Patents Assigned to NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11221815
    Abstract: A display device includes a video input part for receiving video signals based on video input signals received by another display device, a communication controller for receiving communication data, representing any change occurring in video input signals, from another display device, a video signal determination part for determining video signals input by the video signal input part based on communication data received by the communication controller, and a video signal adjustment part for adjusting video signals based on the result of determination made by the video signal determination part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11221551
    Abstract: Flicker in a projector using a plurality of phosphor wheels is reduced. The light source device according to the present invention includes a first rotating body and a second rotating body that each include a phosphor; and a rotation body controller that rotates the first rotating body and the second rotating body so that a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of combined light of first fluorescence obtained by the first rotating body and second fluorescence obtained by the second rotating body becomes smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeo Hamamura
  • Patent number: 11223797
    Abstract: A video device includes at least one of an input connector and an output connector connectible with a video-signal cable, wherein the input connector is connected to a first resistor coupled with a predetermined potential and oppositely connected to a first signal line of the video-signal cable connected to a second resistor of a second video device, and wherein the output connector is connected to a third resistor coupled with a ground potential and oppositely connected to a second signal line of the video-signal cable connected to a fourth resistor of a third video device; and a connection determination part configured to determine a normal connection of the video-signal cable connected to the input connector based on a potential of the first signal line or to determine a normal connection of the video-signal cable connected to the output connector based on a potential of the second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobutaka Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11200833
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a signal input unit to which a first signal or a second signal is supplied using a signal cable in accordance with prescribed setting information, the signal cable having a plurality of transmission lines of prescribed transmission characteristics; a transmission line control unit configured to change a destination to which a signal is supplied using the plurality of transmission lines, in accordance with a transmission line setting for setting at least a portion of the plurality of transmission lines as transmission lines which transmit the first signal; an image control unit configured to generate an image signal from the first signal supplied using the transmission lines in accordance with a transmission format setting for designating a format for transmitting the first signal using the transmission lines; and a setting control unit configured to change the transmission line setting and the transmission format setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Akio Ishiwata
  • Patent number: 11190369
    Abstract: A method includes permitting, by a server, a first device to join an online meeting held with at least a third device based on receiving a user input from the first device. The method includes permitting, by the server, a second device to join the online meeting in addition to the first device based on receiving login information associated with a user account used by the first device from the second device. The method includes providing, by the server and to at least the third device in the online meeting, screen information of the second device after permitting the second device to join the online meeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eric Scifres, Priyanka Sanghvi, Dhana Dhanasarnsombat
  • Patent number: 11187888
    Abstract: A light source device, a projector, and a chromaticity adjustment method, which are resistant to a change in the color of emitted light even if used for a long period of time, includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light; a phosphor wheel that is irradiated with excitation light to convert a part of excitation light into fluorescent light and that emits mixed color light including the fluorescent light and a remaining part of excitation light; motor that rotates phosphor wheel; and an adjustment unit that adjusts the rotational frequency of motor so that the chromaticity of mixed color light emitted from phosphor wheel becomes a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isao Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11182022
    Abstract: A coordinate detection system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a face opposite to a display face of a transmissive display panel including a plurality of luminous parts and to thereby produce video information, and a video processor configured to detect coordinates instructed on the display face of the transmissive display panel based on the luminance or chromaticity of reflected light, which occurs when reflecting light emitted from each luminous part of the transmissive display panel, according to the captured video information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Publication number: 20210360324
    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 impression counts that are counts of views by people of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS. LTD.
    Inventors: Richard VENTURA, Hiroyuki KASUGA, Steven Keith PLATT
  • Patent number: 11175573
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a fluorescent rod that contains a fluorescent substance; at least one light-guide element including a first end face, a second end face having a smaller area than that of the first end face, and a side surface portion that reflects incident light from the first end face to condense on the second end face, the second end face being optically joined to a surface of the fluorescent rod except for the emission surface; a plurality of excitation light sources arranged to face the first end face of the light-guide element; and a dichroic film provided on the surface of the fluorescent rod expect for the emission surface and having the properties of transmitting excitation light and reflecting fluorescent light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kato, Isao Takahashi, Noriko Nagase
  • Patent number: 11160122
    Abstract: An electronic device that is connected to a network via a wireless access point or a cable, includes a communication unit equipped with at least a wireless communication capability and a control unit that controls the communication operation of the communication unit. The control unit, while connected to the network via a wireless access point or a cable, causes the communication unit to transmit a beacon signal that includes identification information of the electronic device. The identification information includes information of an IP address that enables the electronic device to be identified on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Sanada
  • Patent number: 11159761
    Abstract: A video display device that acquires video information including various signals required to display a video from an external device and displays a video based on the video information on a display screen includes: an operation receiving unit configured to receive an operation; an extraction unit configured to extract a signal of which a change in a signal value before and after the video information has changed is greater than a threshold value out of the various signals in case that the video information has changed and the operation is received by the operation receiving unit; an identification unit configured to identify an adjustment item of the display screen corresponding to the signal extracted by the extraction unit; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust a set value of the adjustment item identified by the identification unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11156825
    Abstract: A projector includes: a phosphor wheel that, in response to the irradiation of excitation light that is used as the first illumination light, generates fluorescence that contains second illumination light and third illumination light and emits the excitation light and fluorescence in opposite directions; first to third image display elements that are provided corresponding to the first to third illumination light; a first illumination optical system that guides the excitation light that was emitted from the phosphor wheel to the first image display element; and a second illumination optical system and third illumination optical system that guide the second illumination light and third illumination light that are contained in the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor wheel to the second image display element and to the third image display element. The lengths of the optical paths of the first, second, and third illumination optical systems are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kato
  • Patent number: 11147140
    Abstract: An example aspect of a backlight system of the present invention includes: a plurality of light emitting elements that operate as a light source of a backlight using bus-supplied electric power in which a voltage is changed to one of a plurality of predetermined values as a power source; a plurality of serial connection switches that connect the plurality of light emitting elements in series and disconnect connections among the plurality of light emitting elements; a plurality of parallel connection switches that connect the plurality of light emitting elements in parallel relative to the power source and disconnect the connections among the plurality of light emitting elements; and a control unit that turns on or turns off the plurality of serial connection switches and the plurality of parallel connection switches in accordance with the value of the voltage corresponding to the bus-supplied electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohisa Ukegawa
  • Publication number: 20210306169
    Abstract: A method includes permitting, by a server, a first device to join an online meeting held with at least a third device based on receiving a user input from the first device. The method includes permitting, by the server, a second device to join the online meeting in addition to the first device based on receiving login information associated with a user account used by the first device from the second device. The method includes providing, by the server and to at least the third device in the online meeting, screen information of the second device after permitting the second device to join the online meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eric SCIFRES, Priyanka SANGHVI, Dhana DHANASARNSOMBAT
  • Publication number: 20210304334
    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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Suneel Goud, Eric Scifres
  • Patent number: 11112689
    Abstract: A light source device includes a light source accommodating section provided with a story structure including a first accommodation story and a second accommodation story, a red light source that emits red laser light and a blue light source that emits blue laser light being accommodated in the first accommodation story, and a green light source that emits green fluorescence being accommodated in the second accommodation story; an emission window provided on a side of the second accommodation story; a first light synthesizer that synthesizes an optical path of the red laser light from the red light source and an optical path of the blue laser light from the blue light source into one optical path, and that emits first synthesized light into which the red laser light and the blue laser light are synthesized; and a second light synthesizer that synthesizes an optical path of the green fluorescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Horie
  • Patent number: 11106419
    Abstract: A multi-screen display adjusting system including: a first signal path to which a first video input signal is input and a second signal path to which a second video input signal is input that are independent from each other; a display panel configured to display a first image based on the first video input signal and a second image based on the second video input signal; a screen composing unit configured to determine an arrangement of the first screen and an arrangement of the second screen on the display panel on the basis of an output from the first signal path and an output from the second signal path; a frame memory unit configured to store data of the arrangement of the first screen and data of the arrangement of the second screen; a video output processing unit configured to read the data of the arrangement of the first screen from the frame memory unit and generate a first signal timing for displaying the first screen and read the data of the arrangement of the second screen from the frame memory unit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuo Kimura
  • Patent number: 11109105
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a system including a remote computing system configured to cause a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the GUI enables a user to select a time range and a locale, the GUI displays a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on one or more digital displays associated with the locale, each of the plurality of media content being listed according to impression counts of each of the plurality of media content for the locale selected and the time range selected, and each of the impression counts is a count of views by people of a respective media content of the plurality media content on the one or more digital displays of the locale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Patent number: 11069310
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with a correction data generation unit that generates third correction data that is used for correcting display unevenness of the image display apparatus on the basis of first correction data that is used for correcting display unevenness resulting from the image display apparatus itself and second correction data that is used for correcting display unevenness resulting from an environment set for the image display apparatus, and a correction unit that corrects an image signal using the third correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 11071173
    Abstract: A communication device includes a communication part configured to establish a connection to either a first device or a second device, and a controller configured to control the communication part. The controller is configured to send a predetermined notice to the second device before disconnecting the connection with the second device in a predetermined operation mode to switch the connection from the second device to the first device, but the controller does not make the predetermined notice in other cases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara