Patents by Inventor Nobuaki Uwa

Nobuaki Uwa 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: 6553184
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of converting two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images. In the present invention, a first image which forms the basis and a second image obtained by horizontally shifting the first image are produced from the original two-dimensional image. One of the first image and the second image is taken as a left eye image, and the other image is taken as a right eye image. If the left eye image and the right eye image obtained are displayed on a display almost simultaneously, and the left eye image and the right eye image displayed are viewed with the left eye and the right eye of a viewer, therefore, the original two-dimensional image is recognized as an image having a three-dimensional effect by the viewer even when it is a still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Ando, Teruhiro Yamada, Nobuaki Uwa, Tetsuya Enomoto
  • Patent number: 5739844
    Abstract: A two-dimensional image which is constitute by a plurality of frame images which are continuous in time is taken as an image for one eye, while a two-dimensional image obtained by shifting the frame image by N frames (N includes zero and is not fixed), thereby to produce a three-dimensional image. For example, the two-dimensional image is not changed, that is, the frame difference (N) is adjusted to "0" with respect to a portion of the two-dimensional image whose content is not easily converted into a three-dimensional image, while the frame difference (N) is adjusted to (N) larger than (N) for a normal three-dimensional image with respect to a portion of the two-dimensional image whose content is very easily converted into a three-dimensional image, thereby to give further three-dimensional feeling to a viewer as well as reduce the fatigue of the eyes of the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukinori Kuwano, Takahisa Andou, Tetsuya Enomoto, Nobuaki Uwa