Patents by Inventor Kohichi Ohhara

Kohichi Ohhara 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: 11942056
    Abstract: A display device includes a lighting device, a display panel, a memory, and a correction circuit. The lighting device includes a light exit area defined into light exit sections corresponding to light sources. The display panel includes a display area disposed opposite the light exit area and including pixels. The memory stores data of pixel matrix linked to the display sections. The memory stores position data of the pixels that are not disposed opposite the corresponding light exit sections and deviation data when a position error is caused between the light exit area and the display area. The correction circuit is configured to determine whether the memory stores the position data of the pixels and link new pixel matrix units to the corresponding display sections based on the deviation data if a determination result is affirmative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Tomokawa, Yasutomo Nishihara, Yohji Inui, Kohichi Ohhara, Katsutoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11769459
    Abstract: A display device includes a control circuit. By setting an intermediate point between a start point and an end point of a lighting period as a start point of the lighting cycle, and setting an intermediate point between a start point and an end point of a lighting period of the next lighting period as an end point of the lighting cycle, the control circuit controls a backlight such that an absolute value of a difference value between a first ratio of a sum of a length of a first lighting period in the first lighting cycle and a length of the next second lighting period in the first lighting cycle to a length of the first lighting cycle and the target duty ratio is 0.1 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Koki Oka, Kohichi Ohhara
  • Publication number: 20230186863
    Abstract: A display device includes a control circuit. By setting an intermediate point between a start point and an end point of a lighting period as a start point of the lighting cycle, and setting an intermediate point between a start point and an end point of a lighting period of the next lighting period as an end point of the lighting cycle, the control circuit controls a backlight such that an absolute value of a difference value between a first ratio of a sum of a length of a first lighting period in the first lighting cycle and a length of the next second lighting period in the first lighting cycle to a length of the first lighting cycle and the target duty ratio is 0.1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Koki OKA, Kohichi OHHARA
  • Publication number: 20230096847
    Abstract: A display device includes a lighting device, a display panel, a memory, and a correction circuit. The lighting device includes a light exit area defined into light exit sections corresponding to light sources. The display panel includes a display area opposed to the light exit area and including pixels. The display area includes display sections to be opposed to the light exit sections. The memory stores data of pixel matrix linked to the display sections. The memory stores position data of the pixels that are not opposed to the corresponding light exit sections and deviation data when a position error is caused between the light exit area and the display area. The correction circuit is configured to determine whether the memory stores the position data of the pixels and link new pixel matrix units to the corresponding display sections based on the deviation data if determination result is affirmative.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Shinji TOMOKAWA, Yasutomo NISHIHARA, Yohji INUI, Kohichi OHHARA, Katsutoshi KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 10923048
    Abstract: In a display device including a display panel having two areas and a backlight having two light-emitting sections, a first scanning period, a first blanking period, a second scanning period, and a second blanking period are set sequentially in one frame period, scanning lines in a first area are selected sequentially in the first scanning period, the scanning lines in a second area are selected sequentially in the second scanning period, a second light-emitting section is made to turn on in a first turn-on period set in the first blanking period, and a first light-emitting section is made to turn on in a second turn-on period set in the second blanking period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuya Handa, Kohichi Ohhara, Hideo Tohdoh
  • Publication number: 20200234658
    Abstract: In a display device including a display panel having two areas and a backlight having two light-emitting sections, a first scanning period, a first blanking period, a second scanning period, and a second blanking period are set sequentially in one frame period, scanning lines in a first area are selected sequentially in the first scanning period, the scanning lines in a second area are selected sequentially in the second scanning period, a second light-emitting section is made to turn on in a first turn-on period set in the first blanking period, and a first light-emitting section is made to turn on in a second turn-on period set in the second blanking period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: TAKUYA HANDA, KOHICHI OHHARA, HIDEO TOHDOH
  • Patent number: 10705377
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a display unit, a backlight including a plurality of light sources, an LED control circuit configured to output a PWM signal (LED control signal) based on a display synchronization signal, such that the light sources are intermittently lighted, and an LED driver configured to control a drive current that is supplied to the light sources, based on the PWM signal, is provided with a monitoring control unit that is configured to perform monitoring at least one of the PWM signal, the drive current, and the display synchronization signal, as a monitoring target. When an abnormality of the monitoring target is detected, the monitoring control unit controls a waveform of the PWM signal such that the drive current that is supplied to the light sources in the backlight becomes zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasutomo Nishihara, Hideo Tohdoh, Kohichi Ohhara, Takuya Handa, Kohji Michibayashi
  • Patent number: 10663786
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel displaying an image and an LED and an IC driver which is a heat generating component generating heat during operation, the liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates that are disposed opposite each other, and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules and sealed between the pair of substrates, and a transparent thermal conducing sheet is disposed such that a part thereof is continuous from the LED and the IC driver and another part thereof is directly in contact with a TFT substrate to cover a display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohji Kuwamura, Kohichi Ohhara, Takuya Handa
  • Publication number: 20200035176
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device performing an overdrive drive of a liquid crystal panel and an impulse drive of a backlight, the liquid crystal panel includes an overdrive unnecessary area including pixels of which gradations converge to target levels before a backlight turn-on period when an arbitrary video signal is written to the pixels, and an overdrive necessary area including remaining pixels. An overdrive processing circuit includes a previous frame memory for storing an input video signal of less than one frame, including the input video signal with respect to the pixels in the overdrive necessary area, and a processing section for performing a correction for emphasizing a temporal change of a gradation, at least on the input video signal with respect to the pixels in the overdrive necessary area. With this, a capacity of a frame memory for storing a video signal of a previous frame is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: KOHICHI OHHARA
  • Publication number: 20200004084
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including a display unit, a backlight including a plurality of light sources, an LED control circuit configured to output a PWM signal (LED control signal) based on a display synchronization signal, such that the light sources are intermittently lighted, and an LED driver configured to control a drive current that is supplied to the light sources, based on the PWM signal, is provided with a monitoring control unit that is configured to perform monitoring at least one of the PWM signal, the drive current, and the display synchronization signal, as a monitoring target. When an abnormality of the monitoring target is detected, the monitoring control unit controls a waveform of the PWM signal such that the drive current that is supplied to the light sources in the backlight becomes zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: YASUTOMO NISHIHARA, HIDEO TOHDOH, KOHICHI OHHARA, TAKUYA HANDA, KOHJI MICHIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190302514
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel displaying an image and an LED and an IC driver which is a heat generating component generating heat during operation, the liquid crystal panel includes a pair of substrates that are disposed opposite each other, and a liquid crystal layer containing liquid crystal molecules and sealed between the pair of substrates, and a transparent thermal conducing sheet is disposed such that a part thereof is continuous from the LED and the IC driver and another part thereof is directly in contact with a TFT substrate to cover a display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: YOHJI KUWAMURA, KOHICHI OHHARA, TAKUYA HANDA
  • Publication number: 20190304059
    Abstract: To carry out a suitable correction process while preventing a cost increase, an image processing device includes a frame memory (120) configured to store image data for the current frame; and a correction section (130, 140) configured to correct an image for the current frame, the correction section being configured to correct the image for the current frame with reference to a frame previous to the current frame, the frame memory being configured to further store image data for the previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: TATSUHIKO SUYAMA, NORIYUKI TANAKA, KOHICHI OHHARA, TAKUYA HANDA
  • Publication number: 20110292096
    Abstract: A normally black liquid crystal display device of the present invention is provided with a liquid crystal display panel 11 having two or more sets of pixel electrode groups, a light guide plate 13 arranged to overlap the liquid crystal display panel, and a light source 12 arranged on the side of the light guide plate along one side thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohichi Ohhara