Patents Assigned to NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS
  • Patent number: 10108080
    Abstract: A projection type display apparatus including: an illumination unit that emits a plurality of color lights having a predetermined polarization direction; a plurality of optical path adjustment units that totally reflect the plurality of color lights, respectively; a plurality of optical modulation units that modulates the plurality of color lights totally reflected by the plurality of optical path adjustment units, respectively, to emit a plurality of modulated color lights; a synthesis unit that emits the plurality of modulated color lights emitted from the optical modulation units in a same direction; and a correction unit that is arranged on an optical path between the illumination unit and the synthesis unit and that changes a polarization state of light that entered the correction unit to convert light that is incident on the synthesis unit into linearly polarized light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10104352
    Abstract: A projector includes: first and second display panels and a projection unit that superposes images formed by the first and second display panels and that projects the superposed images on a projection surface. The first and second display panels are arranged such that the image formed by one display panel is projected to a position shifted by a predetermined distance in at least one of the row direction and column direction of the picture element array with respect to the position where the image formed by the other display panel is projected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kato
  • Patent number: 10089961
    Abstract: An image display device having a display panel, the device being utilized to form an image display system in which a plurality of the image display devices are arrayed in one or both of vertical and horizontal directions to display one image as a whole while an image allocated to each device is displayed via the corresponding display panel, the image display device includes a reading processing unit that reads out image information and delays start of output of this image information by a predetermined period of time determined based on the number of the image display devices which forms the image display system and a row to which the present device belongs in the vertical arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Mihara, Tatsuo Nishimata
  • Patent number: 10082997
    Abstract: A display system includes a plurality of display apparatuses. Each of the plurality of display apparatuses includes a display panel that displays an image and a sending and receiving unit that at least receives setting information of one of the plurality of display apparatuses. A first display apparatus that is one of the plurality of display apparatuses further includes a coordinate acquiring unit that acquires a coordinate. A first sending and receiving unit of the first display apparatus receives setting information of a second display apparatus specified by the coordinate from the second display apparatus. A first display panel of the first display apparatus displays a setting image that indicates the setting information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Mihara
  • Patent number: 10084999
    Abstract: An illuminating device includes: a light source emitting excitation light; a wheel including a wheel substrate transmitting the excitation light and an illuminating light generating member provided on the first surface of the wheel substrate to generate illuminating light by the excitation light; a photo detector, arranged on the second surface side that is opposite to the first surface of the wheel substrate, detects light that passed through the wheel; and a control unit that determines whether a defect or degeneration has occurred in the illuminating light generating member, based on the light detected by the photo detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Usami
  • Patent number: 10073667
    Abstract: A monitor device is one of a plurality of monitors connected in series. The monitor device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires the number of the monitors; a calculation unit that calculates a region to be displayed by the monitor device, of an image corresponding to an image signal, and a display size of an image corresponding to the region, based on the acquired number of the monitors and arrangement of the monitor device in the serial connection; a display unit that displays the image corresponding to the region according to the display size; and a communication unit that outputs the acquired number of the monitors to one of the monitors when the one of the monitors is arranged at a subsequent stage of the monitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiromi Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10055188
    Abstract: Provided are a network unit whose first port is connectable to a control computer or a display device on a prior stage in a daisy chain manner and whose second port is connectable to a display device on a subsequent stage in the daisy chain manner; a storage unit wherein in response to a request to search for display devices as targets for determining display device IDs thereof, the request being transmitted from the control computer to the display devices, the storage unit stores addresses of display devices connected to the second port as transmission sources, where the addresses are transmitted from the individual display devices on subsequent stages and received by the network unit; and a control unit that receives a total number which is the total number of the display devices and transmitted from the control computer, where the control unit determines the display device ID to be assigned to its own display device according to the received total number and the number of the addresses stored in the storag
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Terao
  • Patent number: 10039176
    Abstract: A discharge lamp lighting device includes: a storage unit that stores information; a lamp drive unit that supplies drive power to the discharge lamp; a voltage detection unit that detects the lamp voltage of the discharge lamp; and a control unit that, on the basis of the voltage detection value supplied from the voltage detection unit, stores in the storage unit error log information that indicates the operating state of the discharge lamp when change of the lamp voltage indicates a predetermined voltage characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Tagishi, Hiroki Tanaka, Yasuji Kawai
  • Patent number: 10031405
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a phosphor unit that is provided with a phosphor; an excitation light source that supplies excitation light that excites the phosphor; a reducing optical system that reduces the luminous flux diameter of the excitation light; and a light condensing optical system that condenses, on the phosphor unit, excitation light for which the luminous flux diameter was reduced by the reducing optical system. The reducing optical system includes: a plurality of lenses including two lenses having positive power; and a lens-moving section that moves the lens back and forth along the direction of the optical axis. The lens is disposed on the excitation light source side, and has a lower power than the lens. The refractive index of the lens is equal to or smaller than the refractive indexes of the other lenses of the reducing optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Masateru Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10002572
    Abstract: A parent device which is a liquid crystal monitor device serving as a reference for adjusting the backlight distributes, through communication, a backlight-setting value indicating luminance of a backlight to an child device which is a liquid crystal monitor device receiving adjustment of the backlight. A processing unit in the child device obtains a correction value from the backlight-setting value of the parent device received by a reception unit and a backlight-setting value input to an adjustment switch by the user. When the reception unit has received a new backlight-setting value of the parent device, the processing unit obtains the backlight-setting value of the child device from the new backlight-setting value and the correction value and instructs a backlight control circuit to light a backlight based on a lighting period corresponding to the obtained backlight-setting value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Isamu Kenmochi
  • Patent number: 10002559
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display lines, an image data input unit that receives image data including data for each display line, and an image data transmission switching circuit that transmits the image data to the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Nozomu Kano
  • Patent number: 9995996
    Abstract: A cooling structure includes a phosphor unit, air-blowing systems that cause cooling air to flow, and a duct structure. The phosphor unit includes a substrate and a phosphor that is formed on the substrate and that emits fluorescent light when irradiated with excitation light. The duct structure guides the cooling air blown from the air-blowing systems to the phosphor unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Masuda
  • Patent number: 9992384
    Abstract: A correction coefficient calculation unit includes: a reference image output unit that generates a reference image; a profile receiving unit that receives image information and printing information, the image information indicating a color characteristic related to an image to be displayed on a display unit, the printing information indicating a color characteristic related to a printing device; and a reference image division unit that creates printing characteristic data that associates the reference image with the reference image that has undergone color conversion based on the printing information and the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 9986195
    Abstract: A method of simulating how output video from a video instrument that presents video appears under a given viewing environment includes: inputting an environmental illuminance in a viewing environment in which output video is viewed; inputting a set condition with regard to the video instrument, the set condition including at least optical output; and calculating and outputting, by using the environmental illuminance and the set condition, a video contrast based on a ratio between an illuminance of the output video and the environmental illuminance at a video formation plane on which the output video is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Komei Tanaka, Takashi Mikuriya
  • Patent number: 9966043
    Abstract: An identifier control device includes: a cumulative transmission and reception initiation control unit that instructs a plurality of controlled devices, via a network, to initiate cumulative transmission and reception; a distance determination command transmission unit that transmits to each of the plurality of controlled devices via the network a distance determination command; a distance recognition unit that determines the distances on the network with respect to the respective plurality of controlled devices, based on response signals transmitted by the respective plurality of controlled devices after the accumulation time has elapsed from when each of the plurality of controlled devices receives the distance determination command; and an identifier control unit that sets to each of the plurality of controlled devices, via the network, an identifier for each of the plurality of controlled devices determined based on the determined distances on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunobu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9964841
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a phosphor rotating body on which a phosphor that is formed on a surface and that is used in a rotating state with an axis of rotation that is perpendicular to the surface; a first excitation light source that generates first fluorescent light by irradiating first excitation light upon a first position that is separated from the center of rotation on the surface; a detection light generation unit that irradiates detection light upon a second position that is separated from the center of rotation on the surface and that differs from the first position; an optical detection unit that supplies a detection signal corresponding to emission light emitted from the phosphor rotating body in response to the detection light; and a control unit that receives the detection signal and controls the intensity of the first excitation light on the basis of the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9961295
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel that displays an input video signal; and a video recording and reproduction unit that records and reproduces a video picture to be displayed on the display panel. The video recording and reproduction unit includes an image-size setting unit that reduces a size of a screen of the input video signal according to a multi-display configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Takada
  • Patent number: 9953585
    Abstract: A display device includes a display which is configured to display an image; a backlight which is turned on in the rear face of the display; a storage unit which is configured to store luminance characteristics at the center of the display; an optical sensor which is configured to measure luminance in the periphery of the display; and a signal processing unit which is configured to correct the measured value measured with the optical sensor in the periphery of the display based on luminance characteristics stored in the storage unit, thus controlling the luminance of the display based on the corrected measured value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Abe, Katsuyuki Matsui
  • Patent number: 9933987
    Abstract: Display apparatuses which constitute a multi-display system each display a partial picture corresponding to a picture position set in the display apparatus. When each display apparatus is instructed to change the picture position and is notified about a picture position to be changed via operation input means, the display apparatus exchanges pieces of picture position information with a display apparatus displaying a partial picture corresponding to the picture position to be changed and swaps the picture positions of the display apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunobu Kaneko
  • Patent number: D831094
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Junsi Lee, Masakazu Suzuki, Tomonori Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Mizushima, Takayuki Yoshimoto