Patents by Inventor Kohji Ueno
Kohji Ueno 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).
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Patent number: 11328681Abstract: In a display device including a display panel, a plurality of scanning line drive circuits formed on the display panel, each driving scanning lines individually, and a display control circuit, the scanning line drive circuit outputs a state signal, and the display control circuit determines whether a state is normal based on the state signal, performs control, in a normal state, for making the plurality of scanning line drive circuits operate in turn, and performs control, in an abnormal state, for stopping an operation of an abnormal scanning line drive circuit and for making a normal scanning line drive circuit operate in turn. A last-stage output signal of the scanning line drive circuit is used as the state signal. With this, a display device capable of lengthening time until an abnormality occurs and keeping display quality even when the abnormality occurs is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohji Ueno
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Patent number: 10984734Abstract: A backlight driving device includes a plurality of drivers configured to drive a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a planar shape in a predetermined drive unit, and a control unit configured to output drive data directed to each of the plurality of drivers. The plurality of drivers are cascaded, each of the plurality of drivers bi-directionally performs an operation of, in a case of receiving the drive data directed to another driver input from a previous stage, outputting the drive data to a subsequent stage in a row of the plurality of drivers cascaded. In a case that at least one of the plurality of drivers has an abnormality, the control unit outputs the drive data to the driver located at one end of the plurality of drivers, and then outputs the drive data to the driver located at the other end of the plurality of drivers.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohji Ueno
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Publication number: 20210104203Abstract: In a display device including a display panel, a plurality of scanning line drive circuits formed on the display panel, each driving scanning lines individually, and a display control circuit, the scanning line drive circuit outputs a state signal, and the display control circuit determines whether a state is normal based on the state signal, performs control, in a normal state, for making the plurality of scanning line drive circuits operate in turn, and performs control, in an abnormal state, for stopping an operation of an abnormal scanning line drive circuit and for making a normal scanning line drive circuit operate in turn. A last-stage output signal of the scanning line drive circuit is used as the state signal. With this, a display device capable of lengthening time until an abnormality occurs and keeping display quality even when the abnormality occurs is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2018Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventor: KOHJI UENO
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Publication number: 20210020121Abstract: To provide a backlight driving device capable of suppressing degradation of display quality in a display device and a display device. A backlight driving device includes a plurality of drivers configured to drive a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a planar shape in each of predetermined drive units. Any two longitudinally adjacent drive units are driven by two different drivers of the plurality of drivers, and any two laterally adjacent drive units are driven by two different drivers of the plurality of drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventor: KOHJI UENO
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Publication number: 20210020117Abstract: A backlight driving device includes a plurality of drivers configured to drive a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a planar shape in a predetermined drive unit, and a control unit configured to output drive data directed to each of the plurality of drivers. The plurality of drivers are cascaded, each of the plurality of drivers bi-directionally performs an operation of, in a case of receiving the drive data directed to another driver input from a previous stage, outputting the drive data to a subsequent stage in a row of the plurality of drivers cascaded. In a case that at least one of the plurality of drivers has an abnormality, the control unit outputs the drive data to the driver located at one end of the plurality of drivers, and then outputs the drive data to the driver located at the other end of the plurality of drivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventor: KOHJI UENO
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Patent number: 10818254Abstract: The present application discloses an active matrix type display device that is capable of successfully displaying an image by an intra-screen division drive while suppressing the complication of a circuit configuration. In a liquid crystal panel that includes an A area and a B area, an A area scanning signal line and a B area scanning signal line are scanned in the same direction, and the A area data signal line and the B area data signal line are driven based on an A area image signal DaA and a B area image signal DaB, respectively, that are obtained from an image signal DA from the outside. Furthermore, when a scanning signal line that is to be selected latest in the A area is selected, a voltage that is the same as a data signal voltage which is applied to the A area data signal line that intersects the scanning signal line is applied to the B area data signal line that is paired with the A area data signal line.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Toshiki Kanatani, Kohji Ueno, Shinji Sadamitsu
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Publication number: 20200312258Abstract: The present application discloses an active matrix type display device that is capable of successfully displaying an image by an intra-screen division drive while suppressing the complication of a circuit configuration. In a liquid crystal panel that includes an A area and a B area, an A area scanning signal line and a B area scanning signal line are scanned in the same direction, and the A area data signal line and the B area data signal line are driven based on an A area image signal DaA and a B area image signal DaB, respectively, that are obtained from an image signal DA from the outside. Furthermore, when a scanning signal line that is to be selected latest in the A area is selected, a voltage that is the same as a data signal voltage which is applied to the A area data signal line that intersects the scanning signal line is applied to the B area data signal line that is paired with the A area data signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2017Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: TOSHIKI KANATANI, KOHJI UENO, SHINJI SADAMITSU
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Publication number: 20120320027Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that can convert a bright spot easily into a black spot. The liquid crystal display device is provided with; a drive circuit board on which an IC chip (4) is mounted, a counter substrate arranged opposite to the drive circuit board, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the drive circuit board and the counter substrate; an external circuit board (6) on which a stabilizing capacitor element (7) for generating a power supply voltage in the IC chip (4) is mounted; and a connection wiring board (5) for connecting the drive circuit board and the external circuit board (6), wherein an auxiliary capacitor wiring (3) and a power supply voltage terminal (14) are connected directly to each other on the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kohji Ueno
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Publication number: 20100315403Abstract: A scan signal line driving circuit of at least one embodiment includes a plurality of stages which are aligned in a scanning direction, the scan signal line driving circuit receiving a first clock signal, a second clock signal, and a third clock signal, the first clock signal, the second clock signal, and the third clock signal being such that (i) a clock pulse of the third clock signal is followed by a clock pulse of the first clock signal, (ii) the clock pulse of the first clock signal is followed by a clock pulse of the second clock signal, and (iii) the clock pulse of the second clock signal is followed by the clock pulse of the third clock signal, the scan signal line driving circuit receiving a shift pulse at one endmost stage thereof and shifting the shift pulse from the one endmost stage thereof to the other endmost stage thereof stage by stage in accordance with each of clock pulses of the first clock signal, the second clock signal, and the third clock signal, sequentially received by the scan signaType: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Shotaro Kaneyoshi, Kohji Ueno
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Patent number: 5444103Abstract: Modified PTFE is produced by exposing a starting PTFE to an ionizing radiation for a total dose of at least 100 kGy in the absence of oxygen at a temperature not lower than the crystal melting point of the starting PTFE. The thus modified PTFE is improved in radiation resistance and has rubber characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 1993Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Assignee: Raytech CorporationInventors: Yoneho Tabata, Kazushige Otsuhata, Tetsuya Ikeda, Kohji Ueno, Yuichi Yoshida, Akihiro Oshima, Tadao Suguchi, Hisaaki Kudoh