Patents by Inventor Shintarou Kawano

Shintarou Kawano 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).

  • Display control circuit and display device
    Patent number: 8106915
    Abstract: A display control circuit capable of performing arbitration with the use of a simple configuration. The display control circuit exchanges, with a plurality of masters, attribute information defining conditions for displaying video on a display, and includes a memory for storing the attribute information, a plurality of channels associated with the respective masters for accepting, from the masters, access requests to access the memory, and an arbitration controller configured by hardware. The arbitration controller arbitrates the access requests accepted via the respective channels and permits a selected one of the access requests to access the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited
    Inventors: Shintarou Kawano, Kazutoshi Tanimoto, Hiroaki Morimoto
  • DISPLAY CONTROL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20080313377
    Abstract: A display control circuit capable of performing arbitration with the use of a simple configuration. The display control circuit exchanges, with a plurality of masters, attribute information defining conditions for displaying video on a display, and includes a memory for storing the attribute information, a plurality of channels associated with the respective masters for accepting, from the masters, access requests to access the memory, and an arbitration controller configured by hardware. The arbitration controller arbitrates the access requests accepted via the respective channels and permits a selected one of the access requests to access the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shintarou KAWANO, Kazutoshi TANIMOTO, Hiroaki MORIMOTO