Patents by Inventor Akihito Nishiike
Akihito Nishiike has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11810493Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an image detection unit that determines whether an empty second subframe is present in input image data, in addition to a first subframe that displays an image; a correction image generation unit that generates correction image data for correcting the input image data; a control unit that performs control to display the correction image data generated by the correction image generation unit during the period of the second subframe, when the image detection unit detects that the second subframe is present in the input image data; and a display panel that includes a light modulation device provided for each pixel, and modulates irradiation light from a light source, on the basis of input image data including the correction image data.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Akihito Nishiike
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Publication number: 20230259211Abstract: [Object] To provide a technology that enables one user to appropriately recognize a tactile sensation based on a force from the other user. [Solving Means] A tactile presentation apparatus according to the present technology includes a first detection unit, a first presentation unit, and a control unit. The first detection unit detects a first detection value based on a force of a first user. The first presentation unit is provided at a position other than a position of the first detection unit and presents a tactile sensation to the first user. The control unit controls the first presentation unit to present a tactile sensation to the first user on the basis of a second detection value of another tactile presentation apparatus, the other tactile presentation apparatus including a second detection unit that detects a second detection value based on a force of a second user and a second presentation unit that presents a tactile sensation to the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Masaki ORIHASHI, Masahiro SATO, Hironobu ABE, Akihito NISHIIKE
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Patent number: 11676550Abstract: Provided is a spatial light modulator device that includes a light modulation unit, a first memory, and a second memory. The light modulation unit performs a transition operation between a first state and a second state. In the first memory, data for specifying which one state of the first state and the second state the light modulation unit is to be put in is written during a transition time in which the transition operation is performed. In the second memory, the data retained in the first memory is written after the transition time ends and the second memory supplies the data to the light modulation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventor: Akihito Nishiike
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Publication number: 20220357642Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: a first optical system that generates illumination light whose light emitting luminance is variable; a light modulation unit that transmits the illumination light from the first optical system and whose transmissivity is variable; a second optical system that includes a light modulation device and optically modulates the illumination light from the first optical system by using a pulse width modulation technology, the illumination light having passed through the light modulation unit; and a control unit that controls the light emitting luminance of the illumination light from the first optical system and the transmissivity of the light modulation unit in any combination.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: AKIRA AKIBA, AKIHITO NISHIIKE, SHINICHIRO TAJIRI, ATSUHIRO CHIBA
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Publication number: 20220319380Abstract: A display apparatus of the present disclosure includes: an image detection unit that determines whether an empty second subframe is present in input image data, in addition to a first subframe that displays an image; a correction image generation unit that generates correction image data for correcting the input image data; a control unit that performs control to display the correction image data generated by the correction image generation unit during the period of the second subframe, when the image detection unit detects that the second subframe is present in the input image data; and a display panel that includes a light modulation device provided for each pixel, and modulates irradiation light from a light source, on the basis of input image data including the correction image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventor: AKIHITO NISHIIKE
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Publication number: 20220059041Abstract: [Object] To provide a spatial light modulator device, a spatial light modulator system, and a display apparatus that are capable of preventing influences of mechanical operations of a light modulation unit on a minimum update interval. [Solving Means] A spatial light modulator device according to the present technology includes a light modulation unit, a first memory, and a second memory. The light modulation unit performs a transition operation between a first state and a second state. In the first memory, data for specifying which one state of the first state and the second state the light modulation unit is to be put in is written during a transition time in which the transition operation is performed. In the second memory, the data retained in the first memory is written after the transition time ends and the second memory supplies the data to the light modulation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventor: AKIHITO NISHIIKE
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Patent number: 10347195Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section having an electrophoretic display device provided among a plurality of first electrodes and a second electrode, and displaying an image by switching a white, black, or gray-scale display state depending on an applied voltage; and a drive circuit driving the display section by varying a voltage applied to the first electrodes, while holding the second electrode at a common potential during a write period including frame period(s). When a first region of the display section has a first display state of white or black during a first write period, and an image of a second region thereof is changed while holding the first display state at the first region upon switchover from the first write period to a temporally-continued second write period, the drive circuit offsets the common potential toward a direction in which a voltage applied to the first region is raised.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Oishi, Akihito Nishiike
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Patent number: 9892695Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. An image is displayed in a first display mode and a second display mode. In the first display mode, one pixel is configured of a set including J (where J is an integer of 2 or more) first unit pixels emitting a first color, J second unit pixels emitting a second color, and J third unit pixels emitting a third color, and image display is performed through control of operation of each of the unit pixels. In the second display mode, one pixel is configured of a set including j (where j is an integer of 1 or more and less than J) first unit pixels, j second unit pixels, and j third unit pixels, and image display is performed through control of operation of each of the unit pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Akihito Nishiike, Keiichi Akamatsu, Kitsuko Hatakeyama, Ryo Kasegawa
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Publication number: 20170337880Abstract: A display unit includes an electrophoretic display device in which an optical reflectance varies on a time-series basis depending on an applied voltage, and a drive circuit that performs voltage drive of the electrophoretic display device. The drive circuit applies a first voltage directed to display to the electrophoretic display device over a period of one or more frames, and applies, in the period of one or more frames, a second voltage that is different from the first voltage once or a plurality of times on or after a first point of time at which a derivative value of the optical reflectance reaches a maximum magnitude.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akihito Nishiike, Hidehiko Takanashi, Yuki Oishi
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Publication number: 20170337879Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section having an electrophoretic display device provided among a plurality of first electrodes and a second electrode, and displaying an image by switching a white, black, or gray-scale display state depending on an applied voltage; and a drive circuit driving the display section by varying a voltage applied to the first electrodes, while holding the second electrode at a common potential during a write period including frame period(s). When a first region of the display section has a first display state of white or black during a first write period, and an image of a second region thereof is changed while holding the first display state at the first region upon switchover from the first write period to a temporally-continued second write period, the drive circuit offsets the common potential toward a direction in which a voltage applied to the first region is raised.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuki Oishi, Akihito Nishiike
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Patent number: 9626917Abstract: An image signal for red color display, an image signal for green color display, and an image signal for blue color display which correspond to a pixel are denoted as reference symbol RnL, reference symbol GnL, reference symbol BnL, respectively, a minimum value thereof is denoted as MinRGBnL, and a threshold defined as a predetermined value is denoted as reference symbol TH1. In a case, where MinRGBnL?TH1 holds: the value of the signal for the white color sub-pixel is MinRGBnL/TH1, the value of the signal for the red color sub-pixel is RnL?MinRGBnL, the value of the signal for the green color sub-pixel is GnL?MinRGBnL, and the value of the signal for the blue color sub-pixel is BnL?MinRGBnL.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Kasegawa, Akihito Nishiike
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Patent number: 9324297Abstract: An image display unit, includes: an image display section having pixels each including red, green, blue, and white pixels; and a signal generating section configured to generate red, green, blue, and white sub-pixel signals, the signal generating section being configured to determine values of the red, green, and blue sub-pixel signals Rcvt, Gcvt, and Bcvt, based on a first matrix and a second matrix, with use of a coefficient ‘Purity’, an additive-color-mixture matrix, and a purity coefficient ‘?’, and being configured to employ a value of the white sub-pixel signal Wcvt as a value of min (RnL, GnL, BnL), where the min (RnL, GnL, BnL) represents a minimum value of the red-, green-, and blue-display image signal RnL, GnL, and BnL that are linearized and normalized and are provided for each of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Kasegawa, Akihito Nishiike
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Publication number: 20150228231Abstract: An image signal for red color display, an image signal for green color display, and an image signal for blue color display which correspond to a pixel are denoted as reference symbol RnL, reference symbol GnL, reference symbol BnL, respectively, a minimum value thereof is denoted as MinRGBnL, and a threshold defined as a predetermined value is denoted as reference symbol TH1. In a case, where MinRGBnL?TH1 holds: the value of the signal for the white color sub-pixel is MinRGBnL/TH1, the value of the signal for the red color sub-pixel is RnL?MinRGBnL, the value of the signal for the green color sub-pixel is GnL?MinRGBnL, and the value of the signal for the blue color sub-pixel is BnL?MinRGBnL.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2013Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Ryo Kasegawa, Akihito Nishiike
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Publication number: 20140146099Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. An image is displayed in a first display mode and a second display mode. In the first display mode, one pixel is configured of a set including J (where J is an integer of 2 or more) first unit pixels emitting a first color, J second unit pixels emitting a second color, and J third unit pixels emitting a third color, and image display is performed through control of operation of each of the unit pixels. In the second display mode, one pixel is configured of a set including j (where j is an integer of 1 or more and less than J) first unit pixels, j second unit pixels, and j third unit pixels, and image display is performed through control of operation of each of the unit pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2013Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Akihito Nishiike, Keiichi Akamatsu, Kitsuko Hatakeyama, Ryo Kasegawa
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Publication number: 20140111409Abstract: An image display unit, includes: an image display section having pixels each including red, green, blue, and white pixels; and a signal generating section configured to generate red, green, blue, and white sub-pixel signals, the signal generating section being configured to determine values of the red, green, and blue sub-pixel signals Rcvt, Gcvt, and Bcvt, based on a first matrix and a second matrix, with use of a coefficient ‘Purity’, an additive-color-mixture matrix, and a purity coefficient ‘?’, and being configured to employ a value of the white sub-pixel signal Wcvt as a value of min (RnL, GnL, BnL), where the min (RnL, GnL, BnL) represents a minimum value of the red-, green-, and blue-display image signal RnL, GnL, and BnL that are linearized and normalized and are provided for each of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryo Kasegawa, Akihito Nishiike
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Publication number: 20130278621Abstract: To a display control apparatus, a plurality of display apparatuses each having a unique identification code are capable of being connected. The display control apparatus distinguishes the display apparatus for a monochrome display and the display apparatus for a color display from each other with the identification codes when the display apparatuses are connected thereto. The display control apparatus performs a control process for generating a monochrome signal when the display apparatus for the monochrome display is identified, and performs a control process for generating a color signal when the display apparatus for the color display is identified.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventor: Akihito Nishiike