Patents by Inventor Tetsuro AKABA

Tetsuro AKABA 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: 10109261
    Abstract: An information display controller is capable of switching a plurality of screens and allowing a display to display the plurality of screens thereon, and includes a screen constructor, a texture atlas storage unit and a texture atlas creator. The texture atlas creator creates a texture atlas, in which elemental images as constituents of the plurality of screens are arranged, in accordance with an algorithm that takes sizes of the elemental images as references. The texture atlas storage unit stores the texture atlas created by the texture atlas creator. The screen constructor constructs the plurality of screens by using the elemental images extracted from the texture atlas stored in the texture atlas storage unit. In an event of creating the texture atlas, the texture atlas creator preferentially incorporates, into the texture atlas, an elemental image for composing the screen including more elemental images already arranged in the texture atlas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Shimizu, Yukio Goto, Shogo Yoneyama, Haruhiko Wakayanagi, Tetsuro Akaba, Natsumi Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20180033185
    Abstract: Provided are a texture atlas generation unit (10) that generates a texture atlas (41) by combining a plurality of textures, and generates position information (32), in the texture atlas (41), of a texture to be rendered; a polygon information storage unit (330) that stores polygon information (33) in which are set vertex coordinates of the polygon in an output image (42) and vertex texture coordinates corresponding to the vertex coordinates in an image to be rendered on the polygon on the basis of the texture to be rendered; a pixel coordinate calculation unit (22) that detects locations of pixels to be filled in with the polygon in the output image (42), and calculates pixel-corresponding texture coordinates corresponding to locations of pixels in a rendered image; and a coordinate conversion unit (23) that converts the pixel-corresponding texture coordinates to coordinates within an area of the texture to be rendered on the texture atlas (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi SAKURAI, Mitsuo SHIMOTANI, Tetsuro AKABA, Haruhiko WAKAYANAGI, Natsumi ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20170221458
    Abstract: An information display controller is capable of switching a plurality of screens and allowing a display to display the plurality of screens thereon, and includes a screen constructor, a texture atlas storage unit and a texture atlas creator. The texture atlas creator creates a texture atlas, in which elemental images as constituents of the plurality of screens are arranged, in accordance with an algorithm that takes sizes of the elemental images as references. The texture atlas storage unit stores the texture atlas created by the texture atlas creator. The screen constructor constructs the plurality of screens by using the elemental images extracted from the texture atlas stored in the texture atlas storage unit. In an event of creating the texture atlas, the texture atlas creator preferentially incorporates, into the texture atlas, an elemental image for composing the screen including more elemental images already arranged in the texture atlas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIMIZU, Yukio GOTO, Shogo YONEYAMA, Haruhiko WAKAYANAGI, Tetsuro AKABA, Natsumi ISHIGURO