Patents Assigned to NEC Display Solution , Ltd.
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Patent number: 11984060Abstract: A display control device includes: a photodetection sensor configured to detect light from pixels of display screens with both a first display device and a second display device with a pixel size different from that of the first display device in a display system in which a video signal is displayed on a plurality of display devices adjacent to each other as detection targets; and a display adjustor configured to determine a degree of enlargement or reduction of video signals displayed on the display devices on the basis of a difference between the pixel size of the first display device and the pixel size of the second display device based on a result of detection from the photodetection sensor.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
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Patent number: 11973420Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a voltage supply device including: a controller which outputs a signal indicating any one bus voltage determined by negotiation among a plurality of bus voltages from a power supply circuit to an external device; a reference voltage generation unit which generates a reference voltage corresponding to the signal; a detection voltage output unit which detects the bus voltage and outputs a detection voltage; a comparison unit which compares the detection voltage with the reference voltage; and a switch unit which switches the supply state of the bus voltage to the external device in response to the comparison result.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yuta Nagano
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Patent number: 11960647Abstract: A content display device includes a line-of-sight direction detection unit, a gazing point identification unit, a gazing content identification unit, and a display control unit. The line-of-sight direction detection unit is configured to detect a line-of-sight direction of a person located in a vicinity of a display region in which a plurality of contents are simultaneously displayed. The gazing point identification unit is configured to, based on the line-of-sight direction, identify a gazing point in the display region of the person. The gazing content identification unit is configured to, based on a distribution of the gazing point detected in a predetermined period, identify a gazing content at which the person is gazing. The display control unit configured to determine a display mode of each of the plurality of contents, based on a result of identifying the gazing content, and display each of the plurality of contents in the display mode determined.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Shinya Niioka
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Patent number: 11954708Abstract: At least a main area and a candidate area are provided on a display screen of a display device, and a display control unit that causes content displayed in the candidate area when reproduction of content displayed in the main area ends to be displayed in the main area, and a detection unit that detects a person from a captured image of at least a place where the display screen is visually recognizable are included, wherein the display control unit changes the content displayed in the candidate area depending on the person during reproduction of the content displayed in the main area.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Kanami China
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Patent number: 11947732Abstract: An input control device includes a detection unit configured to detect a first character input by a key operation. The input control device also includes a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the detected first character is the same as a second character input immediately before the first character, and an input processing unit configured to accept an input of the first character when it is determined that the first character is not the same as the second character without accepting the input of the first character when it is determined that the first character is the same as the second character.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
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Patent number: 11940719Abstract: A light source device for generating excitation light that is irradiated to a phosphor includes: a plurality of light sources that emits laser light; and a microlens array that includes a plurality of microlenses arranged in two directions orthogonal to each other, that is incident the laser light emitted from the light source, and that irradiates the phosphor with the output light as an excitation light. The light source image of the light source at the irradiated surface of the microlens array is elliptical, and the long axis direction of the light source image intersects with both the two directions. A coordinate system includes: a first axis that is parallel to a principal ray of the laser light incident on the microlens array; and a second axis, in a direction in which the laser light emitted from the microlens array or the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor is reflected.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Hiromi Katayama, Shinichiro Chikahisa
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Patent number: 11915271Abstract: At least a main area and a candidate area are provided on a display screen of a display device, and a display control unit that causes content displayed in the candidate area when reproduction of content displayed in the main area ends to be displayed in the main area, and a detection unit that detects a person from a captured image of at least a place where the display screen is visually recognizable are included, wherein the display control unit changes the content displayed in the candidate area depending on the person during reproduction of the content displayed in the main area.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Kanami China
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Publication number: 20240048809Abstract: Systems and methods relate to targeted display of media content, including a system that includes at least one processor configured to execute program instructions to implement a device and a content management system (CMS) and control the system to: send, by the device and to the CMS, a plurality of signals each triggering the CMS to play on a first display that is local to and separate from the device, a respective one of a plurality of media content of a playlist including a first media content, each of the plurality of signals sent at a different time while the first media content of the playlist is played on the first display, and ignore, by the CMS, each of the plurality of signals received prior to a first predetermined time of the played first media content of the playlist.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Richard VENTURA, Hiroyuki KASUGA, Steven Keith PLATT
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Patent number: 11889820Abstract: A communication device is attached to an animal in a facility, for example, using a band. The communication device transmits at least a position of the communication device (hereinafter referred to as position information) and identification information of the communication device (hereinafter referred to as a communication device ID) to a position information transmission device. The position information transmission device uses the position information and the identification information received from the communication device to select an animal whose position information is to be delivered. The position information transmission device transmits the position information about the selected animal to at least one of an in-zoo display device, a user terminal, and a staff member terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Takuto Egami, Shinya Ueda
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Patent number: 11886265Abstract: A source device includes a first control unit to perform a negotiation with the sink device based on power standard and perform control of supplying power to a sink device based on first power information determined by the negotiation. The source device includes a power detection unit to detect power required by the sink device and includes a second control unit to receive the first power information including voltage and current values of power determined by the negotiation and of second power information including voltage and current values of power detected. The second control unit generates third power information, including voltage and current values based on the inputs of the first power information and the second power information and on the predetermined power standard. The second control unit instructs the first control unit to perform negotiation again on the basis of the third power information generated.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Zhenliu Li
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Patent number: 11868190Abstract: One aspect of a display device of the present invention is a display device having a liquid crystal panel and a power lamp. The display device includes: a control unit that controls a display of the liquid crystal panel based on a power supplied from an external device and controls a lighting of the power lamp based on a reference voltage; a first switch that supplies, the power to the control unit, the power being supplied from the external device via a predetermined connector; a voltage detection circuit that generates the reference voltage; a second switch that supplies the reference voltage to the power lamp and the control unit; and a second control unit that determines whether or not the power meets a condition for establishing negotiation with the external device, and turns on one of the first switch and the second switch according to a result of the determination.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Akira Shinoda
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Patent number: 11868544Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit and an association unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire first information which is generated by processing a detection result output from a first sensor provided outside of a plurality of electronic writing tools with which a plurality of objects are drawn on a display image and includes positions at which the plurality of electronic writing tools are detected on the display image and acquiring second information which is generated by processing a detection result output from a second sensor provided in each of the plurality of electronic writing tools and includes relative positions of the other electronic writing tools relative to each electronic writing tool. The association unit is configured to associate the plurality of electronic writing tools with positions of the plurality of electronic writing tools on the display image, respectively, using the first information and the second information.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Takahiro Asano
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Patent number: 11860701Abstract: An electronic device includes: a plurality of connection ports to which external devices are able to be connected; and a controller configured to control whether or not to supply power to an external device connected to a connection port in preference to an external device connected to another connection port on the basis of a priority level assigned to each of the plurality of connection ports.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Hideki Motoi, Tomohisa Ukegawa, Isamu Kenmochi
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Patent number: 11862118Abstract: A display data processing device performs color adjustment on gradation values of pixels of a frame image of an input video signal and outputs the adjusted gradation values to a display device. The device includes a first gamma correction unit configured to set the gradation value as the first input gradation value and to convert the first input gradation value into the first corrected gradation value. The device includes a video gain correction unit configured to perform color adjustment on the first corrected gradation value according to video gain correction and to output the result as a video gain corrected gradation value. The device includes a second gamma correction unit configured to set the video gain corrected gradation value as the second input gradation value and to convert the second input gradation value into the second corrected gradation value.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
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Patent number: 11863337Abstract: An acquirer acquires abnormality information indicating that an abnormality has occurred in equipment provided in a conference room. The equipment is, for example, a display device such as a display or a projector. A conference information generator generates conference information indicating a progress status of a conference which is carried out in the conference room by processing information output from a device provided in the conference room. An information transmitter determines a first timing which is a timing at which abnormality-relevant information which is information to be transmitted due to occurrence of the abnormality is transmitted using the conference information and transmits the abnormality-relevant information to the equipment or another device at the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Kengo Tsuruzono
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Patent number: 11849243Abstract: A video control apparatus includes a display that displays a video, a capturer that captures a video of a display screen of the display, an area determiner that determines whether or not a second area that displays a video of a display screen that has been previously captured is included in a first area that is an area of a capturing target of the video, and a video generator that generates a video in which the video of the second area is not displayed from a video that has been captured from the first area and displays the generated video on the display if the second area is included in the first area.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara
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Patent number: 11831954Abstract: Systems and methods relate to targeted display of media content, including a device that includes a memory having program instructions stored therein; and at least one processor configured to execute the program instructions to control the device to: connect via a wide area network to a remote system, receive a rule set or an artificial intelligence (AI) model from the remote system, select media content from a plurality of media content based on applying demographics data to the rule set or AI model, and cause, based on an output of the rule set or AI model, a display, that is local to the device, to display the media content.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
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Patent number: 11809251Abstract: A first overcurrent detecting unit to detect whether or not a current supplied from a power source unit to an external device exceeds a first criterion value. A second overcurrent detecting unit to detect whether or not the current supplied from the power source unit to the external device exceeds a second criterion value that is a criterion value higher than the first criterion value, a timer unit in which a time corresponding to a time from a time point at which switching from electric power supplied from the power source unit to the external device in a period, in which a negotiation is performed, to electric power corresponding to a result of the negotiation with the external device is performed to a time before the supply of the electric power becomes stable is set.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki Hosono
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Patent number: 11803346Abstract: A display device includes: a reception unit to receive a video signal input from an external output correspondence input terminal and a timing signal corresponding to the video signal; a video processing unit to perform processing on a video signal input from an external output non-correspondence input terminal and the video signal, acquired from the reception unit, input from the external output correspondence input terminal; and a control unit to acquire the timing signal supplied from the reception unit as a timing signal corresponding to a video signal of non-display in a state that a displayed video is based on the video signal input from the external output non-correspondence input terminal, and the video signal of non-display input from the external output correspondence input terminal at that time is acquired by the reception unit in a case of performing a process of a high-speed input switching function for switching between the video signal input from the external output non-correspondence input terType: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki Matsushita
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Patent number: 11748829Abstract: A method includes displaying attraction information that identifies at least a plurality of candidate attractions, wherein the candidate attractions are attractions that are not previously recommended; receiving a first user input comprising a selection of a single candidate attraction among the plurality of candidate attractions; displaying property information that identifies a plurality of properties after receiving the first user input; receiving a second user input comprising a selection of one or more properties among the plurality of properties; and associating the selected candidate attraction and the selected one or more properties to permit respective devices disposed at the one or more properties to display information of the selected candidate attraction.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.Inventors: Suneel Goud, Eric Scifres