Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Hosaka

Hiroyuki Hosaka 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: 10250780
    Abstract: A video processing circuit detects a risk boundary, which a portion of the boundary between a dark pixel and a bright pixel in an image represented by a video signal Vid-in, and is determined by a tilt azimuth of liquid crystal molecules, from the boundary, and corrects a video signal corresponding to at least one of the dark pixel and the bright pixel which is contiguous to the detected risk boundary in at least one field of a plurality of fields constituting one frame such that a period in which the risk boundary is present in one frame period is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Taku Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 10199002
    Abstract: A first supply circuit outputs data signals to odd-numbered distribution circuits, and outputs selection signals to all of distribution circuits. A second supply circuit outputs data signals to even-numbered distribution circuits. The odd-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The even-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The first supply circuit outputs the data signals generated based on digital data signals which are basic signals of the data signals and an adjustment value, to the distribution circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nariya Takahashi, Hiroyuki Hosaka, Suguru Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20190033670
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display to suppress a reverse tilt domain that includes pixel electrodes, a first light-shielding film arranged in a first direction along a first side of the pixel electrodes; a second light-shielding film arranged in a second direction along a second side of the pixel electrodes, a correction unit corrects a first input image signal so that a first difference between a first voltage applied to the first pixel electrode and a second voltage applied to a second pixel electrode, and a second difference between the first voltage and a third voltage to be applied to a third pixel electrode are reduced. A width of the first light-shielding film is narrower than a width of the second light-shielding film. The correction unit corrects the first input image signal so that a decreased amount of the first difference is greater than a decreased amount of the second difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Hiroyuki HOSAKA
  • Patent number: 10121400
    Abstract: A video processing circuit includes a detecting unit that detects a set of a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel, which is a set of pixels in which a difference between application voltages to the first pixel and the second pixel which are indicated by an input video signal is greater than or equal to a threshold; an acquisition unit that acquires information which specifies a plurality of regions of voltage-brightness characteristics which are voltage-brightness characteristics of the pixel group and in which a voltage region is separated into the plurality of regions in accordance with a slope of the voltage-brightness characteristics; and a replacing unit that replaces the application voltage to the first pixel with a voltage which is in a region other than a first region and is close to a second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 10109254
    Abstract: A video processing circuit detects a boundary between a first pixel to which an application voltage which is a first voltage is applied, and a second pixel to which an application voltage which is a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied, based on a video signal indicating a video which alternately switches a first video and a second video which is obtained by moving in parallel with the first video for each unit frame, corrects the application voltage such that a fringe electric field occurring at the boundary is decreased, when determining a boundary detected by the boundary detection unit in a kth unit frame does not exist in a (k?2)th unit frame, and the boundary is a boundary which is moved from a (k?1)th unit frame to the kth unit frame, and outputs the corrected video signal such that the liquid crystal panel is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 10032804
    Abstract: An electro-optic apparatus includes an element substrate, a pixel region including a first and second pixel formed on the element substrate, a first terminal formed on the element substrate, a second terminal formed on the element substrate, located opposite of the pixel region with the first terminal being interposed between the pixel region and the second terminal, a first wiring extending from the first terminal included in a path for transmitting to the first pixel, a first signal having been input to the first terminal and a second wiring extending from the second terminal included in a path for transmitting to the second pixel, a second signal having been input to the second terminal. Further, a difference between a resistance of the path for transmitting the first and second signal is made smaller than a resistance difference due to a difference between a length of the first and second wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nariya Takahashi, Hiroyuki Hosaka, Suguru Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20180122313
    Abstract: An electrooptic device includes a plurality of first pixels, a plurality of second pixels, a first supplying section that supplies a first data signal to the first pixels and drives the first pixels, a second supplying section that supplies a second data signal to the second pixels and drives the second pixels, and a controller that supplies a third data signal to the first supplying section and supplies a fourth data signal to the second supplying section. The first supplying section generates the first data signal based on the third data signal. The second supplying section generates the second data signal based on the fourth data signal. The controller individually corrects a fifth data signal serving as a source of the third data signal and a sixth data signal serving as a source of the fourth data signal and generates the third data signal and the fourth data signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Hiroyuki HOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20180033390
    Abstract: A first supply circuit supplies first data signals to respective signal lines in a wiring group via first data lines, and supplies first selection signals via four first selection signal lines. A second supply circuit supplies second data signals to respective signal lines in the other wiring group via second data lines, and supplies second selection signals via four second selection signal lines. A control circuit exclusively supplies the first selection signals from the first supply circuit and the second selection signals from the second supply circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HOSAKA, Suguru UCHIYAMA, Nariya TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180031937
    Abstract: An electro-optic apparatus includes an element substrate, a pixel region including a first and second pixel formed on the element substrate, a first terminal formed on the element substrate, a second terminal formed on the element substrate, located opposite of the pixel region with the first terminal being interposed between the pixel region and the second terminal, a first wiring extending from the first terminal included in a path for transmitting to the first pixel, a first signal having been input to the first terminal and a second wiring extending from the second terminal included in a path for transmitting to the second pixel, a second signal having been input to the second terminal. Further, a difference between a resistance of the path for transmitting the first and second signal is made smaller than a resistance difference due to a difference between a length of the first and second wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nariya TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki HOSAKA, Suguru UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180031902
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a liquid crystal panel that is an example of an electro-optical panel, a first wiring board one end of which is connected to the liquid crystal panel, a second wiring board one end of which is connected to the liquid crystal panel at a position in a Y-axis direction viewed from the one end of the first wiring board and which has a shape bent in an X-axis direction, a first driving circuit that is provided on the first wiring board and drives the liquid crystal panel, and a second driving circuit that is provided in the bent part of the second wiring board and drives the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru UCHIYAMA, Nariya TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki HOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20180033387
    Abstract: A first supply circuit outputs data signals to odd-numbered distribution circuits, and outputs selection signals to all of distribution circuits. A second supply circuit outputs data signals to even-numbered distribution circuits. The odd-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The even-numbered distribution circuits distribute the data signals to signal lines using the selection signals. The first supply circuit outputs the data signals generated based on digital data signals which are basic signals of the data signals and an adjustment value, to the distribution circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nariya TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki HOSAKA, Suguru UCHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 9858890
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is configured so that one frame is divided into two fields and a pixel of a liquid crystal panel is driven. The liquid crystal display device performs overdrive when a gray-scale level to be supplied to the pixel is different between a previous frame and a current frame. The liquid crystal display writes a voltage corresponding to the gray-scale level of the pixel with a positive voltage in a first field, and writes a voltage corresponding to the gray-scale level to be supplied to the pixel with a negative voltage in a second field. When performing overdrive, the liquid crystal display device performs overdrive in both of the first field and the second field. Also, when performing overdrive, the liquid crystal display device corrects the gray-scale level to be supplied to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 9812051
    Abstract: A video processing circuit for specifying an applied voltage that is applied to a liquid crystal included in each pixel on the basis of a video signal, the video processing circuit includes a correction unit configured to, if the applied voltage specified by the video signal is a voltage of a level lower than a voltage level that is sufficient to an extent that can provide liquid crystal molecules with initial inclination angles, perform correction so that the applied voltage has a voltage level that is sufficient to an extent that can provide the liquid crystal molecules with initial inclination angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Hidehito Iisaka
  • Publication number: 20170316727
    Abstract: A video processing circuit includes a detecting unit that detects a set of a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel, which is a set of pixels in. which a difference between application voltages to the first pixel and the second pixel which are indicated by an input video signal is greater than or equal to a threshold; an acquisition unit that acquires information which specifies a plurality of regions of voltage-brightness characteristics which are voltage-brightness characteristics of the pixel group and in which a voltage region is separated into the plurality of regions in accordance with a slope of the voltage-brightness characteristics; and a replacing unit that replaces the application voltage to the first pixel with a voltage which is in a region other than a first region and is close to a second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Hiroyuki HOSAKA
  • Patent number: 9667931
    Abstract: A projector includes a liquid crystal panel, an optical path shifting element which is capable of changing the optical path of light emitted from the liquid crystal panel, and an image processing unit. The optical path shifting element performs pixel shift such that light reaches different positions of a display screen in respective first to fourth unit periods acquired by dividing one frame into four parts. The image processing unit includes a conversion unit which converts a high resolution image signal into a low resolution image signal, and generates an output image signal by performing an overdrive process on the low resolution image signal according to a pixel shift state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nishimori, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20170054879
    Abstract: A video processing circuit detects a risk boundary, which a portion of the boundary between a dark pixel and a bright pixel in an image represented by a video signal Vid-in, and is determined by a tilt azimuth of liquid crystal molecules, from the boundary, and corrects a video signal corresponding to at least one of the dark pixel and the bright pixel which is contiguous to the detected risk boundary in at least one field of a plurality of fields constituting one frame such that a period in which the risk boundary is present in one frame period is shortened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HOSAKA, Taku KITAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170025084
    Abstract: A video processing circuit detects a boundary between a first pixel to which an application voltage which is a first voltage is applied, and a second pixel to which an application voltage which is a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied, based on a video signal indicating a video which alternately switches a first video and a second video which is obtained by moving in parallel with the first video for each unit frame, corrects the application voltage such that a fringe electric field occurring at the boundary is decreased, when determining a boundary detected by the boundary detection unit in a kth unit frame does not exist in a (k?2)th unit frame, and the boundary is a boundary which is moved from a (k?1)th unit frame to the kth unit frame, and outputs the corrected video signal such that the liquid crystal panel is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Mizusako, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Publication number: 20160366383
    Abstract: A projector includes a liquid crystal panel, an optical path shifting element which is capable of changing the optical path of light emitted from the liquid crystal panel, and an image processing unit. The optical path shifting element performs pixel shift such that light reaches different positions of a display screen in respective first to fourth unit periods acquired by dividing one frame into four parts. The image processing unit includes a conversion unit which converts a high resolution image signal into a low resolution image signal, and generates an output image signal by performing an overdrive process on the low resolution image signal according to a pixel shift state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi NISHIMORI, Hiroyuki HOSAKA
  • Patent number: 9514700
    Abstract: A signal processing device of a liquid crystal apparatus detects a boundary between a first pixel to which a first voltage lower than a first reference voltage is applied and a second pixel to which a second voltage higher than a second reference voltage is applied on the basis of a signal for controlling a voltage applied to pixels, corrects a signal correlated with M pixels including the first pixel to a third voltage which is higher than the first voltage and lower than the second voltage, outputs the third voltage as an applied voltage to the M pixels in a first period, outputs the first voltage as an applied voltage to the M pixels in a second period, and outputs the third voltage as an applied voltage to the M pixels in a third period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Kitagawa, Hiroyuki Hosaka
  • Patent number: 9467599
    Abstract: A video processing circuit detects a risk boundary, which a portion of the boundary between a dark pixel and a bright pixel in an image represented by a video signal Vid-in, and is determined by a tilt azimuth of liquid crystal molecules, from the boundary, and corrects a video signal corresponding to at least one of the dark pixel and the bright pixel which is contiguous to the detected risk boundary in at least one field of a plurality of fields constituting one frame such that a period in which the risk boundary is present in one frame period is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hosaka, Taku Kitagawa