Patents by Inventor Koichiro Kakinuma

Koichiro Kakinuma 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: 20080036943
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight device which is used for a color liquid crystal display and includes a light source and a backlight housing (23). The light source includes a red light emitting diode (21R), radiating red light, having a peak wavelength ?pr such that 625 nm??pr?685 nm, a green light emitting diode (21G), radiating green light, having a peak wavelength ?pg such that 505 nm??pg?540 nm, and a blue light emitting diode (21B), radiating blue light, having a peak wavelength ?pb such that 420 nm??pb?465 nm. The backlight housing mixes the red light, the green light and the blue light, radiated from the light source, to generate white light. A light emission intensity is adjusted so that a half value width of a spectrum of the red light, a half value width of a spectrum of the green light and a half value width of a spectrum of the blue light are such that 20 nm?hwr?25 nm, 30 nm?hwg?40 nm and 25 nm?hwb?30 nm, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Matsumoto, Koichiro Kakinuma, Takehiro Nakatsue, Shuichi Haga
  • Publication number: 20070252924
    Abstract: Disclosed is a color liquid display (LCD) employing a transmissive color liquid display panel. The display includes a complementary color light emitting diode, which is one of a cyan light emitting diode (21C), emitting cyan light, a yellow light emitting diode, emitting yellow light, and a magenta light emitting diode, emitting magenta light, in addition to light emitting diodes emitting three prime colors, as a light source. The display also includes a complementary color filter, having at least one of a cyan filter CFC having a transmission wavelength range corresponding to the cyan light, a yellow filter CFY having a transmission wavelength range corresponding to the yellow light and a magenta filter CFM having a transmission wavelength range corresponding to the magenta light, in addition to a tristimulus color filer, as a color filter (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Haga, Koichiro Kakinuma, Takehiro Nakatsue, Tatsuhiko Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20070182887
    Abstract: Disclosed is a backlight device used for a color liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus. The red light, green light and blue light, generated by a light source, made up by a red light emitting diode (21R), a green light emitting diode (21G) and a blue light emitting diode (21B), respectively, are mixed together to generate white light. The red light has a half-value width hwr such that 15 nm?hwr?30 nm, and the green light has a half-value width hwg such that 25 nm?hwg?50 nm. The blue light has a half-value width hwb such that 15 nm?hwb?30 nm. The white light illuminates a transmissive color liquid crystal display panel (10) from its back side. The transmissive color liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter (19) made up by a tristimulus filter for wavelength-selecting and transmitting red light, green light and blue light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2005
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Shuichi Haga, Koichiro Kakinuma, Takehiro Nakatsue, Tatsuhiko Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Tagawa, Yutaka Ota, Takashi Oku, Takeo Arai
  • Publication number: 20070171289
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide signals which allow colors in a wider color range than predetermined standards, which can be handled by apparatus according to such predetermined standards. A primary color converter 62 converts first color signals having primary color points in a wider color range than the primary color points according to BT.709 into second color signals based on the primary colors according to BT.709. A photoelectric transducer 63 converts the second color signals into third color signals according to photoelectric transducer characteristics defined in a numerical range wider than a range from 0 to 1.0 of color signals corresponding to a luminance signal and color difference signals according to BT.709. A color signal converter 64 converts the third color signals into a luminance signal and color difference signals. A corrector 64A incorporated in the color signal converter corrects the color difference signals into color difference signals in a range from ?0.57 to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Ko Ishimoto, Koichiro Kakinuma, Takehiro Nakatsue, Tatsuhiko Matsumoto, Shuichi Haga, Hiroshi Takizuka, Yoshiki Shirochi, Naoya Katoh, Hiroshi Wamashita, Koichi Oura, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Junichi Iwai, Kazuji Uemura, Shigeo Kubota, Hideo Morita
  • Patent number: 6509916
    Abstract: A printer device and a picture printing method is disclosed, in which, if the gradation for cyan is to be represented, an ink C′ of low concentration is superimposed to represent the low gradation area. This cyan ink is used in combination with a high-concentration blue ink B and a high-concentration green ink G to represent a high gradation area. In representing the high gradation area, the emitting proportions of the high-concentration blue ink B and the high-concentration green ink G are changed to enable the color hue in the high gradation area to be varied delicately to improve color reproducibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kakinuma, Naoya Kato, Tatsuya Deguchi
  • Patent number: 5917510
    Abstract: A method for controlling gradation in an ink jet printer is provided which includes the steps of (a) reading input picture data in first memory means (b) determining the position of a pixel under consideration from the input picture data read out from the first memory means and for calculating an error .di-elect cons.=X-X', where X is input picture data of the pixel under consideration and X' is a level of plural stages to be actually printed, (c) distributing the error .di-elect cons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Narushima, Koichiro Kakinuma, Masao Araya, Shinichiro Mikami
  • Patent number: 5868505
    Abstract: A printer apparatus in which a multi-nozzle print head can be produced at low cost and which can deal with changes caused with lapse of time. With the printer apparatus, effective resolution can be improved and a more accurate gradation level in picture printing can be achieved for assuring uniform printing quality. The printer apparatus has a shading correction unit 14 for correcting the picture printing data signal for printing using shading correction data previously found and stored in the EE-PROM 10 and shading correction data entered from a man/machine interfacing unit 2 and for generating a head impression signal for driving a print head 16 based on the corrected picture printing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Narushima, Koichiro Kakinuma, Masao Araya, Shinichiro Mikami, Junko Ikegami
  • Patent number: 5823690
    Abstract: A printer apparatus in which a multi-nozzle print head can be produced at low cost and which can deal with changes caused with lapse of time. With the printer apparatus, effective resolution can be improved and a more accurate gradation level in picture printing can be achieved for assuring uniform printing quality. The printer apparatus has a shading correction unit 14 for correcting the picture printing data signal for printing using shading correction data previously found and stored in the EE-PROM 10 and shading correction data entered from a man/machine interfacing unit 2 and for generating a head impression signal for driving a print head 16 based on the corrected picture printing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Narushima, Koichiro Kakinuma, Masao Araya, Shinichiro Mikami, Junko Ikegami
  • Patent number: 4953031
    Abstract: An electrostatic blackboard having an image display function for displaying on an electrostatically recordable blackboard display a visible toner image converted from an electrostatic latent image formed on the backboard by an electrostatic recording head includes copying apparatus for transfering the visible image on the blackboard to a large-size paper sheet. A semi-permanent latent image toner fusing operation is provided to create a semi-permanent visible image, yet permit easy erasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Katoh, Koichiro Kakinuma, Tohru Naganuma, Makoto Ando, Osamu Majima
  • Patent number: 4942482
    Abstract: An automatic page-turning device for turning pages of a book or the like as placed in an opened condition to expose a first page to be turned at one side of a spine and a second page in a stack of turned pages at the opposite side of the spine, comprises a carrier drum having a perforated peripheral wall and being bodily movable from a first position opposing an outer edge portion of the first page of the opened book to a second position in which the carrier drum opposes an outer edge portion of the second page, a suction device by which a vacuum is applied to the interior of the carrier in its first position for causing adherence of the first page thereto and the transport of the first page with the carrier drum toward the second position, with the first page being isolated from the effect of the vacuum at a position of the carrier drum intermediate its first and second positions for releasing the first page from the carrier drum and permitting the reception of such released first page by a page guiding memb
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1990
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kakinuma, Minoru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4908711
    Abstract: A flexible electrostatic recording medium used in conjunction with an electronic blackboard includes a base layer composed of a synthetic resin, a conductive layer formed on the base layer, and a dielectric layer formed on the conductive layer by a thin transparent film, preferably of polyvinylidene fluoride, and adhered to the conductive layer by means of an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1990
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Majima, Koichiro Kakinuma, Tohru Naganuma, Makoto Ando
  • Patent number: 4877946
    Abstract: A card issuance apparatus has an input for inputting data required for issuing a card, a memory for storing the data, a recording device for recording the data in a recording section on the card, a cancellation key, and a cancellation device responsive to operation of the cancellation key for cancelling the data stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ando, Koichiro Kakinuma, Masahiko Sawa, Hideaki Ohmuro, Akira Ohryo
  • Patent number: 4812632
    Abstract: A portable card writer for a card with a magnetic stripe provided thereon comprises a chassis, a drive mounted on the chassis for moving the card to and fro, guided along the chassis, a magnetic writing head mounted on the chassis, a magnetic reading head mounted on the chassis, and a printer for writing data in the card at a portion other than the magnetic stripe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kakinuma, Makoto Ando, Masahiko Sawa, Hideaki Ohmuro, Akira Ohryo, Tadahiko Nakamura