Patents Assigned to ATRC CORPORATION
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Patent number: 8780035Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a backlight implemented by an LED (12) and a liquid crystal display element (11). The liquid crystal display performs an image analysis of an image represented by an input image signal and adjusts image quality by performing a control process for the liquid crystal display element (11) and a control process for the backlight implemented by the LED (12) based on results of the image analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8766905Abstract: A backlight device which uses a light emitting diode as a light source, the back light device being configured to irradiate a liquid crystal display panel from a rear surface of the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight device having a structure where plural lines are provided on a backlight board with a certain gap, each of the lines being where plural of the light emitting diodes are provided, the backlight device includes a light emitting diode driving part configured to segment an entire screen of the backlight board into plural segmented regions and configured to independently control brightness of the light emitting diodes with a segmented region unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2008Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8736542Abstract: A backlight using multiple light-emitting diodes as a light source and illuminating a liquid crystal display panel from its back, the light-emitting diodes being formed of units, the units each being a minimum unit of m×n (where m and n are natural numbers), includes a driving part configured to drive the light-emitting diodes on a unit-by-unit basis; a block setting part configured to group two or more of the units into a block; and a luminance controlling part configured to control the luminance of the light-emitting diodes of the block independently on a block-by-block basis.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8724897Abstract: A picture quality controlling device (10) that controls a picture quality for an image signal which is input including: a histogram generation unit (14) generating a histogram for at least one of brightness, chromaticity, color, and frequency information pieces from an image contained in the image signal; a threshold value comparing unit (17) comparing the histogram with a threshold value previously set for the histogram in order to determine whether control of the picture quality for the image signal is necessary; and a picture quality controlling unit (18) extracting a histogram pattern corresponding to the histogram from a reference table including plural predetermined histogram patterns, and controlling the picture quality based on a controlled parameter corresponding to the extracted histogram pattern if the control is determined to be necessary based on a result obtained by the threshold value comparing unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8723784Abstract: A brightness control apparatus configured to perform brightness control for backlights formed by plural light-emitting elements for a display screen, including: a pulse control signal transmit unit configured to transmit a pulse control signal for performing driving control on the plural light-emitting elements based on a preset brightness control signal; a voltage control unit configured to control a voltage of the pulse control signal obtained by the pulse control signal transmit unit for each set of light-emitting elements of the same color so as to correct brightness variation in a regular state for the plural light-emitting elements; and a current control unit configured to control a current for each of the plural light-emitting elements based on a voltage value obtained by the voltage control unit so as to correct brightness variation due to temperature change or temporal change.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8724051Abstract: A backlight device includes a light source configured to light a liquid crystal panel from a back surface of the liquid crystal panel, wherein the light source includes a white light emitting diode, and a colored light emitting diode portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8670079Abstract: A video display device displays an image of an input video signal. In the video display device, the video signal is supplied to a frequency component analyzing device, and the frequency component analyzing device extracts a frequency of each of frequency bands from video information of one screen with respect to the image. An image quality control circuit of the video display device performs an image quality control of the image based on the extracted frequencies of the respective frequency bands.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8594421Abstract: A color correction circuit includes a detection part configured to detect the luminance information and chromaticity histogram information of an input video signal of one of an RGB color space and a YCbCr color space, the chromaticity histogram information including chroma and hue information; and a control part configured to control the color reproduction of the video signal based on the luminance information and the chromaticity histogram information detected by the detection part. The detection part includes a hue detection part configured to convert the video signal to an HSV color space and to detect a hue of the video signal from hues of the HSV color space.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8508560Abstract: A disclosed liquid crystal displaying device having a liquid crystal displaying unit and a backlight unit includes a signal processing unit dividing an input signal into plural blocks in conformity with a predetermined number of dividing a screen of the backlight unit, a high frequency component acquiring unit acquiring high frequency components for the blocks; a signal component analyzing unit analyzing signal components of the input signal for the blocks, a low frequency component acquiring unit acquiring low frequency components for the blocks, a backlight driving signal generating unit generating a backlight driving signal based on signals acquired by the signal component analyzing unit and the low frequency component acquiring unit, an inverter inverting the backlight driving signal, and a synthesizing unit acquiring a synthesized signal displayed by the liquid crystal displaying unit based on the input signal, the high frequency components, and the inverted driving signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Patent number: 8482512Abstract: A liquid crystal backlight apparatus being placed behind a liquid crystal display panel in a manner facing the liquid crystal display panel and illuminating the liquid crystal display panel from behind with a backlight having plural light emitting diodes as a light source, the liquid crystal backlight apparatus including a control part configured to use 0.1-0.5 watt white light emitting diodes as the plural light emitting diodes and independently control luminance of the white light emitting diodes separately.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignees: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd., ATRC CorporationInventors: Takeshi Adachi, Kohji Nagano
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Publication number: 20120139968Abstract: A brightness control apparatus configured to perform brightness control for backlights formed by plural light-emitting elements for a display screen, including: a pulse control signal transmit unit configured to transmit a pulse control signal for performing driving control on the plural light-emitting elements based on a preset brightness control signal; a voltage control unit configured to control a voltage of the pulse control signal obtained by the pulse control signal transmit unit for each set of light-emitting elements of the same color so as to correct brightness variation in a regular state for the plural light-emitting elements; and a current control unit configured to control a current for each of the plural light-emitting elements based on a voltage value obtained by the voltage control unit so as to correct brightness variation due to temperature change or temporal change.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicants: ATRC CORPORATION., MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi ADACHI
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Publication number: 20120133686Abstract: A backlight device includes a plurality of light emitting devices arranged at predetermined positions to act as backlight for a display screen, and a plurality of drive circuits that supply currents to the plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the plurality of drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit, and the plurality of light emitting devices include a plurality of first light emitting devices and a plurality of second light emitting devices, the plurality of first light emitting devices being connected in series to the first drive circuit, and the plurality of second light emitting devices being connected in series to the second drive circuit, and wherein the plurality of light emitting devices are spatially placed in an alternating arrangement of one or more of the first light emitting devices and one or more of the second light emitting devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicants: ATRC CORPORATION, MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi ADACHI
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Publication number: 20120056561Abstract: A backlight apparatus including: a light-emitting element block on which a plurality of light-emitting elements are arranged; a plurality of driving control units each of which is configured to control driving for each of the plurality of light-emitting elements by supplying a current to the light-emitting element block; and a main control unit configured to generate a control signal for performing driving control for each of the plurality of driving control units, and to output the control signal to one of the plurality of driving control units, wherein the plurality of driving control units are connected in a daisy chain scheme, and the main control unit includes, in the control signal, identification information for identifying at least one of the plurality of driving control units and control data for performing driving control on light-emitting elements assigned to a driving control unit identified by the identification information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicants: ATRC CORPORATION, MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi ADACHI
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Publication number: 20120056912Abstract: A backlight apparatus for illuminating a display unit, including: a light-emitting element block including a plurality of light-emitting elements that are connected serially; and a driving control unit configured to control driving for each of the plurality of light-emitting elements by supplying a current to the light-emitting element block, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting elements is provided with a bypass circuit such that, even when a break occurs in a light-emitting element, a current from the driving control unit is supplied to the other light-emitting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: March 8, 2012Applicants: ATRC CORPORATION, MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi ADACHI
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Publication number: 20120044277Abstract: A brightness control apparatus for performing brightness control on backlights for a display screen based on an input image signal, includes: an image information analysis unit configured to analyze information of at least one item of an average brightness level, brightness histogram information, color histogram information and frequency histogram information that are obtained from an image frame included in the image signal; a block information obtaining unit configured to divide the image frame into blocks and to obtain image information for each of the blocks based on an analysis result of the image information analysis unit; a brightness correction unit configured to perform brightness correction on backlights corresponding to each of the blocks divided by the block information obtaining unit; and a backlight driving control unit configured to perform driving control of the backlights for each of the blocks based on correction information obtained by the brightness correction unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: February 23, 2012Applicants: ATRC CORPORATION, MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Takeshi ADACHI
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Publication number: 20110157409Abstract: An image quality adjusting device 12 includes an imaging unit 21 capturing a screen of a display terminal 11 using a spectroscopic camera and an RGB camera to obtain image information; an analysis unit 22 obtaining color data, profile data, and histogram data from the image information obtained by the imaging unit 21 and analyzing image quality characteristics including still image characteristics and video image characteristic; and an image quality adjusting unit 23 generating a look-up table (LUT), which is used to adjust the image quality of the display terminal 11 by means of predetermined image quality adjustment parameters, based on image quality evaluation data of the display terminal 11 obtained by the analysis unit 22, and updating image quality information preset in the display terminal 11 based on the generated look-up table to adjust the image quality of the display terminal 11.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicants: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., ATRC CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Publication number: 20110134159Abstract: A disclosed liquid crystal displaying device having a liquid crystal displaying unit and a backlight unit includes a signal processing unit dividing an input signal into plural blocks in conformity with a predetermined number of dividing a screen of the backlight unit, a high frequency component acquiring unit acquiring high frequency components for the blocks; a signal component analyzing unit analyzing signal components of the input signal for the blocks, a low frequency component acquiring unit acquiring low frequency components for the blocks, a backlight driving signal generating unit generating a backlight driving signal based on signals acquired by the signal component analyzing unit and the low frequency component acquiring unit, an inverter inverting the backlight driving signal, and a synthesizing unit acquiring a synthesized signal displayed by the liquid crystal displaying unit based on the input signal, the high frequency components, and the inverted driving signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicants: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., ATRC CORPORATIONInventor: TAKESHI ADACHI
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Publication number: 20100231573Abstract: A backlight device which uses a light emitting diode as a light source, the back light device being configured to irradiate a liquid crystal display panel from a rear surface of the liquid crystal display panel, the backlight device having a structure where plural lines are provided on a backlight board with a certain gap, each of the lines being where plural of the light emitting diodes are provided, the backlight device includes a light emitting diode driving part configured to segment an entire screen of the backlight board into plural segmented regions and configured to independently control brightness of the light emitting diodes with a segmented region unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicants: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., ATRC CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Publication number: 20100226572Abstract: A color correction circuit includes a detection part configured to detect the luminance information and chromaticity histogram information of an input video signal of one of an RGB color space and a YCbCr color space, the chromaticity histogram information including chroma and hue information; and a control part configured to control the color reproduction of the video signal based on the luminance information and the chromaticity histogram information detected by the detection part. The detection part includes a hue detection part configured to convert the video signal to an HSV color space and to detect a hue of the video signal from hues of the HSV color space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2008Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicants: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., ATRC CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Adachi
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Publication number: 20100220047Abstract: A backlight using multiple light-emitting diodes as a light source and illuminating a liquid crystal display panel from its back, the light-emitting diodes being formed of units, the units each being a minimum unit of m×n (where m and n are natural numbers), includes a driving part configured to drive the light-emitting diodes on a unit-by-unit basis; a block setting part configured to group two or more of the units into a block; and a luminance controlling part configured to control the luminance of the light-emitting diodes of the block independently on a block-by-block basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2008Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicants: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD, ATRC CORPORATIONInventor: Takeshi Adachi