Patents by Inventor Mitsuhisa Ohnishi

Mitsuhisa Ohnishi 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: 10937194
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus of the disclosure includes: a blocking unit configured to divide image information into blocks; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one piece of map information in which pieces of reference pixel information and pieces of positional information are associated with a target pixel in each of the blocks, the pieces of reference pixel information denoting at least one reference pixel referenced by the target pixel, each of the pieces of positional information denoting a positional relationship between the target pixel and the at least one reference pixel; and a reference pixel information selecting unit configured to select one piece of reference pixel information of the pieces of reference pixel information included in the at least one piece of map information based on a pixel value of the target pixel and a pixel value of the at least one reference pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Kajimura, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 10839746
    Abstract: A display device includes: a deterioration amount increment calculation unit that calculates an increment of a deterioration amount of an organic light-emitting element included in each of pixels, based on gradation data included in image data; a deterioration amount accumulation unit that accumulates, every fixed time, the increment of the deterioration amount calculated by the deterioration amount increment calculation unit; and a correction unit that corrects luminance of the pixel based on a total amount of increments of the deterioration amount accumulated by the deterioration amount accumulation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN TOREY MICROELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200211454
    Abstract: A display device includes: a deterioration amount increment calculation unit that calculates an increment of a deterioration amount of an organic light-emitting element included in each of pixels, based on gradation data included in image data; a deterioration amount accumulation unit that accumulates, every fixed time, the increment of the deterioration amount calculated by the deterioration amount increment calculation unit; and a correction unit that corrects luminance of the pixel based on a total amount of increments of the deterioration amount accumulated by the deterioration amount accumulation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: MITSUHISA OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20190297321
    Abstract: A coding device has a difference calculating unit that calculates a quantized value, which is represented by lower-order bits than a quantization bit rate allocated to a processing unit in image data in a selected coding pattern, from a quantized value obtained by quantizing a pixel value in the processing unit with a maximum quantization bit rate in the coding device, as a difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: MITSUHISA OHNISHI, AKIHIRO KAJIMURA, TOYOFUMI HORIKAWA, HIDEKI SHIOE
  • Publication number: 20190266757
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus of the disclosure includes: a blocking unit configured to divide image information into blocks; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one piece of map information in which pieces of reference pixel information and pieces of positional information are associated with a target pixel in each of the blocks, the pieces of reference pixel information denoting at least one reference pixel referenced by the target pixel, each of the pieces of positional information denoting a positional relationship between the target pixel and the at least one reference pixel; and a reference pixel information selecting unit configured to select one piece of reference pixel information of the pieces of reference pixel information included in the at least one piece of map information based on a pixel value of the target pixel and a pixel value of the at least one reference pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: AKIHIRO KAJIMURA, MASAYUKI YAMAGUCHI, MITSUHISA OHNISHI
  • Patent number: 8908982
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image encoding device that can balance encoding at a high compression ratio and restoration of a high-quality image by decoding in a short processing time. Compression mode determination means 3 determines a compression mode to be one of DPCM and PCM based on target pixel data inputted from a terminal 21 and predicted data calculated by a predetermined method. For the DPCM, DPCM compression means 5 compresses a difference value between the target pixel data and the predicted data to DPCM encoded data having a predetermined DPCM code length. For the PCM, PCM compression means 7 compresses the target pixel data to PCM encoded data having a PCM code length determined by PCM code length determination means 9. The PCM code length determination means 9 calculates the PCM code length for each piece of target pixel data such that a total of post-encoding code lengths becomes an allowable value or less in a unit of predetermined pixel group among the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takahiro Morishita
  • Publication number: 20130251257
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image encoding device that can balance encoding at a high compression ratio and restoration of a high-quality image by decoding in a short processing time. Compression mode determination means 3 determines a compression mode to be one of DPCM and PCM based on target pixel data inputted from a terminal 21 and predicted data calculated by a predetermined method. For the DPCM, DPCM compression means 5 compresses a difference value between the target pixel data and the predicted data to DPCM encoded data having a predetermined DPCM code length. For the PCM, PCM compression means 7 compresses the target pixel data to PCM encoded data having a PCM code length determined by PCM code length determination means 9. The PCM code length determination means 9 calculates the PCM code length for each piece of target pixel data such that a total of post-encoding code lengths becomes an allowable value or less in a unit of predetermined pixel group among the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Takahiro Morishita
  • Patent number: 8497638
    Abstract: A light source device which is used as the backlight device and does not generate sound is provided. One or more flat substrates each having a light emitting element on its surface side are supported by a chassis having a conductive flat plate surface so that back surfaces of the substrates are opposed to the flat plate surface. The substrate comprises first wiring conductive thin films on a surface side of an insulation substrate, and one or more second radiating or wiring conductive thin films on a back surface side of the insulation substrate. Two terminals of the light emitting element are connected to the two adjacent first conductive thin films. A potential of at least one of the second conductive thin films is fixed to have a constant potential difference or preferably fixed to the same potential with respect to that of the flat plate surface of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi, Akihisa Yamada, Takayoshi Tanaka, Manabu Onozaki
  • Publication number: 20110050111
    Abstract: A light source device which is used as the backlight device and does not generate sound is provided. One or more flat substrates each having a light emitting element on its surface side are supported by a chassis having a conductive flat plate surface so that back surfaces of the substrates are opposed to the flat plate surface. The substrate comprises first wiring conductive thin films on a surface side of an insulation substrate, and one or more second radiating or wiring conductive thin films on a back surface side of the insulation substrate. Two terminals of the light emitting element are connected to the two adjacent first conductive thin films. A potential of at least one of the second conductive thin films is fixed to have a constant potential difference or preferably fixed to the same potential with respect to that of the flat plate surface of the chassis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroshi TANAKA, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi, Akihisa Yamada, Takayoshi Tanaka, Manabu Onozaki
  • Patent number: 7266791
    Abstract: A high level synthesis device includes a high level synthesis section and a cycle accurate model. The high level synthesis section may perform high level synthesis of hardware including a plurality of components and a controller for controlling the plurality of components. The cycle accurate model may be configured to verify a state of at least one of the plurality of components and the controller at a cycle accurate level, with a general-purpose programming language.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Morishita, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 7178064
    Abstract: A debug device has a serialization section for converting a parallel program to a serial program and creating debug data indicating the corresponding relation between the parallel program and the serial program. The debug device further has a storage section for storing the debug data and a conversion section for mutually converting the corresponding data between the parallel program and the serial program based on the debug data in order for an operator to efficiently perform a debug operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroichi Makida, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20050010387
    Abstract: A high level synthesis device includes a high level synthesis section for performing high level synthesis of hardware including a plurality of components and a controller for controlling the plurality of components; and a cycle accurate model generation section for generating a cycle accurate model, capable of verifying a state of at least one of the plurality of components and the controller at a cycle accurate level, with a general-purpose programming language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Takahiro Morishita, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 6832363
    Abstract: A high-level synthesis apparatus for synthesizing a register transfer level logic circuit from a behavioral description describing a processing operation of the circuit, comprises a low power consumption circuit generation section for generating a low power consumption circuit which stops or inhibits circuit operations of partial circuits constituting the logic circuit only when the partial circuits are in a wait state, so to achieve low power consumption. The low power consumption circuit generation section is synthesized along with the logic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20040153803
    Abstract: A debug device has a serialization section for converting a parallel program to a serial program and creating debug data indicating the corresponding relation between the parallel program and the serial program. The debug device further has a storage section for storing the debug data and a conversion section for mutually converting the corresponding data between the parallel program and the serial program based on the debug data in order for an operator to efficiently perform a debug operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroichi Makida, Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Patent number: 6687894
    Abstract: A high-level synthesis method is provided for synthesizing a register transfer level logic circuit based on a behavioral description in which processing behaviors are described. The method includes the steps of extracting information on a bus connection resource from the behavioral description, storing the information on the bus connection resource in a bus connection resource database, referencing the bus connection resource database, referencing a bus protocol library having a preloaded bus protocol, and automatically generating a target interface circuit based on a result of each of the bus connection resource database referencing step and the bus protocol library referencing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi, Shinichi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20020188923
    Abstract: A high-level synthesis apparatus for synthesizing a register transfer level logic circuit from a behavioral description describing a processing operation of the circuit, comprises a low power consumption circuit generation section for generating a low power consumption circuit which stops or inhibits circuit operations of partial circuits constituting the logic circuit only when the partial circuits are in a wait state, so to achieve low power consumption. The low power consumption circuit generation section is synthesized along with the logic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20020053069
    Abstract: A high-level synthesis method is provided for synthesizing a register transfer level logic circuit based on a behavioral description in which processing behaviors are described. The method includes the steps of extracting information on a bus connection resource from the behavioral description, storing the information on the bus connection resource in a bus connection resource database, referencing the bus connection resource database, referencing a bus protocol library having a preloaded bus protocol, and automatically generating a target interface circuit based on a result of each of the bus connection resource database referencing step and the bus protocol library referencing step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi, Shinichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6021381
    Abstract: A system for detecting power consumption of an integrated circuit obtains a frequency of data holding operations, unreferred data storing operations, and unupdated data storing operations with a data holding operation frequency calculating section, an unreferred data storing operation frequency calculating section, and an unupdated data storing operation frequency calculating section based on the number of times of a signal transition from connection information of the integrated circuit and control conditions when data is referred to registers, and obtains power consumption caused by each of the operations from the number of times of the signal transition, a load capacity, and an operation voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuhisa Ohnishi