Patents by Inventor Noboru Okuzono

Noboru Okuzono 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).

  • Publication number: 20170270876
    Abstract: An input buffer chooses, in accordance with first control clocks, to output an input data signal or output a high-impedance signal. A master flip-flop chooses, in accordance with second control clocks, to output a data signal received from the input buffer or retain a currently output data signal. A master-slave switch chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to output a high-impedance signal or output a data signal received from the master flip-flop. A slave flip-flop chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to retain a currently output data signal or output a data signal received from the master-slave switch. A clock buffer inputs the second control clocks, and generates and outputs the first control clocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Masanao YOKOYAMA, Noboru OKUZONO
  • Patent number: 9711097
    Abstract: An input buffer chooses, in accordance with first control clocks, to output an input data signal or output a high-impedance signal. A master flip-flop chooses, in accordance with second control clocks, to output a data signal received from the input buffer or retain a currently output data signal. A master-slave switch chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to output a high-impedance signal or output a data signal received from the master flip-flop. A slave flip-flop chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to retain a currently output data signal or output a data signal received from the master-slave switch. A clock buffer inputs the second control clocks, and generates and outputs the first control clocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Yokoyama, Noboru Okuzono
  • Publication number: 20150154924
    Abstract: An input buffer chooses, in accordance with first control clocks, to output an input data signal or output a high-impedance signal. A master flip-flop chooses, in accordance with second control clocks, to output a data signal received from the input buffer or retain a currently output data signal. A master-slave switch chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to output a high-impedance signal or output a data signal received from the master flip-flop. A slave flip-flop chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to retain a currently output data signal or output a data signal received from the master-slave switch. A clock buffer inputs the second control clocks, and generates and outputs the first control clocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Masanao YOKOYAMA, Noboru OKUZONO
  • Patent number: 8988124
    Abstract: An input buffer chooses, in accordance with first control clocks, to output an input data signal or output a high-impedance signal. A master flip-flop chooses, in accordance with second control clocks, to output a data signal received from the input buffer or retain a currently output data signal. A master-slave switch chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to output a high-impedance signal or output a data signal received from the master flip-flop. A slave flip-flop chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to retain a currently output data signal or output a data signal received from the master-slave switch. A clock buffer inputs the second control clocks, and generates and outputs the first control clocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masanao Yokoyama, Noboru Okuzono
  • Publication number: 20120133407
    Abstract: An input buffer chooses, in accordance with first control clocks, to output an input data signal or output a high-impedance signal. A master flip-flop chooses, in accordance with second control clocks, to output a data signal received from the input buffer or retain a currently output data signal. A master-slave switch chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to output a high-impedance signal or output a data signal received from the master flip-flop. A slave flip-flop chooses, in accordance with the second control clocks, to retain a currently output data signal or output a data signal received from the master-slave switch. A clock buffer inputs the second control clocks, and generates and outputs the first control clocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Masanao YOKOYAMA, Noboru OKUZONO
  • Patent number: 7859268
    Abstract: A test signal is supplied to a test switch provided between a D/A converter for selecting and outputting a gray scale voltage of the driving circuit and an amplifier for amplifying and supplying an output voltage at the D/A converter to set a test mode, and an output voltage of the D/A converter is directly measured by a measuring device through the test switch to measure an ON resistance of a gray scale voltage selection circuit of the D/A converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Takashi Morigami, Tsukasa Yasuda
  • Patent number: 7812752
    Abstract: A digital-to-analog converter circuit includes: a first subdecoder for receiving a first reference voltage group and selecting a reference voltage Vrk based upon an input digital signal; a second subdecoder for receiving a second reference voltage group and selecting a reference voltage Vr(k+1) based upon the input digital signal; a third subdecoder for receiving a third reference voltage group and selecting a reference voltage Vr(k+2) based upon the input digital signal; a fourth subdecoder for receiving the reference voltages that have been selected by respective ones of the first to third subdecoders, selecting two of these reference voltages (inclusive of selecting the same voltage redundantly) based upon an input digital signal, and outputting the selected two reference voltages; and an amplifier circuit for receiving the two reference voltages that have been selected by the fourth subdecoder and outputting a result of an operation applied to the two reference voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuchi, Noboru Okuzono
  • Publication number: 20090195272
    Abstract: A receiver circuit is provided with: a plurality of input terminals; a plurality of hold circuits holding reception signals received by the plurality of input terminals; a detector circuit detecting clock bits from selected one of the reception signals to recover a clock signal in response to the detected clock bits; and a clock circuit connected to the detector circuit and generating one or more internal clock signals from the clock signal. The hold circuits commonly receive the internal clock signal(s) and perform sampling of the reception signals commonly in synchronization with the internal clock signal(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Noboru Okuzono
  • Publication number: 20090109077
    Abstract: Disclosed is a digital-to-analog converter circuit having first to (2×h+1)th reference voltages (where h is a prescribed positive integer) grouped into the following groups: a first reference voltage group comprising h-number of (2×j?1)th (where j is a prescribed positive integer of 1 to h) reference voltages; a second reference voltage group comprising h-number of (2×j)th reference voltages; and a third reference voltage group comprising h-number of (2×j+1)th reference voltages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tsuchi, Noboru Okuzono
  • Publication number: 20070067693
    Abstract: A test signal is supplied to a test switch provided between a D/A converter for selecting and outputting a gray scale voltage of the driving circuit and an amplifier for amplifying and supplying an output voltage at the D/A converter to set a test mode, and an output voltage of the D/A converter is directly measured by a measuring device through the test switch to measure an ON resistance of a gray scale voltage selection circuit of the D/A converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Takashi Morigami, Tsukasa Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20070046610
    Abstract: A driving method for a display apparatus including a plurality of pixels arranged in matrix along a line direction and a column direction implements sequential driving in the column direction by inverting a polarity of a plurality of pixels arranged in the line direction. The method includes driving a plurality of pixels arranged in an odd line, and driving a plurality of pixels arranged in an even line and in a column different from a column of the plurality of driven pixels in the odd line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: NEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noboru Okuzono
  • Patent number: 7126572
    Abstract: A display panel 13 having a plurality of pixels 14 each divided into P (P=3) sub-pixels 15a, 15b and 15c, and a source driver 12 for driving each pixel 14 in accordance with three J (=8)-bit data values corresponding to the sub-pixels 15a, 15b, and 15c, and a signal processing circuit 12 for distributing K(=12)-bit (K>J) input image data as M (M=6) time-shared frame data values and supplying the frame data values to the source driver 12 are arranged. 2K?J (=16) gray levels insufficient due to the difference between the numbers of bits of K-bit input image data and J-bit driving signals of the source driver 12 is realized by combinations of time-shared frame data of (P×M=18) ways performed for the sub-pixels 15a, 15b, and 15c in accordance with the M time-shared frame data values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Koga, Noboru Okuzono, Machihiko Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20060232534
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device where each unit pixel p arranged on a liquid crystal panel 101A is constituted by a plurality of pixels p1, p2, and p3, the pixels p1, p2, and p3 are divided into sub-pixels p11 and p12, sub-pixels p21, and p22, and sub-pixels p31 and p32, respectively. The liquid crystal display device is provided with driver ICs 201 and 202 for driving the sub-pixels p11, p21, and p31, and the sub-pixels p12, p22, and p32 constituting the pixels so that different gradation-brightness value characteristics may be given. Due to this, multi-gradation display can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Koichi Koga, Noboru Okuzono, Machihiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7116297
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device where each unit pixel p arranged on a liquid crystal panel 101A is constituted by a plurality of pixels p1, p2, and p3, the pixels p1, p2, and p3 are divided into sub-pixels p11 and p12, sub-pixels p21, and p22, and sub-pixels p31 and p32, respectively. The liquid crystal display device is provided with driver ICs 201 and 202 for driving the sub-pixels p11, p21, and p31, and the sub-pixels p12, p22, and p32 constituting the pixels so that different gradation-brightness value characteristics may be given. Due to this, multi-gradation display can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Koga, Noboru Okuzono, Machihiko Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7030852
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel unit is provided with a plurality of source drivers which are functionally divided into first and second source driver groups respectively assigned to first and second halves of an LCD panel. In order to properly drive the LCD panel irrespective of incoming pixel data of different formats, a pixel data rearrangement circuit is provided for rearranging the incoming pixel data to a predetermined data format. The data rearrangement circuit precedes the first and second source driver groups, and functions such as to receive 2N-path (N is a natural number) pixel data and rearranges the orders of the 2N-path pixel data according to the predetermined data format, and applies the rearranged N-path pixel data to the first source driver group and applying the rearranged other N-path pixel data to the second source driver group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ito, Kazuhiko Takami, Noboru Okuzono
  • Patent number: 6982693
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which has low power consumption, and which prevents horizontal stripes from occurring without the circuitry becoming more complex. When the write voltage polarity is inverted every plurality of lines, in the n line where the polarity is inverted, the rise in the drain line waveform dulls due to the charging of the drain line. In the n+1 line, because the drain line has been charged by the writing of the n line, waveform dullness does not occur. A difference between the write states in the two lines causes horizontal stripes. Consequently, the output enable signal is activated at the rise of the clock signal, and the gate line is activated after a predetermined time to start the writing. Therefore, writing is not performed during the period of waveform dullness, and the write state is the same across all scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Koichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6911967
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which has low power consumption, and which prevents horizontal stripes from occurring without the circuitry becoming more complex. When the write voltage polarity is inverted every plurality of lines, in the n line where the polarity is inverted, the rise in the drain line waveform dulls due to the charging of the drain line. In the n+1 line, because the drain line has been charged by the writing of the n line, waveform dullness does not occur. A difference between the write states in the two lines causes horizontal stripes. Consequently, the output enable signal is activated at the rise of the clock signal, and the gate line is activated after a predetermined time to start the writing. Therefore, writing is not performed during the period of waveform dullness, and the write state is the same across all scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Koichi Koga
  • Patent number: 6894673
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display control circuit receives a data enable signal DE in synchronization with per-line based display data from a computer, and thereby controls a liquid crystal display. A gate drive signal outputted from a gate driver 23 is generated according to a vertical clock signal VCK in synchronization with a rise of the signal DE. In order to avoid a variation in the period of charging the pixel electrodes which is caused by a delay in the rise timing of the signal DE and a delay in the signal VCK after the last line, a gate enable signal generation circuit 10 is provided in the liquid crystal display control circuit 1, whereby the extended output of the pulse of the gate drive signal caused by the above-mentioned delays is inhibited. This avoids display inhomogeneity caused by a variation in the data enable signal and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Koga, Noboru Okuzono, Machihiko Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20040150604
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which has low power consumption, and which prevents horizontal stripes from occurring without the circuitry becoming more complex. When the write voltage polarity is inverted every plurality of lines, in the n line where the polarity is inverted, the rise in the drain line waveform dulls due to the charging of the drain line. In the n+1 line, because the drain line has been charged by the writing of the n line, waveform dullness does not occur. A difference between the write states in the two lines causes horizontal stripes. Consequently, the output enable signal is activated at the rise of the clock signal, and the gate line is activated after a predetermined time to start the writing. Therefore, writing is not performed during the period of waveform dullness, and the write state is the same across all scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Koichi Koga
  • Publication number: 20040150612
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display is provided which has low power consumption, and which prevents horizontal stripes from occurring without the circuitry becoming more complex. When the write voltage polarity is inverted every plurality of lines, in the n line where the polarity is inverted, the rise in the drain line waveform dulls due to the charging of the drain line. In the n+1 line, because the drain line has been charged by the writing of the n line, waveform dullness does not occur. A difference between the write states in the two lines causes horizontal stripes. Consequently, the output enable signal is activated at the rise of the clock signal, and the gate line is activated after a predetermined time to start the writing. Therefore, writing is not performed during the period of waveform dullness, and the write state is the same across all scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Okuzono, Koichi Koga