Patents by Inventor Atsushi Okada

Atsushi Okada 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: 20120182267
    Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel comprising a display panel (for example, a liquid crystal panel) (1); a plurality of mirrors (2) provided on an edge of a display surface side of the display panel (1); a light source (3); a plurality of light sensors (4) embedded in the display panel (1), positioned immediately under the mirrors (2), and for which light emitted from the light source (3) is guided by the mirrors (2); and a data interpolation processing unit that, if an output signal from a certain light sensor included in the plurality of light sensors (4) is at most at a threshold, calculates interpolation data from output signals that are stronger than the threshold from light sensors about a periphery of the certain light sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Mayumi, Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20120113059
    Abstract: A signal processing device that can reduce the number of signal lines for outputting sensor signals includes a sensor interface unit that acquires, from a photosensor having multiple pixels, data of the pixels; a coordinate processing unit that generates position data indicating a detected position of a detection target from the data of the pixels; a video processing unit that generates image data in a predetermined format from the data of the pixels; a test mode control unit or switching control unit that switches which of the coordinate processing unit and the video processing unit is to perform processing on the data of the pixels; and a user interface unit that converts the position data generated by the coordinate processing unit and the image data generated by the video processing unit into a serial signal and outputs the serial signal to a serial bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20120105404
    Abstract: A recognition processing unit (22) performs recognition processing on a scan image based on a signal read from a light sensor (2) and outputs coordinate data (Co) indicating the position of an object to be detected. A mode control unit (24) determines a normal mode in which the recognition processing unit (22) is operated or a standby mode in which the operation of the recognition processing unit (22) is stopped. A thinned image memory (25) stores a thinned image when the normal mode is switched to the standby mode. The mode control unit (24) switches the standby mode to the normal mode when a newly supplied thinned image changes from the stored thinned image by a prescribed amount or more. Thus, it is possible to rapidly leave the standby mode and quickly detect the contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Gotoh, Atsushi Okada, Kouji Kumada, Masaaki Nishio
  • Patent number: 8168252
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave shielding material that has high electromagnetic wave shielding effects, excellent transparency, and excellent see-through property, and a simple and inexpensive production process for the electromagnetic wave shielding material. Specifically, the present invention provides a process for producing an electromagnetic wave shielding material, the process comprising screen-printing in a geometric pattern a conductive paste containing a particulate silver oxide, a tertiary fatty acid silver salt, and a solvent, onto a transparent porous layer surface of a transparent resin substrate having a transparent porous layer containing as a main component at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxide ceramics, non-oxide ceramics, and metals; and performing heat treatment to form a conductive region with a geometric pattern on the transparent porous layer surface; and an electromagnetic wave shielding material produced by the production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignees: Gunze Limited, Fujikura Kasei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Akio Kiyohara, Hideki Tanaka, Toshiyuki Honda, Masafumi Ito, Junichi Kato, Noboru Toshima, Yasuhisa Nakao
  • Publication number: 20120101213
    Abstract: Provided are a polyimide which is inexpensive, has various excellent material properties including strength, heat resistance, low moisture absorption, mold releasability (detachability), dielectric properties, electrical properties, and optical properties, and can exhibit a high level of water repellency, and a polyamic acid composition useful as a raw material therefor. Also provided are the polyimide which can give a polyimide composition that, besides having such excellent material properties, is capable of having a controlled surface resistivity, and a polyamic acid composition useful as a raw material therefor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO, LTD
    Inventors: Kozo Tajiri, Go Masuda, Tomomi Makino, Atsushi Okada
  • Patent number: 8144117
    Abstract: When not receiving the next display-switch starting signal even after a specified time elapses from the application of a previous display driving voltage, a driving unit applies another preparatory driving voltage for generating a preparatory electric field capable of improving the response of colored particles to a driving electric field to an extent so as not to change the arrangement of the colored particles between pixel electrodes and a transparent electrode for a preparatory driving time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Yoshihisa Naijo
  • Patent number: 8067702
    Abstract: The production process of an electromagnetic wave shielding material of the present invention comprises screen printing a conductive paste containing conductive particles, binder and solvent in a geometrical pattern on the surface of a transparent porous layer of a transparent resin substrate provided with the transparent porous layer, the porous layer containing as a main component thereof at least one type selected from the group consisting of an oxide ceramic, a non-oxide ceramic and a metal, followed by forming a conductive portion in a geometrical pattern on the surface of the transparent porous layer by heat treatment. An electromagnetic wave shielding material produced according to this production process has high electromagnetic wave shielding effects and superior transparency and visibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignees: Gunze Limited, DIC Corporation
    Inventors: Wataru Suenaga, Atsushi Okada, Kohtaro Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20110273834
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an integrally formed object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged between the first capacitor to cover a first radiating region containing the controller and the first nonvolatile semiconductor memories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takakatsu Moriai, Toyokazu Eguchi, Atsushi Kaneko, Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20110169790
    Abstract: The present invention eliminates, for CC driving based on line inversion driving, the appearance of lateral stripes in a first frame in which an image corresponding to a video signal starts to be displayed. The present invention includes: a gate line driving circuit (30) which outputs a gate signal for turning on switching element on a corresponding row for a corresponding one of horizontal scanning periods which are sequentially allocated to the respective rows; a source bus line driving circuit which outputs a source signal for switching between line inversion driving and frame inversion driving; and a CS bus line driving circuit (40) which outputs a CS signal having a potential which is, after the horizontal scanning period for the row, switched in a direction (that is, either (from the low level to the high level or from the high level to the low level) determined in accordance with the polarity of the source signal during the horizontal scanning period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Takayuki Yanagawa, Atsushi Okada, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7965274
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a common electrode that is arranged on the other substrate, and a control unit that controls frame display operations of the pixel groups. The control unit controls the first pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying a frame and then controls the second pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying another frame before the frame display operations of the first pixel group are completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Shin Aoki, Takao Inoue
  • Publication number: 20110141426
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel unit having a liquid crystal panel and a flexible printed circuit connected to each other and a method for inspecting the same with which continuity between an electrode terminal on a panel substrate of the liquid crystal panel and a wiring pattern of the flexible printed circuit can be checked with a simple and reliable method. A liquid crystal panel (3) that has a panel substrate (2) and an opposite substrate (1) disposed opposite the panel substrate (2) via a liquid crystal layer, and a flexible printed circuit (10) in which a connection portion (14) of a wiring pattern (13) is connected to an electrode terminal (4) formed on the panel substrate (2) are provided. The electrode terminal (4) has an electrode inspection region (8) that is exposed in a state where the flexible printed circuit (10) is connected, and an opening portion (17) that exposes the wiring pattern (13) is formed in a base film (11) of the flexible printed circuit (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventor: Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20110053409
    Abstract: The joint of the present invention facilitates connection and disconnection of the motor unit to and from the power cords in the hose, and makes the connecting area between these two parts as compact as practicable. In the joint, the motor-unit-side connector is arranged projecting from the connecting-end opening of the motor casing 10, whereas the power-cord-side connector is arranged offset from the connecting-end opening of the end cap 20, so that the two connectors are connectable inside the end cap 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Shinichirou Muto, Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20110019356
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged solid between the parallel flat plates of the first capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Takakatsu MORIAI, Toyokazu Eguchi, Atsushi Kaneko, Atsushi Okada
  • Publication number: 20100128009
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes: a gate line drive circuit that outputs, in a horizontal scanning period which is sequentially allocated to each one of rows, a gate signal for turning on the switching element on one row; a source bus line drive circuit that outputs a source signal of which polarity is reversed in sync with the horizontal scanning period for each of the rows and of which polarity is opposite in an adjacent horizontal scanning period on one and the same row; a CS bus line drive circuit that outputs, after the horizontal scanning period for each of the rows, a CS signal of which potential is switched along a direction (from low level to high level or from high level to low level) determined according to the polarity of the source signal in the horizontal scanning period concerned, wherein the CS bus line drive circuit outputs the CS signal in a first frame so that a potential of the CS signal at a time of on-to-off switching of the switching element on the one row is different f
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Yasushi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100018765
    Abstract: The production process of an electromagnetic wave shielding material of the present invention comprises screen printing a conductive paste containing conductive particles, binder and solvent in a geometrical pattern on the surface of a transparent porous layer of a transparent resin substrate provided with the transparent porous layer, the porous layer containing as a main component thereof at least one type selected from the group consisting of an oxide ceramic, a non-oxide ceramic and a metal, followed by forming a conductive portion in a geometrical pattern on the surface of the transparent porous layer by heat treatment. An electromagnetic wave shielding material produced according to this production process has high electromagnetic wave shielding effects and superior transparency and visibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: Dainippon Ink and Chemicals ,Inc.
    Inventors: Wataru Suenaga, Atsushi Okada, Kohtaro Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20090282340
    Abstract: A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller (52a) for performing control to, when a viewer (52) allocates images to be displayed to a predetermined number of image-frame objects (52g), in the case where the number of the images to be allocated to the individual image-frame objects exceeds the number of the image-frame objects (52g), allocate a plurality of images to at least some of the image-frame objects (52g) and, when the plurality of images are allocated to each image-frame object (52g), display all the images to be displayed within a certain time by switching the images to be displayed at predetermined time intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Akaike, Atsushi Okada, Hideyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20090109145
    Abstract: When not receiving the next display-switch starting signal even after a specified time elapses from the application of a previous display driving voltage, a driving unit applies another preparatory driving voltage for generating a preparatory electric field capable of improving the response of colored particles to a driving electric field to an extent so as not to change the arrangement of the colored particles between pixel electrodes and a transparent electrode for a preparatory driving time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Atsushi Okada, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Yoshihisa Naijo
  • Publication number: 20080048968
    Abstract: A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a common electrode that is arranged on the other substrate, and a control unit that controls frame display operations of the pixel groups. The control unit controls the first pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying a frame and then controls the second pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying another frame before the frame display operations of the first pixel group are completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Inventors: Atsushi OKADA, Shin Aoki, Takao Inoue
  • Patent number: D645964
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nakanishi Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Muto, Atsushi Okada
  • Patent number: D645965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Nakanishi Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Muto, Atsushi Okada