Patents by Inventor Katsunori Yamazaki

Katsunori Yamazaki 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: 10317762
    Abstract: An active matrix circuit substrate includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a third power supply line, a fourth power supply line, a first control line, and a second control line; a pixel electrode and a memory circuit; a common electrode that is electrically connected to the fourth power supply line; a capacitor that is provided between the third power supply line and the pixel electrode; a first switch circuit that is provided between the first power supply line and the pixel electrode and operates on the basis of an output of the memory circuit and a potential of the first control line; and a second switch circuit that is provided between the second power supply line and the pixel electrode and operates on the basis of the output of the memory circuit and a potential of the second control line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10204570
    Abstract: A storage type display device including: first control lines that are provided in as many as n columns; second control lines that are provided in as many as m rows; and a display section that includes n×m pixels. The device further includes a branched power supply line that supplies power to the pixel electrode in each row; a stem power supply line; a pixel electrode switching circuit; a power supply line switching circuit that is connected between the stem power supply line and the branched power supply line; and a scanning line driving circuit that outputs a signal to the second control lines. The scanning line driving circuit is arranged in a predetermined end side of the display section, and the power supply line switching circuit is arranged on another end side which is different from the predetermined end side of the display section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9966017
    Abstract: An electrophoretic apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an electrophoretic element which is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a pixel circuit which is connected to a scanning line and a data line, and which includes a first transistor configured to supply a first electric potential to the first electrode, a second transistor configured to supply a second electric potential to the first electric potential, a third transistor configured to supply a third electric potential to the first electrode; a fourth transistor configured to supply a signal supplied through the data line to the first transistor, a fifth transistor configured to supply a signal supplied through the data line to the second transistor, and a sixth transistor configured to supply a signal supplied through the data line to the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20180046006
    Abstract: An active matrix circuit substrate includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a third power supply line, a fourth power supply line, a first control line, and a second control line; a pixel electrode and a memory circuit; a common electrode that is electrically connected to the fourth power supply line; a capacitor that is provided between the third power supply line and the pixel electrode; a first switch circuit that is provided between the first power supply line and the pixel electrode and operates on the basis of an output of the memory circuit and a potential of the first control line; and a second switch circuit that is provided between the second power supply line and the pixel electrode and operates on the basis of the output of the memory circuit and a potential of the second control line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsunori YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170293195
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device including a first substrate and a second substrate which oppose each other, a first electrode provided on the first substrate, a second electrode provided on the second substrate, a region forming portion for forming a plurality of regions between the first substrate and the second substrate, a dispersion liquid which includes particles and a dispersion medium provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a control portion which applies a voltage to the first electrode, in which the first electrode is provided for a pixel, and when the control portion makes an adjacent first pixel and second pixel display the same color, the control portion applies voltages having different waveforms to the first electrode of the first pixel and the first electrode of the second pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsunori YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160372054
    Abstract: A storage type display device including: first control lines that are provided in as many as n columns; second control lines that are provided in as many as m rows; and a display section that includes n×m pixels. The device further includes a branched power supply line that supplies power to the pixel electrode in each row; a stem power supply line; a pixel electrode switching circuit; a power supply line switching circuit that is connected between the stem power supply line and the branched power supply line; and a scanning line driving circuit that outputs a signal to the second control lines. The scanning line driving circuit is arranged in a predetermined end side of the display section, and the power supply line switching circuit is arranged on another end side which is different from the predetermined end side of the display section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20160291441
    Abstract: Provided is an electrophoretic display device in which a partitioning wall is provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, a dispersion liquid is disposed in a region that is partitioned by the partitioning wall, the dispersion liquid includes a dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles, and surfaces of partitioning wall on side of the region include inclined section, which is inclined with respect to a normal direction of the first substrate, and does not have a configuration in which the surfaces of the partitioning wall on the side of the region of portions that respectively correspond to all of a plurality of edges that intersecting lines between the surface of the partitioning wall on the side of the region and a surface of a first substrate side thereof, form, include inclined section with the same inclination direction and the same inclination angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20160293110
    Abstract: An electro-optical display device includes a first substrate on which a plurality of pixel electrodes are provided; a second substrate on which an opposing electrode that faces the pixel electrodes and is divided into a plurality of segments is provided; an image forming unit that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate and forms a display image according to an electric potential applied to the pixel electrodes and an electric potential applied to the opposing electrode; and a control unit that causes the image forming unit to form a display image based on a first display mode in which approximately the same electric potential is applied to a part or all of the segments in the opposing electrode and a second display mode in which approximately the same electric potential is applied to one or more of the pixel electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9424785
    Abstract: An electric optical apparatus including a display section in which an electric optical material is pinched between a pair of substrates and a plurality of pixels is arranged, wherein the display section is provided with a scanning line, a data line and a power-supply line that are connected to each of the pixels, and each of the pixels is provided with a pixel electrode, a driving transistor that is connected between the pixel electrode and the power-supply line, a capacitance for modulation that is connected between a gate of the driving transistor and the data line, a maintenance capacitance that connects one side electrode to the gate of the driving transistor, and a transistor for correction that is connected to a diode and in which one side terminal thereof is connected to the gate of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9418602
    Abstract: An electric optical apparatus including a display section in which an electric optical material is pinched between a pair of substrates and a plurality of pixels is arranged, wherein the display section is provided with a scanning line, a data line and a power-supply line that are connected to each of the pixels, and each of the pixels is provided with a pixel electrode, a driving transistor that is connected between the pixel electrode and the power-supply line, a capacitance for modulation that is connected between a gate of the driving transistor and the data line, a maintenance capacitance that connects one side electrode to the gate of the driving transistor, and a transistor for correction that is connected to a diode and in which one side terminal thereof is connected to the gate of the driving transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20160203767
    Abstract: There is provided a storage type display device including: a pixel electrode, a common electrode, a selection switch which is connected to a data line and a scanning line, a memory circuit, a branched power supply line which supplies power to the pixel electrode, a stem power supply line which supplies power to the branched power supply line, a transfer gate which switches the connection state between the branched power supply line and the pixel electrode, a switch which is connected between the stem power supply line and the branched power supply line and is configured to select the connection state between the stem power supply line and the branched power supply line, and a control circuit which disconnects or connects the stem power supply line from or to the branched power supply line according whether or not the memory circuit is rewritten.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9389482
    Abstract: An electrophoresis display device includes: a pair of substrates; an electrophoresis layer which is pinched between the pair of substrates, and includes a partition and electrophoresis particles that are disposed in plural regions which are divided by the partition; a display portion which includes a plurality of pixels; a pixel electrode which is formed on the plurality of pixels; a facing electrode which faces the plurality of pixel electrodes via the electrophoresis layer; a first control line and a second control line which are electrically connected to the pixel electrodes; and a shielding layer which is disposed between the first control line and the electrophoresis layer and between the second control line and the electrophoresis layer, and can perform a potential input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9285925
    Abstract: A circuit substrate according to the invention includes a pixel circuit that is provided for a pixel which is arranged in a display area provided on a substrate, in which the pixel circuit includes a pixel selection transistor; a data line that is connected to a source of the pixel selection transistor; a scan line that is connected to a gate of the pixel selection transistor; a pixel electrode; a memory unit that is connected to the pixel electrode and the pixel selection transistor, and that can switch an output state of a potential with respect to the pixel electrode; and a light sensor that can rewrite an output, which is retained in the memory unit by light input, with respect to the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9250641
    Abstract: A load driving circuit that generates a desired voltage waveform to drive a load includes a target voltage waveform output section that outputs a target voltage waveform to be applied to the load. Power supply sections generate electrical power with voltage values different from each other. Negative feedback control sections between the power supply sections and the load supply electrical power from the corresponding power supply sections to the load and execute negative feedback control of a value of a voltage applied to the load for matching the voltage value and the target voltage waveform. A power supply connection section selects one of the power supply sections based on the value of the voltage applied to the load or the voltage value of the target voltage waveform and connects the selected power supply section to the load and disconnects the rest of the power supply sections from the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Katsunori Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Kinya Matsuzawa, Shoichi Iino
  • Patent number: 9239505
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, an electrophoretic display apparatus includes a first substrate. A refractive index variation layer is arranged so as to oppose the first substrate. An electrophoretic layer is arranged between the first substrate and the refractive index variation layer. A refractive index of the refractive index variation layer increases as it recedes away from the electrophoretic layer in a thickness direction of the electrophoretic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150269891
    Abstract: An electrophoretic device includes a pixel that includes a first electrode, a second electrode which is opposite the first electrode, an electrophoretic element which is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes charged electrophoretic particles, and a pixel circuit which applies a difference in electrical potential between the first electrode and the second electrode; a scan line and a data line that is connected to the pixel circuit; and a first erase circuit that is arranged in a non-display area of the pixel and is a circuit which is connected to the scan line and supplies a erase signal of the pixel to the scan line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150255020
    Abstract: An electrophoretic apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an electrophoretic element which is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a pixel circuit which is connected to a scanning line and a data line, and which includes a first transistor configured to supply a first electric potential to the first electrode, a second transistor configured to supply a second electric potential to the first electric potential, a third transistor configured to supply a third electric potential to the first electrode; a fourth transistor configured to supply a signal supplied through the data line to the first transistor, a fifth transistor configured to supply a signal supplied through the data line to the second transistor, and a sixth transistor configured to supply a signal supplied through the data line to the third transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9117411
    Abstract: An electro-optic device includes a plurality of scanning lines that are arranged in a line direction, a plurality of data lines that are arranged in a column direction, a plurality of pixels that are provided at intersection positions of the scanning lines and the data lines, a driving circuit that supplies an image signal based on image data to a display unit formed by arranging the plurality of pixels, and an image data input circuit that inputs the image data to the driving circuit. The image data input circuit includes a storage unit that stores line data of a plurality of continuous lines including line data of an input target among line data formed from pixel data corresponding to one line of the image data, and from the storage unit and corrects the pixel data of the input target on the basis of information of the peripheral pixel data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150205179
    Abstract: An electrophoresis display device includes: a pair of substrates; an electrophoresis layer which is pinched between the pair of substrates, and includes a partition and electrophoresis particles that are disposed in plural regions which are divided by the partition; a display portion which includes a plurality of pixels; a pixel electrode which is formed on the plurality of pixels; a facing electrode which faces the plurality of pixel electrodes via the electrophoresis layer; a first control line and a second control line which are electrically connected to the pixel electrodes; and a shielding layer which is disposed between the first control line and the electrophoresis layer and between the second control line and the electrophoresis layer, and can perform a potential input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150206478
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device, when an image is switched from a first image to a second image, performs a first control operation that replaces a first control signal which is input to a first control line with a second control signal which is input to a second control line so that the second control signal is input to a pixel electrode using the first control line and the first control signal is input to the pixel electrode using the second control line, when the first image is displayed on a display unit before the image is switched, and performs a second control operation that generates inversion image data which is obtained by inverting image data corresponding to the second image, and inputs the inversion image data to a data line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Katsunori Yamazaki