Patents by Inventor Gou Yamamoto

Gou Yamamoto 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: 9625771
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes of a display device include plural first pixel electrodes and plural second pixel electrodes which have areas different from each other. Each of plural scanning signal lines is connected with any one of the plural first pixel electrodes and the plural second pixel electrodes through respective transistors. A control circuit applies a first conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the first pixel electrodes, and a second conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the second pixel electrodes, and different from the first conducting voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo Imai, Gou Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9024978
    Abstract: Provided is a display device having plural data line voltage generation circuits capable of supplying a display control voltage to display elements of a color designated as necessary. The display device includes plural display elements each displaying an image of one color; plural gradation voltage output units provided for each color to output a gradation voltage corresponding to each display gradation value of a gradation number; plural display control voltage supply units connected to each of two or more display elements to supply control voltages corresponding to display data of the display elements to each of the display elements based on the gradation voltages of the gradation number output by any one of the gradation voltage output units; and plural gradation voltage selection units provided to one or each display control voltage supply unit to select the gradation voltage output by any one of the gradation voltage output units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroko Sehata, Hajime Akimoto, Yoshihiro Kotani, Gou Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8994632
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of video signal lines that extends in columns in a display area, a plurality of inversion control signal line each supplied with an inversion control signal for controlling inversion, a first selector that selects one of a pair of amplifiers different in the polarity from each other to input signals corresponding to a pair of adjacent video signal lines on the basis of the inversion control signal, and a second selector that selects one of a pair of the corresponding adjacent video signal lines to input signals output from the pair of amplifiers on the basis of the inversion control signal, in which at least one of the signals to be supplied to the plurality of inversion control signal lines is a signal different from other signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keitoku Kato, Hiroyuki Nitta, Gou Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140152929
    Abstract: Pixel electrodes of a display device include plural first pixel electrodes and plural second pixel electrodes which have areas different from each other. Each of plural scanning signal lines is connected with any one of the plural first pixel electrodes and the plural second pixel electrodes through respective transistors. A control circuit applies a first conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the first pixel electrodes, and a second conducting voltage that is a conducting voltage which is applied to the scanning signal lines connected with the second pixel electrodes, and different from the first conducting voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo IMAI, Gou YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130271439
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of video signal lines that extends in columns in a display area, a plurality of inversion control signal line each supplied with an inversion control signal for controlling inversion, a first selector that selects one of a pair of amplifiers different in the polarity from each other to input signals corresponding to a pair of adjacent video signal lines on the basis of the inversion control signal, and a second selector that selects one of a pair of the corresponding adjacent video signal lines to input signals output from the pair of amplifiers on the basis of the inversion control signal, in which at least one of the signals to be supplied to the plurality of inversion control signal lines is a signal different from other signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Japan Display East Inc.
    Inventors: Keitoku KATO, Hiroyuki NITTA, Gou YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110122173
    Abstract: Provided is a display device having plural data line voltage generation circuits capable of supplying a display control voltage to display elements of a color designated as necessary. The display device includes plural display elements each displaying an image of one color; plural gradation voltage output units provided for each color to output a gradation voltage corresponding to each display gradation value of a gradation number; plural display control voltage supply units connected to each of two or more display elements to supply control voltages corresponding to display data of the display elements to each of the display elements based on the gradation voltages of the gradation number output by any one of the gradation voltage output units; and plural gradation voltage selection units provided to one or each display control voltage supply unit to select the gradation voltage output by any one of the gradation voltage output units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Hiroko SEHATA, Hajime Akimoto, Yoshihiro Kotani, Gou Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20110122118
    Abstract: To obtain a display device that can perform measurements in a wider range and detect characteristic changes with high accuracy while suppressing the increase in circuit size. The display device includes display elements and a characteristic testing unit that tests characteristics of the display elements, and the characteristic testing unit includes a current supply unit for the display element as a target of test, a reference voltage output unit, an output voltage detecting unit that detects a code of a voltage of the test target display element relative to the reference voltage at each time, and a test control unit that allows the reference voltage output unit to sequentially output the reference voltages in response to the codes and acquires a measurement result of the voltage of the test target display element based on the codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kotani, Takeshi Shibata, Gou Yamamoto, Kouichi Kotera, Masato Ishii, Norio Mamba
  • Patent number: 7737929
    Abstract: A display device which transmits display data to drive circuits which drive a display panel using low voltage differential signals have input circuits which are hardly influenced by noise. To transmit the low voltage differential signals under the same condition, low voltage differential signal lines are formed in a zigzag pattern so as to make the lengths of the lines equal. To reduce the influence generated by the overlapping of the zigzagged low voltage differential signal lines and the drive circuits, level shift circuits are provided to the input circuits so as to make the input signals assume a stable operation level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Itou, Shuuichirou Matsumoto, Yukihide Ode, Hidetoshi Kida, Kouichi Kotera, Gou Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20040212578
    Abstract: A display device which transmits display data to drive circuits which drive a display panel using low voltage differential signals have input circuits which are hardly influenced by noise. To transmit the low voltage differential signals under the same condition, low voltage differential signal lines are formed in a zigzag pattern so as to make the lengths of the lines equal. To reduce the influence generated by the overlapping of the zigzagged low voltage differential signal lines and the drive circuits, level shift circuits are provided to the input circuits so as to make the input signals assume a stable operation level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventors: Shigeru Itou, Shuuichirou Matsumoto, Yukihide Ode, Hidetoshi Kida, Kouichi Kotera, Gou Yamamoto