Patents by Inventor Toshio Wakahara

Toshio Wakahara 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: 6876395
    Abstract: Video data of a field necessary for I/P conversion and scanning line conversion is stored in a field memory part (7), vertical frequency conversion is performed by a memory control processing part (2), I/P conversion is performed by an I/P conversion processing part (3), scanning line conversion is performed by a scanning line conversion part (4) and horizontal pixel conversion is performed by a horizontal pixel conversion processing part (5) with the data stored in the field memory part, and a synchronous processing part (6) supplies a prescribed clock, a horizontal synchronizing signal and a vertical synchronizing signal to each block. A single system performs vertical frequency conversion, I/P conversion, scanning line conversion and horizontal pixel conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Muto, Toshio Wakahara, Akio Niwa, Takuma Higashi, Tomoko Morita, Yuji Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 6542135
    Abstract: The display device of the present invention is provided with a means (8) for setting the writing pulse width of the attentional light-emitting sub-field wider than the normal writing pulse width at all the gray scale levels in the case where at least two continuous non-light-emitting sub-fields possibly exist before the attentional light-emitting sub-field at a certain gray scale level among all the gray scale levels specified on the basis of the number Z of sub-fields and the weighting of the sub-fields. According to the display device of the present invention, the discharge for writing can be stably executed without reducing the number of sub-fields in one field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kasahara, Yuichi Ishikawa, Tomoko Morita, Makoto Kawachi, Tadayuki Masumori, Takao Wakitani, Toshio Wakahara, Akira Yawata