Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Takuma

Hirokazu Takuma 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: 8791931
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display panel including an image display area and a dummy pixel area different from the image display area; an optical sensor detecting light emission luminance of the dummy pixel area on the display panel; and a control unit dividing the image display area on the display panel into a plurality of division areas, allowing pixels within the dummy pixel area to perform light emission to the same degree as the light emission of one or a plurality of pixels within each division area, and correcting luminance or chromaticity of the pixels within each division area based on the light emission luminance of the dummy pixel area detected by the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hirokazu Takuma
  • Publication number: 20110248975
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display panel including an image display area and a dummy pixel area different from the image display area; an optical sensor detecting light emission luminance of the dummy pixel area on the display panel; and a control unit dividing the image display area on the display panel into a plurality of division areas, allowing pixels within the dummy pixel area to perform light emission to the same degree as the light emission of one or a plurality of pixels within each division area, and correcting luminance or chromaticity of the pixels within each division area based on the light emission luminance of the dummy pixel area detected by the optical sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hirokazu Takuma
  • Publication number: 20040090165
    Abstract: In a cathode ray tube equipped with an electron gun for radiating multiple electron beams each scanning different positions, it is made possible to modulate velocities of the electron beams individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventor: Hirokazu Takuma
  • Patent number: 5615045
    Abstract: A longitudinal-stripe lenticular lens screen and a transverse-stripe lenticular lens screen are superposed, and a light diffusing agent is mixed only in the longitudinal-stripe lenticular lens screen. Therefore, the light transmittance is high although the angle of view can be three-dimensionally widened by the two lenticular lens screens. In addition, since scan lines of an image are blurred by two diffusion planes, Moire becomes inconspicuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Takuma, Hiromitsu Takeuchi, Takaomi Hanabusa
  • Patent number: 5448401
    Abstract: A longitudinal-stripe lenticular lens screen and a transverse-stripe lenticular lens screen are superposed, and a light diffusing agent is mixed only in the longitudinal-stripe lenticular lens screen. Therefore, the light transmittance is high although the angle of view can be three-dimensionally widened by the two lenticular lens screens. In addition, since scan lines of an image are blurred by two diffusion planes, Moire becomes inconspicuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Takuma, Hiromitsu Takeuchi, Takaomi Hanabusa
  • Patent number: 5343119
    Abstract: A display device includes a beam index type cathode ray tube having a fluorescent screen on which red, green and blue fluorescent materials are formed in strip configurations and further index fluorescent materials are formed in strip configurations with a predetermined pitch, a sensor for converting light generated from the index fluorescent materials into an electric signal when an electron beam is impinged on the index fluorescent materials upon horizontal scanning of the electron beam with respect to the fluorescent screen, and for multiplying the converted electric signal, an index signal processing circuit for switching red, green and blue signals in accordance with the multiplied electric signal from the sensor, and for controlling luminance of the cathode ray tube in accordance with a luminance level control signal, and a driving voltage generating circuit for controlling a driving voltage applied to the sensor in accordance with the luminance level control signal to thereby control a multiplication r
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hirokazu Takuma