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).

  • Publication number: 20120247820
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Masato MIYATAKE, Tomohiko Kotake, Shunsuke Nagai, Shintaro Hashimoto, Yasuo Inoue, Shin Takanezawa, Hikari Murai
  • Patent number: 8228268
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a display unit having pixels, each of which includes a luminescence element for individually emitting light depending on a current amount and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to the luminescence element according to a picture signal, scan lines which supply a selection signal for selecting the pixels to emit light to the pixels in a predetermined scanning cycle, and data lines which supply the picture signal to the pixels, the pixels, the scan lines, and the data lines arranged in a matrix pattern, the display device including: a luminescence amount detector for inputting a picture signal with a linear characteristic to detect a luminescence amount from the picture signal; a luminescence time calculator for calculating a luminescence time for the luminescence element based on the luminescence amount detected by the luminescence amount detector; a luminescence time recorder for recording the calculated luminescence time; a luminance acquirer for acq
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Mori, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Takeya Meguro, Hidehiko Shidara, Masahiro Ito, Toyo Osumi
  • Patent number: 8199171
    Abstract: There is provided a display device equipped with a display unit, the display device including a receiving part for receiving a difference signal of a plurality of channels including an image signal and content identification information inserted in a blanking period and outputting the image signal and the content identification information; a light emission amount regulation part for setting a reference duty according to image information of the image signal; an adjustment part for adjusting so that an actual duty is within a predetermined range based on the reference duty and an adjustment signal and adjusting a gain of the image signal so that a light emission amount defined by the actual duty and the gain of the image signal becomes the same as the light emission amount defined by the reference duty; and an adjustment signal generation part for generating the adjustment signal based on the content identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Toshihide Hayashi, Masayuki Tsumura, Koki Tsumori, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Ban Kawamura, Ryuichi Okumura
  • Patent number: 8144085
    Abstract: A display device includes: a light emission amount detecting section which inputs video signals having linear property and detects an amount of light emission from the video signals; a light emitting time calculating section which calculates light emitting time of the light emitting elements based on the amount of light emission detected by the light emission amount detecting section; a light emitting time recording section which records the calculated light emitting time; a luminance acquiring section which, acquires luminance information of the light emitting elements using the light emitting time recorded in the light emitting time recording section; a coefficient calculating section which calculates coefficients by which the video signals are multiplied based on the luminance information acquired by the luminance acquiring section; and a coefficient multiplying section which multiplies the video signals by the coefficients calculated by the coefficient calculating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Mori, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Takeya Meguro, Hidehiko Shidara, Masahiro Ito, Toyo Osumi
  • Patent number: 8139003
    Abstract: There is provided a display device provided with a display portion, in which pixels having a light-emitting element for self-light-emitting, and a pixel circuit for controlling a current applied to a light-emitting element according to a voltage signal are arranged in a matrix, provided with an average luminance calculation portion calculating an average of luminance of an input video signal, and a light-emitting time setting portion setting a real duty defined every one frame by which light-emitting time for light emitting of the light-emitting element according to a calculated average luminance, wherein the light-emitting time setting portion sets the real duty in such a way that a light-emitting amount defined by a standard duty set beforehand and a maximum luminance among those of a video signal, and a light-emitting amount defined by a real duty to be set and an average luminance become the same as each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
  • Publication number: 20120033042
    Abstract: Provided is an image display device including a high frame rate signal generating unit that increases a frame rate of an input video signal, a frame rate adjusting unit that adjusts a frame rate by synthesizing a black image at intervals of a predetermined frame on a high frame rate signal output from the high frame rate signal generating unit, and a display panel that displays a video based on a video signal output from the frame rate adjusting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideto Mori, Yasuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20120002106
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Mori, Yasuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110205442
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a current-brightness table calculation unit (112) that calculates a table representing a relationship between an average brightness and a gain of a video signal, a flash control calculation unit (114) that revises the table in order to reduce a change amount of a gain of each frame in the table, a video-average brightness conversion block (106) that calculates an average brightness of a video signal input for each frame, a current-brightness control table (110) that calculates a gain of a video signal from a table based on the average brightness calculated by the video-average brightness conversion block, a video gain block (104) that adjusts a video signal using the gain calculated by the current-brightness control table, and a display panel (300) that includes a plurality of pixels that emit light in response to a video signal and display a video based on a video signal adjusted by the video signal adjustment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Hideto Mori, Yasuo Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110141149
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes: an unevenness correction information storage unit that stores unevenness correction information used to correct uneven light emission of the display unit; and an unevenness correction unit that corrects uneven light emission of the display unit by reading out the unevenness correction information from the unevenness correction information storage unit and by performing signal processing on the video signal having a linear characteristic. The unevenness correction unit corrects the uneven light emission of the display unit by combining a first correction that is applied in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction of the display unit, and a second correction that is applied to a section of the display unit in which uneven light emission is occurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Ken Kikuchi, Hideto Mori
  • Patent number: 7917668
    Abstract: A disk controller has a channel adapter having a connection interface to a host computer or a disk drive; a memory adapter for temporarily storing data to be transferred between the host computer and disk drive; a processor adapter for controlling operations of the channel adapter and memory adapter; and a switch adapter for configuring an inner network by interconnecting the channel adapter, memory adapter and processor adapter, wherein the channel adapter, memory adapter, processor adapter and switch adapter each include a DMA controller for performing a communication protocol control of the inner network; and packet multiplex communication is performed among the DMA controllers provided in the adapters. The disk controller can realize a high transfer efficiency and a low cost while retaining a high reliability. A storage system includes an interface unit having an interface with a server or hard drives, a memory unit, a processor unit, and an interconnection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Hosoya, Naoki Watanabe, Shuji Nakamura, Yasuo Inoue, Kazuhisa Fujimoto, Kentaro Shimada
  • Publication number: 20110050666
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Yoshihiro Kosugi, Ken Kikuchi, Takeya Meguro, Hideto Mori, Toyo Osumi
  • Patent number: 7864666
    Abstract: A communication apparatus communicably connects a network of a plurality of apparatuses and a data relay apparatus to another network of the same manner as that of the network by detecting a failure occurring in the network, and determining a detour to assure communication between an apparatus connected to a network disconnected due to the failure detected and the other network. A tunneling is established serving as a virtual direct communication circuit to the determined detour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tooru Enoki, Yasuo Inoue, Shinichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100328359
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Masahiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20100177126
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes a pixel that has a light emitting element that emits light in accordance with an amount of an electric current and a pixel circuits that controls, in accordance with a video signal, an electric current that is applied to the light emitting element, a scanning line that supplies to the pixel, in a specified scan cycle, a selection signal that selects the pixel that will emit light, a data line that supplies a video signal to the pixel, and a display portion in which drive transistors to which the video signal is supplied are arranged in the form of a matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Masahiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20100171770
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Takeya Meguro, Eiichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20100165009
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes an amount of light emission computation portion that computes an amount of light emission based on a video signal that has a linear characteristic, an amount of light emission parameter computation portion that, based on the computed amount of light emission, computes an amount of light emission parameter that corresponds to the amount of light emission for each of one of one pixel and a group of pixels that includes a plurality of the pixels, an amount of light emission parameter accumulation portion that accumulates the amount of light emission parameters in association with the one of the one pixel and the group of pixels, a peak detection portion that detects a peak value among the accumulated amount of light emission parameters that correspond to all of the one of the one pixel and the group of pixels, a coefficient computation portion that, based on the detected peak value, computes a coefficient that adjusts a luminance, and a coefficient multiplying portion t
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Mori, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Takeya Meguro, Hidehiko Shidara, Masahiro Ito, Toyo Osumi, Eiichi Saito
  • Publication number: 20100153961
    Abstract: A storage system is comprised of an interface unit 10 which has an interface with a server 3 or hard drives 2, a memory unit 21 which has a cache memory module 126 for storing data to be read from/written to the server 3 or the hard drives 2 and a control information memory module 127 for storing control information of the system, a processor unit 81 which has a microprocessor for controlling the read/write of data between the server 3 and the hard drives 2, and an interconnection 31, wherein the interface unit 10, memory unit 21 and processor unit 81 are interconnected with the interconnection 31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Fujimoto, Yasuo Inoue, Mutsumi Hosoya, Kentaro Shimada, Naoki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20100134535
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidehiko Shidara, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Massahiro Ito, Hideto Mori
  • Publication number: 20100127957
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takeya Meguro, Ken Kikuchi, Yasuo Inoue, Toyo Osumi
  • Publication number: 20100123740
    Abstract: There is provided a display adjusting circuit for performing adjustment for display on a video signal to be supplied to an organic electroluminescence panel, the display adjusting circuit of the organic electroluminescence panel, comprising a linear gamma circuit where a video signal on which a predetermined gamma adjustment has been performed is supplied to be converted into a video signal with a linear gamma characteristic by cancelling the gamma adjustment of the supplied video signal and to be output, an adjusting circuit to which the video signal output from the linear gamma circuit is supplied, and a panel gamma circuit where the video signal output from the adjusting circuit is supplied to be converted into a video signal with a gamma characteristic corresponding to a gamma characteristic of the organic electroluminescence panel and to be output, the adjusting circuit including a detecting unit for detecting a driving state or a driving history of the organic electroluminescence panel from the supplied
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo Inoue, Masahiro Ito