Patents by Inventor Jin Matsushima

Jin Matsushima 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: 8717266
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal panel including sub-pixels and a back light for irradiating light to the back surface of liquid crystal panel. A transmission sub-pixel can be switched into an image display state which can allow irradiated light to exit, and a black display state which does not allow irradiated light to exit. A mirror sub-pixel can be switched between a mirror state which can allow reflected light to exit and a non-mirror state which does not allow reflected light to exit, independently of the transmission sub-pixel. A control unit places each transmission sub-pixel into the image display state or black display state, and places each mirror sub-pixel into the mirror state or non-mirror state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Michiaki Sakamoto, Ken Sumiyoshi, Kenichi Mori
  • Publication number: 20140104520
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display accommodates a reflective portion with a concavo-convex reflecting pixel electrode for reflecting incident light from the display face side, and a transmissive portion with a transmissive pixel electrode for transmitting light output from the backlight. In a wide viewing angle region, luminance of the reflective portion is greater than the transmissive portion. In other angle regions, luminance of the transmissive portion is greater than the reflective portion. In a wide viewing field mode, the reflective portion and transmissive portion both perform normal display. In the narrow viewing field mode, the transmissive portion performs normal display, while the reflective portion performs cancelling data display, thereby rendering unviewable the display content of the transmissive portion from beyond a certain viewing angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Okumura, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8599125
    Abstract: A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a backlight used for the LCD and a method for producing the LCD and the backlight are provided which are capable of inhibiting an increase in component counts and in assembling processes and of reducing them, thereby achieving low costs. A display image is obtained by arranging a backlight section being able to perform scanning as a single unit in a manner that it positionally matches a liquid crystal displaying section. The backlight section is provided with a plurality of scanning electrodes and light emitting layers each providing a different luminescent color, and being spatially separated from each other on a principal face of the backlight and scanning is performed on a plurality of light emitting layers providing a different luminescent color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Getner Foundation LLC
    Inventors: Ken Sumiyoshi, Toshihiro Yoshioka, Hiroshi Hayama, Jin Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20130278850
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device makes it possible to attach an optical element to a liquid-crystal display panel with high positional accuracy while avoiding or minimizing the enlargement of the picture-frame region (i.e., the non-display region) induced by the formation of markers on the panel and the increase of the fabrication cost. The panel comprises a main substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal enclosed in a gap between the main and opposite substrates, wherein a polarizer plate is attached at least to the opposite substrate. Markers for attaching an optical element to the panel are formed at positions that overlap with the polarizer plate in a non-display region on the main or opposite substrate. Alignment direction regulators regulate the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to a predetermined direction in the vicinities of the markers, allowing light to pass through at least the opposite substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Tsutomu HIROYA, Koji SHIGEMURA, Jin MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 8558770
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display element accommodates a reflective portion provided with a concavo-convex reflecting pixel electrode for reflecting incident light from the display face side and displaying information, and a transmissive portion provided with a transmissive pixel electrode for transmitting light that is output from the backlight. The voltages applied to the reflective portion and the transmissive portion are controlled independently. The reflective portion and the transmissive portion have wide viewing angle characteristics. In a wide viewing angle region greater than a certain angle, the luminance of the reflective portion is greater than the luminance of the transmissive portion, whereas in other angle regions the luminance of the transmissive portion is greater than the luminance of the reflective portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Okumura, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8508852
    Abstract: To suppress bad shaping generated due to fusion of neighboring cylindrical lenses in a lens sheet formed by using an ultraviolet curable resin, for example. A lens sheet includes: a substrate formed with a transparent material; a plurality of protruded lines provided on the substrate in parallel at a specific pitch; and a plurality of cylindrical lenses, each of which is provided between the plurality of protruded lines on the substrate. The protruded line for forming the lens is designed to be constituted with a set of two lines, i.e., a left protruded line and a right protruded line, to suppress fusion of the neighboring lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Okumura, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 8497960
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device makes it possible to attach an optical element to a liquid-crystal display panel with high positional accuracy while avoiding or minimizing the enlargement of the picture-frame region (i.e., the non-display region) induced by the formation of markers on the panel and the increase of the fabrication cost. The panel comprises a main substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal enclosed in a gap between the main and opposite substrates, wherein a polarizer plate is attached at least to the opposite substrate. Markers for attaching an optical element to the panel are formed at positions that overlap with the polarizer plate in a non-display region on the main or opposite substrate. Alignment direction regulators regulate the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to a predetermined direction in the vicinities of the markers, allowing light to pass through at least the opposite substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hiroya, Koji Shigemura, Jin Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8436967
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8395731
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal panel capable of realizing excellent display performance using a circular polarizing plate therein, and a liquid crystal display device and a terminal device using the same, with respect to a semi-transmission type liquid crystal display device in a horizontal electric field mode (In-Plane Switching: IPS). A viewer-side circular polarizing plate and a backside circular polarizing plate are disposed outside of a viewer-side substrate and a backside substrate respectively, and a viewer-side compensation plate and a backside compensation plate are disposed between the respective polarizing plates and substrates to reduce a refractive index anisotropy of a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Uehara, Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8363184
    Abstract: In an LCD device, a circular polarizer is provided to each of two substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer. The circular polarizer on the display surface side includes a polarizer, ?/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side includes a polarizer, a ?/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a ?/2 plate or a ?/4 plate. The absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the ?/2 plate for which Rth<0 is reduced, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the ?/4 plate for which Rth>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignees: NEC Corporation, NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-ichi Uehara
  • Patent number: 8325303
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device makes it possible to attach an optical element to a liquid-crystal display panel with high positional accuracy while avoiding or minimizing the enlargement of the picture-frame region (i.e., the non-display region) induced by the formation of markers on the panel and the increase of the fabrication cost. The panel comprises a main substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal enclosed in a gap between the main and opposite substrates, wherein a polarizer plate is attached at least to the opposite substrate. Markers for attaching an optical element to the panel are formed at positions that overlap with the polarizer plate in a non-display region on the main or opposite substrate. Alignment direction regulators regulate the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to a predetermined direction in the vicinities of the markers, allowing light to pass through at least the opposite substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hiroya, Koji Shigemura, Jin Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8253869
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a touch panel has a reflective display region and a transmissive display region, at least the transmissive display region including a liquid crystal layer energizable according to a lateral electric field mode. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer held between a pair of substrate disposed in confronting relation to each other, observer-side circular polarizer 9 disposed outwardly of one of the substrates, back-side circular polarizer 8 disposed outwardly of the other substrate, observer-side compensator 11 for reducing refractive index anisotropy of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective display region and the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display region, and touch panel 13 disposed between observer-side circular polarizer 9 and observer-side compensator 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shinichi Uehara
  • Patent number: 8228596
    Abstract: In this display device, a pixel constituting a display image is made up of a liquid chamber which can contain liquid. To such a pixel, a liquid supply passage and a liquid discharge passage are connected via a switch. The liquid supply passage, the liquid discharge passage, and the pixel together constitute a flow passage. The switch is configured to control the passage and blockage of liquid in the flow passage. Further, the transfer of liquid into and out of a pixel is performed by liquid transfer means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Sumiyoshi, Jin Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20120105775
    Abstract: In an LCD device, a circular polarizer is provided to each of two substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer. The circular polarizer on the display surface side includes a polarizer, ?/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side includes a polarizer, a ?/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a ?/2 plate or a ?/4 plate. The absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the ?/2 plate for which Rth<0 is reduced, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the ?/4 plate for which Rth>0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jin MATSUSHIMA, Ken SUMIYOSHI, Shin-ichi UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20120075554
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal panel capable of realizing excellent display performance using a circular polarizing plate therein, and a liquid crystal display device and a terminal device using the same, with respect to a semi-transmission type liquid crystal display device in a horizontal electric field mode (In-Plane Switching: IPS). A viewer-side circular polarizing plate and a backside circular polarizing plate are disposed outside of a viewer-side substrate and a backside substrate respectively, and a viewer-side compensation plate and a backside compensation plate are disposed between the respective polarizing plates and substrates to reduce a refractive index anisotropy of a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD
    Inventors: Shinichi UEHARA, Jin MATSUSHIMA, Ken SUMIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20120063009
    Abstract: To suppress bad shaping generated due to fusion of neighboring cylindrical lenses in a lens sheet formed by using an ultraviolet curable resin, for example. A lens sheet includes: a substrate formed with a transparent material; a plurality of protruded lines provided on the substrate in parallel at a specific pitch; and a plurality of cylindrical lenses, each of which is provided between the plurality of protruded lines on the substrate. The protruded line for forming the lens is designed to be constituted with a set of two lines, i.e., a left protruded line and a right protruded line, to suppress fusion of the neighboring lenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Applicant: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi OKUMURA, Jin MATSUSHIMA, Hiroshi TANABE
  • Patent number: 8134663
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal panel capable of realizing excellent display performance using a circular polarizing plate therein, and a liquid crystal display device and a terminal device using the same, with respect to a semi-transmission type liquid crystal display device in a horizontal electric field mode (In-Plane Switching: IPS). A viewer-side circular polarizing plate and a backside circular polarizing plate are disposed outside of a viewer-side substrate and a backside substrate respectively, and a viewer-side compensation plate and a backside compensation plate are disposed between the respective polarizing plates and substrates to reduce a refractive index anisotropy of a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Uehara, Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20120038857
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device makes it possible to attach an optical element to a liquid-crystal display panel with high positional accuracy while avoiding or minimizing the enlargement of the picture-frame region (i.e., the non-display region) induced by the formation of markers on the panel and the increase of the fabrication cost. The panel comprises a main substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal enclosed in a gap between the main and opposite substrates, wherein a polarizer plate is attached at least to the opposite substrate. Markers for attaching an optical element to the panel are formed at positions that overlap with the polarizer plate in a non-display region on the main or opposite substrate. Alignment direction regulators regulate the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules to a predetermined direction in the vicinities of the markers, allowing light to pass through at least the opposite substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: TSUTOMU HIROYA, KOJI SHIGEMURA, JIN MATSUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 8054422
    Abstract: To improve a patterning accuracy of pixel electrodes and common electrodes. The liquid crystal display device includes a reflective display area and a transmissive display area within a pixel that is configured with a pair of opposing substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates. The reflective display area achieves display by reflection of light, and the transmissive display area achieves display by transmission of light. A laminated body including a reflective plate, an insulating layer, and a metal electrode for rotating liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer within a surface thereof is provided within the reflective display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd
    Inventors: Shinichi Uehara, Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 7961276
    Abstract: In the liquid crystal display device of the present invention, a circular polarizer is provided to each of a pair of substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer, wherein the circular polarizer on the display surface side is composed of a polarizer, ?/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side is composed of a polarizer, a ?/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a ?/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a ?/2 plate or a ?/4 plate. A reduction is achieved in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the ?/2 plate for which Rth<0, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the ?/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the ?/4 plate for which Rth>0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Matsushima, Ken Sumiyoshi, Shin-Ichi Uehara