Patents by Inventor Akira Sakaigawa
Akira Sakaigawa 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).
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Publication number: 20240111182Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display panel including first substrate, lower electrode on first substrate, lower alignment layer with first alignment direction on lower electrode, second substrate, upper electrode on second substrate, upper alignment layer with first alignment direction on upper electrode, and liquid crystalline polymers with striped structure and liquid crystal molecules which are aligned in first alignment direction, and which are disposed between first and second substrates; light source unit disposed at side of display panel and configured to emit incident light which is not polarized; and light guided structure disposed between side of display panel and light source unit, wherein light source unit is disposed in parallel to first alignment direction and light which is emitted from display panel is polarized in first alignment direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Akira SAKAIGAWA
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Patent number: 11867995Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display panel including first substrate, lower electrode on first substrate, lower alignment layer with first alignment direction on lower electrode, second substrate, upper electrode on second substrate, upper alignment layer with first alignment direction on upper electrode, and liquid crystalline polymers with striped structure and liquid crystal molecules which are aligned in first alignment direction, and which are disposed between first and second substrates; light source unit disposed at side of display panel and configured to emit incident light which is not polarized; and light guided structure disposed between side of display panel and light source unit, wherein light source unit is disposed in parallel to first alignment direction and light which is emitted from display panel is polarized in first alignment direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
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Publication number: 20230230520Abstract: The present invention provides an operating method of a display device. An example operating method includes driving each pixel for each frame, wherein a plurality of pixels of the display device are disposed in an array of rows and columns, a period of one frame comprises one or more data sections and one or more off-sections, ratios of time length of the one or more data sections are substantially the same as a sequence of powers of 2, each of the one or more data sections corresponds to an ON period or an OFF period related to a specified brightness, grey scale color, or luminance, and each of the one or more off-sections corresponds to the OFF period unrelated to the specified brightness, grey scale color, or luminance.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Cheng-Chieh Lien, Akira Sakaigawa
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Publication number: 20230186819Abstract: The present disclosure provides operating methods and apparatuses of a display device. In an implementation, a method includes driving each pixel for each frame, wherein a plurality of pixels of the display device are disposed in an array of rows and columns, where a period of one frame comprises Nd time sections, one of Ba different voltage levels is applied to the pixel in each time section, Ba is greater than or equal to 3, the sum of the results of multiplying the length of each time section by the applied voltage level corresponds to a brightness, grey scale color, or luminance. One of suitable applications of the present invention is a micro-LED display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Cheng-Chieh LIEN, Akira SAKAIGAWA
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Publication number: 20230121378Abstract: A display device is provided and includes display panel including first substrate, lower electrode on first substrate, lower alignment layer with first alignment direction on lower electrode, second substrate, upper electrode on second substrate, upper alignment layer with first alignment direction on upper electrode, and liquid crystalline polymers with striped structure and liquid crystal molecules which are aligned in first alignment direction, and which are disposed between first and second substrates; light source unit disposed at side of display panel and configured to emit incident light which is not polarized; and light guided structure disposed between side of display panel and light source unit, wherein light source unit is disposed in parallel to first alignment direction and light which is emitted from display panel is polarized in first alignment direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Akira SAKAIGAWA
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Patent number: 11531226Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel including; a first substrate, a lower electrode on the first substrate, a second substrate, an upper electrode on the second substrate, and liquid crystalline polymers with a striped structure and liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light source unit disposed at a side of the display panel and configured to emit incident light on the side of the display panel; and a light guided structure disposed between the side of the display panel and the light source unit, wherein the light guided structure has a grid-like structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
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Publication number: 20220075216Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel including; a first substrate, a lower electrode on the first substrate, a second substrate, an upper electrode on the second substrate, and liquid crystalline polymers with a striped structure and liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light source unit disposed at a side of the display panel and configured to emit incident light on the side of the display panel; and a light guided structure disposed between the side of the display panel and the light source unit, wherein the light guided structure has a grid-like structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Akira SAKAIGAWA
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Patent number: 11181766Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel including a first substrate, a lower electrode on the first substrate, a second substrate, an upper electrode on the second substrate, and a light modulation layer including liquid crystalline polymers with a striped structure and liquid crystal molecules, the light modulation layer being disposed between the first and second substrates; a light source unit disposed at a side of the display panel; and a light guided structure disposed between the display panel and the light source unit so that the light guided structure guides the incident light from the light source unit into the side of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 10854154Abstract: A method of driving an image display apparatus which includes an image display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix and each configured from a first subpixel for displaying a first primary color, a second subpixel for displaying a second primary color, a third subpixel for displaying a third primary color and a fourth subpixel for displaying a fourth color, and a signal processing section. The signal processing section is capable of calculating a first subpixel output signal, a second subpixel output signal, a third subpixel output signal, and a fourth subpixel output signal. The method includes a step of calculating a maximum value (Vmax(S)) of brightness, a saturation (S) and brightness (V(S)), and determining the expansion coefficient (?0).Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Yasuo Takahashi, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 10802354Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a light source, a light guide and a prism sheet. The display panel includes a display area in which unit pixels each containing first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels are arranged along a first direction and a second direction. In the display area, the first sub-pixels have a width different from that of the second sub-pixel in at least one of the first direction and the second direction, or each unit pixel contains different numbers of first sub-pixels and second sub-pixels. The prism sheet is interposed between the light guide and the display panel and includes prisms extending along a third direction inclined with respect to the second direction by an acute angle of inclination.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tae Kurokawa, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kojiro Ikeda, Amane Higashi
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Patent number: 10777113Abstract: A display device includes a display unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged. One pixel includes four sub-pixels, and the display unit includes: a pixel including one each of four sub-pixels of four different colors that are a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color; and a pixel including four sub-pixels, where two of the four sub-pixels are identical and are one of sub-pixels of the first color, the second color, and the third color, and remaining two of the four sub-pixels are different two of the sub-pixels of the first color, the second color, and the third color but are not one of the identical sub-pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 10723265Abstract: According to an aspect, an imaging display system includes an imaging device, a display device, and a processing device. The imaging device includes a rolling shutter image sensor that takes an image. The display device displays the image. The processing device performs image processing on the image. The imaging display system is mounted on a movable body that moves in a certain direction on a reference plane. The imaging device is arranged at an angle with respect to a moving direction of the movable body on the reference plane. An imaging scanning direction of the image on the image sensor is horizontal with respect to the reference plane. A display scanning direction of the image displayed on the display device coincides with the imaging scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Harada, Akira Sakaigawa, Fumitaka Gotoh
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Publication number: 20200174294Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel including a first substrate, a lower electrode on the first substrate, a second substrate, an upper electrode on the second substrate, and a light modulation layer including liquid crystalline polymers with a striped structure and liquid crystal molecules, the light modulation layer being disposed between the first and second substrates; a light source unit disposed at a side of the display panel; and a light guided structure disposed between the display panel and the light source unit so that the light guided structure guides the incident light from the light source unit into the side of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Akira SAKAIGAWA
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Patent number: 10571746Abstract: A display device including a first substrate including a plurality of reflection electrodes on a front side of the first substrate, the plurality of reflection electrodes including a first reflection electrode and a second reflection electrode which is farther away from a light source than the first reflection electrode; a second substrate including a transparent electrode on a back side of the second substrate; a light modulation layer which includes a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystalline monomer and liquid crystal molecules dispersed in the liquid crystalline monomer, the light modulation layer being disposed between the plurality of reflection electrodes and the transparent electrode; a drive section driving the plurality of reflection electrodes and the transparent electrode, wherein an application time of a first drive voltage applied between the transparent electrode and the first reflection electrode is shorter than an application time of a second drive voltage appliedType: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akira Sakaigawa, Kentaro Okuyama
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Patent number: 10564465Abstract: A display device includes a light modulation layer and a light source. The light modulation layer is disposed between a pair of transparent substrates, has determined refractive index anisotropy, and includes plural light modulation elements which differ in responsiveness to an electric field generated by electrodes formed on a transparent substrate. The light source emits light of a determined color incident on the light modulation layer from a side of the light modulation layer. When the electric field is not generated, the light modulation layer transmits the incident light emitted from the light source. When the electric field is generated, the light modulation layer scatters the incident light and emits scattered light to a transparent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 10559235Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a first pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying three primary colors respectively; and a second pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying two colors selected among the three primary colors and a predetermined color other than the three primary colors, wherein, in the first pixel, the size of the display surface of a sub-pixel for displaying a specific color included in the three primary colors as a specific color missing from the second pixel is larger than each of the sizes of the display surfaces of the two other sub-pixels for displaying the two other primary colors respectively.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
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Publication number: 20190371256Abstract: A method of driving an image display apparatus which includes an image display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix and each configured from a first subpixel for displaying a first primary color, a second subpixel for displaying a second primary color, a third subpixel for displaying a third primary color and a fourth subpixel for displaying a fourth color, and a signal processing section. The signal processing section is capable of calculating a first subpixel output signal, a second subpixel output signal, a third subpixel output signal, and a fourth subpixel output signal. The method includes a step of calculating a maximum value (Vmax(S)) of brightness, a saturation (S) and brightness (V(S)), and determining the expansion coefficient (?0).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Yasuo Takahashi, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 10488574Abstract: A display device includes a light source device including a light emission section which emits incident light, a light conversion section which receives the incident light and which converts the intensity of the incident light, and a white light conversion section which converts the light with the converted intensity to white light. With the light source device light emitted from the light conversion section is converted to white light by the white light conversion section. As a result, white light in which chromaticity deviation is reduced is used as a light source. With a display device in which white light is used as backlight light, image quality degradation is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
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Patent number: 10438549Abstract: A method of driving an image display apparatus which includes an image display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix and each configured from a first subpixel for displaying a first primary color, a second subpixel for displaying a second primary color, a third subpixel for displaying a third primary color and a fourth subpixel for displaying a fourth color, and a signal processing section. The signal processing section is capable of calculating a first subpixel output signal, a second subpixel output signal, a third subpixel output signal, and a fourth subpixel output signal. The method includes a step of calculating a maximum value (Vmax(S)) of brightness, a saturation (S) and brightness (V(S)), and determining the expansion coefficient (?0).Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Yasuo Takahashi, Akira Sakaigawa
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Publication number: 20190278138Abstract: A display device including a first substrate including a plurality of reflection electrodes on a front side of the first substrate, the plurality of reflection electrodes including a first reflection electrode and a second reflection electrode which is farther away from a light source than the first reflection electrode; a second substrate including a transparent electrode on a back side of the second substrate; a light modulation layer which includes a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystalline monomer and liquid crystal molecules dispersed in the liquid crystalline monomer, the light modulation layer being disposed between the plurality of reflection electrodes and the transparent electrode; a drive section driving the plurality of reflection electrodes and the transparent electrode, wherein an application time of a first drive voltage applied between the transparent electrode and the first reflection electrode is shorter than an application time of a second drive voltage appliedType: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Akira SAKAIGAWA, Kentaro OKUYAMA