Patents Assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corporation
  • Patent number: 12292654
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that can achieve high-speed response in both rise time and fall time and has a high transmittance, a high contrast ratio, and excellent viewing angle characteristics. The liquid crystal display device provides color display using a field sequential driving system where each frame period includes subframe periods and includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a light source that irradiates the liquid crystal display panel with lights of multiple colors; and a controller that drives the light source to time-divisionally irradiate the liquid crystal display panel with the lights of multiple colors. The liquid crystal display panel includes, sequentially in the following order: a first substrate including pixel electrodes; a first alignment film; a liquid crystal layer; a second alignment film; and a second substrate including a common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Terashita, Kouichi Watanabe, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 12287547
    Abstract: Each pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a first, second, third, and fourth domains arranged in two rows and two columns, and reference alignment directions of the respective domains are first, second, third, and fourth directions. The first direction and the second direction form an angle of approximately 180°, and the first domain and the second domain are adjacent to each other in an oblique direction. The pixel electrode includes a plurality of first slits formed in a region corresponding to the first domain and extending approximately parallel to the first direction, and a plurality of second slits formed in a region corresponding to the second domain and extending approximately parallel to the second direction, and has no slits in a region corresponding to the third domain and no slits in a region corresponding to the fourth domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuaki Hirata
  • Patent number: 12287439
    Abstract: An X-ray image capturing apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion element, a TFT, a gate drive circuit, a control circuit, and a filter section. The TFT is connected to the photoelectric conversion element. The gate drive circuit supplies a gate signal to a gate electrode of the TFT. The control circuit supplies a control signal to the gate drive circuit. The filter section attenuates a component of the gate signal or the control signal that has a frequency lower than a prescribed frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kohzoh Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12287548
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of first colored particles contained in a space between a first substrate and a second substrate; a light-emitting portion having a first light-emitting element provided on the first substrate, and a first-light-emitting-element driving circuit provided on the first substrate and configured to drive the first light-emitting element; a first transparent portion disposed in a direction along a main surface of the first substrate with respect to the light-emitting portion; a first electrode provided in the light-emitting portion; and a second electrode provided in the first transparent portion and being nckudestransparent. The display device is capable of switching between a light-transmitting state of the first transparent portion in which the first electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles, and a light-blocking state of the first transparent portion in which the second electrode attracts the plurality of first colored particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kimiaki Nakamura, Masakazu Shibasaki, Yasuhiro Haseba, Koji Murata
  • Patent number: 12288535
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display module for a multi-screen display device includes a liquid crystal display panel that includes a first gate driver connected to one ends of a plurality of gate bus lines and a second gate driver connected to other ends of the plurality of gate bus lines, and a control device. The control device receives, from a host computer, an image signal and an arrangement information signal indicating arrangement information of the liquid crystal display panel in the multi-screen display device, generates a gate signal from the image signal, and outputs the gate signal to one or both of the first gate driver and the second gate driver determined based on the arrangement information signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuya Kondoh
  • Patent number: 12282621
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressure detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire a signal value from each of the position detection electrode and the pressure detection electrode. The controller is configured to detect a touch range by a pointer based on the signal value obtained from the position detection electrode, determine a pressure detection range corresponding to the touch range, of the signal value obtained from the pressure detection electrode, and calculate a magnitude of a pressure by the pointer based on the signal value in the pressure detection range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 12283766
    Abstract: In a housing of a connector, there is formed an opening to be fitted with a protruding portion formed on a flat cable in a state in which a terminal section of the flat cable is electrically connected with contactors of a contact portion in an opening space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Hosoya, Chengfu Chen, Akira Ieyama
  • Patent number: 12282231
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an active matrix substrate including a gate layer including gate lines, a source layer including source lines, and an alignment film covering the gate layer and the source layer, a color filter substrate, placed opposite the active matrix substrate, that includes a black matrix including, in planar view, first portions separately overlapping each of the source lines and second portions crossing the first portions and separately overlapping each of the gate lines and spacers disposed in cross regions in which the first portions and the second portions cross each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the active matrix substrate and the color filter substrate. The active matrix substrate further includes bank portions provided in positions surrounding the spacers within regions overlapping the cross regions in planar view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Akiyama, Hiroyuki Ohgami
  • Patent number: 12276880
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed more to a viewer side than the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, with a plurality of pixels being arrayed in a matrix shape. Each pixel includes a reflective region for display in a reflection mode. The first substrate includes a thin film transistor provided corresponding to each pixel, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and a reflective layer located at least in the reflective region. The first substrate further includes a common electrode adjacent to the pixel electrode with a dielectric layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode. At least one from among the pixel electrode and the common electrode includes at least one slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shinichi Terashita, Kouichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12276893
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors including an oxide semiconductor layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged above the interlayer insulating layer, a common electrode arranged between the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulating layer and also configured to function as a touch sensor electrode, a first dielectric layer arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode, a second dielectric layer arranged between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, a plurality of touch wiring lines arranged between the interlayer insulating layer and the common electrode and formed of a third conductive film, and a plurality of pixel contact portions, in which each of the plurality of pixel contact portions includes a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, a connection electrode formed of the third conductive film and electrically connected to the drain electrode in a lower opening formed in the interlayer i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Teruyuki Ueda, Masaki Maeda, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Hirata
  • Patent number: 12276797
    Abstract: Provided is a display device having a thin profile and a high light use efficiency and a head-mounted display including the display device. The display device includes a display panel; a circular polarizer configured to convert display light from the display panel into circularly polarized light and to transmit the circularly polarized light; a patterning mirror including light transmitters and a light reflector, the light transmitters being configured to transmit the circularly polarized light and the light reflector being provided on a surface opposite to a surface facing the circular polarizer; a lens configured to transmit the circularly polarized light transmitted through the patterning mirror; and a circularly polarized light selective reflector configured to selectively reflect the circularly polarized light transmitted through the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Naru Usukura
  • Patent number: 12277914
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a display region including a first and second region adjacent in a first direction, a substrate with a width of the second region in the first direction being greater than a width of the first region, a plurality of first and second gate bus lines extending in a second direction and arranged in the first and second regions, and a first and second gate driver connected to the plurality of first and second gate bus lines, respectively. A first scanning period in which the first gate driver scans the first gate bus lines overlaps a part of a second scanning period in which the second gate driver scans the second gate bus lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Masakatsu Tominaga
  • Patent number: 12271547
    Abstract: A display device with a touch panel includes a touch panel including a pixel electrode, and a control unit executing a write process of writing a data signal on the pixel electrode and a touch detection process by the touch panel. The control unit determines an executable number of times of the touch detection process based on the length of the pause period, alternately executes the touch detection process and the write process in the display period, and executes the touch detection process a number of times equal to or less than the determined executable number of times in the pause period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa, Yousuke Nakamura, Daisuke Suehiro
  • Patent number: 12270957
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion panel includes a TFT, a photodiode, a first organic film formed on an upper layer from the photodiode, a bias line formed on an upper layer from the first organic film, a data line separated from the bias line, a second organic film covering the first organic film, the bias line, and the data line, and a first inorganic insulating film. Part of the second organic film is disposed between the bias line and the data line. The first inorganic insulating film covers the second organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Moriwaki
  • Patent number: 12267922
    Abstract: An anode line control circuit provided corresponding to each of anode lines includes a first resistor connected to a control terminal of a first switching element, which controls the supply of a power supply voltage to the anode line, and a second switching element connected to a second resistor connected to one end of the anode line. When the first switching element changes from an OFF state to an ON state, the second switching elements corresponding to the anode lines other than the anode line connected to the first switching element are maintained in the OFF state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hidekazu Miyata
  • Patent number: 12265290
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of controlling a viewing angle with a reduced thickness and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal panel. A liquid crystal panel including: a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer; first light-shielding portions extending parallel to one another; second light-shielding portions extending parallel to one another in the same direction as the first light-shielding portions and located closer to a viewing surface side than the first light-shielding portions are.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takehisa Yoshida, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 12265307
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel including in the following order an active matrix substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a counter substrate. The active matrix substrate includes in the following order a first electrode and a second electrode including a first linear electrode portion extending in a first direction. The counter substrate includes a third electrode including second linear electrode portions extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a fourth electrode including an island-shaped electrode portion as a floating electrode. The island-shaped electrode portion is disposed between the second linear electrode portions in a plan view, overlaps an optical aperture of one of two pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction, and does not overlap an optical aperture of the other of the two pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Akira Hirai, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Takashi Satoh, Akira Sakai, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 12259615
    Abstract: A backlight apparatus includes an LED substrate having a principal surface over which a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit excitation light are arrayed, a phosphor layer containing a phosphor that emits fluorescence upon receiving the excitation light, a wavelength-selective reflecting layer disposed between the phosphor layer and the LED substrate, and a louver film disposed between the wavelength-selective reflecting layer and the LED substrate and having a plurality of louvers. The wavelength-selective reflecting layer has different transmittances according to wavelengths and/or angles of incidence of light falling thereon. The louver film blocks the fluorescence and the excitation light falling thereon at an angle greater than or equal to a first angle and smaller than 90 degrees with respect to a direction normal to a film surface of the louver film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Satsuki Hagihara, Kazuhiko Negoro, Mayumi Hori, Kenichi Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 12253766
    Abstract: A plurality of pixel electrodes each forming one pixel are provided on a TFT substrate. A size of a pixel electrode located at a boundary portion between a non-rectangular active area and a frame region, which is an area outside the active area, is smaller than a size of a pixel electrode not located at the boundary portion. In such a configuration, a voltage is always applied to the plurality of pixel electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Imai, Yasuyoshi Kaise, Takahiro Yamaguchi, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 12253636
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion panel includes multiple thin-film transistors (TFTs) formed on an substrate, photodiodes respectively connected to the TFTs, and a metal layer formed on a light incident side of the photodiodes. The metal layer is formed in a position to overlap a subset of the photodiodes in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Rikiya Takita, Fumiki Nakano, Makoto Nakazawa, Hiroyuki Moriwaki