Patents by Inventor Ikuko Mori

Ikuko Mori 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: 20080246709
    Abstract: A display device which includes a display panel with plural sub-pixels, first and second conversion circuits for converting the display data in the intermediate gradation input from the external system into different values, a driver which outputs the video voltage corresponding to the display data to the sub-pixels, and a second driver which scans the plural sub-pixels further includes an overdrive circuit which receives an input of identical first and second display data sequentially from the external system in two consecutive frame intervals such that the first display data are subjected to an overdrive process. The first conversion circuit converts the first display data subjected to the overdrive process in the overdrive circuit based on a frame distinction signal input from the external system, and the second conversion circuit converts the second display data based on the frame distinction signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventor: Ikuko Mori
  • Patent number: 7411647
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Publication number: 20080170194
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed on one substrate. A planar counter electrode which is formed on each pixel region, and a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits is formed in overlapping relation with the counter electrode. A first contact hole is provided for connecting the pixel electrode and a source electrode, and a connection line is provided for connecting the counter electrode of one pixel region and the counter electrode of an adjacent next pixel region. The counter electrode has a notch in the position of the first contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo ONO, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Publication number: 20080158125
    Abstract: In a driving method capable of dot inversion without an increase in power consumption of an IC, measures are taken to deal with the lack of time for wiring data signals, when the screen is enlarged and the number of pixels increases, or when the frame frequency increases. In order to obtain the same effect as the case of the dot inversion, the pixels are arranged in a staggered arrangement in which the polarity inversion of the data signal is performed with the same frequency as in the column-by-column inversion. In order to deal with the lack of time for writing data signals because of large screen or other reasons, preliminary writing is performed when the scan line of the previous row prior to the scan line in which the data signal is to be written is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 7352425
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates which face each other with a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, a plurality of pixel regions which are formed on one substrate, a planar counter electrode which is formed on each pixel region, and a comb-shaped or slit-shaped pixel electrode which is formed on each pixel region, the comb-shaped or slit-shaped pixel electrode being formed over the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, a notch or a slit is formed in the counter electrode such that a wiring layer made of an opaque material which transmits a potential to the pixel electrode from a thin film transistor defines a region where the wiring layer is not overlapped relative to the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Publication number: 20080068395
    Abstract: The present invention reduces moving image blurring in a hold-response-type display device. 1 frame is divided into 3 fields. Assuming the gradation-brightness characteristic of a first field as 1g, the gradation-brightness characteristic of a second field as 2g, and the gradation-brightness characteristic of a third field as 3g, the third field is set at an initial stage or at a final stage of the frame. Due to such setting, the moving image blurring can be effectively reduced up to the relatively high brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080068299
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display method realizing reduction in a moving picture blurring by forming one frame by two fields of different luminance, in which increase in an unapplied voltage due to shortening of data voltage write time is suppressed. A gate voltage is applied in a light field for a period of time which is twice as long as scan line selection time, thereby decreasing an unapplied voltage. On the other hand, a gate voltage is applied normally in a dark field for the scan line selection time, so that the case where the unapplied voltage increases is eliminated. As a result, an image with high reproducibility can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: IKUKO MORI, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080068516
    Abstract: The present invention prevents deterioration of image quality by lowering a heat value of a data driver connected to a liquid crystal display panel. In a liquid crystal display device, a pixel which connects a TFT thereof to one of two neighboring scanning signal lines and a pixel which has a TFT thereof connected to the other scanning signal line are alternately arranged in the extending direction of the scanning signal lines, two pixels which are arranged close to each other with one video signal line sandwiched therebetween have respective TFTs connected to the video signal line, and the connection relationship between the TFT of each pixel and the scanning signal line is inverted for every pair of two pixels arranged in the extending direction of the video signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20070279487
    Abstract: A display device having a display panel includes a plurality of scan signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines three-dimensionally intersecting the plurality of scan signal lines with an insulating layer therebetween, and thin film transistor elements and pixel electrodes disposed in pixel regions enclosed by each adjacent two of the scan signal lines and each adjacent two of the video signal lines. A direction of disposition of the thin film transistor elements toward the video signal lines is inverted each time the video signal lines cut across the scan signal lines in a direction of extension of the video signal lines. Each of the video signal lines is given a signal whose polarity is identical in one frame period and is inverted for each frame period. Each adjacent two of the video signal lines are given signals having mutually inverse polarities. A display area is set up as a group of the pixel regions in the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Ikuko Mori
  • Publication number: 20070252936
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Patent number: 7256853
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Patent number: 7238718
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method which is able to prevent or improve the progress of myolytic diseases such as muscular dystrophy. Such an object is able to be solved by a method where an effective dose of an inhibitor for hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase (H-PGDS) or an antagonist to prostaglandin D receptor is administered to a patient who needs it. The present invention also provides a method for screening compounds which are able to prevent the progress of myolytic diseases and to improve it using human H-PGDS overexpressed transgenic mice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignees: Osaka Bioscience Institute, Riken
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Urade, Naomi Eguchi, Kosuke Aritake, Yo Sato, Masako Taniike, Ikuko Mori, Masashi Miyano
  • Publication number: 20070103418
    Abstract: An image displaying apparatus, for improving motion blur, in particular, on an image displaying apparatus of hold-type, such as, a liquid crystal display element, etc., comprising: sub-frame producing portions (5, 6) for producing a first sub-frame, a second sub-frame being lower in the gradation than the first sub-frame, from an image of one (1) frame of an image signal inputted; a histogram detection portion (2) for detecting brightness histogram of the image signal; an image determination portion (3) for determining on whether the image signal inputted is a high-gradation image or not, from that brightness histogram; and a level compensation portion (4) for lowering a gradation level of that image signal inputted. And, according to the present invention, lowering the gradation of the high-gradation image keeps the difference in brightness between the first and the second sub-frames, and thereby increasing an effect of improving the motion blur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventors: Masahiro Ogino, Nobuaki Kabuto, Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Yoshihisa Ooishi
  • Publication number: 20070070009
    Abstract: An afterimage produced when a hold response display is used in an I/P conversion display mode is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke
  • Publication number: 20070035687
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a liquid crystal display device corresponding to high frequency. In a display device in which a plurality of drain electrode lines and a plurality of gate electrode lines are arranged in a matrix array, a pixel region is defined at a portion which is surrounded by two neighboring drain electrode lines and two neighboring gate electrode lines, each pixel region includes a TFT element, and a mass of pixel regions form a display region, each time the drain electrode line traverses the gate electrode line in the extending direction of the drain electrode line, the arrangement direction of TFT elements with respect to the drain electrode line is inverted, and a TFT element is arranged outside the display region each time the drain electrode line traverses two gate electrode lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kenta Kamoshida, Ikuko Mori
  • Publication number: 20070008242
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to control the color temperature of white exhibited by a liquid crystal display device. White is produced when light waves emitted through pixels associated with three colors of red, green, and blue have maximum intensities. The amounts of light emitted through the respective pixels are controlled by differentiating the shapes of the pixel electrodes disposed at the respective pixels from one another. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. Otherwise, the shapes of interceptive films disposed at the respective pixels are differentiated from one another in order to control light waves emitted through the respective pixels. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. The interceptive film may be shaped like the pixel electrode. Otherwise, the interceptive film may be realized with an interceptive pattern other than that of the pixel electrode or one of openings bored in a black matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Munenori Motooka, Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20060061723
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode in a pixel formed on a surface of a substrate which faces liquid crystal, the counter electrode is formed below an insulation film, and the pixel electrode is formed above the insulation film, wherein the counter electrode is formed over a whole area of a center except for a slight periphery of at least the pixel, the pixel electrode is constituted of separate pixel electrodes to which a video signal which is supplied to the pixel is inputted through the separate switching elements at the same timing, and the separate pixel electrodes are respectively formed of a plurality of electrodes and the respective electrodes are alternately arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 23, 2006
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20060022933
    Abstract: In a display device which displays a black image by periodically inserting a black image, after the display of the black image, a first period in which a video signal different from a video signal for the black image is outputted to video signal lines is made different from a succeeding period in length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Inventors: Kenta Endo, Yoshihiro Imajo, Yoshihisa Ooishi, Ikuko Mori, Shisei Katou
  • Publication number: 20050272767
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method which is able to prevent or improve the progress of myolytic diseases such as muscular dystrophy. Such an object is able to be solved by a method where an effective dose of an inhibitor for hematopoietic prostaglandin D synthase (H-PGDS) or an antagonist to prostaglandin D receptor is administered to a patient who needs it. The present invention also provides a method for screening compounds which are able to prevent the progress of myolytic diseases and to improve it using human H-PGDS overexpressed transgenic mice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2004
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Applicant: Osaka Bioscience Institute and RIKEN
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Urade, Naomi Eguchi, Kosuke Aritake, Yo Sato, Masako Taniike, Ikuko Mori, Masashi Miyano
  • Publication number: 20050105032
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita