Patents by Inventor Taketo Chino

Taketo Chino 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).

  • Publication number: 20090207154
    Abstract: A sensing device includes: a plurality of sensors that are arrayed on a screen and that generate first detection signals each having a level corresponding to a touch state of an object on the screen or a distance between the object and the screen; a read unit that reads the first detection signals from the plurality of sensors at predetermined periods; a binarization unit that compares a level of each of the first detection signals read by the read unit with a threshold value and generates a second detection signal that is binarized; a determination unit that determines whether or not the object touches the screen on the basis of each second detection signal; a detection unit that detects a touch position of the object on the screen on the basis of each second detection signal; and a control unit that controls the read unit such that the predetermined period becomes a first period when the determination unit determines that there is no touch and that controls the read unit such that the predetermined period b
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taketo CHINO
  • Publication number: 20090073141
    Abstract: Provided is a device for driving first and second electrodes and an electro-optical element including a material having optical characteristics that vary with an applied voltage. The device includes: a driving unit which drives the electro-optical element between first and second driving states; a display unit which displays an image based on the optical characteristics of the electro-optical element; a pickup unit that outputs image data according to the amount of incident light; a first memory which fetches/stores the image data as reference image data; a second memory which fetches/stores the image data as target image data; a difference image data generating unit which generates difference image data from a difference between the reference and target image data; and a control unit which controls the write/read of the first and second memories such that the driving states corresponding to the reference image data and the target image data become equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taketo CHINO
  • Publication number: 20070176865
    Abstract: Provided is light-emitting device including: a plurality of light-emitting elements which correspond to pixels for configuring an image and emit light by being supplied electric energy; a first storage unit which stores a first correction value with respect to each of the plurality of light-emitting elements; a specifying unit which specifies a first mode or a second mode for each of a plurality of regions dividing the image; and a driving unit which supplies electric energy to each of the plurality of light-emitting elements according to the first correction value of the light-emitting element and image data of a corresponding pixel, for each pixel of a region which the specifying unit has specified as being in the first mode, and supplies electric energy to each of the plurality of light-emitting elements according to the image data of a corresponding pixel of a region which the specifying unit has specified as being in the second mode by a process different from that of the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taketo CHINO, Kazuma KITADANI
  • Publication number: 20070176864
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a first storage unit that stores first correction values corresponding to the light emitting elements, a counting unit that counts the number of pixels whose gray-scale values designated by image data are within a predetermined range, the pixels being included in a predetermined number of pixels included in an image, a selection unit that selects a first mode or a second mode according to the relationship between the number counted by the counting unit and a threshold value, and a driving unit that drives the light emitting elements corresponding to the predetermined number of pixels so as to emit amounts of light corresponding to the first correction values stored in the first storage unit and the image data when the first mode is selected by the selection unit, and that drives the light emitting elements corresponding to the predetermined number of pixels so as to emit amounts of light corresponding to the image data when the second mo
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taketo CHINO
  • Publication number: 20070030327
    Abstract: A light amount correcting method for a light emitting apparatus having a plurality of light emitting devices driven according to grayscale value of input data, includes: measuring light amount values of a plurality of the light emitting devices when emitting light with predetermined grayscale values to generate a light amount value list; extracting high frequency components from the light amount value list by filtering the light amount value list with a high pass filter using a predetermined cutoff frequency to generate a high frequency light amount value list; extracting low frequency components from the light amount value list by filtering the light amount value list with a low pass filter using a predetermined cutoff frequency to generate a low frequency light amount value list; calculating first correction values for correcting the light amount values in the high frequency light amount value list to be included in a predetermined first allowable range and second correction value for correcting the light a
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taketo CHINO