Patents by Inventor Shigenobu Jyou

Shigenobu Jyou 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: 9024935
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed at appropriately suppressing display failure such as a tailing phenomenon and the like in a normally white type liquid crystal panel. A driver (3) supplies a drive voltage in conformity with an image signal received by an image signal processing circuit (1), to a liquid crystal panel (4). A histogram detector (5) detects a histogram representing the relationship between the signal level of the image signal received by the image signal processing circuit (1) and the number of pixels. A CPU (6) calculates, based on the histogram detected by the histogram detector (5), a first proportion of the number of pixels (on the white side) whose signal level is equal to or greater than a first defined value, to the total number of pixels of the histogram and a second proportion of the number of pixels (on the black side) whose signal level is equal to or smaller than a second defined value that is smaller than the first defined value, to the total number of pixels of the histogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ikeda, Shigenobu Jyou, Reiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8780145
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a panel (16a) that includes a plurality of picture elements that change transmittance of light according to picture levels; a detection unit (12) that detects, in one-image portions of the panel (16a), picture levels for each of the plurality of picture elements from picture signals that indicate the picture levels of each picture element; and a processor (18) that, based on the picture levels of one-image portions that were detected by the detection unit (12), adjusts the transmittance of light of the plurality of picture elements such that the image realized by the picture signal is brighter when a value that corresponds to brightness is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Jyou, Hiroaki Ikeda, Reiichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120019507
    Abstract: The present invention is aimed at appropriately suppressing display failure such as a tailing phenomenon and the like in a normally white type liquid crystal panel. A driver (3) supplies a drive voltage in conformity with an image signal received by an image signal processing circuit (1), to a liquid crystal panel (4). A histogram detector (5) detects a histogram representing the relationship between the signal level of the image signal received by the image signal processing circuit (1) and the number of pixels. A CPU (6) calculates, based on the histogram detected by the histogram detector (5), a first proportion of the number of pixels (on the white side) whose signal level is equal to or greater than a first defined value, to the total number of pixels of the histogram and a second proportion of the number of pixels (on the black side) whose signal level is equal to or smaller than a second defined value that is smaller than the first defined value, to the total number of pixels of the histogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ikeda, Shigenobu Jyou, Reiichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20110234645
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a panel (16a) that includes a plurality of picture elements that change transmittance of light according to picture levels; a detection unit (12) that detects, in one-image portions of the panel (16a), picture levels for each of the plurality of picture elements from picture signals that indicate the picture levels of each picture element; and a processor (18) that, based on the picture levels of one-image portions that were detected by the detection unit (12), adjusts the transmittance of light of the plurality of picture elements such that the image realized by the picture signal is brighter when a value that corresponds to brightness is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Jyou, Hiroaki Ikeda, Reiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6953250
    Abstract: A first area and a second are formed in an image projected by a projector. A standard image plate is placed in a surface on which an image for the first area is projected. A standard image has been drawn on a standard image plate and is displayed in correct colors when white light is projected on the standard image plate. The projector projects white light as the image for the first area. An image for the second area is projected on a projecting surface. A user operates an operating section so that the image in the second area is closer to the standard image. A color correcting section corrects the colors of the image in the second area on the basis of information inputted to the operating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: NEC Viewtechnology, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Yasumi, Kazuo Mochizuki, Hisakazu Aoyanagi, Michitaka Naitou, Shigenobu Jyou
  • Publication number: 20050163369
    Abstract: In a method of improving quality of color images displayed on or produced from a color image device, a user is made to select a color or an object area of an object of user's interest and color correction is conducted using the selected item as a central color of correction to thereby flexibly achieve color correction. The image color correcting device 1 conducts color correction for an input image 2 and supplying an output image to an image display section 3 and includes object selecting means 10 for selecting an object item or an object color as a color correction object from the output image of the image display section 3 and a color correction processing section 11 for calculating a central color of an object item or an object color thus selected and setting the central color as a central color of correction and correcting the central color to thereby correct the output image into a desired color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Shigenobu Jyou, Masato Tsukada, Kazuo Mochizuki, Takehiko Yasumi, Hisakazu Aoyanagi, Michitaka Naitou
  • Publication number: 20040017550
    Abstract: A first area and a second are formed in an image projected by a projector. A standard image plate is placed in a surface on which an image for the first area is projected. A standard image has been drawn on a standard image plate and is displayed in correct colors when white light is projected on the standard image plate. The projector projects white light as the image for the first area. An image for the second area is projected on a projecting surface. A user operates an operating section so that the image in the second area is closer to the standard image. A color correcting section corrects the colors of the image in the second area on the basis of information inputted to the operating section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: NEC VIEWTECHNOLOGY, LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiko Yasumi, Kazuo Mochizuki, Hisakazu Aoyanagi, Michitaka Naitou, Shigenobu Jyou