Patents by Inventor Amane Higashi

Amane Higashi 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).

  • Publication number: 20110069254
    Abstract: A display apparatus that includes a light amount adjustment section includes a lens provided corresponding to a light receiving region of a photo-sensor element. The light amount adjustment section varies the focus position of the lens with respect to the light receiving region of the photo-sensor element to adjust the amount of light to be introduced to the light receiving region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Takama, Amane Higashi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Shiichiro Sarai
  • Publication number: 20100128189
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, a first common electrode arranged on an insulation layer which covers the plurality of pixel electrodes, the first common electrode being a comb-like electrode, and a second common electrode placed opposite the first common electrode across a liquid crystal layer, the second common electrode being voltage-controlled independently of the first common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Daisuke Takama, Amane Higashi, Shiichiro Sarai
  • Publication number: 20090315921
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: an image display panel having a two-dimensional matrix with (P×Q) pixels each including first, second and third sub-pixels for displaying respective first, second and third elementary colors, and fourth sub-pixel for displaying a fourth color; and a signal processing section configured to receive first, second and third sub-pixel input signals respectively provided with signal values of x1-(p, q), x2-(p, q) and x3-(p, q), and to output first, second, third and fourth sub-pixel output signals respectively provided with signal values of X1-(p, q), X2-(p, q), X3-(p, q) and X4-(p, q), which used for determining the display gradations of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels, respectively, with regard to a (p, q)th pixel where notations p and q are integers satisfying equations 1?p?P and 1?q?Q.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira SAKAIGAWA, Yukiko IIJIMA, Amane HIGASHI, Koji NOGUCHI