Patents Assigned to Epson Imaging Devices Corporation
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Patent number: 8508506Abstract: An illumination device is provided which includes: an illumination light source that emits an illumination light; a first position-detecting light source that emits a first position detecting light; a second position-detecting light source that emits a second position detecting light; a first light guide plate which is provided with a first light incident surface that introduces the illumination light and the first position detecting light to an inside thereof and a first light emitting surface that is disposed to cross the first light incident surface while being disposed to be adjacent thereto and that emits therefrom the illumination light and the first position detecting light propagating through the inside; and a second light guide plate which is provided with a second light incident surface that is disposed to overlap with the first light guide plate in plan view and that introduces the second position detecting light to an inside thereof and a second light emitting surface that is disposed to cross theType: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Yasunori Onishi
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Patent number: 8497562Abstract: A solid-state image pickup device is provided which includes a substrate; a transistor formed on the substrate; a photoelectric conversion element including a first electrode connected to a drain or a source of the transistor, a semiconductor layer stacked on the first electrode, and a second electrode stacked on the semiconductor layer; an insulating layer disposed on the second electrode; and a bias line formed on the insulating layer to be connected to the second electrode, in which the insulating layer contains at least an inorganic insulating film, and the bias line is connected to the second electrode via a contact hole formed in the insulating layer, and a side surface of the semiconductor layer is in contact with the inorganic insulating film.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventors: Yukimasa Ishida, Takashi Sato, Yasushi Yamazaki
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Publication number: 20130082903Abstract: An electro-optical device including: first display elements divided into at least a first region and a second region, for displaying a first image, and second display elements each divided into at least a third region and a fourth region, for displaying a second image, the first and second display elements being arranged such that each third region is disposed between the first region and the second region of the adjacent first display element and each second region is disposed between the third region and the fourth region of the adjacent second display element; a parallax barrier layer provided on a side of the display elements adjacent to a viewer, the parallax barrier having light transmitting regions at positions thereof corresponding to boundaries between adjoining first and third regions as well as between adjoining second and fourth regions; and a spacer layer separating the display elements from the parallax barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Epson Imaging Devices Corporation
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Publication number: 20130082911Abstract: An electro-optical device including: first display elements divided into at least a first region and a second region, for displaying a first image, and second display elements each divided into at least a third region and a fourth region, for displaying a second image, the first and second display elements being arranged such that each third region is disposed between the first region and the second region of the adjacent first display element and each second region is disposed between the third region and the fourth region of the adjacent second display element; a parallax barrier layer provided on a side of the display elements adjacent to a viewer, the parallax barrier having light transmitting regions at positions thereof corresponding to boundaries between adjoining first and third regions as well as between adjoining second and fourth regions; and a spacer layer separating the display elements from the parallax barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventor: Espson Imaging Devices Corporation
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Patent number: 8363035Abstract: An illumination device includes a light incident face onto which light is incident, a light guide plate that has a light emitting face that is disposed adjacent to the light incident face and intersects the light incident face, an illumination light source that is disposed to face the light incident face such that an optical axis thereof faces the light incident face, a position detecting beam source that is disposed to face the light incident face such that an optical axis thereof faces the light incident face, and a wiring substrate that extends along the light incident face and has both the illumination light source and the position detecting beam source mounted thereon.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Daisuke Nakanishi
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Patent number: 8348445Abstract: A direct-type backlight unit includes: an arrangement surface on which a plurality of light sources are arranged; and a plurality of reflecting surfaces that are formed at a plurality of ends of the arrangement surface and reflect light emitted from the plurality of light source. Light emitted from the light sources and light reflected from the plurality of reflecting surfaces irradiate to a radiation area surrounded by the plurality of reflecting surfaces. The plurality of reflecting surfaces are inclined at an angle that is smaller than 90 degrees with respect to an extension surface of the arrangement surface that extends toward the outside of the reflecting surface. The plurality of reflecting surfaces include reflecting surfaces having a large inclination angle and reflecting surfaces having an inclination angle that is smaller than the large inclination angle.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Daisuke Nakanishi
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Patent number: 8339331Abstract: An electro-optical device including: first display elements each divided into at least a first region and a second region, for displaying a first image, and second display elements each divided into at least a third region and a fourth region, for displaying a second image, the first and second display elements being arranged such that each third region is disposed between the first region and the second region of the adjacent first display element and each second region is disposed between the third region and the fourth region of the adjacent second display element; a parallax barrier layer provided on a side of the display elements adjacent to a viewer, the parallax barrier having light transmitting regions at positions thereof corresponding to boundaries between adjoining first and third regions as well as between adjoining second and fourth regions; and a spacer layer separating the display elements from the parallax barrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Yoichi Momose
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Patent number: 8310423Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes pixels each including a liquid crystal and a pixel electrode and a common electrode that are used for applying a voltage to the liquid crystal, a display unit in which a plurality of the pixels is disposed in a matrix shape, and even light sources. The pixels are driven in accordance with sequential light emission of the even light sources, and the application direction of a voltage for driving the liquid crystal is changed for each of vertical scanning periods corresponding to the number of the even light sources.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Masatoshi Sato
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Publication number: 20120256891Abstract: A semiconductor circuit includes a first circuit block, a second circuit block, and power wiring lines that supply a plurality of reference potentials. The first circuit block and the second circuit block are connected to a common power wiring line that is one of the power wiring lines and supplies a common reference potential. A width of the common power wiring line in the first circuit block is smaller than a width of the common power wiring line in the second circuit block.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventors: Yutaka KOBASHI, Takashi TOYA
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Patent number: 8249294Abstract: A driving system that drives an electro-optic device including a plurality of pixel electrodes, a counter electrode, a plurality of storage capacitor elements, and an electro-optic material is provided. The driving system includes a supply circuit that selectively supplies voltage to first and second ends of capacitor elements corresponding to a first horizontal line. A switching circuit is also provided that switches, in sequence every predetermined period, each of the voltages to be supplied to the second end of the capacitor elements from a first voltage to a second voltage or from the second voltage to the first voltage. A control circuit electrically connects the second end of the first storage capacitor elements and to each other before the voltage switched by the switching circuit is supplied to the second end of at least one of the storage capacitor elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Masayuki Koga
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Patent number: 8248694Abstract: An electro-optical apparatus includes a display panel that displays an image, an illuminating device that allows light rays to pass through the display panel, a polarization axis controlling unit arranged between the illuminating device and the display panel for allowing light rays having first polarization axis out of light rays outputted from the illuminating device to pass and changing the polarization axes of part of the light rays emitted from the illuminating device to convert the light rays to light rays having second polarization axis different from the first polarization axis, and a lens having a plurality of linear lens patterns for causing the light rays having the first polarization axis and the light rays having the second polarization axis separated by the polarization axis controlling unit respectively to proceed in predetermined directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Nobuo Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20120206904Abstract: A backlight unit includes: an arrangement surface on which a plurality of light sources are arranged, and a plurality of reflection surfaces erected from a plurality of edges of the arrangement surface. The light emitted from the light sources and the light reflected from the reflection surfaces irradiate to an irradiation area surrounded by the reflection surfaces which are each inclined at an inclination angle smaller than 90 degrees with respect to the arrangement surface. At least one reflection surface includes a large inclination area inclined at a large inclination angle and a small inclination area inclined at a small inclination angle. The light source arranged close to the large inclination area is disposed closer to the outside frame of the irradiation area than the other light sources arranged close to the small inclination area in plan view from the irradiation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventor: Daisuke NAKANISHI
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Patent number: 8199087Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a scanning line and a signal line that are disposed to intersect each other, a pixel that is disposed in correspondence with an intersection of the scanning line and the signal line and includes a liquid crystal and a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a storage capacitor that apply a voltage to the liquid crystal, a storage capacitor line that is used for forming the storage capacitor, and a plurality of storage capacitor line driving circuits that is used for driving the storage capacitor line. The plurality of storage capacitor line driving circuits is disposed in one end and the other end of the storage capacitor line, and the electric potential of the storage capacitor line is configured to be fixed to a designated electric potential based on a reset signal that is input to the plurality of storage capacitor line driving circuits.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventors: Takashi Toya, Yutaka Kobashi
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Patent number: 8188983Abstract: A touch panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; an annular seal material that adheres peripheries of the first substrate and the second substrate to each other so as to set a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; first seal portions that adhere corner portions of the first substrate and the second substrate through the seal material; and second seal portions that are in connection with the first seal portions and adhere side portions of the first substrate and the second substrate through the seal material. Each of the first seal portions has a thickness which is smaller than each of the second seal portions so that the substrate gap is set to be small.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventors: Takeshi Kurashima, Koichi Miyasaka
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Patent number: 8184082Abstract: A liquid crystal display selectively operates in one of a full screen display mode, in which the full screen of the display panel is set as a display area, and a partial display mode, in which a partial area in the full screen is set as a display area and a remaining area is set as a non-display area.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Kenichi Tajiri
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Patent number: 8174110Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a base substrate including an internal circuit, a resin protrusion part that is disposed to protrude on an active face side of the base substrate, and a plurality of terminals that are formed by including an island-shaped conductive film disposed on the resin protrusion part. The plurality of terminals includes a terminal that a conductive state with the internal circuit, and a wiring line that electrically connects at least two terminals among the plurality of terminals is disposed on the active face side.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2008Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Hideo Imai
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Patent number: 8162499Abstract: A backlight unit includes: an arrangement surface on which a plurality of light sources are arranged; a plurality of reflection surfaces which are erected from a plurality of edges of the arrangement surface and reflect a light from the plurality of light sources, wherein the light emitted from the light sources and the light reflected from the plurality of reflection surfaces irradiate to an irradiation area surrounded by the plurality of reflection surfaces; the plurality of reflection surfaces are each inclined at an inclination angle smaller than 90 degrees with respect to extension surface of the arrangement surface which extends toward the outside of the reflection surface; at least one reflection surface of the plurality of reflection surfaces includes a large inclination area inclined at a large inclination angle and a small inclination area inclined at a small inclination angle; and the light source arranged close to the large inclination area is disposed closer to the outside frame of the irradiatioType: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Daisuke Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20120081895Abstract: An illumination system includes a light source unit including a light source and a circuit substrate electrically connected to the light source. The light source is placed in the circuit substrate such that at least part of the light source overlaps the circuit substrate in the thicknesswise direction of the circuit substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventors: Junya MITA, Yoshinori MOMOSE, Akemi MARUYAMA, Shintaro HAMA
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Patent number: 8149197Abstract: An electro-optical display device includes an electro-optical panel, a scanning line drive circuit for scanning the scanning lines of the panel during a selection period, and a signal line drive circuit for outputting a data signal to a predetermined pixel through the corresponding data line of the panel in synchronization with the scanning of the scanning line drive circuit. During the selection period during which the data signal is output to the predetermined pixel, the duration of the ON voltage interval corresponding to a grayscale level having the longest OFF voltage interval is longer than the duration of the OFF voltage interval corresponding to a grayscale level having the longest ON voltage interval.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2006Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventors: Chiyoaki Iijima, Minoru Ikeda
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Publication number: 20120062816Abstract: There is provided an illumination device equipped with a light guide plate having a light emission face and a light incident face, a printed substrate having a first plane and a second plane opposite to the first plane, a plurality of point like light sources for supplying light to the light guide plate, a housing disposed at a opposite side of the light emission face of the light guide plate, and a light source holding member for holding the printed substrate. The light source holding member has a bend portion, and a edge of the bend portion is inserted in between the light guide plate and the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventor: Yuichi TSUBAKI