Patents by Inventor Kouji Noguchi

Kouji Noguchi 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: 20170177157
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display functional layer that can change display for each pixel in accordance with an application voltage; a plurality of driving electrodes separately disposed in one direction; a plurality of pixel signal lines to which pixel signals used for applying the application voltage to the display functional layer in accordance with an electric potential difference from the display reference electric potential are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that are separately disposed in a direction other than the one direction, are coupled with the driving electrodes as electrostatic capacitance, generate detection electric potentials in response to the detection driving signal, and change the detection electric potential in accordance with approach of a detection target object; and a pixel signal control unit that controls the pixel signals so as to include pixel signals having different polarities during the display period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9626037
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display functional layer that can change display for each pixel in accordance with an application voltage; a plurality of driving electrodes separately disposed in one direction; a plurality of pixel signal lines to which pixel signals used for applying the application voltage to the display functional layer in accordance with an electric potential difference from the display reference electric potential are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that are separately disposed in a direction other than the one direction, are coupled with the driving electrodes as electrostatic capacitance, generate detection electric potentials in response to the detection driving signal, and change the detection electric potential in accordance with approach of a detection target object; and a pixel signal control unit that controls the pixel signals so as to include pixel signals having different polarities during the display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9606667
    Abstract: A capacitance-type touch panel, allowing disturbance noise and touch detection time to be reduced and having a simple configuration, is provided. The capacitance-type touch panel including: a plurality of drive electrodes each having a strip shape; a drive control circuit performing control such that a drive signal for touch detection is selectively applied to the drive electrodes; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect with the drive electrodes in such a manner that capacitance is formed in each intersecting part, and each outputting a detection signal in synchronization with the drive signal; and a detection circuit detecting an external proximity object based on the detection signal. The drive control circuit controls application of the drive signal in such a manner that the detection signal is a polarity-alternating signal including a positive-negative asymmetrical signal component which is due to presence of the external proximity object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Noguchi, Tsutomu Harada, Yoshitoshi Kida, Takayuki Nakanishi, Koji Ishizaki, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9459718
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20160154520
    Abstract: A touch detection device includes: a detection surface; a plurality of sensor lines formed from a plurality of types of wiring lines having a different line capacitance; and a touch detection unit which detects an electric variation generated in a plurality of the sensor lines in response to touch or proximity of a detection target object to the detection surface, wherein the touch detection unit has an operational circuit for generating a detection signal representing the electric variation by performing an operation process using a line capacitance ratio for a plurality of outputs from a plurality of types of the sensor lines neighboring to one another with a different line capacitance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Kouji NOGUCHI, Takeya TAKEUCHI, Takayuki NAKANISHI, Yasuyuki TERANISHI
  • Publication number: 20160139725
    Abstract: A capacitance-type touch panel, allowing disturbance noise and touch detection time to be reduced and having a simple configuration, is provided. The capacitance-type touch panel including: a plurality of drive electrodes each having a strip shape; a drive control circuit performing control such that a drive signal for touch detection is selectively applied to the drive electrodes; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect with the drive electrodes in such a manner that capacitance is formed in each intersecting part, and each outputting a detection signal in synchronization with the drive signal; and a detection circuit detecting an external proximity object based on the detection signal. The drive control circuit controls application of the drive signal in such a manner that the detection signal is a polarity-alternating signal including a positive-negative asymmetrical signal component which is due to presence of the external proximity object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Kouji NOGUCHI, Tsutomu HARADA, Yoshitoshi KIDA, Takayuki NAKANISHI, Koji ISHIZAKI, Takeya TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 9298294
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display face; a display function layer adapted to vary display on the display face in response to an inputted image signal; a plurality of driving electrodes disposed separately in one direction; a detection scanning control section configured to apply a detection driving voltage to some of the plural driving electrodes and carry out detection driving scanning while shifting an application object of the detection driving voltage in the one direction on the display face and then control the detection driving scanning such that jump shift of carrying out shift with a pitch of twice or more times a driving electrode pitch is included; and a plurality of sensor lines disposed separately in a direction different from the one direction and responding to touch or proximity of a detection object with or to the display face to exhibit an electric variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeya Takeuchi, Kouji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 9274653
    Abstract: A touch detection device includes: a detection surface; a plurality of sensor lines formed from a plurality of types of wiring lines having a different line capacitance; and a touch detection unit which detects an electric variation generated in a plurality of the sensor lines in response to touch or proximity of a detection target object to the detection surface, wherein the touch detection unit has an operational circuit for generating a detection signal representing the electric variation by performing an operation process using a line capacitance ratio for a plurality of outputs from a plurality of types of the sensor lines neighboring to one another with a different line capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takeya Takeuchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi
  • Publication number: 20160020604
    Abstract: A current-limiting and power-flow control device according to the present invention includes a superconducting current-limiting element including a superconductor, a series capacitor, and a parallel circuit. The series capacitor is connected in series with the superconducting current-limiting element. The parallel circuit includes a reactor connected in parallel with a series circuit including the superconducting current-limiting element and the series capacitor. Accordingly, overcurrent at the time of occurrence of a fault causes transition of the superconductor of the superconducting current-limiting element to the normal conducting state, and thus causes autonomous current-limiting operation of the superconducting current-limiting element. Thus, application of an excessive load across the terminals of the series capacitor due to the aforementioned fault can surely be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki ISOJIMA, Shuichi NOGAWA, Kouji NOGUCHI, Kazuhiro KURODA
  • Publication number: 20160013635
    Abstract: A current-limiting device is a current-limiting device that uses a superconductor to perform a current-limiting operation, the current-limiting device including: a superconducting current-limiting element including the superconductor; a capacitor; a reactor; and a bypass switch. The series capacitor is connected in series to the superconducting current-limiting element. The current-limiting reactor is further connected in series to a series circuit including the superconducting current-limiting element and the series capacitor. The thyristor switch is connected in parallel to the series circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Shigeki ISOJIMA, Shuichi NOGAWA, Kouji NOGUCHI, Kazuhiro KURODA
  • Patent number: 9170451
    Abstract: An image display apparatus including an image display panel that includes: a first color filter for passing light of a first primary and first auxiliary pixels for displaying the first primary; a second color filter for passing light of a second primary and second auxiliary pixels for displaying the second primary; a third color filter for passing light of a third primary and third auxiliary pixels for displaying the third primary; and fourth auxiliary pixels for displaying a fourth color; the first auxiliary pixels, the second auxiliary pixels, the third auxiliary pixels, and the fourth auxiliary pixels being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, and a light shielding region disposed at least partly around the peripheral edge of each of the fourth auxiliary pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa, Kouji Noguchi, Kenta Seki
  • Publication number: 20150286337
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display functional layer that can change display for each pixel in accordance with an application voltage; a plurality of driving electrodes separately disposed in one direction; a plurality of pixel signal lines to which pixel signals used for applying the application voltage to the display functional layer in accordance with an electric potential difference from the display reference electric potential are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that are separately disposed in a direction other than the one direction, are coupled with the driving electrodes as electrostatic capacitance, generate detection electric potentials in response to the detection driving signal, and change the detection electric potential in accordance with approach of a detection target object; and a pixel signal control unit that controls the pixel signals so as to include pixel signals having different polarities during the display period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9140922
    Abstract: The display device with high detection accuracy includes: display pixel electrodes; a common electrode; a display function layer; a display control circuit performing image display control by applying a pixel voltage to each of the display pixel electrodes and applying a common drive voltage to the common electrode, the common drive voltage inverting in synchronization with a drive cycle of the image display control; a touch detection electrode cooperating with the common electrode to form a capacitor; and a touch detection circuit detecting an external proximity object, based on a detection signal obtained from the touch detection electrode in response to the common drive voltage applied to the common electrode. The touch detection circuit performs the detection operation in a inversion period following an inversion timing of the common drive voltage, based on both first and second detection signals obtained before and after the inversion timing, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Takayuki Nakanishi, Takeya Takeuchi, Yasuyuki Teranishi
  • Patent number: 9092087
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display functional layer that can change display for each pixel in accordance with an application voltage; a plurality of driving electrodes separately disposed in one direction; a plurality of pixel signal lines to which pixel signals used for applying the application voltage to the display functional layer in accordance with an electric potential difference from the display reference electric potential are applied; a plurality of detection electrodes that are separately disposed in a direction other than the one direction, are coupled with the driving electrodes as electrostatic capacitance, generate detection electric potentials in response to the detection driving signal, and change the detection electric potential in accordance with approach of a detection target object; and a pixel signal control unit that controls the pixel signals so as to include pixel signals having different polarities during the display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150199051
    Abstract: The display device with high detection accuracy includes: display pixel electrodes; a common electrode; a display function layer; a display control circuit performing image display control by applying a pixel voltage to each of the display pixel electrodes and applying a common drive voltage to the common electrode, the common drive voltage inverting in synchronization with a drive cycle of the image display control; a touch detection electrode cooperating with the common electrode to form a capacitor; and a touch detection circuit detecting an external proximity object, based on a detection signal obtained from the touch detection electrode in response to the common drive voltage applied to the common electrode. The touch detection circuit corrects the detection signal based on a gray scale of the image signal at the time of acquisition of the detection signal, and performs the detection operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kouji NOGUCHI, Takayuki NAKANISHI, Koji ISHIZAKI, Takeya TAKEUCHI, Yasuyuki TERANISHI
  • Patent number: 9046968
    Abstract: A capacitance-type touch panel, allowing disturbance noise and touch detection time to be reduced and having a simple configuration, is provided. The capacitance-type touch panel including: a plurality of drive electrodes each having a strip shape; a drive control circuit performing control such that a drive signal for touch detection is selectively applied to the drive electrodes; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect with the drive electrodes in such a manner that capacitance is formed in each intersecting part, and each outputting a detection signal in synchronization with the drive signal; and a detection circuit detecting an external proximity object based on the detection signal. The drive control circuit controls application of the drive signal in such a manner that the detection signal is a polarity-alternating signal including a positive-negative asymmetrical signal component which is due to presence of the external proximity object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Kouji Noguchi, Tsutomu Harada, Yoshitoshi Kida, Takayuki Nakanishi, Koji Ishizaki, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 9013642
    Abstract: A display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9013415
    Abstract: An information input device includes a touch panel which is provided with a touch sensor capable of sensing a position in which a sensing target body is close to a sensing surface thereof. The touch sensor includes a scanning electrode and a detection electrode which faces and is spaced from the scanning electrode with a dielectric body being interposed therebetween, the touch sensor being configured so that electrostatic capacitance which is formed between the scanning electrode and the detection electrode is varied when the sensing target body is close to the detection electrode. The detection electrode is formed with a slit in a surface thereof which faces the scanning electrode, and a floating electrode is installed in the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Teranishi, Kouji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Takayuki Nakanishi, Takeya Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20150103276
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20150103277
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a form of a matrix in a plane parallel with the substrate, a display functional layer exerting an image display function on a basis of an image signal supplied to the plurality of pixel electrodes, a driving electrode opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of detecting electrodes arranged in a form of a plane opposed to the driving electrode, separated and arranged at a pitch of a natural number multiple of an arrangement pitch of the pixel electrodes in one direction in the arrangement plane, and each capacitively coupled with the driving electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Kouji Noguchi