Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Takahara

Kazuhiro Takahara 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: 6806862
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a display part having pixels arranged in a matrix formation; signal lines and scan lines connected to the pixels; a data driver which supplies display signals to the signal lines; and a reset circuit which resets the potentials of the signal lines to a predetermined potential with a given period. In one embodiment, the reset circuit includes a first reset circuit connected to the signal lines, and a second reset circuit connected to an output part of the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Hongyong Zhang, Hirokazu Miwa, Michiya Oura, Hiroshi Murakami, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 6639642
    Abstract: A display device including a diffraction grating from which a diffracted light of the zeroth order and a diffracted light of the first order having different color light components emerge to establish color separation. An array of micro-lenses is arranged on a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel has a plurality of picture elements and each picture element includes a plurality of color display dots. The color display dots in each picture element are arranged in the vertical relationship and in the order of wavelength of the light. A green light component of diffracted light of the first order is made incident normal to the liquid crystal panel, and the diffracted light of the zeroth order passes through the liquid crystal panel at a greater angle relative to the normal to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiro Suzuki, Yukio Iigahama, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Takeshi Gotoh, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Junji Tomita, Hirokazu Aritake, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Mari Sugawara, Motohiko Fukuhara, Koji Yoshioka, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 6611261
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal-display device which displays an image on display matrix by supplying video signals to pixel cells of the display matrix includes a data driver supplying the video signals to the display matrix and including N digital drivers, N×k common-signal lines, and N×k×n switch blocks, wherein every k lines of the N×k common-signal lines are connected to a corresponding one of the N digital drivers, and every n blocks of the N×k×n switch blocks are connected to a corresponding one of the N×k common-signal lines, each of the common-signal lines being comprised of m lines and each of the switch blocks includes m selection switches, which couples the common-signal lines to the pixel cells of the display matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Fujitsu Display Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Hong Yong Zhang, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Publication number: 20020030648
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a data driver connected to the liquid crystal display panel, and a gate driver connected to the liquid crystal display panel. The data driver is divided into a plurality of blocks, which simultaneously supply the liquid crystal display panel with display signals respectively supplied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: AKIRA YAMAMOTO, KAZUHIRO TAKAHARA, HIROSHI MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 6222515
    Abstract: In a driving device of an active matrix type liquid crystal display unit including a liquid crystal display panel, a scan driver, and a data driver, a data voltage controlling apparatus is provided to achieve digital multiple gray-scale levels with little flickering. The data voltage controlling apparatus supplies the data driver with a combination of two different data voltages picked up from a plurality of digital data voltages previously set. The combination of two different data voltages are, for example, a combination of different waveforms, a combination of negative level and positive level, and a combination of two different voltages having at least a voltage difference. Further, a division of T-V characteristics and an exchange of data voltages are carried out to reduce the flickering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Tadahisa Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Masami Oda, Hisashi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6222516
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer, first and second electrodes, and a third electrode. The liquid crystal layer is inserted between the first and second electrodes to define liquid crystal cells. The third electrode is capacitively coupled with one of the first and second electrodes. A correction voltage for correcting distortion of a waveform for driving one of the first and second electrodes is applied to the third electrode, to keep an effective voltage applied to the liquid crystal cells unchanged and improve the display quality of the liquid crystal display. Therefore, the liquid crystal display of the present invention can correct distortion of a common voltage and prevent crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masami Oda, Munehiro Haraguchi, Tadahisa Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Akira Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6011532
    Abstract: In an active matrix-type display device where scan bus lines (S.sub.i) and data bus lines (D.sub.j) are formed on different substrates, two kinds of scan bus lines (SP.sub.i, SN.sub.i) are provided. A first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is connected between a reference voltage supply line (V.sub.R) and a display electrode (E.sub.ij), and is controlled by a first scan bus line (SN.sub.i), and a second switching element (TFTP.sub.ij) is connected between the reference voltage supply bus line (V.sub.R) and the display electrode, and is controlled by a second scan bus line (SP.sub.i). The first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is turned ON by a positive or negative potential at the first scan bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2000
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenichi Yanai, Kenichi Oki, Tetsuya Hamada, Kazuhiro Takahara, Yasuyoshi Mishima
  • Patent number: 5959704
    Abstract: A display device including a diffraction grating from which a diffracted light of the zeroth order and a diffracted light of the first order having different color light components emerge to establish color separation. An array of micro-lenses is arranged on a liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel has a plurality of picture elements and each picture element includes a plurality of color display dots. The color display dots in each picture element are arranged in the vertical relationship and in the order of wavelength of the light. A green light component of diffracted light of the first order is made incident normal to the liquid crystal panel, and the diffracted light of the zeroth order passes through the liquid crystal panel at a greater angle relative to the normal to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiro Suzuki, Yukio Iigahama, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Takeshi Gotoh, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Junji Tomita, Hirokazu Aritake, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Mari Sugawara, Motohiko Fukuhara, Koji Yoshioka, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 5923320
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid-crystal display having the capability of a tablet which offers high image quality and a high response speed. An active matrix type liquid-crystal display having the capability of a tablet comprises: an active matrix type liquid-crystal display composed of a device substrate having a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of switching devices, and an opposed substrate holding a liquid crystal in cooperation with the device substrate; a voltage detector that when brought into contact with a display surface of the liquid-crystal display, detects pulses, which are applied consecutively to the scan electrodes and data electrodes, through electrostatic coupling between the detector and the scan electrodes or between the detector and the data electrodes and that outputs a detected signal; and a position detector for detecting a contact position of the detector on the basis of the detected signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murakami, Masafumi Itokazu, Ken-ichi Nakabayashi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Michiya Oura, Masami Oda
  • Patent number: 5841410
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal layer, first and second electrodes, and a third electrode. The liquid crystal layer is inserted between the first and second electrodes to define liquid crystal cells. The third electrode is capacitively coupled with one of the first and second electrodes. A correction voltage for correcting distortion of a waveform for driving one of the first and second electrodes is applied to the third electrode, to keep an effective voltage applied to the liquid crystal cells unchanged and improve the display quality of the liquid crystal display. Therefore, the liquid crystal display of the present invention can correct distortion of a common voltage and prevent crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masami Oda, Munehiro Haraguchi, Tadahisa Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Takayuki Hoshiya, Akira Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5515072
    Abstract: In an active matrix-type display device where scan bus lines (S.sub.i) and data bus lines (D.sub.j) are formed on different substrates, two kinds of scan bus lines (SP.sub.i, SN.sub.i) are provided. A first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is connected between a reference voltage supply line (V.sub.R) and a display electrode (E.sub.ij), and is controlled by a first scan bus line (SN.sub.i), and a second switching element (TFTP.sub.ij) is connected between the reference voltage supply bus line (V.sub.R) and the display electrode, and is controlled by a second scan bus line (SP.sub.i). The first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is turned ON by a positive or negative potential at the first scan bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1996
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenichi Yanai, Kenichi Oki, Tetsuya Hamada, Kazuhiro Takahara, Yasuyoshi Mishima, Tsutomu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5432527
    Abstract: In an active matrix-type display device where scan bus lines (S.sub.i) and data bus lines (D.sub.j) are formed on different substrates, two kinds of scan bus lines (SP.sub.i, SN.sub.i) are provided. A first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is connected between a reference voltage supply line (V.sub.R) and a display electrode (E.sub.ij), and is controlled by a first scan bus line (SN.sub.i), and a second switching element (TFTP.sub.ij) is connected between the reference voltage supply bus line (V.sub.R) and the display electrode, and is controlled by a second scan bus line (SP.sub.i). The first switching element (TFTN.sub.ij) is turned ON by a positive or negative potential at the first scan bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1995
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenichi Yanai, Kenichi Oki, Tetsuya Hamada, Kazuhiro Takahara, Yasuyoshi Mishima, Tsutomu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5307084
    Abstract: In a driver circuit of direct drive matrix type LCD panel, a quantity of ON-STATE cells (or OFF-STATE cells) displayed on the just previous scan electrode is counted and a quantity of ON-STATE cells (or OFF-STATE cells) to be displayed on a present scan electrode is also counted. A compensation voltage is generated according to a predetermined relation based on a difference of the two above-counted quantities, and is superposed onto drive voltages of unselected scan electrodes or of each of data electrodes, in a polarity that an undesirable spike voltage induced on unselected cell voltage is cancelled, in synchronization with selection of the present scan electrode. The compensation voltage may be generated according to a digital difference of the two quantities or to a change in an analog voltage representing the counted quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisashi Yamaguchi, Yoshiya Kaneko, Munehiro Haraguchi, Hiroshi Murakami, Takayuki Hoshiya, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 5196738
    Abstract: A data driver circuit of TFT-LCD having a plurality of power source voltage terminals with different voltage levels, an output terminal for providing a voltage to the TFT-LCD, a plurality of analog switches with load resistances provided between one of the source voltage terminals and the output terminal and having a switching terminal, and a voltage selection circuit for transmitting an ON signal to a selected one or more of the respective switching terminals of the analog switches. When an individual analog switch is turned ON, the corresponding source voltage value is supplied to the output terminal of the driver circuit and when two or more analog switches are selectively turned on, a combination of the voltage levels of the respective source voltage is associated with those switches which are turned ON is produced as the driver circuit output voltage, thereby affording a greater number of gray levels as the driver circuit output voltage levels than the number of power source voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahara, Tadahisa Yamaguchi, Masami Oda, Hisashi Yamaguchi, Tetsuo Aoki, Fumitaka Asami
  • Patent number: 5079706
    Abstract: A steering control system for a self-propelled working vehicle having steerable front and rear wheels. The control system comprises sensors for detecting a directional or orientation error and a sideways error of the vehicle relative to a reference line or lines extending in a vehicle running direction, and a control unit for steering the vehicle in response to signals received from the sensors. The control unit is capable of steering the vehicle in a turn steering mode for turning the front and rear wheels to the same steering angle in opposite directions and a parallel steering mode for turning the front and rear wheels to the same steering angle in the same direction. When the directional error and the sideways error take place simultaneously, the control unit determines directions and angles for turning the front and rear wheels to correct the two errors simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: Kubota Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Yamaguchi, Katsumi Ito, Shigeru Tanaka, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 4818981
    Abstract: An active matrix display device of an improved and simplified configuration and a driving method for the same are disclosed. The display device according to the present invention is characterized in that data bus lines and scan bus lines are separately formed on first and second transparent substrates respectively and the drain electrode of each TFT on the second substrate is connected to the scan bus line to be addressed next. This configuration eliminates earth bus lines of the prior art. This arrangement has effects of simplifying a bus line design and obtaining a higher yield and an increased opening rate for each display element. In order to drive the above device, an address pulse having a stepped waveform is used. Each address pulse has Vgon, Vgc, and Vgoff levels, and a width of two horizontal scan time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Ken-ichi Oki, Satoru Kawai, Ken-ichi Yanai, Kazuhiro Takahara
  • Patent number: 4807047
    Abstract: An EL device having an electrode arrangement including first electrodes and at least one row of second electrodes intersecting the first electrodes and energized by a combination of the first and second electrodes. The second electrodes are divided into a plurality of sub-electrode portions. The electrode arrangement is such that the first electrodes each comprise a plurality of segments that are commonly-connected and intersect different sub-electrode portions. Another electrode arrangement is such that the first electrodes are arranged in a belt form and intersect different sub-electrodes portions in a meander manner.The EL device can be applied to an electrophotographic printing system as an optical system for forming a latent image. EL elements are repeatedly energized with the same data to give a sufficient intensity of light on a light sensitive medium, and deenergized for a time in which the intensity is decreased to a low level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Seii Sato, Masayuki Wakitani, Tadashi Hasegawa, Shoshin Miura, Shizuo Andoh, Hideaki Takizawa, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Toyoshi Kawada, Takayuki Hoshiya, Shintaro Kisumi
  • Patent number: 4636789
    Abstract: In driving a thin film EL display panel providing the matrix arrangement of translucent data electrodes and metal scanning electrodes, the data pulse is supplied to the selected translucent data electrodes in such a relation that it rises in advance of the scanning pulse to be supplied to the opposing metal scanning electrodes. Thereby, fluctuation of brightness due to the influence of electrode resistance of the translucent data electrodes can be eliminated, and a uniform and distinct display can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1987
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisashi Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro Takahara, Hiroyuki Gondoh, Toyoshi Kawada, Shizuo Andoh
  • Patent number: 4550310
    Abstract: A new type touch sensing device comprises a touch panel with a plurality of transparent touch electrodes, a LC parallel resonant circuit connected to the touch electrode and an oscillation circuit. The LC resonant circuit has a resonant point on a same frequency with the oscillation frequency of the oscillation circuit. The touch/non-touch condition to the touch electrode is detected as a change of voltage value at the connecting point of the LC resonant circuit and touch electrode with an increased ON-OFF ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hisashi Yamaguchi, Toru Asano, Kazuhiro Takahara, Keizo Kurahashi, Shizuo Andoh
  • Patent number: 4523189
    Abstract: A thin-film EL display device incorporates a MOS active matrix. Each of the MOS transistor arrays is additionally provided in parallel with a Zener diode for the purpose of protecting the device from a high voltage. This Zener diode has a breakdown voltage characteristic corresponding to a difference between a luminous voltage and a non-luminous voltage of an EL display element and clamps the voltage across the MOS transistor, in the "OFF" state, to a voltage less than or equal to non-recoverable breakdown voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1985
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takahara, Keizo Kurahashi, Hiroyuki Gondo, Kenichi Oki, Shoshin Miura