Patents by Inventor Shinji Horino

Shinji Horino 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: 8243105
    Abstract: The display device of an embodiment of the present invention includes a display section which includes a pixel having a plurality of sub pixels and displays an image whose luminance is based on a luminance gradation of an inputted display signal, wherein the display section is arranged so that an integral value obtained by carrying out the following steps (a) to (d) is not more than 0.0202, the step (a) of measuring surface luminance of the display section and oblique luminance of the display section viewed at 60° from a front direction of the display section, the step (b) of standardizing the front luminance and the oblique luminance so as to calculate front standardized brightness x and oblique standardized brightness, the step (c) of determining n of x^(n/2.2) so that an integral value of a difference between x^(n/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Shinji Horino, Makoto Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20110267383
    Abstract: An object of at least one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof, in which a contour of an image is clearly recognized during movie display even in a case where a backlight is turned on and off so as to change intervals at which the backlight turns on. In at least one embodiment, the liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel and the backlight that irradiates the liquid crystal panel with light, one frame period including a turn-on period during which the backlight turns on and a turn-off period during which the backlight turns off, luminance being changed by changing turn-on intervals of the backlight, the turn-on intervals of the backlight being changed by changing lengths of the turn-on period and the turn-off period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Murakami, Yuhji Tanaka, Shinji Horino
  • Patent number: 8026934
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, to time-divide one frame of an input image signal into a first-half sub frame and a second-half sub frame, the grayscale of the signal in the second-half sub frame is set at a grayscale for dark display and the grayscale of the display signal of the first-half sub frame is adjusted, when the input image signal indicates low brightness. When an image with high brightness is displayed, the grayscale of the display signal of the first-half sub frame is set at a second predetermined value smaller than the maximum value and the grayscale of the display signal of the second-half sub frame is adjusted. Thereafter, in accordance with a combination of the input image signals of the (N-1)-th frame and the N-th frame, overshoot is performed with respect to the display signal of the first-half sub frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Makoto Shiomi, Shinji Horino
  • Publication number: 20100164996
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, to time-divide one frame of an input image signal into a first-half sub frame and a second-half sub frame, the grayscale of the signal in the second-half sub frame is set at a grayscale for dark display and the grayscale of the display signal of the first-half sub frame is adjusted, when the input image signal indicates low brightness. When an image with high brightness is displayed, the grayscale of the display signal of the first-half sub frame is set at a second predetermined value smaller than the maximum value and the grayscale of the display signal of the second-half sub frame is adjusted. Thereafter, in accordance with a combination of the input image signals of the (N?1)-th frame and the N-th frame, overshoot is performed with respect to the display signal of the first-half sub frame, in such a way as to restrain the decrease in the moving image quality on account of an insufficient response of a display module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Makoto Shiomi, Shinji Horino
  • Publication number: 20080024409
    Abstract: The display device of an embodiment of the present invention includes a display section which includes a pixel having a plurality of sub pixels and displays an image whose luminance is based on a luminance gradation of an inputted display signal, wherein the display section is arranged so that an integral value obtained by carrying out the following steps (a) to (d) is not more than 0.0202, the step (a) of measuring surface luminance of the display section and oblique luminance of the display section viewed at 60° from a front direction of the display section, the step (b) of standardizing the front luminance and the oblique luminance so as to calculate front standardized brightness x and oblique standardized brightness, the step (c) of determining n of xˆ(n/2.2) so that an integral value of a difference between xˆ(n/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Tomohiko Mori, Shinji Horino, Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 6025817
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display system of the present invention includes: an operation processing apparatus having a digital-analog converter converting a digital video signal to an analog video signal based on predetermined time information and a synchronization combining circuit superimposing the predetermined time information on at least one of a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal; and a liquid crystal display apparatus converting the analog video signal to a digital video signal based on the predetermined time information, thereby displaying an image based on the converted digital video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Uno, Shinji Horino, Yasuhiro Hirayama, Yukihiro Mizumoto
  • Patent number: 5488389
    Abstract: To display a more natural display screen without sense of strangeness, when displaying a video signal having a greater number of horizontal scanning lines than the number of horizontal display lines of the display means. The video signal is displayed by thinning at a rate of one out of every plurality of video signal groups. Accordingly, missing of only upper and lower portions of the video signals of the display screen is prevented, and when the video signal is compressed and displayed, a natural display screen without sense of strangeness is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kaoru Nakanishi, Shinji Horino, Kiyoshi Shiono, Hiroshi Tanaka, Kunihiro Terada