Patents by Inventor Kengo Takahama

Kengo Takahama 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: 9818373
    Abstract: A unit equivalent value acquiring unit acquires a normal-temperature unit equivalent use time ?tn by using a temperature sensor, first to third LUTs, and a first multiplying unit. An integration unit acquires an equivalent cumulative use time to by integrating the normal-temperature unit equivalent use time ?tn. A maximum value detecting unit detects a maximum equivalent cumulative use time tnmax. A dividing unit acquires a correction coefficient Kcmp by dividing total degradation E(tnmax,Tn) acquired by a fourth LUT by total degradation E(tn,Tn) acquired by a fifth LUT. Accordingly, there is provided a data processing device for a display device capable of preventing burn-in while suppressing time degradation of an electro-optical element and increase in the number of wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ohta, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 9465492
    Abstract: A touch panel system prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system includes a touch invalidating section which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic device including the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Manabu Yumoto, Shunsuke Nagasawa, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama, Masayuki Ehiro, Shinsuke Anzai
  • Patent number: 9361823
    Abstract: In a display device (110) provided with pixel circuits including organic EL elements, a display control circuit (1) calculates a voltage drop amount VRI of a power line due to display for each frame on the basis of an integrated value for display data, and a tone voltage generation circuit (9) adjusts reference voltages for a tone voltage on the basis of the integrated value in order to compensate for the voltage drop amount VRI. As a result, it is possible to compensate for the voltage drop of the power line with accuracy without increasing power consumption and the wiring in the pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Takahama, Shigetsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9305492
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a controller, a data driver, and a DRAM which provides a gain correction memory and a threshold voltage correction memory. The data driver sends, to the controller, first and second measurement data Im corresponding to the first and second measuring data voltages Vm, respectively. The controller compares ideal characteristic data IO(P) with the first and second measurement data Im, and updates threshold voltage correction data Vt and gain correction data B2R based on the comparison results. The controller corrects video data Vm based on the threshold voltage correction data Vt and the gain correction data B2R. Thereby, both threshold voltage compensation and gain compensation of a drive transistor are performed with respect to each pixel circuit, while display is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Takahama, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi
  • Patent number: 9195356
    Abstract: A coordinate input device of the present invention includes: an M-sequence generator (12); a drive electrode driving circuit (13); and a receiving electrode selecting circuit (14) which receives a value corresponding to a coupling capacitance, an inputted coordinate position being detected in accordance with the value received by the receiving electrode selecting circuit (14), a receiving electrode group being divided into two blocks, and a first detecting section (15) and a second detecting section (16) being provided so as to correspond to the respective two blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kengo Takahama
  • Publication number: 20150279324
    Abstract: A unit equivalent value acquiring unit acquires a normal-temperature unit equivalent use time ?tn by using a temperature sensor, first to third LUTs, and a first multiplying unit. An integration unit acquires an equivalent cumulative use time to by integrating the normal-temperature unit equivalent use time ?tn. A maximum value detecting unit detects a maximum equivalent cumulative use time tnmax. A dividing unit acquires a correction coefficient Kcmp by dividing total degradation E(tnmax,Tn) acquired by a fourth LUT by total degradation E(tn,Tn) acquired by a fifth LUT. Accordingly, there is provided a data processing device for a display device capable of preventing burn-in while suppressing time degradation of an electro-optical element and increase in the number of wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Ohta, Kengo Takahama
  • Publication number: 20150213757
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes a controller, a data driver, and a DRAM which provides a gain correction memory and a threshold voltage correction memory. The data driver sends, to the controller, first and second measurement data Im corresponding to the first and second measuring data voltages Vm, respectively. The controller compares ideal characteristic data IO(P) with the first and second measurement data Im, and updates threshold voltage correction data Vt and gain correction data B2R based on the comparison results. The controller corrects video data Vm based on the threshold voltage correction data Vt and the gain correction data B2R. Thereby, both threshold voltage compensation and gain compensation of a drive transistor are performed with respect to each pixel circuit, while display is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Takahama, Yoshimitsu Yamauchi, Noboru Noguchi, Noritaka Kishi
  • Patent number: 9030441
    Abstract: Provided is a touch panel system (1) capable of reliably removing a wide variety of noises. The touch panel system (1) includes a main sensor (31) which detects a touch operation, a sub sensor (32) which does not detect a touch operation but detects a noise component, and a subtracting section (41) which subtracts, from an output signal of the main sensor (31), an output signal of the sub sensor (32). The subtracting section (41) performs a subtracting operation to remove a noise component from the output signal of the main sensor (31), thereby extracting a signal derived from the touch operation itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Yumoto, Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 9024872
    Abstract: A mounting section (2) for a user to mount on his/her head includes an infrared light irradiation section (5) that irradiates an object to be detected (21) with a predetermined pattern of infrared light and an infrared light detection section (6) that detects the infrared light reflected by the object to be detected (21). The infrared light irradiation section (5) and the infrared light detection section (6) are placed at a predetermined distance from each other. The three-dimensional coordinates of the object to be detected (21) are computed from a predetermined pattern of reflection from the object to be detected (21) as obtained by the infrared light detection section (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 9013448
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel disclosed herein includes: a plurality of vertical electrodes (6); and a plurality of horizontal electrodes (7), the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) and the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) (i) being so disposed that, as viewed in the direction perpendicular to a substrate, the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) include no segment coincident with the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) and (ii) forming a uniform grid having no gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Manabu Yumoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 8976154
    Abstract: A touch panel system (71a) includes a capacitance value distribution detection circuit (72). The capacitance value distribution detection circuit (72) switches a connection state between a first connection state and a second connection state, which first connection state makes first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) serve as drive lines (DL1 to DLM) and second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) serve as sense lines (SL1 to SLM), and which second connection state makes the second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) serve as the drive lines (DL1 to DLM) and the first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) serve as the sense lines (SL1 to SLM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Kunihiko Iizuka, Manabu Yumoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 8941621
    Abstract: In order to simultaneously carry out, at a smaller sensor density, (i) detection of color information (recognition of a color) of visible light which enters a detection target surface and (ii) detection of an input position of the visible light, a liquid-crystal panel (20) included in a liquid-crystal display device of the present invention has an area sensor function of detecting color information and an input position of visible light by sensing an input image of the visible light on a panel surface. The liquid-crystal panel (20) (position detecting section) includes (i) a yellow sensor (31Y) including a light sensor element (30) which senses an intensity of green light and red light from among three primary color lights and (ii) a cyan sensor (31C) including a light sensor element (30) which senses an intensity of blue light and green light from among the three primary color lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kengo Takahama
  • Publication number: 20140375700
    Abstract: In a display device (110) provided with pixel circuits including organic EL elements, a display control circuit (1) calculates a voltage drop amount VRI of a power line due to display for each frame on the basis of an integrated value for display data, and a tone voltage generation circuit (9) adjusts reference voltages for a tone voltage on the basis of the integrated value in order to compensate for the voltage drop amount VRI. As a result, it is possible to compensate for the voltage drop of the power line with accuracy without increasing power consumption and the wiring in the pixel circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Takahama, Shigetsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 8902192
    Abstract: The touch sensor system includes: a touch panel having a two-dimensional region made up of a hand placing region and a remainder region; a hand placing region processing section for carrying out a process related to the hand placing region in accordance with a hand placing region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the hand placing region; and a drawing input processing section for carrying out a drawing input process in accordance with a remainder region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the remainder region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Manabu Yumoto, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 8902200
    Abstract: A touch panel system includes a touch panel having sense lines, and drive lines which intersect the sense lines and form capacitance with the sense lines, a touch panel controller for processing signals of the sense lines, and a drive line driving circuit for driving the drive lines in parallel. The touch panel controller includes a subtracting section for finding differences in signals between the sense lines adjacent to each other, a decoding section for calculating a distribution of differences between the capacitances by calculating an inner product of code sequences for driving the drive lines in parallel and difference output sequences which correspond to the code sequences, a touch detecting section for obtaining touch information based on the distribution of differences between the capacitances calculated by the decoding section, and a region setting section for setting an effective region in the touch panel based on the touch information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Akira Nishioka, Manabu Yumoto, Kengo Takahama
  • Patent number: 8896576
    Abstract: A touch panel includes: an infrared light transmitting material through which infrared light is transmitted and which has a surface as a touch surface (20) touched by a detection subject; area sensors (3) including photo sensor elements (4) below a touch region, which is touched by the detection subject, of the infrared light transmitting material; and infrared light sources (1) provided outside the touch region, the infrared light sources (1) emitting infrared light along said surface of the infrared light transmitting material such that an entire circumference of the detection subject touching the touch surface (20) is irradiated with the infrared light, the touch panel detecting a position touched by the detection subject so that the photo sensor element (4) receives, among infrared light emitted by the infrared light sources (1) along said surface, infrared light reflected by the detection subject and transmitted through the infrared light transmitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Hiroshi Hamada, Mikihiro Noma, Kengo Takahama, Masakazu Wada, Norikazu Hohshi
  • Patent number: 8878817
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel (20) having an area sensor function of detecting the position of an input from an outside source by detecting an image on a panel surface. The liquid crystal panel (20) (position detecting section), provided with visible light sensors (31A) each containing light sensor elements (30) that detect the intensity of received visible light and infrared light sensors (31B) each containing light sensor elements (30) that detect the intensity of received infrared light, which detects an input position by the visible light sensors (31A) and the infrared light sensors (31B) separately detecting an image on the detector surface. The liquid crystal display device further includes a backlight (light-emitting section) for irradiating the liquid crystal panel (20) with light containing infrared light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikihiro Noma, Shinichi Miyazaki, Kengo Takahama, Yoshiharu Yoshimoto, Keisuke Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20140160070
    Abstract: A touch panel system prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system includes a touch invalidating section which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic device including the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Manabu Yumoto, Shunsuke Nagasawa, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama, Masayuki Ehiro, Shinsuke Anzai
  • Publication number: 20140152602
    Abstract: A touch sensor panel disclosed herein includes: a plurality of vertical electrodes (6); and a plurality of horizontal electrodes (7), the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) and the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) (i) being so 210 disposed that, as viewed in the direction perpendicular to a substrate, the plurality of vertical electrodes (6) include no segment coincident with the plurality of horizontal electrodes (7) and (ii) forming a uniform grid having no gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Manabu Yumoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama
  • Publication number: 20140132541
    Abstract: A touch panel system (71a) includes a capacitance value distribution detection circuit (72). The capacitance value distribution detection circuit (72) switches a connection state between a first connection state and a second connection state, which first connection state makes first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) serve as drive lines (DL1 to DLM) and second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) serve as sense lines (SL1 to SLM), and which second connection state makes the second signal lines (VL1 to VLM) serve as the drive lines (DL1 to DLM) and the first signal lines (HL1 to HLM) serve as the sense lines (SL1 to SLM).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki Miyamoto, Kunihiko Iizuka, Manabu Yumoto, Shinichi Yoshida, Kengo Takahama