Patents by Inventor Daichi Suzuki
Daichi Suzuki 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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Patent number: 10257504Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit which displays an image, a barrier unit including a plurality of barrier regions, each of the barrier regions including two nontransmissive regions which block light transmitted from the display unit and one transmissive region which is arranged between the two nontransmissive regions and allows light transmitted from the display unit to pass through, and a control unit. The control unit controls the barrier pitch of the barrier regions, according to viewer's position. Further, the control unit controls each of edge-units constituting the transmissive region into a state of transmissive or nontransmissive.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Takeo Koito
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Publication number: 20190102596Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: a first circuit substrate; a glass substrate attached at a position close to one surface of the first circuit substrate; a metal wire that couples an electrode provided on the one surface of the first circuit substrate to an electrode provided on the glass substrate; and a resin member that covers the glass substrate and the metal wire. The glass substrate includes a detection electrode that detects electrostatic capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Hayato KURASAWA, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Toshinori UEHARA, Yuji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190064559Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel including a display area provided with pixels; an illuminator including an illumination area configured to emit light to the display panel such that the display area is illuminated from one surface side of the display panel; and a liquid crystal dimming panel overlapping the display panel, and including a dimming area configured to be adjusted in transmittance of the light emitted to another surface side of the display panel through the display area. The illumination area includes first segment regions configured such that luminance levels thereof are individually adjusted. The dimming area includes second segment regions configured such that the light transmittances thereof are individually adjusted. Each of the first segment regions overlaps more than one of the second segment regions. Each of the second segment regions overlaps more than one of the pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Tsutomu HARADA, Daichi SUZUKI, Kazuhiko SAKO, Naoyuki TAKASAKI, Kazunari TOMIZAWA
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Publication number: 20190064948Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function capable of improving accuracy is provided. The display apparatus includes: a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; and a plurality of signal wires arranged in the pixel array. Here, when an externally-detecting object is detected, a plurality of coils having areas overlapping with each other are formed of a plurality of signal wires (drive electrodes) among the plurality of signal wires, and a magnetic field generated in the plurality of respective coils are superimposed in an overlapped area by supplying a drive signal to the plurality of coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Hayato KURASAWA, Daichi SUZUKI, Fumitaka GOTOH
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Publication number: 20190035339Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, a light guide plate, a light source configured to emit light from a lateral side of the light guide plate, a dimming panel, and a controller. The dimming panel comprises a plurality of dimming areas arranged in an emission direction of the light from the light source. The dimming areas are capable of individually changing transmittance of the light according to intensities of light required to display an image using the display panel. When adjacent two of the dimming areas differ in light transmittance from each other, the controller increases output gradation values of target pixels, the target pixels being located in a predetermined area extending from a boundary between the two dimming areas in one of the two dimming areas that has lower light transmittance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Kazuhiko SAKO, Daichi SUZUKI, Naoyuki TAKASAKI, Tsutomu HARADA, Kojiro IKEDA
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Patent number: 10171801Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a position information acquiring unit that acquires position information on a position of a viewer; a separation unit that changes a position of an image separator based on the position information; an illumination unit that changes a direction of an optical axis of illumination light based on the position information of the viewer in synchronization with a timing at which the position of the image separator is changed; and a display unit that modulates the illumination light and displays an image including plural parallax images.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yingbao Yang, Takeo Koito, Daichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10141877Abstract: A method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The method includes: presuming, based on a target speed and an estimated speed that is an estimated value of a rotational speed of the rotor, whether or not a step-out occurs; correcting, when it is presumed that a step-out occurs, an estimated angle that is an estimated value of a position of magnetic poles of the rotor; and controlling, based on a post-correction estimated angle that is the estimated angle after the correction, a current flowing through the armature to cause the rotating magnetic field rotating at the target speed.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Koide, Yuta Tachibana, Daichi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10141878Abstract: A controller for a sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The controller is configured to apply a pulse voltage for generating a magnetic field vector for searching for the initial position to each of search sections obtained by dividing a target range, narrow down a target range in such a manner that a search section in which a largest amount of current flows through the armature by application of the pulse voltage is selected as a subsequent target range, and repeat the application processing and the narrow-down processing to estimate the initial position.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Koide
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Patent number: 10139927Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function capable of improving accuracy is provided. The display apparatus includes: a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; and a plurality of signal wires arranged in the pixel array. Here, when an externally-detecting object is detected, a plurality of coils having areas overlapping with each other are formed of a plurality of signal wires (drive electrodes) among the plurality of signal wires, and a magnetic field generated in the plurality of respective coils are superimposed in an overlapped area by supplying a drive signal to the plurality of coils.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Daichi Suzuki, Fumitaka Gotoh
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Patent number: 10075092Abstract: In a power converter a DC positive terminal of a DC power supply is connected to a switching element, the DC negative terminal of the DC power supply is connected to a switching element. A capacitor and a capacitor connected in series are connected in parallel with the DC power supply, and a DC neutral point divided by the capacitor and the capacitor is connected to a switching element and a switching element. The switching element is connected to the positive terminal of a chopper cell group circuit, and the switching element is connected to the negative terminal of a chopper cell group circuit. The negative terminal of the chopper cell group circuit is connected to the positive terminal of the chopper cell group circuit, and the connection node therebetween serves as an output AC terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Ryuta Hasegawa, Yosuke Nakazawa, Daichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 10061136Abstract: A display device includes a display unit including a display plane that displays an image and a parallax adjusting unit that is arranged to face the display unit and be able to switch a plurality of transmissive regions transmitting light and a plurality of non-transmissive regions restricting light, in which the transmissive regions and the non-transmissive regions are alternately in a first direction, and width of at least one transmissive region in the first direction among the plurality of transmissive regions or width of at least one non-transmissive region in the first direction among the plurality of non-transmissive regions is changed based on input information.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yingbao Yang, Takeo Koito
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Publication number: 20180231836Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel including a display area with pixels; a backlight; and a dimmer. The dimmer includes a dimming panel including a dimming area overlapping the display area and a control circuit. The dimming area includes a plurality of regions each including a first electrode and a second electrode. The control circuit includes a shift register configured to receive an electrical signal for controlling a potential of each of the first electrodes and including a plurality of sequential circuits coupled in series, a holding circuit to which an output of each of the sequential circuits is coupled, and a gradation voltage setter to which an output of the holding circuit is coupled. Each of the first electrodes is coupled to an output of the gradation voltage setter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Kazuhiko SAKO
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Publication number: 20180234037Abstract: A motor controller includes: a velocity calculation unit for obtaining an angle ?(n), which shows a rotation position, and an angular velocity ?(n) of a rotor at a time point n; a compensation amount calculation unit for calculating a compensation angle ?? by which the rotor advances from the time point n to a (n+1)th control cycle (a control cycle starting from a time point n+1), based on an angular acceleration a(n) of the rotor, an angular velocity ?(n) of the rotor at the time point n and a time length T of the control cycle; and a PWM inverter for controlling a voltage to be applied to a coil such that a rotating magnetic field based on a rotation position of the rotor advanced by the compensation angle ?? from the rotation position of the rotor at the time point n is formed in the (n+1)th control cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Yuta TACHIBANA, Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA, Yasuhiro KOIDE
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Patent number: 10043836Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate, display function layer disposed above the insulating substrate, reflective electrode disposed between the insulating substrate and the display function layer, to which a potential for image display is applied, and antenna having a band shape disposed between the insulating substrate and the reflective electrode.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Daichi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180220540Abstract: A display device includes an array substrate and a counter substrate. On the array substrate, a TFT, a pixel electrode, an antenna coil, at least two external connection terminals, and a capacitor are provided. Two ends of the antenna coil are respectively connected to the at least two external connection terminals. The TFT includes a switching TFT. A set of the switching TFT and the capacitor or a plurality of sets of the switching TFT and the capacitor is provided. To the antenna coil, the set of the switching TFT and the capacitor or the plurality of sets of the switching TFT and the capacitor is connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Yuji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180167009Abstract: A controller for a sensorless permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field, caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The controller is configured to apply a pulse voltage for generating a magnetic field vector for searching for the initial position to each of search sections obtained by dividing a target range, narrow down a target range in such a manner that a search section in which a largest amount of current flows through the armature by application of the pulse voltage is selected as a subsequent target range, and repeat the application processing and the narrow-down processing to estimate the initial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Yuta TACHIBANA, Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA, Yasuhiro KOIDE
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Publication number: 20180164646Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode and a common electrode, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The pixel or common electrode includes, in a single subpixel, belt-like portions arranged in a first direction, and coupling portions coupling the adjacent belt-like portions. Each belt-like portion continuously extends from one side to an other side of a central line of the subpixel, that is parallel with the first direction. The coupling portions include one or more first coupling portions provided on the one side of the central line, and one or more second coupling portions provided on the other side of the central line.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Toshiharu Matsushima, Daichi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9972263Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a plurality of first image regions; a plurality of second image regions arranged alternatingly with the first image regions; one or more first data lines arranged in each of the first image regions; one or more second data lines arranged in each of the second image regions; a constant potential line configured to receive a constant potential; a switching signal line configured to supply a switching signal; and a switching circuit configured to switch a coupling destination of each of the one or more second data lines between any one of the first data lines arranged in a corresponding first image region adjacent to a respective second image region and the constant potential line, based on the switching signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yingbao Yang, Daichi Suzuki, Takeo Koito
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Publication number: 20180123492Abstract: A method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The method includes: presuming, based on a target speed and an estimated speed that is an estimated value of a rotational speed of the rotor, whether or not a step-out occurs; correcting, when it is presumed that a step-out occurs, an estimated angle that is an estimated value of a position of magnetic poles of the rotor; and controlling, based on a post-correction estimated angle that is the estimated angle after the correction, a current flowing through the armature to cause the rotating magnetic field rotating at the target speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro KOIDE, Yuta TACHIBANA, Daichi SUZUKI, Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9929686Abstract: A controller for a permanent magnet synchronous motor includes an estimating portion configured to determine an estimated value of a rotational speed of the rotor and an estimated value of a position of magnetic poles of the rotor based on a value of the current detected by the current detector and a parameter value indicating an interlinkage magnetic flux caused by the permanent magnet across the winding; a control unit configured to control the drive portion to cause the rotating magnetic field based on the estimated value of the rotational speed and the estimated value of the position of the magnetic poles; and a correction portion configured to correct the parameter value indicating the interlinkage magnetic flux based on correction information, the correction information being determined based on a temperature of the winding and a relationship between the temperature of the winding and a temperature of the permanent magnet.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Koide