Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Goto
Mitsuru Goto 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: 7292215Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of improving display quality by enabling proper execution of receipt and acceptance of image signals through compensation for variation in duty ratios of clock signals as input to liquid crystal driver circuitry, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2003Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Fujioka, Shigeru Ito, Mitsuru Goto, Yozo Nakayasu, Yoshiyuki Saito
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Publication number: 20070109215Abstract: A display device used in a miniaturized portable equipment is capable of driving two display panels, consisting of main and sub display-panels. The display device includes a main display panel, a sub-display panel and a drive circuit. The drive circuit can simultaneously drive the main display panel and the sub-display panel. Output terminals are provided to the main display panel, and signals are transmitted to the sub-display panel from the output terminals. Further, the drive circuit includes a power source circuit which is capable of outputting proper common voltages to the main display panel and the sub-display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2007Publication date: May 17, 2007Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Yuichi Numata, Masato Sawahata, Yoshinori Aoki, Youichi Ooki
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Publication number: 20070063346Abstract: A display device includes a drive circuit chip, and a substrate on which the drive circuit chip is mounted. The drive circuit chip includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulation layer, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer formed of metal between the semiconductor substrate and the insulation layer, and a first bump and a second bump formed over the insulation layer. The first bump is superposed with the first conductive layer, and a profile of the first bump in plan view is within a profile of the first conductive layer in plan view. The second bump is superposed with the second conductive layer, and a profile of the second pump in plan view is beyond a profile of the second conductive layer in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2006Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventors: Hideaki Abe, Makoto Sato, Mitsuru Goto
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Patent number: 7184010Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can be used in a miniaturized portable device, wherein the liquid crystal display device has a small area for mounting driving circuits and allows the free mounting of the driving circuits. In the liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display element and a liquid crystal driving circuit, the liquid crystal driving circuit is mounted on one side of the liquid crystal display panel. Driving circuits for driving scanning signal lines are provided in plural. The scanning signal line driving circuits sandwich a circuit for driving video signal lines and are arranged in line with the video signal line driving circuit. Lines for transmitting signals to the scanning signal lines are connected to the scanning signal lines from left and right sides of the liquid crystal display panel so as to perform a control of the driving circuits in response to external signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2002Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Mitsuru Goto, Masato Sawahata, Hiroshi Watanabe, Yuuichi Numata
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Patent number: 7167141Abstract: A display device used in a miniaturized portable equipment is capable of driving two display panels, consisting of main and sub-display panels. The display device includes a main display panel, a sub-display panel and a drive circuit. The drive circuit can simultaneously drive the main display panel and the sub-display panel. Output terminals are provided to the main display panel, and signals are transmitted to the sub-display panel from the output terminals. Further, the drive circuit includes a power source circuit which is capable of outputting proper common voltages to the main display panel and the sub-display panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2003Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Yuichi Numata, Masato Sawahata, Yoshinori Aoki, Youichi Ooki
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Publication number: 20060267902Abstract: In a display device, profile emphasizing is performed without using a frame memory while realizing the further reduction of power consumption. A display device includes a display panel provided with a plurality of pixels each of which has a pixel electrode, and a drive circuit which supplies a video signal to the respective pixels through video lines. Here, the drive circuit includes a profile emphasizing circuit which generates profile emphasizing display data which emphasizes a profile in response to display data inputted from the outside and emphasizes a profile portion of an image to be displayed on the display panel, and a memory which stores the profile emphasizing display data. The profile emphasizing circuit includes a latch circuit which sequentially stores continuous k(k?2) pieces of display data in display data for 1 display line and an arithmetic circuit which generates the profile emphasizing display data based on the k pieces of display data stored in the latch circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Inventors: Kenichi Akiyama, Mitsuru Goto, Norimitsu Nishikawa, Uki Tsuchiyama
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Patent number: 7141877Abstract: The present invention enhances the mounting accuracy of a drive circuit chip on a substrate thus realizing a display of high quality. Bumps (for example, gold bumps) on the drive circuit chip are used for alignment. Here, to enhance the recognition property of the alignment bumps, a plane shape of a conductive layer which is formed between a semiconductor substrate (Si substrate) of the drive circuit chip and the alignment bump is set to be included within a profile of a plane shape of the alignment bump. That is, by preventing the conductive layer from being observed in a periphery of the alignment bump, it is possible to prevent a photographed pattern of the bump taken by a camera or the like from be influenced by the conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2005Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Abe, Makoto Sato, Mitsuru Goto
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Publication number: 20060238479Abstract: The present invention, in a display device which includes a SRAM, prevents a phenomenon that power source fluctuation and display timings are not synchronized and hence, flickering occurs on a display surface of a liquid crystal panel. A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels and scanning lines which apply a scanning voltage to the plurality of pixels; and a drive circuit which supplies a scanning voltage to the scanning lines, wherein the drive circuit includes a first booster circuit which generates a first voltage by elevating a reference voltage, a regulator which regulates the first voltage, and a second booster circuit which generates a second voltage by elevating a voltage outputted from the regulator. The second booster circuit generates the second voltage (selective scanning voltage) and a third voltage (non-selective scanning voltage).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Uki Tsuchiyama, Yoshinori Aoki, Mitsuru Goto, Kenichi Akiyama
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Publication number: 20060192737Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of image signal lines for applying a plurality of gray scale voltages to the plurality of pixels, and an image signal line drive unit including a film substrate and a semiconductor integrated circuit device formed on the film substrate. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of input terminals, a plurality of output terminals, a first terminal, and a second terminal. The film substrate comprises a plurality of first wirings, a plurality of second wirings, and a third wiring. The third wiring and the first terminal are connected between the semiconductor integrated circuit device and the film substrate, and the third wiring and the second terminal are connected between the semiconductor integrated circuit device and the film substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2006Publication date: August 31, 2006Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Hiroko Hayata
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Patent number: 7034810Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element and an image signal line drive unit for supplying a gradation/tone voltage and having a plurality of semiconductor integrated circuit devices. Each semiconductor integrated circuit device has an input circuit unit which is provided at a central portion along a longitudinal direction of the semiconductor integrated circuit device and provided in a short side direction of the semiconductor integrated circuit device. A first output terminal section is provided in the longitudinal direction of the semiconductor integrated circuit device on both sides of a central portion in the short side direction of the semiconductor integrated circuit device of the input circuit unit, and a pair of output circuit units are provided on the both sides of the first output terminal section in the short-side direction of the semiconductor integrated circuit device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Hiroko Hayata
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Publication number: 20050270009Abstract: In a liquid crystal display module which includes a first display panel and a second display panel, it is possible to reduce a voltage drop attributed to the line resistance of a drive voltage supplied to the second display panel without increasing the cost. For this purpose, the first display panel includes a power source circuit which generates a drive voltage, the second display panel includes a scanning line drive circuit which drives scanning lines of the second display panel, a power source line of the first display panel, a power source line to which the drive voltage generated by the power source circuit is supplied and a variable resistance circuit which is connected with the power source line. The scanning line drive circuit drives the scanning lines of the second display panel in response to a drive voltage outputted from the variable resistance circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2005Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Youichi Ohki, Youzou Nakayasu, Yuichi Numata, Mitsuru Goto, Yoshinori Aoki
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Publication number: 20050242436Abstract: The present invention enhances the mounting accuracy of a drive circuit chip on a substrate thus realizing a display of high quality. Bumps (for example, gold bumps) on the drive circuit chip are used for alignment. Here, to enhance the recognition property of the alignment bumps, a plane shape of a conductive layer which is formed between a semiconductor substrate (Si substrate) of the drive circuit chip and the alignment bump is set to be included within a profile of a plane shape of the alignment bump. That is, by preventing the conductive layer from being observed in a periphery of the alignment bump, it is possible to prevent a photographed pattern of the bump taken by a camera or the like from be influenced by the conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2005Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Hideaki Abe, Makoto Sato, Mitsuru Goto
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Publication number: 20050185477Abstract: The present invention aims at, as one object, the further enhancement of the low power consumption of a display device having a SRAM. According to the present invention, a display device includes a drive circuit to which video data is supplied from the outside; video lines to which video signals outputted from the drive circuit are supplied; and pixels to which the video signals are supplied through the video lines. The drive circuit includes a memory which stores the video data in memory cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2005Publication date: August 25, 2005Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Mitsuru Goto, Shouji Nagao, Kouichi Kotera
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Patent number: 6924782Abstract: A liquid crystal display device has a semiconductor integrated circuit capable of outputting a voltage equal to or higher than the source-drain withstand voltage of a component transistor. A switching circuit has first conducting-type first and second transistors connected in series between a first input terminal and a common output terminal and second conducting-type third and fourth transistors connected between a second input terminal and the common output terminal and a switching control circuit for controlling the switching circuit. The switching control circuit applies first and second bias voltages for turning on the second and fourth transistors to the gate electrodes of the second and fourth transistors, and applies a control voltage for selectively turning on/off the first or third transistor to the gate electrodes of the first and third transistors.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1998Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Fujioka, Kazunari Kurokawa, Hiroshi Katayanagi, Mitsuru Goto, Yukihide Ode, Akira Ogura, Kentaro Agata
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Publication number: 20050146494Abstract: An optimum driving method is realized in a miniaturized liquid crystal display device having two liquid crystal display panels so as to low power consumption. The liquid crystal display device includes a first liquid crystal display panel, a second liquid crystal display panel, a drive circuit which is mounted on the first liquid crystal display panel, output terminals which are formed on the first liquid crystal display panel and to which signals outputted from the drive circuit are supplied, and connection lines which connect the output terminals and the second liquid crystal display panel, wherein the drive circuit can change the AC driving method employed during a display period of the first liquid crystal display panel and the AC driving method employed during a display period of the second liquid crystal display panel which are present within the same frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2004Publication date: July 7, 2005Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Mitsuru Goto, Kenichi Akiyama
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Publication number: 20050052340Abstract: An integral-type liquid crystal display module has a first display panel and a second display panel, and it can use a display panel of high resolution as the second display panel. The display device includes a first display panel, a second display panel, and a first flexible printed circuit board which connects the first display panel and the second display panel. The first display panel includes a display drive unit. Video lines of the second display panel are connected with the display drive unit through connection lines for video lines of the first flexible printed circuit board. Further, the second display panel includes a scanning line drive unit which supplies drive voltages to scanning lines of the second display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2004Publication date: March 10, 2005Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Nobuhiko Hosotani, Toshio Miyazawa, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Hitoshi Komeno
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Patent number: 6862015Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of improving display quality by enabling proper execution of receipt and acceptance of image signals through compensation for variation in duty ratios of clock signals as input to liquid crystal driver circuitry, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 1, 2005Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Fujioka, Shigeru Ito, Mitsuru Goto, Yozo Nakayasu, Yoshiyuki Saito
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Publication number: 20040196231Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display element having a plurality of pixels. The video signal line driver circuit includes a plurality of amplifiers each of which has a pair of a first input terminal and a second input terminal, and a plurality of pairs of an inverting input terminal and a noninverting input terminal. Each of the plurality of amplifiers has a switching circuit which switches between a first state and a second state, based on a switching control signal supplied with a switching repetition period equal to double a display line repetition period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2004Publication date: October 7, 2004Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Hiroshi Katayanagi, Yukihide Ode, Yoshiyuki Saitou, Koichi Kotera
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Patent number: 6731263Abstract: Each video signal driver circuit in a liquid crystal display device includes a first amplifier circuit with a first output terminal and first and second input terminals; a second amplifier circuit with a second output terminal and third and fourth input terminals; a first connecting circuit switchable between a first connection wherein an output voltage from the first output terminal is input to the first input terminal as a reference voltage, and a second connection wherein the output voltage from the first output terminal is input to the second input terminal as a reference voltage; and a second connecting circuit switchable between a third connection wherein an output voltage from the second output terminal is input to the third input terminal as a reference voltage, and a fourth connection wherein the output voltage from the second output terminal is input to the fourth input terminal as a reference voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Goto, Hiroshi Katayanagi, Yukihide Ode, Yoshiyuki Saitou, Koichi Kotera
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Publication number: 20040046727Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of improving display quality by enabling proper execution of receipt and acceptance of image signals through compensation for variation in duty ratios of clock signals as input to liquid crystal driver circuitry, is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd and Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Fujioka, Shigeru Ito, Mitsuru Goto, Yozo Nakayasu, Yoshiyuki Saito