Patents by Inventor Fujio Okumura

Fujio Okumura 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).

  • Patent number: 8848044
    Abstract: This invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a display in which both of a secret image and a public image can be efficiently displayed with high picture quality without reducing contrast of the public image. One of output images is a secret image which displays an input secret image as one of input images in a partial area of a screen, all the output images including the secret image have a relationship to become, when a luminance value of each pixel thereof is totaled, an input public image as one of the input images; and during a period in which at least the secret image is being outputted, shutter glasses disposed between a display to which the image signals are inputted and user's eyes are set to a light transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nec Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20140285510
    Abstract: This invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a display in which both of a secret image and a public image can be efficiently displayed with high picture quality without reducing contrast of the public image. One of output images is a secret image which displays an input secret image as one of input images in a partial area of a screen, all the output images including the secret image have a relationship to become, when a luminance value of each pixel thereof is totaled, an input public image as one of the input images; and during a period in which at least the secret image is being outputted, shutter glasses disposed between a display to which the image signals are inputted and user's eyes are set to a light transmission state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: DAIGO MIYASAKA, MASAO IMAI, FUJIO OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20140240825
    Abstract: The invention realizes a screen in which the luminous intensity of scattered light emitted from the screen is made more uniform. The screen diffuses incident light that is irradiated from an incident surface and emits light from an emission surface that is opposite the incident surface. The screen is provided with: a first light-diffusing area (402) formed on the incident-surface side and provided with a mirror (403) that reflects a portion of the incident light (404), and a second light-diffusing area (401) formed on the emission-surface side and that scatters incident light that includes the light reflected from the mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8797468
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter glasses comprises a liquid crystal shutter placed within the view angle of the observer of a display apparatus wherein the liquid crystal shutter has an effective shutter region in which the transmission or shielding of incident light is controllable and a light attenuation region positioned outside the effective shutter region for attenuating incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Goroh Saitoh, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8797389
    Abstract: The invention provides: a code generation and data assignment circuit that sets the order in which a confidential image and a reversed image are displayed, based on an orthogonal code; and a shutter glass control signal generation circuit that controls so that during a period when an image signal of an image including at least part or all of the confidential image is outputted, the shutter glasses disposed between the succeeding display apparatus and the user's eyes are set in a light transmission state and during a period when another image is displayed, the shutter glasses are set in a light shielding state. The image signal of the confidential image and the image signal of the reversed image are in a relationship such that when the brightness values of the images are added together for each pixel, the resultant image has no correlation with the first output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Junichirou Ishii, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8780300
    Abstract: A planar light source, Fresnel lens sheet, and louver are disposed in the stated order in a light source apparatus. The Fresnel lens sheet deflects and focuses in one dimension light that has entered from the planar light source. The louver is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted from the Fresnel lens sheet, and the directivity of the light can be increased by restricting the traveling direction of the light to the focal direction of the Fresnel lens sheet. The light utilization ratio can thereby be increased, the directivity of planarly emitted light can be increased, and the brightness can be made uniform at the point of observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Kenichi Takatori, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8696132
    Abstract: An image display system includes: display unit (13) for spatially combining a first polarized image generated by first polarized light and a second polarized image generated by second polarized light having a polarized light component different from that of the first polarized light and displaying a combined polarized image; display control unit (1) for causing display unit (13) to multiplex-display a plurality of different images in a time division manner concerning each of the first and second polarized images; and optical shutter (14) that selectively transmits only a polarized image corresponding to a selected image arbitrarily selected from among the plurality of different images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Imai, Junichirou Ishii, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8690335
    Abstract: A transmitter that outputs an image signal for displaying a first image and outputs an image signal of a synthesized image made of the reversal image of the first image and a second image. A display apparatus, based on the image signals output from the transmitter, displays the first image and the synthesized image with circular polarizations having different senses of rotation from each other. A receiver includes a circular polarization selecting and transmitting means that separates the first image and the synthesized image displayed on the display apparatus, based on the sense of rotation of the circular polarization, and selectively allows the images to pass therethrough, so as to be able to photograph the first image displayed on the display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Fujio Okumura, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20140049944
    Abstract: An optical member including: a Fresnel lens sheet for deflecting and emitting deflected light, A louver for restricting a direction of light rays, where the louver restricts the traveling direction of incident light from the deflecting element to a direction that is parallel to the optical path of the incident light, and emits the restricted light. The Fresnel lens sheet is disposed so that a machined surface thereof faces the louver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-Ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Kenichi Takatori, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8648911
    Abstract: A control device divides one frame into plural sub-frames, distributes image signals of an embedded image, which is provided to only specific users, to the plural sub-frames such that a sum of signal levels in the one frame is zero, and superimposes the image signals on an image signal of a basic image provided to unspecified people and causes a display device to display the embedded image. The reception device shoots an image displayed on the display device in each period that is the same as the period of the sub-frame and calculates the difference between two image signals obtained in each period that is the same as the period of the sub-frame to acquire and display an image signal of the embedded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130335390
    Abstract: A multi-projection display includes: a plurality of projector units; a plurality of optical sensors that are provided corresponding to each of the projector units; and a main control unit that both causes adjustment images to be projected by each of the projector units and vertically synchronizes each projected adjustment image. Each projector unit acquires by a respective optical sensor brightness values of the picture elements that are adjacent between the adjustment image that is projected by the projector unit and the adjustment images that are projected by other projector units and adjusts the brightness of the projected image based on the differences in the acquired brightness values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura, Yoshiho Yanagita, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20130335641
    Abstract: A projection screen includes: phosphor regions arranged cyclically in an in-plane direction of a display region; a plurality of black stripes and reference black stripes that partition the display region into the phosphor regions; and an optical information formation unit that is provided in a specific position within the display region and that generates readable optical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Aoki, Masahiko Ohta, So Nishimura, Yoshiho Yanagita, Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8599228
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, a display apparatus and an image displaying system wherein both secure and public images can be efficiently displayed with high quality without lowering the contrast of the public images. There are included a memory (101) that stores the image data of input secure and reversed images; a data assigning circuit (102) that assigns a pulse train, which has the same pulse width for the secure images and reversed images stored in the memory (101), as an image signal consisting of a pulse train to be used for displaying images on a display apparatus of PWM drive mode in which one frame is divided into a plurality of subfields to express brightness gray scales; and a shutter spectacle control signal generating circuit (103) that outputs a shutter control signal only during outputting of image signals in accordance with the secure images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8587680
    Abstract: A transmission device displays a public image (a first image) provided to unspecified users, a private image (a second image) provided to particular users, and a mask image of the private image in a time division multiplexed manner, and transmits a private image sync signal synchronized with display of the private image. A reception device receives the private image sync signal transmitted from the transmission device and shoots by a shooting unit the private image displayed on the transmission device by using the private image sync signal, and displays the shot image on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Fujio Okumura, Osamu Ishibashi, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20130285559
    Abstract: A fluorescent screen includes a phosphor layer including a phosphor that absorbs excitation light to emit fluorescence, a reflecting layer that is provided on one surface of the phosphor layer so as to transmit the excitation light and to reflect, to the phosphor layer, a part of fluorescence that is emitted from the phosphor and that exits from the one surface; and a plurality of holes that penetrates the reflecting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Aoki, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130259075
    Abstract: The present invention provides a laser light source module thereby providing better prevention against actions taken to use the laser light for purposes other than the intended purpose, and a laser light source module according to the present invention provides a laser light source module including a laser element that emits laser light, the laser light source module being formed by a combination of a plurality of members, the laser light source module including: a laser element drive circuit including a memory that stores a password, said laser element drive circuit making said laser element emit laser light if an input password that has been input matches the password stored in said memory; and a laser element destruction mechanism that, if the plurality of members are separated, destroys said laser element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130221826
    Abstract: Provided is a phosphor-coated light-emitting device capable of satisfactorily cooling a phosphor with a simple structure. The phosphor-coated light-emitting device includes the phosphor for generating fluorescence by excitation light, and a phosphor bearing member for bearing the phosphor. The phosphor bearing member is formed into a flat-plate shape. In a region where the phosphor is formed, a vertical member having the same perpendicular line as that of the upper surface of the phosphor bearing member is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8509576
    Abstract: An optical switch includes electro-optic crystal, and electrode unit including a plurality of electrodes arranged on the same plane in electro-optic crystal to extend in parallel to one another. A refractive index of a part of electro-optic crystal is changed by an electric field generated at electrode unit, thereby switching transmission and reflection of light incident on electro-optic crystal. Electro-optic crystal has an entrance surface through which light enters and an exit surface from which light exits. Electrode unit is located between the entrance surface and the exit surface. An angle ?x formed between a longitudinal direction of electrodes and at least one surface from among the entrance surface and the exit surface is set near an angle that satisfies the expression ?x=90°?Sin?1[ cos(Tan?1(n))] in a wavelength of light to be modulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Ohta, Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20130120247
    Abstract: Provided is a three dimensional display device that includes: three dimensional image display unit (1) having display surface (11) for spatially separating and displaying parallax images corresponding to at least two viewpoints; and force sense generation unit (2) configured to generate a sound wave toward display surface (11) of three dimensional display unit (1) and then generate predetermined pressure of the sound wave reflected on display surface (11) at a position spatially similar to the position of three dimensional image (8) displayed by three dimensional display unit (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Imai, Nobuaki Takanashi, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8422110
    Abstract: An optical switch changes the refractive index of an electro-optical crystal according to an electric field applied to the electro-optical crystal so as to switch depending on whether the electro-optical crystal enables incident light to pass through or whether the electro-optical crystal enables incident light to be totally reflected. The optical switch includes an electrode section including a plurality of electrodes and formed in the electro-optical crystal, a principal plane including the largest area of each electrode on a same plane of the electro-optical crystal; an insulator layer on at least one plane of the electro-optical crystal, the plane being parallel with the electrode section, the insulator layer made of an insulator with lower dielectric constant than the electro-optical crystal; and a temperature control device formed on and in contact with the insulator layer and controls a temperature of the electrode section or dissipates heat generated in the electrode section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Ohta, Osamu Ishibashi, Fujio Okumura