Patents Assigned to NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11054731
    Abstract: A light source device includes first and second surface light sources, a first optical system that forms light source images of the first and second surface light sources on an image forming surface, an optical element provided with a columnar light guide section, and a second optical system that forms, on an entrance surface of the light guide section, an image of a synthesis surface light source comprising the light source images of the first and second surface light sources. The first optical system includes a reflection element provided with a first reflection surface that reflects a first light flux from the first surface light source toward the image forming surface, and a second reflection surface that reflects a second light flux from the second surface light source toward the image forming surface and that is at right angles to the first reflection surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Horie, Chikatoshi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11042343
    Abstract: A portable information terminal includes an imaging unit that captures a storage location image displayed on a display device to acquire information indicating a storage location in a storage device, a display panel including a display screen that displays a data image and a display device image indicating the display device, and a manipulation detection unit that detects, on the display screen, a manipulation of moving the data image toward the display device image. The portable information terminal stores data in the storage location when the manipulation detection unit detects the manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakuma
  • Patent number: 11042344
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a display screen for displaying an image, and a terminal detection unit. When the terminal detection unit detects that a portable information terminal is arranged on the display screen, the display device transmits a data area generation instruction to secure a data area to a storage device to cause the storage device to secure the data area. The display device receives information indicating a location of the data area from the storage device. The display device causes the display screen to display a storage location image including the information indicating the location of the data area on a part of the display screen on which the portable information terminal is arranged, and notifies the portable information terminal of the location of the data area through the storage location image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Sakuma
  • Patent number: 11030947
    Abstract: A display device includes a display including a plurality of pixels having a plurality of light-emitting elements, a pixel selector configured to select a pixel from among a plurality of pixels, a positional information generator configured to generate the positional information representing the position of the selected pixel, and a light emission processor configured to superpose the positional information on the light emitted by the selected pixel. A position detecting device is used to detect and output the positional information superposed on the light of the selected pixel on the display device, thus making it easy to accurately detect the position of the pixel subjected to calibration in luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11012661
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display unit daisy-chain connected to a source device that outputs an image signal encoded with a prescribed version of a standard specified as a prescribed standard, displaying an image generated by decoding the image signal encoded with the prescribed version; a determination unit that determines the number of connected sink devices that are daisy-chain connected to the source device; and a setting unit that sets, from among the prescribed versions, a version in which the image that was generated by decoding the image signal encoded by the source device is displayable on the display units of all of the daisy-chain connected sink devices, depending on the number of connected sink devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Momose, Tooru Kataoka
  • Patent number: 11011096
    Abstract: A display device is for displaying an image generated by an image processing device. The display device includes: a video decoding and input unit that receives an encoded image of a reference signal generated by the image processing device, and decodes the encoded image; a video display unit that performs image quality correction of the decoded image and displays, on a display panel, the image to which the image quality correction has been performed; and an image cut-out unit that cuts out an image at a position corresponding to the reference signal from an image to which the image quality correction has not been performed and transmits the cut out image to which the image quality correction has been performed, to the image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Matsui, Kiyomichi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11009782
    Abstract: A projection-type display device includes: a light source; a dust-proof case; heat-dissipating fins; a heat-dissipation fan that causes cooling air to flow into the heat-dissipating fins; a prism unit that is provided inside the dust-proof case and that separates light from the light source into a multiplicity of illumination light beams; an internal circulation fan; heat-receiving fins; and heat pipes that connect the heat-dissipating fins and the heat-receiving fins. The heat-receiving fins and the heat-dissipating fins are both formed in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, each having, as cooling air inflow surfaces that are effective in heat dissipation or heat reception, a first surface and a second surface whose area is greater than the first surface. The cooling airflow inside the dust-proof case that is supplied by the internal circulation fan flows from the first and second surfaces of the heat-receiving fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eisuke Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11006070
    Abstract: A display device is connectible to a first video signal output device and a second video signal output device. Upon receiving an input switch instruction from the first video signal output device, the display device is configured to inhibit a first video from the first video signal output device from being displayed when displaying a second video from the second video signal output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Keita Sano