Patents by Inventor Masaki Uehata

Masaki Uehata 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: 9171517
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a timing controller (4) which, (i) in a first display mode, in which a number of tones that each pixel is capable of displaying is smaller than a predetermined number, controls a scanning signal and a data signal by an interlace driving method, by which a single frame includes a plurality of fields, and (ii) in a second display mode, in which the number of tones that each pixel is capable of displaying is equal to or greater than the predetermined number, controls the scanning signal and the data signal by a progressive driving method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibata, Masami Ozaki, Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Kazuki Takahashi, Jun Nakata
  • Patent number: 9164301
    Abstract: An auxiliary wire, which can be connected to each of a plurality of data signal lines (Sn), is constituted by (i) a first auxiliary wire (17) provided so as to intersect the plurality of data signal lines (Sn) on a side where end parts of the respective plurality of data signal lines (Sn) are connected to a data signal line driving circuit (4) and (ii) a second auxiliary wire (18) provided so as to intersect the plurality of data signal lines (Sn) on a side of the other end parts of the respective plurality of data signal lines (Sn). Between the first auxiliary wire (17) and the second auxiliary wire (17), there are provided (i) a positive-polarity amplifier circuit (6) for receiving a positive data signal from the data signal line driving circuit (4) and (ii) a negative-polarity amplifier circuit (7) for receiving a negative data signal from the data signal line driving circuit (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaki Uehata, Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20150279333
    Abstract: In a display device that can use a low frequency drive method, in the case of low frequency drive, in a data correction unit (23) of a display control circuit (200), a pixel grayscale value is set such that the differential value between the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of positive polarity is applied and the potential difference between the pixel electrode and the common electrode when a voltage of negative polarity is applied becomes larger than during normal drive. With this, a correction amount (shift amount) is made larger during low frequency drive than during normal drive, whereby flickers and ghosting during low frequency drive are prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Tomohiko Nishimura, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Masami Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20150269900
    Abstract: A gate driver (24) which is provided by an IGZO-GDM and a level shifter circuit (13) are connected to each other via a first through a fifth wires (OL1 through OL5). Each wire (OL) is connected to a discharge unit (190). If an electric power supply to a first through a fifth output circuits (OC1 through OC5) in the level shifter circuit (13) becomes lower than a lower operation limit value during a power-off sequence which is supposed to remove a residual charge from inside a panel, outputs from the first through the fifth output circuits (OC1 through OC5) assume a high-impedance state, whereupon a potential on each wire (OL) is drawn by a discharge unit (190) into a ground potential. Therefore, residual charge inside the panel is removed quickly and stably when power supply is shut off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Tomohiko Nishimura, Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata
  • Patent number: 9142195
    Abstract: The timing controller determines the number of data lanes (11, 12, 13), which are used to transfer data, based on information in relation to an amount of data to be transferred during a predetermined time period. Out of the plurality of data lanes (11, 12, 13), the determined number of data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) are used to transfer data. Further, a data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) which is not used in the data transfer is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Asahi Yamato
  • Patent number: 9129544
    Abstract: In order to provide a display device and a method for driving a display device, each of which is capable of repairing a disconnection in a data signal line and further reduces electric power consumption, a display device (1) includes a repair amplifier control section (14) for causing a repair amplifier circuit (12) to operate at a low-performance level during any period within a period from when scanning of pixels in the display area in the display device (1) is finished to when next scanning is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20150130786
    Abstract: The timing controller determines the number of data lanes (11, 12, 13), which are used to transfer data, based on information in relation to an amount of data to be transferred during a predetermined time period. Out of the plurality of data lanes (11, 12, 13), the determined number of data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) are used to transfer data. Further, a data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) which is not used in the data transfer is deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Kohji SAITOH, Masaki UEHATA, Asahi YAMATO
  • Patent number: 9024854
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate driver, a source driver and a common driver. An input video signal is stored in a line memory and a gray scale with which an applied voltage becomes highest is detected from data corresponding to 1 line among the signal. A common electrode is driven by a common voltage being reduced in accordance with the gray scale and having a low effective value. The driver is driven by an output controlled in accordance with the voltage thus reduced. A voltage applied to a common electrode is set by using a LUT and a common voltage is set by using a LUT. It is therefore possible to provide a liquid crystal display device and a method of driving the liquid crystal display device, each of which can reduce power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Nakata, Masaki Uehata
  • Patent number: 8972644
    Abstract: The timing controller determines the number of data lanes (11, 12, 13), which are used to transfer data, based on information in relation to an amount of data to be transferred during a predetermined time period. Out of the plurality of data lanes (11, 12, 13), the determined number of data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) are used to transfer data. Further, a data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) which is not used in the data transfer is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Asahi Yamato
  • Publication number: 20150042636
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to make it unlikely that, in a case where a transistor is turned on in preparation for an operation to turn off a power source of a liquid crystal display device, a DC voltage becomes applied across a pixel even if potential variation (kickback) occurs at a pixel electrode in reaction to a change in status of the transistor from an on state to an off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Jun Nakata, Masaki Uehata, Tomohiko Nishimura, Masami Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20150009195
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a data signal line; a scan signal line; a pixel electrode; a transistor connected to (i) the data signal line, (ii) the scan signal line, and (iii) the pixel electrode; and a common electrode, the liquid crystal display device being configured to turn on the transistor during a power-off sequence by causing a change in an electric potential of the scan signal line, the electric potential of the scan signal line reaching a first electric potential at a first timing after the change is initiated, and the common electrode being in an electrically floating state at a second timing which comes after the first timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Akihisa Iwamoto, Masami Ozaki, Masaki Uehata, Jun Nakata, Tomohiko Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140225851
    Abstract: The timing controller determines the number of data lanes (11, 12, 13), which are used to transfer data, based on information in relation to an amount of data to be transferred during a predetermined time period. Out of the plurality of data lanes (11, 12, 13), the determined number of data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) are used to transfer data. Further, a data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) which is not used in the data transfer is deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji SAITOH, Masaki UEHATA, Asahi YAMATO
  • Patent number: 8754837
    Abstract: A liquid crystal driving circuit is disclosed which carries out time-division driving with respect to each pixel constituting a liquid crystal display panel by causing a bright and dark frame period and a positive and negative frame period to be different from each other, the bright and dark frame period being a period of brightness and darkness of luminance at which to drive the each pixel, the positive and negative frame period being a period of polarities of a voltage to be applied to liquid crystal of the each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Asahi Yamato, Masaki Uehata
  • Publication number: 20140152634
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to suppress the occurrence of flickering and to reduce the power consumption of a display device. A liquid crystal display device that is an embodiment of the present invention splits one frame into a plurality of fields and performs interlaced driving, and has a timing controller that, with a predetermined number of selected pixels in the direction of a scanning line and a signal line as units, is for reversing the polarity of a data signal applied to selected pixels in a field in a manner so that there is the same number of positive and negative polarities of the data signal applied to the selected pixels disposed along a signal line, and is for reversing the polarity in a manner such that the polarity of the data signal applied to the selected pixels changes for each frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shibata, Masami Ozaki, Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Kazuki Takahashi, Jun Nakata
  • Patent number: 8732376
    Abstract: The timing controller determines the number of data lanes (11, 12, 13), which are used to transfer data, based on information in relation to an amount of data to be transferred during a predetermined time period. Out of the plurality of data lanes (11, 12, 13), the determined number of data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) are used to transfer data. Further, a data lane(s) (11, 12, 13) which is not used in the data transfer is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Asahi Yamato
  • Publication number: 20140118421
    Abstract: A display module of the present invention includes first through third source drivers (6-1 through 6-3) (i) which are provided for respective regions into which a display region is divided and (ii) each of which includes an analysis circuit and receives a video signal for a corresponding one of the regions but receives no video signal for the regions other than the corresponding one of the regions. The third source driver (6-3) supplies, to the first and second source drivers (6-1 and 6-2), gamma (?) setting information (19) for generating a source signal to be outputted from each of the first and second source drivers (6-1 and 6-2). The first and second source drivers (6-1 and 6-2) output respective analysis results (5a and 5b) from the respective analysis circuits. The third source driver (6-3) outputs a PWM signal (14) for controlling the light irradiation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Masami Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20140055697
    Abstract: A source AMP output circuit (10) is provided with a switching circuit (17) for carrying out the following operation. That is, in a case where a polarity is reversed, the switching circuit (17) disconnects a data signal line (S(M)) from output terminals of a positive amplifier circuit (15) and a negative polarity amplifier circuit (16) each included in the source AMP output circuit (10), and then connects the data signal line S(M) to a power supply which is in a power supply voltage range (Vdd1 to Vdd3) of the positive polarity amplifier circuit (15) or to a power supply which is in a power supply voltage range (Vdd2 to Vdd4) of the negative polarity amplifier circuit (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140028654
    Abstract: In order to provide a display device and a method for driving a display device, each of which is capable of repairing a disconnection in a data signal line and further reduces electric power consumption, a display device (1) includes a repair amplifier control section (14) for causing a repair amplifier circuit (12) to operate at a low-performance level during any period within a period from when scanning of pixels in the display area in the display device (1) is finished to when next scanning is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohji Saitoh, Masaki Uehata, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140028658
    Abstract: Provided for each data signal line drive circuit (6a, 6b, 6c) are: a voltage generation circuit (61a, 61b, 61c) that generates a drive voltage in accordance with an external voltage; and a voltage determination circuit (63a, 63b, 63c) which determines whether or not a voltage level of at least either the external voltage or the drive voltage falls within a range of allowable voltages, in a case where the voltage level does not fall within the range of allowable voltages, operation of the voltage generation circuits (61a, 61b, 61c) being stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Nakata, Masaki Uehata, Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140028655
    Abstract: A display device (10) includes a timing control section (13) and a signal line drive circuit (16), either of which receives a lower power supply voltage level than the other, and a level changing circuit (20) for changing an amplitude level (T) of a reset signal (B). The timing control section (13) and the level changing circuit (20) receive the reset signal (B). The level changing circuit (20) changes the amplitude level (T) of the supplied reset signal (B) and then supply, to the signal line drive circuit (16), a reset signal (Ba) with a converted amplitude level. This makes it possible to achieve an image display with low power consumption and a stable display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Masaki Uehata, Kohji Saitoh, Masami Ozaki, Toshihiro Yanagi