following: a plurality of chip-on-board LEDs mounted on a substrate, the LEDs each having a light-emitting surface on a surface opposite a substrate side; and a plurality of light-transmissive members. Each light-transmissive member is disposed on the substrate to cover the light-emitting surface of at least one of the LEDs. Each light-transmissive member is configured to enhance the directionality of outgoing light emitted from the LEDs.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzo Nakano, Shigenori Shibue, Naoki Haze
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Publication number: 20180366625Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an LED panel and an LED display that enhance orientation properties of LEDs and the efficiency of light use with a simple configuration. It is a different object of the present invention to provide a method for manufacturing the LED display panel, the method reducing an increase in process step. An LED display panel according to an aspect of the present invention includes the following: a plurality of chip-on-board LEDs mounted on a substrate, the LEDs each having a light-emitting surface on a surface opposite a substrate side; and a plurality of light-transmissive members. Each light-transmissive member is disposed on the substrate to cover the light-emitting surface of at least one of the LEDs. Each light-transmissive member is configured to enhance the directionality of outgoing light emitted from the LEDs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuzo NAKANO, Shigenori SHIBUE, Naoki HAZE
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Publication number: 20180240398Abstract: A light-emitting diode display device includes: a display that includes a light-emitting diode; a drive unit that drives the light-emitting diode; a lighting time storage unit; a first temperature detection unit; a first temperature storage unit; an aging display that includes a measurement light-emitting diode; a drive unit that drives the measurement light-emitting diode; a drive data generation unit; a second temperature detection unit; a second temperature storage unit; a brightness measurement unit that measures brightness of the measurement light-emitting diode; a brightness reduction rate storage unit; a compensation factor calculation unit that finds a compensation factor from the cumulative lighting time and the brightness reduction rate, and corrects the compensation factor on the basis of a difference between the first temperature and the second temperature; and a brightness compensation circuit that compensates the brightness of the light-emitting diode on the basis of the compensation factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki MACHIDA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Yoshinori ASAMURA
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Publication number: 20180174504Abstract: An object is to provide a technique capable of suppressing a power consumption of an LED. An LED display device includes voltage supply parts, which can supply a multiple types of voltages being different from each other and a driver which drives an LED display using the multiple types of voltages. The driver switches a combination of an LED array in a lighting target group which is one of the plurality of groups being subject to lighting-up and the multiple types of voltages which should be supplied in parallel with the LED array, under a time sharing control, and turns on some LEDs, which should be turned on by the voltages which should be supplied to the LED array, in the plurality of LEDs included in the LED array in the lighting target group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Isao YONEOKA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Yoshinori ASAMURA
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Publication number: 20180158400Abstract: An LED display device includes a first display unit including a plurality of LED elements, a second display unit including a measurement LED element equivalent to the LED element included in the first display unit, a luminance measurement unit to measure a luminance of the measurement LED element, a luminance decrease rate storage unit to store therein a luminance decrease rate of the measurement LED element, an accumulated lighting time estimation unit to estimate an accumulated lighting time at intervals of a predetermined time, an average duty ratio storage unit to store therein an average duty ratio obtained by dividing the accumulated lighting time which is estimated, by an accumulated operating time, and a luminance correction coefficient calculation unit to obtain a luminance decrease rate with reference to the luminance decrease rate storage unit and the average duty ratio storage unit and calculate a luminance correction coefficient from the luminance decrease rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi MATOBA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Yoshinori ASAMURA
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Patent number: 9591720Abstract: An LED display apparatus includes a first LED display including a first LED, a second LED display including a second LED, and a luminance corrector. The luminance corrector corrects a luminance of the first LED in accordance with a first cumulative lighting period of the first LED and with both luminance transitions and a second cumulative lighting period of the second LED.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshinori Asamura, Shigenori Shibue, Isao Yoneoka, Yasunori Wada
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Publication number: 20170042002Abstract: An LED display apparatus includes a first LED display including a first LED, a second LED display including a second LED, and a luminance corrector. The luminance corrector corrects a luminance of the first LED in accordance with a first cumulative lighting period of the first LED and with both luminance transitions and a second cumulative lighting period of the second LED.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshinori ASAMURA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Isao YONEOKA, Yasunori WADA
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Publication number: 20160343349Abstract: An LED display apparatus includes an LED aging unit, a correction factor computing unit, and a luminance correction circuit. The LED aging unit includes an LED aging display that includes at least one second LED, a luminance measurer that measures luminance decrease rates of the second LED per color correspondently to lighting periods of first LEDs, and a luminance decrease rate storage that stores the luminance decrease rates. The correction factor computing unit computes correction factors for correcting luminances of the first LEDs per color in accordance with cumulative lighting periods of the first LEDs of corresponding colors and the luminance decrease rates of corresponding colors. The luminance correction circuit corrects the luminance of the first LEDs per color in accordance with the correction factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki MACHIDA, Shigenori SHIBUE, Yoshinori ASAMURA
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Publication number: 20140313422Abstract: A projection type video display includes a light source controller and a light amount detection sensor. The light source controller controls currents so as to sequentially turn off a plurality of LEDs forming each of LED arrays, detects a change in output light amount before and after each of the plurality of LEDs turn off by the light amount detection sensor to detect an abnormal turning-on of each of the LEDs, and performs control so as to interrupt a current supply to the LED in which an abnormal turning-on has been detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoki KANNO, Shigenori SHIBUE
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Patent number: 8807760Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a light source apparatus that includes space-saving LED cooling unit, and a projector type image display apparatus including the same. The light source apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs, a plurality of heatsinks that are respectively thermally coupled to the LEDs and that are disposed in series with an interval between each other, and a cooler mechanism that sends a cooling airflow into the heatsinks along their disposition direction. A heatsink included in the plurality of heatsinks that dissipates the heat of an LED having a greater heat generating amount out of the plurality of LEDs is disposed downstream in the cooling airflow from the other heatsink.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoki Kanno, Shigenori Shibue, Takuya Kodama, Shigetoshi Ipposhi
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Patent number: 8508474Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a position detecting device that allows simultaneous use by a plurality of users by recognizing positional information about a plurality of pointers and associating the pointers and the users. A position detecting device of the invention includes a rear projector that projects an image, a projection screen that displays the image projected from the rear projector, imaging means that is located near the rear projector and that takes an image of light rays emitted from pointers, from the rear of the projection screen, and coordinate calculating means that analyzes the image taken by the imaging means to detect the two-dimensional positions in the detection areas where the light rays from the pointers are detected.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Machida, Akihiro Kitaguchi, Shigenori Shibue, Yoshinori Asamura
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Patent number: 8094138Abstract: A position detecting device and method implemented therein that is able to accurately detect an indicated position even when a water droplet or the like is formed upon the position-detecting-device's surface. The device includes: a light-guide plate placed upon a displaying surface of a displaying device; an emitting unit for emitting light beams that are totally reflected thickness-wise within the light-guide plate, so as to scan along the sides of the light-guide plate in an X-axis and a Y-axis direction under the control of an emission-control unit; an indicating device; and a coordinate calculating unit. In the indicating device, a light-guiding part guides light traveling within the light-guide plate into a detection unit, which detects the guided light in order to output a detection signal. The coordinate calculating unit calculates a coordinate position by deriving a scanned position from the detection signal and the emission-control unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shigenori Shibue, Yoshinori Asamura
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Publication number: 20110181842Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a light source apparatus that includes space-saving LED cooling unit, and a projector type image display apparatus including the same. The light source apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of LEDs, a plurality of heatsinks that are respectively thermally coupled to the LEDs and that are disposed in series with an interval between each other, and a cooler mechanism that sends a cooling airflow into the heatsinks along their disposition direction. A heatsink included in the plurality of heatsinks that dissipates the heat of an LED having a greater heat generating amount out of the plurality of LEDs is disposed downstream in the cooling airflow from the other heatsink.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Naoki KANNO, Shigenori SHIBUE, Takuya KODAMA, Shigetoshi IPPOSHI
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Patent number: 7778291Abstract: A wavelength converting laser device includes a laser diode producing laser light and including an optical resonator having a pair of facing reflectors, including a reflecting surface having a shape reducing loss in the optical resonator, with regard to a specific horizontal transverse mode of laser light as compared to the loss in the optical resonator for other horizontal transverse modes, and a wavelength converter for converting the laser light into harmonic light.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuharu Koyata, Yoshihito Hirano, Masao Imaki, Kouhei Teramoto, Shigenori Shibue
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Patent number: 7724413Abstract: Provided are a speckle removing light source capable of removing speckle by using laser light whose wavelength is temporally changed and a lighting apparatus for producing an image from which the speckle is removed. Included are a light source for outputting laser light, and a light frequency modulator for temporally changing a wavelength of the laser light. The light frequency modulator has a predetermined period set for changing the wavelength of the laser light. Also, provided is a lighting apparatus, including a spatial light modulator illuminated with the laser light outputted from the speckle removing light source to produce an image. The spatial light modulator has a period set for producing the image, which is longer than the period for changing the wavelength of the laser light by the light frequency modulator.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yasuharu Koyata, Yoshihito Hirano, Kiyohide Sakai, Masao Imaki, Shinsuke Shikama, Jiro Suzuki, Takao Endou, Kouhei Teramoto, Shigenori Shibue
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Patent number: 7693194Abstract: A reflection element 3 disposed in an optical waveguide element 2 returns a part of light to a semiconductor laser diode element 1 so that the semiconductor laser diode element 1 oscillates in a coherent collapse mode, and a semiconductor light amplifier 7 is optically coupled to the optical waveguide element 2, and amplifies an optical output from optical waveguide element 2, so as to provide a high-power fundamental-wave light source.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kiyohide Sakai, Yasuharu Koyata, Masao Imaki, Yoshihito Hirano, Kouhei Teramoto, Shigenori Shibue