Patents Assigned to NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS
  • Patent number: 11487319
    Abstract: An image display device has an image display unit including a display for displaying images and a backlight arranged behind the display to illuminate the display. The image display device includes an opening formed behind the image display unit, an optical sensor which detects light passing through the opening, and a sensor holder which holds the optical sensor, and the opening includes a protruding diaphragm and a passage hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Saito
  • Patent number: 11460900
    Abstract: A video display apparatus includes a power source that supplies first electric power and supplies second electric power that is different from the first electric power to an external device, a current detector that detects a current value when the second electric power is supplied to the external device, an electric power supply controller that includes a plurality of electric power supply modes and performs control that supplies electric power corresponding to one electric power supply mode among the plurality of electric power supply modes to the external device as the second electric power, and a controller that performs control that limits the first electric power when the current value detected by the current detector reaches a predetermined first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuta Nagano
  • Patent number: 11438652
    Abstract: A display system includes a main display unit configured to display a video; a plurality of subordinate display units configured to display a plurality of videos, respectively; a detection unit configured to detect the number of viewers of the main display unit and the respective numbers of viewers of the plurality of subordinate display units; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to switch a video displayed on a subordinate display unit of the plurality of subordinate display units to the same video as a video displayed on the main display unit when the number of viewers of the main display unit detected by the detection unit is equal to or more than a first predetermined value and the number of viewers of the subordinate display unit is less than a second predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eifu Nezu
  • Patent number: 11422359
    Abstract: A projector, a rotational phase control device, a program for the rotational phase control device, and a wheel rotational speed control method include: a phosphor wheel that emits a plurality of different color lights at a cycle corresponding to a rotational speed when excitation light is irradiated; a color wheel into which the lights emitted from phosphor wheel enter; and a rotational phase control device that controls a rotational speed and a phase of color wheel in accordance with a rotational speed and a phase of phosphor wheel so that a phase relationship between phosphor wheel and color wheel is not changed and so that a rotational speed ratio between phosphor wheel and color wheel is equal to a rotational speed ratio between phosphor wheel and color wheel in a steady state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kato
  • Patent number: 11415869
    Abstract: An electronic device includes blowers. Blowers cool liquid crystal panels for light modulation mounted on illumination optical system for outputting light to a projection lens, respectively, and are disposed on the opposite side to the side where the projection lens of three liquid crystal panels is disposed and are arranged side by side along a first direction facing two liquid crystal panels of three liquid crystal panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kawase
  • Patent number: 11393411
    Abstract: A multi-display system includes: a master display device; a first slave display device; an optical measuring instrument to measure luminance and color displayed by a first image display unit of the master display device; and a deterioration factor calculating unit to calculate a deterioration factor on the basis of a first set of measurement parameters, which represent the luminance and the color measured by the optical measuring instrument, and of initial values of the first set of measurement parameters. The master display device performs adjustment on the basis of the first set of measurement parameters. The first slave display device performs adjustment on the basis of a second set of measurement parameters of a second image display unit of the first slave display device, wherein the second set of measurement parameters are calculated from the deterioration factor and from initial values of the second set of measurement parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Abe
  • Patent number: 11388369
    Abstract: A video device includes: a first video signal terminal to which a video signal cable for transmitting a video signal is detachably connected; a second video signal terminal which is of the same shape as that of the first video signal terminal, and to which the video signal cable is detachably connected; a detection unit which detects a predetermined state in the first video signal terminal and the second video signal terminal; a first video signal switch which connects the first video signal terminal to either an input unit or an output unit; a second video signal switch which connects the second video signal terminal to either the input unit or the output unit; and a control unit which controls a connection state of the first video signal switch and a connection state of the second video signal switch according to a detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Daisuke Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 11373571
    Abstract: The present invention has a communication portion configured to establish an image transmission system for receiving an image signal from an image transmitting device via a network; and a connection information management portion configured to set the total number of the image transmission systems established for each of a plurality of the image transmitting devices as the number of connections, wherein the connection information management portion does not change the number of connections even if the image transmission system is disconnected, when the image transmitting device shifting into a power saving mode causes the image transmission system to be disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Eisaku Ishii
  • Patent number: 11360373
    Abstract: Illumination optical system (101) for outputting light to a projection lens, light source unit (102) for outputting light to illumination optical system (101), and dust-proof case (103) houses illumination optical system (101) and can be divided into two housings are provided, and the dust-proof case (103) has second positioning member (105-1), (105-2) provided on the outer surface of dust-proof case (103) and fitted to and first positioning member (104-1), (104-2) provided in light source unit (102), mounting seating surface (106) provided on the outer surface of the dust-proof case (103) for screwing light source unit (102), and pinching portion (107) for sandwiching a final optical member of light source unit (102) sandwiched between two housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kawase
  • Patent number: 11340444
    Abstract: A phosphor member includes: a phosphor plate that converts a part of excitation light into fluorescent light and emits mixed color light including the fluorescent light and the remaining part of the excitation light; and a reflective layer that is provided on the phosphor plate and that transmits a part of the mixed color light and reflects the remaining part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isao Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11336877
    Abstract: This projection-type display device has: an operation signal detection unit that receives operation signals that indicate adjustment content of a projected image, the adjustment content having been instructed by way of an operation unit; an installation state detection unit that detects, as the installation state of the projection-type display device, a first state and a second state realized by rotating 90 degrees around an axis parallel to the optical axis of the projection lens; and a control unit that, upon detecting a signal that corresponds to the first direction by way of the operation signal detection unit in the first state and the second state, adjusts a projected image by shifting the projected image in the first direction or by moving a correction-object site in the projected image in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Ueda
  • Patent number: 11328598
    Abstract: A parking lot guidance system includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether the parking lot is in a congested state based on a result of detection from a detection unit; a selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of empty spaces in the parking lot based on a determination from the determination unit; and a display unit configured to display the predetermined number of empty spaces. The selection unit selects the empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Akira Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 11329972
    Abstract: An information processing device makes a communication connection with an external device. The information processing device establishes a service connection with the external device upon determining an input of a determination key from the external device in the determination-key-input-reception time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyoshi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11330234
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first duct for guiding the air blown out from blowers for cooling a liquid crystal panel mounted on an illumination optical system to the liquid crystal panel, a second duct for guiding the air passing through the liquid crystal panel in the opposite direction of the air blown out from the blowers, a heat sink for removing heat from the air passing through the second duct and a blower holding unit for holding the blowers are provided in a dust-proof case, and the top surface of the blower holding unit, the blower holding unit forms a third duct for guiding the air from which heat has been removed by the heat sink to the air inlet of the blowers that is a space formed along the top surface of the dust-proof case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Kawase
  • Patent number: 11320853
    Abstract: An image transmission apparatus includes: a processor that performs a process of generating image data and that transmits the image data to a display apparatus connected via a network; and a clock controller that receives information relating to a display mode of the display apparatus from the display apparatus and that controls a drive clock frequency of the processor based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20220122205
    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: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Suneel GOUD, Eric SCIFRES
  • Patent number: 11294614
    Abstract: A display system includes a plurality of display devices and portable device configured to operate the plurality of display devices. Each of the plurality of display devices includes an identification information generation unit configured to generate identification information for identifying its own device, and a display control unit configured to cause output information representing the identification information generated by the identification information generation unit to be output from a display unit. The portable device includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image displayed by the display unit of each of the plurality of display devices and a device control unit configured to detect the identification information identifying each of the plurality of display devices on the basis of the output information included in the image captured by the imaging unit and associate the detected identification information with a position of each of the plurality of display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hisakazu Aoyanagi
  • Patent number: 11297292
    Abstract: A projector includes a light source; a spatial light modulator; a signal processing unit that includes a tone map unit that performs a luminance gradation conversion of an input video data according to a tone map indicating a relationship of an output luminance with respect to an input luminance; a luminance acquiring unit that obtains a maximum luminance of a projection surface of the modulated light; and a control unit that controls an amount of light of the light source and sets the tone map. When the maximum luminance of the projection surface is equal to or greater than a first threshold value indicating a maximum luminance of the input video data, the control unit sets, to the tone map unit, a tone map in which a maximum value of the output luminance is set to be the first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hisakazu Aoyanagi
  • Patent number: 11281081
    Abstract: A projector and a method for holding the projector, which can prevent the projector from dropping and which can prevent noise emission. The projector of the present disclosure includes resin housing having multiple mounting portions, hanging metal plate disposed inside housing, at least one metal member disposed inside housing, connected to hanging metal plate, and integrated with hanging metal plate to form a loop shape, grounding member that is connected to the loop shape and grounds hanging metal plate, hanging metal fitting for fixing housing to a wall surface or ceiling, fixing member for fixing hanging metal fitting from the outside of housing to multiple portions, the hanging metal plate being fixed to hanging metal fitting through fixing member in at least one portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11269126
    Abstract: A light guide includes: a light guide main body that guides light input from an incident surface to an exit surface; and an attachment member that is connected to the light guide main body and includes an attachment portion that is to be fixed to another member, and the area of a connection surface between the attachment member and the light guide main body is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the attachment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kurihara