Patents by Inventor Seiji Kohashikawa

Seiji Kohashikawa 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: 20090009464
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus capable of stopping the brightness control of a back light source on the featuring quantity of an input video signal, in case a multi-plane display was performed. The liquid crystal display apparatus comprises a liquid crystal panel (6) for displaying a picture, a light source for irradiating the liquid crystal panel (6), a backlight unit (7) for controlling the light source, a two-plane control unit (3), and a brightness control unit (4). In accordance with the featuring quantity of the input video signal, the brightness control unit (4) performs the control of the emitting brightness of the back light source, upon the backlight unit (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Seiji Kohashikawa, Yuhya Sekiguchi, Yuhichiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080231581
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus enables image display with optimum quality corresponding to the genre of an image to be displayed. The liquid crystal display apparatus controls the emission luminance of a backlight according to the APL of an image signal measured at an APL measuring portion 14. Upon emission luminance control, the display apparatus sets the follow performance of a change of the backlight emission luminance in following a change in a characteristic quantity of the image signal according to a genre so that the display image can be viewed without an odd feeling. Specifically, the APL of the image signal measured at the APL measuring portion 14 is put into a filter 15, and the rate of a change in the APL on the time axis is controlled through weighted averaging to control the follow performance of the emission luminance control on the backlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujine, Seiji Kohashikawa
  • Publication number: 20080117153
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which can achieve suitable screen display luminance depending on video content as well as can reduce power consumption sufficiently. A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel that displays video and a light source that illuminates the liquid crystal panel, and the emission luminance of the light source is controlled depending on the genre of the video displayed on the liquid crystal panel. The emission luminance of the light source is adjusted while maintaining approximately constant white chromaticity (white balance).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujine, Seiji Kohashikawa, Michiyuki Sugino, Ryuichi Niiyama
  • Publication number: 20060221260
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided which can achieve suitable screen display luminance depending on video content as well as can reduce power consumption sufficiently. A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel that displays video and a light source that illuminates the liquid crystal panel, and the emission luminance of the light source is controlled depending on the genre of the video displayed on the liquid crystal panel. The emission luminance of the light source is adjusted while maintaining approximately constant white chromaticity (white balance).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujine, Seiji Kohashikawa, Michiyuki Sugino, Ryuichi Niiyama
  • Patent number: 6631210
    Abstract: An image-processing apparatus, as well as an image-processing method, is provided with a first inspection circuit which, with respect to density values of pixels within a specific area consisting of a target pixel and pixels in a vicinity thereof in image data for each color component, calculates an average density value, the sum of density differences, that is, the sum of absolute values of differences between the target pixel and the peripheral pixels, and the number the peripheral pixels having the same density value as the target pixel, so that a judgement is made as to whether the target pixel is a maximum value or a minimum value, and also calculates a run-length and the degree of busy from the pixel forming the maximum value or the minimum value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Mutoh, Setsuya Kobayashi, Takayuki Amagai, Seiji Kohashikawa, Takahiro Daido