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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Patent number: 12204711Abstract: An attachment is attachable to and detachable from a touch panel of an input device including the touch panel, and supports user operation on the input device by being attached to the touch panel. The attachment includes one or more operation units that receive user operation and transmit the user operation to a corresponding position of the touch panel when attached to the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Publication number: 20240427452Abstract: A touch panel includes a first touch detection electrode including a first main portion and a first sub-portion, a second touch detection electrode including a second main portion and a second sub-portion, a first connecting line that connects the first main portion and the first sub-portion, and a second connecting line that connects the second main portion and the second sub-portion. The first sub-portion is disposed away from the first main portion. The second sub-portion is disposed away from the second main portion. The first and second sub-portions are disposed between the first and second main portions. The first and second connecting lines are formed in a layer that is a different layer from a layer in which the first and second touch detection electrodes are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventor: Kazutoshi Kida
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Patent number: 12118164Abstract: A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and a plurality of pressure detection electrodes and a plurality of position detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a position detection signal obtained from the position detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Publication number: 20240302923Abstract: Provided is a touch panel system including a touch panel and a controller. The controller includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal value from a position detection electrode and acquires a signal value from a pressing force detection electrode, a position detection unit that detects a position of a pointer, based on a position signal value acquired by the signal acquisition unit, and a pressing force determination unit that determines a presence or absence of a pressing operation at a pointed position. The pressing force determination unit acquires a second derivative value of a pressing force value and determines the presence or absence of the pressing operation at the pointed position, based on the second derivative value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Takuma YAMAMOTO, Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240272737Abstract: 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 a signal value from each of the position detection electrode and the pressure detection electrode. The controller is configured to detect a touch range by a pointer based on the signal value obtained from the position detection electrode, determine a pressure detection range corresponding to the touch range, of the signal value obtained from the pressure detection electrode, and calculate a magnitude of a pressure by the pointer based on the signal value in the pressure detection range.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20240264687Abstract: An attachment is attachable to and detachable from a touch panel of an input device including the touch panel, and supports user operation on the input device by being attached to the touch panel. The attachment includes one or more operation units that receive user operation and transmit the user operation to a corresponding position of the touch panel when attached to the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: Takenori MARUYAMA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Kazutoshi KIDA, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11972084Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel, a cover member overlapping the touch panel, and a controller. The controller includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a pointer, based on a signal value obtained from a position detection electrode, an amplification processing unit configured to perform amplification processing on at least one signal value in a pressing force detection range corresponding to the position of the pointer detected by the position detection unit among signal values obtained from a pressing force detection electrode, and a pressing force detection unit configured to calculate magnitude of a pressing force generated by the pointer, based on a signal value after the amplification processing being a signal value in the pressing force detection range including a signal value obtained by amplification by the amplification processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Shinji Yamagishi, Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 11966542Abstract: A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes drive electrodes and floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and position detection electrodes, pressure detection electrodes, and heat detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The drive electrode overlaps at least part of the heat detection electrode and at least part of the pressure detection electrode, and the floating island electrode overlaps at least part of the position detection electrode in plan view. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and the heat detection electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a heat detection signal obtained from a change in a coupling capacitance between the pressure detection electrode and the heat detection electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Takenori Maruyama
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Patent number: 11947749Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takashi Satoh, Shunsuke Noichi, Yasuhiro Sugita, Chiaki Minari
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Publication number: 20240028168Abstract: A touch panel includes: a drive electrode supplied with a drive signal; a position detecting electrode detecting a position included in a touch surface and touched with a pointing object, and a pressure detecting electrode detecting pressure applied on the touch surface with the pointing object, the position detecting electrode and the pressure detecting electrode being disposed across the drive electrode from the touch surface; and a floating electrode having a floating potential. The position detecting electrode, the pressure detecting electrode, and the floating electrode are formed in a layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Takenori MARUYAMA, Kazutoshi KIDA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11860468Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Kiyoshi Minoura, Takashi Satoh, Shunsuke Noichi, Yasuhiro Sugita, Chiaki Minari
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Patent number: 11853507Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita
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Patent number: 11842023Abstract: A touch panel include a cover member, a drive electrode, a pressure detecting electrode, and a position detecting electrode. The pressure detecting electrode and the position detecting electrode are alternately arranged in a first direction. The pressure detecting electrode includes a plurality of pressure detecting sections, arranged side by side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, that each independently detect a pressure. The position detecting electrode includes a plurality of position detecting sections, arranged side by side in the second direction, that each independently detect a touched position. The area of a pressure detecting section is larger than the area of a position detecting section.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Patent number: 11789564Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuma Yamamoto, Hiroshi Fukushima, Kazutoshi Kida, Takenori Maruyama, Shinji Yamagishi, Yasuhiro Sugita
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Publication number: 20230315232Abstract: A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes drive electrodes and floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and position detection electrodes, pressure detection electrodes, and heat detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The drive electrode overlaps at least part of the heat detection electrode and at least part of the pressure detection electrode, and the floating island electrode overlaps at least part of the position detection electrode in plan view. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and the heat detection electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a heat detection signal obtained from a change in a coupling capacitance between the pressure detection electrode and the heat detection electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Kazutoshi KIDA, Takenori MARUYAMA
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Publication number: 20230315233Abstract: A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and a plurality of pressure detection electrodes and a plurality of position detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a position detection signal obtained from the position detection electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Takenori MARUYAMA, Kazutoshi KIDA, Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11726361Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Kosuke Nagata, Kazutoshi Kida, Daiji Kitagawa
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Patent number: 11698556Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Murata, Kosuke Nagata, Kazutoshi Kida, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Shinji Shimada, Yasuhiro Haseba
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Patent number: 11693510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Sharp Display Technology CorporationInventors: Takenori Maruyama, Kazutoshi Kida, Shinji Yamagishi, Takuma Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
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Publication number: 20230205386Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel, a cover member overlapping the touch panel, and a controller. The controller includes a position detection unit configured to detect a position of a pointer, based on a signal value obtained from a position detection electrode, an amplification processing unit configured to perform amplification processing on at least one signal value in a pressing force detection range corresponding to the position of the pointer detected by the position detection unit among signal values obtained from a pressing force detection electrode, and a pressing force detection unit configured to calculate magnitude of a pressing force generated by the pointer, based on a signal value after the amplification processing being a signal value in the pressing force detection range including a signal value obtained by amplification by the amplification processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Shinji YAMAGISHI, Takenori MARUYAMA, Kazutoshi KIDA, Takuma YAMAMOTO, Yasuhiro SUGITA, Hiroshi FUKUSHIMA