Patents Assigned to NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12283221
    Abstract: A display control device includes a visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not a display device for displaying content is included in a visual field of a person included in an image captured by an imaging device that images a region around the display device, a central visual field determination unit configured to determine whether or not the display device is included in a central visual field within the visual field, and a change determination unit configured to determine whether or not to temporarily change a display mode of the display device displaying first content before the content is switched from the first content displayed on the display device to second content to be subsequently displayed when it is determined that the display device is included in the visual field but is not included in the central visual field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
  • Patent number: 12250432
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a method including: causing a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a user to select a time range and a single digital display as a locale; and causing, based on the user selecting the time range and the single digital display as the locale, the user display to display, on the GUI, a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on the single digital display, each of the plurality of media content being ordered according to analysis insight for the single digital display selected and the time range selected. The analysis insight may include at least opportunity to see (OTS) counts of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Patent number: 12248236
    Abstract: An image display device is provided that allows easy adjustment of positional deviation in an optical axis direction of an optical modulation element from the outside. The image display device includes: a housing including an operation surface; an optical modulation element that is housed in the housing and that includes an image-forming surface that modulates light to form an image; a holding portion that movably holds the optical modulation element at least in a direction perpendicular to the image-forming surface; and an adjusting portion including at least one wire member, one end of the wire member being connected to the holding portion and the other end rotatably attached to the operation surface. Holding portion includes a movable portion that is moved in a direction perpendicular to the image-forming surface by the rotation of the other end of the wire member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 12165551
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first circuit including: a transmission port through which data is transmitted; and a reception port through which data is received and configured to be able to perform data communication with a second circuit through the transmission port and the reception port, wherein the first circuit includes an inspection processor configured to determine whether a detection signal indicating that the second circuit is able to communicate with the first circuit has been detected when data communication with the second circuit is not possible and to determine whether a potential of a reception signal line connected between the reception port and the second circuit is in a state in which communication is possible when the detection signal has not been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeki Kitaura
  • Patent number: 12141719
    Abstract: A display management device includes an acquisitioner and a data processor. The acquisitioner acquires occupancy request information from a first terminal. The occupancy request information indicates that a request is made to display content on a plurality of displays positioned in a first region. When the acquisitioner acquires the occupancy request information, the data processor generates a available time display data using a display information storage and transmits same to the first terminal. The display information storage stores information relating to available time of the plurality of displays positioned in the first region. The available time display data is data for displaying a screen which shows availability information including the number of displays which can be reserved and/or the occupancy rate thereof for each time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Patent number: 12131089
    Abstract: A display control system includes a personal attribute information acquirer, a content specifier, and a display output. The personal attribute information acquirer acquires personal attribute information indicating an attribute of people present in an area including a vicinity of a display area for displaying video content based on a captured image of the area. The content specifier specifies target video content items, which are video content items to be displayed on the display area, based on the personal attribute information. The display output sets a plurality of screen areas in the display area based on the number of the target video content items and allocates and outputs the target video content items to the plurality of screen areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoichi Araki
  • Patent number: 12019360
    Abstract: A chromaticity adjusting method of a projector includes a first light source for emitting blue light and a second light source for emitting yellow light including red light and green light. A chromaticity value of the blue light is acquired and the chromaticity value and the luminance value of each of the red light and the green light is obtained. The second target chromaticity value is determined based on the first target chromaticity value, the chromaticity value of the blue light, and the chromaticity value and the luminance value of each of the red light and the green light. Light quantities of the first and second light sources are controlled based on the second target chromaticity value. Signal levels of the red, green, and blue color components included in the video signal are controlled according to the difference between the first target chromaticity value and the second target chromaticity value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kaoru Ito
  • Patent number: 11984060
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
  • Patent number: 11973420
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Nagano
  • Patent number: 11960647
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Niioka
  • Patent number: 11954708
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kanami China
  • Patent number: 11947732
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
  • Patent number: 11940719
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Katayama, Shinichiro Chikahisa
  • Patent number: 11915271
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kanami China
  • Publication number: 20240048809
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard VENTURA, Hiroyuki KASUGA, Steven Keith PLATT
  • Patent number: 11889820
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuto Egami, Shinya Ueda
  • Patent number: 11886265
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Zhenliu Li
  • Patent number: 11868190
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11868544
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Asano
  • Patent number: 11860701
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Motoi, Tomohisa Ukegawa, Isamu Kenmochi