Patents by Inventor Takaaiki Abe

Takaaiki Abe 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).

  • Illumination apparatus and projection display apparatus
    Patent number: 8123359
    Abstract: The illumination apparatus includes a color separator configured to separate a white light beam, emitted from a white light source, into a plurality of color component light beams, a plurality of imagers each configured to modulate a corresponding one of the plurality of color component light beams separated by the color separator and a polarization modulator provided on a light incident side of one imager included in the plurality of imagers. The polarization modulator modulates a polarization direction of a modulation-object light beam which is part of a color component light beam guided to the one imager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Maeda, Masutaka Inoue, Takaaiki Abe
  • ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20090015796
    Abstract: The illumination apparatus includes a color separator configured to separate a white light beam, emitted from a white light source, into a plurality of color component light beams, a plurality of imagers each configured to modulate a corresponding one of the plurality of color component light beams separated by the color separator and a polarization modulator provided on a light incident side of one imager included in the plurality of imagers. The polarization modulator modulates a polarization direction of a modulation-object light beam which is part of a color component light beam guided to the one imager.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SANYO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto MAEDA, Masutaka Inoue, Takaaiki Abe