Patents by Inventor Shoji Otsuka

Shoji Otsuka 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: 10620899
    Abstract: A display includes eight modules. A relay group includes eight relays provided for the respective modules. Each relay includes: a buffer; a memory writer for writing video data into the buffer; and a memory reader that, after the memory writer completes writing, reads the video data from the buffer at a speed lower than a speed of the writing and outputs the read video data to the corresponding module. A video data supplier sequentially sorts the video data to the eight relays in such a manner that, per line of line data, the line data from the buffer of one relay of the eight relays is read during a writing period of the line data to buffers of the other seven relays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoji Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20190056903
    Abstract: A display includes eight modules. A relay group includes eight relays provided for the respective modules. Each relay includes: a buffer; a memory writer for writing video data into the buffer; and a memory reader that, after the memory writer completes writing, reads the video data from the buffer at a speed lower than a speed of the writing and outputs the read video data to the corresponding module. A video data supplier sequentially sorts the video data to the eight relays in such a manner that, per line of line data, the line data from the buffer of one relay of the eight relays is read during a writing period of the line data to buffers of the other seven relays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shoji OTSUKA
  • Patent number: 9990899
    Abstract: An image display apparatus comprising a display section provided by pixels arranged in a grid pattern, each of the pixels being formed of a light-emitting element, in which basic grids are repeatedly arranged in a grid pattern, each of the basic grids consisting of four pixels of a 2 by 2 matrix, each of the basic grids having a pattern in which one or two pixels of the four pixels being assigned a three-in-one element including three primary colors of R, G, and B and the remaining pixels being assigned a single-color light-emitting element, and the apparatus comprises processor for correcting a first color reproduction range provided by chromaticities of the three primary colors of R, G, and B to a second color reproduction range by light-emission intensity of the single-color light-emitting element and shifting chromaticity points for the three colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zenichiro Hara, Shoji Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20160196796
    Abstract: An image display apparatus including a display section provided by pixels arranged in a grid pattern, each of the pixels being formed of a light-emitting element, in which basic grids (square grids) are repeatedly arranged in a grid pattern, each of the basic grids consisting of four pixels of a 2 by 2 matrix, each of the basic grids having a pattern in which at least one pixel of the four pixels being assigned a three-in-one element including three primary colors of R, G, and B and the remaining pixels being assigned a single-color light-emitting element, and the apparatus comprises color reproduction range correcting means (color converting section) for correcting a first color reproduction range provided by chromaticities of the three primary colors of R, G, and B to a second color reproduction range through adjustment of light-emission intensity of the single-color light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Zenichiro HARA, Shoji OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20100053223
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gradation control method, for a display device, in which one frame is divided into a plurality of subframes and lighting times for pixels corresponding to the subframes are controlled based on the sum of respective light-emitting times in the subframes, so that gradations of the pixels are rendered; the frame is divided into n (positive integer) subframes (e.g., SF1? to SF4?) in each of which m (positive integer)-bit data is set and a subframe (SF5?) in which p (positive integer smaller than m)-bit data is set. As a result, increase in a data setting time can be suppressed, even if the number of subframes is increased in order to enable complicated gradation control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shoji OTSUKA, Takashi Okamoto, Kazuya Maeshima
  • Patent number: 6386099
    Abstract: A continuous high-speed pickle injector is provided with improved productivity that can inject a liquid substance such as brine for curing, seasoning or the like into a block of meat such as pork, beef, livestock meat and the like continuously, and disperse the liquid substance uniformly. A pickle injector which can inject a liquid substance such as brine for curing and the like into a block of meat being conveyed continuously while gradually raising the injection pressure from 0 or a low pressure includes two or more injecting sections being able to repeat an injecting operation, that is, from the start to the completion of the injection of a liquid substance. The two or more injecting sections inject a liquid substance while moving at a speed synchronized with the conveying speed of a block of meat continuously being conveyed during the operation of injection. The timing of the injecting operation for each injecting section is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Prima Meat Packers, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Otsuka, Shinji Samusawa, Takayuki Takahashi, Shigeaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4765280
    Abstract: A direct-contact type hot water heater includes a perforated plate having a slope allowing water to flow down from its top apex toward its lower surroundings along both or all sides of the slope in the form of a water film. The perforated plate is provided with a number of apertures capable of forming the water film by surface tension. An endothermic material is arranged in a state where it does not project from the lower surface of the perforated plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignees: Maeda Iron Works Co., Ltd., Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiro Kobayashi, Saburo Usui, Shoji Otsuka, Choji Najima, Toshimichi Ohara