Patents by Inventor Masahiro Araoka

Masahiro Araoka 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: 5157385
    Abstract: A jagged-edge killer circuit for a three-dimensional display, comprises a frame buffer for storing data of each pixel on the display screen by a pixel unit; a Z-buffer for storing distance data in a depth direction of a picture by a sub-pixel unit into which the pixel as a storage unit of the frame buffer is subdivided in a predetermined number; a picture data buffer for storing picture data by the sub-pixel unit; an element for comparing the distance data stored in the Z-buffer with new distance data in the depth direction about each new sub-pixel into which new pixel is subdivided in the predetermined number when picture data of said new pixel are written in the picture data buffer; a first element for renewing storage contents of the picture data buffer about only sub-pixel having nearer distance in the depth direction within the sub-pixels subdivided from the new pixel into the predetermined number on the basis of a comparison result of the comparing element; a second element for renewing storage contents
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hayato Nakao, Takeshi Shibamoto, Masahiro Araoka