Patents by Inventor Tomohide Ohira

Tomohide Ohira 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: 7164415
    Abstract: The present invention can realize better display of a dynamic image, and in addition, can make storage capacity of a memory smaller. A data conversion circuit 112 compares display data 102 of an n-th frame from the outside and display data 116 of the (n?1)-th frame stored in the memory 104, to generate a driving data signal 117 to deliver to a driver. Each time when a memory control circuit 103 reads display data q0, q5, q10, q15 corresponding to 20 pixels out of the display data 116 of the (n?1)-th frame, the memory control circuit 103 compresses display data d0–d19 of 20 pixels out of the display data 102 of the n-th frame from the outside to generated d0, d5, d10, d15, and stores the generated data into the same area where the display data q0, q5, q10, q15 of the display data of the (n?1)-th frame have been stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Hiroyuki Nitta, Takeshi Maeda, Tomohide Ohira
  • Publication number: 20030122854
    Abstract: The present invention can realize better display of a dynamic image, and in addition, can make storage capacity of a memory smaller. A data conversion circuit 112 compares display data 102 of an n-th frame from the outside and display data 116 of the (n−1)-th frame stored in the memory 104, to generate a driving data signal 117 to deliver to a driver. Each time when a memory control circuit 103 reads display data q0, q5, q10, q15 corresponding to 20 pixels out of the display data 116 of the (n−1)-th frame, the memory control circuit 103 compresses display data d0-d19 of 20 pixels out of the display data 102 of the n-th frame from the outside to generated d0, d5, d10, d15, and stores the generated data into the same area where the display data q0, q5, q10, q15 of the display data of the (n−1)-th frame have been stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Hiroyuki Nitta, Takeshi Maeda, Tomohide Ohira
  • Publication number: 20020101397
    Abstract: To enable easy modification or updating of the setup operation screen of a monitor while at the same time improving the user's operability. A liquid crystal display device includes a display signal recognition unit for recognizing a display signal or signals as sent from a display signal generation device, an adjustment unit operable in accordance with the adjustment content being displayed on the display signal generation device side for performing adjustment by recognition of a display signal pursuant to such adjustment content, and an adjustment content display unit for visually displaying on a screen the adjustment content due to this adjustment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2002
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohide Ohira, Hiroshi Kurihara, Youichi Watanabe, Yasuhiko Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 6084561
    Abstract: A liquid crystal controller for controlling display of a liquid crystal display device of passive matrix type includes gray scale processing being performed on input data before being written in a frame memory for frame frequency conversion and gray scale processing being performed after the frequency conversion and reading of the data from the frame memory so that an amount of information of display data written in the frame memory can be reduced. Further, since the gray scale display pattern is switched by the same switching frequency as the converted frame frequency, pattern movement and flicker of the gray scale display portions can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video & Information
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kudo, Hiroyuki Mano, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Shinji Uchida, Tomohide Ohira, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 5914763
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a plurality of parallel display electrodes wired over an electrode substrate, terminals for the display electrodes led out to the end portion of the electrode substrate and connected to TCPs, the terminals having pitches smaller than those of the display electrodes, and leadout wirings for connecting the display electrodes and the terminals. The leadout wirings each consist of a portion extending from a respective display electrode as it is, a portion extended from the respective terminals as it is, and almost parallel, inclined linear wiring that connects the two extended portions. The length of the two extended portions and the width of the inclined linear wiring are adjusted so that the wiring resistances of the individual leadout wirings are substantially equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Fujii, Mitsugu Katayama, Tomohide Ohira, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Hitomi Madokoro
  • Patent number: 5757450
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to make uniform the gap in the frame edge portion of the liquid crystal device and the wiring resistances and to improve the display quality and minimize the frame edge area to the limit. To achieve the above object, the liquid crystal display of this invention comprises a plurality of parallel display electrodes 40-n wired over the electrode substrate 311 (312); terminals 41-n for the electrodes 40-n led out to the end portion of the electrode substrate 311 (312) and connected to TCPs, the terminals 41-n having pitches smaller than those of the electrodes 40-n; and leadout wirings 331 (332) for connecting the electrodes 40-n and the terminals 41-n. The leadout wirings 331 (332) each consist of a portion extended from the respective electrode 40-n as it is, a portion extended from the respective terminals 41-n as it is, and almost parallel, inclined linear wiring 42-n that connects the two extended portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Fujii, Mitsugu Katayama, Tomohide Ohira, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Hitomi Madokoro
  • Patent number: 5663743
    Abstract: A dynamic scattering matrix LCD, which requires a low expenditure of electric power without deteriorating contrast even when it is used for a high speed response STN liquid crystal display, includes a plurality of data line transparent electrodes, a plurality of scanning line transparent electrodes, data line drivers which selectively supply one of two levels of a first voltage signal to each of the data line transparent electrodes according to contents of a display image, scanning line drivers which selectively supply one of three levels of a second voltage signal to each of the scanning line transparent electrodes according to a control signal, and a voltage supply circuit which supplies the first voltage signal to the data line drivers and the second voltage signal to the scanning line drivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Fujii, Tomohide Ohira, Hiroshi Kunihara
  • Patent number: RE41324
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a plurality of parallel display electrodes wired over an electrode substance, terminals for the display electrodes led out to the end portion of the electrode substrate and connected to TCPs, the terminals having pitches smaller than those of the display electrodes, and leadout wirings for connecting the display electrodes and the terminals. The leadout wirings each consist of a portion extending from a respective display electrode as it is, a portion extended from the respective terminals as it is, and almost parallel, included linear wiring that connects the two extended portions. The length of the two extended portions and the width of the inclined linear wiring are adjusted so that the wiring resistances of the individual leadout wirings are substantially equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Fujii, Mitsugu Katayama, Tomohide Ohira, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Hitomi Madokoro
  • Patent number: RE42879
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a plurality of parallel display electrodes wired over an electrode substrate, terminals for the display electrodes led out to the end portion of the electrode substrate and connected to TCPs, the terminals having pitches smaller than those of the display electrodes, and leadout wirings for connecting the display electrodes and the terminals. The leadout wirings each consist of a portion extending from a respective display electrode as it is, a portion extended from the respective terminals as it is, and almost parallel, inclined linear wiring that connects the two extended portions. The length of the two extended portions and the width of the inclined linear wiring are adjusted so that the wiring resistances of the individual leadout wirings are substantially equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuhisa Fujii, Mitsugu Katayama, Tomohide Ohira, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Hitomi Madokoro