Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Kato
Hirofumi Kato 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: 11386860Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Publication number: 20220080907Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor circuit connected to a load circuit and configured to control power supply to the load circuit, comprising: a power line to which a power voltage is applied; an overvoltage protection unit that has an output unit configured to interrupt power supply from the power line to the load circuit when the power voltage in the power line is overvoltage; and a state notification unit configured to notify the outside of a state signal indicating whether the output unit is interrupting the power supply.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Mutsuo NISHIKAWA, Hirofumi KATO
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Publication number: 20220037410Abstract: A detection device includes a photodiode, and a thin-film transistor coupled to the photodiode. The thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer between a light-blocking layer and the photodiode, and an electrode layer between the semiconductor layer and the photodiode, and the electric layer includes a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin-film transistor. The source electrode extends to a position facing the light-blocking layer with the semiconductor layer interposed therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Takashi NAKAMURA, Makoto UCHIDA, Masahiro TADA, Marina MOCHIZUKI, Hirofumi KATO, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20220031182Abstract: A detection device includes a first optical sensor, a second optical sensor disposed at a predetermined distance from the first optical sensor, a light source that emits light to be detected by the first optical sensor and the second optical sensor facing a living body tissue including a blood vessel, and a processor that calculates a pulse wave velocity of the blood vessel based on a time-series variation of an output of the first optical sensor, a time-series variation of an output of the second optical sensor, and the predetermined distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Makoto UCHIDA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20220036036Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a detection area, a light source configured to emit light that is emitted to an object to be detected and is detected by the optical sensors, and a processor configured to perform processing based on outputs from the optical sensors. The processor is configured to determine, based on the outputs of the respective optical sensors obtained at a cycle of a predetermined period, an optical sensor an output of which is to be employed from among the optical sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Makoto UCHIDA, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20220025106Abstract: An epoxy resin composition and a cured product thereof are provided, the epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B) comprising a compound represented by the following formula (B-1) (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methoxy group or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms), and an imidazole adduct-type curing accelerator (C), wherein the molar ratio of the content of a phenolic hydroxide group to the content of an epoxy group in the epoxy resin composition is 0.25 to 0.67.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITEDInventors: Hirofumi KATO, Kenichi TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20210326623Abstract: A detection device according to an aspect includes: a sensor base; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided in a detection area of the sensor base and are configured to receive light incident thereon and output signals corresponding to the received light; a plurality of switching elements provided in the respective photoelectric conversion elements; a plurality of gate lines that are coupled to the switching elements and extend in a first direction; a first light source configured to emit first light having a first maximum emission wavelength; and a second light source configured to emit second light having a second maximum emission wavelength.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Inventors: Hirofumi KATO, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Makoto UCHIDA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Akio TAKIMOTO, Takao SOMEYA, Tomoyuki YOKOTA
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Publication number: 20210241707Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi KATO
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Publication number: 20210240963Abstract: A fingerprint detection device includes a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided to the substrate and each output a signal corresponding to light emitted thereto, a plurality of signal lines coupled to the photoelectric conversion elements, a detection circuit that is electrically coupled to the photoelectric conversion elements through the signal lines, and a signal line selection circuit that switches the number of the signal lines to be coupled to the one detection circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takashi NAKAMURA, Makoto UCHIDA, Takanori TSUNASHIMA, Hirofumi KATO, Akio TAKIMOTO
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Patent number: 11017737Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Publication number: 20210003870Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi KATO
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Publication number: 20200400491Abstract: Provided are a substrate, an organic material layer provided above the substrate at a position overlapping at least a detection region, a plurality of detection electrodes provided between the substrate and the organic material layer in a direction orthogonal to the substrate, a first switching element provided to each of the detection electrodes, a plurality of gate lines coupled with some first switching elements and extending in a first direction, a plurality of signal lines coupled with some first switching elements and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a drive circuit configured to supply gate drive signals having potentials determined for the respective gate lines based on a predetermined code to the respective first switching elements through the gate lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Hitoshi TANAKA, Masahiro TADA, Takashi NAKAMURA, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Fumitaka GOTOH, Hirofumi KATO
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Patent number: 10816843Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Patent number: 10573256Abstract: In a display device, an image display panel updates an image in a frame cycle including an image scanning period and a vertical blanking period, a light modulation layer is disposed at a back of the panel and switched to a scattering or transmission state depending on an electric field applied, a light source emits light which enters the light modulation layer from its side and travels therethrough, electrodes are formed according to divided areas of the light modulation layer arranged in a direction of the light and apply the electric field to the light modulation layer, and a controller drives the electrodes in synchronization with image scanning to switch the divided areas to the scattering state in order during the image scanning period, and drives the electrodes according to distances from the side to control the scattering state on the individual divided areas during the vertical blanking period.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Patent number: 10504477Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixel electrodes, a common electrode and a display function layer, a light source unit, and a controller. When a character is displayed in a first area of a display area, the controller applies a color other than the achromatic color to the first area, and makes a second area and a non-object area transparent. Transparency of the non-object area is higher than transparency of the second area.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Patent number: 10497322Abstract: In an embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel, a light source and a controller. The display panel including pixels, a common electrode, pixel electrodes and a liquid crystal layer containing a polymer dispersed liquid crystal. The light source emits light to the display panel. The liquid crystal layer scatters light when scattering voltage is applied between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes, and transmits light when transparent voltage is applied between the common electrode and the pixel electrodes. The controller applies the transparent voltage in a first period, and applies voltage in accordance with image data in a second period.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Patent number: 10453403Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a light source unit, and a controller which controls the display panel and the light source unit, wherein the controller applies scattering voltage between a common electrode and a first pixel electrode in a first area and between the common electrode and a second pixel electrode in a second area, and a liquid crystal layer scatters light in a first display color in the first area, and scatters light in a second display color different from the first display color in the second area.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato
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Publication number: 20190228719Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a display area where first drive areas and second drive areas are alternately disposed, and display function layers which include first display function layers and second display function layers and which are changed to a transparent state and a scattering state, and a control unit. The control unit applies a drive voltage to the first display function layers, in a first field period. The control unit applies the drive voltage to the second display function layers, in a second field period. A polarity of the drive voltage in the first field period is different from a polarity of the drive voltage in the second field period.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi KATO
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Publication number: 20190213962Abstract: In a display device, an image display panel updates an image in a frame cycle including an image scanning period and a vertical blanking period, a light modulation layer is disposed at a back of the panel and switched to a scattering or transmission state depending on an electric field applied, a light source emits light which enters the light modulation layer from its side and travels therethrough, electrodes are formed according to divided areas of the light modulation layer arranged in a direction of the light and apply the electric field to the light modulation layer, and a controller drives the electrodes in synchronization with image scanning to switch the divided areas to the scattering state in order during the image scanning period, and drives the electrodes according to distances from the side to control the scattering state on the individual divided areas during the vertical blanking period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventor: Hirofumi KATO
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Patent number: 10283060Abstract: In a display device, an image display panel updates an image in a frame cycle including an image scanning period and a vertical blanking period, a light modulation layer is disposed at a back of the panel and switched to a scattering or transmission state depending on an electric field applied, a light source emits light which enters the light modulation layer from its side and travels therethrough, electrodes are formed according to divided areas of the light modulation layer arranged in a direction of the light and apply the electric field to the light modulation layer, and a controller drives the electrodes in synchronization with image scanning to switch the divided areas to the scattering state in order during the image scanning period, and drives the electrodes according to distances from the side to control the scattering state on the individual divided areas during the vertical blanking period.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirofumi Kato