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).

  • Patent number: 10257504
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Takeo Koito
  • Publication number: 20190102596
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Hayato KURASAWA, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Toshinori UEHARA, Yuji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190064559
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tsutomu HARADA, Daichi SUZUKI, Kazuhiko SAKO, Naoyuki TAKASAKI, Kazunari TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190064948
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Hayato KURASAWA, Daichi SUZUKI, Fumitaka GOTOH
  • Publication number: 20190035339
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko SAKO, Daichi SUZUKI, Naoyuki TAKASAKI, Tsutomu HARADA, Kojiro IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10171801
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yingbao Yang, Takeo Koito, Daichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10141877
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Koide, Yuta Tachibana, Daichi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10141878
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Koide
  • Patent number: 10139927
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Daichi Suzuki, Fumitaka Gotoh
  • Patent number: 10075092
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryuta Hasegawa, Yosuke Nakazawa, Daichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10061136
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yingbao Yang, Takeo Koito
  • Publication number: 20180231836
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Kazuhiko SAKO
  • Publication number: 20180234037
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Yuta TACHIBANA, Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA, Yasuhiro KOIDE
  • Patent number: 10043836
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Suzuki, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Daichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20180220540
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Yuji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20180167009
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Daichi SUZUKI, Yuta TACHIBANA, Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA, Yasuhiro KOIDE
  • Publication number: 20180164646
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiharu Matsushima, Daichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9972263
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yingbao Yang, Daichi Suzuki, Takeo Koito
  • Publication number: 20180123492
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro KOIDE, Yuta TACHIBANA, Daichi SUZUKI, Hiroyuki YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9929686
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Daichi Suzuki, Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Yasuhiro Koide