Patents by Inventor Hideki Onuma

Hideki Onuma 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: 8833947
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a variable aperture stop device, a control circuit and a user interface. The variable aperture stop device is operable to adjust the lens opening size by opening and closing an aperture. The control circuit is operable to control the opening and closing of the aperture based on an aperture ratio for the brightness distribution of an input signal constituting a screen. The user interface permits to set times necessary for the opening and closing of the aperture. The control circuit controls the opening and closing of the aperture based on times set via the user interface so that the response to the opening and closing of the aperture differs between when the signal changes from dark to light levels and when the level changes from light to dark levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kido, Hideki Onuma
  • Patent number: 8601801
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust assembly for a construction machine having a revolving upperstructure and an engine mounted on the revolving upperstructure. The exhaust assembly is to be arranged inside the revolving upperstructure of the construction machine, and is provided with an after-treatment device for exhaust gas from the engine and an exhaust pipe for releasing exhaust gas, which has been guided from an outlet port of the after-treatment device, to an outside. The exhaust assembly includes a concave-convex part, which has plural concavities and convexities, is arranged on an inner wall of the exhaust pipe, and extends in a direction of discharge of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Abe, Shouhei Kamiya, Hideki Onuma, Hiroyuki Kamata, Hiroki Sugawara, Hirotaka Kawamukai
  • Publication number: 20120079810
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust assembly for a construction machine having a revolving upperstructure and an engine mounted on the revolving upperstructure. The exhaust assembly is to be arranged inside the revolving upperstructure of the construction machine, and is provided with an after-treatment device for exhaust gas from the engine and an exhaust pipe for releasing exhaust gas, which has been guided from an outlet port of the after-treatment device, to an outside. The exhaust assembly includes a concave-convex part, which has plural concavities and convexities, is arranged on an inner wall of the exhaust pipe, and extends in a direction of discharge of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro ABE, Shouhei Kamiya, Hideki Onuma, Hiroyuki Kamata, Hiroki Sugawara, Hirotaka Kawamukai
  • Patent number: 8098259
    Abstract: An image display device having an image generation unit for generating an image according to an instruction, a display unit able to display in color the image generated at the image generation unit, a user interface unit including a color designation part enabling selective designation of any color from among a plurality of colors and an adjustment degree designation part able to instruct the degree of adjustment of at least attributes of the color designated by the color designation part, and a control unit for instructing the image generation unit so as to generate an image able to display at least a color designated by the color designation part of the user interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitake Kondo, Hideki Onuma, Koji Hirai
  • Patent number: 7999816
    Abstract: A video display apparatus that supports a display data channel (DDC) standard includes: one DDC-supported non-volatile memory and a control unit for writing, based on information indicating the kind of input video signal, extended display identification (EDID) data for this input video signal out of EDID data for plural kinds of video signals into the DDG-supported non-volatile memory. Accordingly, in the video display apparatus that supports DDC, it becomes possible to make the host side perform settings for plural kinds of video signals in accordance with properties of the video display apparatus, and also a reduction in cost and down-sizing are facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Onuma, Naoya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20090027572
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a variable aperture stop device, a control circuit and a user interface. The variable aperture stop device is operable to adjust the lens opening size by opening and closing an aperture. The control circuit is operable to control the opening and closing of the aperture based on an aperture ratio for the brightness distribution of an input signal constituting a screen. The user interface permits to set times necessary for the opening and closing of the aperture. The control circuit controls the opening and closing of the aperture based on times set via the user interface so that the response to the opening and closing of the aperture differs between when the signal changes from dark to light levels and when the level changes from light to dark levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kido, Hideki Onuma
  • Publication number: 20060028483
    Abstract: An image display device having an image generation unit for generating an image according to an instruction, a display unit able to display in color the image generated at the image generation unit, a user interface unit including a color designation part enabling selective designation of any color from among a plurality of colors and an adjustment degree designation part able to instruct the degree of adjustment of at least attributes of the color designated by the color designation part, and a control unit for instructing the image generation unit so as to generate an image able to display at least a color designated by the color designation part of the user interface unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshitake Kondo, Hideki Onuma, Koji Hirai
  • Publication number: 20050080939
    Abstract: A video display apparatus that supports DDC includes: one DDC-supported non-volatile memory 11 and a control unit 13 for writing, based on information indicating the kind of input video signal, EDID data for this input video signal out of EDID data for plural kinds of video signals into the DDC-supported non-volatile memory 11. Accordingly, in the video display apparatus that supports DDC, it becomes possible to make the host side perform settings for plural kinds of video signals in accordance with properties of the video display apparatus, and also reduction in cost and down-sizing are facilitated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Hideki Onuma, Naoya Matsuda
  • Patent number: 5381049
    Abstract: A multibillboard system has a matrix of display monitors for displaying an image on a single screen. Electric energy from a power supply is supplied through a main power supply switch to the display monitors. In response to a power-on remote control signal, the electric energy from the main power supply switch is supplied to the display monitors to energize them successively with respective different time delays. Since the display monitors are energized successively, not simultaneously, any rush current flowing to the multibillboard system is reduced when the multibillboard system is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Onuma
  • Patent number: 5287173
    Abstract: A system for adjusting the white balance of a projector type color display device is shown. The color display device includes three single color cathode ray tubes from which single color beams are projected onto a screen to form a colored image on the screen. The white balance adjusting system comprises a first device for feeding one of the three cathode ray tubes with all white signal to cause the same to project a single color image on the screen; a second device for detecting a luminance value of the single color image on the screen; a third device for deriving luminance values of the other single color images from the detected luminance value; and a fourth device for controlling the selected cathode ray tube in such a manner that the derived luminance values are put in a tolerance which is provided for dealing with a noise of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Onuma, Shigeto Funado