Patents Assigned to NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11862118
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11863337
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kengo Tsuruzono
  • Patent number: 11849243
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 11831954
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Patent number: 11809251
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideaki Hosono
  • Patent number: 11803346
    Abstract: 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 ter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11748829
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Suneel Goud, Eric Scifres
  • Patent number: 11706393
    Abstract: A projection-type display device includes: an operation signal detector, configured to receive an operation signal that indicates adjustment content of a projected image that was instructed by way of an operation unit; an installation state detector, configured to detect, as an installation state of the projection-type display device, a first state and a second state that is rotated 90 degrees from the first state around an axis that is parallel to an optical axis of a projection lens; and a controller that, upon detecting a signal that corresponds to a first direction by way of the operation signal detector in the first state and the second state, adjusts the projected image by causing the projected image to shift in the first direction, or adjusts the projected image by causing a correction-object site in the projected image to move in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Ueda