Patents by Inventor Masao Imai

Masao Imai 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: 8395703
    Abstract: A display controller 102 sequentially outputs at least two image signals, thereby allowing an image to be displayed on a liquid crystal display section 105 in accordance with the image signals, wherein among the image signals to be outputted, an image signal of a first output image and an image signal of a second output image have a relationship that provides an image having no correlation to the first output image when image brightness values of the respective signals are added for each pixel, and wherein a frame frequency when the image signal is outputted is an integral multiple of a frame frequency for an image signal of an input image, the integral multiple being two or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20130057938
    Abstract: The present invention includes light valve section (10) having substrate (22) through which light that exits plurality of optical connection mechanisms (23) that switch between the transmitting state and the shading state of light emitted from light emitting element (25) transmits and plasmon coupling section (11) that is arranged in light valve section (10) and that causes plasmon coupling to occur with light that exits light emitting element (25). Plasmon coupling section (11) includes carrier generation layer (15) that generates carriers with light that exits light emitting element (25) and plasmon excitation layer (17) that has a higher plasma frequency than the frequency of light that is generated in carrier generation layer (15) excited with the light emitted from light emitting element (25). Wave number vector conversion layer (19) is arranged on substrate (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Natsumeda, Masao Imai, Shin Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20130033678
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical element that includes: carrier generation layer (16) in which carriers are generated by light from light guide body (12) into which light from a light-emitting element enters; plasmon excitation layer (17) that has a plasma frequency higher than the frequency of light generated when carrier generation layer (16) is excited by light from the light-emitting element; and wave vector conversion layer (18) that converts surface plasmon generated by plasmon excitation layer (17) light having a predetermined exit angle to output the light. Plasmon excitation layer (17) is sandwiched between two layers having dielectric properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Natsumeda, Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Shin Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20130027675
    Abstract: The present invention includes light valve section (10) having a plurality of shutter mechanisms (14) that switch between a transmitting state and a shading state of light emitted from light emitting element (25); and substrate (16) through which light that exits plurality of shutter mechanisms (14) is transmitted. The display element also has plasmon coupling section (11) that causes plasmon coupling to occur with light that exits the light valve section (10). Plasmon coupling section (11) includes carrier generation layer (17) that generates carriers with incident light that exits light valve section (10), plasmon excitation layer (19) that has a higher plasma frequency than the frequency of light that is generated in carrier generation layer (17) excited with the light emitted from light emitting element (25), and wave number vector conversion layer (22) that converts the light or surface plasmons generated in plasmon excitation layer (19) into light having a predetermined exit angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Natsumeda, Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Shin Tominaga
  • Publication number: 20130005934
    Abstract: A polymerizable composition including a compound represented by following General Formula (1): (in Formula (1), M represents a metal atom; X1 and X2 each independently represents a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom; R1 represents a divalent organic group; m represents an integer of 0 or 1 or greater; p represents an integer of 1 to n; n represents a valence of a metal atom M; and Y's each independently represents an inorganic or organic residue, where when n?p is 2 or greater, Y's may be bonded to each other to form a ring containing a metal atom M), a thiol compound and an episulfide compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC
    Inventors: Mitsuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Naruse, Atsuo Otsuji, Shinichi Usugi, Masao Imai, Hidetoshi Hayashi, Osamu Kohgo, Hideki Yamamoto, Seiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8339538
    Abstract: A display device comprising a light source and having an optical waveguide, a louver, an anisotropic scattering sheet, and a transmissive liquid crystal panel disposed along the path of light emitted from the light source. The light-restricting direction of the louver is tilted at an angle ? from the Y-axis direction. The value of the angle ? is set so that the arrangement direction of moiré created between the louver and the liquid crystal panel approaches the X-axis direction. A plurality of belt-shaped convex portions extending in the Y-axis direction are formed on the surface of the anisotropic scattering sheet, and are configured so that the scattering direction of the light has anisotropy. Specifically, scattering in the X-axis direction is increased, and scattering in the Y-axis direction is reduced. Moiré can thereby be reduced in a display device having increased directivity of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: NLT Technologies, Ltd., NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Shinya Niioka, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20120314188
    Abstract: Optical element 10 according to the present invention comprises light guide body 11, surface plasmon excitation means 14 that is provided on the interface with light guide body 11 and that allows surface plasmon to be excited by a specific polarization component of light whose polarization direction is orthogonal to the first direction y in the surface of light guide body 11, from among light entering from light guide body 11, and a light generation means that includes metal layer 12 and cover layer 13, and that generates light having the same polarization component as the specific polarization component of light, from surface plasmon produced in the interface between metal layer 12 and cover layer 13 in response to surface plasmon excited by the specific polarization component in surface plasmon excitation means 14.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Tominaga, Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Masanao Natsumeda
  • Publication number: 20120314189
    Abstract: The present invention includes light source layer (4) and directivity controlling layer (5) into which light emitted from light source layer (4) enters. Light source layer (4) has a pair of hole transport layer (11) and electron transport layer (13) formed on substrate (10). Directivity controlling layer (5) has plasmon excitation layer (15) that is laminated on non-substrate (10) side of light source layer (4) and that has a higher plasma frequency than light emitted from light source layer (4) and wave number vector conversion layer (17) that converts surface plasmons that are generated in plasmon excitation layer (15) into light having a predetermined emission angle and emits the light having the predetermined emission angle. Plasmon excitation layer (15) is sandwiched between two layers having dielectricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Natsumeda, Masao Imai, Naofumi Suzuki, Shin Tominaga
  • Patent number: 8320041
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image display device is provided with a display panel. The display panel is provided with a plurality of pixels for the right eyes and pixels for the left eye, and light emitted from the pixels for the right eye is made incident to the right eye of a viewer and light emitted from the pixels for the left eye is made incident to the left eye. When the normal distance between the display panel and the viewer is set to a maximum observation distance, D (mm), then definition X (dpi) of at least one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction on a display plane of the display panel is set as in the following expression. X ? 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Nobuaki Takanashi, Setsuo Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20120224149
    Abstract: A hologram layer (13) is irradiated by light from an optical element (10). The hologram layer (13) is provided with a first hologram (14) that diffracts in a predetermined direction, from among incident light from the optical element (10), X-polarized light in which the polarization component is in a specific direction and emits the light as X-polarized light of a first phase state (P1), and a second hologram (15) that both diffracts in the same direction as the X-polarized light of the first phase state (P1) and moreover at an equal radiation angle, from among incident light from the optical element (10), Y-polarized light in which the polarization component is in a direction orthogonal to that of the X-polarized light and converts it to X-polarized light, and emits the light as X-polarized light of a second phase state (P2) that differs from the first phase state (P1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Tominaga, Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Masanao Natsumeda
  • Publication number: 20120224148
    Abstract: Light source layer (4) includes substrate (10) and a pair of layers, namely, hole-transport layer (11) and electron-transport layer (13), formed on substrate (10). Directional control layer (5) includes plasmon excitation layer (15) stacked on a side of light source layer (4), which is opposite to the side of substrate (10) of light source layer (4), and which has a plasma frequency higher than a frequency of light output from light source layer (4), and wave vector conversion layer (17) stacked on plasmon excitation layer (15), which converts light incident from plasmon excitation layer (15) into light having a predetermined exit angle to output the light. Plasmon excitation layer (15) is sandwiched between low dielectric constant layer (14) and high dielectric constant layer (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Natsumeda, Shin Tominaga, Goroh Saitoh, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20120188458
    Abstract: A first dichroic mirror (2a) and a second dichroic mirror (2b) are formed on the bonding surfaces between four right angle prisms (1a-1d) so as to intersect. The first dichroic mirror (2a) transmits, of visible light of P-polarization, at least the light of a specific wavelength band and reflects, of visible light of S-polarization, at least the light of the specific wavelength band. The second dichroic mirror (2b) transmits, of visible light of P-polarization, at least light of the specific wavelength band and transmits, of visible light of S-polarization, at least light of the specific wavelength band. The cutoff wavelengths with respect to S-polarized light of both dichroic mirrors (2a and 2b) are set within ranges of bands other than those of the three primary colors of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: NEW CORPOATION
    Inventors: Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20120182484
    Abstract: An illumination device comprises a light source (3a) that includes a solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the red wavelength band, a light source (3b) that includes a solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the green wavelength band, a light source (3c) that includes a solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the blue wavelength band, and a color synthesis optical element (1) that combines P-polarized colored light incident from one light source (3b) and S-polarized colored light incident from the other two light sources (3a and 3c). One light source (3c) includes at least one solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the wavelength band of the color corresponding to one of the other light sources (3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20120182525
    Abstract: A light source device includes: a first light source (3a) that emits first polarized light of a plurality of colors including different wavelengths; a second light source (3b) that emits second polarized light whose polarization state differs from that of the first polarized light and that includes light of at least one color from among the plurality of colors; and a first color synthesis optical element (1) that synthesizes the first polarized light emitted from the first light source (3a) and the second polarized light emitted from the second light source (3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masao Imai, Goroh Saitoh, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8223162
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program thereof, and a display device are provided, in which reproduction of a secret image from one dispersed image is difficult. A secret image and a reverse image included in at least two types of images are in a relationship of forming image data of an image not correlated with the secret image when luminance values of image data respectively are added pixel by pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Publication number: 20120092572
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter eyeglass that can solve the problem in which the provision of excellent images cannot be kept if the situation of the viewer varies is provided. a liquid crystal shutter (2) has a light transmitting and shading region in which a state can change between a light transmitting state in which light is caused to transmit and a light shading state in which light is caused to be shaded. A driving section (51) changes the state between the light transmitting state and the light shading state of a driving region that is at least part of the light transmitting and shading region. A controlling means (52) adjusts at least one of a size and a position of the driving region of which the driving section (51) changes the state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goroh Saitoh, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20120092571
    Abstract: A liquid crystal shutter that realizes a high speed response and that solves a problem in which light leakage cannot be alleviated is provided. An alignment film coated on substrate 5a adjacent to another liquid crystal device of substrates (5a) and (5b) of each of liquid crystal devices (2a, 2b) is horizontal alignment film (7a) and alignment film coated on the other substrate (5b) is vertical alignment film (7b). A alignment treatment is performed on the horizontal alignment film coated on substrate (5a) of liquid crystal device (2b) having a polarizer (3) in a direction parallel to a light transmission axis of analyzer (4) and an alignment treatment is performed on the horizontal alignment film coated on substrate (5a) of liquid crystal device (2a) having analyzer (4) in a direction parallel to the light transmission axis of polarizer (4). Liquid crystal materials (6) of liquid crystal devices (2a, 2b) have a positive dielectric anisotropy and have twisting directions that is the reverse of each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goroh Saitoh, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20120004471
    Abstract: According to a process of the invention, a ketone, an aromatic compound and hydrogen as starting materials are reacted together in a single reaction step to produce an alkylaromatic compound in high yield. A process for producing phenols in the invention includes a step of performing the above alkylation process and does not increase the number of steps compared to the conventional cumene process. The process for producing alkylated aromatic compounds includes reacting an aromatic compound such as benzene, a ketone such as acetone and hydrogen in the presence of a solid acid substance, preferably a zeolite, and a silver-containing catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Inventors: Tsuneyuki Ohkubo, Shinobu Aoki, Masayasu Ishibashi, Masao Imai, Terunori Fujita, Kenji Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20110317082
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal shutter having two superimposed liquid crystal layers in which no leakage of light occurs. In a liquid crystal shutter in which oriented films (11) of a pair of substrates of each liquid crystal device (8a, 8b) are oriented in mutually intersecting directions, and are all vertically oriented films or horizontally oriented films, and if the oriented films are horizontally oriented films, the liquid crystal materials have a positive dielectric constant isotropy, and if the oriented films are vertically oriented films, the liquid crystal materials have a negative dielectric constant isotropy, the twist directions (13) of the liquid crystal materials en- closed in the adjacent liquid crystal devices (8a, 8b) are opposite to each other to thereby prevent the leakage of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Goroh Saitoh, Junichirou Ishii, Masao Imai
  • Publication number: 20110280044
    Abstract: A planar light source, Fresnel lens sheet, and louver are disposed in the stated order in a light source apparatus. The Fresnel lens sheet deflects and focuses in one dimension light that has entered from the planar light source. The louver is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted from the Fresnel lens sheet, and the directivity of the light can be increased by restricting the traveling direction of the light to the focal direction of the Fresnel lens sheet. The light utilization ratio can thereby be increased, the directivity of planarly emitted light can be increased, and the brightness can be made uniform at the point of observation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Niioka, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-Ichi Uehara, Masao Imai, Kenichi Takatori, Fujio Okumura