Patents by Inventor Norio Nakamura

Norio Nakamura 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: 10262361
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electronic money server that supports regular periodic payments using electronic money. On the electronic money server, a payment debt is created in association with an electronic money function section ID. A “transaction ID” is also determined at that time. An electronic money application on a portable terminal sends the electronic money server a payment debt request to ascertain whether or not a payment debt exists. If a payment debt exists and the due date thereof has been reached, the electronic money server sends the portable terminal a payment connection request and requests authorization from the user. If the user sends an “approval” notification to the electronic money server, the electronic money server sends a payment request by sending a subtraction command to a IC chip in the portable terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Akashika, Norio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190108732
    Abstract: A tactile force information presenting system includes: a tactile force presenting device that generates the stimulus; a drive device that drives the tactile force presenting device; and a tactile force non-presenting device that does not generate said stimulus to an operator, and the tactile force presenting device presents the tactile force to the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Natsuo Koda, Yosuke Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10216278
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed in which in a conventional non-grounding man-machine interface having no reaction base on the human body and for giving the existence of a virtual object and the impact force of a collision to a person, a haptic sensation of a torque, a force and the like can be continuously presented in the same direction, which cannot be presented by only the physical characteristic of a haptic sensation presentation device. In a haptic presentation device, the rotation velocity of at least one rotator in the haptic presentation device is controlled by a control device, and a vibration, a force or a torque as the physical characteristic is controlled, so that the user is made to conceive various haptic information of the vibration, force, torque or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Miraisens, Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Yukio Fukui, Masataka Sakai
  • Patent number: 10163395
    Abstract: A method for driving a display device in an embodiment according to the present invention, the method including step of displaying an image in accordance with a first video signal in a first frame period, and displaying the image in accordance with the first video signal after the first frame in a second frame period. The image in the first frame period is displayed after an end of a non-display period, the non-display period is shorter than the first frame period, and the non-display period is inserted after writing of the video signal in the first frame period and before display of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Norio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180130416
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display device including pixels each including a light emitting element; a voltage generator configured to generate a plurality of different voltages; a switching device configured to be capable of switching the voltages in a manner such that any one of the voltages is applied to each of the pixels; and a controller configured to control operation of the switching device. The controller is configured to cause, at least once during a period for displaying an image corresponding to one frame, the switching device to operate in a manner such that voltages applied to the pixel are switched from a lower to a higher voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Yuta MURAKAMI, Masahiro KUBOTA, Norio NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180108299
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a transistor for controlling whether to shut off supply of a current to an organic EL element or not, a pulse signal generation circuit which generates a pulse signal to be inputted to the transistor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores the information in such a way that one frame period includes, in order, a first light emission period which is a period preceding a pulse, a black display period which is a period equivalent to a width of the pulse, and a second light emission period which is longer than the first light emission period, and that an area expressed by a product of a length of and a luminance in a light emission period is greater for the second light emission period than for the first light emission period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Norio NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180102092
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display device including a plurality of pixels each including a light emitting element; and a controller configured to control light emission timing of each of the pixels. The controller is configured to divide a time period during which a frame image is being displayed into certain unit time segments, and then switch light emission of the pixel on and off in a manner such that a light quantity per each of the unit time segment is equalized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro KUBOTA, Norio NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180090062
    Abstract: Provided is a display device that includes a temperature sensor providing measurement values that are not much dispersed and controls the level of a cathode current based on the measurement values. A display device includes a plurality of pixels provided on a substrate, the plurality of pixels each including a light emitting element and a pixel circuit to which a gray scale signal is input; a temperature sensor circuit provided on the substrate, the temperature sensor circuit including a temperature sensor line and detecting a temperature on the basis of a temperature dependence of a resistance change ratio of the temperature sensor line; and a gray scale signal control circuit correcting the gray scale signal in accordance with the temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventor: Norio NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9886904
    Abstract: In a display device, a signal line drive circuit applies an initialization voltage to control terminals of drive transistors from corresponding video signal lines, and applies a reset potential to first terminals of the drive transistors from corresponding reset lines to initialize the drive transistor, and the initialization voltage is set to a lower value as a voltage value of the gradation voltage signal written after offset cancellation for offset-canceling a threshold value of the drive transistor is higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Norio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170301291
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel in which pixel units are arranged, and a controller configured to generate image signals by multiplying display data externally supplied to each line by a luminosity adjustment factor, to supply the generated image signals to the pixel units, to accumulate power consumption of each line, and to execute black insertion if the accumulated power consumption is determined to be greater than power consumption of one previous display frame by a predetermined value, wherein the luminosity adjustment factor is acquired by substituting the power consumption of one previous frame to a decreasing function, and a display pattern including a plurality of continuing black display lines is synchronized with supply of the image signals and is displayed moving the same direction of a screen scanning direction of the display panel during the black insertion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki IMAI, Norio NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170249901
    Abstract: A method for driving a display device in an embodiment according to the present invention, the method including step of displaying an image in accordance with a first video signal in a first frame period, and displaying the image in accordance with the first video signal after the first frame in a second frame period. The image in the first frame period is displayed after an end of a non-display period, the non-display period is shorter than the first frame period, and the non-display period is inserted after writing of the video signal in the first frame period and before display of the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventor: Norio NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170228028
    Abstract: A haptic information presentation system uses a human sensory characteristic or illusion to suitably control a physical quantity, and causes a person to feel a force which cannot exist physically, or a haptic sensory physical characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Yukio Fukui, Masataka Sakai, Natsuo Koda, Yosuke Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9728137
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel in which pixel units are arranged, and a controller configured to generate image signals by multiplying display data externally supplied to each line by a luminosity adjustment factor, to supply the generated image signals to the pixel units, to accumulate power consumption of each line, and to execute black insertion if the accumulated power consumption is determined to be greater than power consumption of one previous display frame by a predetermined value, wherein the luminosity adjustment factor is acquired by substituting the power consumption of one previous frame to a decreasing function, and a display pattern including a plurality of continuing black display lines is synchronized with supply of the image signals and is displayed moving the same direction of a screen scanning direction of the display panel during the black insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Imai, Norio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170220111
    Abstract: In a haptic information presenting system, a haptic presenting device presents a stimulus by an object and/or to the object, controls the stimulus that is applied to the object in accordance with an operation by an operator, and thereby generates a tactile force, the haptic presenting device presents at least one of oscillation, displacement, and deformation to the object, the haptic presenting device is a sense synthesizing and guiding device that synthesizes sensations of guidance, and the sense synthesizing and guiding device generates at least one of a sensation of pressure, a sensation of a force, and the sensory illusion to the object by a vibration that includes a sweep vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Natsuo Koda, Koji Osaki
  • Publication number: 20170221323
    Abstract: A tactile force information presenting system includes: a tactile force presenting device that generates the stimulus; a drive device that drives the tactile force presenting device; and a tactile force non-presenting device that does not generate said stimulus to an operator, and the tactile force presenting device presents the tactile force to the operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Natsuo Koda, Yosuke Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20170220112
    Abstract: A haptic information presentation system uses a human sensory characteristic or illusion to suitably control a physical quantity, and causes a person to feel a force which cannot exist physically, or a haptic sensory physical characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Yukio Fukui, Masataka Sakai, Natsuo Koda, Koji Osaki
  • Patent number: 9703104
    Abstract: As an electro-optical device, a liquid crystal device includes micro lenses ML each of which is provided as a light-gathering element for the corresponding one of pixels, and further includes a light-shielding portion. Red (R), green (G), and blue (B) beams enter the micro lens ML at angles different from one another. The light-shielding portion partitions off a first opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel, a second opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel, and a third opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel from one another. When the width of the first opening portion in the predetermined direction (X direction) is defined as L1 and when the width of the second opening portion or the third opening portion in the predetermined direction is defined as L2, a relationship of L1<L2 holds true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170031443
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed in which in a conventional non-grounding man-machine interface having no reaction base on the human body and for giving the existence of a virtual object and the impact force of a collision to a person, a haptic sensation of a torque, a force and the like can be continuously presented in the same direction, which cannot be presented by only the physical characteristic of a haptic sensation presentation device. In a haptic presentation device, the rotation velocity of at least one rotator in the haptic presentation device is controlled by a control device, and a vibration, a force or a torque as the physical characteristic is controlled, so that the user is made to conceive various haptic information of the vibration, force, torque or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: NORIO NAKAMURA, YUKIO FUKUI, MASATAKA SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20160337625
    Abstract: As an electro-optical device, a liquid crystal device includes micro lenses ML each of which is provided as a light-gathering element for the corresponding one of pixels, and further includes a light-shielding portion. Red (R), green (G), and blue (B) beams enter the micro lens ML at angles different from one another. The light-shielding portion partitions off a first opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel, a second opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel, and a third opening portion corresponding to a sub pixel from one another. When the width of the first opening portion in the predetermined direction (X direction) is defined as L1 and when the width of the second opening portion or the third opening portion in the predetermined direction is defined as L2, a relationship of L1<L2 holds true.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norio NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9495803
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed in which in a conventional non-grounding man-machine interface having no reaction base on the human body and for giving the existence of a virtual object and the impact force of a collision to a person, a haptic sensation of a torque, a force and the like can be continuously presented in the same direction, which cannot be presented by only the physical characteristic of a haptic sensation presentation device. In a haptic presentation device, the rotation velocity of at least one rotator in the haptic presentation device is controlled by a control device, and a vibration, a force or a torque as the physical characteristic is controlled, so that the user is made to conceive various haptic information of the vibration, force, torque or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Miraisens, Inc.
    Inventors: Norio Nakamura, Yukio Fukui, Masataka Sakai