Patents by Inventor Junichi Maruyama

Junichi Maruyama 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: 8120629
    Abstract: A signal converter to make a display module conduct an n-ply display operation divides one frame period of input display data into n subframes to obtain n-ply display data, shifts the sampling position for each n-ply display data, samples the data to convert resolution thereof, rearranges in n ways a combination of subpixels included in each pixel of output display data resultant from the sampling, and varying the sampling position and the combination of subpixels for each subframe in a cooperative fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Yoshihisa Ooishi, Yoshiki Kurokawa, Takashi Shoji, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20110283054
    Abstract: For a nonvolatile memory permitting electrical writing and erasing of information to be stored, such as a flash memory, the load on the system developer is to be reduced, and it is to be made possible to avoid, even if such important data for the system as management and address translation information are damaged, an abnormal state in which the system becomes unable to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: KENJI KOZAKAI, Takeshi Nakamura, Tatsuya Ishii, Motoyasu Tsunoda, Shinya Iguchi, Junichi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8043851
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polypeptide shown in the following in (A), and a protein dimer neoculin comprising the polypeptide Neoculin Acidic Subunit (NAS) and the polypeptide Neoculin Basic Subunit (NBS) and having a taste-modifying activity: (A) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.2 in the sequence listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsukan Group Corporation
    Inventors: Keiko Abe, Tomiko Asakura, Hiroyuki Sorimachi, Tazuko Uenoyama, Kenichiro Nakajima, Katsuhiko Kitamoto, Junichi Maruyama, Mikiya Kishi
  • Publication number: 20110234569
    Abstract: A data line driving section (6) outputs a video signal voltage for each pixel to a data line (DL) for each predetermined period in order. In outputting a video signal voltage for a pixel, the data line driving section (6) outputs a gradation signal voltage having a voltage corresponding to a gradation value of the pixel as the video signal voltage during a second part of the predetermined period, and outputs a correction gradation signal voltage different from the gradation signal voltage as the video signal voltage during a first part of the predetermined period. A control section (4) changes a relationship between the correction gradation signal voltage and the gradation signal voltage based on a combination of the gradation value of the pixel and a gradation value of a pixel preceding the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OOISHI, Misa Owa, Junichi Maruyama, Goki Toshima
  • Publication number: 20110234648
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a control portion; a display panel including one or more pixel circuits and an image signal line connected to the pixel circuits; and an image signal line driving circuit. The control portion includes a difference acquiring circuit for acquiring difference data between a value of a gray-level potential, which is to be applied to one of the pixel circuits from the image signal line, and a value of a precharge potential based on the gray-level potential. The image signal line driving circuit calculates the precharge potential based on the value of the gray-level potential and the difference data, and supplies the image signal line with the precharge potential and the gray-level potential in sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OOISHI, Goki Toshima, Junichi Maruyama, Misa Owa
  • Publication number: 20110234649
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which includes one image signal line which is connected to a plurality of pixels, a scanning line drive part which outputs an ON voltage to the respective pixels in a predetermined order, and a data line drive part which outputs image signal voltages. The data line drive part outputs a gray level signal voltage corresponding to a gray level value of the pixel as an image signal voltage in a first period, and outputs a correction gray level signal voltage different from the gray level signal voltage as an image signal voltage in a second period which precedes the first period. The liquid crystal display device further includes a control part which generates the correction gray level signal voltage based on the gray level value of the pixel and one or plurarity of gray level values of pixels which precede the pixel in order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OOISHI, Masato Ishii, Junichi Maruyama, Goki Toshima
  • Patent number: 8026885
    Abstract: A display device and system are disclosed, wherein the display system is so configured that an n-fold rate increasing circuit is arranged with a signal generating device instead of with the display device to realize a low-cost n-fold rate impulse-type drive. The n-fold rate display data is output to the display device from the signal generating device, and the display device includes a circuit to subject the input n-fold rate display data to the data conversion process for the n-fold rate impulse drive. In addition to the n-fold rate display data, an identification signal for identifying the position of the turn of the frames of the original video signal is input to the display device to prevent the erroneous data conversion operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Yoshihisa Ooishi, Kikuo Ono, Takashi Shoji
  • Patent number: 7995018
    Abstract: A hold-type display device reduces the blur of a moving image and makes less conspicuous the color shift caused due to different blur positions among RGB. In the case where the relative brightness of the video data of one or two of the three primary colors RGB changes from between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the previous frame to between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the present frame, the video image of the one or two colors is delayed by one frame and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Junichi Maruyama, Takashi Shoji, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20110109666
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes data lines, a plurality of pixel circuits, and a control circuit which obtains data line potentials which are formed by correcting potentials which allow the respective pixel circuits to display tones. The control circuit obtains the data line potentials such that a correction amount from a first potential to the data line potential when a tone potential in a frame which is displayed is the first potential and a tone potential in a frame right before the frame is a second potential, and a correction amount from the second potential to the data line potential when the tone potential of the frame which is displayed is the second potential and the tone potential of the frame right before the frame is the first potential differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Misa Owa, Junichi Maruyama, Goki Toshima, Yoshihisa Ooishi
  • Patent number: 7933158
    Abstract: For a nonvolatile memory permitting electrical writing and erasing of information to be stored, such as a flash memory, the load on the system developer is to be reduced, and it is to be made possible to avoid, even if such important data for the system as management and address translation information are damaged, an abnormal state in which the system becomes unable to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kozakai, Takeshi Nakamura, Tatsuya Ishii, Motoyasu Tsunoda, Shinya Iguchi, Junichi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20110056818
    Abstract: A key switch device and a keyboard, capable of preventing key-entry noise from rebounding and having a drip-proof effect so as to avoid a contact fault and/or insulation failure. The key switch device includes a switch panel; a key top positioned above the switch panel; a pair of link members positioned between the key top and the switch panel and adapted to interlock with the key top so that the key top may be moved in a vertical direction while maintaining a horizontal posture; and an annular elastic wall member positioned between the switch panel and a membrane sheet and configured to contact opposing surfaces of the switch panel and the membrane sheet, wherein the elastic wall member is arranged along a contour of the key top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Hiromi Otsuka, Kazuya Yoshimatsu
  • Publication number: 20110032231
    Abstract: A display device includes a frame frequency conversion circuit configured to convert a frame frequency of an input display data and a timing control circuit configured to control a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit based on a frame frequency after the conversion. The display device generates at least two display areas on the display panel. The at least two display areas display images at different frame frequencies. The display device further includes a switch unit configured to display an image at the frame frequency before the conversion at one of the at least two display areas and configured to display an image at the frame frequency after the conversion at another one of the at least two display areas. At least one of a boundary position and a size of the at least two display areas varies with time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Junichi MARUYAMA, Koji Hosogi, Goki Toshima, Misa Owa, Naruhiko Kasai, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20110022913
    Abstract: For a nonvolatile memory permitting electrical writing and erasing of information to be stored, such as a flash memory, the load on the system developer is to be reduced, and it is to be made possible to avoid, even if such important data for the system as management and address translation information are damaged, an abnormal state in which the system becomes unable to operate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Kenji Kozakai, Takeshi Nakamura, Tatsuya Ishii, Motoyasu Tsunoda, Shinya Iguchi, Junichi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20110020926
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polypeptide shown below in (A) or (B), a protein dimer neoculin comprising the polypeptide Neoculin Acidic Subunit (NAS) and the polypeptide Neoculin Basic Subunit (NBS) and having a taste-modifying activity: (A) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.2 in the sequence listing; (B) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence with the substitution, deletion, insertion, addition or inversion of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 2 in the sequence listing, which polypeptide can form the neoculin dimer having a taste-modifying activity together with the polypeptide NBS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventors: Keiko ABE, Tomiko Asakura, Hiroyuki Sorimachi, Tazuko Uenoyama, Kenichiro Nakajima, Katsuhiko Kitamoto, Junichi Maruyama, Mikiya Kishi
  • Patent number: 7847771
    Abstract: A speed doubling circuit receiving display data in one frame period and outputting field A display data and field B display data in one frame period. A field conversion circuit converts the field A display data to have a highest gray-scale if the display data has a high gray-scale, and converts the field B display data to have a lowest gray-scale if the display data has a low gray-scale. Between the speed doubling circuit and field conversion circuit, an emphasis circuit is disposed which emphasizes each of the field A display data and field B display data in accordance with the display data one frame period before and the display data in the present frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Hiroyuki Nitta, Yoshihisa Ooishi, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20100294638
    Abstract: A key switch unit includes a keycap elongated in a lengthwise direction; a switch mechanism; a supporting plate supporting the switch mechanism; and a key reinforcement mechanism engaging the keycap on its lower side for reinforcement. The key reinforcement mechanism includes a first wire member having a beam part extending over substantially an overall dimension of the keycap in the lengthwise direction; a second wire member having a beam part extending in the lengthwise direction between a region contacting the switch mechanism and a first lengthwise end of the keycap; and a third wire member having a beam part extending in the lengthwise direction between the region and a second lengthwise end of the keycap. The beam parts engage the keycap on its lower side. The first, second, and third wire members have respective end parts turnably supported on the supporting plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventors: Junichi Maruyama, Tamotsu Koike, Takeshi Nishino
  • Publication number: 20100289735
    Abstract: A resistive element (115) is connected in series to a cathode terminal of an LED light source at a last stage (or an anode terminal of an LED light source at a first stage) of an LED chain (116), and the resistive element (115) is configured to be variable in resistance value in accordance with a variation of voltage drops of the LEDs connected in series so that a resistive element connected to an LED chain having a large voltage drop has a small resistance value while a resistive element connected to an LED chain having a small voltage drop has a large resistance value. With this configuration, the power, which has been wasted otherwise as heat in the backlight driver IC, may be dispersed to the resistive elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Koji HOSOGI, Junichi Maruyama, Misa Owa, Kikuo Ono, Goki Toshima, Masahiro Fukata
  • Publication number: 20100265405
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of producing an image of excellent quality with reduced flicker and little reduction in luminance, the display device including: a backlight having light sources such as LED devices arranged two-dimensionally, each of which may be individually modulated in luminance; a moving velocity detection unit VD1 (109) for detecting a moving velocity of an object in a video (for example, moving velocity of a foreground); and a luminance variation control unit (113) for automatically controlling luminance variations of the LED devices for each frame, in accordance with the moving velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Goki Toshima, Junichi Maruyama, Koji Hosogi, Misa Owa, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 7817480
    Abstract: For a nonvolatile memory permitting electrical writing and erasing of information to be stored, such as a flash memory, the load on the system developer is to be reduced, and it is to be made possible to avoid, even if such important data for the system as management and address translation information are damaged, an abnormal state in which the system becomes unable to operate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kozakai, Takeshi Nakamura, Tatsuya Ishii, Motoyasu Tsunoda, Shinya Iguchi, Junichi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20100221807
    Abstract: This invention provides a cellulase enzyme derived from intestinal symbiotic protists of insects selected from the group consisting of Reticulitermes speratus, Hodotermopsis sjostedti, Neotermes koshunensis, Mastotermes darwiniensis, and Cryptocercidae and comprising an amino acid sequence encoded by a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of the nucleotide sequences as shown in SEQ ID NOS:1 to 140 and nucleotide sequences having 90% or higher identity therewith, a mixture of two or more said enzymes, a processed matter of said enzyme or mixture, DNA encoding said enzyme and an expression system thereof, and a method for producing said enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicants: RIKEN, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Shigeharu Moriya, Toshiaki Kudo, Tetsushi Inoue, Nemuri Todaka, Katsuhiko Kitamoto, Manabu Arioka, Manabu Arioka, Junichi Maruyama