Patents by Inventor NAOKO GOTO

NAOKO GOTO 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: 20240117195
    Abstract: A coating agent includes a film-forming component including a component A consisting of a urethane (meth)acrylate having an isocyanuric ring skeleton, a component B consisting of a tri(meth)acrylate having an isocyanuric ring skeleton and having no urethane bond, and a component C consisting of colloidal silica having a (meth)acryloyl group and a hydrocarbon group having 3 to 13 carbon atoms; and a component D consisting of a photoradical polymerization initiator. The content of the component D is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of a total of the film-forming component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, KANSAI PAINT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori MUNEKATA, Motoshige ISOBE, Ken NODA, Kota GOTO, Naoko AGARI
  • Publication number: 20240096296
    Abstract: Image processing device comprises a maximum luminance setting unit that associates a maximum luminance value included in a corresponding area of a luminance image with each of a plurality of areas obtained by classifying a display area of a second liquid crystal panel into multiple areas to include an overlapping area overlapping a plurality of first pixels of a first liquid crystal panel for one pixel, an order setting unit that sets the order of the plurality of areas in descending order of maximum luminance values, and a transmittance setting unit that sets the transmittance of the pixel of interest based on the maximum luminance value are provided. The transmittance setting unit sets the transmittance of the pixel of interest based on a transmittance coefficient indicating a proportion at which each of the plurality of first pixels overlapping the overlapping area influences the overlapping area with transmitted light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: TOMOYUKI NARA, NAOKO GOTO, TATSUNORI NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11869452
    Abstract: In an image processing device, for each of one or two or more picture elements among a plurality of picture elements, the one or two or more picture elements having an input grayscale value included in the input image data being equal to or less than a first predetermined value, the second panel data correction unit corrects the second aperture ratio of each of at least one pixel among the plurality of pixels, the at least one pixel facing the one or two or more picture elements, so that an actual transmittance gets closer to a theoretical transmittance, and the first panel data generation unit generates the first aperture ratio for each of the plurality of picture elements by dividing a normalized input grayscale value included in the input image data by a normalized luminance included in the panel luminance distribution data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Naoko Goto
  • Publication number: 20230274715
    Abstract: In an image processing device, for each of one or two or more picture elements among a plurality of picture elements, the one or two or more picture elements having an input grayscale value included in the input image data being equal to or less than a first predetermined value, the second panel data correction unit corrects the second aperture ratio of each of at least one pixel among the plurality of pixels, the at least one pixel facing the one or two or more picture elements, so that an actual transmittance gets closer to a theoretical transmittance, and the first panel data generation unit generates the first aperture ratio for each of the plurality of picture elements by dividing a normalized input grayscale value included in the input image data by a normalized luminance included in the panel luminance distribution data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Naoko Goto
  • Patent number: 11645986
    Abstract: An image processing device generates backlight data from input image data to control outputs of a plurality of light-emitting regions; corrects the backlight data; generates luminance distribution data for the backlight from the backlight data that is corrected; generates second panel data from an input image data to control aperture ratios of a plurality of pixels; corrects the second panel data; generates luminance distribution data for the second liquid crystal panel from the second panel data that is corrected and the luminance distribution data for the backlight; and generates first panel data from the input image data and the luminance distribution data for the second liquid crystal panel to control aperture ratios of a plurality of picture elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoko Goto, Makoto Shiomi
  • Patent number: 11538425
    Abstract: A display device includes: light-emitting elements in a backlight divided into a plurality of areas, the light-emitting elements being arranged in such a manner as to correspond to the plurality of areas; and a drive unit configured to drive the light-emitting elements in the plurality of areas by time division based on an input image every prescribed period of time, the drive unit turning on all the light-emitting elements in the plurality of areas in a partial period of the prescribed period of time and driving those light-emitting elements in at least one of the plurality of areas based on the input image in a remaining period of the prescribed period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Inoue, Naoko Goto, Tomoyuki Nara
  • Publication number: 20220392415
    Abstract: An image processing device generates backlight data from input image data to control outputs of a plurality of light-emitting regions; corrects the backlight data; generates luminance distribution data for the backlight from the backlight data that is corrected; generates second panel data from an input image data to control aperture ratios of a plurality of pixels; corrects the second panel data; generates luminance distribution data for the second liquid crystal panel from the second panel data that is corrected and the luminance distribution data for the backlight; and generates first panel data from the input image data and the luminance distribution data for the second liquid crystal panel to control aperture ratios of a plurality of picture elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Naoko GOTO, Makoto SHIOMI
  • Patent number: 11397351
    Abstract: In a display device, a drive circuit drives LEDs arranged in n rows (n is an integer equal to or greater than two) so as to correspond to a plurality of areas of a backlight, row by row through division into n time slots or every k rows (k is an n's divisor equal to or greater than two and is smaller than n) through division into n/k time slots in accordance with the status of use of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto Inoue, Naoko Goto, Tomoyuki Nara
  • Patent number: 11308917
    Abstract: The amount of calculation related to correction of an image signal in a display device is suppressed. A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight luminance distribution calculation unit configured to calculate an intensity of illumination light from a backlight in a pixel of interest, and the backlight luminance distribution calculation unit calculates the intensity of illumination light with reference to a one-dimensional lookup table indicating a relationship between a distance from one of control areas included in the backlight to the pixel of interest and the intensity of illumination light at the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Aya Okamoto, Naoko Goto
  • Publication number: 20220043302
    Abstract: In a display device, a drive circuit drives LEDs arranged in n rows (n is an integer equal to or greater than two) so as to correspond to a plurality of areas of a backlight, row by row through division into n time slots or every k rows (k is an n's divisor equal to or greater than two and is smaller than n) through division into n/k time slots in accordance with the status of use of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: NAOTO INOUE, NAOKO GOTO, TOMOYUKI NARA
  • Publication number: 20220020336
    Abstract: A display device includes: light-emitting elements in a backlight divided into a plurality of areas, the light-emitting elements being arranged in such a manner as to correspond to the plurality of areas; and a drive unit configured to drive the light-emitting elements in the plurality of areas by time division based on an input image every prescribed period of time, the drive unit turning on all the light-emitting elements in the plurality of areas in a partial period of the prescribed period of time and driving those light-emitting elements in at least one of the plurality of areas based on the input image in a remaining period of the prescribed period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: NAOTO INOUE, NAOKO GOTO, TOMOYUKI NARA
  • Publication number: 20210343253
    Abstract: A display device includes: an area-active drive circuit, a backlight divided into a plurality of drive areas that undergo area-active drive by the area-active drive circuit, and a display panel. The plurality of drive areas belong to any of a plurality of calculation groups. The area-active drive circuit includes an emission-intensity calculating circuit configured to calculate, based on input image data, an emission intensity of each of the plurality of drive areas in each of frame periods, each of the plurality of drive areas belonging to one of the plurality of different calculation groups, each of the frame periods being a cycle of image update in the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: NAOKO GOTO, AYA OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210311361
    Abstract: The amount of calculation related to correction of an image signal in a display device is suppressed. A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight luminance distribution calculation unit configured to calculate an intensity of illumination light from a backlight in a pixel of interest, and the backlight luminance distribution calculation unit calculates the intensity of illumination light with reference to a one-dimensional lookup table indicating a relationship between a distance from one of control areas included in the backlight to the pixel of interest and the intensity of illumination light at the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: AYA OKAMOTO, NAOKO GOTO
  • Publication number: 20210272528
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of controlling, for each of a plurality of drive areas having different shapes, a plurality of light-emitting elements included in a backlight, or capable of controlling, for each of a plurality of drive areas having different numbers of light-emitting elements, a plurality of light-emitting elements included in the backlight. A second light-source emission-intensity calculating unit included in an area-active driving unit calculates a second emission intensity of each light-emitting element. The brightness distribution of each pixel of a display panel is calculated from the second emission intensity of each light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: NAOKO GOTO, AYA OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210241703
    Abstract: To provide a control device capable of reducing power consumption of a display device. A display controller is a control device of a display device including a display including a plurality of light sources to be independently controlled. The display controller performs display processing that involves monitoring an update of an image to be displayed on a screen of the display, and causing a light source corresponding to a display region of the updated image to glow more brightly than another light source, the light source and the other light source being included in the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIOMI, NAOKO GOTO, NAOTO INOUE, AYA OKAMOTO, OSAMU TERANUMA, MASAO KURINO, YUKI KATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210233479
    Abstract: To provide a control device capable of reducing power consumption of a display device. A display controller is a control device of a display device including a display including a plurality of light sources to be independently controlled. In accordance with levels of unimportance or levels of importance each corresponding to one of display items displayed by one or more applications of the display device, the display controller controls brightness of a light source corresponding to a display region for the one display item. The light source is included in the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIOMI, NAOKO GOTO, NAOTO INOUE, AYA OKAMOTO, OSAMU TERANUMA, MASAO KURINO, YUKI KATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210134236
    Abstract: To provide a control device capable of reducing power consumption of a display device. A display controller is a control device of a display device including a display including a plurality of light sources to be independently controlled. The control device performs first display processing that involves causing a light source, corresponding to a display region for notice information, to glow more brightly than another light source if the notice information is displayed on a part of the display when the display device is in a lock state. The notice information presents a user a notice, and the light source and the other light source are included in the light sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIOMI, NAOKO GOTO, NAOTO INOUE, AYA OKAMOTO, OSAMU TERANUMA, MASAO KURINO, YUKI KATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20210133935
    Abstract: An image processing device that generates an output image displayed on a display device that controls a plurality of light sources corresponding to a display region in a nonrectangular shape, the image processing device comprising: a masking processing unit that uses a region other than the display region in an input image, which is input from outside, as a masking processing region to perform masking processing for the masking processing region and generates a masking processed image; a luminance data creation unit that creates luminance data, which indicates luminance of the plurality of light sources when an output image corresponding to the input image is displayed, on a basis of the masking processed image; and an output image creation unit that creates the output image on a basis of the luminance data and the input image or the masking processed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: SHIGETO YOSHIDA, NAOKO GOTO, AYA OKAMOTO, CHUNLIN LU
  • Patent number: 10621913
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes: a pixel circuit drive unit configured to drive pixel circuits while performing a property measuring process in which a property of circuit elements is measured; a parameter table configured to store parameter values derived from monitoring data obtained in the property measuring process; a compensation computation unit configured to correct externally provided image data based on the parameter values stored in the parameter table, so as to generate a digital video signal to be fed to the pixel circuits; a temperature sensor configured to sense temperature; and a monitoring control section configured to control an execution frequency of the property measuring process in accordance with the sensed temperature. The monitoring control section increases the execution frequency of the property measuring process with an increase in the sensed temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Furukawa, Noritaka Kishi, Kazuyoshi Yoshiyama, Shigetsugu Yamanaka, Naoko Goto, Tamotsu Sakai, Katsuya Otoi
  • Patent number: 10522080
    Abstract: In a data line drive/current measurement circuit, m measurement units are disposed in a plurality of semiconductor chips such that the m measurement units are distributed among the plurality of semiconductor chips. A display apparatus includes transistors such that one transistor is provided for two adjacent semiconductor chips. Inter-chip correction data indicating a variation among the semiconductor chips in terms of characteristics of elements in the measurement units is determined based on a result of a current measurement performed for the same transistor using measurement units disposed in different semiconductor chips. The inter-chip correction data is stored in a storage unit and is used in correcting an image signal. The inter-chip correction data may be determined based on a result of measuring a current flowing through a common cathode of organic EL elements for each semiconductor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Katsuya Otoi, Kazuyoshi Yoshiyama, Tamotsu Sakai, Naoko Goto, Noboru Noguchi