Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Tanaka

Noriyuki Tanaka 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: 9349335
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of displaying a smooth video even when pause drive is performed. In a liquid crystal display device with an animation function, 12-Hz pause drive is performed with vertical display periods, each having a duration of five frames. In a video display period, an animation video changes every duration of a secondary video display period, i.e., every one frame, in the order: images A to X, then A and B. Once the video display period starts, 12-Hz pause drive switches to 60-Hz normal drive. In this case, for the animation video that changes every duration of the secondary video display period, i.e., every one frame, in the order: images A to X, then A and B, refresh is performed every duration of the vertical display period, i.e., every one frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kouji Kumada
  • Patent number: 9330439
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. A display device (10) includes a display unit and a separation unit (34). The display unit displays a synthetic image formed by dividing each of a plurality of images that are different from one another and arraying the divisional images thus obtained in a predetermined order. The separation unit (34) separates the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image. The display unit includes a storage unit (54) and a correction unit (52). The storage unit (54) stores crosstalk levels set with respect to respective combinations of gray scale level data including gray scale level data of a pixel displaying an image that a viewer is supposed to see, among the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image, and gray scale level data of a pixel serving as a factor that causes crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone, Kouji Kumada
  • Patent number: 9330615
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of crosstalk can be suppressed. A display device (10) includes a display unit and a separation unit (34). The display unit displays a synthetic image formed by dividing each of a plurality of images that are different from one another and arraying the divisional images thus obtained in a predetermined order. The separation unit (34) separates the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image. The display unit includes a storage unit (54) and a correction unit (52). The storage unit (54) stores crosstalk levels used when gray scale level data of a pixel displaying an image that a viewer is supposed to see, among the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image, are corrected. The correction unit (52) corrects the gray scale level data of the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see, by using the crosstalk levels stored in the storage unit (54).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Sone, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9299292
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of suppressing reduction in display quality even when pause drive is performed, while allowing the intensity of a light source to be changed in accordance with images to be displayed. In a liquid crystal display device with the CABC function, 7.5-Hz pause drive is performed. A transition period is provided in which images to be displayed are changed gradually from bright image X to dark image Y. In the transition period, the duration of a sub-transition period is five frames. Once the transition period starts, the duration of a vertical display period changes from eight frames to one frame. That is, 7.5-Hz pause drive switches to 60-Hz normal drive. In this manner, the duration of the vertical display period is set to be less than or equal to the duration of the sub-transition period, so that screen refresh is always performed in each sub-transition period of the transition period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kouji Kumada
  • Publication number: 20160086559
    Abstract: A scanning line drive unit selects a plurality of scanning lines in order, and controls the operation of a thin-film transistors. A timing control unit controls the scanning line drive unit on the basis of a display signal that includes a horizontal synchronization signal, a vertical synchronization signal, and an image signal. The timing control unit is provided with: a first terminal to which the display signal is input; a second terminal to which a sub-synchronization signal, which is a signal other than the horizontal synchronization signal and the vertical synchronization signal, is input; and a notification unit that outputs a notification signal in a case where a period while only the sub-synchronization signal, among the horizontal synchronization signal, the vertical synchronization signal, and the sub-synchronization signal, is input is longer than a prescribed period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Takuya SONE, Noriyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160078831
    Abstract: A scanning line drive unit sequentially selects a plurality of scanning lines, and utilizes a drive voltage generated by the booster circuit to control the operation of a thin-film transistor. A timing control unit controls the scanning line drive unit on the basis of a display signal, which includes a horizontal synchronization signal, a vertical synchronization signal and an image signal. A reference synchronization signal is input to the booster circuit during a period in which the scanning line drive unit selects none of the plurality of scanning lines. A booster circuit generates a non-selection voltage in synchronization with the reference synchronization signal in the abovementioned period. The scanning line drive unit outputs the non-selection voltage generated by the booster circuit to the plurality of scanning lines in the abovementioned period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Takuya SONE, Noriyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160023177
    Abstract: A powder stirring device includes a reaction container and a rotation driving device. The reaction container has a cylindrical outer peripheral wall and a pair of end surface walls. The end surface walls are respectively provided at one end and the other end of the outer peripheral wall. The reaction container is arranged in a heat-insulating cover such that an axis of the outer peripheral wall is in parallel with a horizontal direction. The outer peripheral wall has an inner peripheral surface rotationally symmetric with respect to the axis. During the powder process, the powder is stored in the reaction container, and the reaction container is rotated around a rotation axis that passes through the central axis of the outer peripheral wall by the rotation driving device. In this state, a processing gas is supplied into the reaction container. Also, the processing gas in the reaction container is discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: TOYO TANSO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160012789
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a driving method therefor that do not cause problems such as occurrence of flicker even when performing pause driving. When an off signal Soff instructing to turn off power is inputted, a polarity bias value W at the power-off is stored in a balance storage circuit. When the power is turned on again, the polarity bias value W is read from the balance storage circuit and provided to a balance control circuit. The balance control circuit starts insertion of a pause frame period to cancel out the polarity bias value W. By this, decrementing the polarity bias value W by “1” every insertion of a pause frame period is repeated. Then, at a point of time when the polarity bias value W becomes “0”, insertion of a pause frame period is ceased and normal pause driving is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jin MIYAZAWA, Kouji KUMADA, Norio OHMURA, Noriyuki TANAKA, Tatsuhiko SUYAMA, Kentaroh UEMURA
  • Publication number: 20150332651
    Abstract: Based on a REF/NREF signal coming from a REF/NREF determination circuit, a polarity bias calculation circuit updates a polarity bias count value Nb indicating a degree of a polarity bias of an applied voltage to a liquid crystal layer, and based on this polarity bias count value Nb, a bias movement determination circuit determines a moving direction of the polarity bias. Upon receiving an OFF signal Soff instructing OFF of the power supply, a balance control circuit controls a drive unit based on a result of the determination of the polarity bias moving direction and on the polarity bias count value Nb at a point of time when the OFF signal Soff is inputted so that the polarity bias can be resolved before a power supply is turned off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jin MIYAZAWA, Kouji KUMADA, Noriyuki TANAKA, Tatsuhiko SUYAMA, Takuya SONE
  • Publication number: 20150302809
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device for performing pause driving, occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed while an increase in power consumption is suppressed. When a frame in which an image signal (DAT) is inputted from an external portion without output of a request signal (RO) for requesting the external portion to input the image signal (DAT) is defined as a first input frame, a reversal driving control portion (10) sets the reversal driving technique in the first input frame to the column-reversal driving while setting the first input frame to a refresh frame defined as a first refresh frame, sets three frames subsequent to the first refresh frame to pause frames, sets a frame subsequent to the final pause frame to a refresh frame defined as a second refresh frame, and sets the reversal driving technique in the second refresh frame to the dot-reversal driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko SUYAMA, Kouji KUMADA, Norio OHMURA, Noriyuki TANAKA, Takuya SONE
  • Publication number: 20150287372
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device for performing pause driving, occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed while an increase in power consumption is suppressed. When an image change determination portion (11) detects an image change in a period from the previous refresh frame until generation of a predetermined number of times of pause frames, a reversal driving control portion (13) sets the next frame after a frame where an image change has been detected to a refresh frame where a reversal driving technique is a column-reversal driving. When the image change determination portion (11) does not detect an image change in the period from the previous refresh frame until generation of the predetermined number of times of pause frames, the reversal driving control portion (13) sets the next frame after the final pause frame to a refresh frame where a reversal driving technique is a dot-reversal driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Suyama, Kouji Kumada, Norio Ohmura, Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone
  • Patent number: 9153044
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 10 according to the present invention includes a processing device 12 configured to process an image signal D to be input into a pixel P of a liquid crystal panel 40 configured to provide a display based on light applied from LEDs 54 arranged in a peripheral area R2. The process device 12 includes a receiving section 22, a correction section 24, and a calculation section 28, for example. The calculation section is configured to calculate luminance components to be provided by the respective LEDs 54 to the pixel P based on a distance between each LED 54 and the pixel P, add a total luminance that is a sum of the luminance components to be provided by the LEDs 54 to a predetermined expected luminance to calculate an added luminance, and calculate a correction coefficient HP with respect to the pixel P based on a luminance ratio between the added luminance and the reference luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Suyama, Kouji Kumada, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150255028
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device for performing pause driving, occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed while an increase in power consumption is suppressed. A frame in which an image signal is inputted without requesting an external portion to input the image signal is set as a refresh frame by a reversal driving technique deciding portion. A pause frame counting portion counts the number of times of pause frames since the previous refresh frame as a count value. The comparison portion compares the count value with a previously set threshold. As a result, when the count value is not smaller than the threshold, the reversal driving technique deciding portion sets a reversal driving technique in the first input frame to dot-reversal driving. When the count value is smaller than the threshold, the reversal driving technique deciding portion sets a reversal driving technique in the first input frame to column-reversal driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiko Suyama, Kouji Kumada, Norio Ohmura, Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone
  • Publication number: 20150248873
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a drive method thereof, capable of promptly making an afterimage, which is visually recognized at refresh time, visually unrecognizable and reducing power consumption during and after a shift to a target refresh rate. At pause drive time until a target refresh rate is reached, a refresh is performed in divided periods of a first refresh period for performing a refresh at least twice, and a second refresh period for performing a refresh while increasing the number of frames in a non-refresh period from a refresh rate at the end of the first refresh period until the refresh rate becomes the target refresh rate, and the second refresh period is finished when the refresh rate in the second refresh period reaches the target refresh rate, and the pause drive is continued at the target refresh rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Takuya Sone
  • Publication number: 20150243253
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a drive method thereof, capable of promptly making an afterimage, which is visually recognized during pause drive, visually unrecognizable while suppressing power consumption. When updated image data is transmitted, a first refresh is performed by used of this image data, and a refresh pauses based on Ref_int just in the next two-frame period. Then, the second and third refreshes are consecutively performed, and a refresh pause is repeated until the next updated image data is transmitted. In this case, since a refresh can be performed three times in a short period after reception of the updated image data, it is possible to make liquid crystal molecules oriented in a direction corresponding to an applied voltage in a short time and make an afterimage visually unrecognizable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Sone, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9113157
    Abstract: The display device includes: a display unit configured to display a combined image formed by dividing a plurality of different images into divided images and arranging the divided images in a predetermined order; a separating unit configured to separate the plurality of images included in the combined image; and a correcting unit configured to correct the gray scale data of a pixel that displays one of the plurality of images included in the combined image that the viewer is supposed to see, wherein the correcting unit includes: a shift amount generating unit configured to generate a shift amount used to adjust the gray scale data of each pixel that displays one of the plurality of images included in the combined image; and a determining unit configured to determine a correction amount used to correct the gray scale data using the shift amount generated by the shift amount generating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Sone, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150228239
    Abstract: In a display control circuit (60) of an RAM through type, RGB data generated based on a command conformed to the DSI standard transmitted from a host (1) is supplied to a checksum circuit (33). The checksum circuit (33) obtains a checksum value of the RGB data and determines whether the RGB data is updated or not based on the obtained checksum value. In the case where the RGB data is updated, the RGB data is supplied to a latch circuit (34) and checksum process data indicating that the RGB data is updated is supplied to a timing generator (35), thereby immediately forced-refreshing an image displayed in a display unit (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kouji Kumada
  • Patent number: 8974647
    Abstract: The fluorine gas generation device includes an electrolyzer. An electrolytic bath is formed in the electrolyzer. A cathode is disposed in a cathode chamber, and an anode is disposed in an anode chamber. As a voltage is applied across the cathode and the anode, electrolysis of HF (hydrogen fluoride) takes place. In the electrolyzer, hydrogen gas is primarily generated from the cathode and fluorine gas is primarily generated from the anode. Two heating furnaces are provided for heating NaF pellets packed in HF adsorption columns. Each heating furnace has two HF adsorption columns disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Shodai, Masashi Kodama, Nobutaka Manabe, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20150054863
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of suppressing reduction in display quality even when pause drive is performed, while allowing the intensity of a light source to be changed in accordance with images to be displayed. In a liquid crystal display device with the CABC function, 7.5-Hz pause drive is performed. A transition period is provided in which images to be displayed are changed gradually from bright image X to dark image Y. In the transition period, the duration of a sub-transition period is five frames. Once the transition period starts, the duration of a vertical display period changes from eight frames to one frame. That is, 7.5-Hz pause drive switches to 60-Hz normal drive. In this manner, the duration of the vertical display period is set to be less than or equal to the duration of the sub-transition period, so that screen refresh is always performed in each sub-transition period of the transition period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kouji Kumada
  • Publication number: 20150029167
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of displaying a smooth video even when pause drive is performed. In a liquid crystal display device with an animation function, 12-Hz pause drive is performed with vertical display periods, each having a duration of five frames. In a video display period, an animation video changes every duration of a secondary video display period, i.e., every one frame, in the order: images A to X, then A and B. Once the video display period starts, 12-Hz pause drive switches to 60-Hz normal drive. In this case, for the animation video that changes every duration of the secondary video display period, i.e., every one frame, in the order: images A to X, then A and B, refresh is performed every duration of the vertical display period, i.e., every one frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kouji Kumada