Patents by Inventor Michio Yamamoto
Michio Yamamoto 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: 11962081Abstract: An antenna and a radome that covers the antenna are provided, the radome includes a first part, a second part, and a third part each with a surface which is flush to each other, the first part has a beam transmission characteristic corresponding to a scanning angle of 0 degrees of a beam emitted by the antenna with an emission direction directed toward the first part, the second part has a beam transmission characteristic corresponding to a first scanning angle of a beam emitted by the antenna with an emission direction directed toward the second part, and the third part has a beam transmission characteristic corresponding to a second scanning angle of a beam emitted by the antenna with an emission direction directed toward the third part.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromasa Nakajima, Shinichi Yamamoto, Michio Takikawa
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Patent number: 11467682Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: first detectors that output first signal values corresponding to contact of detection target objects with first regions; at least one second detector that outputs at least one second signal value corresponding to at least one first force applied by the detection target objects to press at least one second region corresponding to the first regions; and a controller that calculates at least one third signal value corresponding to at least one second force applied by at least one of the detection target objects to the at least one second region, based on the first signal values, the at least one second signal value, and at least one reference value corresponding to a third force per at least one of the first signal values.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Masahiro Togashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Michio Yamamoto, Tatsunori Nagai
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Publication number: 20200393933Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: first detectors that output first signal values corresponding to contact of detection target objects with first regions; at least one second detector that outputs at least one second signal value corresponding to at least one first force applied by the detection target objects to press at least one second region corresponding to the first regions; and a controller that calculates at least one third signal value corresponding to at least one second force applied by at least one of the detection target objects to the at least one second region, based on the first signal values, the at least one second signal value, and at least one reference value corresponding to a third force per at least one of the first signal values.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Masahiro Togashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Michio Yamamoto, Tatsunori Nagai
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Patent number: 10788932Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: first detectors that output first signal values corresponding to contact of detection target objects with first regions; at least one second detector that outputs at least one second signal value corresponding to at least one first force applied by the detection target objects to press at least one second region corresponding to the first regions; and a controller that calculates at least one third signal value corresponding to at least one second force applied by at least one of the detection target objects to the at least one second region, based on the first signal values, the at least one second signal value, and at least one reference value corresponding to a third force per at least one of the first signal values.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Masahiro Togashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Michio Yamamoto, Tatsunori Nagai
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Patent number: 10684730Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Patent number: 10179716Abstract: A stacking wheel mechanism (30) includes a stacking wheel (32) that is arranged near a stacking unit (26) and having a plurality of elastic blades (32a) on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a blade guiding member (38) that is arranged near the stacking wheel (32) to guide the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32). The blade guiding member (38) guides the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) such that the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) enter into a transport path (for example, an internal transport path (36)) when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-in direction of a paper sheet toward the stacking unit (26) and the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) retreat from the transport path when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-out direction of the paper sheet from the stacking unit (26).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Sotaro Moriwaki, Tsuguo Mizoro, Michio Yamamoto, Yoichi Takemura
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Patent number: 10013079Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; a touch detection unit that detects an instruction input provided by a pointing device to a display surface of the display unit; an acquisition unit that acquires information indicating a display color at an instruction input position, the display color being detected by a color sensor included in the pointing device; and a determination unit that performs determination processing to determine the instruction input position based on a color of the image and the color indicated by the information acquired by the acquisition unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Masahiro Togashi, Michio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9823776Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno
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Publication number: 20170308207Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2017Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei AZUMI, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
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Publication number: 20170283211Abstract: A stacking wheel mechanism (30) includes a stacking wheel (32) that is arranged near a stacking unit (26) and having a plurality of elastic blades (32a) on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a blade guiding member (38) that is arranged near the stacking wheel (32) to guide the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32). The blade guiding member (38) guides the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) such that the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) enter into a transport path (for example, an internal transport path (36)) when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-in direction of a paper sheet toward the stacking unit (26) and the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) retreat from the transport path when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-out direction of the paper sheet from the stacking unit (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Sotaro MORIWAKI, Tsuguo MIZORO, Michio YAMAMOTO, Yoichi TAKEMURA
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Patent number: 9746949Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Michio Yamamoto, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Kohei Azumi, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Publication number: 20170242541Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: first detectors that output first signal values corresponding to contact of detection target objects with first regions; at least one second detector that outputs at least one second signal value corresponding to at least one first force applied by the detection target objects to press at least one second region corresponding to the first regions; and a controller that calculates at least one third signal value corresponding to at least one second force applied by at least one of the detection target objects to the at least one second region, based on the first signal values, the at least one second signal value, and at least one reference value corresponding to a third force per at least one of the first signal values.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Masahiro Togashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Michio Yamamoto, Tatsunori Nagai
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Patent number: 9740395Abstract: 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 is configured to generate and output three-dimensional information. The image data generation module is 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 is configured to analyze an operation content of a conductor above the sensor surface based on the image data.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Patent number: 9727180Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kohei Azumi, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Patent number: 9709843Abstract: A buffer member (13) which abuts on a front surface side of a panel periphery of a display panel is made of a material having a light shielding property and has a portion, which extends over substantially the whole length of a side, along at least one of the respective sides of a rectangular display region. A buffer member (14) which abuts on a back surface side thereof has a portion, which extends over a range of a side except both the end portions thereof, along at least one of the respective sides of the rectangular shape. Accordingly, deformation of the display panel is reduced and it is possible to prevent light leakage in a peripheral portion of the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Kamiyama, Tetsuya Maruno, Takashi Ogino, Yusuke Masuda, Michio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9656834Abstract: A stacking wheel mechanism (30) includes a stacking wheel (32) that is arranged near a stacking unit (26) and having a plurality of elastic blades (32a) on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and a blade guiding member (38) that is arranged near the stacking wheel (32) to guide the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32). The blade guiding member (38) guides the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) such that the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) enter into a transport path (for example, an internal transport path (36)) when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-in direction of a paper sheet toward the stacking unit (26) and the blades (32a) of the stacking wheel (32) retreat from the transport path when the stacking wheel (32) rotates in a feeding-out direction of the paper sheet from the stacking unit (26).Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Sotaro Moriwaki, Tsuguo Mizoro, Michio Yamamoto, Yoichi Takemura
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Publication number: 20170115815Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2017Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshitoshi KIDA, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Kohei AZUMI, Makoto HAYASHI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO
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Publication number: 20170083158Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto HAYASHI, Jouji YAMADA, Hirofumi NAKAGAWA, Michio YAMAMOTO, Kohei AZUMI, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Kozo IKENO, Yoshitoshi KIDA
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Patent number: 9576549Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshitoshi Kida, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Makoto Hayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno
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Patent number: 9557873Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Makoto Hayashi, Jouji Yamada, Hirofumi Nakagawa, Michio Yamamoto, Kohei Azumi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Kozo Ikeno, Yoshitoshi Kida