Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Kotaka

Mitsuru Kotaka 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: 8403498
    Abstract: A housing (17) that accommodates a light source (1), a display device (3), etc. has an intake aperture (18) and an exhaust aperture (24). A blowing unit (16, 23) sucks air in through the intake aperture and expels air out through the exhaust aperture. A filter unit (19) is disposed so that a filter (20) faces the intake aperture in a predetermined area between a rolling shaft (31a) and a take-up shaft (31b). A part of the filter facing the intake aperture is renewed by taking-up the filter from the rolling shaft onto the take-up shaft. A control unit (36) performs control so as to renew the filter for a range that is smaller than an opening area of the intake aperture, when a predetermined renewal condition is determined to be satisfied, based on the output of a detection unit (38, 39a, 39b) that detects a specific factor value relating to contamination of the filter, such as a cumulative display time, a temperature, an air pressure, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kotaka, Shigekazu Yamagishi, Yoshinobu Nakajima, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Yoshinari Matsumoto, Kenji Kunitake
  • Patent number: 8292980
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a rolled filter stretched between first and second winding shafts and, unused part of the filter being wound around the second winding shaft; a brush provided between the first and the second winding shafts so as to come into contact with a surface of the filter; a feeding mechanism for driving the first and the second winding shafts to take up or rewind the filter; and a feeding control unit for controlling the feeding mechanism. When activating a renewing operation for feeding unused part of the filter from the second winding shaft, the feeding control unit controls the feeding mechanism such that once the filter is taken up by the first winding shaft by an take-up amount La, the filter is rewound by the second winding shaft by a rewind amount Lb, and La and Lb satisfy a relationship La?Lb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shigekazu Yamagishi, Shingo Oidate, Masato Tanaka, Mitsuru Kotaka
  • Publication number: 20100128230
    Abstract: A housing (17) that accommodates a light source (1), a display device (3), etc. has an intake aperture (18) and an exhaust aperture (24). A blowing unit (16, 23) sucks air in through the intake aperture and expels air out through the exhaust aperture. A filter unit (19) is disposed so that a filter (20) faces the intake aperture in a predetermined area between a rolling shaft (31a) and a take-up shaft (31b). A part of the filter facing the intake aperture is renewed by taking-up the filter from the rolling shaft onto the take-up shaft. A control unit (36) performs control so as to renew the filter for a range that is smaller than an opening area of the intake aperture, when a predetermined renewal condition is determined to be satisfied, based on the output of a detection unit (38, 39a, 39b) that detects a specific factor value relating to contamination of the filter, such as a cumulative display time, a temperature, an air pressure, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kotaka, Shigekazu Yamagishi, Yoshinobu Nakajima, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Yoshinari Matsumoto, Kenji Kunitake
  • Publication number: 20100077926
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a rolled filter stretched between first and second winding shafts and, unused part of the filter being wound around the second winding shaft; a brush provided between the first and the second winding shafts so as to come into contact with a surface of the filter; a feeding mechanism for driving the first and the second winding shafts to take up or rewind the filter; and a feeding control unit for controlling the feeding mechanism. When activating a renewing operation for feeding unused part of the filter from the second winding shaft, the feeding control unit controls the feeding mechanism such that once the filter is taken up by the first winding shaft by an take-up amount La, the filter is rewound by the second winding shaft by a rewind amount Lb, and La and Lb satisfy a relationship La?Lb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigekazu YAMAGISHI, Shingo OIDATE, Masato TANAKA, Mitsuru KOTAKA
  • Patent number: 6409350
    Abstract: An LCD projector (K1) comprising: a power source (20); an image data source (90) for producing an image data; a light source (30) which is able to provide different levels of power; an LCD panel (50) for modifying a light ray from the light source (30) in accordance with said image data to produce light rays of an image; a projecting lens (60) for projecting the light rays from the LCD panel (50) onto a screen (70) through enlargement; a control circuit (81) for controlling an output of the power source (20) so as to selectively set an output power: and a correcting circuit (100) for correcting an image data before being supplied to the LCD panel (50) so as to compensate the disturbance of the white balance caused by the change of the power of the light source (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kakimoto, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Mitsuru Kotaka
  • Patent number: 5886745
    Abstract: A progressive scanning conversion apparatus for converting an interlaced scan video signal into a progressive scan video signal by performing interpolation based on original pixels which are obtained in a matrix by sampling the interlaced scan video signal in a current field, original pixels which are obtained in a matrix by sampling the interlaced scan video signal in a previous field which is immediately prior to the current field, and original pixels which are obtained in a matrix by sampling the interlaced scan video signal in a next field which is immediately following the current field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Muraji, Keiichi Kuzumoto, Satoshi Hirotsune, Mitsuru Kotaka
  • Patent number: 5796437
    Abstract: A progressive scanning conversion apparatus for converting an interlaced scan video signal into a progressive scan video signal by performing interpolation based on original pixels which are obtained in a matrix by sampling the interlaced scan video signal in a current field, original pixels which are obtained in a matrix by sampling the interlaced scan video signal in a previous field which is immediately prior to the current field, and original pixels which are obtained in a matrix by sampling the interlaced scan video signal in a next field which is immediately following the current field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Muraji, Keiichi Kuzumoto, Satoshi Hirotsune, Mitsuru Kotaka
  • Patent number: 5260797
    Abstract: A projection type image display apparatus using a light modulation image display device as a light valve varies the voltage of a video signal so as to correct the nonuniformity of luminance of the optical device so that an image uniform in brightness and color even in peripheral parts can be displayed on a projection screen. A driving circuit contained with the apparatus generates three driving signals for driving three image display devices in accordance with red, green and blue color component signals of an input video signal. The driving circuit includes a correction circuit for correcting the red and blue color component signals independently of one another so that their luminance is commensurate with that of the green color component signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Muraji, Mitsuru Kotaka