Patents by Inventor Masumitsu Ino

Masumitsu Ino 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: 9460677
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel section, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, Yasuhiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 9091893
    Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Publication number: 20150187305
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel section, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, Yasuhiro Ukai
  • Publication number: 20150072475
    Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Patent number: 8976103
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel section, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a driving circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, Yasuhiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 8917372
    Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Publication number: 20140287647
    Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Patent number: 8804089
    Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Patent number: 8629958
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of dealing with highly definition display and securing both of transmission type display luminance and reflection type display luminance, wherein the Cs on-gate structure is adopted, and a light reflectance is set to be in a range of 1% or more and 30% or less and a light transmittance is set to be in a range of 4% or more and 10% or less on the display panel formed by arranging in matrix a plurality of pixel regions 4 having a reflection region A for reflection type display by reflection of an ambient light and a transmission region B for transmission type display by transmission of light from a light source provided inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West, Inc.
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, Tsutomu Tanaka, Yoko Fukunaga, Hidemasa Yamaguchi, Shinji Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8599341
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate having a pixel area in which pixels are arranged in a matrix form; a second substrate disposed to be opposed to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates; a conductive section disposed at least on the first of the first and second substrates to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal; an organic film disposed at least over one of the first and second substrates; a sealing area adapted to hold the two substrates of the liquid crystal display device together at the peripheral portions of the first and second substrates; and an organic film-free area which is free from the organic film and extends from the inward side of the outermost end of the sealing area to the outward side of the outer periphery of the pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kanaya, Koji Noguchi, Hironao Tanaka, Masumitsu Ino
  • Publication number: 20130249385
    Abstract: A display device including: a substrate with a display area having a plurality of organic EL devices and a peripheral area having a driving circuit for the organic EL devices and surrounding the display area on the substrate; an organic insulating film covering at least the driving circuit; and a groove in the organic insulating film along a line between the display area and the peripheral area, an inorganic but not an not the organic insulating film being present in an outermost portion of the peripheral area spaced apart from the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: HIROSHI FUJIMURA, MASUMITSU INO, MITSURU ASANO, AKIRA YUMOTO, YUICHI IWASE
  • Patent number: 8466886
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display panel includes: gate lines each serving as a row-direction line which is one of the rows of a two-dimensional matrix; data signal lines each serving as a column-direction line which is one of the columns of the two-dimensional matrix; a plurality of liquid-crystal pixel sections which are laid out to form the two-dimensional matrix and each placed at the intersection of one of the gate lines and one of the data signal lines; chopper-type comparators each connected to one of the data signal lines and each used for converting the value of a sensor signal read out from one of the liquid-crystal pixel sections connected to the data signal lines into a binary value; and a shift register for converting outputs of the chopper-type comparators from parallel data into serial data and outputting the serial data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Japan Display West, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yuko Yamauchi, Yoshiharu Nakajima, Tsutomu Tanaka, Shuji Hayashi, Takeo Koito, Masumitsu Ino
  • Patent number: 8421968
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display apparatus in which a transmission region and a reflection region disposed in parallel. The apparatus includes first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. The second substrate has at least a counter electrode, an interlayer insulating film and a pixel electrode for forming a fringe field for driving molecules of the liquid crystal. At least one parameter relating to the interlayer insulating film formed on the second substrate is set different between the transmission region side interlayer insulating film and the reflection region side interlayer insulating film so that driving voltages for the transmission and reflection regions are substantially equal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Patent number: 8421349
    Abstract: In a display device including, a display area having a plurality of organic EL devices on a substrate; a peripheral area having a driving circuit for the organic EL devices and surrounding the display area on the substrate; and an organic insulating film covering at least the driving circuit, the organic insulating film has a separating groove which divides itself into the inner part and outer part at the periphery of the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Masumitsu Ino, Mitsuru Asano, Akira Yumoto, Yuichi Iwase
  • Patent number: 8416374
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display able to deal with high definition display and able to secure both of a transmission type display luminance and a reflection type display luminance, wherein light from backlights 71a and 71b are focused by a lens sheet 74, luminance of the backlights is improved, a transmittance can be set at 4 percent to 10 percent, a reflectance can be set in a range from 1 percent to 25 percent, and high definition display is handled while securing a display light luminance equivalent to that of a liquid crystal display performing only transmission type display and a reflection display light luminance required for the display without increasing a power consumption of the backlights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Publication number: 20120314162
    Abstract: A display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Patent number: 8319760
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a pixel section having pixel circuits arranged to form a matrix with at least a plurality of columns, pixel data being written to each of the pixel circuits via a switching element; at least one scan line disposed to be associated with rows of the pixel circuits and adapted to control the conduction of the switching elements; a plurality of signal lines disposed to be associated with columns of the pixel circuits and adapted to convey the pixel data; and a horizontal driving circuit having a plurality of signal drivers, the plurality of signal drivers being associated with a plurality of groups into which the signal lines are divided, and being adapted to convey the image data supplied to the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, Yasuhiro Ukai
  • Patent number: 8314782
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a display section; a light radiating section; a plurality of light converging lenses; and a plurality of light receiving devices, wherein the display section includes pixel areas each used for creating a pixel section, and sensor areas each used for creating one of the light receiving devices; the light radiating section outputs light and radiates the output light to the display section from a particular-side surface of the display section; each of the light converging lenses is created in one of the sensor areas each located in the display section and converges light generated by the light radiating section on a focal point inside the display section, passing on the converged light to the other-side surface of the display section; and each of the light receiving devices is created in one of the sensor areas to serve as a device for receiving light which arrives at the other-side surface of the display section as light reflected by a subject of detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, YingBao Yang, Tsutomu Tanaka, Kazunori Yamaguchi, Masaru Higuchi
  • Patent number: 8274633
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device including: a first substrate with a pixel switch and drivers mounted thereon; a second substrate disposed in facing relation to the first substrate; a material layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and having peripheral edges sealed by a seal member, the material layer having an electrooptical effect; and a semiconductor chip mounted as a COG component on the first substrate, the semiconductor chip having a control system configured to control the drivers; wherein the semiconductor chip having a thickness equal to the total thickness of the seal member and the second substrate or larger than the thickness of the seal member and smaller than the total thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masumitsu Ino
  • Publication number: 20120162161
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display having: a liquid crystal display panel in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged at intersecting points of gate lines as many as a plurality of rows and signal lines as many as a plurality of columns which are wired in a matrix shape; and a plurality of driver ICs for applying a signal potential to each pixel of the liquid crystal display panel through the signal lines of a plurality of columns, wherein the number of output pins of each of a plurality of driver ICs is set to the measure of the total number of signal lines of a plurality of columns, thereby preventing that a fraction occurs in the signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masumitsu Ino, Hiroyoshi Tsubota, Hiroaki Ichikawa, Shinichi Teraguchi, Taketo Oka, Toru Akutagawa, Toshikazu Maekawa, Yoshiharu Nakajima, Naoshi Goto