Patents by Inventor Kohei Azumi

Kohei Azumi 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: 20140292683
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sensor-equipped display device including a display device and a sensor which outputs information for detecting a contact position on the display device, a display driver which outputs a driving signal to the sensor based on one setting table, an application processor which outputs a table selection signal specifying a setting table and a sensor setting signal specifying a driving method of the sensor to the display driver, and a sensing circuit which outputs a dataset including three-dimensional information of a coordinate of a position on the display device and a physical quantity at the coordinate to the application processor, and outputs a table selection request signal generated based on the table selection signal, and a control signal which controls driving timing of the sensor to the display driver, the control signal having generated based on the sensor setting signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei AZUMI, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
  • Publication number: 20140253485
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detection function and a method of driving the same, a drive circuit, as well as an electronic unit, which make it possible to reduce an influence of a disturbance noise. The display panel includes: a signal generation section selecting one pulse period from a plurality of pulse periods prepared beforehand, and generating a synchronization signal including a series of pulses appearing at the selected pulse period; a display section performing display based on the synchronization signal; and a touch detection section performing touch detection operation based on the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20140253498
    Abstract: In relation to touch sensors, technique capable of shortening total touch drive time and a touch detection period or suppressing increase thereof are provided. In a panel unit of a touch-sensor device, a touch drive unit generates a first pulse to an M-th pulses which are pulses of a plurality of types having mutually different cycles in accordance with differences in time constants with respect to paths including wirings of a peripheral area, touch drive electrodes, units of touch detection, touch detection electrodes, and wirings of the peripheral area through which pulses of touch drive signals to the plurality of touch drive electrodes are transmitted in a touch detection area in which the plurality of units of touch detection formed by pairs of the plurality of touch drive electrodes and the plurality of touch detection electrodes are formed like a matrix, and the touch drive unit applies the pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takafumi SUZUKI, Kohei AZUMI
  • Patent number: 8816973
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a position detection apparatus including: a sensor section having a plurality of detection electrodes laid out on a detection surface; a select section configured to select one or more detection electrodes from the detection electrodes; an oscillation section having an oscillation frequency determined by a capacitance generated in the one or more detection electrodes selected by the select section; a conversion section configured to output an output signal representing the frequency of an oscillation signal generated by the oscillation section; and a control section configured to change the frequency of the oscillation signal generated by the oscillation section in accordance with the output signal output by the conversion section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20140218335
    Abstract: A noise immunity of a detected capacitance is prevented or inhibited from lowering on a driving electrode different in width from the other driving electrodes, provided in an input device. A touch panel serving as an input device has a plurality of driving electrodes extending in an X-axis direction and arranged in a Y-axis direction intersecting with the X-axis direction, and a driving electrode arranged outside one side of an arrangement of the driving electrodes and extending in the X-axis direction. Further, the touch panel TP1 has a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the Y-axis direction and arranged in the X-axis direction. The width of the driving electrode is smaller than the widths of the driving electrodes and the detecting electrode includes an expanding portion for expanding the area of the detecting electrode on the side opposite to the plurality of driving electrodes via the driving electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TERANISHI, Takafumi SUZUKI, Kohei AZUMI
  • Publication number: 20140176496
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes a drive unit that supplies an excitation signal having at least variable magnitude to a first electrode at a predetermined period for detecting approach or a touch of an object; a detection unit electrically coupled to a second electrode provided to be opposed to the first electrode to detect approach or a touch of the object according to an output value from the second electrode; and an element that electrically couples the drive unit and the detection unit, receives the excitation signal from the drive unit, and has a predetermined size of electrostatic capacitance. The touch detection device corrects an output value from the second electrode by using an output value from the element and the output value from the second electrode obtained at the same timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Publication number: 20140168151
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a pixel electrode; a touch detection electrode; a display drive unit for outputting the pixel signal to the pixel electrode in synchronization with a display drive signal; an operation drive unit for supplying the display drive signal in a display operation period to perform a display operation and supplying a touch detection drive signal in a touch detection period to perform a touch detection operation; a touch detection unit for detecting a detection signal outputted from the touch detection electrode; and a control unit for executing the display operation period and the touch detection period in a time divisional manner. The touch detection unit performs a noise detection operation for detecting a disturbance noise superimposed on the touch detection electrode in the display operation period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20140152617
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a scan drive unit that supplies a touch drive signal to a touch detection element in a touch detection operation period different from a display operation period in which a pixel signal and a display drive signal are sequentially supplied to display elements to perform display scanning; and a noise detector that detects noise included in a frequency component sampled by a touch detection unit. When the noise detector detects the noise, the scan drive unit changes a frequency of the touch drive signal in the touch detection operation period and supplies the changed frequency to the touch detection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20140152616
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes a plurality of drive electrodes that face a plurality of pixel electrodes in an orthogonal direction to the surface of the substrate, and extend in a direction parallel to the direction in which a plurality of signal lines extend. The display device with a touch detection function also includes a scan driving unit that applies a touch drive signal to a signal line that faces, in an overlapping manner in the orthogonal direction, a drive electrode to which the touch drive signal is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20140152613
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a drive electrode that extends in a first direction; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes that are metal wirings extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The metal wirings are arranged with a predetermined pitch so as to make capacitive coupling with the drive electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20140036166
    Abstract: The reliability of a display device with an input device is improved. A plurality of detection electrodes (input position detection electrodes) forming an electrostatic capacity between them and a common electrode of a display device to detect an input position are formed on a different substrate from substrates configuring the display device. Moreover, a polarizing plate and the substrate on which the plurality of detection electrodes are formed are adhesively fixed via, for example, an adhesive layer so that the plurality of detection electrodes are fixed so as to be separated apart from the display device. Thus, a distance between electrodes (the detection electrode and a driving electrode) for detecting an input position can be set separately from a thickness of the display device, and therefore, reduction in detection sensitivity (detection reliability) for the input position due to increase in the electrostatic capacity can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi, Koji Ishizaki, Hideki Kaneko, Tsutomu Harada
  • Publication number: 20140035867
    Abstract: When an ideal value of a width of each of a plurality of detecting electrodes (input-position detecting electrodes) in an X direction provided in an input device is defined as Wsmax [?m], an interval which is a center-to-center distance of adjacent detecting electrodes is defined as P [?m], and an effective inter-electrode distance represented by an inverse number of a value obtained by dividing a relative permittivity of an intermediate member by a thickness of the intermediate member is defined as D [?m], Wsmax is represented by a formula of: Wsmax=0.488×P-4.33×D-160. Also, a width of each of the plurality of detecting electrodes in the X direction falls within a range of not more than ±150 ?m of a value of the Wsmax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20130241869
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a first substrate which has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; a second substrate which has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, the first surface being arranged to face the second surface of the first substrate, and is made of a transparent material; and an image display layer which is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a driving electrode is provided on the first surface of the second substrate, a plurality of first detection electrodes are provided on the second surface of the second substrate, a second detection electrode is provided on the first substrate, the first detection electrodes and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type first touch panel unit, and the second detection electrode and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type second touch panel unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20120262389
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detection function, a drive circuit, and an electronic unit, which make it possible to realize many functions related to touch detection. The display panel includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes extending in one direction; an electrode drive section integrated into a chip, and applying a drive signal to the drive electrodes; and one or more touch detection electrodes extending in a direction intersecting the direction in which the drive electrodes extend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20120262390
    Abstract: There are provided a display panel with a touch detection function and a method of driving the same, a drive circuit, as well as an electronic unit, which make it possible to reduce an influence of a disturbance noise. The display panel includes: a signal generation section selecting one pulse period from a plurality of pulse periods prepared beforehand, and generating a synchronization signal including a series of pulses appearing at the selected pulse period; a display section performing display based on the synchronization signal; and a touch detection section performing touch detection operation based on the synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20120075238
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes a display function layer, a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a first direction, and a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a second direction, electrostatic capacitance being formed at intersections of the touch detection electrodes and the drive electrodes. The plurality of drive electrodes extends to a first position or a second position outside of the first position, the first position being away from a center of an outermost touch detection electrode by a half length of an arrangement pitch of the touch detection electrodes, the outermost touch detection electrode being defined as outermost one of touch detection electrodes included in an effective display region of the display function layer, and an outer edge of the effective display region is located on or inside the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichiro Minami, Masahiro Minegishi, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20120075240
    Abstract: A display unit with touch detection function includes a plurality of pixel signal lines each transmitting a pixel signal for display; a pixel signal line drive section applying the pixel signal to each of the pixel signal lines; display elements each performing display based on the pixel signal; touch detection electrodes each outputting a detection signal based on a change in capacitance occurring due to an external proximity object; and a touch detection section detecting, in a touch detection period, a touch event based on the detection signal, the touch detection period being different from a display period for the display elements to perform display operation. The pixel signal line drive section maintains a voltage of each of the pixel signal lines at a certain level during the touch detection period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20120075239
    Abstract: A touch detector capable of achieving high position resolution while improving detection sensitivity to a touch is provided. The touch detector includes: a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in one direction; a detection electrode extending in a direction orthogonal to a direction where the drive electrodes extend, and arranged to form a capacitance at each of intersections with the drive electrodes; and a scanning drive section sequentially selecting a predetermined plural number of target electrodes from the plurality of drive electrodes in a time-divisional manner, and applying a touch detection drive signal with a plurality of pulse waveforms for detecting an external adjacent object to the selected target electrodes to perform a scanning drive. A scanning pitch in the scanning drive is smaller than the total width of the plural number of selected target electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi, Koji Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20120050217
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes, a plurality of display elements performing display operation based on a pixel signal and a display drive signal, a touch detection element detecting an external proximity object based on a touch detection drive signal, a scan drive section performing display scanning by sequentially supplying the pixel signal and the display drive signal to the plurality of display elements in a time-divisional manner, and the scan drive section supplying the touch detection drive signal to the touch detection element, and a touch detection circuit performing touch detection by sampling a detection result from the touch detection element with a period shorter than a period of the display scanning. The scan drive section supplies the touch detection drive signal to the touch detection element in a touch detection operation period different from a display operation period for performing the display scanning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi
  • Publication number: 20120050193
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display section having a plurality of pixel electrodes; and a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged side-by-side in a second direction. Each of the drive electrodes has a width in the second direction corresponding to a size of the two or more pixel electrodes, and has one or more slits extending in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Kohei Azumi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi