Patents by Inventor Kyoichiro Oda

Kyoichiro Oda 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: 20170151034
    Abstract: Provided is a surgical display system. The circuitry (200) is configured to receive user identification information and determine a display (100A, 100B) setting for each of a plurality of head-mounted displays based on display setting information associated with the received user identification information. The circuitry is further configured to set the display settings of the plurality of head-mounted displays based on the determined display settings to display an image from a surgical imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoichiro ODA, Takahito WAKEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9509983
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and display apparatuses consistent with the invention may generate control signals to control n light-passing devices such that the n light-passing devices each are sequentially operated between ON and OFF states, and such that each of the n light-passing devices are in the ON state no less than 1/n of the viewing period. This may allow different images to be viewed through different light-passing devices. The embodiments may be used, for example, to present a three-dimensional image to a viewer or to present different videos to different viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 9001198
    Abstract: There is provided an image display viewing system including an image display device including a signal control portion that receives input of an image signal and outputs a signal that causes each of multiple different images to be displayed at least twice consecutively, and a display panel to which the signal output from the signal control portion is input and which alternately displays each of the multiple different images at least twice consecutively, and an optical modulator including a liquid crystal layer on which an image having a predetermined polarization direction output from the image display device and external light having random polarization are incident, and which periodically changes the polarization direction of the incident light, and a polarizing plate on which light emitted from the liquid crystal layer is incident and which has a polarization axis in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Kyoichiro Oda, Toyokazu Ogasawara, Kazuya Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 8928740
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel that periodically displays different images, a shutter control portion that generates timing signals for driving shutters for a right eye and a left eye, in synchronization with the periodical display of the display panel, with respect to glasses for viewing images, the glasses being provided with the shutters for the right and left eye, a backlight that includes a light guide plate of a size corresponding to a display area of the display panel and light sources that are provided on two opposing side faces of the light guide plate and that irradiates the display panel from a rear side of the display panel, and a backlight control portion that causes the respective light sources that are provided on the two opposing side faces to blink at different timings during an opening period of the shutters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 8780175
    Abstract: A picture signal processor includes: a frame-rate conversion section performing a frame-rate-increasing conversion, which brings an over-double frame rate, on each of a plurality of time-series picture streams each including a plurality of unit pictures, and providing frame-rate-converted picture streams to a display section which displays pictures through performing time-divisional switching of picture streams from one to another in order; and a shutter control section controlling a shutter eyeglass device to perform an open/close operation in synchronization with a display switching timing between the frame-rate-converted picture streams in the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Miyazaki, Kyoichiro Oda, Minoru Urushihara, Makoto Kondo, Yoichi Matsumura, Hideki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130208024
    Abstract: Provided are an image processing method, an image processing device, an image processing circuit, and an image display unit that allow occurrence of a crosstalk to be reduced. When an image signal Din is input, the image signal Din is converted into an image signal D?in with a narrower dynamic range based on a lookup table (53A) on a dynamic range control section (51). At this time, the dynamic range of the image signal D?in is set up to an extent of avoiding saturation in an overdrive correction. Subsequently, an image signal Dout is generated by performing the overdrive correction for the image signal D?in using the lookup table (53A) on an overdrive control section (52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoichiro Oda, Koichi Katagawa, Masayuki Takahashi, Atsushi Ito, Masahiko Nakahama
  • Publication number: 20110285816
    Abstract: A picture signal processor includes: a frame-rate conversion section performing a frame-rate-increasing conversion, which brings an over-double frame rate, on each of a plurality of time-series picture streams each including a plurality of unit pictures, and providing frame-rate-converted picture streams to a display section which displays pictures through performing time-divisional switching of picture streams from one to another in order; and a shutter control section controlling a shutter eyeglass device to perform an open/close operation in synchronization with a display switching timing between the frame-rate-converted picture streams in the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro MIYAZAKI, Kyoichiro Oda, Minoru Urushihara, Makoto Kondo, Yoichi Matsumura, Hideki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110149053
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel that periodically displays different images, a shutter control portion that generates timing signals for driving shutters for a right eye and a left eye, in synchronization with the periodical display of the display panel, with respect to glasses for viewing images, the glasses being provided with the shutters for the right and left eye, a backlight that includes a light guide plate of a size corresponding to a display area of the display panel and light sources that are provided on two opposing side faces of the light guide plate and that irradiates the display panel from a rear side of the display panel, and a backlight control portion that causes the respective light sources that are provided on the two opposing side faces to blink at different timings during an opening period of the shutters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Publication number: 20110074939
    Abstract: There is provided an image display viewing system including an image display device including a signal control portion that receives input of an image signal and outputs a signal that causes each of multiple different images to be displayed at least twice consecutively, and a display panel to which the signal output from the signal control portion is input and which alternately displays each of the multiple different images at least twice consecutively, and an optical modulator including a liquid crystal layer on which an image having a predetermined polarization direction output from the image display device and external light having random polarization are incident, and which periodically changes the polarization direction of the incident light, and a polarizing plate on which light emitted from the liquid crystal layer is incident and which has a polarization axis in a predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Atsushi ITO, Kyoichiro Oda, Toyokazu Ogasawara, Kazuya Kumazawa
  • Publication number: 20110074935
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and display apparatuses consistent with the invention may generate control signals to control n light-passing devices such that the n light-passing devices each are sequentially operated between ON and OFF states, and such that each of the n light-passing devices are in the ON state no less than 1/n of the viewing period. This may allow different images to be viewed through different light-passing devices. The embodiments may be used, for example, to present a three-dimensional image to a viewer or to present different videos to different viewers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 7903080
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display, a pixel driving circuit 16 alternately displays a first image and a second image on a liquid crystal panel 11. A front light 12 lights up while the first image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel by the pixel driving circuit 16, and another front light 13 lights up while the second image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel by the pixel driving circuit 16. As a result, the liquid crystal display enables a viewer B to look at the second image different from the first image which it provides for a viewer A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Kyoichiro Oda, Atsushi Ito, Tetsuya Satake, Shin Tahata
  • Patent number: 7855763
    Abstract: A backlight device includes: a first prism sheet which has a triangular prism row on a major surface thereof; a first light source which emits light having directivity in a slanted direction with respect to a normal line direction of a light outgoing surface of the first prism sheet in opposite side to the triangular prism row side so as to enter into the triangular prism row of the first prism sheet; and a second light source which emits light having directivity in the normal line direction of the light outgoing surface of the first prism sheet so as to enter into the triangular prism row of the first prism sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Kyoichiro Oda, Naoko Iwasaki, Shin Tahata, Toru Kokogawa
  • Publication number: 20080297431
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display, a pixel driving circuit 16 alternately displays a first image and a second image on a liquid crystal panel 11. A front light 12 lights up while the first image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel by the pixel driving circuit 16, and another front light 13 lights up while the second image is displayed on the liquid crystal panel by the pixel driving circuit 16. As a result, the liquid crystal display enables a viewer B to look at the second image different from the first image which it provides for a viewer A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Kyoichiro Oda, Atsushi Ito, Tetsuya Satake, Shin Tahata
  • Publication number: 20080198295
    Abstract: A backlight device includes: a first prism sheet which has a triangular prism row on a major surface thereof; a first light source which emits light having directivity in a slanted direction with respect to a normal line direction of a light outgoing surface of the first prism sheet in opposite side to the triangular prism row side so as to enter into the triangular prism row of the first prism sheet; and a second light source which emits light having directivity in the normal line direction of the light outgoing surface of the first prism sheet so as to enter into the triangular prism row of the first prism sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Kyoichiro Oda, Naoko Iwasaki, Shin Tahata, Toru Kokogawa
  • Patent number: 7193356
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided that enables the chromaticity of a display screen of a display apparatus to be adjusted to the chromaticity desired by a user. The image display apparatus is formed by a backlight unit that is provided with a plurality of light sources and by an image display panel that is placed at a front surface of the backlight unit. The image display apparatus performs a monochrome display. In the image display apparatus, the light sources have at least three different types of luminescent colors that surround a target color on a chromaticity diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignees: NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual System Corporation, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisato Kokubo, Kazuo Yoshioka, Hideki Itaya, Hideki Teramatsu, Akimasa Yuuki, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 7057638
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus having a low image data input rate, in which the required capacity of a memory is reduced without causing flicker and ghosts. In the invention, right and left parallax image data is compressed, the compressed image data is stored in a frame memory, each of compressed image data for a right eye and compressed image data for a left eye, corresponding to the same display gate line, is read and decoded, line by line, and parallax image data for the right and left eyes for one frame are displayed multiple times, as alternating right and left fields, within one frame period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Tomohiro Sasagawa, Kyoichiro Oda, Yutaka Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060114317
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display apparatus having a low image data input rate, in which the required capacity of a memory is reduced without causing flicker and ghosts. In the invention, right and left parallax image data is compressed, the compressed image data is stored in a frame memory, each of compressed image data for a right eye and compressed image data for a left eye, corresponding to the same display gate line, is read and decoded, line by line, and parallax image data for the right and left eyes for one frame are displayed multiple times, as alternating right and left fields, within one frame period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akimasa Yuuki, Tomohiro Sasagawa, Kyoichiro Oda, Yutaka Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7034788
    Abstract: A coding circuit codes present image data of a pixel which is received as raster data and a delay circuit stores a coded image data for one frame period and outputs one-frame preceding image data of the pixel in accordance with an input of the coded image data. First and second decoder circuits decode coded image data and one-frame preceding coded image data, respectively, a variation-amount calculation circuit calculates variation-amount data of both decoded image date, and an one-frame preceding image reproduction circuit reproduces one-frame preceding reproduced image data. An image date correction circuit generates corrected present image data on the basis of the present image data and the one-frame preceding reproduced image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Someya, Noritaka Okuda, Masaki Yamakawa, Kyoichiro Oda
  • Patent number: 7015887
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a driving circuit and driving method for a LCD having high performance of moving image displaying within few amount of memory and downscaled circuit. In the present invention, a voltage applied to a pixel to drive liquid crystal material in the pixel is determined as a voltage with which the transparency of the pixel at the end of the current field becomes the designated transparency. To determine the voltage, a data table for quick response in which output data is stored in correspondence with some of the possible value of a preceding field image data and some of the possible value of the current field image data is employed, and the output data corresponding to the preceding field image data and the current field image data is determined by the data table through linear interpolation. The voltage corresponding to the output data is applied to the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Advanced Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoichiro Oda, Akimasa Yuuki, Shin Tahata, Toshio Tobita, Shiro Miyake, Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Keiichi Murayama
  • Publication number: 20050116609
    Abstract: An image display apparatus is provided that enables the chromaticity of a display screen of a display apparatus to be adjusted to the chromaticity desired by a user. The image display apparatus is formed by a backlight unit that is provided with a plurality of light sources and by an image display panel that is placed at a front surface of the backlight unit. The image display apparatus performs a monochrome display. In the image display apparatus, the light sources have at least three different types of luminescent colors that surround a target color on a chromaticity diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicants: NEC-Mitsubishi Electric Visual System Corporation, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisato Kokubo, Kazuo Yoshioka, Hideki Itaya, Hideki Teramatsu, Akimasa Yuuki, Kyoichiro Oda