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).

  • Publication number: 20160091642
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first substrate includes first to fourth pixel electrodes. A color filter layer includes a red filter opposed to the first pixel electrode, a green filter opposed to the second pixel electrode, a first blue filter opposed to the third pixel electrode and having a peak of transmittance at a wavelength shorter than 460 nm, and a second blue filter opposed to the fourth pixel electrode and having a peak of transmittance at a wavelength longer than 960 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Akira Sakaigawa, Yoneharu Takubo
  • Publication number: 20160093252
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a light source, a dimming panel which comprises a dimming area including sub-areas arrayed in a matrix and controls a transmittance of light from the light source in each of the sub-areas, and a display panel which comprises a display area including pixels arrayed in a matrix and displays an image due to incident light transmitted through the dimming panel thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Publication number: 20160070047
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Publication number: 20160063935
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display unit that includes a plurality of main pixels in an image display region, the image display unit including sub-pixels; a light source that irradiates the image display region; a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source; and a color information correction processing unit that corrects first color information that is obtained based on the luminance of the light source and an input video signal to second color information, when color information of at least one of a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel included in the first color information exceeds a predetermined threshold, the second information is corrected by degenerating color information of the red pixel, the green pixel, and the blue pixel, and by adding color information of the white pixel included in the first color information based on the degenerated color information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Masaaki Kabe, Tae Kurokawa, Kojiro Ikeda, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Naoyuki Takasaki, Amane Higashi
  • Publication number: 20160063928
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source and a control section. The control section has a first mode and a second mode as luminance setting modes of the light source and sets, in order to exercise variable control of a reach time taken to change luminance of the light source to a determined value, the reach time on the basis of the first mode for a determined period at the time of switching from the first mode to the second mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Akira Sakaigawa, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma
  • Patent number: 9262970
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an image display panel; a color conversion device including a signal processing unit and a signal output unit; a planar light-source device; and a light-source-device control unit. The signal processing unit includes a color conversion circuit that converts an input signal in a reference color area into a converted input signal generated in a definition color area where a chromaticity point of at least one of a first color, a second color, and a third color is inside of a reference color area, and a four-color generation circuit that generates an output signal and a light-source-device control signal from the converted input signal. The signal output unit outputs the drive signal to each sub-pixel based on the output signal. The light-source-device control unit outputs a drive voltage for emitting white light on the planar light-source device based on the light-source-device control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Kurokawa, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Masashi Mitsui, Kojiro Ikeda, Fumitaka Goto, Amane Higashi, Hirokazu Tatsuno, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Hiroki Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20160003987
    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: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Matsui, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa, Koji Noguchi, Kenta Seki
  • Patent number: 9214118
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display unit that includes a plurality of main pixels in an image display region, the image display unit including sub-pixels; a light source that irradiates the image display region; a light source control unit that controls luminance of the light source; and a color information correction processing unit that corrects first color information that is obtained based on the luminance of the light source and an input video signal to second color information, when color information of at least one of a red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel included in the first color information exceeds a predetermined threshold, the second information is corrected by degenerating color information of the red pixel, the green pixel, and the blue pixel, and by adding color information of the white pixel included in the first color information based on the degenerated color information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Masaaki Kabe, Tae Kurokawa, Kojiro Ikeda, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Naoyuki Takasaki, Amane Higashi
  • Publication number: 20150356933
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display unit including a plurality of pixels arranged therein, the pixels including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel; and a signal processing unit that calculates output signals corresponding to the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, the third sub-pixel, and the fourth sub-pixel based on input signals corresponding to the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel. The signal processing unit calculates each of the output signals based on a result obtained by extracting and analyzing only information on a certain region within one frame from the input signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa, Amane Higashi
  • Publication number: 20150346563
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Kurokawa, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Kojiro Ikeda, Amane Higashi
  • Patent number: 9196204
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image display unit and a luminance control unit. The image display unit includes pixels arranged in a matrix, each of which is formed of a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a third sub-pixel, and a fourth sub-pixel, and performs image display. The luminance control unit adjusts a ratio between a generation amount of first luminance generated by the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel and a generation amount of second luminance generated by the fourth sub-pixel. Over all input tones, the luminance control unit makes the generation amount of the second luminance lower than the generation amount of the first luminance and generates the second luminance so that a function representing a luminance value of the second luminance is continuous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Amane Higashi, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe
  • Publication number: 20150332643
    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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Amane HIGASHI, Toshiyuki NAGATSUMA, Akira SAKAIGAWA, Masaaki KABE
  • Publication number: 20150331291
    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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Akira Sakaigawa
  • Patent number: 9183791
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a driving method for an image display apparatus which includes an image display panel and a signal processing section; the driving method including the steps, further carried out by the signal processing section, of calculating a third subpixel output signal to a (p,q)th first pixel, based at least on a third subpixel input signal to the (p,q)th first pixel and a third subpixel input signal to the (p,q)th second signal, and outputting the third subpixel output signal to the third subpixel of the (p,q)th first pixel; and further calculating a fourth subpixel output signal to the (p,q)th second pixel based at least on the third subpixel input signal to the (p,q)th second pixel and the third subpixel input signal to the (p+1,q)th first pixel and outputting the fourth subpixel output signal to the fourth subpixel of the (p,q)th second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Amane Higashi, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Yasuo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150310828
    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: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Akira Sakaigawa, Masaaki Kabe, Tae Kurokawa, Kojiro Ikeda
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20150294441
    Abstract: A display device includes a conversion section which generate a data conversion signal including a first number of bits from an input signal, an error dispersion section which generates a display control signal including a second number of bits that is smaller than the first number of bits from the data conversion signal and which spatially disperses errors that occur at the time of generating the display control signal, and a display panel section which displays an image on the basis of the display control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Akira Sakaigawa, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Amane Higashi, Masaaki Kabe
  • Publication number: 20150294642
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display panel including a plurality of pixels each including first to fourth sub-pixels; and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit determines an expansion coefficient related to the image display panel, obtains output signals of the first to the third sub-pixels based on at least input signals of the first to the third sub-pixels and the expansion coefficient to be output to the first to the third sub-pixels respectively, obtains a fourth sub-pixel correction value as a correction value of an output signal of the fourth sub-pixel based on the input signals of the first to the third sub-pixels and the expansion coefficient, and obtains the output signal of the fourth sub-pixel based on the input signals of the first to third sub-pixels, the expansion coefficient, and the fourth sub-pixel correction value to be output to the fourth sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Tae KUROKAWA, Akira SAKAIGAWA, Masaaki KABE, Kojiro IKEDA, Fumitaka GOTOH, Amane HIGASHI, Toshiyuki NAGATSUMA
  • Publication number: 20150279286
    Abstract: In a display device, pixels each including first to fourth subpixels that respectively display first to third primary colors and fourth color are arranged on an image display panel. A lighting unit emits light to the panel from the rear thereof. A control unit calculates a required luminance value for each block of the display surface of the panel based on an input image signal, determines a light source lighting amount of the lighting unit based on luminance distribution information on the lighting unit so as to satisfy the required luminance value, generates luminance information on each pixel based on the luminance distribution information and light source lighting amount, generates an output image signal that drives the subpixels based on the luminance information and input image signal, controls the lighting unit by the light source lighting amount, and controls the panel by the output image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki, Akira Sakaigawa, Amane Higashi
  • Publication number: 20150221268
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a driving method for 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 driving 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: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Amane Higashi, Yasuo Takahashi, Akira Sakaigawa