Patents by Inventor Shin-ichi Uehara

Shin-ichi Uehara 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: 8320041
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display device is provided with a display panel. The display panel is provided with a plurality of pixels for the right eyes and pixels for the left eye, and light emitted from the pixels for the right eye is made incident to the right eye of a viewer and light emitted from the pixels for the left eye is made incident to the left eye. When the normal distance between the display panel and the viewer is set to a maximum observation distance, D (mm), then definition X (dpi) of at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction on a display plane of the display panel is set as in the following expression. X ? 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Nobuaki Takanashi, Setsuo Kaneko
  • Patent number: 8248406
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image/two-dimensional image display device includes a plurality of display pixels, and a lenticular lens for three-dimensional display. Each display pixel is consisted of M×N number of sub-pixels to be viewed from N view points. A pitch a of sub-pixels arranged in the longitudinal direction of ridge projection of the lenticular lens and a pitch b of the sub-pixels arranged in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the lenticular lens satisfy the following expression. The M×N number of sub-pixels included in each of said display pixels are formed within a square area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Patent number: 8199173
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display apparatus, one display pixel has a total of six sub pixels, namely, a red sub pixel for a left eye, a green sub pixel for the left eye, a blue sub pixel for the left eye, a red sub pixel for a right eye, a green sub pixel for the right eye, and a blue sub pixel for the right eye. Those sub pixels are arranged in a square area, two in a horizontal direction along which gate lines extend, three in a vertical direction along which data lines extend. The polarity of the data lines with respect to a potential of a common electrode is inverted every time three gate lines are scanned and every frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Iriguchi, Naoyasu Ikeda, Shin-ichi Uehara
  • Patent number: 8174473
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image/two-dimensional image display device includes a plurality of display pixels, and a lenticular lens for three-dimensional display. Each display pixel is consisted of M×N number of sub-pixels to be viewed from N view points. A pitch a of sub-pixels arranged in the longitudinal direction of ridge projection of the lenticular lens and a pitch b of the sub-pixels arranged in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the lenticular lens satisfy the following expression. The M×N number of sub-pixels included in each of said display pixels are formed within a square area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Publication number: 20120105775
    Abstract: In an LCD device, a circular polarizer is provided to each of two substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer. The circular polarizer on the display surface side includes a polarizer, ?/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side includes a polarizer, a ?/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a ?/2 plate or a ?/4 plate. The absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the ?/2 plate for which Rth<0 is reduced, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the ?/4 plate for which Rth>0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin MATSUSHIMA, Ken SUMIYOSHI, Shin-ichi UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20120044567
    Abstract: In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin-ichi UEHARA, Naoyasu IKEDA, Nobuaki TAKANASHI
  • Publication number: 20110280044
    Abstract: A planar light source, Fresnel lens sheet, and louver are disposed in the stated order in a light source apparatus. The Fresnel lens sheet deflects and focuses in one dimension light that has entered from the planar light source. The louver is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted from the Fresnel lens sheet, and the directivity of the light can be increased by restricting the traveling direction of the light to the focal direction of the Fresnel lens sheet. The light utilization ratio can thereby be increased, the directivity of planarly emitted light can be increased, and the brightness can be made uniform at the point of observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-Ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Kenichi Takatori, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8054548
    Abstract: In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Patent number: 8013844
    Abstract: A lenticular lens is provided in front of a liquid crystal panel composed of a plurality of pixels. In this case, the lenticular lens is arranged so that one cylindrical lens corresponds to two pixels adjacent to each other. Then, light rays outgoing from two pixels are refracted by this one cylindrical lens and intersect with each other at a point positioned on the surface of a tablet, and then reach the right eye and the left eye of a user, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Ikeda, Shin-ichi Uehara, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Publication number: 20110205623
    Abstract: In an image display device where a lenticular lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in order from a viewer side, when cylindrical lenses of the lenticular lens are arrayed in a horizontal direction, in first-viewpoint pixels and second-viewpoint pixels of the display panel, openings whose sides which intersect with straight lines in the horizontal direction are not parallel to a vertical direction are formed. And, a shape of the openings of a pair of pixels mutually adjacent in the vertical direction is made line-symmetric with respect to edges of the pixels extending in the horizontal direction as an axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi UEHARA, Masao IRIGUCHI, Naoyasu IKEDA, Nobuaki TAKANASHI
  • Patent number: 7973749
    Abstract: A display device is composed of a light source device and a transmissive liquid crystal display panel, and the light source device is provided with a transparent/scattering switching element capable of switching between states in which incident light is transmitted or scattered. Pixels for displaying are disposed in the form of a matrix in the transmissive liquid crystal display panel, and the need for another power supply and signals for the transparent/scattering switching element is eliminated by driving the transparent/scattering switching element using the signals and power supply for driving the pixels. The drive power source of the transparent/scattering switching element for controlling scattering can be made smaller and less costly in a display device that is capable of switching the range of viewing angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Ken Sumiyoshi, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 7965365
    Abstract: In an image display device where a lenticular lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in order from a viewer side, when cylindrical lenses of the lenticular lens are arrayed in a horizontal direction, in first-viewpoint pixels and second-viewpoint pixels of the display panel, openings whose sides which intersect with straight lines in the horizontal direction are not parallel to a vertical direction are formed. And, a shape of the openings of a pair of pixels mutually adjacent in the vertical direction is made line-symmetric with respect to edges of the pixels extending in the horizontal direction as an axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Iriguchi, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Patent number: 7961276
    Abstract: In the liquid crystal display device of the present invention, a circular polarizer is provided to each of a pair of substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer, wherein the circular polarizer on the display surface side is composed of a polarizer, ?/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side is composed of a polarizer, a ?/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a ?/2 plate or a ?/4 plate. A reduction is achieved in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the ?/2 plate for which Rth<0, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the ?/4 plate for which Rth>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-Ichi Uehara
  • Publication number: 20110128621
    Abstract: A marker for lens is provided as aligning unit in a lenticular lens that is of optical unit, and a marker for display panel is provided as aligning unit in a transmissive liquid crystal display panel that is of the display panel. Fixing unit is provided in at least a part of an area that encloses an image display area of the lenticular lens. An image display device is formed in such a manner that alignment between the lenticular lens and the liquid crystal display panel is performed by the marker for lens and the marker for display panel and the lenticular lens is fixed to a surface of the liquid crystal display panel on the side of a viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin-ichi UEHARA, Nobuaki TAKANASHI
  • Publication number: 20110051236
    Abstract: In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin-ichi UEHARA, Naoyasu IKEDA, Nobuaki TAKANASHI
  • Publication number: 20110012893
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display apparatus, one display pixel has a total of six sub pixels, namely, a red sub pixel for a left eye, a green sub pixel for the left eye, a blue sub pixel for the left eye, a red sub pixel for a right eye, a green sub pixel for the right eye, and a blue sub pixel for the right eye. Those sub pixels are arranged in a square area, two in a horizontal direction along which gate lines extend, three in a vertical direction along which data lines extend. The polarity of the data lines with respect to a potential of a common electrode is inverted every time three gate lines are scanned and every frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Iriguchi, Naoyasu Ikeda, Shin-ichi Uehara
  • Publication number: 20100328245
    Abstract: A lenticular lens is provided in front of a liquid crystal panel composed of a plurality of pixels. In this case, the lenticular lens is arranged so that one cylindrical lens corresponds to two pixels adjacent to each other. Then, light rays outgoing from two pixels are refracted by this one cylindrical lens and intersect with each other at a point positioned on the surface of a tablet, and then reach the right eye and the left eye of a user, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Ikeda, Shin-ichi Uehara, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Patent number: 7852558
    Abstract: In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in this order from the observer side. A display panel has four pixels arrayed in a (2×2) matrix correlated with one lens element of the fly eye lens. In the event that j is a natural number, a pixel magnifying projection width e in a second direction is set in a range of the following expression according to mean interpupillary distance Y of the observers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Naoyasu Ikeda, Nobuaki Takanashi
  • Patent number: 7852445
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal layer is provided between a principal substrate and an opposing substrate that are disposed so as to face each other, and a shared electrode and a pixel electrode, which is a parallel electrode pair formed in the shape of a comb, are formed on the surface of the principal substrate that faces the opposing substrate. Orientation films are also formed on the opposing surfaces of the principal substrate and the opposing substrate. The electrodes of the parallel electrode pair are formed so that the width thereof is smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignees: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Shinya Niioka
  • Patent number: 7821611
    Abstract: A display device is provided with a light source, an light-guide plate, a prism sheet, a transparent/scattering state switching element, and a transmissive liquid crystal display panel. In the transparent/scattering state switching element, two transparent substrates are provided parallel to and separated from each other, and an electrode is provided to the surface of each transparent substrate. A scattering seal member is also provided between external peripheral portions of the transparent substrates, and a PDLC layer is enclosed in a space sealed by the scattering seal member between the transparent substrates. The scattering seal member is endowed with scattering properties whereby incident light is transmitted in a scattered state, and the degree of scattering thereof is equal to the degree of scattering of the PDLC layer during the scattering state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Shinya Niioka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura