Patents by Inventor Masahiko Nakamizo

Masahiko Nakamizo 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: 8576156
    Abstract: An auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5), provided in a surrounding region located around a display region (R1) in a liquid crystal display panel, generates auxiliary capacitor driving signals, and includes: first and second voltage trunk lines (VCS1, VCS2) which carry two different voltages, respectively; at least one control signal line (VCTRL1, VCTRL2) carrying one control signal; and a plurality of TFTs (T1, T2, T3, T4) each alternately supplying, to the respective auxiliary capacitor lines (CSn, CSn+1, and the like) in a given cycle, the two different voltages supplied to the auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5). Therefore, a liquid crystal display device employing multi-picture element drive method can be provided as a liquid crystal display device that achieves narrowing of a picture frame region as a non-display region and an external circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Akihiro Shohraku
  • Publication number: 20130207884
    Abstract: A display device 10 according to the present invention includes a plurality of pixels 40 each including a plurality of sub pixels 42, a plurality of auxiliary capacitance lines 36 forming an auxiliary capacitance 56 with the sub pixels 42, and an auxiliary capacitance driver 34 configured to supply an auxiliary capacitance drive signal to the auxiliary capacitance lines 36 and to apply a voltage to the auxiliary capacitance. In the display device 10, the auxiliary capacitance driver 34 includes a plurality of connection terminals 64 each connected to each of the auxiliary capacitance lines 36.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Takamitsu Suzuki, Akifumi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8422622
    Abstract: To provide a shift register and a display device each capable of satisfactorily preventing noises of individual stage outputs without increasing circuit complexity, each stage of the shift register includes: a first output transistor; a first capacitor; an input gate; a first switching element; a second switching element; a third switching element; a fourth switching element; and a fifth switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Masashi Yonemaru, Yasuaki Iwase, Kenichi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20130069930
    Abstract: A bistable circuit includes an output terminal that outputs a state signal, an output terminal that outputs an other-stage control signal, a first node of which a potential is controlled based on a set signal and a clear signal, a thin-film transistor that provides a potential of a second clock to the output terminal when a potential of the first node is at a high level, a thin-film transistor that provides a potential of a first clock to the output terminal when a potential of the first node is at a high level, and a thin-film transistor for changing a potential of the other-stage control signal to a low level based on a reset signal. The first clock is generated by a power source of a different system from the second clock, and has a smaller amplitude than that of the second clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fukaya, Masashi Yonemaru, Kenichi Ishii, Masahiko Nakamizo
  • Patent number: 8384461
    Abstract: Disclosed are a shift register and a display device which can suppress noise of output of each stage without causing an increase in circuit scale. In at least one example embodiment, each stage of the shift register includes a first output transistor, a second output transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an input gate, a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element, a fourth switching element, and a fifth switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemaru, Masahiko Nakamizo
  • Publication number: 20130044854
    Abstract: Each stage of a shift register includes: a shift pulse input terminal; a shift pulse output terminal; first to fifth terminals; an input gate, first to fourth switching elements; a first output transistor, and a first circuit, connected between a first output terminal and the second input terminal, which forms a current path between the first output terminal and the second input terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemaru, Masahiko Nakamizo, Yasuaki Iwase
  • Publication number: 20130009934
    Abstract: An auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5), provided in a surrounding region located around a display region (R1) in a liquid crystal display panel, generates auxiliary capacitor driving signals, and includes: first and second voltage trunk lines (VCS1, VCS2) which carry two different voltages, respectively; at least one control signal line (VCTRL1, VCTRL2) carrying one control signal; and a plurality of TFTs (T1, T2, T3, T4) each alternately supplying, to the respective auxiliary capacitor lines (CSn, CSn+1, and the like) in a given cycle, the two different voltages supplied to the auxiliary capacitor line driving circuit (5). Therefore, a liquid crystal display device employing multi-picture element drive method can be provided as a liquid crystal display device that achieves narrowing of a picture frame region as a non-display region and an external circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Akihiro Shohraku
  • Publication number: 20120293536
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a multi-primary color display device which is capable of handling an increased number of primary colors for color image display with a reduced number of external parts, with reduced increase in the amount of drive circuit and reduced increase in operating speed. An active matrix liquid crystal panel (600) includes a display section (500) constituted by pixel formation portions, each made of four sub pixel-formation portions (Ps) which handle four primary colors. These four sub pixel-formation portions are arranged in a 2×2 matrix pattern. With such a pixel configuration, a source driver (300) drives as many as M source lines (Ls), which is two times the number Mpix of pixels arranged in a horizontal direction. A gate driver (400) is formed on the liquid crystal panel (600) integrally with pixel circuit in the display section (500), and drives as many as N gate lines (Lg), which is two times the number Npix of the pixels arranged in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemaru, Masahiko Nakamizo, Kenichi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120200482
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 100 has: a first substrate 11, having an active region AA having pixel electrodes and TFTs, and a gate driver region GDR provided on the outside of the active region AA; and a second substrate 21, disposed opposing the first substrate 11 with a liquid crystal layer 30 interposed therebetween, and having an opposite electrode 23. The opposite electrode 23 opposes the gate driver region GDR with the liquid crystal layer 30 interposed therebetween, and an insulating resin layer 26 is formed on the region of the opposite electrode 23 so that the insulating resin layer 26 opposes the gate driver region GDR. Thus, short-circuit failure between the driver region of the TFT substrate and the opposite electrode is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Fukaya, Yuhichi Saitoh, Hiroyuki Moriwaki, Yasuhiro Nakatake, Yukio kurozumi, Masato Kakuta, Masahiko Nakamizo, Takahiro Umezawa
  • Publication number: 20120146969
    Abstract: A gate driver is implemented that includes an easily testable shift register to improve panel yields. In a monolithic gate driver including a shift register that operates based on 4-phase clock signals, each stage of the shift register is provided with an inter-stage connecting wiring line for receiving a clock signal other than clock signals received from a clock signal trunk wiring line, from a different stage than the stage; and a contact that connects a wiring line formed on the stage to the inter-stage connecting wiring line. The shift register is grouped every four consecutive stages. Markings formed of different numbers of planar-view circular-shaped structures are formed on bistable circuits of four stages included in each group such that the same type of marking appears every four stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Masashi Yonemaru, Kenichi Ishii, Masahiko Nakamizo
  • Publication number: 20120087459
    Abstract: To provide a shift register and a display device each capable of satisfactorily preventing noises of individual stage outputs without increasing circuit complexity, each stage of the shift register includes: a first output transistor; a first capacitor; an input gate; a first switching element; a second switching element; a third switching element; a fourth switching element; and a fifth switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Masashi Yonemaru, Yasuaki Iwase, Kenichi Ishii
  • Publication number: 20120076256
    Abstract: Disclosed are a shift register and a display device which can suppress noise of output of each stage without causing an increase in circuit scale. Each stage (Xi) of the shift register includes a first output transistor (M5), a second output transistor (M7), a first capacitor (C1), a second capacitor (C2), an input gate (M1), a first switching element (M2), a second switching element (M3), a third switching element (M4), a fourth switching element (M6), and a fifth switching element (M8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masashi Yonemaru, Masahiko Nakamizo
  • Publication number: 20120044133
    Abstract: Each stage (Xi) of a shift register includes a first output transistor (M5), a first capacitor (C1), an input gate (M1), a first switching element (M2), a second switching element (M3), a third switching element (M4), and a fourth switching element (M6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Nakamizo, Masashi Yonemaru, Kenichi Ishii, Yasuaki Iwase