Patents by Inventor Hideo Ochi

Hideo Ochi 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: 20180212101
    Abstract: A light-emitting device (10) includes a first base material (100), a second base material (200), a light-emitting element (300) and a control unit (400). The first base material (100) has flexibility and holds the light-emitting element (300). The control unit (400) controls the light-emitting element (300). The second base material (200) has flexibility and forms a partitioned space between the first base material (100) and itself by being partially fixed to the first base material (100). The control unit (400) is located in the space. A material of the second base material (200) has higher flexibility than that of the first base material (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventor: Hideo OCHI
  • Patent number: 9215766
    Abstract: A drive device for a light-emitting element that improves accuracy while driving the light-emitting element at small currents for which a comparatively simple configuration is provided. The drive device includes detecting means, comparing means, a driving voltage source, and offset means. The detecting means detects a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through a first resistor for current detection. The first resistor is coupled to a light-emitting element in series. The comparing means compares a magnitude of the detection voltage of the detecting unit with a comparison voltage. The driving voltage source applies a voltage corresponding to a comparison result by the comparing means to a series circuit of the light-emitting element and the first resistor. The offset means corrects the voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the first resistor by a correction voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: Pioneer Corporation, Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ochi, Nobuhiko Saegusa, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
  • Publication number: 20130320884
    Abstract: A drive device for a light-emitting element that improves accuracy while driving the light-emitting element at small currents for which a comparatively simple configuration is provided. The drive device includes detecting means, comparing means, a driving voltage source, and offset means. The detecting means detects a voltage corresponding to a current flowing through a first resistor for current detection. The first resistor is coupled to a light-emitting element in series. The comparing means compares a magnitude of the detection voltage of the detecting unit with a comparison voltage. The driving voltage source applies a voltage corresponding to a comparison result by the comparing means to a series circuit of the light-emitting element and the first resistor. The offset means corrects the voltage corresponding to a current flowing through the first resistor by a correction voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicants: TOHOKU PIONEER CORPORATION, Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ochi, Nobuhiko Saegusa, Katsuhiro Kanauchi
  • Publication number: 20120274615
    Abstract: A data voltage error due to a feed-through effect is corrected without an increase in the number of transistors in capacitive memory cells. A display panel (11) in which a plurality of pixel parts (PLj,i) are arranged at the intersections of scanning lines (Yj) and data lines (Xi) which are arranged in a matrix shape, and each of the pixel parts (PLj,i) includes a scan transistor (21) and a capacitor (24). The display panel supplies a correction pulse (CP), the polarity of which is opposite to that of a scan pulse (SP) to the capacitor (24) of each of the pixel parts (PLj,i) via a signal line (Wj) at approximately the same timing as the timing of the supply of the scan pulse (SP).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Ochi
  • Publication number: 20110199356
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a first power line that supplies a first power, a single control line, an emission control variable resistance element having one end connected to the first power line and the other end connected to the control line, a second power line that supplies a second power, a light-emitting element that has one end connected to the control line and the other end connected to the second power line and emits light in accordance with data written to the emission control variable resistance element, and a parallel connection variable resistance element having one end connected to the control line and the other end connected to the second power line so that it is parallel with the light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Ochi, Satoru Ohta, Akira Hirasawa, Kenji Nakamura, Takahito Oyamada
  • Patent number: 7796332
    Abstract: Upon displaying a targeted stereoscopic image formed by a background image planar component and a spring-out image stereoscopic component, a stereoscopic display device controls and stereoscopically displays the spring-out image having a large parallax so that the amount of transmitted light of a light transmitting portion of a light control panel is T1. Thereafter, the amount of transmitted light of the light transmitting portion of the light control panel is switched from T1 to T2, where T2 is larger than T1. The background image having a small parallax is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Ochi
  • Publication number: 20100044890
    Abstract: [Problems] To perform predetermined processing such as annealing and coating application of a semiconductor material with high accuracy on a number of semiconductor formation areas formed over a wide region on a surface of a substrate having elasticity such as a plastic substrate even when the substrate expands and contracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventors: Hideo Ochi, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Hideo Satoh, Tashaki Chuman, Satoru Ohta, Chihiro Harada
  • Publication number: 20080285127
    Abstract: At the time of displaying a targeted stereoscopic image composed of a background image being a planar component and a flying-out image being a stereoscopic component, a stereoscopic display device controls and stereoscopically displays the flying-out image being large in parallax so that the amount of transmitted light of a light transmitting portion of a light control panel becomes T1 (step S103 and step S104). Thereafter, it changes over the amount of transmitted light of the light transmitting portion of the light control panel from T1 to T2 larger than T1 (step S105). And it plane-displays a background image being smaller in parallax (step S106).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideo Ochi
  • Patent number: 7274363
    Abstract: A display panel driving device and driving method for providing high quality images without irregular luminance even after long-time use. The value of the light-emission drive current flowing when causing each light-emission elements bearing each pixel to independently emit light in succession is measured, then the luminance is corrected for each input pixel data based on the above light-emission drive current values, associated with the pixels corresponding to the input pixel data. According to another aspect, the voltage value of the drive voltage is adjusted in such a manner that one value among each measured light-emission drive current value becomes equal to a predetermined reference current value. According to a further aspect, the current value is measured while an off-set current component corresponding to a leak current of the display panel is added to the current outputted from the drive voltage generator circuit and the resultant current is supplied to each of the pixel portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Masami Tsuchida, Hideo Ochi, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 7215307
    Abstract: A drive unit which can prevent the decrease of the luminance of a self-luminous device due to degradation or a change is electric characteristic thereof. The drive unit has a semiconductor device having an electric characteristic almost the same as the that of the self-luminous device, and drives the semiconductor device in accordance with the frequency of light emission of the self-luminous device. The device generates a characteristic change detection signal indicating the degree of a change in an electric characteristic of the semiconductor device, and supplies the self-luminous device with a drive signal having a current level or a voltage level based on the characteristic change detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ochi, Masami Tsuchida, Shinichi Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20070075948
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display panel without electric leakage among pixels. An organic electroluminescence display panel comprises a plurality of organic electroluminescence elements, each of the elements comprising first and second display electrodes and at least one of organic function layers including an emission layer comprising an organic compound, the function layers being sandwiched and stacked between the first and second display electrodes, and a substrate supporting the plurality of organic electroluminescence elements; wherein the organic function layers include at least one common layer that is formed commonly for the plurality of organic electroluminescence elements and has electron transport properties, and the common layer has a gap filling part extending among the plurality of organic electroluminescence elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Kenichi Nagayama, Hideo Ochi, Shinichi Ishizuka, Masahiro Shiratori, Shingo Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 7193590
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a display panel having drive lines and capacitive light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Hideo Ochi
  • Patent number: 7170476
    Abstract: A method for producing a fixed display panel using a matrix display panel. In the method, the holding state of memory elements of a plurality of pixels of the matrix display panel is changed to one of two values, in accordance with the predetermined fixed pattern, m driving lines are jointly connected as a first electrode and n scanning lines are jointly connected as a second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Hideo Ochi, Masami Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 7109955
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a multi-color light-emitting display panel including drive lines and scanning lines intersecting with each other, and capacitive light-emitting elements which have polarities connected to the scanning lines and the drive lines at the intersections and which are divided into a plurality of types by a color of light emission, the capacitive light-emitting elements of the same type being arranged on each drive line. The drive apparatus comprises a scanning circuit for selectively supplying a first potential and a second potential higher than the first potential to each of the scanning lines, and a drive circuit for selectively supplying a drive current from a current source and a third potential for an offset voltage not higher than a light emission threshold voltage of the element to each of the drive lines, the drive current and the third potential are variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Hideo Ochi, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 6982688
    Abstract: A driving apparatus for a capacitive light emitting element display panel which comprises a driving apparatus for supplying a first predetermined potential to one selected scanning line, supplying a second predetermined potential higher than the first predetermined potential to scanning lines other than the one scanning line, supplying a driving current to a light emission drive line corresponding to a capacitive light emitting element driven to emit light, and supplying a third predetermined potential higher than the first predetermined potential and lower than a light emission threshold voltage to drive lines other than the light emission drive line, wherein the third predetermined potential is generated from a current discharge terminal of a voltage source connected to a predetermined load circuit for supplying a power supply voltage to the predetermined load circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Ochi, Shinichi Ishizuka
  • Publication number: 20040223008
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a display panel having drive lines and capacitive light emitting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Hideo Ochi
  • Patent number: 6806852
    Abstract: Improvement for extending the service life of a self-emitting panel and for reducing the power consumption thereof. The self-emitting panel is driven based on intensity-reduced data. The intensity-reduced data is obtained by applying intensity reduction processing on each frame of the image frame data to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Masami Tsuchida, Hideo Ochi
  • Patent number: 6771235
    Abstract: An apparatus for driving a display panel having drive lines and capacitive light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Hideo Ochi
  • Publication number: 20040125052
    Abstract: A method for producing a fixed display panel using a matrix display panel. In the method, the holding state of memory elements of a plurality of pixels of the matrix display panel is changed to one of two values, in accordance with the predetermined fixed pattern, m driving lines are jointly connected as a first electrode and n scanning lines are jointly connected as a second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Applicant: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Hideo Ochi, Masami Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 6756951
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a driving circuit of a display panel, in which even when an anode line driving circuit is made of a plurality of IC chips, light emission luminance values on the display panel can be uniformed. The display apparatus is made of a plurality of driving circuits having a plurality of light-emission drive current sources each for generating a light-emission drive current to allow a light emitting element of the display panel to emit the light and supplying the light-emission drive current to first electrode lines of the display panel. At least one of the driving circuits is provided with a drive current control circuit for adjusting a current amount of the light-emission drive current to be generated by the driving circuit on the basis of the light-emission drive current generated from the other driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichi Ishizuka, Masami Tsuchida, Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Hideo Ochi