Patents Assigned to EIZO Corporation
  • Publication number: 20200020306
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing apparatus, a program and an image processing method capable of avoiding interference with the function of another program. An image processing apparatus includes a position information detection unit configured to detect position information indicating a position on a display, a region position setting unit configured to set the position of the region of interest on the display based on the position information, and an image processing unit configured to perform image process on at least one image among an image inside of the region of interest and an image outside of the region of interest. The region position setting unit, when the position information is changed with the image process, sets the position of the region of interest based on the position information immediately before the change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji HARUKI, Ikumi ARAI, Naoaki HIRATA, Yoichi UEDA, Tomoharu YACHIKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190394455
    Abstract: Provided is a sensor unit driving device capable of protruding and retracting a sensor unit for sensing a display surface without projecting a bezel in front of a display surface while reducing a width of a bezel. The present invention is to provide a sensor unit driving device comprising a display panel comprising a display surface for displaying an image, a sensor unit with a sensor, and an actuator driving the sensor unit. The sensor unit is configured to be on a lateral surface side or a rear surface side of the display panel when the sensor unit is in a retreat position and is configured so that the sensor faces the display surface when the sensor unit is in a detection position. The actuator is configured to drive the sensor unit for switching between the retreat position and the detection position by a movement of the sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu HOGO, Kentaro KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20190392745
    Abstract: A display device, program, and display method that even if the luminance is changed with respect to the previously set relationship between the ambient illuminance and the luminance of a display, are able to suppress a change in the previous relationship. A display device includes a display, an illuminance acquisition unit configured to acquire an ambient-light illuminance that is an illuminance of ambient light, a relationship acquisition unit configured to acquire a relationship between the ambient-light illuminance and a luminance of the display, a controller configured to control the relationship, and a setting unit configured to set a first set point and a second set point. The first set point is a point specified by a luminance set at an illuminance equal to or greater than a particular illuminance Is and the illuminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji SAITO, Kengo MIYAMOTO, Keita ASAHI
  • Patent number: 10509620
    Abstract: A display control apparatus including a first icon storage section storing a first icon; a second icon storage section storing a second icon; a first correspondence information storage section storing a combination of mobile terminal identification information and application identification information, in association with the second icon; a mobile terminal identification information receiving section receiving mobile terminal identification information from a mobile terminal; an application identification information receiving section receiving application identification information from the mobile terminal; and a display control section displaying the second icon in a display section if the combination of mobile terminal identification information received by the mobile terminal identification information receiving section and application identification information received by the application identification information receiving section is stored in the first correspondence information storage section, and
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Hotta, Kenji Hiraki, Koji Kobayashi, Tsuyoshi Morishita, Ryotaro Imai, Ikumi Arai
  • Patent number: 10459532
    Abstract: A problem is to provide a cursor movement control method by which labor necessary for a movement of a cursor can be reduced and convenience of a user can be improved even when a plurality of screens is displayed on one display device, a computer program, a cursor movement control device, and an image display system. A technical solution is such that a display image creation unit (13) sets a region in a display image corresponding to a display region A to a region a and a region in the display image corresponding to a display region B to a region b, and allocates the regions a and b into the display image. An input unit (12) receives an instruction for whether or not to superposedly display the display region B on the display region A on the display screen (54). A cursor movement control unit (15) controls the movement of the cursor between the region a and the region b according to the received instruction for a superposed display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoaki Hirata, Ikumi Arai
  • Publication number: 20190304410
    Abstract: Provided are an information processing apparatus and program that are able to improve representable gradations in a pseudo manner while reducing flicker including a random number generator configured to generate a random number sequence; a comparator configured to make a comparison between a threshold and a random number value, the threshold being associated with any number of lower bits, the any number of lower bits forming input image data with any number of upper bits, the random number value forming the random number sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru OGAKI, Hiroki MATSUZAKI, Reo AOKI, Takashi NAKAMAE, Masafumi HIGASHI, Keita HASHI, Takuya MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190293229
    Abstract: A monitor stand with a support portion supporting a monitor; a base contacting a placing plane; and a support pillar connecting the support portion and the base. The support pillar includes a plurality of support pillar members provided to overlap one another and the plurality of support pillar members being configured to be slidable one another. The support portion is provided in a first support pillar member which is one of the plurality of the support pillar members. The support pillar includes an interlocking portion configured to extend and shorten the support pillar by sliding the plurality of the support pillar members one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro OKUDA, Hidekazu HOGO
  • Publication number: 20190254179
    Abstract: The present invention provides a switch capable of reducing the length in the height direction. According to the present invention, there is provided a switch comprising a switch portion having an operating surface and a circuit board having an electrode, wherein the electrode is configured to be capable of detecting an operation on the switch portion, a component mounting surface of the circuit board is arranged nonparallel to the operating surface and the thickness of the circuit board does not exceed the height of the switch portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei MIYANAGA, Sachi MINAMI, Seiji MIYAZAWA, Takashi MURATA, Yosuke KOCHI
  • Publication number: 20190244585
    Abstract: A display light measurement method which can measure color representation of a various types of display devices regardless of the specification of the display device; a computer program, and a measurement system. A measurement device connected to an optical sensor can communicate with a target display device (information terminal) to be measured. The measurement device transmits content including a color patch to the display device to cause the display device to display the content and performs a measurement on the displayed content using the optical sensor. To perform measurements on many color patches, the measurement device repeats the following: when a measurement on one color patch being displayed is complete, the measurement device transmits content including another color patch to the display device to cause the display device to display the content and performs a measurement on the content being displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke NAGASHIMA, Takafumi KAWAKAMI, Atsuyoshi DEYAMA, Junro YONEMITSU
  • Patent number: 10341479
    Abstract: It is desirable to be able to more appropriately notify a user of a display apparatus of the state of a mobile phone. In view of this, an output control apparatus is provided, the output control apparatus including: an information receiving unit that receives information from a communication device; a notification data storage unit that stores notification data associated with the information from the communication device; a notification data output unit that outputs the notification data corresponding to the information received by the information receiving unit; and an output control unit that makes different output control for the notification data corresponding to the received information, depending on whether or not an output queue count for the notification data corresponding to the received information is smaller than a predetermined number when the information receiving unit receives the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Hiraki
  • Patent number: 10332485
    Abstract: An image converting method and image converting device that are able to properly reproduce the appearance of the original image even in an environment having different brightness. The image converting method includes a JND corresponding value width acquisition step of, on the basis of input image data, acquiring a JND corresponding value width corresponding to a reflectance component of the input image data, a luminance width acquisition step of acquiring a luminance width corresponding to the JND corresponding value width or a value obtained by converting the JND corresponding value width in accordance with a predetermined rule using, as a reference, a second reference luminance different from a first reference luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Reo Aoki, Masafumi Higashi, Yusuke Bamba
  • Patent number: 10311828
    Abstract: A display light measurement method which can measure color representation of a various types of display devices regardless of the specification of the display device; a computer program, and a measurement system. A measurement device connected to an optical sensor can communicate with a target display device (information terminal) to be measured. The measurement device transmits content including a color patch to the display device to cause the display device to display the content and performs a measurement on the displayed content using the optical sensor. To perform measurements on many color patches, the measurement device repeats the following: when a measurement on one color patch being displayed is complete, the measurement device transmits content including another color patch to the display device to cause the display device to display the content and performs a measurement on the content being displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Nagashima, Takafumi Kawakami, Atsuyoshi Deyama, Junro Yonemitsu
  • Patent number: 10295851
    Abstract: Provided is an optical sensor mounting structure which is used in an image display device and in which the gap between a reflection sheet and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into an optical sensor is eliminated so that the amount of light from a backlight can be measured accurately. A liquid crystal image display device includes an optical sensor that measures light from the back surface of a reflection sheet, a substrate having the optical sensor thereon, and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into the optical sensor. The front surface of the tubular cushion is bonded to the reflection sheet, and the back surface thereof is bonded to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kubota, Kentaro Kojima, Katsuhiko Matsunami, Naoshi Isobe, Shosaku Ikeda, Kazuya Murata
  • Patent number: 10290254
    Abstract: Technology is known for correcting the gradation characteristics of an input image signal in accordance with the characteristics of a display device, but a correction that is suitable for the usage of the display device is desired. Provided is an image processing apparatus including a first gradation converting section that converts a gradation of an image signal input thereto; a sharpening process section that performs a sharpening process on the image signal after the gradation has been converted by the first gradation converting section; a second gradation converting section that converts the gradation of the image signal after the sharpening process has been performed; and a display control section that displays an image indicated by the image signal after the gradation has been converted by the second gradation converting section, in a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogaki, Yusuke Bamba, Reo Aoki
  • Patent number: 10268439
    Abstract: In a prediction system, terminal devices having monitors connected thereto and a server can communicate with each other through a network. Each terminal device acquires a luminance measured by a corresponding monitor and transmits it to the server. The server predicts the life of the monitors on the basis of information from the respective terminal devices and notifies the predicted life. The server previously stores information about the installation locations of the monitors. The server notifies the predicted life in such a manner that the installation location of each monitor and the predicted life are associated with each other. Each terminal device acquires, from a corresponding monitor, a measured luminance, a brightness setting at the time when the luminance has been measured, and information about the time when the luminance has been measured and transmits them to the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Sakai, Takao Mori, Chiori Terashima
  • Patent number: 10262430
    Abstract: To detect annotation lines in medical image data. Horizontal annotation pixel determination means obtains the color component value difference between each pixel of a predetermined number of connected adjacent pixels in a first direction of the target pixel and an adjacent pixel thereof. If the total number of pixels having color component value differences, of the predetermined number of pixels is equal to or smaller than a first threshold, the horizontal annotation pixel determination means determines that the target pixel is an annotation pixel. If annotation pixels are successive in the horizontal direction in a predetermined number, horizontal annotation line determination means determines that the annotation pixels form an annotation line. The same applies to the vertical direction. The determined annotation lines are provided to border detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventor: Haifeng Chen
  • Patent number: 10198234
    Abstract: By setting the color temperatures of displays included in a display system to a desired value, the life of the displays and display system is extended. A method for this includes acquiring outputable maximum luminances of the displays at each of multiple color temperatures, comparing the outputable maximum luminances of the displays at the same color temperature and determining the lowest maximum luminance value for each of the color temperatures, a color temperature corresponding to the highest of the lowest maximum luminance values identified for each of the color temperatures, and setting color temperatures of at least two of the displays to the common set color temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sakai
  • Patent number: 10175512
    Abstract: Provided is an optical sensor mounting structure which is used in an image display device and in which the gap between a reflection sheet and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into an optical sensor is eliminated so that the amount of light from a backlight can be measured accurately. A liquid crystal image display device includes an optical sensor that measures light from the back surface of a reflection sheet, a substrate having the optical sensor thereon, and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into the optical sensor. The front surface of the tubular cushion is bonded to the reflection sheet, and the back surface thereof is bonded to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kubota, Kentaro Kojima, Katsuhiko Matsunami, Naoshi Isobe, Shosaku Ikeda, Kazuya Murata
  • Patent number: 10175513
    Abstract: Provided is an optical sensor mounting structure which is used in an image display device and in which the gap between a reflection sheet and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into an optical sensor is eliminated so that the amount of light from a backlight can be measured accurately. A liquid crystal image display device includes an optical sensor that measures light from the back surface of a reflection sheet, a substrate having the optical sensor thereon, and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into the optical sensor. The front surface of the tubular cushion is bonded to the reflection sheet, and the back surface thereof is bonded to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO Corporation
    Inventors: Masaru Kubota, Kentaro Kojima, Katsuhiko Matsunami, Naoshi Isobe, Shosaku Ikeda, Kazuya Murata
  • Patent number: D837786
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: EIZO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Okumura, Masahiro Okuda