Patents by Inventor Kouzou Masuda

Kouzou Masuda 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: 7486334
    Abstract: An image display system includes a display device, an input section to which video signals of an interlace scanning system are inputted, a signal converter section which increases horizontal scanning lines of the inputted video signals in number by a factor of at least two, and which generates first and second fields, each of the fields including effective scanning lines used for displaying and ineffective scanning lines not used for displaying, with the effective and ineffective scanning lines being arranged alternately in each of the fields, and a display control section which controls the display device to display the first and second fields alternately. The display control section controls the display device such that positions of the effective scanning lines of the first fields correspond with those of the ineffective scanning lines of the second fields, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouzou Masuda, Ikuya Arai, Sadao Tsuruga, Jiro Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Sano, Tamotsu Nagabayashi, Ryuuichi Someya, Fumio Inoue, Kouji Kitou, Yasuhiro Imai, Masatoshi Hirose
  • Publication number: 20050001932
    Abstract: An image display system includes a memory for storing at least one scanning line of an inputted video signal of the interlace scanning system, and reading means for repeating to read the video signal of one scanning line from the memory at a speed which is n (n is an integer of 2 or more) times of the writing speed of the video signal for the memory for a horizontal scanning period which is 1/n of the writing period and to stop reading for a horizontal scanning period of the remaining (n?1)/n for each scanning line of one field which is sequentially inputted and reading each scanning line so that the continuous fields interpolate the period of stopping of reading from the memory each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kouzou Masuda, Ikuya Arai, Sadao Tsuruga, Jiro Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Sano, Tamotsu Nagabayashi, Ryuuichi Someya, Fumio Inoue, Kouji Kitou, Yasuhiro Imai, Masatoshi Hirose
  • Patent number: 6791623
    Abstract: An image display system includes a memory for storing at least one scanning line of an inputted video signal of the interlace scanning system, and reading means for repeating to read the video signal of one scanning line from the memory at a speed which is n (n is an integer of 2 or more) times of the writing speed of the video signal for the memory for a horizontal scanning period which is 1/n of the writing period and to stop reading for a horizontal scanning period of the remaining (n−1)/n for each scanning line of one field which is sequentially inputted and reading each scanning line so that the continuous fields interpolate the period of stopping of reading from the memory each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouzou Masuda, Ikuya Arai, Sadao Tsuruga, Jiro Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Sano, Tamotsu Nagabayashi, Ryuuichi Someya, Fumio Inoue, Kouji Kitou, Yasuhiro Imai, Masatoshi Hirose
  • Patent number: 5978041
    Abstract: An image display system includes a display circuit which displays an image composed of a plurality of sub-images, an input circuit which inputs a certain image signal including at least one sub-image embedded in the certain image signal which is provided by at least one of fields and frames, a designating circuit which designates timings of composition positions of the sub-image on scan lines of the certain image, and one control circuit which controls at least one of an amplitude level and a DC level of image signals corresponding to an area of the sub-image detected by the timing designated by the designating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouzou Masuda, Ikuya Arai, Sadao Tsuruga, Jiro Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Sano, Tamotsu Nagabayashi, Ryuuichi Someya, Fumio Inoue, Kouji Kitou, Yasuhiro Imai, Masatoshi Hirose