Patents by Inventor Masanori Nishido
Masanori Nishido 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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Publication number: 20140340382Abstract: While a power supply to a liquid crystal display device (100) is being turned off, a control circuit (2) sets a switching cycle of a gate bus line, via which writing is carried out, shorter than that during image display and carries out power-off processing in which a given voltage for power-off processing is applied to each source bus line. This makes it possible to provide, without greatly increasing a device cost, a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing a voltage from continuing to be applied to a pixel while the power supply is being turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Daiichi SAWABE, Masanori NISHIDO
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Patent number: 8432347Abstract: A drive control circuit includes a timing controller for detecting a change of a horizontal scanning frequency, a gate voltage generating circuit for generating two kinds of gate-on voltages Va and Vb (Va<Vb), and a switch for outputting one of the gate-on voltages Va and Vb from the gate voltage generating circuit in accordance with an output of the timing controller. The timing controller includes a counter for counting the number of clocks for one horizontal period, and a comparator for comparing a count result with a threshold value. When the horizontal scanning frequency is in a normal state, the low gate-on voltage Va is outputted, and when the horizontal scanning frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold value, that is, the count value falls below a threshold value, the high gate-on voltage Vb is outputted.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuyoshi Hiraki, Yasutake Furukoshi, Koichi Katagawa, Masanori Nishido, Tetsuya Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20110292097Abstract: An illumination device is provided which can reduce a movement blur and a tailing phenomenon on a motion picture display while a drop in display brightness is suppressed, and which can suppress power consumption, can be made small and light, and can prolong the lifetime, and a liquid crystal display device using the same is provided. A light source control part of a control circuit synchronizes a latch pulse signal outputted from a gate driver control part to a gate driver, and outputs light emission control signals to respective light source power supply circuits. The respective light source power supply circuits change emission states of cold cathode fluorescent lamps to one of a first to a third emission states on the basis of the inputted light emission control signals, and illuminate an LCD panel from a rear surface of a display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mari Sugawara, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Fumiaki Yamada, Yasutake Furukoshi, Masanori Nishido
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Patent number: 8049711Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including an LCD panel modulating light transmissivities of plural pixels disposed in a matrix form on the basis of respective gradation data; an illumination device for irradiating light to the respective pixels while a ratio (duty ratio) of a lighting time in one frame period is changed; and a display data conversion part for calculating respective lightnesses and a lightness histogram from the respective gradation data, determining a threshold lightness from the lightness histogram on the basis of a previously determined ratio of pixels to be saturated in brightness, processing the respective gradation data on the basis of the threshold lightness to output them to the LCD panel, and outputting duty ratio data to change the duty ratio to the illumination device.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mari Sugawara, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Fumiaki Yamada, Yasutake Furukoshi, Masanori Nishido
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Publication number: 20080122778Abstract: A drive control circuit supplies a gate voltage so that display quality is not degraded even in a case where a vertical scanning frequency or a horizontal scanning frequency is changed. The circuit includes a timing controller for detecting a change of a horizontal scanning frequency, a gate voltage generating circuit for generating two kinds of gate-on voltages Va and Vb (Va<Vb), and a switch for outputting one of the gate-on voltages Va and Vb from the gate voltage generating circuit in accordance with an output of the timing controller. The timing controller includes a counter for counting the number of clocks for one horizontal period, and a comparator for comparing a count result with a threshold value. When the horizontal scanning frequency is in a normal state, the low gate-on voltage Va is outputted, and when the horizontal scanning frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold value, that is, the count value falls below a threshold value, the high gate-on voltage Vb is outputted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2008Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuyoshi Hiraki, Yasutake Furukoshi, Koichi Katagawa, Masanori Nishido, Tetsuya Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7342561Abstract: A drive control circuit supplies a gate voltage so that display quality is not degraded even in a case where a vertical scanning frequency or a horizontal scanning frequency is changed. The circuit includes a timing controller for detecting a change of a horizontal scanning frequency, a gate voltage generating circuit for generating two kinds of gate-on voltages Va and Vb (Va<Vb), and a switch for outputting one of the gate-on voltages Va and Vb from the gate voltage generating circuit in accordance with an output of the timing controller. The timing controller includes a counter for counting the number of clocks for one horizontal period, and a comparator for comparing a count result with a threshold value. When the horizontal scanning frequency is in a normal state, the low gate-on voltage Va is outputted, and when the horizontal scanning frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold value, that is, the count value falls below a threshold value, the high gate-on voltage Vb is outputted.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuyoshi Hiraki, Yasutake Furukoshi, Koichi Katagawa, Masanori Nishido, Tetsuya Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080018575Abstract: An illumination device is provided which can reduce a movement blur and a tailing phenomenon on a motion picture display while a drop in display brightness is suppressed, and which can suppress power consumption, can be made small and light, and can prolong the lifetime, and a liquid crystal display device using the same is provided. A light source control part of a control circuit synchronizes a latch pulse signal outputted from a gate driver control part to a gate driver, and outputs light emission control signals to respective light source power supply circuits. The respective light source power supply circuits change emission states of cold cathode fluorescent lamps to one of a first to a third emission states on the basis of the inputted light emission control signals, and illuminate an LCD panel from a rear surface of a display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2007Publication date: January 24, 2008Inventors: Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mari Sugawara, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Fumiaki Yamada, Yasutake Furukoshi, Masanori Nishido
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Patent number: 7277079Abstract: An illumination device is provided which can reduce a movement blur and a tailing phenomenon on a motion picture display while a drop in display brightness is suppressed, and which can suppress power consumption, can be made small and light, and can prolong the lifetime, and a liquid crystal display device using the same is provided. A light source control part of a control circuit synchronizes a latch pulse signal outputted from a gate driver control part to a gate driver, and outputs light emission control signals to respective light source power supply circuits. The respective light source power supply circuits change emission states of cold cathode fluorescent lamps to one of a first to a third emission states on the basis of the inputted light emission control signals, and illuminate an LCD panel from a rear surface of a display area.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mari Sugawara, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Fumiaki Yamada, Yasutake Furukoshi, Masanori Nishido
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Publication number: 20040114396Abstract: An illumination device is provided which can reduce a movement blur and a tailing phenomenon on a motion picture display while a drop in display brightness is suppressed, and which can suppress power consumption, can be made small and light, and can prolong the lifetime, and a liquid crystal display device using the same is provided. A light source control part of a control circuit synchronizes a latch pulse signal outputted from a gate driver control part to a gate driver, and outputs light emission control signals to respective light source power supply circuits. The respective light source power supply circuits change emission states of cold cathode fluorescent lamps to one of a first to a third emission states on the basis of the inputted light emission control signals, and illuminate an LCD panel from a rear surface of a display area.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: FUJITSU DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshihiro Suzuki, Mari Sugawara, Tetsuya Hamada, Keiji Hayashi, Fumiaki Yamada, Yasutake Furukoshi, Masanori Nishido
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Publication number: 20040041778Abstract: A drive control circuit supplies a gate voltage so that display quality is not degraded even in a case where a vertical scanning frequency or a horizontal scanning frequency is changed. The circuit includes a timing controller for detecting a change of a horizontal scanning frequency, a gate voltage generating circuit for generating two kinds of gate-on voltages Va and Vb (Va<Vb), and a switch for outputting one of the gate-on voltages Va and Vb from the gate voltage generating circuit in accordance with an output of the timing controller. The timing controller includes a counter for counting the number of clocks for one horizontal period, and a comparator for comparing a count result with a threshold value. When the horizontal scanning frequency is in a normal state, the low gate-on voltage Va is outputted, and when the horizontal scanning frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold value, that is, the count value falls below a threshold value, the high gate-on voltage Vb is outputted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Applicant: Fujitsu Display Technologies CorporationInventors: Katsuyoshi Hiraki, Yasutake Furukoshi, Koichi Katagawa, Masanori Nishido, Tetsuya Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6304255Abstract: A reference potential generating circuit for liquid crystal display apparatus includes an outside reference potential generating circuit for generating a pair of outside reference potentials, and an inside reference potential generating circuit for generating a pair of inside reference potentials, which are between the outside reference potentials and are independent of the outside reference potentials. The outside or the inside reference potential generating circuit has a variable resister for correcting a deviation of a center potential of the outside or inside reference potentials.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1998Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Toshimitsu Minemura, Masanori Nishido, Seiji Hayashimoto, Mikio Oshiro
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Patent number: 5852757Abstract: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a toner circulating mechanism for recovering a residual toner scraped from a photosensitive drum to a developing device. The developing device includes a housing for defining a toner chamber, a developing roller rotatably mounted in the housing, an agitator rotatably mounted in the housing and provided in the toner chamber, and a partition member mounted to the housing to define a carrier chamber between the partition member and the developing roller. The toner circulating mechanism directly returns the residual toner scraped from the photosensitive drum to the toner chamber in the developing device. The toner chamber may contain a foreign matter removing device. The partition member may have various shapes.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 1996Date of Patent: December 22, 1998Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Toshio Tooda, Yoshio Yamaguchi, Nobuo Kuwabara, Mituru Sato, Haruyasu Watanabe, Akira Nagahara, Sachio Sasaki, Yoshiya Ishiyama, Hiroshi Kera, Masanori Nishido, Hisashi Hanzawa