Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Jo
Hiroaki Jo 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: 10114508Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel; a drive circuit that controls the touch panel; an arithmetic circuit that calculates operation content on the touch panel; and a control circuit that controls the arithmetic circuit, in which the drive circuit includes a first wiring for outputting information for calculating the operation content on the touch panel to the arithmetic circuit; and a second wiring for outputting a signal indicating that the touch panel is operated to the control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Publication number: 20170123588Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel; a drive circuit that controls the touch panel; an arithmetic circuit that calculates operation content on the touch panel; and a control circuit that controls the arithmetic circuit, in which the drive circuit includes a first wiring for outputting information for calculating the operation content on the touch panel to the arithmetic circuit; and a second wiring for outputting a signal indicating that the touch panel is operated to the control circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventor: Hiroaki JO
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Patent number: 8710895Abstract: A level shift circuit is for converting a level of input signal which has a logic level at a first input electric potential and a logic level at a second input electric potential and generating an output signal which a logic level at a first output electric potential corresponding to the first input electric potential and logic level at a second output electric potential corresponding to the second input electric potential.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 8537078Abstract: Disclosed is a pixel circuit including a light emitting element having one terminal and the other terminal, a driving transistor that supplies a driving current to the one terminal of the light emitting element, a first power line electrically connected to the other terminal of the light emitting element and receiving a first potential, a control transistor provided between a second power line, which receives a second potential, and a source of the driving transistor, and having a gate that receives a control signal through a control line, a first capacitor provided between the second power line and a gate of the driving transistor, a second capacitor provided between the gate and the source of the driving transistor, and a select transistor provided between a data line, which receives a data potential, and the gate of the driving transistor, and having a gate that receives a scanning signal through a scanning line.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 8094097Abstract: A data line driving circuit connected to data lines includes a bit shift unit that outputs input digital data composed of a plurality of bits for defining the brightness of pixels or bit-shifts the plurality of bits to lower levels to output them, based on a control signal, and a supply unit that supplies the output digital data of the bit shift unit to a D/A conversion unit. The D/A conversion unit supplies gray-scale signals obtained by D/A converting the output digital data of the supply unit to the data lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Kasai, Hiroaki Jo, Takeshi Nozawa, Hiroshi Horiuchi
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Patent number: 8077125Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light-emitting device including: a plurality of light-emitting elements which emit light with light intensities according to the levels of driving currents; a plurality of current generation circuits which are provided in correspondence with the plurality of light-emitting elements, have a plurality of current sources, and combine currents output from the plurality of current sources to output the combined currents as the driving currents; and a plurality of memories which store control signals for controlling the currents output from the plurality of current sources; wherein the levels of the currents of the plurality of current sources are different from one another, and wherein at least one of the plurality of memories is commonly connected to the current sources corresponding to predetermined current in at least two of the plurality of current generation circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Jo, Shinsuke Fujikawa
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Patent number: 8004174Abstract: A light-emitting device includes four or more rows of element groups each having light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction, the element groups being arranged in parallel in a second direction different from the first direction. In each of a plurality of unit regions arranged in the first direction, the light-emitting elements belonging to the four or more rows of element groups are arranged at different positions by ones. The four or more rows of element groups includes a first element group, a second element group, and a third element group adjacent to the second element group.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 7999269Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting element formed on a surface of a substrate and a light receiving element formed on an area other than an area overlapping the light emitting element on the surface of the substrate, the light receiving element detecting light emitted from the light emitting element.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Miyao, Hiroaki Jo
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Publication number: 20110122218Abstract: An exposure head including: light-emitting elements disposed at a first pitch in a first direction; and drive circuits disposed at a second pitch wider than the first pitch in the first direction on one side of the light-emitting elements in a second direction orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to the first direction and configured to cause the light-emitting elements to emit light.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Nozomu INOUE, Hiroaki JO, Ken IKUMA
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Patent number: 7942547Abstract: A light emitting device includes a plurality of light emitting elements aligned along a reference line, a plurality of lenses that collects light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements, and a drive circuit that allows either a first light emitting element or a second light emitting element to emit light. The plurality of lenses includes a first lens and a second lens that is disposed on an opposite side of the first lens with the reference line interposed therebetween, and a distance between the center of the first lens and the reference line is the same as a distance between the center of the second lens and the reference line. The plurality of light emitting elements includes the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element that is disposed on an opposite side of the first light emitting element with the reference line interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2008Date of Patent: May 17, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 7932876Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixel circuits each including a light-emitting element and a driving transistor for driving the light-emitting element; data lines that are connected to the plurality of pixel circuits and that supply data signals representing light-emitting gray-scale levels to the pixel circuits; and a data line driving circuit that supplies the data signals to the pixel circuits through the data lines. In addition, the data line driving circuit applies to each pixel circuit in a predetermined sequence a forward frame period supplying a data signal having a forward bias voltage for making the light-emitting element emit light and a backward frame period supplying a data signal having a backward bias voltage for making the light-emitting element not emit light, and drives each of the pixel circuits.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2005Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Jo, Toshiyuki Kasai, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Takeshi Nozawa
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Patent number: 7924457Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of driving transistors turned on or turned off in accordance with a plurality of pulse-width modulation signals. An electro-optical element is electrically connected to drains of the plurality of driving transistors and emits light at a luminance corresponding to a drive current. A data signal generator generates a data signal in accordance with a plurality of pieces of data such that, the logical level of the data signal corresponds to the logical level of the corresponding pulse-width modulation signal for the corresponding section. Pulse-width modulation signal generators are provided for each respective driving transistors.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 7902559Abstract: A light emitting device includes a substrate having transparency, a light emitting element that emits light at least to the substrate side, and a light detecting element that is formed between the light emitting element and the substrate. The light detecting element is formed along an outer frame of the light emitting element in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tsukasa Eguchi, Hiroaki Jo, Eiji Kanda, Toshiyuki Kasai, Atsushi Ito
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Patent number: 7898688Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of unit circuits; a first selecting circuit that sequentially selects the plurality of unit circuits; and a first signal line through which correction data for the individual unit circuits are supplied serially. Each of the plurality of unit circuits includes an electro-optical element that exhibits an intensity corresponding to a driving current, a storage circuit that obtains correction data from the first signal line when the first selecting circuit selects the unit circuit and that stores the correction data; and a control circuit that controls the driving current supplied to the electro-optical element according to intensity data specifying the intensity exhibited by the electro-optical element and the correction data stored in the storage circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Fujikawa, Hiroaki Jo
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Publication number: 20110001740Abstract: Disclosed is a pixel circuit including a light emitting element having one terminal and the other terminal, a driving transistor that supplies a driving current to the one terminal of the light emitting element, a first power line electrically connected to the other terminal of the light emitting element and receiving a first potential, a control transistor provided between a second power line, which receives a second potential, and a source of the driving transistor, and having a gate that receives a control signal through a control line, a first capacitor provided between the second power line and a gate of the driving transistor, a second capacitor provided between the gate and the source of the driving transistor, and a select transistor provided between a data line, which receives a data potential, and the gate of the driving transistor, and having a gate that receives a scanning signal through a scanning line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki JO
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Patent number: 7760163Abstract: A drive circuit of an electro-optical device comprising electro-optical elements of which each gray scale is controlled in accordance with a data signal output to a data line includes a reference current that generates unit generating reference current and a signal output unit that generates the data signal corresponding to a current value of the reference current generated by the reference current generating unit on the basis of gray-scale data and outputs the generated data signal to the data line. The reference current generating unit performs a refresh operation of setting the current value of the reference current to a predetermined value plural times.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 7714883Abstract: A control method for controlling an optical head having a plurality of light emitting devices, includes: dividing the plurality of light emitting devices into a plurality of blocks by grouping adjacent light emitting devices of the plurality of light emitting devices; adjusting levels of driving signals supplied to the adjacent light emitting devices for each of the plurality of blocks so that emission luminances of the adjacent light emitting devices belonging to the each of the plurality of blocks become substantially equal to each other; and adjusting emission periods so that the equalized emission luminances of the plurality of blocks become substantially equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2007Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Shinsuke Fujikawa, Hiroaki Jo
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Patent number: 7692611Abstract: To provide an electro-optical device, a driving method therefor, and an electronic apparatus which can accurately control the brightness of electro-optical elements in accordance with the signal level of a data signal. A brightness detection circuit 15 is provided which samples power-supply current Io every time one scan line is selected and which converts the power-supply current Io into a digital voltage signal DS having a digital value corresponding to the power-supply current Io. A light-emission-period control circuit 16 generates light-emission-period control signals H1 to Hn in accordance with a light-emission-period adjusting signal F corresponding to the digital voltage signal DS and outputs the light-emission-period control signals H1 to Hn to corresponding control-signal supply lines G1 to Gn.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Jo, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Toshiyuki Kasai
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Publication number: 20090321751Abstract: A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting element formed on a surface of a substrate and a light receiving element formed on an area other than an area overlapping the light emitting element on the surface of the substrate, the light receiving element detecting light emitted from the light emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki MIYAO, Hiroaki JO
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Patent number: 7623108Abstract: To correct brightness by measuring with accuracy and high speed variation of the brightness between pixels of an organic EL display. A first correction data memory stores a first correction data Dhy in a row direction, and a second correction data memory stores second correction data Dhx in a column direction. A first operation circuit generates a pixel correction data DH based on the first correction data Dhy and the second correction data Dhx. The pixel correction data DH is stored into a pixel correction data memory. Input gray scale data Din is corrected by the pixel correction data DH to output as output gray scale data Dout.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2004Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiroaki Jo, Toshiyuki Kasai, Hiroshi Horiuchi, Takeshi Nozawa