Patents by Inventor Koichi Ara

Koichi Ara 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: 10438384
    Abstract: An image display system includes: a display device; a detecting device for detecting a position pointed by an input device, on a display screen of the display device; and a display control device that, in accordance with a drawing on the display screen using the input device, causes the display device to display an image corresponding to the drawing in conformity with a setting corresponding to the position on the display screen at which the drawing has been started. The settings are different from each other depending on the areas on the display screen defined by multiple reference points provided thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Michio Tomizawa, Koichi Ara
  • Publication number: 20170116763
    Abstract: An image display system includes: a display device; a detecting device for detecting a position pointed by an input device, on a display screen of the display device ; and a display control device that, in accordance with a drawing on the display screen using the input device, causes the display device to display an image corresponding to the drawing in conformity with a setting corresponding to the position on the display screen at which the drawing has been started. The settings are different from each other depending on the areas on the display screen defined by multiple reference points provided thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Michio TOMIZAWA, Koichi ARA
  • Publication number: 20140232738
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to carry out, simply and reliably, distortion correction and uneven brightness correction, and includes a memory for blending data; a memory for geometric correction data; an image correcting unit; and a CPU which, upon receiving two-dimensional correction data representing the contents of geometric correction data for performing distortion correction and blending data for performing brightness correction, creates the blending data and the geometric correction data based on the two-dimensional correction data, stores the data into the memory for blending data and into the memory for geometric correction data, refers, as regards the input image signal, to the stored contents in the memory for blending data and the memory for geometric correction data and causes the image correcting unit to perform distortion correction and uneven brightness correction in accordance with the stored contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Michio Tomizawa, Koichi Ara, Atsuhiko Saitou
  • Patent number: 8277051
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a lamp a power supply for supplying power to lamp, an image processing unit for displaying an image according to any one of a plurality of video signals applied externally, and a control unit for causing the power supply to start supplying power to the lamp when at least one of the plurality of video signals is applied in an initial state, checking whether or not any one of the plurality of video signals is applied within a predetermined period of time from the time when the applied video signal is stopped, making the power supply continue to supply power to the lamp if at least one of the plurality of video signals is applied, and making the power supply stop supplying power to the lamp if any one of the plurality of video signals has not been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Nec Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Moriwaki, Koichi Ara, Michio Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20100128184
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a lamp, a power supply for supplying power to lamp, an image processing unit for displaying an image according to any one of a plurality of video signals applied externally, and a control unit for causing the power supply to start supplying power to the lamp when at least one of the plurality of video signals is applied in an initial state, checking whether or not any one of the plurality of video signals is applied within a predetermined period of time from the time when the applied video signal is stopped, making the power supply continue to supply power to the lamp if at least one of the plurality of video signals is applied, and making the power supply stop supplying power to the lamp if any one of the plurality of video signals has not been applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Daisuke Moriwaki, Koichi Ara, Michio Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20020021259
    Abstract: The image display device according to the present invention includes a master display unit and slave display units which respectively display a plurality of pictures that coincide in positions on a projection screen, where the master display unit is equipped with a generation unit that generates an on-screen picture, and the slave display unit is equipped with an erasure unit that erases the portion of the video in a display region corresponding to the on-screen picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Applicant: NEC VIEWTECHNOLOGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Youichi Itaki, Koichi Ara
  • Patent number: 6008596
    Abstract: A convergence adjusting method and a convergence adjusting circuit, for improving the preciseness of adjustment while reducing a time required for the adjustment and for avoiding an occurrence of non-continuity distortion on a display screen. An adjustment state flag memory 8 stores flags indicative of whether or not the adjustment in respective adjustment points is completed. The convergence adjusting method includes sequentially performing convergence adjustment at a plurality of adjusting points set on the display screen equidistantly and setting new adjusting points on the display screen equidistantly with a pitch smaller than a pitch of the adjusting points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Ara