Patents Assigned to Japan Display Inc.
  • Patent number: 9177504
    Abstract: To provide an image display device having a circuit for solving burning phenomenon without increasing the size of the circuit. An image display device is provided having a display unit formed using display devices, a signal line for inputting a display signal voltage to the display unit, and a display control unit for controlling the display signal voltage, the image display device comprising a detection power source, a switch for causing a current of the detection power source to flow to the display device, a detection circuit for detecting the current, and a detection information storage circuit for storing information, and compensating the display signal voltage, using the information, wherein using a first reference voltage, and current detection is carried out, the detection circuit feeds back the current detected to set a second reference voltage different from the first reference voltage, and carries out current detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naruhiko Kasai, Masato Ishii, Tohru Kohno, Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 9176343
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate and a liquid crystal layer formed by a negative liquid crystal material. The array substrate includes a common electrode, an insulating film, pixel electrodes each including a slit and a first alignment film. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules which form a bias angle in a direction substantially orthogonal to a direction of extension of the slit and which are initially aligned. The first alignment film, the liquid crystal layer and the bias angle have a relationship of ?1.11??0.0353×C—PI/C—LC?0.0523×?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Youichi Asakawa
  • Patent number: 9176625
    Abstract: An information input device includes an input panel and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to determine first, second and third representations of possible proximity of an object to an input panel from first, second and third input frames, respectively. The second input frame is generated after the first input frame, and the third input frame is generated after the second input frame. The one or more circuits are configured to determine whether proximity of the object to the input panel is detected for the second input frame, based on the third representation, if the first and second representations are not similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ryoichi Tsuzaki, Kazunori Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9176632
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a display area and a touch detection electrode that includes thin wire segments having first and second ends. Thin wire segments include a thin wire segment extending in a direction different from a pixel arrangement direction in which color regions having the highest human visibility are arranged. The second end is located away from the first end in a direction toward a target position that is distant from the first end in a pixel orthogonal direction by N times of a maximum length of one of the pixels in the pixel orthogonal direction, and in the pixel arrangement direction by M times of a maximum length of one of the pixels in the pixel arrangement direction. Each of N and M is an integer of 2 or larger. N and M are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki, Takeo Koito
  • Publication number: 20150309376
    Abstract: A first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a first interlayer insulating film covering the gate line, a first common electrode formed on the first interlayer insulating film extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second interlayer insulating film covering the first common electrode, a source line extending in the second direction, and a third interlayer insulating film covering the source line. A pixel electrode includes a main pixel electrode extending in the second direction on the third interlayer insulating film A second common electrode includes a second main common electrode extending in the second direction on the third interlayer insulating film and facing the source line. The second common electrode is set to the same potential as the first common electrode. A first alignment film covers the pixel electrode and the second common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin HIROSAWA
  • Publication number: 20150309364
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel for displaying images in an active area includes a first substrate having a pair of first short ends and first long ends. A second substrate faces the first substrate so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween. A first polarization plate is arranged on an outside surface of the first substrate. The first polarization plate has a pair of second short ends longer than the first short ends, a pair of second long ends, and a first absorption axis. The angle a1 made by the first absorption axis with respect to the second short ends is smaller than an angle b1 made by the first absorption axis with respect to the second long ends. A second polarization plate is arranged on an outside surface of the second substrate and has a second absorption axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kayoko MIYAZAKI, Tatsuaki Kuji, Keiji Tago
  • Publication number: 20150309373
    Abstract: In the step of curing a resin for bonding a TFT substrate and a counter substrate each having an alignment film that has been optically aligned by using UV-light, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light can be prevented without using a light shielding mask. A UV-light absorption layer is formed between each black matrix on the counter substrate. The TFT and counter substrates are sealed at their periphery by a resin that is cured by UV-light radiated from the counter substrate side. Since the absorption layer has a high absorbability to UV-light at a wavelength of 300 nm or less that degrades the alignment film, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light for curing the resin can be prevented. Thus, provision of a light shielding mask for shielding the UV-light for the display region can be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Noboru KUNIMATSU, Yuko MATSUMOTO, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Masateru MORIMOTO, Atsuhiro KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150310792
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes first interconnects, second interconnects, an electrode layer, pixel electrodes, a display layer and a controller. The first interconnects extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction. The second interconnects extend in the second direction and are arranged in the first direction. The electrode layer is aligned with a plane including the first and the second direction, and has openings. The second interconnects include a first signal line of a first color and a second signal line of the first color most proximal to the first signal line. The controller performs a first operation of supplying signals of a first polarity to the first and the second signal lines. The controller performs a second operation of supplying signals of a second polarity to the first and the second signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiaki FUKUSHIMA, Hayato KURASAWA, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI
  • Patent number: 9170458
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a first alignment film and an opposing substrate having a second alignment film with liquid crystals sandwiched therebetween. One of the first and second alignment films, comprises a first polyimide produced via polyamide acid ester containing cyclobutane as a precursor and a second polyimide produced via polyamide acid as a precursor. The polyamide acid has a higher polarity than that of the polyamide acid ester. The one of the first and second alignment films is responsive to photo-alignment. A first side of the one of the first and second alignment films is adjacent to the liquid crystals, and a second side thereof is closer to one of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate than the first side. The first side contains more of the first polyimide and less of the second polyimide than the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kunimatsu, Chikae Matsui, Hidehiro Sonoda, Yuko Matsumoto, Shoichi Uchino, Masaki Matsumori, Yasushi Tomioka
  • Patent number: 9170451
    Abstract: An image display apparatus including an image display panel that includes: a first color filter for passing light of a first primary and first auxiliary pixels for displaying the first primary; a second color filter for passing light of a second primary and second auxiliary pixels for displaying the second primary; a third color filter for passing light of a third primary and third auxiliary pixels for displaying the third primary; and fourth auxiliary pixels for displaying a fourth color; the first auxiliary pixels, the second auxiliary pixels, the third auxiliary pixels, and the fourth auxiliary pixels being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, and a light shielding region disposed at least partly around the peripheral edge of each of the fourth auxiliary pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa, Kouji Noguchi, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9170360
    Abstract: A display device includes a side light type backlight for white color display by single color LEDs, an LED set is placed in a concave portion of a light guide plate, in which a first color LED is located in the center and a second or third color LED is located on the side of the first color LED. An incident slit with an arc shaped convex portion is formed facing the first color LED, and a saw tooth slit with a right-angled triangular concave portion is formed facing the second or third color LED. This allows directing the distribution axes of the lights from the second and third color LEDs to the center side, and adjusting orientation angles to allow effective mixing of the three color lights, in order to increase the white color area and effective display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kazufumi Watabe, Masayuki Mifune
  • Patent number: 9170696
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detecting function includes: a display area in which pixels each composed of a plurality of color areas are arranged in a matrix; a touch detection electrode including a first conductive thin wire extending in a first direction; and a dummy electrode including a plurality of second conductive thin wires; a drive electrode having capacitance for the touch detection electrode. Each of the second conductive thin wires includes a plurality of thin wire pieces extending in a direction different from the first direction and is divided by a slit between the thin wire pieces. A color area in the display area with which the slit overlaps has a different color from a color area in the display area with which a slit closest to the slit in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction overlaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Takeo Koito
  • Patent number: 9170463
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device that uses a TFT, a contact hole is formed to connect an image signal line. An organic film is formed so as to cover the image signal line, and a common electrode, which is a transparent electrode, is formed on the organic film. An interlayer insulating film is formed on the common electrode. A through hole is formed in the interlayer insulating film, and the diameter of the through hole is greater than the diameter of the contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takao Nakamura, Kazuki Ishii, Daisuke Mutou, Hidenori Seki
  • Publication number: 20150303220
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a substrate for display device includes an insulating substrate and a conductive film formed on at least one main surface of the insulating substrate. As to the substrate in an etching process in which a fluoric acid solution containing 10% or more hydrogen fluoride is used, a first etching rate of the conductive film is substantially the same as a second etching rate of the insulating substrate, or the first etching rate is greater than the second etching rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takaaki KAMIMURA, Noriyuki HIRATA
  • Publication number: 20150301399
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate unit including pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix configuration, a second substrate unit including counter electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrodes include a first and a second pixel electrode arranged to be adjacent along one of the row direction or the column direction. An inter-pixel region is provided between the first and the second pixel electrodes. The counter electrodes include a first and a second opposing portion arranged to be adjacent along the other of the row direction or the column direction. An inter-counter electrode region is provided between the first and the second opposing portions. The inter-counter electrode region overlaps the inter-pixel region. A light-shielding layer is provided in the second substrate unit, and covers the inter-counter electrode region and the inter-pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya TAMAKI, Hayato KURASAWA, Yasushi KAWATA
  • Publication number: 20150301378
    Abstract: A display device includes an insulating substrate, a semiconductor layer formed of polycrystalline silicon, including a first impurity area, a second impurity area, and a channel area, an insulating film which covers the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode formed on the insulating film and opposed to the channel area, a source line electrically connected to the first impurity area, an electrode electrically connected to the second impurity area, and a light-shielding film located between the insulating substrate and the semiconductor layer, disposed at a position displaced from a position opposed to the source line, and opposed to an area including a boundary between the channel area and the second impurity area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuya ISHII, Tetsuya IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20150301387
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate unit includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode is adjacent to the first pixel electrode in the first direction. The second pixel electrode is light-reflective. The second substrate unit includes a counter electrode. The counter electrode is light-transmissive. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first substrate unit and the second substrate unit. The first pixel electrode includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion is light-reflective. At least a portion of the second electrode portion is provided between the first electrode portion and the second pixel electrode. A light reflectance of the second electrode portion is lower than a light reflectance of the first electrode portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masaya TAMAKI
  • Patent number: D741765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Nakamura, Daichi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: D741766
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Nakamura, Daichi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: D741767
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akio Nakamura, Daichi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamada