Patents by Inventor Susumu Tanase

Susumu Tanase 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: 8884979
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes an imager that modulates light emitted from a light source and a projection unit that projects light emitted from the imager on a projection surface. The projection display apparatus includes: an imager controller that controls the imager to display a test pattern image in which a characteristic point is defined by at least three adjacent regions; an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of the test pattern image from an imaging element configured to capture the test pattern image projected on the projection surface; and an adjustment unit that identifies the characteristic point included in the captured image on the basis of the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit and adjusts an image to be projected on the projection surface on the basis of the identified characteristic point. The at least three adjacent regions surround the characteristic point and are adjacent to the characteristic point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Haraguchi, Masutaka Inoue, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Tomoya Terauchi, Susumu Tanase
  • Patent number: 8598503
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a light amount sensor which detects an amount of light emitted from an array light source; a deterioration rate calculator which acquires an amount of light of a measurement target light source from the amount of light detected by the light amount sensor; a reference light amount storage which stores a reference amount of light of an amount of light emitted from plurality of solid state light sources, for each of the solid state light sources; and a light source controller which controls the amount of light emitted from the plurality of solid state light sources for each of the solid state light sources, and the deterioration rate calculator determines whether the measurement target light source has deteriorated, in accordance with a result of a comparison between the amount of light detected by the light amount sensor, and the reference amount of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masutaka Inoue, Seiji Tsuchiya, Susumu Tanase, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Takaaki Abe, Masahiro Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20130293597
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8487953
    Abstract: The image signal converting apparatus is used in a lighting unit. The lighting unit includes a liquid crystal panel modulating a red component light according to a red image signal, a liquid crystal panel modulating a green component light according to a green image signal, and a liquid crystal panel modulating a blue component light according to a blue image signal. Yellow component light is superimposed on any of the red component light, the green component light and the blue component light. The image signal converting apparatus includes a controlling unit which controls a superimposition amount of yellow component light based on a specific image signal among a red image signal, a green image signal, and a blue image signal. A color corresponding to the specific image signal has a hue adjacent to a hue corresponding to the yellow component light. The controlling unit controls a reduction amount of the specific image signal based on the superimposition amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masutaka Inoue, Susumu Tanase, Takaaki Abe
  • Patent number: 8269799
    Abstract: An image signal processor includes a controller configured to generate a red output signal, a green output signal, a blue output signal and a fourth color output signal in accordance with image input signals. A fourth color light component enables to reproduce a color outside the range of a color reproducible by the red light component, the green light component and the blue light component. The controller generates the fourth color output signal on the basis of a reference signal corresponding to a color different from a complementary color of a color reproduced by the fourth color light component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Abe, Masutaka Inoue, Susumu Tanase, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Seiji Tsuchiya, Masahiro Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20120212500
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MORI, Susumu TANASE, Atsuhiro YAMASHITA, Masutaka INOUE, Shigeo KINOSHITA, Haruhiko MURATA, Takashi YABUKAWA, Hiroyuki GOYA, Yuichi TANEYA, Masae ICHINO, Kazuo NAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120140189
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: an imager; a projection unit; an acquisition unit; a shape correction unit that performs a shape correction process for projecting a shape correction pattern image on the projection plane, calculating shape correction values from the picked-up image of the shape correction pattern image, and correcting the shape of the image projected on the projection plane, based on the shape correction values; and a coordinate calibration unit that performs an interactive calibration process for projecting a calibration pattern image on the projection plane, calculating calibration correction values from the picked-up image of the calibration pattern image, associating coordinates of the picked-up image captured by the image pick-up element and coordinates of the image projected on the projection plane with each other, based on calibration correction values. The interactive calibration process is performed after the shape correction process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Hiranuma, Tomoya Terauchi, Susumu Tanase, Takaaki Abe, Masahiro Haraguchi, Noboru Yoshinobe
  • Patent number: 8194007
    Abstract: A technology for reducing the so-called “phosphor burn-in” phenomenon where the variation of luminance arises by reducing display luminance of a certain pixel caused by deterioration in a display apparatus constituted by an organic electro luminescence element is provided. In the display apparatus, when displaying an image acquired by an image acquiring unit, luminance substantially same as average luminance of the acquired image is set to a non-display area where the image is not displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Mori, Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Shigeo Kinoshita, Haruhiko Murata, Takashi Yabukawa, Hiroyuki Goya, Yuichi Taneya, Masae Ichino, Kazuo Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20120113398
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus (100) includes a housing case (200) that houses a light source unit (110), a color separation and combination unit (140) for modulating the light emitted from the light source, and a projection unit (150) for projecting the light emitted from the color separation and combination unit (140) onto a projection plane (300). The projection display apparatus further includes: a first interface (190A) provided on a first lateral-surface side sidewall (250) and displaying detailed information on errors having occurred within the housing case; and a second interface (190B) provided on a front-surface-side side wall (220) and displaying the levels of the errors having occurred within the housing case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Terauchi, Masutaka Inoue, Susumu Tanase, Takaaki Abe
  • Publication number: 20120081678
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus displays a test pattern image formed of at least parts of three or more line segments defining three or more intersection points. The projection display apparatus computes a positional relationship between the projection display apparatus and the projection surface, based on the three or more intersection points. The test pattern image has a distortion in an opposite direction to a direction of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinao HIRANUMA, Tomoya TERAUCHI, Susumu TANASE, Takaaki ABE, Masahiro Haraguchi, Noboru Yoshinobe
  • Publication number: 20120026170
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus according to embodiments includes a light source that emits color component light beams of a plurality of colors and an imager that modulates the color component light beams of a plurality of colors emitted from the light source. The projection display apparatus includes an element control unit that controls the imager; and a light source control unit that controls the light source. The element control unit controls the imager based on an image output signal obtained by a signal expansion process of an image input signal. The light source control unit performs a power reduction process of reducing power supplied to the light source according to an expansion amount of the image input signal expanded by the signal expansion process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki ABE, Masutaka INOUE, Susumu TANASE, Masahiro HARAGUCHI, Yoshinao HIRANUMA, Tomoya TERAUCHI, Noboru YOSHINOBE
  • Publication number: 20120013634
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes an imager that modulates light emitted from a light source and a projection unit that projects light emitted from the imager on a projection surface. The projection display apparatus includes: an imager controller that controls the imager to display a test pattern image in which a characteristic point is defined by at least three adjacent regions; an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of the test pattern image from an imaging element configured to capture the test pattern image projected on the projection surface; and an adjustment unit that identifies the characteristic point included in the captured image on the basis of the captured image acquired by the acquisition unit and adjusts an image to be projected on the projection surface on the basis of the identified characteristic point. The at least three adjacent regions surround the characteristic point and are adjacent to the characteristic point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro HARAGUCHI, Masutaka INOUE, Yoshinao HIRANUMA, Tomoya TERAUCHI, Susumu TANASE
  • Patent number: 8070296
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus includes: a solid-state light source; a Peltier element configured to cool the solid-state light source; a light amount sensor configured to detect an amount of a light emitted from the solid-state light source; a power consumption monitor configured to monitor power consumptions of the solid-state light source and the Peltier element; and a power controller configured to control powers supplied to the solid-state light source and the Peltier element. The power controller controls the powers supplied to the solid-state light source and the Peltier element, on the basis of the light amount detected by the light amount sensor and a sum of the power consumptions of the solid-state light source and the Peltier element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinao Hiranuma, Masutaka Inoue, Susumu Tanase, Takaaki Abe, Seiji Tsuchiya, Masahiro Haraguchi
  • Publication number: 20110175940
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: an imager configured to modulate light emitted from a light source; a projection unit configured to project light coming from the imager on a projection plane; a detection unit configured to detect a projection frame provided on the projection plane; and an imager controller configured to control the imager so that a position of an image projected on the projection plane is moved in a projectable range within which the projection unit is able to project an image. The imager controller controls the imager so that the image projected on the projection plane fits within the projection frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Terauchi, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Susumu Tanase, Takaaki Abe, Masahiro Haraguchi, Noboru Yoshinobe, Masutaka Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110032488
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a light source, a light valve configured to modulate light emitted from the light source, a projection unit configured to project light emitted from the light valve, on a projection surface, and a valve controller configured to initialize the light valve in response to a drive-starting command to start driving the projection display apparatus; and a light-source controller configured to make the light source start operating when the valve controller finishes initialization of the light valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki ABE, Masutaka INOUE, Susumu TANASE, Yoshinao HIRANUMA, Tomoya TERAUCHI, Masahiro HARAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20110025988
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes; an element control unit configured to control a light valve so as to display a test pattern image configuring at least one portion of a respective one of three or more line segments configuring three or more crossing points; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a pickup image of the test pattern image outputted along a predetermined line from an image pickup element configured to pick up the test pattern image projected on a projection plane; a computation unit configured to specify three or more crossing points from three or more line segments included in the pickup image, based upon the pickup image acquired by the acquisition unit, and to compute a positional relationship between the projection image apparatus and the projection plane, based upon the three or more crossing points; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust an image projected on the projection plane, based upon the positional relationship between the projection display apparatus and the project
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro HARAGUCHI, Masutaka INOUE, Yoshinao HIRANUMA, Tomoya TERAUCHI, Susumu TANASE, Takaaki ABE
  • Patent number: 7857466
    Abstract: A projection-type image display device has a solid light source and a light valve, and causes light emitted from the solid light source to perform scanning on the light valve along a predetermined scanning line. The projection-type image display device is provided with a modulation amount controller configured to control a modulation amount of the light valve according to an input video signal which is a video signal inputted to the projection-type image display device, and an output controller configured to determine a reference output according to the input video signal. The output controller controls an output of the solid light source according to the reference output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Masutaka Inoue, Susumu Tanase, Takaaki Abe
  • Patent number: 7808462
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes an RGB-RGBX signal converter having a variable RGB-RGBX conversion ratio and configured to convert an RGB signal into an RGBX signal. An RGBX type self light-emitting display is configured to display video, based on the RGBX signal obtained by the RGB-RGBX signal converter. A controller is configured to control the RGB-RGBX conversion ratio utilized for converting the RGB signal into the RGBX signal, in accordance with a display position of the RGB signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Tanase, Atsuhiro Yamashita, Masutaka Inoue, Yukio Mori
  • Publication number: 20100245586
    Abstract: A camera for capturing an object that will enter a projection space is attached to the casing of a projection display apparatus. The camera is installed at the position in which, when the camera faces the projection plane, at least one of the back direction and the side direction of the casing is included within the filed of view of the camera. For example, the cameras are installed on both side edges of the casing so as to face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya TERAUCHI, Masutaka INOUE, Susumu TANASE, Yoshinao HIRANUMA, Takaaki ABE, Masahiro HARAGUCHI, Makoto MAEDA, Shinya MATSUMOTO, Azusa TAKEUCHI, Ryoko KUBO
  • Publication number: 20100245780
    Abstract: A detection unit detects an entering object that will enter at least a projection space. When an entering object has been detected by a first detection unit, a controller initiates safety processing, the safety processing being milder than safety processing that is initiated when an error has occurred in the projection display apparatus itself. For example, when an entering object has been detected, the controller controls components of the projection display apparatus so as to switch to the projection of a black image and so as to maintain the state of the projection display apparatus, excluding the switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takaaki ABE, Masutaka Inoue, Susumu Tanase, Yoshinao Hiranuma, Tomoya Terauchi, Masahiro Haraguchi