Patents Assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corporation
  • Patent number: 11942023
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an illumination device, and a control unit, in which, when performing display in a first display mode, the control unit corrects an image signal to generate a correction signal, writes a first image based on the correction signal in the display panel, leaves a second light source unlit, and selectively turns on a plurality of first light sources based on the correction signal, and when performing display in a second display mode, the control unit generates a correction signal, writes a first image in the display panel, leaves the second light source unlit, and selectively turns on the plurality of first light sources based on the correction signal, in a first display period, and writes a second image based on the image signal in the display panel and turns on at least the second light source, in a second display period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Shugo Yagi, Yuuichi Kanbayashi, Satoshi Tsubooka
  • Patent number: 11942056
    Abstract: A display device includes a lighting device, a display panel, a memory, and a correction circuit. The lighting device includes a light exit area defined into light exit sections corresponding to light sources. The display panel includes a display area disposed opposite the light exit area and including pixels. The memory stores data of pixel matrix linked to the display sections. The memory stores position data of the pixels that are not disposed opposite the corresponding light exit sections and deviation data when a position error is caused between the light exit area and the display area. The correction circuit is configured to determine whether the memory stores the position data of the pixels and link new pixel matrix units to the corresponding display sections based on the deviation data if a determination result is affirmative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Tomokawa, Yasutomo Nishihara, Yohji Inui, Kohichi Ohhara, Katsutoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11934073
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel is a normally-black mode segment liquid crystal panel, and includes a plurality of pixels that are arrayed in substantial tessellation of an active region, as viewed from a direction of the normal of a first substrate, and a plurality of auxiliary electrodes that each have a portion that overlaps a gap between two pixels that are adjacent to each other, as viewed from the direction of the normal of the first substrate. A plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode, the plurality of auxiliary electrodes, and portions of a plurality of signal lines that are present in the active region are made of a transparent electroconductive material. The auxiliary electrodes are electrically connected to one of two pixel electrodes of the two pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takehisa Yoshida, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh
  • Patent number: 11934069
    Abstract: An optical element includes, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a viewing-surface-side polarizer; a retarder; and a back-surface-side polarizer, a transmission axis of the viewing-surface-side polarizer and a transmission axis of the back-surface-side polarizer being parallel to each other, the optical element having an average angle ? between an angle ?1 and an angle ?2 of greater than 0° and smaller than 90°, wherein the angle ?1 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the back surface with the surface close to the back surface; and the angle ?2 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the viewing surface with the surface close to the viewing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Sakai, Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa
  • Patent number: 11927860
    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: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hara, Tohru Daitoh, Hajime Imai, Teruyuki Ueda, Masaki Maeda, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Yoshiharu Hirata
  • Patent number: 11928283
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a sensor unit configured to detect a touch operation; a first control unit configured to supply a first signal to the display panel; and a second control unit configured to calculate touch information related to the touch operation and to supply the touch information to the first control unit. The first control unit includes: a signal generator configured to generate the first signal based on an image signal supplied from an external image signal supply source; and an overdrive circuit configured to perform a process of increasing an amplitude of the first signal generated by the signal generator. The overdrive circuit is actuated based on the touch information from the second control unit. The first control unit, in response to the actuation of the overdrive circuit, supplies the first signal having the amplitude increased by the overdrive circuit to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Miyazawa, Noriyuki Tanaka, Daiji Kitagawa, Tatsuhiko Suyama, Yousuke Nakamura, Daisuke Suehiro
  • Patent number: 11927775
    Abstract: Provided are 3D glasses capable of reducing crosstalk when disposed on the viewer side of a liquid crystal panel that is time-divisionally driven; an optical device including the 3D glasses; and a three-dimensional image display device including the optical device. The 3D glasses include a right-eye polarizer and a left-eye polarizer, the right-eye polarizer and the left-eye polarizer each including a polarizing plate and a first ?/4 plate, at least one of the right-eye polarizer or the left-eye polarizer including a phase difference layer on or behind a back surface side of the polarizing plate, wherein a phase difference introduced by the right-eye polarizer in a thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm is different from a phase difference introduced by the left-eye polarizer in the thickness direction at a wavelength of 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Hasegawa, Akira Sakai, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 11928276
    Abstract: A plurality of gate bus lines are scanned one by one such that a video signal is written, via a corresponding source bus line, into each of pixel forming sections provided in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. When a sensor electrode is driven to detect a touch position, the scanning of the gate bus lines is stopped. Operation of a gate driver and operation of a touch sensor drive circuit are controlled such that, when the sensor electrode is driven, a stop row that is a row at which the scanning of the gate bus lines is stopped is different in each of a first frame period and a second frame period that are two consecutive frame periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11927850
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device having high luminance and high CR in a front direction and especially useful as a head-mounted liquid crystal display device, for example. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal panel; an optical element; and a backlight, arranged in this order from a viewing surface side. The optical element includes a first polarizer, a retardation layer, and a second polarizer. The first polarizer, the retardation layer, and the second polarizer are arranged in this order from the viewing surface side. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are reflection polarizers. A reflection axis of the first polarizer and a reflection axis of the second polarizer are parallel to each other. In oblique directions at azimuths of 0°, 45°, and 90° at a polar angle of 60°, a polarization state of light incident on the first polarizer is elliptical polarization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa, Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai
  • Patent number: 11921377
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element including: a liquid crystal cell including a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a second substrate; and a quarter-wave film. The liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules twist-aligned. The liquid crystal cell includes electrodes. The electrodes are disposed to enable switching between a first state and a second state by application of voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The switching between the first state and the second state controls a polarization state of light incident on the liquid crystal cell. Circularly polarized light incident on the liquid crystal cell is converted to first linearly polarized light in the first state while converted to second linearly polarized light in the second state. Linearly polarized light incident on the liquid crystal cell is converted to first circularly polarized light in the first state while converted to second circularly polarized light in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Minami, Hiroaki Asagi, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 11916094
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion panel includes: a thin film transistor; a first organic film formed in an upper layer with respect to the thin film transistor; a photoelectric conversion element formed in an upper layer with respect to the first organic film; and a first inorganic insulating film formed so as to cover at least a part of the first organic film, wherein the first inorganic insulating film has a through hole that exposes a part of the first organic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Makoto Nakazawa, Tetsuya Tanishima, Rikiya Takita
  • Patent number: 11914236
    Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate including a first electrode, a first insulating layer, and second electrodes including a first linear electrode; a color filter substrate including a black matrix, a color filter layer, a third electrode including second linear electrodes, and a fourth electrode which is a floating electrode. The third electrode and the fourth electrode are disposed between the black matrix and the liquid crystal layer. The second linear electrodes extend in a second direction and each overlap a portion of the black matrix extending in the second direction. The fourth electrode is disposed between the second linear electrodes and overlaps the black matrix in a plan view. The control circuit switches between application of driving voltage and application of constant voltage to the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Shinpei Higashida, Takahiro Sasaki, Takashi Satoh, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 11914255
    Abstract: A wiring board includes position detection lines, position detection electrodes, a line, connection lines, and a short-circuit line. The position detection lines extend along a first direction and transmit at least position detection signals. The position detection electrodes are arranged at intervals with respect to the first direction and connected to the position detection lines. The line is disposed between the position detection electrodes that are adjacent to each other with respect to the first direction and the line extends in a second direction that crosses the first direction. The connection lines extend along the first direction and are connected to the position detection electrodes. The connection lines are arranged at intervals with respect to the second direction. The short-circuit line extends along the second direction and overlaps the line via an insulating film and is connected to the connection lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Morinaga, Hikaru Yoshino
  • Patent number: 11899305
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of achieving a small light-shielding angle in a narrow viewing angle mode and a display device including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel sequentially includes: a first polarizing plate with a first absorption axis; a first substrate including a first electrode; a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules; and a second substrate including a second electrode, wherein in a plan view, a director of the liquid crystal molecules with no voltage applied and the first absorption axis form an angle ? of not smaller than 5° and not greater than 20° or not smaller than 65° and not greater than 80°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Junichi Masuda, Shugo Yagi, Hiroshi Tsuchiya, Takashi Satoh, Shinji Shimada
  • Patent number: 11893949
    Abstract: When binary pixel data is written to a pixel circuit, of an H-level (3V) and a L-level (0V), a voltage of the level indicating the binary pixel data is held at a first node, and a voltage of the inverted level thereof is held at a second node. The first and second nodes are connected to a third node via N-channel transistors, respectively, and first and second selection control signals are supplied to gate terminals of the transistors, respectively. Voltage levels of the first and second selection control signals are periodically switched between 5V indicating the H-level and 0V indicating the L-level in a mutually inverted manner. As a result, the voltage of the first node and the voltage of the second node are alternately selected and applied to a pixel electrode of a display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Sasaki, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Shuji Nishi, Takahiro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11886094
    Abstract: Provided is an optical element including: a first liquid crystal cell including first liquid crystal molecules and a first electrode; and a second liquid crystal cell including second liquid crystal molecules and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes disposed to enable switching between a first state twist-aligning the second liquid crystal molecules and vertically aligning the first liquid crystal molecules and a second state twist-aligning the first liquid crystal molecules and vertically aligning the second liquid crystal molecules. Alignment directions of the second liquid crystal molecules near a third substrate and the second liquid crystal molecules near a fourth substrate in the first state are respectively at azimuthal angles resulting from a ¼ turn in the same direction of azimuthal angles of alignment directions of the first liquid crystal molecules near the first substrate and the first liquid crystal molecules near the second substrate in the second state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Minami, Hiroaki Asagi, Kiyoshi Minoura
  • Patent number: 11880106
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a backlight, at least one first circuit substrate having at least one first connector, a second circuit substrate having at least one second connector, and at least one flexible flat cable (FFC). By bending at a plurality of bending positions, one of a front face and a back face at a first end of the at least one FFC faces the backlight side and another of the front face and the back face at a second end of the at least one FFC faces the backlight side. The first end is connected to the at least one first connector, and the second end is connected to the at least one second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoo Sasaki, Daisuke Teragawa, Tomohiro Asamizu
  • Publication number: 20240019735
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes an LED substrate including a first main surface and a second main surface on a side opposite to the first main surface, a plurality of LED elements arranged on the first main surface, one or more drive IC elements arranged on the second main surface, a chassis disposed on the second main surface side of the LED substrate, and one or more IC element covers each being in direct or indirect contact with a corresponding drive IC element of the one or more drive IC elements. The chassis includes one or more protrusions respectively corresponding to the one or more drive IC elements. Each of the one or more protrusions includes an opening that exposes the corresponding drive IC element when viewed from a normal direction of the second main surface. The IC element cover fits in the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Motoaki OKITSU
  • Patent number: 11874543
    Abstract: A plurality of pixel electrodes are provided in a display region. A plurality of pixel transistors corresponding to the plurality of pixel electrodes in a one-to-one manner are provided in a region outside the display region. Each of the pixel transistors is connected to the corresponding pixel electrode by a pixel wiring line. An input pad group, to which a drive signal group for driving the plurality of pixel transistors is input, is provided on a TFT substrate. Here, of a region on the TFT substrate, the plurality of pixel transistors are provided only in a region other than a region between the input pad group and the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaguchi, Shige Furuta, Yuhichiroh Murakami, Hiroyuki Adachi
  • Patent number: 11874549
    Abstract: Provided are an optical element that can achieve both color difference control and luminance reduction at an oblique viewing angle, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical element and having excellent display quality. The optical element includes: a first polarizer; a first phase difference layer; a second phase difference layer; and a second polarizer, the first polarizer, the first phase difference layer, the second phase difference layer, and the second polarizer being arranged in the stated order, the first phase difference layer satisfying the formula nx>ny?nz, the second phase difference layer satisfying the formula nz>nx?ny, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being linear polarizers, transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer being parallel to each other, a slow axis of the first phase difference layer being orthogonal to a polarization axis of the first polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Saigusa, Akira Sakai, Yuichi Kawahira, Masahiro Hasegawa