Patents by Inventor Jin Miyazawa

Jin Miyazawa 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: 11604537
    Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel, a panel control unit, and a storage unit configured to store an image signal. The panel control unit provides control to perform a touch detection operation and a write operation in an alternating manner in an image input period and to perform at least the touch detection operation at regular intervals in a suspension period. When an image input period starts, the panel control unit provides control to perform the write operation after an ongoing or subsequent touch detection operation finishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yousuke Nakamura, Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa, Daisuke Suehiro
  • Publication number: 20220377351
    Abstract: An image transmission device (100) includes a compression unit (16) to generate first compression images (5) which are obtained by irreversibly compressing divided images, and to generate second compression images (6) which are obtained by reversibly compressing each of the first compression images (5), a decompression unit (17) to decompress each of the first compression images (5) as decompression images (7), a division sum image generation unit (12) to generate a division sum image (imgSUM), an error sum image generation unit (13) to generate an error sum image (?imgSUM), a judgment unit (14) to generate judgment data (Dj), and a transmission unit (15) to transmit the second compression images (6), the division sum image (imgSUM), the error sum image (?imgSUM) and the judgment data (Dj).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Jin MIYAZAWA, Shinya HIRAKURI
  • Patent number: 11482185
    Abstract: A method for driving a display device capable of appropriately performing idle driving even when timing information is not transmitted to a liquid crystal module in advance is provided. In a case where, in one vertical period, a non-scanning period other than a scanning period in which a screen of a display unit is scanned once is set to a pause period, a liquid crystal module delays supply of a data signal to the display unit by a recovery period during which a source driver is recovered from a sleep state to an active state in the pause period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Tanaka, Kazuo Nakamura, Kazuki Takahashi, Jin Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 11475860
    Abstract: A memory liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel with a built-in touch panel is provided with a state control circuit configured to switch a state of a pixel electrode between a floating state and a non-floating state. A pulse signal for touch detection is supplied to a common electrode in a touch detection period. The state control circuit changes the state of the pixel electrode from the non-floating state to the floating state before the start of the touch detection period, and changes the state of the pixel electrode from the floating state to the non-floating state after the end of the touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa, Yousuke Nakamura, Daisuke Suehiro, Noriyuki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220291802
    Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel, a panel control unit, and a storage unit configured to store an image signal. The panel control unit provides control to perform a touch detection operation and a write operation in an alternating manner in an image input period and to perform at least the touch detection operation at regular intervals in a suspension period. When an image input period starts, the panel control unit provides control to perform the write operation after an ongoing or subsequent touch detection operation finishes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Yousuke NAKAMURA, Daiji KITAGAWA, Jin MIYAZAWA, Daisuke SUEHIRO
  • Patent number: 11397490
    Abstract: In a memory liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel with a built-in touch panel, a black voltage or a white voltage is provided to a pixel electrode in accordance with a value of binary data stored in a memory circuit, and a display voltage generation circuit changes voltage values of the black voltage and the white voltage in synchronization with a continuous pulse voltage for touch detection in a touch detection period so that an absolute value of a voltage between the pixel electrode and a common electrode is maintained at a constant magnitude in each pixel circuit throughout a period from a point in time immediately before the start of the touch detection period to a point in time immediately after the end of the touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Noriyuki Tanaka, Jin Miyazawa, Yousuke Nakamura, Daisuke Suehiro
  • Publication number: 20220189428
    Abstract: A memory liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel with a built-in touch panel is provided with a state control circuit configured to switch a state of a pixel electrode between a floating state and a non-floating state. A pulse signal for touch detection is supplied to a common electrode in a touch detection period. The state control circuit changes the state of the pixel electrode from the non-floating state to the floating state before the start of the touch detection period, and changes the state of the pixel electrode from the floating state to the non-floating state after the end of the touch detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: DAIJI KITAGAWA, JIN MIYAZAWA, YOUSUKE NAKAMURA, DAISUKE SUEHIRO, NORIYUKI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220187974
    Abstract: In a memory liquid crystal display including a liquid crystal panel with a built-in touch panel, a black voltage or a white voltage is provided to a pixel electrode in accordance with a value of binary data stored in a memory circuit, and a display voltage generation circuit changes voltage values of the black voltage and the white voltage in synchronization with a continuous pulse voltage for touch detection in a touch detection period so that an absolute value of a voltage between the pixel electrode and a common electrode is maintained at a constant magnitude in each pixel circuit throughout a period from a point in time immediately before the start of the touch detection period to a point in time immediately after the end of the touch detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: DAIJI KITAGAWA, NORIYUKI TANAKA, JIN MIYAZAWA, YOUSUKE NAKAMURA, DAISUKE SUEHIRO
  • Patent number: 11209932
    Abstract: A display device can extend a pause period by using a preset second setting period as a unit when a length of the pause period exceeds the second setting period. Further, detection of a touch position and specification of coordinates are interrupted when a vertical synchronization signal is received while specifying the coordinates of the touch position, and coordinates remaining in a coordinate calculation unit are discarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20210373733
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal layer provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, a plurality of touch sensors provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, a touch detection unit configured to perform control of detecting a touch on the basis of capacitance values of the plurality of touch sensors, a pair of wiring lines connected to at least one of the plurality of touch sensors, and a resistance value acquisition unit connected to the pair of wiring lines and configured to acquire, via the pair of wiring lines, a resistance value of a touch sensor to which the pair of wiring lines are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Daiji KITAGAWA, Jin MIYAZAWA, Yousuke NAKAMURA, Daisuke SUEHIRO
  • Publication number: 20210019011
    Abstract: A display device can extend a pause period by using a preset second setting period as a unit when a length of the pause period exceeds the second setting period. Further, detection of a touch position and specification of coordinates are interrupted when a vertical synchronization signal is received while specifying the coordinates of the touch position, and coordinates remaining in a coordinate calculation unit are discarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Daiji KITAGAWA, Jin MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10838548
    Abstract: A touch panel display device includes an active matrix substrate and a control unit. The active matrix substrate is provided with gate lines, pixel electrodes connected to the gate lines, counter electrodes disposed to form a matrix, and touch sensor wires connected to the counter electrodes. The control unit alternately switches, during one frame period, between a gate scan period of scanning the gate lines and a sensor scan period of scanning the counter electrodes by a segment SEG and detecting electrostatic capacitance by. The one frame period includes a plurality of gate scan periods and a plurality of sensor scan periods. The control unit scans each of the segments in a first scan mode of completing touch detection of scanning all the segments in the one frame period a number of times other than an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiji Kitagawa, Jin Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20200243035
    Abstract: A method for driving a display device capable of appropriately performing idle driving even when timing information is not transmitted to a liquid crystal module in advance is provided. In a case where, in one vertical period, a non-scanning period other than a scanning period in which a screen of a display unit (11) is scanned once is set to a pause period, a liquid crystal module (101) delays supply of a data signal to the display unit (11) by a recovery period during which a source driver (12) is recovered from a sleep state to an active state in the pause period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: YUTA TANAKA, KAZUO NAKAMURA, KAZUKI TAKAHASHI, JIN MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190377471
    Abstract: A touch panel display device includes an active matrix substrate and a control unit. The active matrix substrate is provided with gate lines, pixel electrodes connected to the gate lines, counter electrodes disposed to form a matrix, and touch sensor wires connected to the counter electrodes. The control unit alternately switches, during one frame period, between a gate scan period of scanning the gate lines and a sensor scan period of scanning the counter electrodes by a segment SEG and detecting electrostatic capacitance by. The one frame period includes a plurality of gate scan periods and a plurality of sensor scan periods. The control unit scans each of the segments in a first scan mode of completing touch detection of scanning all the segments in the one frame period a number of times other than an integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Daiji KITAGAWA, Jin MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10497330
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to further reduce the power consumption of a display device adopting pause driving. In a display device that includes a display driving unit (30) that drives a display unit (400); and a power supply circuit (20) that generates a plurality of operation voltages to be supplied to the display driving unit (30), and performs pause driving that repeats a scanning period during which gate bus lines (GL) are scanned and a pause period during which the scanning of the gate bus lines (GL) is stopped, the display driving unit (30) provides a control signal (SM) indicating whether the current point in time is the scanning period or the pause period, to the power supply circuit (20), and the power supply circuit (20) makes the voltage value of at least one of the plurality of operation voltages supplied to the display driving unit (30) smaller during the pause period than during the scanning period, based on the control signal (SM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Jin Miyazawa, Kazuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180322843
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to further reduce the power consumption of a display device adopting pause driving. In a display device that includes a display driving unit (30) that drives a display unit (400); and a power supply circuit (20) that generates a plurality of operation voltages to be supplied to the display driving unit (30), and performs pause driving that repeats a scanning period during which gate bus lines (GL) are scanned and a pause period during which the scanning of the gate bus lines (GL) is stopped, the display driving unit (30) provides a control signal (SM) indicating whether the current point in time is the scanning period or the pause period, to the power supply circuit (20), and the power supply circuit (20) makes the voltage value of at least one of the plurality of operation voltages supplied to the display driving unit (30) smaller during the pause period than during the scanning period, based on the control signal (SM).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuki TAKAHASHI, Jin MIYAZAWA, Kazuo NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10074333
    Abstract: In the present invention, occurrence of abnormality such as display misalignment at the time of image update is prevented even when pause drive is performed in a display device where data signal lines are driven by a plurality of driver ICs. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a master IC (300L) and a slave IC (300R) as driver ICs and performs pause drive, upon detection of refresh start timing by a REF (Half) of the master IC (300L), the master IC (300L) transmits a refresh control signal RfC to the slave IC (300R), and upon receipt of a refresh detection signal RfD indicating refresh start timing detected by a REF (Half) of the slave IC (300R), the master IC (300L) transmits the refresh control signal RfC to the slave IC (300R) as well as starts refreshing on the left active area based on data in a 1/2 RAM (306L). Upon receipt of the refresh control signal RfC, the slave IC (300R) starts refreshing on a right active area based on data in a 1/2 RAM (306R).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kazuo Nakamura, Takuya Sone, Jin Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 9953603
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent occurrence of abnormality such as display misalignment at the time of image update even when pause drive is performed in a display device where data signal lines are driven by a plurality of driver ICs. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a master IC (300L) and a slave IC (300R) as driver ICs and performs pause drive, upon detection of refresh start timing by a REF (Half) of the master IC (300L), the master IC (300L) transmits a refresh control signal RfC to the slave IC (300R), and starts refreshing a left active area of a display portion. Upon receipt of a refresh detection signal RfD indicating refresh start timing detected by a REF (Half) of the slave IC (300R), the master IC (300L) transmits the refresh control signal RfC to the slave IC (300R), and starts refreshing the left active area of the display portion. Upon receipt of the refresh control signal RfC, the slave IC (300R) starts refreshing a right active area of the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tanaka, Kazuo Nakamura, Takuya Sone, Jin Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 9865206
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal display device and a driving method therefor that do not cause problems such as occurrence of flicker even when performing pause driving. When an off signal Soff instructing to turn off power is inputted, a polarity bias value W at the power-off is stored in a balance storage circuit. When the power is turned on again, the polarity bias value W is read from the balance storage circuit and provided to a balance control circuit. The balance control circuit starts insertion of a pause frame period to cancel out the polarity bias value W. By this, decrementing the polarity bias value W by “1” every insertion of a pause frame period is repeated. Then, at a point of time when the polarity bias value W becomes “0”, insertion of a pause frame period is ceased and normal pause driving is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jin Miyazawa, Kouji Kumada, Norio Ohmura, Noriyuki Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Suyama, Kentaroh Uemura
  • Patent number: 9812081
    Abstract: Based on a REF/NREF signal coming from a REF/NREF determination circuit, a polarity bias calculation circuit updates a polarity bias count value Nb indicating a degree of a polarity bias of an applied voltage to a liquid crystal layer, and based on this polarity bias count value Nb, a bias movement determination circuit determines a moving direction of the polarity bias. Upon receiving an OFF signal Soff instructing OFF of the power supply, a balance control circuit controls a drive unit based on a result of the determination of the polarity bias moving direction and on the polarity bias count value Nb at a point of time when the OFF signal Soff is inputted so that the polarity bias can be resolved before a power supply is turned off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jin Miyazawa, Kouji Kumada, Noriyuki Tanaka, Tatsuhiko Suyama, Takuya Sone