Patents by Inventor Makoto Hayashi

Makoto Hayashi 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: 20140292687
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a sensor-integrated display device integrally including a display surface and a sensor surface, a data transfer device, an image data generation module, and a processing module. The data transfer device configured to generate and output three-dimensional information. The image data generation module configured to generate three-dimensional image data at a plurality of sensing points on the sensor surface based on the three-dimensional information. The processing module configured to analyze an operation content of a conductor above the sensor surface based on the image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Kohei AZUMI, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
  • Publication number: 20140292686
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a sensor-equipped display device including a pixel electrode, a common electrode opposed to the pixel electrode, and a detection electrode which is opposed to the common electrode, includes a plurality of segments, a display driver configured to supply a display signal to the pixel electrode and to supply a sensor driving signal or a common driving signal to the common electrode, a detection circuit configured to output to the display driver a data set including a sensor detection value from each of the segments of the detection electrode, based on the supplying of the sensor driving signal to the common electrode, and an application processor configured to receive the data set which has been output via the display driver from the detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Michio YAMAMOTO, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Kohei AZUMI, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
  • Publication number: 20140292678
    Abstract: A sensor-integrated display panel including an operation surface for performing an input operation and an image display surface which are formed integrally with a sensor as one piece. A data transfer device supplies the sensor-integrated display panel with a drive signal for driving the sensor and outputs sensing data corresponding to a potential of a sensor signal output from the sensor. A contact electrode is provided in a frame formed around the sensor-integrated display panel to vary the potential of the sensor signal when a conductor touches or does not touch to the frame. An application executing device receives and analyzes the sensing data and generates a signal to select an operating function in accordance with an analysis result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Kohei AZUMI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
  • 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: 20140292681
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display device having a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a matrix form, second electrodes including a plurality of electrode patterns extending in a first direction and aligned in a second direction to cross the first direction, and third electrodes including a plurality of electrode patterns extending in the second direction and aligned in the first direction, a display driver configured to apply a sensor drive signal to the second electrodes, a detection circuit configured to transmit a detection data group including physical quantity data detected in one detection period from the plurality of electrode patterns of the third electrodes at each time when the sensor drive signal is applied to the second electrodes, and an application processor configured to process the detection data group received from the detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 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: 20140292682
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus, includes a sensor-equipped display device includes a display device and a sensor configured to detect a contact or proximate position, a display driver configured to output an image display signal to the display device and to output a drive signal to the sensor, a detecting circuit configured to generate, based on the information from the sensor, raw data (Raw data) including three-dimensional information of coordinates of a position on the display device and a physical quantity at the coordinates, and an application processor configured to discriminate whether a part of the region in the display area should be further sensed or not, based on the raw data, and if the part of the region is further sensed, to output the range of the display device to be further sensed and the timing of driving the sensor to the display driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi KIDA, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno
  • Publication number: 20140292677
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display device includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a matrix form, second electrodes opposite to the first electrodes, the second electrodes including a plurality of electrode patterns extending in a first direction and aligned in a second direction to cross the first direction, and third electrodes opposite to the second electrodes, the third electrodes including a plurality of electrode patterns extending in the second direction and aligned in the first direction, a display driver applying a sensor drive signal to the second electrodes, a detection circuit transmitting a detection data including physical quantity data detected from the plurality of electrode patterns of the third electrodes at each time when the sensor drive signal is applied to the second electrodes, and an application processor processing the detection data received from the detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Kohei Azumi, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Publication number: 20140292680
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the sensor-integrated display panel comprises an operation surface for operating a first sensor and a display surface of an image. The data transfer device is configured to input a driving signal for driving the first sensor to the sensor-integrated display panel and to output detection data corresponding to a potential of a sensor signal output from the first sensor. And the multi-sensor output determination module is configured to switch a processing form of the signal of the first sensor in accordance with a condition of output from a second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Jouji YAMADA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Kohei AZUMI, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
  • Publication number: 20140285465
    Abstract: The touch sensor device and the display device include: a panel unit having a touch detection area in which a plurality of drive electrodes extend in an X-direction, a plurality of detection electrodes extend in a Y-direction, and a plurality of detection units each composed of a pair of the drive electrode and the detection electrode are formed in a matrix pattern; the drive electrodes each having a width forming two detection units in the Y-direction; and regions each formed by the intersection between one drive electrode and first to fourth detection electrodes. In this region, detection regions having a first sensitivity in which first to fourth detection units are provided and non-detection regions having a second sensitivity are alternately disposed. For example, the detection electrodes have different shapes between the detection region and the non-detection region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Tsutomu HARADA
  • Publication number: 20140285466
    Abstract: A touch-sensor-equipped display device has: a panel unit including a screen area in which units of detection constituting a touch-sensor function and pixels constituting a display function are formed in a matrix pattern; a plurality of shared electrodes which are formed in the screen area, parallel to an X-direction, and for both display drive and touch drive; a plurality of common electrodes for display drive which are parallel to the X-direction and respectively alternately disposed with the plurality of respective shared electrodes in a Y-direction; a plurality of detection electrodes which are parallel to the Y-direction and intersecting with the plurality of shared electrodes and the plurality of common electrodes; and the units of detection corresponding to respective capacitors formed by intersections of the plurality of shared electrodes and the plurality of detection electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Makoto HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140043288
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch sensor has a display function and a touch sensor function. The display device includes: a panel unit that comprises a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display function layer between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate; a second electrode on the second substrate; a third electrode on the second substrate; and a capacitor for the touch sensor function. The capacitor is formed between either of the first electrode and the second electrode and the third electrode, or between both the first electrode and the second electrode and the third electrode. The frame portion outside the display area comprises, on the first substrate side thereof, a peripheral circuit, and the second electrode is provided in a position more distant upward from the peripheral circuit than the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Dispaly Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Makoto Hayashi, Naosuke Furutani
  • Publication number: 20140028616
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display device with a touch sensor has a liquid crystal display function and a touch sensor function. The liquid crystal device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode and a first electrode; a second substrate including a second electrode; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. When the liquid crystal display function is activated, the first and second electrodes are supplied with common voltage. When the touch sensor function is activated, the first electrode is applied with a first signal, and a second signal is detected through the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Naosuke Furutani, Hayato Kurasawa, Makoto Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8584711
    Abstract: An outer tube for a front fork having an FRP pipe body which is subjected to braiding processing using a braider, wherein the FRP pipe comprises a combination of braids interlacing with each other at an interlacing angle ±?° with respect to a center axis of the pipe and warp fibers having an angle 0° with respect to the pipe center axis, rigidity of the plurality of warp fibers disposed at positions in a circumferential direction of the pipe is varied depending upon the positions in the circumferential direction of the pipe, and bending rigidity of the FRP pipe in the longitudinal direction is varied in the circumferential direction of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoya Toda, Makoto Hayashi, Masao Hirukawa
  • Patent number: 8431042
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a solid state scintillator material includes a composition represented by a general formula: (Gd1-?-?-?TB?Lu?Ce?)3(Al1-xGax)aOb, where ? and ? are numbers satisfying 0<??0.5, 0<??0.5, and ?+??0.85, ? is a number satisfying 0.0001???0.1, x is a number satisfying 0<x<1, a is a number satisfying 4.8?a?5.2 and b is a number satisfying 11.6?b?12.4 (atomic ratio), and a garnet structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Fukuta, Takao Sawa, Makoto Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130026153
    Abstract: Provided is a laser dicing method, including: loading a substrate on a stage; generating a clock signal; emitting a pulse laser beam synchronized to the clock signal; relatively shifting the substrate and the pulse laser beam; switching by the unit of an optical pulse irradiation and non-irradiation of the pulse laser beam to the substrate by controlling passage and interruption of the pulse laser beam by using a pulse picker in synchronization with the clock signal; and forming a crack reaching the surface of the substrate on the substrate, wherein the crack is formed to be continuous on the surface of the substrate by controlling irradiation energy of the pulse laser beam, a processing point depth of the pulse laser beam, and the lengths of an irradiation region and a non-irradiation region of the pulse laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro IDE, Makoto HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20130026145
    Abstract: A laser dicing method for a substrate to be processed having a metal film on a surface thereof includes a metal film removing step for placing the substrate to be processed on a stage, irradiating the metal film with a defocused pulse laser beam, and removing the metal film, and a crack forming step for irradiating a region where the metal film is removed of the substrate to be processed with a pulse laser beam, and forming a crack in the substrate to be processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro IDE, Makoto HAYASHI, Shoichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20120187103
    Abstract: [Purpose] Provided are a pulse laser machining apparatus and a pulse laser machining method that can improve the accuracy of positioning of an irradiation spot of a pulse laser beam, perform stable micromachining on a surface of a large object to be machined, and increase the speed of the micromachining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventor: Makoto Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120153873
    Abstract: A straight-tube LED lamp switch device includes a first terminal protruding from a housing; an operating body having an operating portion that can receive a pressing operation into the housing; a second terminal that is brought into conduction with the first terminal by the pressing operation; and a torsion spring that restores the operating body to an initial state before the pressing operation. The housing has therein a housing portion that houses the operating body when the pressing operation is performed. The operating body is tilted by a pressing operation from at least one side of opposite directions with respect to a protruding direction of the first terminal. By the tilting, at least part of the operating portion is housed in the housing portion and the first terminal is brought into conduction with the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hayashi, Toshiharu Mori, Tatsuaki Kawase, Takuya Tanaka, Syuji Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20120155074
    Abstract: A straight-tube LED lamp switch device includes a first terminal protruding from a housing; an operating body having an operating portion that can receive a pressing operation into the housing; a second terminal that is brought into conduction with the first terminal by the pressing operation on the operating body; and a torsion spring that restores the operating body to an initial state before the pressing operation. A position of a distal end portion of the operating body in the initial state protrudes outside with respect to a distal end portion of the first terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiharu MORI, Tatsuaki KAWASE, Makoto HAYASHI, Takuya TANAKA, Syuji FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20120145962
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a solid state scintillator material includes a composition represented by a general formula: (Gd1-?-?-?TB?Lu?Ce?)3(Al1-xGax)aOb, where ? and ? are numbers satisfying 0<??0.5, 0<??0.5, and ?+??0.85, ? is a number satisfying 0.0001???0.1, x is a number satisfying 0<x<1, a is a number satisfying 4.8?a?5.2 and b is a number satisfying 11.6?b?12.4 (atomic ratio), and a garnet structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Yukihiro Fukuta, Takao Sawa, Makoto Hayashi