Patents by Inventor Kenji Ogura

Kenji Ogura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240121374
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display, a barrier, and a controller. The display displays a parallax image including a right-eye viewing image and a left-eye viewing image. The barrier defines a traveling direction of image light of the parallax image. The controller causes a black image to appear between the right-eye viewing image and the left-eye viewing image based on a parallax value of the parallax image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo TADAUCHI, Takashi SHIMADA, Kenji OGURA, Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Mitsuhiro MURATA
  • Patent number: 11809234
    Abstract: A film wrapping display includes a panel that is transparent to light and is configured to display information on one surface of the panel, and a film adhered to cover the one surface of the panel on which the information is displayed. The film is adhered to the other surface of the panel opposite to the one surface in addition to the one surface of the panel. An edge of the film is positioned at the other surface while the film covers an outermost periphery of the panel and extends around to the other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motonari Ogura, Kaname Tomita, Kenji Ogura
  • Publication number: 20230176422
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device prevents light leakage in a black display of a projected image when a light source reaches a higher temperature, and displays a high-quality image without any lost sense of reality. The device includes a light-transmissive liquid crystal display element including two glass substrates and a liquid crystal layer sealed between the glass substrates, a backlight device that emits light toward one glass substrate in the liquid crystal display element, an emission-light polarizing plate on the other glass substrate, an incident-light polarizing plate on the one glass substrate, and a polarizer being a plate and including a base layer including a glass substrate and a metal layer stacked on the base layer and having a polarization function. The polarizer is located with the base layer facing the incident-light polarizing plate. The base layer is thicker than each of the glass substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta KAMOSHIDA, Ryo TADAUCHI, Takashi SHIMADA, Kenji OGURA, Mitsuhiro MURATA
  • Publication number: 20230001790
    Abstract: A first input unit in a head-up display obtains a distance to an object. A second input unit obtains a user's eye position. An optical system projects, into the user's field of view, a virtual image of an image displayed on a display panel. A processor causes the display panel to display a parallax image. An optical element causes a first image displayed on the display panel to reach the user's first eye and a second image on the display panel to reach the user's second eye. The processor causes the display panel to display an image element in the parallax image as at least partially superimposed on the object. The processor performs first control to fix, in response to the distance to the object greater than or equal to a predetermined first distance, parallax of the image element to a value other than 0 corresponding to the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Kenji OGURA, Ryo TADAUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220400248
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel, an optical panel, and a controller. The display panel displays a parallax image. The optical panel defines a traveling direction of image light. The controller controls the parallax image based on positions of a first eye and a second eye of a user. The controller causes a predetermined proportion of pixels to display a black image. The predetermined proportion is determined to cause, for the first and second eyes of the user at a predetermined reference position, a black image to be displayed by a pixel at one end or two ends of multiple first areas viewable to the first eye and not viewable to the second eye and by a pixel at one end or two ends of multiple second areas viewable to the second eye and not viewable to the first eye in a parallax direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Takashi SHIMADA, Ryo TADAUCHI, Kenji OGURA
  • Publication number: 20220353485
    Abstract: A camera includes an image sensor, a signal processor, and an output unit. The image sensor obtains a first image being a subject image including an eye of a user of a head-up display. The signal processor generates a second image by reducing a resolution of an area of the first image other than an eyebox area. The eyebox area is an area within which a virtual image displayable by the head-up display is viewable by the eye of the user. The output unit outputs the second image to the head-up display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro MURATA, Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Kenji OGURA
  • Publication number: 20220345686
    Abstract: A three-dimensional display device includes a display panel that displays a parallax image, an optical panel including a plurality of less-transmissive portions and a plurality of transmissive portions repeatedly arranged alternately in a parallax direction, and a controller that controls the display panel. Each of the plurality of transmissive portions has a first width in the parallax direction greater than a second width of each of the plurality of less-transmissive portions in the parallax direction. The controller causes the display panel to display a black image in a binocular viewable area on the display panel viewable to two eyes of a user to allow parallax separation of the parallax image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Kaoru KUSAFUKA, Takashi SHIMADA, Ryo TADAUCHI, Kenji OGURA
  • Patent number: 11416038
    Abstract: A film wrapping display includes a panel that is transparent to light and is configured to display information on one surface of the panel, and a film adhered to cover the one surface of the panel on which the information is displayed. The film is adhered to the other surface of the panel opposite to the one surface in addition to the one surface of the panel. An edge of the film is positioned at the other surface while the film covers an outermost periphery of the panel and extends around to the other surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motonari Ogura, Kaname Tomita, Kenji Ogura
  • Patent number: 11301002
    Abstract: A film wrapping display includes a touch panel configured to receive a touch operation by a user as an input, a bezel arranged along an outer periphery of the touch panel, and a film adhered to cover a touch surface of the touch panel configured to be touched by the user. The touch panel and the bezel are arranged such that a gap between the outer periphery of the touch panel and an inner periphery of the bezel exists. The film is adhered to an inner wall surface of the gap in addition to the surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motonari Ogura, Kaname Tomita, Kenji Ogura
  • Publication number: 20220050507
    Abstract: A film wrapping display includes a panel that is transparent to light and is configured to display information on one surface of the panel, and a film adhered to cover the one surface of the panel on which the information is displayed. The film is adhered to the other surface of the panel opposite to the one surface in addition to the one surface of the panel. An edge of the film is positioned at the other surface while the film covers an outermost periphery of the panel and extends around to the other surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Motonari OGURA, Kaname TOMITA, Kenji OGURA
  • Patent number: 10951853
    Abstract: A connecting structure for attaching a wall-mount fixture to an external portion of a display device includes a fastening member. The fastening member is integrally formed as a one-piece, unitary member. The fastening member includes a receiving part, and first and second bent parts that extend from the receiving part, the first bent part having a first end plate with a threaded hole, the second bent part having a second end plate with a screw insertion hole, the first and second end plates overlapping with respect to each other and facing with the receiving part. The receiving part is configured and arranged to receive a distal end of a screw that extends through the insertion hole of the second end plate and is screwed into the threaded hole of the first end plate such that the screw is prevented from being screwed beyond the receiving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Yonezawa, Yuki Kita, Akihiro Fujikawa, Kenji Ogura, Tsukasa Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20210063904
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image, comprising a toner particle and an external additive, the toner particle comprising a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester resin, a colorant, and a release agent, the crystalline polyester resin comprising an alicyclic dibasic acid, a terephthalic acid, and an isophthalic acid as acid components and being contained in the toner particle in an amount of 4 to 8% by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Motoyuki KUSAMIYA, Kenji OGURA
  • Publication number: 20200409499
    Abstract: A film wrapping display includes a touch panel configured to receive a touch operation by a user as an input, a bezel arranged along an outer periphery of the touch panel, and a film adhered to cover a touch surface of the touch panel configured to be touched by the user. The touch panel and the bezel are arranged such that a gap between the outer periphery of the touch panel and an inner periphery of the bezel exists. The film is adhered to an inner wall surface of the gap in addition to the surface of the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Motonari OGURA, Kaname TOMITA, Kenji OGURA
  • Publication number: 20200409425
    Abstract: A film wrapping display includes a panel that is transparent to light and is configured to display information on one surface of the panel, and a film adhered to cover the one surface of the panel on which the information is displayed. The film is adhered to the other surface of the panel opposite to the one surface in addition to the one surface of the panel. An edge of the film is positioned at the other surface while the film covers an outermost periphery of the panel and extends around to the other surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Motonari OGURA, Kaname TOMITA, Kenji OGURA
  • Patent number: 10766747
    Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection apparatus for a passenger conveyor, including: a first sensor arranged at an upper horizontal portion; a second sensor arranged at a lower horizontal portion; and a control device configured to receive respective outputs of the first sensor and the second sensor, wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are each configured to measure a distance to a side surface of each of steps along a traveling direction of each of steps, and wherein the control device is configured to detect abnormality of the passenger conveyor based on a change amount of each of measurement values given by the first sensor and the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Ogura
  • Publication number: 20200180915
    Abstract: Provided is an abnormality detection apparatus for a passenger conveyor, including: a first sensor arranged at an upper horizontal portion; a second sensor arranged at a lower horizontal portion; and a control device configured to receive respective outputs of the first sensor and the second sensor, wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are each configured to measure a distance to a side surface of each of steps along a traveling direction of each of steps, and wherein the control device is configured to detect abnormality of the passenger conveyor based on a change amount of each of measurement values given by the first sensor and the second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji OGURA
  • Patent number: 10335616
    Abstract: An ascender includes a pulley, an input shaft, a support member, a transmission mechanism, a rope guide, a cam, an energizing member, an operating member, and a closing member. A rope is removably wound on the pulley. An output shaft of a rotary electric tool is removably connected to the input shaft. The transmission mechanism transmit a rotational force of the input shaft to the pulley. The cam moves toward the pulley to bite into the rope so as to prevent a movement of the rope when the rope is going to move in a descending direction. The cam moves away from the pulley to allow the movement of the rope when the rope is going to move in an ascending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: KENTECH SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kenji Ogura
  • Patent number: RE47914
    Abstract: A display device, comprising a display panel, a back surface enclosure disposed on a back surface side of the display panel and comprising a concave portion formed in a concave shape on a display panel side, and a heat generating component disposed between the display panel and the back surface enclosure, wherein the concave portion comprises a plurality of holes that release heat from the heat generating component to an outside of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Ogura
  • Patent number: D1014444
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Ishigami, Makoto Imai, Hidetoshi Hata, Takafumi Omori, Tetsunori Aono, Kenji Ogura, Yuki Takigawa
  • Patent number: D1014445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Ishigami, Makoto Imai, Hidetoshi Hata, Takafumi Omori, Tetsunori Aono, Kenji Ogura, Yuki Takigawa