Patents by Inventor Keiichi Ina
Keiichi Ina 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: 20190259349Abstract: Luminance unevenness in a display area having an irregular shape is suppressed. A display panel is a display panel in which a cutout is provided, including: a display area in which sub pixels are provided; a non-display zone which is located between the cutout and the display area; a scanning signal line which is provided so as to pass through the display area and the non-display zone; an electric conductor which is at least partially located in the non-display zone; and an insulating film, the scanning signal line being provided so as to overlap with the electric conductor via the insulating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Yasuyoshi KAISE, Keiichi INA, Yoshimizu MORIYA, Ryohji YAYOTANI, Shige FURUTA, Hidekazu YAMANAKA
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Patent number: 9195101Abstract: Each of the pixel electrodes that are disposed in a liquid crystal display panel of one embodiment of the present invention is constituted of minutely patterned electrode regions (a first minutely patterned electrode region and a second minutely patterned electrode region), and one solid electrode region, and the length Lpix of each of the pixel electrodes in a direction along a data line, and the total length LB of the minutely patterned electrode regions satisfies the relationship of LB/Lpix=0.3 to 0.6.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Kawashima, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Keiichi Ina, Yoshimizu Moriya
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Publication number: 20150261276Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device. During a vertical scanning period, a positive signal voltage is sent from three data signal lines corresponding to first- to third-colored pixel columns that belong to one group, and a negative signal voltage is sent from three data signal lines corresponding to first- to third-colored pixel columns that belong to another group, the two groups being adjacent to one another. Within each group, the first-colored pixel column is arranged furthest upstream, the third-colored pixel column is arranged furthest downstream, a signal voltage is sent from a data signal line positioned upstream of the first-colored pixel column to the first-colored pixel column, and a signal voltage is sent from a data signal line positioned upstream of the third-colored pixel column to the third-colored pixel column.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Ina, Yoshimizu Moriya, Shige Furuta
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Publication number: 20150022771Abstract: Each of the pixel electrodes that are disposed in a liquid crystal display panel of one embodiment of the present invention is constituted of minutely patterned electrode regions (a first minutely patterned electrode region and a second minutely patterned electrode region), and one solid electrode region, and the length Lpix of each of the pixel electrodes in a direction along a data line, and the total length LB of the minutely patterned electrode regions satisfies the relationship of LB/Lpix=0.3 to 0.6.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuki Kawashima, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Keiichi Ina, Yoshimizu Moriya
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Patent number: 8681080Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) includes a plurality of source bus lines (14), a plurality of gate bus lines (11) that cross the plurality of source bus lines (14), and a plurality of auxiliary capacitance lines (29) that extend in parallel with the gate bus lines (11). The liquid crystal display device (1) also includes a plurality of pixels (30) to (32) that respectively include TFTs (5), pixel electrodes (19), a common electrode (24), and a liquid crystal layer (4) and that are arranged in a matrix so as to correspond to the respective intersections of the gate bus lines (11) and the source bus lines (14). A pixel electrode (19a) for the pixel (31) is disposed in the pixel (30) that is adjacent to the pixel (31), and in a plan view, the gate bus line (11b) disposed in the pixel (31) and the pixel electrode (19a) for the pixel (31) are arranged apart from each other so as not to overlap.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 25, 2014Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Ina, Yoshimizu Moriya
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Publication number: 20140043576Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel (10) includes: an array substrate (1); a counter substrate (2); a liquid crystal layer (3); and spacer members (4). A plurality of pixels provided on the array substrate (1) include first pixels on which no spacer members (4) are provided and second pixels on which the respective spacer members (4) are provided. First pixel electrodes (20) provided in the respective first pixels each have: a first main part (21a); a second main part (21b); and a plurality of branch parts (22a through 22d) extending, in fixed directions. Second pixel electrodes (30) provided in the respective second pixels each have: a first main part (31a); a second main part (31b); a plurality of branch parts (32a through 32d) extending, in fixed directions; and a region on which a corresponding one of the spacer members (4) is provided and which is a solid electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Kawashima, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Keiichi Ina
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Publication number: 20130071792Abstract: An amount of exposure of the photosensitive resin is controlled using a photomask in an exposure treatment. The photosensitive resin subjected to the exposure treatment is developed, thereby simultaneously forming a protrusion which regulates the alignment of liquid crystal molecules comprising the liquid crystal layer, and a photo spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasuyoshi Kaise, Mutsumi Nakajima, Keisuke Yoshida, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Keiichi Ina
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Publication number: 20130027650Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device 20 including a display region 11a and a display region 11b. The display region 11a includes pixels 10a provided with, as pixel electrodes, transflective electrodes 15, each including a transmissive electrode 15a that carries out transmissive display, and a reflective electrode 15b that carries out reflective display. The display region 11b includes pixels 10b provided with, as pixel electrodes, transmissive electrodes 16 that carry out transmissive display. The direction in which the long side of the transmissive electrode 15a of the pixel 10a extends is positioned in the same direction in which the long side of the transmissive electrode 16 of the pixel 10b extends. By aligning the long side direction of the transmissive electrode 15a with the long side direction of the transmissive electrode 16, the direction of change in chromaticity in the display region 11a and the direction of change in chromaticity in the display region 11b become the same.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Kawashima, Keisuke Yoshida, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Ryohji Yayotani, Yoshimizu Moriya, Keiichi Ina
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Publication number: 20130027367Abstract: In a picture element (100), transmissive electrodes (130, 140) are connected to each other, and reflective electrodes (110, 120) adjacent to the transmissive electrodes are connected to the transmissive electrodes (130, 140), respectively. However, the reflective electrodes (110, 120) are not connected to each other. Alignment controlling structures (111, 121, 131, 141) are provided in regions which correspond to central parts of the respective electrodes, and an alignment controlling structure (151) is provided between the reflective electrodes (110, 120) which are not connected to each other. An alignment of liquid crystals is forcibly made stable in the vicinity of the reflective electrodes by providing the alignment controlling structure (151). It is thus possible to achieve a transflective liquid crystal display device having an excellent display characteristic, such as less roughness and fewer residual images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Inventors: Kaori Saitoh, Keisuke Yoshida, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Yoshimizu Moriya, Keiichi Ina
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Publication number: 20130027649Abstract: Each pixel includes: a pixel electrode (1) which is rectangular and a counter electrode (2) which has an opening (5a), the pixel electrode (1) and the counter electrode (2) being provided so as to face each other; and a liquid crystal layer which is provided between the pixel electrode (1) and the counter electrode(2), in plan view, a distance being not less than 10 ?m and not more than 30 ?m between each of short sides of the pixel electrode (1) and the opening (5a).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yasutoshi Tasaka, Keiichi Ina, Kaori Saitoh
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Patent number: 8253669Abstract: A first edge (61a) and a second edge (61b) are not uniformly parallel to each other in a direction perpendicular to a first direction (A); a protrusion that is provided on one or both of the first edge (61a) and the second edge (61b), which protrusion protrudes into a slit (62b), is increased in just a direction from one predetermined region on one side of a bisector (C) shared by the first edge (61a) and the second edge (61b) to another region on the other side of the bisector C, which region on one predetermined region and the another region on the other side are regions of the first edge (61a) and the second edge (61b), and all of the protrusion(s) being extended into the slit to reach its maximum in the another region on the other side of the bisector.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Ina, Yasutoshi Tasaka
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Patent number: 8253872Abstract: A shield electrode is provided in the vicinity of a pixel electrode and source bus lines. The shield electrode may be provided in the same layer as gate bus lines, or in the same layer as the source bus lines. The shield electrode may be surrounded by an insulating material, or may be connected to a line other than the source bus lines. By providing the shield electrode, it is possible to reduce a source-drain parasitic capacitance between a pixel electrode and a source bus line.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2005Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Ina, Ichiro Shiraki, Mutsumi Nakajima, Keisuke Yoshida, Shoichi Andou
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Publication number: 20120188212Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus wherein a sustain capacitance wire is shared between two rows of pixels to prevent the reduction in aperture ratio and the reduction in yield, and further the capacitive coupling drive can be performed. The display apparatus comprises: pixels arranged in a matrix of n rows and m columns (where n and m represent integers equal to or greater than two); m source lines and n gate lines provided in a grid pattern; and a sustain capacitance unit formed in a boundary area between odd-numbered and even-numbered rows of pixels. The sustain capacitance unit comprises: a sustain capacitance wire shared between the odd-numbered and even-numbered rows of pixels; an insulating film; an opposite electrode used for the odd-numbered row of pixels; and an opposite electrode used for the even-numbered row of pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiichi Ina, Yasuyoshi Kaise, Keisuke Yoshida, Kazuhiro Maeda
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Publication number: 20120154366Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (1) includes a plurality of source bus lines (14), a plurality of gate bus lines (11) that cross the plurality of source bus lines (14), and a plurality of auxiliary capacitance lines (29) that extend in parallel with the gate bus lines (11). The liquid crystal display device (1) also includes a plurality of pixels (30) to (32) that respectively include TFTs (5), pixel electrodes (19), a common electrode (24), and a liquid crystal layer (4) and that are arranged in a matrix so as to correspond to the respective intersections of the gate bus lines (11) and the source bus lines (14). A pixel electrode (19a) for the pixel (31) is disposed in the pixel (30) that is adjacent to the pixel (31), and in a plan view, the gate bus line (11b) disposed in the pixel (31) and the pixel electrode (19a) for the pixel (31) are arranged apart from each other so as not to overlap.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Ina, Yoshimizu Moriya
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Publication number: 20110242148Abstract: In a display device of the present invention, a total fluctuation calculation portion (23) included in a display control circuit (200) calculates total amounts of potential fluctuations of drive video signals to be applied to video signal lines during one frame period based on external display data signals (DATs). For a pixel formation portion to be provided with a display data signal (DATp) (corresponding to the next display row of the previous frame) received from frame memory (22), a data correction portion (24) performs correction to compensate for impact to be caused by potential fluctuations of an opposite video signal line adjacent but not connected to the pixel formation portion. As a result, the instant delta-arrangement color display device allows horizontal streaks, which are caused by potential fluctuations of opposite video signal lines as mentioned above, to be reduced or eliminated using a simplified configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Keisuke Yoshida, Takuya Tsuda
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Publication number: 20100289732Abstract: A first edge (61a) and a second edge (61b) are not uniformly parallel to each other in a direction perpendicular to a first direction (A); a protrusion that is provided on one or both of the first edge (61a) and the second edge (61b), which protrusion protrudes into a slit (62b), is increased in just a direction from one predetermined region on one side of a bisector (C) shared by the first edge (61a) and the second edge (61b) to another region on the other side of the bisector C, which region on one predetermined region and the another region on the other side are regions of the first edge (61a) and the second edge (61b), and all of the protrusion(s) being extended into the slit to reach its maximum in the another region on the other side of the bisector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Yasutoshi Tasaka
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Publication number: 20100149468Abstract: A liquid crystal display device (10) includes a TFT substrate (11), a CF substrate (12), and a liquid crystal layer (13) interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal layer (13) is made of a liquid crystal material having negative dielectric anisotropy. When no voltage is applied, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal material are oriented substantially vertical to the TFT substrate (11) and the CF substrate (12). A display region of a liquid crystal display panel (14) is formed by a plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light reflection display portion (130) and a light transmission display portion (131). Orientation control means (120) for axisymmetrically orienting the liquid crystal molecules when a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal layer (13) is provided in the light reflection display portion (130).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2006Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Keisuke Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100060806Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, a liquid crystal display device groups video signal lines SL1 to SLn every 12 video signal lines in order of arrangement and drives video signal lines in each group in a time division manner during a horizontal scanning period. The order of driving video signal lines in each group varies between an even frame and an odd frame, and for each line, in one of the frames, even-numbered video signal lines are driven earlier and in the other one of the frames, odd-numbered video signal lines are driven earlier. The first and last video signal lines to be driven correspond to blue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Keiichi Ina, Keisuke Yoshida
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Patent number: 7605885Abstract: A first electrode substrate of the present invention includes a first signal line, a second signal line, a third signal line, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode. The first signal line, the second signal line and the third signal line extend in a first direction and in parallel to one another. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first signal line. The second pixel electrode is adjacent to the first pixel electrode in the first direction, and is electrically connected to the second signal line. The third pixel electrode is adjacent to the second pixel electrode in the row direction, crossing the first direction, via the second signal line therebetween, and is electrically connected to the third signal line.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keiichi Ina, Keisuke Yoshida, Ichiro Shiraki, Mutsumi Nakajima
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Patent number: 7394513Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of signal lines which extend in a zigzag manner in a column direction and to which image signals are supplied, respectively; an insulation film which covers the plurality of signal lines; and a plurality of pixel electrodes which are formed on the insulation film and to which the image signals are input from the plurality of signal lines, respectively. A distance between ones of the pixel electrodes located adjacent to each other in the column direction is equal to or larger than a line width of the signal lines.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2005Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shoichi Andou, Mutsumi Nakajima, Ichiro Shiraki, Keisuke Yoshida, Keiichi Ina