Patents by Inventor Shigeru Ota
Shigeru Ota 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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Patent number: 11978386Abstract: A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first frequency and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to update pixels of the display panel with the data signals during an active display state. The display driver is further configured to generate updated compensation information based at least in part on the image data and the compensation information received from the first memory and transmit the updated compensation information to the first memory during the active display state with a second frequency lower than the first frequency.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Takashi Uehara, Shigeru Ota
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Publication number: 20240128294Abstract: An image reading device includes a plurality of light receiving parts arrayed regularly, a first light blocking member including a plurality of first openings arrayed corresponding respectively to the plurality of light receiving parts, and a plurality of microlenses arrayed corresponding respectively to the plurality of first openings. Each light receiving part included in the plurality of light receiving parts includes a plurality of light receiving pixels arrayed in a first direction as a main scanning direction. Each microlens included in the plurality of microlenses is object side telecentric. The plurality of microlenses, the first light blocking member and the plurality of light receiving parts are arranged so that light reflected by an object and passing through the microlens and the first opening corresponding to the microlens enters the plurality of light receiving pixels included in the light receiving part corresponding to the first opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki KAWANO, Naoki NAKAGAWA, Takeshi ONO, Shigeru TAKUSHIMA, Naoyuki TOKIDA, Akira OTA, Miki SUGANO
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Publication number: 20240082936Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wire electric discharge machine (EDM) including a delivery system with one or combination of a wire electrode and a workpiece for delivering the wire electrode and the workpiece into proximity of each other and an energy source for creating electric discharge between the wire electrode and the workpiece. The wire EDM includes a wire electrode position measurement unit including light source to illuminate the wire electrode with encoded illumination pattern and a camera for acquiring a set of images of the wire electrode illuminated by the encoded illumination pattern. The wire EDM includes a processor to reconstruct positions of a segment of the wire electrode at a reconstruction rate greater than an acquisition rate of the camera by utilization of compressive sensing with sparse reconstruction technique and a controller to control the delivery system and the energy source based on the reconstructed positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hassan Mansour, Petros Boufounos, Shigeru Takushima, Nobuyuki Ota
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Publication number: 20240071319Abstract: A display driver includes a memory, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: in a first mode, update a display panel based at least in part on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; and in a second mode, update the display panel based at least in part on first image data stored in the memory in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal. The control circuit configured to: switch from the first mode to the second mode in response to a first command; and, in the second mode, adjust the display vertical sync signal based at least in part on an external vertical sync signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Patent number: 11854491Abstract: A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Publication number: 20230306913Abstract: A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Hirokazu Hatayama, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Publication number: 20230222958Abstract: A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first frequency and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to update pixels of the display panel with the data signals during an active display state. The display driver is further configured to generate updated compensation information based at least in part on the image data and the compensation information received from the first memory and transmit the updated compensation information to the first memory during the active display state with a second frequency lower than the first frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Takashi Uehara, Shigeru Ota
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Patent number: 11635845Abstract: A display driver comprises a touch controller configured to perform touch sensing on a display panel during a vertical sync period. A first field of the vertical sync period comprises a display period and a touch sensing period following the display period. A start timing of the touch sensing period is controlled by an internal clock signal. A first counter is configured to, responsive to completion of the touch sensing, start a counting operation in synchronization with the internal clock signal. Gate control signal generator circuitry is configured to control a gate driver that is configured to drive a plurality of gate lines of the display panel. A gate line that is to be driven first to a high level during a second field following the first field is driven to the high level responsive to a count value of the first counter during the first field.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota, Atsushi Shikata, Kentaro Suzuki, Jiro Shimbo
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Patent number: 11615735Abstract: A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first slew rate and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to update pixels of the display panel with the data signals during an active display state. The display driver is further configured to generate updated compensation information based at least in part on the image data and the compensation information received from the first memory and transmit the updated compensation information to the first memory during the active display state with a second slew rate lower than the first slew rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Takashi Uehara, Shigeru Ota
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Publication number: 20230073842Abstract: A display system includes a first memory and a display driver. The display system is configured to control the first memory to receive compensation information from the first memory with a first slew rate and generate data signals for image data to be displayed on a display panel. The generation of the data signals comprises performing a compensation for the data signals based on the compensation information received from the first memory. The display driver is further configured to update pixels of the display panel with the data signals during an active display state. The display driver is further configured to generate updated compensation information based at least in part on the image data and the compensation information received from the first memory and transmit the updated compensation information to the first memory during the active display state with a second slew rate lower than the first slew rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Takashi Uehara, Shigeru Ota
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Patent number: 11227563Abstract: A display driver chip includes interface circuitry, image data processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The interface circuitry is configured to receive first frame image data for a first frame image. The image data processing circuitry includes a buffer memory configured to store at least part of the first frame image data. The image data processing circuitry is configured to supply, based on the at least part of the first frame image data stored in the buffer memory, first display data for a first display area of a plurality of display areas of a display panel having a zigzag pixel arrangement. The drive circuit is configured to drive a display element in the first display area based on the first display data.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Kentaro Suzuki, Shigeru Ota, Yoshitaka Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11194420Abstract: A processing system comprises interface circuitry and a timing controller. The interface circuitry is configured to receive a vertical sync period indicator that indicates a start of an external vertical sync period. The timing controller is configured to, in response to a change in a display frame rate, control timing of a display drive operation and a proximity sensing operation to maintain a proximity sensing frame rate based on input timing of the vertical sync period indicator to the interface circuitry. The processing system is configured to supply drive signals to display elements of a display panel in the display drive operation and acquire sensing signals from sensor electrodes of the display panel in the proximity sensing operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Shigeru Ota, Makoto Takeuchi, Jiro Shimbo, Kentaro Suzuki
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Patent number: 11151941Abstract: A display driver includes signal supply circuitry and a power source controller. The signal supply circuitry is configured to update a display panel during a refresh period and not update the display panel during a non-refresh period that follows the refresh period. The power source controller is configured to modify a high-side power source voltage supplied to the display panel at least during the non-refresh period.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Atsushi Shikata, Kazuhiro Okamura, Hirobumi Furihata, Shigeru Ota, Makoto Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20210149540Abstract: A processing system comprises interface circuitry and a timing controller. The interface circuitry is configured to receive a vertical sync period indicator that indicates a start of an external vertical sync period. The timing controller is configured to, in response to a change in a display frame rate, control timing of a display drive operation and a proximity sensing operation to maintain a proximity sensing frame rate based on input timing of the vertical sync period indicator to the interface circuitry. The processing system is configured to supply drive signals to display elements of a display panel in the display drive operation and acquire sensing signals from sensor electrodes of the display panel in the proximity sensing operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Atsushi SHIKATA, Shigeru OTA, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Jiro SHIMBO, Kentaro SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20210027741Abstract: A display driver chip includes interface circuitry, image data processing circuitry, and drive circuitry. The interface circuitry is configured to receive first frame image data for a first frame image. The image data processing circuitry includes a buffer memory configured to store at least part of the first frame image data. The image data processing circuitry is configured to supply, based on the at least part of the first frame image data, supply a first display data for a first display area of a plurality of display areas of a display panel having a zigzag pixel arrangement. The drive circuit is configured to drive a display element in the first display area based on the first display data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Kentaro Suzuki, Shigeru Ota, Yoshitaka Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20210011575Abstract: A display driver comprises a touch controller configured to perform touch sensing on a display panel during a vertical sync period. A first field of the vertical sync period comprises a display period and a touch sensing period following the display period. A start timing of the touch sensing period is controlled by an internal clock signal. A first counter is configured to, responsive to completion of the touch sensing, start a counting operation in synchronization with the internal clock signal. Gate control signal generator circuitry is configured to control a gate driver that is configured to drive a plurality of gate lines of the display panel. A gate line that is to be driven first to a high level during a second field following the first field is driven to the high level responsive to a count value of the first counter during the first field.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Makoto TAKEUCHI, Shigeru OTA, Atsushi SHIKATA, Kentaro SUZUKI, Jiro SHIMBO
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Patent number: 10802645Abstract: A display driver comprises a touch controller configured to perform touch sensing on a display panel during a vertical sync period. A first field of the vertical sync period comprises a display period and a touch sensing period following the display period. A start timing of the touch sensing period is controlled by an internal clock signal. A first counter is configured to, responsive to completion of the touch sensing, start a counting operation in synchronization with the internal clock signal. Gate control signal generator circuitry is configured to control a gate driver that is configured to drive a plurality of gate lines of the display panel. A gate line that is to be driven first to a high level during a second field following the first field is driven to the high level responsive to a count value of the first counter during the first field.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota, Atsushi Shikata, Kentaro Suzuki, Jiro Shimbo
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Patent number: 10643515Abstract: A display driver includes: a memory comprising a plurality of memory regions each configured to store image data for one line of an image displayed in a frame; and control circuitry configured to adjust a number of in-use memory regions of the plurality of memory regions used to store the image data. The control circuitry is further configured to control the memory so that image data for respective lines of the image are cyclically stored in the in-use memory regions in a fixed order.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Synaptics Japan GKInventors: Kentaro Suzuki, Atsushi Shikata, Jiro Shimbo, Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota
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Publication number: 20190095033Abstract: A display driver comprises a touch controller configured to perform touch sensing on a display panel during a vertical sync period. A first field of the vertical sync period comprises a display period and a touch sensing period following the display period. A start timing of the touch sensing period is controlled by an internal clock signal. A first counter is configured to, responsive to completion of the touch sensing, start a counting operation in synchronization with the internal clock signal. Gate control signal generator circuitry is configured to control a gate driver that is configured to drive a plurality of gate lines of the display panel. A gate line that is to be driven first to a high level during a second field following the first field is driven to the high level responsive to a count value of the first counter during the first field.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Makoto Takeuchi, Shigeru Ota, Atsushi Shikata, Kentaro Suzuki, Jiro Shimbo
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Publication number: 20190096309Abstract: A display driver includes: a memory comprising a plurality of memory regions each configured to store image data for one line of an image displayed in a frame; and control circuitry configured to adjust a number of in-use memory regions of the plurality of memory regions used to store the image data. The control circuitry is further configured to control the memory so that image data for respective lines of the image are cyclically stored in the in-use memory regions in a fixed order.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Kentaro SUZUKI, Atsushi SHIKATA, Jiro SHIMBO, Makoto TAKEUCHI, Shigeru OTA