Patents by Inventor Yasuo Inoue
Yasuo Inoue 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).
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Publication number: 20140176403Abstract: There is provided a self-luminous display device including a deterioration amount acquisition section configured to acquire a cumulative deterioration amount for each of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix shape on a screen, each of the pixels including a light emitting element which emits light by itself in accordance with a current amount, a deterioration amount calculation section configured to calculate a deterioration amount when an image is displayed based on a supplied video signal in each of the pixels by using a deterioration characteristic determined in accordance with a luminance of the video signal, and a cumulative information update section configured to reflect the cumulative deterioration amount acquired by the deterioration amount acquisition section in the deterioration amount calculated by the deterioration amount calculation section, and to update the reflected cumulative deterioration amount as a new cumulative deterioration amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yohei Funatsu, Takashi Uchida
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Publication number: 20140176623Abstract: Provided is a self-luminous display device including a data calculation section configured to calculate, by using a supplied video signal, data relating to a luminance amount accumulated in a unit of a first block in a target region for luminance control in a screen on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, each of the pixels including a light emitting element which emits light by itself according to a current amount, a resampling section configured to resample the data relating to the luminance amount in the target region, in a unit of a second block, the data relating to the luminance amount being calculated by the data calculation section, the second block being larger than the first block, and a scaling section configured to generate data for luminance control in the target region by scaling the data resampled by the resampling section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yohei Funatsu, Hidehisa Shimizu, Takashi Uchida
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Patent number: 8743279Abstract: Provided is an image display device including a high frame rate signal generating unit (20) that increases a frame rate of an input video signal, a frame rate adjusting unit (30) that adjusts a frame rate by setting a non-emission frame at a predetermined cycle on a high frame rate video signal output from the high frame rate signal generating unit (20), and a display panel (40) that displays a video based on a video signal output from the frame rate adjusting unit (30).Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hideto Mori, Yasuo Inoue
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Patent number: 8735733Abstract: Disclosed are a resin composition containing (a) a maleimide compound having at least two N-substituted maleimide groups in a molecular structure and (b) a silicone compound having at least one reactive organic group in a molecular structure thereof; and a prepreg using the same, a laminate, and a printed wiring board. A resin composition having excellent heat resistance and low thermal expansion properties; and a prepreg, a laminate, and a printed wiring board using the same can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2012Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Miyatake, Tomohiko Kotake, Shunsuke Nagai, Shintaro Hashimoto, Yasuo Inoue, Shin Takanezawa, Hikari Murai
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Publication number: 20140132590Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an average luminance calculator (200) for calculating average luminance for a predetermined period of the input picture signal, and also includes a luminous time setter (202) for setting an effective duty depending on the calculated average luminance by the average luminance calculator (200), the effective duty regulating for each one frame a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous. The luminous time setter (202) sets the effective duty such that a luminescence amount regulated by a preset reference duty and possible maximum luminance of a picture signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo INOUE, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
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Patent number: 8654044Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an average luminance calculator (200) for calculating average luminance for a predetermined period of the input picture signal, and also includes a luminous time setter (202) for setting an effective duty depending on the calculated average luminance by the average luminance calculator (200), the effective duty regulating for each one frame a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous. The luminous time setter (202) sets the effective duty such that a luminescence amount regulated by a preset reference duty and possible maximum luminance of a picture signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
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Publication number: 20140000948Abstract: There are provided a resin composition including: (a) a maleimide compound with at least two N-substituted maleimide groups per molecular structure; and (b) a silicone compound with at least one amino group per molecular structure and also provided a prepreg, a laminated plate, and a printed wiring board that are formed by using this resin composition. The multi-layered printed wiring board produced by using the laminated plate produced by laminating and molding the prepreg obtained from the resin composition of the present invention has excellent glass transition temperature, coefficient of thermal expansion, solder heat resistance, and warp characteristics. The multi-layered printed wiring board is useful as a highly integrated printed wiring board for an electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Shunsuke Nagai, Masato Miyatake, Tomohiko Kotake, Shintaro Hashimoto, Yasuo Inoue, Shin Takanezawa, Hikari Murai
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Publication number: 20130342587Abstract: A display includes: a gain calculation section obtaining, according to an area of a high luminance region in a frame image, a first gain for each pixel in the region; a determination section determining, based on first luminance information for each pixel in the high luminance region and the first gain, second luminance information for each pixel in the high luminance region; and a display section performing display based on the second luminance information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: MAKOTO NAKAGAWA, TOMOYA YANO, MITSUYASU ASANO, YASUO INOUE, YOHEI FUNATSU
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Publication number: 20130335457Abstract: An image processing unit includes: a gain calculating section obtaining, based on first luminance information for each pixel, a first gain, in which the first gain is configured to increase with an increase in pixel luminance value in a range where the pixel luminance value is equal to or larger than a predetermined luminance value, and in which the pixel luminance value is derived from the first luminance information; and a determination section determining, based on the first luminance information and the first gain, second luminance information for each of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: TOMOYA YANO, MAKOTO NAKAGAWA, MITSUYASU ASANO, YASUO INOUE, SHOJI ARAKI, HIDEHISA SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20130330563Abstract: There are provided a modified silicone compound prepared by reacting: (A) a siloxane diamine represented by the general formula (1); (B) a maleimide compound with at least two N-substituted maleimide groups in the molecular structure; and (C) an amine compound with an acidic substituent; and also provided a thermosetting resin composition, a prepreg, a laminated plate, and a printed wiring board that are formed by using this compound. The multi-layered printed wiring board produced by using the laminated plate formed by using the prepreg obtained from the modified silicone compound and the thermosetting resin composition of the present invention through laminate molding has an excellent glass transition temperature, coefficient of thermal expansion, copper foil adhesion, hygroscopicity, hygroscopic solder heat resistance, and copper-stuck solder heat resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.Inventors: Tomohiko Kotake, Masato Miyatake, Shunsuke Nagai, Shintaro Hashimoto, Yasuo Inoue, Shin Takanezawa, Hikari Murai
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Publication number: 20130271509Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an average luminance calculator (200) for calculating average luminance for a predetermined period of the input picture signal, and also includes a luminous time setter (202) for setting an effective duty depending on the calculated average luminance by the average luminance calculator (200), the effective duty regulating for each one frame a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous. The luminous time setter (202) sets the effective duty such that a luminescence amount regulated by a preset reference duty and possible maximum luminance of a picture signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Yasuo INOUE, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
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Publication number: 20130249970Abstract: There is provided a display device including a temporal direction control unit that causes a gain used to control a video signal to respond to an input video signal at high speed when the input video signal sharply increases, and causes the gain to respond to the input video signal at low speed when the input video signal gently increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Mitsuyasu Asano, Yasuo Inoue
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Patent number: 8514154Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display unit having luminescence elements that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount. The luminescence elements are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device comprises a luminescence amount regulator for setting a reference duty for regulating a luminescence amount per unit time for each of the luminescence elements, according to picture information of an input picture signal, and also comprises an adjuster for adjusting, based on the reference duty, an effective duty regulating a luminous time for which the luminescence elements become luminous within a unit time, so that the effective duty is within a predetermined range, and for adjusting a gain of the picture signal, so that a luminescence amount regulated with the effective duty and with the gain of the picture signal equals to the luminescence amount regulated with the reference duty.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2008Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Inoue, Masahiro Ito
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Patent number: 8471790Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an average luminance calculator (200) for calculating average luminance for a predetermined period of the input picture signal, and also includes a luminous time setter (202) for setting an effective duty depending on the calculated average luminance by the average luminance calculator (200), the effective duty regulating for each one frame a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous. The luminous time setter (202) sets the effective duty such that a luminescence amount regulated by a preset reference duty and possible maximum luminance of a picture signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
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Patent number: 8462085Abstract: Provided is a display device including a display unit having luminescence elements that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount. The luminescence elements are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes an adjustment signal generator for generating an adjustment signal for adjusting an effective duty regulating a luminous time per unit time. The luminescence elements are luminous for the luminous time. The display device also includes a luminous time setter for setting the effective duty equal to or lower than an upper limit value provided for the effective duty to be set, according to picture information of an input picture signal, so that a total luminescence amount per unit time is limited, at which amount the luminescence elements of the display unit are luminous.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yasuo Inoue, Takeya Meguro, Eiichi Saito
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Patent number: 8456492Abstract: A display device includes: an average value calculating section which inputs video signals having linear property and calculates an average value of levels of the video signals in each pixel; an average value memory section which sequentially stores the average values calculated by the average value calculating section; a still image determining section which determines whether a still image is displayed on a present screen based on a difference between the average value stored in the average value memory section and a last average value; a coefficient calculating section which, when the determination is made that a still image is displayed on the present screen as a result of the determination in the still image determining section, calculates coefficients for lowering luminance of an image displayed on the display device; and a coefficient multiplying section which multiplies the video signals by the coefficients calculated by the coefficient calculating section.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hidehiko Shidara, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Masahiro Ito, Hideto Mori
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Patent number: 8427513Abstract: A display device is provided which includes: a still image detection unit (122) which inputs video signals having linear characteristic and calculates an average value of signal levels of the video signals having linear characteristic per pixel; a storage unit (150) which successively stores the average values calculated by the still image detection unit (122); a still image judging unit (162) which judges whether a still image is displayed on a present screen based on a difference between the average value stored in the storage unit (150) and the last average value; a coefficient calculation unit (164) which calculates coefficients for reducing luminance of an image to be displayed when the still image judging unit (162) has judged that a still image is displayed on the present screen; and a signal level correction unit (128) which multiplies the video signals by the coefficients calculated by the coefficient calculation unit (164).Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hidehiko Shidara, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Masahiro Ito, Hideto Mori
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Publication number: 20130008695Abstract: The invention provides a varnish produced through reaction between a compound having an amino group and a resin having a functional group capable of reacting with an amino group, and having a polycyclic structure, wherein a portion of a plurality of the functional group of the resin is caused to react with the amino group of the compound in a solvent, and also a varnish produced through reaction between a compound having a phenolic hydroxyl group and a resin having a functional group capable of reacting with a phenolic hydroxyl group, and having a polycyclic structure, wherein a portion of a plurality of the functional group of the resin is caused to react with the phenolic hydroxyl group of the compound in the solvent. The invention also provides a prepreg, a resin-coated film, a metal-foil-clad laminate, and a printed wiring board produced by use of any of the varnishes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2010Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Kouji Morita, Hikari Murai, Shin Takanezawa, Yasuo Inoue, Kazunaga Sakai
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Publication number: 20120307725Abstract: Mobile nodes are allowed to move around within an intermittent communication environment. A mobile node wirelessly communicates with an access node when approaching the access node, and stores data. The access node stores an action history for each mobile node, and generates a forwarder list in association with a destination node, based on action histories of the mobile nodes. The forwarder list stores one or more identifies each identifying a first mobile node in the order of an arrival probability indicating a probability that the first mobile node succeeds in delivering the data to the destination node. The access node selects second mobile nodes that are to carry the data to the destination node, based on the forwarder list, and transfers the data to one of the second mobile nodes when a communication link is established between the access node and the one of the second mobile nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Hiroshi Yamada, Yasuo Inoue, Shinichi Matsumoto, Masayoshi Kamada
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Patent number: 8294642Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element that individually becomes luminous depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a voltage signal, where the pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. The display device includes a luminescence amount regulator for setting a reference duty for regulating a luminescence amount for each one frame, according to the input picture signal, and an adjuster for adjusting an effective duty that regulates, for each one frame, a luminous time for which the luminescence element is luminous, and a gain of the picture signal, based on the reference duty and the input picture signal, so that the luminescence amount is constant before and after adjustment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeya Meguro, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Toyo Osumi