Patents by Inventor Kazutoshi Kida
Kazutoshi Kida 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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Publication number: 20230073370Abstract: A touch panel includes a transmission electrode layer that includes a transmission electrode to which a drive signal is supplied, a reception electrode layer that includes a position detection electrode and a pressing force detection electrode that form capacitance between the transmission electrode layer and themselves, in accordance with the capacitance, at least one of touching and pressing force is detected. The touch panel further includes a pressure-sensitive layer interposed between the transmission electrode layer and the reception electrode layer. The pressure-sensitive layer includes a first dielectric layer of which dielectric constant exhibits negative temperature properties in a predetermined temperature range, and a second dielectric layer of which dielectric constant exhibits positive temperature properties in the predetermined temperature range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Takuma YAMAMOTO, Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20230060098Abstract: An in-cell touch panel includes a mode switching control circuit and a counter substrate electrode control circuit. The mode switching control circuit switches, in a time-division manner, the operation mode of the in-cell touch panel between a display mode in which a display signal is supplied by a display control circuit to pixel electrodes, and a touch detection mode in which a driving signal is supplied by a driving control circuit to touch sensor electrodes. The counter substrate electrode control circuit supplies a counter substrate electrode with a signal that is in synchronization with the driving signal and that has the same polarity as that of the driving signal in a period while the in-cell touch panel is in the touch detection mode, or causes the potential of the counter substrate electrode to be in a floating state in a period while the in-cell touch panel is in the touch detection mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Kosuke NAGATA, Kazutoshi KIDA, Daiji KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 11561439Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes, in order from an observation surface side to a hack surface side, a thin film transistor substrate including a color filter layer, a pair of electrodes, and a metal wiring line, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules that are horizontally aligned to the thin film transistor substrate and in which alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is changed due to an electric field generated by applying a voltage to the pair of electrodes, a counter substrate, and a backlight, in which the counter substrate includes a reflective layer disposed outside the pixel area and reflecting incident light from the backlight to the back surface side, the pair of electrodes are a first electrode having a planar shape and a second electrode provided with a and the color filter layer is disposed on the observation surface side of the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuichi Kawahira, Akira Hirai, Akira Sakai, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20220382098Abstract: An in-cell touch panel device includes a first substrate, a plurality of color filters formed on a layer on an opposite side of a touch surface with respect to the first substrate, a transmitter electrode formed on a layer on an opposite side of the touch surface with respect to the plurality of color filters, a receiver electrode formed on a layer closer to the touch surface side with respect to the plurality of color filters, and a second substrate, a pixel electrode being disposed on the second substrate. The transmitter electrode includes a gap portion formed in a portion overlapping a space between adjacent ones of the plurality of color filters in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Kazutoshi KIDA, Kiyoshi MINOURA, Takashi SATOH, Shunsuke NOICHI, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Chiaki MINARI
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Publication number: 20220382099Abstract: An in-cell touch panel device includes a first substrate, a plurality of color filters formed on an upper layer with respect to the first substrate and including a green color filter, a transmitter electrode formed on an upper layer with respect to the plurality of color filters, a receiver electrode formed on a lower layer with respect to the plurality of color filters, and a second substrate including a pixel electrode disposed on the second substrate. The transmitter electrode includes a gap portion formed in a portion overlapping the receiver electrode in a plan view and in a portion overlapping the green color filter in a plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Kazutoshi KIDA, Kiyoshi MINOURA, Takashi SATOH, Shunsuke NOICHI, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Chiaki MINARI
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Patent number: 11507212Abstract: A display device includes a switching element that switches, based on data held by a memory circuit, between a state in which a pixel electrode and a first wiring line are connected to each other and a state in which the pixel electrode and a second wiring line are connected to each other, a power source circuit for white color that supplies a first signal having the opposite phase to a phase of a drive signal, to the first wiring line provided at a pixel in which a Tx electrode is disposed, and a power source circuit for black color that supplies, to the second wiring line, a second signal having the same phase as the phase of the drive signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita
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Patent number: 11507241Abstract: A touch panel including a sense electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a first direction and including a first sense electrode and a second sense electrode, and a drive electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction on the sense electrode and including a first drive electrode having a shielding property against electric field components. The first drive electrode is positioned covering at least a part of the first sense electrode in a planar view in which the sense electrode is viewed from the drive electrode.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Publication number: 20220342540Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressing detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire signal values from each of the position detection electrode and the pressing detection electrode. The controller detects a position of an indicator on the basis of the signal values obtained from the position detection electrode and calculates a magnitude of pressing of the indicator on the basis of signal values in a pressing detection range corresponding to the detected position of the indicator among the signal values obtained from the pressing detection electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Publication number: 20220334438Abstract: The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, the liquid crystal panel including sub-pixels and including an active matrix substrate and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate including a gate line, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the counter substrate including a third electrode, each of the sub-pixels being provided with an optical opening, the third electrode including a linear electrode extending along the gate line, a distance between the linear electrode and the optical opening being less than D/4 and a width of the linear electrode being D/4 or less, wherein a distance between two optical openings adjacent in the direction perpendicular to the extending direction of the gate line is defined as D.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Koji Murata, Kosuke Nagata, Kazutoshi Kida, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Shinji Shimada, Yasuhiro Haseba
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Publication number: 20220326797Abstract: A display device includes a switching element that switches, based on data held by a memory circuit, between a state in which a pixel electrode and a first wiring line are connected to each other and a state in which the pixel electrode and a second wiring line are connected to each other, a power source circuit for white color that supplies a first signal having the opposite phase to a phase of a drive signal, to the first wiring line provided at a pixel in which a Tx electrode is disposed, and a power source circuit for black color that supplies, to the second wiring line, a second signal having the same phase as the phase of the drive signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA
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Publication number: 20220283703Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of drive electrodes, a plurality of detection electrodes, and a touch detection driver configured to supply a drive signal for self-capacitance detection to the plurality of detection electrodes and acquire a self-capacitance detection signal from the plurality of detection electrodes. The touch detection driver is configured to supply the drive signal for self-capacitance detection to at least one of the plurality of detection electrodes while the gate signal is being supplied to gate lines overlapping any one of the plurality of drive electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA
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Publication number: 20220236817Abstract: A display device includes pixel electrode groups and a touch detection driver. During a period, the touch detection driver does not supply touch detection driving signals to a transmitter electrode overlapping in plan view a pixel electrode group to which gate signals are being supplied, and supply touch detection driving signals to a transmitter electrode disposed so as to overlap in plan view a pixel electrode group to which gate signals are not being supplied.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA
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Patent number: 11385753Abstract: A switching unit of a touch panel device switches between a first connection state in which, among a plurality of drive wiring lines, a first drive wiring line and a second drive wiring line adjacent to each other are connected, and a second connection state in which, among the plurality of drive wiring lines, the first drive wiring lines adjacent to each other are connected to each other and the second drive wiring lines adjacent to each other are connected to each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuhiro Sugita, Kazutoshi Kida, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Publication number: 20220197091Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes, in order from an observation surface side to a hack surface side, a thin film transistor substrate including a color filter layer, a pair of electrodes, and a metal wiring line, a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules that are horizontally aligned to the thin film transistor substrate and in which alignment of the liquid crystal molecules is changed due to an electric field generated by applying a voltage to the pair of electrodes, a counter substrate, and a backlight, in which the counter substrate includes a reflective layer disposed outside the pixel area and reflecting incident light from the backlight to the back surface side, the pair of electrodes are a first electrode having a planar shape and a second electrode provided with a and the color filter layer is disposed on the observation surface side of the second electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: YUICHI KAWAHIRA, AKIRA HIRAI, AKIRA SAKAI, KAZUTOSHI KIDA, YASUHIRO SUGITA
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Publication number: 20220164060Abstract: A touch panel system includes an electrostatic capacitance type touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressing force detection electrode; and a controller configured to provide a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire a position signal value from the position detection electrode and a pressing force signal value from the pressing force detection electrode. The controller detects a position of a pointer based on the position signal value, and acquires a pressing force generated by the pointer based on a rate of change of a smoothed value of the pressing force value based on the pressing force signal value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: TAKUMA YAMAMOTO, HIROSHI FUKUSHIMA, KAZUTOSHI KIDA, TAKENORI MARUYAMA, SHINJI YAMAGISHI, YASUHIRO SUGITA
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Patent number: 11340724Abstract: A display device includes a backlight, a touch detection electrode disposed to overlap a display region in which an image is displayed in a plan view, and an electrically conductive reflective member disposed closer to the backlight than a plurality of touch detection electrodes. Reflective members are disposed to overlap at least some of the plurality of touch detection electrodes in a plan view, are configured to reflect light from the backlight, and segmented from each other in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima, Kiyoshi Minoura
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Publication number: 20220129114Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressure detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire signal values from each of the position detection electrode and the pressure detection electrode. The controller detects a position of an indicator on the basis of the signal values obtained from the position detection electrode and calculates a magnitude of pressure applied by the indicator on the basis of signal values in a pressure detection range corresponding to the detected position of the indicator among the signal values obtained from the pressure detection electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: SHINJI YAMAGISHI, TAKENORI MARUYAMA, KAZUTOSHI KIDA, TAKUMA YAMAMOTO, YASUHIRO SUGITA
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Patent number: 11316246Abstract: There are provided an antenna device with improved antenna performance while suppressing a decrease in yield and a decrease in viewability, and a display device including the same. The antenna device includes an antenna substrate, a first antenna pattern formed on a first main surface of the antenna substrate, and a second antenna pattern formed on a second main surface opposite to the first main surface of the antenna substrate. The first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern are formed such that positions on the front and back of the antenna substrate coincide with each other, and at least a part of the antenna substrate is transparent to transmit an image.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Yamagishi, Hiroshi Fukushima, Yasuhiro Sugita, Kazutoshi Kida, Takenori Maruyama, Jean Mugiraneza, Takuma Yamamoto, Yukio Mizuno
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Patent number: 11307710Abstract: A position detecting device including an antenna function includes a plurality of electrodes including a plurality of shared electrodes separated by spaces, a position detection circuit configured to detect a position by energizing the plurality of electrodes and using electric fields generated between the plurality of electrodes, an antenna circuit configured to perform wireless communication by energizing the plurality of shared electrodes and using magnetic fields generated in the spaces, and a switch connected to at least the plurality of shared electrodes among the plurality of electrodes, the position detection circuit, and the antenna circuit, the switch being configured to selectively connect either the position detection circuit or the antenna circuit to the plurality of shared electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Takenori Maruyama, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Shinji Yamagishi
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Patent number: 11294525Abstract: touch panel includes a first substrate including a first surface, a second substrate including a second surface opposite to the first surface, a drive electrode formed on the first surface, and a position sense electrode, a pressing force sense electrode, and a shield electrode that are formed on the second surface. The shield electrode is disposed between the position sense electrode and the pressing force sense electrode, and, in a plan view when viewing the second substrate from the first substrate, the drive electrode covers at least a portion of the pressing force sense electrode, and at least a portion of an end portion of the drive electrode is positioned above the shield electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Takenori Maruyama, Takuma Yamamoto