Patents by Inventor Susumu Kimura
Susumu Kimura 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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Publication number: 20160062028Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light source, clad, and a plurality of cores. The clad includes a first edge at a light source side, a second edge opposite to the first edge, and a plurality of grooves formed by a plurality of partitions extending in parallel to each other from the first edge to the second edge. The cores are accommodated in the grooves, and each core includes an incident surface on which light from the light source is incident and an exit surface exposed from the groove to emit the light incident on the incident surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Shigenori AOKI, Susumu KIMURA, Tsutomu HARADA, Naoyuki TAKASAKI
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Publication number: 20150317934Abstract: A display device includes an image display panel whose display is controlled by an image signal, a backlight which includes light sources and lights the image display panel from behind, and a display control section which calculates, based on the image signal, the required luminance value of the backlight for each divided area of the image display panel, calculates a tentative lighting level of each light source based on luminance distribution information for the backlight stored previously and the required luminance values, sets the lighting level of a first light source whose tentative lighting level exceeds an upper limit to the upper limit, determines the lighting level of a second light source whose tentative lighting level does not exceed the upper limit, based on the lighting level of the first light source, luminance distribution information, and required luminance value, and controls the backlight by the lighting levels.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Naoyuki TAKASAKI, Tsutomu HARADA, Susumu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20150109351Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel; and a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source, the light guide plate illuminating the image display panel from a back side, the edge-lit light source including a plurality of light sources arranged facing a plane of incidence; and a controller that controls luminance of each of the light sources independently. The controller stores therein, as lookup tables for the respective light sources, information on light intensity distributions of light that is incident on the light guide plate from the respective light sources and is emitted to a plane of the image display panel from the light guide plate, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources based on information on an input signal of an image, and on the lookup tables.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki, Susumu Kimura, Yasuhisa Shiraishi
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Publication number: 20150109352Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel; a planar light source including a light guide plate and an edge-lit light source that has light sources; and a controller. The controller sets luminance determination blocks by virtually dividing the image display panel in a light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block with a highest luminance in the incidence direction, among luminance determination blocks at a same position in the light-source-arrangement-direction, identifies a luminance determination block the luminance of which is to be corrected by referring to luminance information of the light sources, and controls a light quantity of each of the light sources in such a manner that luminance of the identified luminance determination block is achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: Naoyuki TAKASAKI, Tsutomu HARADA, Susumu KIMURA, Fumitaka GOTOH
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Patent number: 8970461Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display including: a reflective image display section having pixels arranged in the display region; and a lighting device adapted to irradiate light to the image display section from diagonally in front, in which the light scattering characteristics in the display region are angle-dependent, and in which the lighting device irradiates light whose intensity distribution is adjusted so that when the display region displaying an image having an equal gray level is viewed from a given viewing position, the image luminance is uniform.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.Inventors: Tatsuya Yata, Kenji Tanase, Susumu Kimura, Takafumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140300845Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display surface on which pixels each including sub-pixels of a plurality of colors are two-dimensionally arrayed; a reflective member; a first substrate provided with the reflective member; a second substrate arranged to face the first substrate; a color filter provided with filters of at least two colors corresponding to the sub-pixels; and a scattering member provided on the second substrate. A main viewing angle direction of the display device is a direction intersecting with the display surface. The color filter is formed such that a change in transmittance of the filters per pixel in the main viewing angle direction is smaller than a change in transmittance of the filters per pixel in a direction orthogonal to the main viewing angle direction in a direction parallel to the display surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masaya TAMAKI, Yoko FUKUNAGA, Masashi MITSUI, Susumu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20140293189Abstract: According to an aspect, a reflective liquid-crystal display device includes a liquid-crystal panel and a front light unit. The liquid-crystal panel includes a sheet-like anisotropic scattering member having low refractive index areas and high refractive index areas with a refractive index higher than that of the low refractive index areas. The front light unit includes a light guide plate laminated on the liquid-crystal panel and having a number of grooves formed on a surface facing the liquid-crystal panel at a pitch of equal to or smaller than 100 ?m and a light source that makes light incident on the light guide plate. An arrangement interval of the unit pixels is larger than an average of an arrangement interval of the high refractive index area of the anisotropic scattering member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoko FUKUNAGA, Susumu KIMURA
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Patent number: 8803893Abstract: An image data processing apparatus includes: a plurality of operational processing circuits each of which is configured to have a variable circuit configuration and to execute operational processing on image data; and a control section that controls each of the operational processing circuits such that each of the operational processing circuits executes one of a plurality of types of operational processing performed on image data in a predetermined order. The control section controls each of the operational processing circuits so that when image data to be newly given to one of the operational processing circuits is interrupted, said one of the operational processing circuits and another one of the operational processing circuits execute operational processing by taking partial charge of the operational processing.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Shimamura, Susumu Kimura
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Patent number: 8773713Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a calculation portion that calculates a first process time period required for a case where image processes are executed by a reconfiguration process mode, and a second process time period required for a case where the image processes are executed by a pipeline process mode, based on the number of pixels of image information of an input print job and contents of processes of the input print job; and an activation portion that activates a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) according to a process mode having a shorter time period in the first process time period and the second process time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Susumu Kimura
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Publication number: 20140099366Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide, for the case of implementing a therapeutic method in which at least two kinds of anti-dementia drugs are used together, a composition that has a good therapeutic effect on dementia, and also gives excellent compliance. Another object of the present invention is to provide a composition containing at least two kinds of anti-dementia drugs, in which release of the anti-dementia drugs from the composition is controlled, whereby a combined effect of the anti-dementia drugs can be achieved well. Still another object of the present invention is to provide a composition for which the frequency of administration and the amount taken are reduced and hence compliance can be improved, and a method of manufacturing such a composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: EISAI R&D MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kimura, Yosuke Ueki, Masami Nohara, Yukifumi Dota
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Patent number: 8307722Abstract: There are provided a method of detecting dispensed quantity in which without the need of detecting a surface of liquid accommodated in a container, a liquid quantity can be detected only by measuring pressure change; and a relevant liquid suction monitoring dispensing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2006Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Universal Bio Research Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideji Tajima, Michinori Koizuka, Hiroshi Suzuki, Susumu Kimura
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Patent number: 8287169Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight capable of suppressing loss of light from an invisible light source and a displaying/imaging apparatus using the same. The backlight includes: a light guide plate having a light emitting face and a rear face opposed to the light emitting face; a visible light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; an invisible light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; a first reflection film disposed on the rear face side of the light guide plate, reflecting light from the visible light source, and transmitting light from the invisible light source; and a second reflection film disposed on the rear face side of the light guide plate and reflecting light from at least the invisible light source out of the visible light source and the invisible light source.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ying Bao Yang, Takafumi Suzuki, Susumu Kimura, Masaru Higuchi, Masaki Kondoh
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Publication number: 20120229531Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display including: a reflective image display section having pixels arranged in the display region; and a lighting device adapted to irradiate light to the image display section from diagonally in front, in which the light scattering characteristics in the display region are angle-dependent, and in which the lighting device irradiates light whose intensity distribution is adjusted so that when the display region displaying an image having an equal gray level is viewed from a given viewing position, the image luminance is uniform.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuya Yata, Kenji Tanase, Susumu Kimura, Takafumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 8264452Abstract: There is provided a display device, including a display panel; a first light emitting unit for inputting a first input light to the display panel based on a first light emitting signal; a second light emitting unit for inputting second input light to the display panel based on a second light emitting signal; and light emitting control unit for outputting the first light emitting signal, the second light emitting signal, the image signal corresponding to the first input light, and the image signal corresponding to the second input light; where the light emitting control unit performs output of the first light emitting signal and the image signal of the color corresponding to the first input light in synchronization in a first sub-frame, and performs output of the second light emitting signal and the image signal of the color corresponding to the second input light in synchronization in a second sub-frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Eiho You, Susumu Kimura, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masaru Higuchi
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Publication number: 20110228293Abstract: An image processing apparatus including: a calculation portion that calculates a first process time period required for a case where image processes are executed by a reconfiguration process mode, and a second process time period required for a case where the image processes are executed by a pipeline process mode, based on the number of pixels of image information of an input print job and contents of processes of the input print job; and an activation portion that activates a plurality of dynamic reconfigurable processors (DRPs) according to a process mode having a shorter time period in the first process time period and the second process time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Susumu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20110122652Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including, a visual target, and a backlight adapted to illuminate the visual target from the rear, the backlight including, a plurality of first light sources, second light sources, and a light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate has a plurality of projecting portions on a side surface portion thereof upon which the light, produced by the plurality of first and second light sources is incident, the projecting portions being arranged, along the side surface portion and project toward the one side of the given direction, the plurality of first light sources are disposed to be opposed to the tip surfaces of the plurality of projecting portions, and the second light sources are disposed to be opposed to the bottom surfaces of recessed portions formed between the plurality of projecting portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ying Bao YANG, Masaru HIGUCHI, Hiromasa SUZUKI, Susumu KIMURA
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Publication number: 20110066826Abstract: An image data processing apparatus includes: a plurality of operational processing circuits each of which is configured to have a variable circuit configuration and to execute operational processing on image data; and a control section that controls each of the operational processing circuits such that each of the operational processing circuits executes one of a plurality of types of operational processing performed on image data in a predetermined order. The control section controls each of the operational processing circuits so that when image data to be newly given to one of the operational processing circuits is interrupted, said one of the operational processing circuits and another one of the operational processing circuits execute operational processing by taking partial charge of the operational processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto SHIMAMURA, Susumu KIMURA
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Patent number: 7905649Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including, a visual target, and a backlight adapted to illuminate the visual target from the rear, the backlight including, a plurality of first light sources, second light sources, and a light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate has a plurality of projecting portions on a side surface portion thereof upon which the light, produced by the plurality of first and second light sources is incident, the projecting portions being arranged, along the side surface portion and project toward the one side of the given direction, the plurality of first light sources are disposed to be opposed to the tip surfaces of the plurality of projecting portions, and the second light sources are disposed to be opposed to the bottom surfaces of recessed portions formed between the plurality of projecting portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ying Bao Yang, Masaru Higuchi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Susumu Kimura
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Publication number: 20100246212Abstract: The present invention provides a backlight capable of suppressing loss of light from an invisible light source and a displaying/imaging apparatus using the same. The backlight includes: a light guide plate having a light emitting face and a rear face opposed to the light emitting face; a visible light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; an invisible light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; a first reflection film disposed on the rear face side of the light guide plate, reflecting light from the visible light source, and transmitting light from the invisible light source; and a second reflection film disposed on the rear face side of the light guide plate and reflecting light from at least the invisible light source out of the visible light source and the invisible light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: September 30, 2010Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ying Bao Yang, Takafumi Suzuki, Susumu Kimura, Masaru Higuchi, Masaki Kondoh
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Patent number: 7748884Abstract: An optical display device, including a light guiding plate, a light detecting sensor and at least two illuminants. The light detecting sensor and the illuminants are commonly mounted on a wiring board with the at least two or more illuminants disposed to face a light incidence surface of the light guiding plate. The light detecting sensor is disposed on the same side of the wiring board as the illuminants with respect to the light guiding plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Yoshino, Susumu Kimura, Hiromasa Suzuki