Patents by Inventor Takashi Nose

Takashi Nose 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: 10657870
    Abstract: Provided is a color adjustment method for a display apparatus. The color adjustment method includes: measuring first luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on a display device when image data corresponding to a white point is supplied to a drive circuitry; measuring second luminance coordinate data indicating luminances and color coordinates of colors displayed on the display device when image data corresponding to the white color of intermediate grayscale values are supplied to the drive circuitry; measuring third luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on the display device for each of R, G and B elementary color points when image data corresponding to each of the R, G and B elementary color points is supplied to the drive circuitry; and calculating correction parameters based on the first to third luminance coordinate data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Susumu Saito, Takashi Nose, Akio Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10636365
    Abstract: A display driver comprises correction circuitry configured to correct a first image data for a first line, based on a difference between a first current and a second current. The first current is for displaying the first line and the second current is for displaying a second line after the first line is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Susumu Saito, Takashi Nose
  • Publication number: 20200118504
    Abstract: A display driver comprises image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to output display image data representing a display image comprising an effective area to be displayed in a display area of a display panel and an invalid area not to be displayed in the display area. The drive circuitry drives the display panel based on the display image data comprising effective pixel data associated with first pixels included in the effective area and invalid pixel data associated with second pixels included in the invalid area. Effective pixel data associated with first pixels located within a boundary area adjacent to the invalid area is set to first grayscale values. The invalid pixel data associated with second pixels located within an insert area defined in the invalid area is set to second grayscale values comprising a value different from the first grayscale values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoo MINAKI, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Takashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20200111423
    Abstract: A display driver comprises image processing circuitry, compensation circuitry, voltage data generator circuitry, and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to generate a first voltage data based on an image data corresponding to an image to be displayed on a display panel. The compensation circuitry is configured to generate correction values for pixels of the display panel, based on a total current consumed in the pixels of the display panel and positions of the pixels in the display panel. The voltage data generator circuitry is configured to generate a second voltage data by correcting the first voltage data based on the correction values. The drive circuitry is configured to write drive voltages into the pixels based on the second voltage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Masao ORIO, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Takashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20200112732
    Abstract: Image compression circuitry comprises first-stage compression circuitry, first-stage selector circuitry, second-stage compression circuitry, and second-stage selector circuitry. The first-stage compression circuitry is configured to sequentially receive a plurality of input blocks each comprising pixel data of a plurality of pixels, generate a plurality of first-stage compressed blocks by compressing the plurality of input blocks, and generate a plurality of first-stage decompressed blocks. The first-stage selector circuitry is configured to select first-stage-selected decompressed blocks from among the plurality of first-stage decompressed blocks and select first-stage-selected compressed blocks corresponding to the first-stage-selected decompressed blocks from among the plurality of first-stage compressed blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Micael Lacson MAGPAYO, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Takashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20200071280
    Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (1), or a salt thereof (X represents carbonyl group, or sulfonyl group; R1 represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkanoyl group, cyano group, or carboxyl group; R2 represents an alkyl group, a cyclic carbon group, or a heterocyclic group; R3 represents hydrogen atom, or 1 to 3 substituents; R4 and R5 represents hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an alkyl group; and R6 represents an alkyl group, or an alkoxy group), which has an mPGES-1 inhibitory action, and is useful as an active ingredient of a medicament for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of inflammation, pain, rheumatism, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: ASKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto OKADA, Youichi NAKANO, Takashi NOSE, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Satoshi MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10522068
    Abstract: Techniques for displaying a quality-improved image with reduced power consumption are provided. In one embodiment, a display panel driver is provided that includes a dithering section configured to receive first m-bit image data and configured to generate second image data by performing dithering on the first image data with n-bit dither values each selected from elements of a dither table, and a driver circuit configured to drive the source lines of a display panel in response to the second image data. In generating the second image data corresponding to first pixels belonging to a first pixel column, the dither values are selected from elements in a first column of the dither table, while the second image data corresponding to second pixels belonging to a second pixel column adjacent to the first pixel column, the dither values are selected from elements in a second column of the dither table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose
  • Patent number: 10522067
    Abstract: A display panel driver includes an image data generator, a brightness correction circuit performing a correction calculation on image data, a drive section driving the display panel in response to corrected image data; and a display timing generator outputting a timing control signal. The correction calculation by the brightness correction circuit is adjustable. When the display panel driver is placed into a test mode, the display timing generator is configured to output an internally-generated timing control signal and the image data generator outputs internally-generated evaluation image data. The evaluation image data are generated so that the evaluation images are switched from one to another in response to the internally-generated timing control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Akio Sugiyama, Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata
  • Patent number: 10510138
    Abstract: A display panel driver includes a scaler circuit performing image enlargement processing on input image data corresponding to an input image to generate ?-times enlarged image data corresponding to an ?-times enlarged image (? is a number larger than one which cannot be represented as 2k); and a driver section driving a display panel. In calculating a pixel value of a target pixel of the ?-times enlarged image, the scaler circuit generates enlarged image data including 2n-times enlarged image data corresponding to a 2n-times enlarged image obtained by enlarging the input image with an enlargement factor of 2n (n is the smallest integer determined so that 2n is larger than ?), and calculates the pixel value of the target pixel from the 2n-times enlarged image data through interpolation processing of pixel values of pixels of the 2n-times enlarged image corresponding to the target pixel of the ?-times enlarged image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Takashi Nose, Masao Orio
  • Patent number: 10446111
    Abstract: An image data transfer system includes a receiver and a transmitter configured to sequentially receive compressed image data and sequentially transmit transmission data corresponding to the compressed image data to the receiver. The transmitter is configured to, in transmitting a specific transmission data, perform data comparison of bits of a compressed image body data of a specific compressed image data with bits of a previous transmission data transmitted over signal lines allocated to the compressed image body data, incorporate the compressed image body data of the specific compressed image data or the bit-inverted data corresponding thereto into the specific transmission data, in response to the result of the data comparison, and incorporate the compression code of the specific compressed image data into the specific transmission data independently of the result of the data comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Hirobumi Furihata, Masashige Harada, Iori Shiraishi, Takashi Nose
  • Publication number: 20190304353
    Abstract: Provided is a color adjustment method for a display apparatus. The color adjustment method includes: measuring first luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on a display device when image data corresponding to a white point is supplied to a drive circuitry; measuring second luminance coordinate data indicating luminances and color coordinates of colors displayed on the display device when image data corresponding to the white color of intermediate grayscale values are supplied to the drive circuitry; measuring third luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on the display device for each of R, G and B elementary color points when image data corresponding to each of the R, G and B elementary color points is supplied to the drive circuitry; and calculating correction parameters based on the first to third luminance coordinate data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Masao ORIO, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Susumu SAITO, Takashi NOSE, Akio SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190278967
    Abstract: An example method of illuminating an optical fingerprint sensor integrated with a display, where the display includes a fingerprint (FP) pixel region and an outer pixel region exclusive of the FP pixel region, is described. The method includes: processing image data in display driver circuitry configured to drive the display to present an image; adjusting a first brightness setting, during the processing of the image data, corresponding to both the FP pixel region and the outer pixel region to provide illumination for the optical fingerprint sensor; and adjusting a second brightness setting, during the processing of the image data, corresponding to only the outer pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Petr SHEPELEV, Erik THOMPSON, Michitoshi HONMA, Toshifumi OGATA, Goro SAKAMAKI, Takashi NOSE, Hirobumi FURIHATA
  • Patent number: 10380936
    Abstract: A display panel driver includes: a correction calculation section which performs correction calculations on input image data to generate saturation-enhanced output image data and a drive circuitry driving the display panel in response to the output image data and a starting point control section. The correction calculation section generates red (R) data, green (G) data and blue (B) data of the output image data by performing the correction calculations on R data, G data and B data of the input image data, respectively. The starting point control section controls the positions of starting points of the input-output curves of the correction calculations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Takashi Nose, Hirobumi Furihata, Akio Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 10373584
    Abstract: A color adjustment circuit includes: a correction processing circuit configured to generate an output image data by performing color adjustment correction on an input image data; and a correction factor calculation circuit configured to calculate correction factors used for the color adjustment correction. The correction factor calculation circuit calculates a white color distance, a complementary color distance, and an elementary color distance and calculates the correction factors based on the white color distance, the complementary color distance and the elementary color distance. The correction factors are calculated based on: white point correction parameters, top correction parameters, and intermediate correction parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS JAPAN GK
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Susumu Saito, Takashi Nose, Akio Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20190213440
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first circuit which calculates values f(RPi), f(GPi) and f(BPi) by applying a function f(x) to an R grayscale value RPi, a G grayscale value GPi and a B grayscale value BPi of each pixel i of a first image; a second circuit which calculates values f(RQi), f(GQi) and f(BQi) by applying the function f(x) to an R grayscale value RQi, a G grayscale value GQi and a B grayscale value BQi of each pixel i of a second image; and a similarity calculation circuit which calculates a degree of similarity between the first and second images depending on |f(RPi)?f(RQi)|, |f(GPi)?f(GQi)| and |f(BPi)?f(BQi)| associated with each pixel i of the first and second images. The function f(x) is a convex function monotonically non-decreasing in the domain of definition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Hirobumi FURIHATA, Masao ORIO, Susumu SAITO, Takashi NOSE, Akio SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10332437
    Abstract: Provided is a color adjustment method for a display apparatus. The color adjustment method includes: measuring first luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on a display device when image data corresponding to a white point is supplied to a drive circuitry; measuring second luminance coordinate data indicating luminances and color coordinates of colors displayed on the display device when image data corresponding to the white color of intermediate grayscale values are supplied to the drive circuitry; measuring third luminance coordinate data indicating a luminance and color coordinates of a color displayed on the display device for each of R, G and B elementary color points when image data corresponding to each of the R, G and B elementary color points is supplied to the drive circuitry; and calculating correction parameters based on the first to third luminance coordinate data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Masao Orio, Hirobumi Furihata, Susumu Saito, Takashi Nose, Akio Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20190156727
    Abstract: A display driver comprises: subpixel rendering (SPR) circuitry configured to use, in SPR, predetermined regions which fall within two lines of input subpixels of an input image; buffer memory circuitry configured to store first subpixel data for a plurality of first subpixels of the input subpixels, wherein the plurality of the first subpixels each are encompassed in the predetermined regions; and a register configured to store coefficients, wherein the coefficients respectively correspond to shapes of the portions of the first subpixels encompassed in the predetermined regions. The SPR circuitry is configured to calculate second subpixel data for second subpixels of an output image, based on the first subpixel data stored in the buffer memory circuitry and the coefficients stored in the register.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoo MINAKI, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Takashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20190156457
    Abstract: A display panel driver includes a scaler circuit performing image enlargement processing on input image data corresponding to an input image to generate ?-times enlarged image data corresponding to an ?-times enlarged image (?is a number larger than one which cannot be represented as 2k); and a driver section driving a display panel. In calculating a pixel value of a target pixel of the ?-times enlarged image, the scaler circuit generates enlarged image data including 2n-times enlarged image data corresponding to a 2n-times enlarged image obtained by enlarging the input image with an enlargement factor of 2n (n is the smallest integer determined so that 2n is larger than ?), and calculates the pixel value of the target pixel from the 2n-times enlarged image data through interpolation processing of pixel values of pixels of the 2n-times enlarged image corresponding to the target pixel of the ?-times enlarged image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Hirobumi FURIHATA, Takashi NOSE, Masao ORIO
  • Publication number: 20190156786
    Abstract: A device and method for correcting mura within a display device. The device may include a display driver that includes lookup table circuitry, correction amount calculation circuitry, and mura correction circuitry. The lookup table circuitry is configured to calculate a second grayscale value for a second display brightness value (DBV), the second grayscale value being determined to achieve a brightness level corresponding to a first grayscale value and a first DBV. The correction amount calculation circuitry is configured to calculate a mura correction amount based on a mura correction data for the second grayscale value and the second DBV. Further, the mura correction circuitry is configured to perform a mura correction on input image data by using the mura correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Kazutoshi AOGAKI, Hirobumi FURIHATA, Hirohisa TSUCHIDA, Takashi NOSE
  • Publication number: 20190156763
    Abstract: A display driver comprises correction circuitry configured to correct a first image data for a first line, based on a difference between a first current and a second current. The first current is for displaying the first line and the second current is for displaying a second line after the first line is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Hirobumi FURIHATA, Susumu SAITO, Takashi NOSE