Patents by Inventor Yoshitake Kondo

Yoshitake Kondo 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: 11937495
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device containing both a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2) has a high light emission efficiency. The rings a to c each are a benzene ring that can be optionally condensed, R1 and R2 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., four of R31 to R35 each are a substituted or unsubstituted carbazol-9-yl group, but all of these four are not the same, and the remaining one is a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, KWANSEI GAKUIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, KYULUX, INC.
    Inventors: Hajime Nakanotani, Takuji Hatakeyama, Yasuhiro Kondo, Yasuyuki Sasada, Motoki Yanai, Chin-Yiu Chan, Masaki Tanaka, Hiroki Noda, Chihaya Adachi, Yoshitake Suzuki, Naoto Notsuka
  • Patent number: 8922459
    Abstract: Provided is a video projecting apparatus including a video processing unit that processes a video signal input from outside, a display device that is driven based on the video signal processed by the video processing unit, a lens that projects a video formed by the display device to the outside, a lens driving unit that drives the lens, and a control unit that controls the video processing unit to enlarge a video source input from the outside in accordance with an aspect ratio of the video source through resolution conversion, reserves adjustment values of positions of the lens in accordance with aspect ratios of video sources, and controls the lens driving unit by calling an adjustment value corresponding to an aspect ratio of a video source input from the outside among the adjustment values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitake Kondo, Naoya Matsuda, Tomoya Masuda
  • Patent number: 8797458
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: rate multiplication section multiplying frame rate of input image by 2n (n is a natural number), the input image being generated through a process including a frame rate conversion from cinema image to television image, the frame rate conversion being performed so that two consecutive frames of cinema image are treated as a unit; replacement section replacing, with n frames of first image, n frames of second image which come immediately after a switch position from the first image to the second image in a sequence of image frames with a rate multiplied by the rate multiplication section, the first image and the second image corresponding to first half and latter half of the unit of the cinema image, respectively; and display section displaying image outputted from the replacement section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitake Kondo
  • Patent number: 8587732
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing improved operability at the time of registration adjustment irrespective of a use situation of the apparatus. In the case where misregistration occurs between primary color lights, video signals for three colors are corrected (registration adjustment is performed) so as to reduce the misregistration in accordance with an input adjustment value. An image inverting process is performed on an input video signal so that the image is inverted in a display screen. By a configuration by the user, the image is properly inverted in the display screen. When the image inverting process is performed, an adjustment value, with a sign different from that in the misregistration direction in a coordinate system where the image is not inverted, is input by an operation on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20130057601
    Abstract: Provided is a video projecting apparatus including a video processing unit that processes a video signal input from outside, a display device that is driven based on the video signal processed by the video processing unit, a lens that projects a video formed by the display device to the outside, a lens driving unit that drives the lens, and a control unit that controls the video processing unit to enlarge a video source input from the outside in accordance with an aspect ratio of the video source through resolution conversion, reserves adjustment values of positions of the lens in accordance with aspect ratios of video sources, and controls the lens driving unit by calling an adjustment value corresponding to an aspect ratio of a video source input from the outside among the adjustment values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshitake KONDO, Naoya Matsuda, Tomoya Masuda
  • Patent number: 8294834
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. The correcting means is configured to correct the video signal according to a single correction value such that a group of correction target points selected in a projected image on the screen are collectively processed as a single correction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120147276
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing improved operability at the time of registration adjustment irrespective of a use situation of the apparatus. In the case where misregistration occurs between primary color lights, video signals for three colors are corrected (registration adjustment is performed) so as to reduce the misregistration in accordance with an input adjustment value. An image inverting process is performed on an input video signal so that the image is inverted in a display screen. By a configuration by the user, the image is properly inverted in the display screen. When the image inverting process is performed, an adjustment value, with a sign different from that in the misregistration direction in a coordinate system where the image is not inverted, is input by an operation on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Patent number: 8199261
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing easy recognition of the effect of registration adjustment. The projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. Validation/invalidation of correction on the video signal by the correcting means is switched in accordance with an operation from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Patent number: 8139167
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing improved operability at the time of registration adjustment irrespective of a use situation of the apparatus. In the case where misregistration occurs between primary color lights, video signals for three colors are corrected (registration adjustment is performed) so as to reduce the misregistration in accordance with an input adjustment value. An image inverting process is performed on an input video signal so that the image is inverted in a display screen. By a configuration by the user, the image is properly inverted in the display screen. When the image inverting process is performed, an adjustment value, with a sign different from that in the misregistration direction in a coordinate system where the image is not inverted, is input by an operation on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Patent number: 8098259
    Abstract: An image display device having an image generation unit for generating an image according to an instruction, a display unit able to display in color the image generated at the image generation unit, a user interface unit including a color designation part enabling selective designation of any color from among a plurality of colors and an adjustment degree designation part able to instruct the degree of adjustment of at least attributes of the color designated by the color designation part, and a control unit for instructing the image generation unit so as to generate an image able to display at least a color designated by the color designation part of the user interface unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitake Kondo, Hideki Onuma, Koji Hirai
  • Patent number: 7606640
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus able to rotate cooling fans with required lowest limit speeds, and able to suppress power consumption and generated noise includes a cooling unit for cooling an object to be cooled by a cooling amount in accordance with a level of a supplied drive signal; a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the object; a drive circuit for amplifying the drive signal and supplying an output signal to the cooling unit; a memory for storing correction data for correcting circuit error in the drive circuit; and a control unit for generating the drive signal based on the detected temperature of the object, correcting error in the output signal of the drive circuit based on the correction data stored in the memory, and outputting the generated drive signal to the drive circuit. The cooling apparatus may be used in a projection type display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hirai, Yoshitake Kondo, Akira Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20090059098
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: rate multiplication section multiplying frame rate of input image by 2n (n is a natural number), the input image being generated through a process including a frame rate conversion from cinema image to television image, the frame rate conversion being performed so that two consecutive frames of cinema image are treated as a unit; replacement section replacing, with n frames of first image, n frames of second image which come immediately after a switch position from the first image to the second image in a sequence of image frames with a rate multiplied by the rate multiplication section, the first image and the second image corresponding to first half and latter half of the unit of the cinema image, respectively; and display section displaying image outputted from the replacement section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090027567
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing easy recognition of the effect of registration adjustment. The projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. Validation/invalidation of correction on the video signal by the correcting means is switched in accordance with an operation from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090027569
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing improved operability at the time of registration adjustment irrespective of a use situation of the apparatus. In the case where misregistration occurs between primary color lights, video signals for three colors are corrected (registration adjustment is performed) so as to reduce the misregistration in accordance with an input adjustment value. An image inverting process is performed on an input video signal so that the image is inverted in a display screen. By a configuration by the user, the image is properly inverted in the display screen. When the image inverting process is performed, an adjustment value, with a sign different from that in the misregistration direction in a coordinate system where the image is not inverted, is input by an operation on the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20090027568
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus includes: a light source; a spatial light modulation device modulating, on the basis of a video signal, each of primary color lights for color display emitted from the light source; projecting means for projecting, onto a screen, each of the primary color lights modulated by the spatial light modulation device; and correcting means for correcting, based on a given correction value, the video signal for each of the primary color lights so as to reduce misregistration between the primary color lights projected on the screen, and supplying the corrected video signal to the spatial light modulation device. The correcting means is configured to correct the video signal according to a single correction value such that a group of correction target points selected in a projected image on the screen are collectively processed as a single correction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Nishimura, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Patent number: 7472998
    Abstract: A display device able to give an image giving a good impression such as a sharp contrast in a dark scene and maintaining brightness in a bright scene, that is, a display device comprising a variable aperture iris and a control circuit for controlling opening/closing of the iris in accordance with a state of a level of an input signal forming a screen, wherein the control circuit controls the iris so that a response of an open/close operation of the iris is different between a case where the signal level fluctuates from a dark level to a bright level and a case where the signal level fluctuates from a bright level to a dark level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiro Sasazaki, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20060145949
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus able to rotate cooling fans with required lowest limit speeds, and able to suppress power consumption and generated noise includes a cooling unit for cooling an object to be cooled by a cooling amount in accordance with a level of a supplied drive signal; a temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the object; a drive circuit for amplifying the drive signal and supplying an output signal to the cooling unit; a memory for storing correction data for correcting circuit error in the drive circuit; and a control unit for generating the drive signal based on the detected temperature of the object, correcting error in the output signal of the drive circuit based on the correction data stored in the memory, and outputting the generated drive signal to the drive circuit. The cooling apparatus may be used in a projection type display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Hirai, Yoshitake Kondo, Akira Nishiyama
  • Publication number: 20060077283
    Abstract: A display device able to give an image giving a good impression such as a sharp contrast in a dark scene and maintaining brightness in a bright scene, that is, a display device comprising a variable aperture iris and a control circuit for controlling opening/closing of the iris in accordance with a state of a level of an input signal forming a screen, wherein the control circuit controls the iris so that a response of an open/close operation of the iris is different between a case where the signal level fluctuates from a dark level to a bright level and a case where the signal level fluctuates from a bright level to a dark level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Inventors: Yukihiro Sasazaki, Yoshitake Kondo
  • Publication number: 20060028483
    Abstract: An image display device having an image generation unit for generating an image according to an instruction, a display unit able to display in color the image generated at the image generation unit, a user interface unit including a color designation part enabling selective designation of any color from among a plurality of colors and an adjustment degree designation part able to instruct the degree of adjustment of at least attributes of the color designated by the color designation part, and a control unit for instructing the image generation unit so as to generate an image able to display at least a color designated by the color designation part of the user interface unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshitake Kondo, Hideki Onuma, Koji Hirai