Patents Represented by Attorney AdvantEdge Law Group, LLC
  • Patent number: 8351208
    Abstract: An electro-optical device may include: an electro-optical panel, a holding member that includes a main body part arranged to surround the periphery of the electro-optical panel, and a holding part protruded from the main body part and holding the electro-optical panel, and a heat radiating member that is disposed opposing the electro-optical panel through an opening of the holding member from the opposite side of the light incident plane of the electro-optical panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Hirabayashi, Yoshitaka Hama
  • Patent number: 8348433
    Abstract: A projector includes a liquid-cooling device configured to cool down an optical element, an optical element holding member that is constructed to allow cooling liquid to flow in and out and holds the optical element; a liquid pumping unit that circulate cooling liquid; a liquid storage unit that is constructed to allow cooling liquid to flow in and out and temporarily stores cooling liquid therein; and a plurality of liquid circulation members that connect the optical element holding member, the liquid pumping unit, and the liquid storage unit and define a flow channel of the cooling liquid, and the liquid pumping unit, the liquid storage unit, and the optical element holding member are arranged along a circulation direction of the cooling liquid along the flow path in order of the liquid pumping unit, the liquid storage unit, and the optical element holding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Yasunaga Momose
  • Patent number: 8345024
    Abstract: A display system includes a display device with a display section. A display-data providing device provides a display control signal containing display data to the display device. The display-data providing device stores display data to be provided to the display device and information corresponding to the display data in association with each other. The display device holds the corresponding information associated with the display data provided from the display-data providing device. If the display data is lost from the display device, and if the display-data providing device identifies the display content indicated by the corresponding information contained in the display-data identifying signal output by the display device, the display device erases the display content according to a second inverted erase signal sent from the display-data providing device, and the second inverted erase signal includes the display data corresponding to the display content identified by the display-data providing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshimichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 8345901
    Abstract: An exemplary method of dynamically adjusting an amount of noise reduction applied in an auditory prosthesis system includes dividing an audio signal presented to a patient into a plurality of analysis channels each containing a signal representative of a distinct frequency portion of the audio signal, determining an overall noise level of the signals within the analysis channels, and dynamically adjusting an amount of noise reduction applied to the signals within the analysis channels in accordance with the determined overall noise level. The dynamic adjustment of noise reduction is configured to minimize the amount of noise reduction applied to the signals within the analysis channels if the overall noise level is less than a predetermined minimum threshold. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Advanced Bionics, LLC
    Inventors: Leonid M. Litvak, Aniket Saoji
  • Patent number: 8344645
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for driving a discharge lamp includes changing a duty ratio of an AC current to be supplied between a first electrode and a second electrode of the discharge lamp in accordance with a predetermined pattern, and setting a current value when the first electrode operates as an anode during one cycle so as to be smaller than a current value when the second electrode operates as an anode during one cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Takezawa, Kentaro Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8337023
    Abstract: A projector includes: capturing section that images an object on which an image is projected to produce a captured image; a projection distance information generating section that generates projection distance information representing a projection distance, which is the distance to the object on which an image is projected; a judging section that judges based on the projection distance information whether the projection distance exceeds a reference value; and a correcting section that performs trapezoidal distortion correction based on boundary lines of the object on which an image is projected contained in the captured image when the projection distance exceeds the reference value, whereas performing trapezoidal distortion correction based on at least coordinate information representing three-dimensional coordinates of the object on which an image is projected when the projection distance does not exceed the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Shiki Furui
  • Patent number: 8334836
    Abstract: A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display apparatus, which has a display section including a plurality of pixels each having a pixel electrode and a common electrode opposing each other and an electrophoretic element interposed therebetween which includes electrophoretic particles, includes erasing a first image displayed on the display section, during a process of rewriting the first image into a second image. The driving method includes displaying the second image on the display section, during the process of rewriting the first image into the second image, wherein the corrected image data is image data obtained by correcting image data associated with the second image so as to reduce an area displaying the one gradation and expand an area displaying the other gradation in the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kanamori, Munenori Sawada
  • Patent number: 8333477
    Abstract: A projector includes: an operating panel having a plurality of operating buttons which carry out various operations, is exposed in the external surface of an exterior housing; a projection optical device configured to project an image light into which an incident luminous flux has been modulated in accordance with image information; an image adjustment section configured to change the relative positions of a plurality of lenses configuring the projection optical device; and an image adjustment panel having image adjustment buttons which cause the image adjustment section to operate, wherein the image adjustment panel is disposed in a position independent of the operating panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Kamiya, Akitoshi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 8328366
    Abstract: A projector includes: a projecting unit that projects a first image on a projection target area; an imaging unit that picks up a first pickup image of the projection target area during the projection of the first image and picks up a second pickup image of the projection target area during single-color image projection or during non-projection with automatic exposure; an imaging control unit that changes an exposure setting value on the basis of the first pickup image and an exposure setting value during the last imaging and causes the imaging unit to pick up an image of the projection target area during the projection of the first image at the exposure setting value after the change and regenerate the first pickup image; a first coordinate information generating unit that generates first coordinate information; and a second coordinate information generating unit that generates second coordinate information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nara
  • Patent number: 8332766
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes displaying a graphical user interface configured to include a patient list displayed therein, receiving user input representative of a search term comprising one or more characters selected to identify a particular patient included within a plurality of patients, dynamically updating the patient list in response to the received user input to only include a plurality of entries that contain the search term, each of the entries comprising patient information associated with a distinct one of the patients, and preventing one or more non-search term characters contained within each of the entries of the patient list from being displayed within the graphical user interface. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Bionics, LLC
    Inventors: Jacob Johnston, Guillermo A. Calle, Fernando Chapa
  • Patent number: 8330194
    Abstract: A substrate for a semiconductor device is provided, including: a substrate; a transistor, formed on the substrate, that includes a semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode disposed so as to be opposed to the semiconductor layer with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween; and an underlying film disposed below the semiconductor layer, as an underlayer of the transistor, and formed in an island shape so as to at least partially overlap the semiconductor layer, in a plan view of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Sato
  • Patent number: 8331766
    Abstract: An image supply apparatus that transmits data to an image display apparatus includes: a control section; and a storage section that stores video files, wherein the control section includes the functions of receiving specification information indicating video reproduction performance of the image display apparatus, accepting selection of a video file to be transmitted to the image display apparatus from the storage section, acquiring attribute information indicating an environment necessary for reproducing a video from the selected video file, comparing the specification information and the attribute information to determine whether or not the image display apparatus can reproduce the video file, outputting a warning when it is determined that the image display apparatus cannot reproduce the video file, transmitting data of the video file to the image display apparatus when it is determined that the image display apparatus can reproduce the video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kentaro Ide
  • Patent number: 8326345
    Abstract: In a network system provided with a plurality of wireless networks each having an access point and one or more wireless communication devices wirelessly connectable to the access point, and a predetermined network adapted to connect the access points of the plurality of wireless networks to each other, a predetermined wireless communication device issues inquiry request of the information to the other wireless communication devices, and then receives the inquiry response from each of the other wireless communication devices receiving the inquiry request, thereby receiving the BSSID. The BSSID thus received is accumulated in the first information table. By searching for the BSSID identical to the BSSID of the wireless network to which the predetermined wireless communication device belongs among the BSSID stored in the information table, the predetermined wireless communication device can detect the wireless communication device connected to the predetermined wireless network as the adjacent projector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Koichiro Ota
  • Patent number: 8325172
    Abstract: A driver circuit includes a plurality of data signal output units each configured to provide the electro-optical device with the data signal, a timing signal output unit configured to provide the electro-optical device with the timing signals, a detection unit configured to detect signal levels of the data signals provided by the data signal output units, an adjustment unit configured to adjust the signal levels of the data signals provided by the data signal output units so as to approach one another on the basis of the detected signal levels, and a signal control unit configured to control the timing signal output unit so as to stop at least one of the timing signals before the detection unit detects the signal level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Yonemochi
  • Patent number: 8322862
    Abstract: A projector includes: a storing unit that stores setting data indicating a manual trapezoidal distortion correction system selected out of plural kinds of manual trapezoidal distortion correction systems; an operation unit that generates operation information; an imaging unit that picks up an image of a projection target area and generates a pickup image; an automatic trapezoidal distortion correction unit that performs automatic trapezoidal distortion correction; a projecting unit that projects, after the automatic trapezoidal distortion correction is performed, irrespectively of the manual trapezoidal distortion correction system indicated by the setting data, an adjustment instruction image for urging adjustment of a vertex position of a display planned area of the image in the projection target area; and a manual trapezoidal distortion correction unit that performs manual trapezoidal distortion correction on the basis of operation information indicating an adjustment instruction for the vertex position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Nara
  • Patent number: 8317337
    Abstract: A projector configured to modulate a luminous flux emitted from a light source in accordance with image information, forms an image light, and projects the image light, includes: an exterior housing having an intake vent for taking in the ambient air, and an insertion slot communicating with the intake vent; an anti-dust filter being installed in the exterior housing so as to be mountable in and removable from the exterior housing through the insertion slot, prevents dust from intruding into the exterior housing from the intake vent; and a cover configured so as to be switchable between an open condition in which it exposes the insertion slot, and a closed condition in which it covers the insertion slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshimitsu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8319512
    Abstract: A flexible substrate includes a substrate body; a plurality of lines that are arranged on the substrate body; a plurality of connection terminals that are arranged on an end portion of the substrate body and electrically connected to the respective lines; an integrated circuit that is arranged on the substrate body and electrically connected to at least one of the lines; and an inspection electrode that is arranged on the substrate body and electrically connected to the integrated circuit and capable of outputting a signal processed in the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Ueno
  • Patent number: 8321560
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for data loss prevention may include intercepting a packet sent by an application of an endpoint. The computer-implemented method may also include extracting file-identification information from the packet. The computer-implemented method may further include identifying a list of opened files and matching the file-identification information to a file in the list of opened files. The computer-implemented method may additionally include identifying a data-loss-prevention policy that applies to the file. The computer-implemented method may moreover include filtering the packet based on the data-loss-prevention policy. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Manish Pai, Milind Torney
  • Patent number: 8321940
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting data-stealing malware may include: 1) detecting an attempt by an untrusted application to access a storage location that is known to be used by a legitimate application when storing potentially sensitive information, 2) determining that the legitimate application is not installed on the computing device, 3) determining that the untrusted application represents a potential security risk, and then 4) performing a security operation on the untrusted application. Corresponding systems and computer-readable instructions embodied on computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Shane Pereira, Sourabh Satish
  • Patent number: 8321026
    Abstract: Methods and systems of spectral tilt optimization for a cochlear implant patient include applying electrical stimulation representative of an audio signal to a patient in accordance with a spectral tilt value and optimizing the spectral tilt value in response to a measured ability of the patient to recognize at least one attribute of the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Bionics, LLC
    Inventors: Aniket Saoji, Leonid M. Litvak