Patents by Inventor Takashi Toyooka
Takashi Toyooka 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).
-
Publication number: 20120134020Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source controlled to be turned on and off, a spatial light modulator that modulates light from the light source, and a controller that alternately switches an image to be displayed between an image for the left eye and an image for the right eye and turns on the light source so that the image for the left eye or the image for the right eye is displayed. When the image for the left eye is displayed, the controller starts opens a shutter for the left eye in eyeglasses before turning on the light source, whereas when the image for the right eye is displayed, the controller starts opening a shutter for the right eye in the eyeglasses before turning on the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2011Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi TOYOOKA, Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO
-
Publication number: 20120099084Abstract: A light source control device and a light source control method each capable of preventing the scroll noise from occurring without being affected by the characteristics of a light modulation device, and a projector equipped with the light source control device are provided. The light source device includes a duty determination section adapted to determine a duty ratio, and a drive control section adapted to perform drive control of a plurality of solid-state light sources by generating a PWM signal having the duty ratio determined by the duty ratio determination section, and adapted to make a phase with which at least one of the solid-state light sources is driven different from a phase with which another of the solid-state light sources is driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi TOYOOKA, Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO
-
Patent number: 8159452Abstract: An image display device includes at least one light source that emits light; at least one display area that changes, for each pixel, a transmittance or a reflectance of the light emitted from the light source; a panel driving circuit that drives the display area on the basis of an image signal indicating the transmittance or the reflectance for each pixel; and a light source control unit that controls a proportion of a light emission time of the light source in a period that varies within a predetermined range.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takashi Toyooka
-
Patent number: 8077223Abstract: An image recording method for an image recording medium is used in an image display apparatus that changes an image on a light valve and changes quantity of light which is incident on the light valve via a light control element according to an input image signal. The image recording method includes accommodating a range of brightness information which an object to be imaged indicates, in an entire range of brightness information which an image recording apparatus can record in the image recording medium; and recording a light-control control signal for controlling the light control element when an image signal is recorded on the image recording medium. The light control element is generated on the basis of the range of the brightness information uniformly expanded, in synchronization with the image signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2005Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takashi Toyooka, Shohei Yoshida, Hidehito Iisaka, Hidehiro Akahane
-
Publication number: 20110293874Abstract: The hybrid substrate of the present invention comprises a ceramic substrate assembly composed of a plurality of ceramic substrates, insulating resin layers disposed respectively on both surfaces of the ceramic substrate assembly such that they are opposed to each other, each of the insulating resin layers being made at least of a reinforcing material and a resin, and a metal layer disposed on each of the insulating resin layers. In particular, the hybrid substrate of the present invention comprises the plurality of ceramic substrates which are in the form of a tile arrangement along the same plane positioned between the opposed insulating resin layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: Takashi TOYOOKA, Hiroshi OKADA, Shigetoshi SEGAWA, Seiichi NAKATANI
-
Publication number: 20110185307Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system that facilitates the creation of an equation. During operation, the system obtains a user selection of a function to be used in the equation. Next, the system determines a state of a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a software program. More specifically, the system may determine a cursor position or a text selection in the equation. Finally, the system facilitates the creation of the equation by inserting the function into the equation based at least on the determined state.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: SYNOPSYS, INC.Inventors: Takashi Toyooka, Christian M. R. Delbaere, Anil P. Balaram
-
Publication number: 20110176080Abstract: An electro-optic device including: a plurality of pixels disposed corresponding to a plurality of colors; and a drive circuit adapted to drive the pixels, wherein the drive circuit drives the pixels based on a drive voltage set for each of the colors in accordance with a mixture ratio between the colors, and a drive pattern provided in accordance with the drive voltage and adapted to designate one of switching ON and OFF of the pixels at each of sub-fields constituting a frame in accordance with a grayscale level, and the drive voltages are set so that a voltage range of the drive voltage is different between the pixel corresponding to at least one of the colors and the pixel corresponding to another of the colors, the colors having respective proportions of mixture different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi TOYOOKA
-
Patent number: 7969455Abstract: An image display device for displaying an image on the basis of an image signal supplied from an image supply device includes a brightness detecting section that detects a gray level which characterizes brightness of a predetermined pattern image from a pattern image signal when the predetermined pattern image is supplied from the image supply device; a storing section that stores a reference gray level predetermined in the pattern image; a correction parameter setting section that sets a correction parameter for compensating by a difference between the gray level detected by the brightness detecting section and the reference gray level stored in the storing section; and a correcting section that corrects the brightness of the image signal supplied from the image supply device on the basis of the correction parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shohei Yoshida, Takashi Toyooka, Hidehito Iisaka
-
Publication number: 20110138265Abstract: Some embodiments provide a system for displaying cells of a table. During operation, the system can receive a sort-and-merge request for sorting the rows of the table using a sort column. Next, the system can sort the rows of the table based at least on cell values in the sort column to obtain a sorted table. The system can then merge a set of consecutive cells in a merge column of the sorted table to obtain a merged cell, wherein the set of consecutive cells are associated with the same cell value. Note that the sort column and the merge column can be the same column, or they can be different columns. Next, the system can display the merged cell and other cells in the sorted-and-merged table. Displaying a cell can involve positioning the cell's value in a visible area of the cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: SYNOPSYS, INC.Inventors: Anil P. Balaram, Takashi Toyooka
-
Patent number: 7930894Abstract: A cooling device that cools a heat generator generating heat in response to application or a signal based on a predetermined signal via a cooling fluid includes a cooling fluid cooling section that cools the cooling fluid, a control section that controls the cooling fluid cooling section in accordance with a signal based on the predetermined signal, and a signal processing section that supplies the heat generator with the signal based on the predetermined signal relatively late, and supplies the control section with the signal based on the predetermined signal relatively early.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2006Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takeshi Seto, Takashi Toyooka
-
Patent number: 7866830Abstract: An illumination device includes: a light source section emitting coherent light; and a phase modulation section onto which the coherent light emitted from the light source section is incident, modulating the phase of the coherent light, forming a phase modulation pattern, varying the phase of the coherent light while generating a diffracted light in accordance with the phase modulation pattern, thereby scanning the light onto at least a part of a region of a projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2007Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Takashi Toyooka
-
Publication number: 20100309189Abstract: A liquid crystal display, applying to the first electrode, a voltage higher and a voltage lower at different timings, detecting a current flowing through the second electrode, designating, as a reference value, the current flowing through the second electrode when the voltage maintained in the liquid crystal element is reset, specifying a first current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related higher voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the higher voltage is applied to the first electrode, and a second current which is obtained by excluding a charging current due to application of a related lower voltage from currents flowing through the second electrode after the lower voltage is applied to the first electrode, and comparing the first current with the second current, and controlling the first current and the second current based on the comparison result.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Takashi TOYOOKA, Hitoshi SASAKI
-
Patent number: 7844128Abstract: An image display method includes dividing one frame into a plurality of sub-frames by multiplying a frame frequency of an input image signal, reducing a high-spatial frequency component of an image signal which is used for image display in at least one predetermined sub-frame among the plurality of sub-frames in comparison with that of an image signal which is used for image display in another sub-frame, and displaying an image in each sub-frame.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Takashi Toyooka, Shohei Yoshida
-
Publication number: 20100231560Abstract: An electrophoretic display apparatus, electronic device, and driving method for an electrophoretic display apparatus are capable of significantly increasing the number of tones that can be expressed in a single frame period. The electrophoretic display apparatus divides at least part of a frame period into multiple subfield periods and controls the light transmission of an electro-optical layer by selecting, on a subfield period-by-subfield period basis, an on or off voltage as the driving voltage to apply between a pixel electrode and an opposing electrode to display multiple tones. A driving circuit of the electrophoretic display apparatus determines, in accordance with the tone to be displayed, the ratio between the application periods of the on and off voltages during the frame period, and the arrangement of the on and off voltages. The absolute values of the positive-polarity and negative-polarity voltages are different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi TOYOOKA, Taku KITAGAWA
-
Publication number: 20100214271Abstract: A liquid crystal device including a pair of substrates that are provided opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer being disposed therebetween, a pair of electrodes provided for each intersection of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, the pair of electrodes driving the liquid crystal layer, a driving circuit that applies a driving voltage to the pair of electrodes, an electric current detection element that detects a value corresponding to an electric current that flows in the liquid crystal layer when the driving voltage is applied, and a temperature information output circuit that outputs temperature information of the liquid crystal layer based on the value corresponding to the electric current.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO, Takashi TOYOOKA
-
Publication number: 20100201654Abstract: A method of driving an electro-optical apparatus includes segmenting a time width of a field into a plurality of subfields, the subfields within the field having different widths; and expressing a desired gradation level using a plurality of the subfields by applying an ON level for setting a pixel to an ON state or an OFF level for setting the pixel to an OFF state to the pixel in each subfield, wherein response characteristic data representing response characteristics of the pixel are obtained, and a width of the subfield for setting the pixel to the ON or OFF state is lengthened when the response characteristic data indicate that a response of the pixel is delayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2010Publication date: August 12, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Toyooka
-
Patent number: 7768688Abstract: An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination light with respect to light emitted from the light source on the basis of brightness information on the brightness of the display image based on the display information; a color conversion processing unit that performs a color conversion process according to the brightness information with respect to the display information so that the display image can be color-reproduced within a predetermined color space; and a display and driving unit that drives the optical modulation element on the basis of the display information having been subjected to the color conversion process so as to display the display image.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasunaga Miyazawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hidehito Iisaka, Hidehiro Akahane, Takashi Toyooka
-
Patent number: 7746530Abstract: An image display device having an optical modulation element, which modulates light emitted from a light source according to display information, and displaying a display image based on the display information includes: a unit adjusting the amount of illumination light with respect to light emitted from the light source on the basis of brightness information on the brightness of the display image based on the display information; a color conversion processing unit that performs a color conversion process according to the brightness information with respect to the display information so that the display image can be color-reproduced within a predetermined color space; and a display and driving unit that drives the optical modulation element on the basis of the display information having been subjected to the color conversion process so as to display the display image.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Yasunaga Miyazawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hidehito Iisaka, Hidehiro Akahane, Takashi Toyooka
-
Publication number: 20100079441Abstract: A method of driving an electro-optical device having scanning lines, data lines, a switching transistor and a pixel electrode. The device also has an electro-optical layer interposed between the pixel electrode and a counter electrode. The method includes: supplying a data signal alternate between a positive and a negative voltage to the pixel electrode. The positive voltage has a potential greater than a counter electrode potential applied to the counter electrode and the negative voltage is a potential lower than the counter electrode potential; setting the counter electrode potential to reduce a flicker; supplying a first voltage that is either the positive or negative voltage to the pixel electrode in a first period; the other voltage to the pixel electrode in a second period. A ratio of the first period to the second period is variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Hitoshi SASAKI, Takashi TOYOOKA
-
Publication number: 20100073341Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a display panel having a switching transistor and a pixel electrode that are disposed in correspondence with an intersection of a scanning line and a data line, an opposing electrode that faces the pixel electrode, and an electro-optical layer that is pinched between the pixel electrode and the opposing electrode, a detection unit that detects a current flowing through the electro-optical layer, and a control unit wherein, when a voltage of a high electric potential is defined to have the positive-polarity and a voltage of a low electric potential is defined to have the negative polarity with reference to the opposing electrode electric potential applied to the opposing electrode as a reference, a data signal of the positive polarity and a data signal of the negative polarity are alternately supplied to the pixel electrode through the data line.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi TOYOOKA, Kazuhisa MIZUSAKO