Patents by Inventor Kikuo Ono

Kikuo Ono 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).

  • Publication number: 20090051838
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20090040409
    Abstract: The present invention provides a foamed resin laminate sound insulation board capable of exhibiting sound proofing performance, which is free from restrictions of shape, applicable place and weight, thinned as the whole laminated plate to enhance plastic workability such as press work, and provided with sufficient vibration damping performance in a final using state after heating foaming process. This foamed resin laminate sound insulation board 1 is a laminated plate comprising at least an unfoamed foamable resin 3a to be foamed at a foaming temperature by heating and a hard plate 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke
  • Patent number: 7486345
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed on one substrate. A planar counter electrode which is formed on each pixel region, and a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits is formed in overlapping relation with the counter electrode. A first contact hole is provided for connecting the pixel electrode and a source electrode, and a connection line is provided for connecting the counter electrode of one pixel region and the counter electrode of an adjacent next pixel region. The counter electrode has a notch in the position of the first contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Patent number: 7486363
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode in a pixel formed on a surface of a substrate which faces liquid crystal, the counter electrode is formed below an insulation film, and the pixel electrode is formed above the insulation film, wherein the counter electrode is formed over a whole area of a center except for a slight periphery of at least the pixel, the pixel electrode is constituted of separate pixel electrodes to which a video signal which is supplied to the pixel is inputted through the separate switching elements at the same timing, and the separate pixel electrodes are respectively formed of a plurality of electrodes and the respective electrodes are alternately arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20090015775
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which includes a pixel electrode and a counter electrode in a pixel formed on a surface of a substrate which faces liquid crystal, the counter electrode is formed below an insulation film, and the pixel electrode is formed above the insulation film, wherein the counter electrode is formed over a whole area of a center except for a slight periphery of at least the pixel, the pixel electrode is constituted of separate pixel electrodes to which a video signal which is supplied to the pixel is inputted through the separate switching elements at the same timing, and the separate pixel electrodes are respectively formed of a plurality of electrodes and the respective electrodes are alternately arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080309686
    Abstract: To reduce heating value of the drain driver in a display device applying an FBI drive method. In a display device applying the FBI drive method in which each subpixel displays one gray scale required by an external system by displaying two gray scales which are a gray scale corresponding to first display data during one frame period of continuous two frame periods and a gray scale corresponding to second display data during the other frame period of the continuous two frame periods, and the luminance according to the second display data is lower than the luminance according to the first display data when the display data inputted from the external system is in a halftone gray scale, the power supply circuit supplies high-potential first power supply voltage to the driver during the first frame period and supplies low-potential first power supply voltage having the potential lower than the high-potential first power supply voltage during the second frame period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Kenta Endo, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080303758
    Abstract: High-order bits to be utilized for current-frame display data and previous-frame display data, and low-order bits to be utilized for the current-frame display data alone are stored in independently controllable memory areas. For reading the current-frame display data from a frame memory, data of the high-order bits and data of the low-order bits are read. For reading the previous-frame data, the high-order bits alone are read. Thus, since a period during which the data of the low-order bits that is not utilized for the previous-frame display data is stored in the memory is shortened, a required memory capacity can be reduced. The data transfer time can be reduced by the time required for memory read for the data of the low-order bits that is not utilized for the previous-frame display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Ooishi, Junichi Maruyama, Takashi Shoji, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080291379
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device is provided which is improved in image quality by supplying a reference voltage signal to a liquid-crystal display panel through a multiplicity of distributed supply paths. The liquid-crystal display device includes a liquid-crystal display panel and a semiconductor device connected to a part of a periphery of the liquid-crystal display panel. The liquid-crystal display panel has a plurality of signal lines for supplying various signals to address pixels, on one of a pair of substrates arranged oppositely through a liquid crystal. The signal lines include a common bus line for supplying a reference voltage signal. The semiconductor device is structured with a semiconductor chip mounted on a flexible board. The flexible board at least has a line leading to a terminal for supplying a signal to the signal line of the liquid-crystal display panel through the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventors: Yuuichi TAKENAKA, Kikuo ONO
  • Patent number: 7456924
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines made of metal and a plurality of drain signal lines made of metal, wherein the gate signal line and the drain signal line have a first overlapping region, and a plurality of counter voltage signal lines, wherein the counter voltage signal line and the drain signal line have a second overlapping region. A plurality of pixel regions are defined by neighboring gate signal lines and drain signal lines, and a pixel electrode is formed on the first substrate in each pixel region. A thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer is formed on the gate signal line, and the semiconductor layer at least overlaps with the drain signal line at the first overlapping region and the second overlapping region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Makoto Yoneya, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Junichi Hirakata, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Publication number: 20080284708
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which each one pixel has two switching elements and two pixel electrodes, a heat value of a drive circuit can be suppressed to a low level thus preventing the deterioration of image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 7453539
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 7450192
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a gate line formed over the substrate, a first insulating film formed over the substrate and the gate line, a semiconductor film formed over the first insulating film, a drain electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a source electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a data line connected to the drain electrode and formed over the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed over the source electrode and the data line, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the source electrode and formed over the second insulating film, and a transparent conductive film connected to the data line through a contact hole formed in the second insulating film. The transparent conductive film includes a first portion which none of the first insulating film and the second insulating film underlie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Masahiro Tanaka, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080273135
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Patent number: 7446760
    Abstract: A scan driver selects first four rows of pixels at a time and then sequentially selects second four rows of pixels for each row in double gate driving. A data driver supplies a tone voltage corresponding to black data to the first four row of pixels at a time and then sequentially supplies a tone voltage corresponding to display data to the second four rows of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Takada, Hiroyuki Nitta, Nobuyuki Koganezawa, Kikuo Ono, Takashi Shoji
  • Publication number: 20080266478
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a gate line formed over the substrate, a first insulating film formed over the substrate and the gate line, a semiconductor film formed over the first insulating film, a drain electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a source electrode formed over the semiconductor film, a data line connected to the drain electrode and formed over the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed over the source electrode and the data line, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the source electrode and formed over the second insulating film, and a transparent conductive film connected to the data line through a contact hole formed in the second insulating film. The transparent conductive film includes a first portion which none of the first insulating film and the second insulating film underlie.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Masahiro Tanaka, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080259265
    Abstract: Below a transparent pixel electrode, an opaque pixel electrode is arranged while sandwiching an insulation film between the transparent pixel electrode and the opaque pixel electrode. A common electrode is arranged below the opaque pixel electrode thus forming a holding capacitance between the common electrode and an opaque metal electrode. In case when the pixel is divided into four or more portions, an interval between the pixel electrode and the common electrode is set to an unequal pitch size or an unequal electrode width within one pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Takahiro Ochiai, Hirotaka Imayama
  • Patent number: 7440066
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode to which a signal is supplied through a first switching element and a second electrode to which a signal is supplied through a second switching element in each pixel region on a substrate, wherein liquid crystal is driven in response to a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode. In such a constitution, the first electrode is formed as one electrode of a first holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the first electrode and a signal line and, at the same time, the second electrode is formed as one electrode of a second holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the second electrode and a signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke
  • Publication number: 20080246707
    Abstract: A display device includes a pair of substrates, a drain signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates, a pixel including a thin film transistor connected to the drain signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode connected to the counter voltage line, a video signal driver circuit formed on the one substrate and connected to the drain signal line, and a first interconnection layer disposed between the pixel and the video signal driver circuit. At least one of the capacitance line and the counter voltage line is connected to the first interconnection layer between the video signal driver circuit and the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Tomohiko SATO, Takahiro Ochiai, Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Norio Mamba
  • Publication number: 20080238848
    Abstract: A hold-type display device reduces the blur of a moving image and makes less conspicuous the color shift caused due to different blur positions among RGB. In the case where the relative brightness of the video data of one or two of the three primary colors RGB changes from between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the previous frame to between 0 and 0.5 inclusive for the present frame, the video image of the one or two colors is delayed by one frame and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Oishi, Junichi Maruyama, Takashi Shoji, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080198185
    Abstract: A signal converter to make a display module conduct an n-ply display operation divides one frame period of input display data into n subframes to obtain n-ply display data, shifts the sampling position for each n-ply display data, samples the data to convert resolution thereof, rearranges in n ways a combination of subpixels included in each pixel of output display data resultant from the sampling, and varying the sampling position and the combination of subpixels for each subframe in a cooperative fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Inventors: Junichi MARUYAMA, Yoshihisa Ooishi, Yoshiki Kurokawa, Takashi Shoji, Kikuo Ono