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).

  • Patent number: 10013930
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the power consumption can be reduced as a whole without a large decrease in the efficiency of transmittance. According to one embodiment, a display device includes subpixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction Y intersecting the first direction, color filters corresponding to the subpixels, respectively, and a light device. The color filters include at least blue filters and yellow filters adjacent to each other. A frame period of the light device includes at least a period of outputting cyan light and a period of outputting magenta light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Sakaigawa, Yoichi Asakawa, Shinichiro Oka
  • Patent number: 10008136
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Dispaly Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9995983
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first substrate including a first electrode and a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules held between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the second electrode is positioned closer to the liquid crystal layer than is the first electrode and has a polygonal-shaped first opening including at least one projection, and the liquid crystal layer indicates transparency when no voltage is applied thereto and indicates scattering when a voltage is applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Masaaki Kabe, Shinichiro Oka, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 9978321
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes signal lines, scanning lines, a first pixel, a second pixel and a third pixel. The first pixel including a first subpixel which displays a first color, a second subpixel which displays white, and a third subpixel which displays a second color. The second pixel including a fourth subpixel which displays a third color, a fifth subpixel which displays white, and a sixth subpixel which displays the first color. The third pixel including a seventh subpixel which displays the second color, an eighth subpixel which displays white, and a ninth subpixel which displays the third color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takeyuki Tsuruma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kojiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9978339
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal processing unit that receives input signals, and calculates output signals to a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The signal processing unit calculates a frequency of pixels belonging to each of a plurality of partitions using a light quantity of a surface light source. The signal processing unit calculates an index value for each of the partitions by at least multiplying the cumulative frequency being obtained by sequentially adding the frequency of pixels from a partition having the maximum light quantity among the partitions, and the number of partitions representing a position of a partition to which the cumulative frequency belongs counted from the partition having the maximum light quantity. The signal processing unit controls luminance of the surface light source based on a partition in which the index value exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Tae Kurokawa, Fumitaka Gotoh, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 9972253
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and an illumination apparatus including: a light source; a time division control unit that performs a time division operation on a value represented by a first luminance control signal of a first bit number for controlling luminance of the light source to generate second luminance control signals each having a second bit number that is smaller than the first bit number and generates third luminance control signals each having a pulse width that corresponds to one of the values represented by the second luminance control signals; and a drive unit that generates drive signals for causing the light source to emit light on the basis of the third luminance control signals and supplies the drive signals to the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Tae Kurokawa, Kojiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9959790
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Dispaly Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
  • Publication number: 20180086266
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Harada, Akira Sakaigawa, Fumitaka Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20180084159
    Abstract: A display system includes a controller and an image display panel. The controller includes a signal transmitter configured to output at least a vertical synchronization signal to a plurality of image-capturing apparatuses; and a synthesizer configured to provide synthesized image signals in units of lines obtained by synthesizing, in units of lines, image signals in units of lines output from the respective image-capturing apparatuses at a timing corresponding to a horizontal synchronization signal formed in a predetermined cycle based on an output timing of the vertical synchronization signal. The image display panel is configured to display sequentially, in units of lines, the synthesized image signals in units of lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Tsutomu HARADA, Kazunori YAMAGUCHI, Akira SAKAIGAWA, Fumitaka GOTOH
  • Patent number: 9923033
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix along two directions intersecting with each other. Each of the pixels includes three sub-pixels corresponding to three of four colors including a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color. An area of one sub-pixel among the three sub-pixels is larger than the area of each of the other two sub-pixels. A sub-pixel of the fourth color is one of the other two sub-pixels. Pixels each including the sub-pixel of the fourth color are not adjacent to each other in at least one of the two directions in the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Kojiro Ikeda, Tsutomu Harada, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Publication number: 20180025677
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9835909
    Abstract: In a display device, first and second sub pixels arranged in juxtaposition between adjacent scan lines are lined alternately in a column direction in at least one of first and third columns of sub pixels; at least one of third and fourth sub pixels is arranged between adjacent scan lines in at least one of second and fourth columns of sub pixels; the first, second, third, and fourth sub pixels are included in an identical row of pixels and the first, second, third, and fourth columns of sub pixels; and a first pixel that is in an identical row of pixels and includes sub pixels of the first and second columns includes a sub pixel not present in a second pixel that is adjacent to the first pixel in a row direction and is included in the third and fourth columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 9837012
    Abstract: A display device 10 includes are arranged in a matrix form and to which image information is input, and a signal processing unit 20. The signal processing unit 20 includes a rendering position deciding unit that decides whether or not a sub-pixel rendering process of changing input signal values of sub-pixels of a second pixel among a first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel is performed, a pattern information acquiring unit that acquires an arrangement of the sub-pixels in a processing direction of either of a portrait mode and a landscape mode as pattern information indicating a first arrangement pattern or a second arrangement pattern, and a rendering unit that performs a first sub-pixel rendering process or a second sub-pixel rendering process on the input signals of the sub-pixels of the second pixel based on the decision of the rendering position deciding unit and the pattern information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 9830886
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel in which pixels each including first to fourth sub-pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix; and a signal processing unit that converts an input signal into an output signal and outputs the generated output signal to the image display panel. The signal processing unit determines an expansion coefficient, obtains a generated signal of the fourth sub-pixel in each pixel based on input signals of the first to the third sub-pixels in the pixel itself and the expansion coefficient, obtains an output signal for the fourth sub-pixel in each pixel based on a generated signal of the fourth sub-pixel in the pixel itself and a generated signal of the fourth sub-pixel in an adjacent pixel to be output to the fourth sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Amane Higashi, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe
  • Publication number: 20170330530
    Abstract: A display device includes a signal processing unit that receives input signals, and calculates output signals to a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel. The signal processing unit calculates a frequency of pixels belonging to each of a plurality of partitions using a light quantity of a surface light source. The signal processing unit calculates an index value for each of the partitions by at least multiplying the cumulative frequency being obtained by sequentially adding the frequency of pixels from a partition having the maximum light quantity among the partitions, and the number of partitions representing a position of a partition to which the cumulative frequency belongs counted from the partition having the maximum light quantity. The signal processing unit controls luminance of the surface light source based on a partition in which the index value exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Tae Kurokawa, Fumitaka Gotoh, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 9818352
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kenta Seki
  • Publication number: 20170315279
    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: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa, Koji Noguchi, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9804455
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first color film of a first color and a second color film of a second color, wherein the irradiator comprises a first light source of a third color and a second light source of a fourth color, the first color and the second color have a complementary color relationship, lightness of the first color is greater than lightness of the second color, a first total displayable area of the first color film is larger than a second total displayable area of the second color film, and the irradiator is configured to radiate light of the first light source and the second light source in a switching manner by time division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Oka, Youichi Asakawa, Akira Sakaigawa, Tsutomu Harada
  • Publication number: 20170287989
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix along two directions intersecting with each other. Each of the pixels includes three sub-pixels corresponding to three of four colors including a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color. An area of one sub-pixel among the three sub-pixels is larger than the area of each of the other two sub-pixels. A sub-pixel of the fourth color is one of the other two sub-pixels. Pixels each including the sub-pixel of the fourth color are not adjacent to each other in at least one of the two directions in the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaaki KABE, Kojiro IKEDA, Tsutomu HARADA, Akira SAKAIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20170287438
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; at least three of a first sub-pixel in a first color, a second sub-pixel in a second color, a third sub-pixel in a third color, and a fourth sub-pixel in a fourth color, the three sub-pixels being included in each of the pixels; and a controller configured to input an input signal to the first sub-pixel to the fourth sub-pixel. When display is performed in a plurality of display regions in respective single colors adjacent to each other in the display panel, the controller inputs a signal for lighting a sub-pixel that does not contribute to one of the single colors in a halftone manner, in a pixel included in a boundary section of the adjacent display regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa