Patents by Inventor Makoto Shiomi

Makoto Shiomi 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: 20190026275
    Abstract: A digital content provision system is provided that can encourage potential customers to acquire digital content items. The digital content provision system includes: a recommendation data storage unit 13 configured to store recommendation data for introducing or recommending the digital content items; a shelving image generating unit 11 configured to generate, based on the externally inputted recommendation data and externally inputted data related to the digital content items, a shelving image of a plurality of digital content items being arranged and displayed on a shelf and recommendation data being displayed for at least some of the digital content items; and a provision terminal (display unit) 30 configured to display the shelving image generated by the shelving image generating unit 11. The digital content items can be provided in a plurality of stores, and the recommendation data is generated by each of the stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoko GOTO, Makoto SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20180304153
    Abstract: A more effective image is presented to a third person in accordance with the progress of a prescribed story of a game in which a virtual object is generated. An MR game device (3) includes a spectator-viewing-intended image synthesis unit (353) that generates a spectator viewpoint image of a virtual space containing an image of the virtual object and an image of a competitor as viewed from a virtual space viewpoint of a spectator in accordance with the progress of the prescribed story.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: NAOHIRO HOHJOH, MAKOTO SHIOMI
  • Patent number: 10083660
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes red pixels with red color filters, green pixels with green filters, blue pixels with blue filters, and a light projecting unit to project light upon the pixels. The light projecting unit includes first and second light sources wherein the light emission peak wavelength is in the green region, and a third light source wherein the light emission peak wavelength is in the blue region. The second light source includes a light emission peak wavelength greater than the first light source. In a first term, the first source emits light, and the blue pixel liquid-crystal layer is controlled to a transmissibility less than or equal to a threshold regardless of frame data. In a second term, the first light source is effectively not and the second and third sources are emitting light. The blue pixel liquid-crystal layer is controlled to a transmissibility according to frame data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20180261170
    Abstract: Coloration changes on a liquid crystal display device are mitigated in a low gray level region. Gray level data for a first pixel indicates a first gray level, n pieces of gray level data for the first to n-th pixels indicate a saturation index for the first pixel that has a first index value, and the first pixel exhibits an optical transmittance that is equal to a first optical transmittance. Alternatively, gray level data for a first pixel indicates a first gray level, n pieces of gray level data for the first to n-th pixels indicate a saturation index for the first pixel that has a second index value, and the first pixel exhibits an optical transmittance that is equal to a second optical transmittance. The first index value is smaller than the second index value, and the first optical transmittance is greater than the second optical transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: MAKOTO SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20180261120
    Abstract: The present invention generates a video through which a trainer can give instructions to a trainee on a prescribed task. A video generating device (2) includes: a trainee image generating unit (21) that generates a trainee image containing either an image of the trainee captured in synchronism with the display of an environment video to the trainee or a human image performing a motion that corresponds to the motion of the trainee and that is detected in synchronism with the display of the environment video; and a composite video generating unit (22) that generates a composite video of a trainee image and a third-person environment video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventor: MAKOTO SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20180157120
    Abstract: To realize a backlight device capable of adjusting and changing the color temperature without lowering the color purity. The light source constituting the backlight device is composed of: a first magenta light emitter (60 M1)) having a blue LED element (6 (B)) and a relatively large amount of a red phosphor (7 (R)); a second magenta light emitter (60 (M2)) having a blue LED element (6 (B)) and a relatively small amount of red phosphor (7 (R)); and a green light emitter (60 (G)) having a green LED element (6 (G)). The light emission intensity of the first magenta light emitter (60 (M1)), the light emission intensity of the second magenta light emitter (60 (M2)), and the light emission intensity of the green light emitter (60 (G) are independently controlled by the backlight control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: AYA OKAMOTO, MAKOTO SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20180158430
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a display section including first and second areas (ARa and ARb); a first driver substrate (Fa) for the first area; a second driver substrate (Fb) for the second area; a first-driver-substrate-voltage generating circuit (Pa) that supplies a drive voltage to a first voltage input terminal (xa1) of the first driver substrate; a second-driver-substrate-voltage generating circuit (Pb) that supplies a drive voltage to a second. voltage input terminal (xb1) of the second driver substrate; and at least one switch (a1 and B1) that electrically connects or separates the first and second voltage input terminals (xa1 and xb1). In this configuration, the liquid crystal display has restrained luminance difference (luminance disparity) between the areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventor: MAKOTO SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20170372672
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes: a control circuit (5) configured to perform input correction for a plurality of pixels (i1 to i12, j1 to j12, and k1 to k12) in each one of blocks (Bi1, Bj1, and Bk1) of a display unit (2), the input correction performed separately for each local area; a first source driver (4a) electrically connected to an end of each one of data signal lines (S1 to S24) that correspond to the pixels; and a second source driver (4b) electrically connected to another end of each data signal line (S1 to S24), wherein the first and second source drivers (4a and 4b) drive the data signal lines (S1 to S24) based on the input correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventor: MAKOTO SHIOMI
  • Patent number: 9812078
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device enabling display without reducing the resolution thereof with respect to an input video signal, and having a reduced number of scanning signal lines. Green first and third pixels (Gx1, Gy1), and a blue second pixel (B1) and a red fourth pixel (R1) are arranged in a Bayer array, the first pixel is connected to a first scanning signal line (Gn) and a first data signal line (Sm), and the second pixel is connected to the first scanning signal line (Gn) and the first data signal line (Sm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 9805665
    Abstract: This display device is provided with a direct-view display panel in which a first pixel of green, a second pixel of blue, a third pixel of green, and a fourth pixel of red are arranged in a Bayer pattern. Luminance information that corresponds to a pixel position of the first pixel and serves as a basis for a display signal supplied to the first pixel is separate from luminance information that corresponds to a pixel position of the third pixel and serves as a basis for a display signal supplied to the third pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 9741302
    Abstract: In a frame 1, a sum total of luminance of a sub-pixel (SRX) and a sub-pixel (SRx) is caused to correspond to pixel data (DR1) while setting luminance of a sub-pixel (SRX) which is provided in a pixel (PRX) of a picture element (EX) to be higher than luminance of the sub-pixel (SRx) which is close to the sub-pixel (SRX) in the vertical direction in the pixel (PRX), and in a frame 2, a sum total of luminance of the sub-pixel (SRX) and the sub-pixel (SRx) is caused to correspond to pixel data (dR2) while setting luminance of the sub-pixel (SRx) to be higher than luminance of the sub-pixel (SRX).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 9736417
    Abstract: An object is to realize a control system capable of displaying a display screen of a television receiver (control target device) including a high-resolution display device and quickly performing processes such as a movement of the display, a change in a display magnification, a change in a display angle, and the like through intuitive operations. In the control system (1000), by specifying one point of a display screen on a second display unit (23) of a remote control device (2), that is, acquiring one-point specifying information, it is possible to perform a display position changing process (movement process) using absolute position coordinates. Accordingly, for example, when a control target device (1) serves as a television receiver (control target device) including the high-resolution display device, the second display unit (23) of the remote control device is able to display a display screen of the control target device and quickly perform movement of the display through an intuitive operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Soichiro Miura, Makoto Shiomi, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9726945
    Abstract: The implementation of a superhigh-definition liquid crystal display device with a diagonal of 30 inches or more and a resolution of 100 ppi or more is facilitated. There is provided a direct-view-type liquid crystal display device that includes a display portion in which a plurality of pixels are placed in a matrix, the display portion whose diagonal is 30 inches or more, in which the resolution of the display portion is 100 pixels or more per inch, the plurality of pixels include first to fourth pixels, and one of the first to fourth pixels is an RG-type formed of a red subpixel and a green subpixel and another of the first to fourth pixels is a BH-type formed of a blue subpixel and a green, yellow, or white subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20170127010
    Abstract: An object is to realize a control system capable of displaying a display screen of a television receiver (control target device) including a high-resolution display device and quickly performing processes such as a movement of the display, a change in a display magnification, a change in a display angle, and the like through intuitive operations. In the control system (1000), by specifying one point of a display screen on a second display unit (23) of a remote control device (2), that is, acquiring one-point specifying information, it is possible to perform a display position changing process (movement process) using absolute position coordinates. Accordingly, for example, when a control target device (1) serves as a television receiver (control target device) including the high-resolution display device, the second display unit (23) of the remote control device is able to display a display screen of the control target device and quickly perform movement of the display through an intuitive operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Soichiro MIURA, Makoto SHIOMI, Masayuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160335960
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device includes red pixels with red color filters, green pixels with green filters, blue pixels with blue filters, and a light projecting unit to project light upon the pixels. The light projecting unit includes first and second light sources wherein the light emission peak wavelength is in the green region, and a third light source wherein the light emission peak wavelength is in the blue region. The second light source includes a light emission peak wavelength greater than the first light source. In a first term, the first source emits light, and the blue pixel liquid-crystal layer is controlled to a transmissibility less than or equal to a threshold regardless of frame data. In a second term, the first light source is effectively not and the second and third sources are emitting light. The blue pixel liquid-crystal layer is controlled to a transmissibility according to frame data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto SHIOMI
  • Patent number: 9495923
    Abstract: Data signal lines, scanning signal lines, and pixels are formed in each of first and second regions of a liquid crystal panel, and the first half of a current frame and the second half of the current frame are written to the first and second regions, respectively. A data signal with polarity inverted for each vertical scanning period is supplied to each data signal line. A scanning direction of the first region is identical to a scanning direction of the second region and the first and second regions are arranged to line up in this order in the scanning direction. In the first and second regions, the potential of the data signal is corrected according to a distance from a scanning start end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 9478177
    Abstract: A display control circuit of a liquid crystal display device generates a double-speed progressive image signal by changing an input image signal based on interlaced scanning into a progressive scanning mode, and also by doubling the frame frequency. With the double-speed progressive image signal, a pixel value equivalent to an odd-numbered scanning line in an odd-numbered frame remains unchanged, a pixel value equivalent to an even-numbered scanning line is replaced with a black pixel value, a pixel value equivalent to an even-numbered scanning line in an even-numbered frame remains unchanged, and a pixel value equivalent to an odd-numbered scanning line is replaced with a black pixel value. An image that the double-speed interlace image signal represents is displayed on a liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20160171941
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device enabling display without reducing the resolution thereof with respect to an input video signal, and having a reduced number of scanning signal lines. Green first and third pixels (Gx1, Gy1), and a blue second pixel (B1) and a red fourth pixel (R1) are arranged in a Bayer array, the first pixel is connected to a first scanning signal line (Gn) and a first data signal line (Sm), and the second pixel is connected to the first scanning signal line (Gn) and the first data signal line (Sm).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20160163270
    Abstract: This display device is provided with a direct-view display panel in which a first pixel of green, a second pixel of blue, a third pixel of green, and a fourth pixel of red are arranged in a Bayer pattern. Luminance information that corresponds to a pixel position of the first pixel and serves as a basis for a display signal supplied to the first pixel is separate from luminance information that corresponds to a pixel position of the third pixel and serves as a basis for a display signal supplied to the third pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto SHIOMI
  • Patent number: 9251746
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention has a plurality of pixels including a red pixel, a green pixel and a blue pixel. In at least one example embodiment, each of the plurality of pixels has a plurality of subpixels including a first subpixel and a second subpixel. When the grayscale levels of input signals corresponding to the red, green and blue pixels are equal to one another at a given level, the ratio of the difference in luminance between the first and second subpixels of one of the red, green and blue pixels to the maximum luminance of that one of the red, green and blue pixels is greater than the ratio of the difference in luminance between the first and second subpixels of each one of the other two pixels to the maximum luminance of the respective one of the other two pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Shiomi