Patents by Inventor Ken Inada

Ken Inada 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: 9165525
    Abstract: In an intermittent drive mode of a display device in which driving and pausing of the driving are repeated, an image identification section identifies an input image as a still image or a moving image. In a case where the moving image is identified, a drive/pause control section generates a drive/pause control signal with a period ratio in accordance with the moving image. A timing control section generates a driver control signal so that intermittent driving is carried out. Then, a source driver and a gate driver drives a display section so that the drive period and the pause period are repeated with a predetermined period ratio, so that the input image is displayed. The drive/pause control section sets a time ratio between the drive period and the pause period to be variable for each of the moving image and the still image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Kohji Saitoh, Ken Inada, Kohzoh Takahashi, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20150279294
    Abstract: Grayscale values for previous and current frames are different, and therefore, an overshoot voltage, which has a higher absolute value than a signal voltage, are applied to a data signal line. Next, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed, so that a signal voltage of the same polarity as the overshoot voltage is written to the data signal line. Moreover, in a first drive frame of a third pause drive period, the grayscale values for the previous and current frames are equal, and also greater than or equal to a boundary value, and therefore, undershoot drive is performed. An undershoot voltage, which has a lower absolute value than a signal voltage, is applied to the data signal line. Next, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed, so that a signal voltage of the same polarity as the undershoot voltage is written to the data signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato
  • Publication number: 20150255040
    Abstract: There is provided a display device capable of suppressing brightness change which can occur at the time of image update in intermission driving. A display control circuit (20) includes a frame memory (101), a coercive refreshing determination section (104), a refreshing circuit (105), and an undershoot circuit (106). The coercive refreshing determination section (104) outputs an active coercive refreshing signal and an active correction instruction signal upon determining that an image is updated. The refreshing circuit (105) receives the active coercive refreshing signal, and then outputs an active output control signal. The frame memory (101) receives the active output control signal, and then outputs an image data. The undershoot circuit (106) performs, if in reception of the active correction instruction signal, a correction by making a subtracting operation to the image data received from the frame memory (101), and then outputs corrected image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Kazuki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20150243235
    Abstract: An image determination part configured to determine whether or not an image based on an input image signal is an image analogous to a polarity reversal pattern in a reversal driving scheme employed by default and to output a determination result, and a reversal pattern decision part configured to decide a reversal driving scheme based on the determination result are provided as constituent elements anterior to a liquid crystal drive unit. With regard to each unit area where the determination by the image determination part is made, the reversal pattern decision part decides the reversal driving scheme in the unit area, as a reversal driving scheme different from the reversal driving scheme employed by default, when the determination result indicates that the image based on the input image signal is the image analogous to the polarity reversal pattern in the reversal driving scheme employed by default.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20150235600
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of suppressing a decrease in display quality when pause drive is performed in an alternating-voltage drive mode, as well as a method for driving the same. In a first drive frame, overshoot drive is performed using correction values provided by an LUT to apply overshoot voltages whose absolute values are higher than absolute values of signal voltages to data signal lines. Subsequently, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed to write signal voltages of the same polarity as the overshoot drive voltages to the data signal lines. Thereafter, a pause period in which an image written by normal drive is displayed continues until the start of a drive period in the next pause drive period. As a result, a decrease in luminance immediately after the signal voltages are written during the second drive frame is suppressed significantly, so that the viewer barely recognizes flicker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato
  • Publication number: 20150206486
    Abstract: The occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed particularly in a liquid crystal display device that performs low-frequency driving. Provided are a gradation-to-voltage value conversion table for converting a gradation to a voltage value, a correction value map for storing a correction value, and a voltage value-to-gradation conversion table for converting a voltage value to a gradation. A gradation of an input image signal is converted to a first voltage value, using the gradation-to-voltage value conversion table The correction value specified in accordance with a location of a pixel to be processed is added to or subtracted from the first voltage value so that a second voltage value is obtained. The second voltage value is converted to an output gradation, using the voltage value-to-gradation conversion table. A driving video signal is applied to a source bus line, based on the output gradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20150205563
    Abstract: In first and second display devices (10, 20) both during pause drive (intermittent drive), an instantaneous increase in consumption power is suppressed by means of a configuration to perform control such that the scanning period in one of the two display panels is inserted during the scanning-stopped period in the other display panel, namely during the drive operation (for writing into the pixel circuit) of one of the two display panels, the drive operation (for writing) of the other display panel is not performed. Accordingly, even when a limit value of a current supply capability of a battery is low, the display device can be driven, so that a battery service life is prolonged and the operable time of a portable terminal (100) at the time of driving by the battery is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Asahi Yamato
  • Publication number: 20150187248
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device, which is a portable terminal having two screens, refers to matrix parameters in a color correction table storage unit in order to adjust a bluish tint on a liquid crystal touch panel in accordance with input from a user, such as through a settings screen or the like on a screen of a 3D liquid crystal panel. This changes the 3D liquid crystal panel screen to the same bluish tint as the liquid crystal touch panel, thus matching the tint of both liquid crystal panels through simple input, and without requiring both liquid crystal panels to be adjusted separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Asahi Yamato
  • Patent number: 8907878
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has pixels containing first to fourth subpixels (“SPs”) having four different colors, respectively, arranged in a two-by-two matrix. In displaying a font on a pixel composed of three SPs having three different colors, respectively, arranged in three columns of stripes, the SP in the first column of stripes takes on a tone Tx, the SP in the second column of stripes takes on a tone Ty, and the SP in the third column of stripes takes on a tone Tz. Each of the first and fourth SPs takes on a tone which is obtained by performing rounding on (Tx×?)+(Ty×?)=p and that each of the second and third SPs takes on a tone which is obtained by performing rounding on (Ty×?)+(Tz×?)=v.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Inada
  • Patent number: 8878761
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device capable of improving a viewing angle, while not decreasing an aperture ratio and preventing an increase in electricity consumption. A liquid crystal display device (1) of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate including a plurality of drain electrodes (14) disposed in a matrix form, a counter substrate including a plurality of common electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer being sandwiched between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate, each of the plurality of drain electrodes (14) having formed (i) a subpixel (16a) part facing a first common electrode (11) among the plurality of common electrodes, across the liquid crystal layer, and (ii) a subpixel (16b) part facing a second common electrode (12) among the plurality of common electrodes, across the liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Nakata, Ken Inada
  • Publication number: 20140320518
    Abstract: A display device includes an image processing unit including a detection unit to detect a flicker pattern having a checkered pattern arrangement included in an input image that has been input; and a conversion unit to, if the detection unit detects the flicker pattern included in the input image, convert the input image into an output image that does not include the flicker pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadao Morishita, Ken Inada
  • Patent number: 8860644
    Abstract: In a first display period, a light source controlling section controls a backlight to emit light having a given intensity, and in order to display a given gradation in a first region which is a part of the image, a gradation voltage generating section applies a voltage which is in accordance with the given gradation, and in a second display period which is different from the first display period, the light source controlling section controls the backlight to emit light having a lower intensity than the intensity of the given intensity of the light emitted in the first display period, and in order to display the given gradation in a second region which is different from the first region, the gradation voltage generating section applies a higher voltage than the voltage applied to display the given gradation in the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ken Inada
  • Publication number: 20140104301
    Abstract: There is provided an image display device, in which a pixel includes sub-pixels of four or more colors that include a color in addition to the three primary colors, and which can display a high-quality image in which false colors or artifacts are suppressed. The image display device includes a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels P are arranged in a matrix shape, and each of the pixels P includes m (m is an integer which is equal to or greater than 4) sub-pixels SP. When it is assumed that the colors of the m sub-pixels SP included in one pixel are C1, C2, . . . , and Cm, the m sub-pixels SP which are sequentially arrayed from an arbitrary position include all of the colors of C1, C2, . . . , and Cm in both the vertical direction and the horizontal direction in the pixel area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Hidekazu Miyata, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Kazuyoshi Yoshiyama, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Yanagi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Ken Inada
  • Patent number: 8681081
    Abstract: In an active matrix display device including pixels of three colors having a stripe arrangement or a delta arrangement, n (n denotes a multiple of 3 that is 6 or larger) adjacent data lines form one group and are connected to a source signal output line. The ON/OFF of a selection switch provided for each data line is controlled so that, among the n data lines forming one group, data lines corresponding to pixels of a color with a contribution to brightness smaller than a contribution of at least another color among the three colors are connected first and last with the source signal output line during one horizontal period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takuya Tsuda, Maki Sasagawa, Ken Inada
  • Publication number: 20140043357
    Abstract: The display device (100) including a display panel (20) including pixels (21) each of which includes a red (R) sub pixel (22), a green (G) sub pixel (23), a blue (B) sub pixel (24), and white (W)sub pixel (25), the display device (100) includes an RGB data obtaining section (110) for obtaining RGB data; and a first calculating section (1 12a) for setting luminance of a white (W) sub pixel of one pixel (21) of the pixels (21) to be substantially identical with luminance of white sub pixels of some pixels (21) of the pixels (21) in the case where the RGB data obtained by the obtaining section (100) is converted into RGBX data for each pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Asahi Yamato, Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140028739
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device that (i) converts an input image formed of R, G, and B into a converted image formed of R, G, B, and W to display the converted image and that (ii) compresses the luminance of an input image for the subsequent frame on the basis of an adjustment value C which is corrected in correspondence with the number of, among all pixels in a converted image for the current frame, pixels in a state of luminance saturation and that then converts the input image into a converted image, the display device including a luminance oscillation detecting section (10) for detecting, while input images identical to each other are being inputted each as the above input image, whether converted images corresponding to the respective input images have an oscillating luminance, the display device, in the case where the luminance oscillation detecting section (10) has detected that the converted images have an oscillating luminance, stopping correction of the adjustment value C to fix the adjustment value C
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kohzoh Takahashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Ken Inada, Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20140028657
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide (i) a display device which, during a display of a moving image and a still image, reduces electric power consumption without causing a deterioration in display quality, and (ii) a method for displaying the display device. In an intermittent drive mode in which driving and a pause of the driving are repeated, an image identification section (6) identifies an input image (image data (DA)) as a still image or a moving image. In a case where the input image is identified as the moving image, a drive/pause control section (7) generates a drive/pause control signal (DSC) in accordance with a period ratio which is in accordance with the moving image. A timing control section (8) generates a driver control signal so that intermittent driving is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Kohji Saitoh, Ken Inada, Kohzoh Takahashi, Toshihiro Yanagi
  • Publication number: 20130106901
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having pixels each constituted by red, green, blue, and white subpixels and a backlight, further including: a grayscale ratio calculating section acquiring RGB data and calculating a ratio of the lowest to the highest of RGB grayscales in each pixel; a detection section detecting, from the RGB data, a ratio of the number of target pixels in one frame; a conversion coefficient calculating section acquiring, by using the detected ratio, a conversion coefficient for converting the RGB data into RGBW data; a RGB data conversion section converting the RGB data into the RGBW data per pixel by using the conversion coefficient; and a display control section generating, from the RGBW data, an image to be displayed on the display panel and causing the display panel to display the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ken Inada, Fumiyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20130076609
    Abstract: The present invention causes an oblique line to be smoothly displayed on a liquid crystal display device in which pixels are each constituted by subpixels of four colors arranged in a matrix with two rows and two columns. When the oblique line is displayed, pixels include: a pixel which is not in contact with the oblique edge; and a pixel which is in contact with the oblique edge, supplied with the same data as is supplied to the pixel and different in luminance of a subpixel from the pixel, The pixel having a higher luminance than those of pixels adjacent to the subpixel of the pixel, and the subpixel of the pixel having a lower luminance than that of the subpixel of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ken Inada
  • Publication number: 20130027285
    Abstract: A four-color liquid crystal display device has pixels containing first to fourth subpixels (hereinafter abbreviated as “SPs” as needed) having four different colors, respectively, arranged in a two-by-two matrix, the first to fourth SPs being placed in the first row and the first column, in the first row and the second column, in the second row and the second column, and in the second row and the first column, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Ken Inada