Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Yokoo
Nobuhiko Yokoo 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).
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Publication number: 20240061261Abstract: A display device includes a frame supporting a first display unit and a second display unit. A substrate placement unit includes a first substrate placement unit located above the first display unit and a second substrate placement unit located above the second display unit. A video-image substrate at which a video-image processing circuit is mounted is disposed at one of the first substrate placement unit or the second substrate placement unit. The video-image processing circuit is configured to output a video image to the first display element and the second display element. A first drawing-out portion at which the first cable is drawn out is provided at one surface of the video-image substrate, and a second drawing-out portion at which the second cable is drawn out is provided at the other surface of the video-image substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Takehiro ONO, Wataru SAKUMA, Nobuhiko YOKOO, Masahide TAKANO
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Publication number: 20230260093Abstract: An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki TAKAGI, Nobuhiko YOKOO
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Patent number: 11657482Abstract: An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki Takagi, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Publication number: 20220138916Abstract: An optical module according to the present disclosure includes: a first display panel that emits a first image light, a first virtual image optical system that forms a first exit pupil of the first image light, and a control unit corrects a video image signal to a first correction video signal based on distortion generated in the first optical system, an aspect ratio of the video image signal being smaller than an aspect ratio of the first display panel, wherein the control unit causes the first display panel to emit the first image light from the first display panel based on the first correction video image signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Masayuki TAKAGI, Nobuhiko YOKOO
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Patent number: 10162457Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes a substrate, pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix in a display region on a plane parallel to the substrate, a display function layer having a function to display the image in the display region, drive electrodes provided facing the pixel electrodes, touch detection electrodes that form electrostatic capacitance between there and the drive electrodes, a control unit that generates a control signal to switch between a display operation period for applying a display signal between the pixel and drive electrodes and a display stop period for stopping the display operation. The control unit generates first and second control signals respectively having a first frequency and a second frequency that is different from the first frequency, and has first and second operation modes respectively including a period controlled by the first control signal and a period controlled by the second control signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Ito, Koji Shigehiro, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Publication number: 20180095576Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device driven in a first drive mode for displaying images of a frame in a first frame period and a second drive mode for displaying images of a frame in a second frame period longer than the first frame period is provided. The display device includes a display panel configured to perform display operation for displaying an image based on a pixel signal and a driver configured to switch a drive mode between the first drive mode and the second drive mode. When a switch signal is received while the display device is driven in the second drive mode, the driver is configured to shorten the second frame period and switch the second drive mode to the first drive mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Nobuhiko Yokoo, Jin Ota, Hidetoshi Komatsu
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Publication number: 20180068627Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a display drive unit, a power supply unit and a control unit. The control unit instructs a display period in which the image is displayed in the display unit and a non-display period in which the image is not displayed to the display drive unit, and instructs mitigation driving which mitigates a difference in an electrical load of the display drive unit between the display period and the non-display period to the power supply unit in the non-display period.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Jin OTA, Hidetoshi KOMATSU, Ryutaro NITOBE, Nobuhiko YOKOO
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Patent number: 9842556Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a display drive unit, a power supply unit and a control unit. The control unit instructs a display period in which the image is displayed in the display unit and a non-display period in which the image is not displayed to the display drive unit, and instructs mitigation driving which mitigates a difference in an electrical load of the display drive unit between the display period and the non-display period to the power supply unit in the non-display period.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Jin Ota, Hidetoshi Komatsu, Ryutaro Nitobe, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Publication number: 20170010739Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes a substrate, pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix in a display region on a plane parallel to the substrate, a display function layer having a function to display the image in the display region, drive electrodes provided facing the pixel electrodes, touch detection electrodes that form electrostatic capacitance between there and the drive electrodes, a control unit that generates a control signal to switch between a display operation period for applying a display signal between the pixel and drive electrodes and a display stop period for stopping the display operation. The control unit generates first and second control signals respectively having a first frequency and a second frequency that is different from the first frequency, and has first and second operation modes respectively including a period controlled by the first control signal and a period controlled by the second control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Daisuke ITO, Koji SHIGEHIRO, Nobuhiko YOKOO
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Publication number: 20160078832Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a display drive unit, a power supply unit and a control unit. The control unit instructs a display period in which the image is displayed in the display unit and a non-display period in which the image is not displayed to the display drive unit, and instructs mitigation driving which mitigates a difference in an electrical load of the display drive unit between the display period and the non-display period to the power supply unit in the non-display period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Jin OTA, Hidetoshi KOMATSU, Ryutaro NITOBE, Nobuhiko YOKOO
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Patent number: 9159267Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Tajiri, Yutaka Kobashi, Hiroshi Kiya, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Publication number: 20140092074Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventors: Kenichi Tajiri, Yutaka Kobashi, Hiroshi Kiya, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Patent number: 8625039Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.Inventors: Kenichi Tajiri, Yutaka Kobashi, Hiroshi Kiya, Nobuhiko Yokoo
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Publication number: 20110075063Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having first and second substrates disposed to face each other so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a gate potential creating circuit for outputting a selection potential and a non-selection potential, scanning lines, signal lines, thin film transistors formed so as to correspond to intersection portions between the scanning lines and the signal lines, respectively, pixel electrodes electrically connected to the thin film transistors, respectively, and a gate control circuit for switching the selection potential and the non-selection potential supplied from the gate potential creating circuit over to each other, thereby supplying one of the selection potential and the non-selection potential to corresponding ones of the thin film transistors through corresponding one of the scanning lines being formed on the first substrate, and a common electrode being formed either on the first substrate or the second substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenichi Tajiri, Yutaka Kobashi, Hiroshi Kiya, Nobuhiko Yokoo