Patents by Inventor Nobuyuki Suzuki

Nobuyuki Suzuki 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).

  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200301060
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light source having an emission region, a wiring board having the light source mounted thereon, a light guide plate having a side surface into which light from the light source enters, and a front surface from which the light exits, a light shielding adhesive tape adhering to the wiring board, and an optical sheet which overlaps with the front surface of the light guide plate. The front surface of the light guide plate includes an effective region serving as a planar light source and a light entering region ranging from the side surface to the effective region. The wiring board and the light-shielding adhesive tape each have a part positioned in the light entering region, and the optical sheet is arranged from the effective region to the light entering region. An end portion of the optical sheet overlaps with the light-shielding tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Munenori MOTOOKA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI
  • Synchronization of a display device in a system including multiple display devices
    Patent number: 10762875
    Abstract: Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems including a selector. A selection signal may be provided to the selector to select a first synchronization signal as a control signal when the first synchronization signal is available, otherwise a second first synchronization signal as the control signal. The first or the second synchronization signal may synchronize a first or second display content received by a first or second display device with a first or a second display refresh rate, respectively. The control signal may be provided to a controller to control the second display content received by the second display device. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Suzuki, Zhiming Zhuang, Arvind S. Tomar, Nausheen Ansari
  • Display device
    Patent number: 10705277
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light source having an emission region, a wiring board having the light source mounted thereon, a light guide plate having a side surface into which light from the light source enters, and a front surface from which the light exits, a light shielding adhesive tape adhering to the wiring board, and an optical sheet which overlaps with the front surface of the light guide plate. The front surface of the light guide plate includes an effective region serving as a planar light source and a light entering region ranging from the side surface to the effective region. The wiring board and the light-shielding adhesive tape each have a part positioned in the light entering region, and the optical sheet is arranged from the effective region to the light entering region. An end portion of the optical sheet overlaps with the light-shielding tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Munenori Motooka, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Display controller to prevent visual artifacts with spread spectrum clocking
    Patent number: 10699677
    Abstract: A display controller and method for performing the same operations are described. In on embodiment, the display controller comprises a spread spectrum clock (SSC) modulator having a first input coupled to receive a non-SSC modulated clock and operable to generate a SSC modulated clock in response to the non-SSC modulated clock, a video data transfer portion coupled to receive the SSC modulated clock and operable to output data for display in response to the SSC modulated clock, and a second portion coupled to receive the non-SSC modulated clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Suzuki, Robert J. Johnston
  • OPTICAL FIBER CABLE
    Publication number: 20200183111
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes optical fiber ribbons, a slot rod and a cable jacket. The slot rod has slot grooves in which the optical fiber ribbons are housed. The cable jacket covers an outside of the slot rod. The optical fiber ribbons have, in a state in which optical fibers having an outer diameter of 0.22 mm or less are arranged in parallel, connecting portions at which adjacent ones of the optical fibers are connected to one another and non-connecting portions at which adjacent ones of the optical fibers are not connected to one another, which are provided intermittently in a longitudinal direction. A density of core number of the optical fibers included in the optical fiber cable is 4.8 cores/mm2 or more in a cross section of the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki SATO, Taro FUJITA, Nayu YANAGAWA, Yoshiaki NAGAO, Nobuyuki SUZUKI
  • Methods and apparatus for synchronizing embedded display panels of mobile devices via programmable synchronization links
    Patent number: 10614777
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for synchronizing embedded display panels of mobile devices via programmable synchronization links are disclosed. An example mobile device includes a first embedded display panel, a second embedded display panel, a programmable synchronization link, a configuration manager, and a synchronization manager. The programmable synchronization link is operatively coupled to the first and second embedded display panels. The configuration manager is to configure the first embedded display panel as a slave panel, and to configure the second embedded display panel as a master panel. The synchronization manager is to synchronize the slave panel to the master panel via the programmable synchronization link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seh Kwa, Nausheen Ansari, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Zhiming Zhuang
  • LCD DISPLAY BACKLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200105209
    Abstract: A backlight control system is provided. A modulation value register is included in memory of the system. A display backlight is included in the system, the display backlight including a light emitting diode (LED) light source configured to illuminate a liquid crystal display (LCD). Processing circuitry included in the system is configured to execute a clock timer and a temporal dither pattern generator. The temporal dither pattern generator is configured to receive a modulation value from the modulation value register, and apply a temporal dither according to a signal from the clock timer to the modulation value to generate a dithered modulation value. A modulator executed by the processing circuitry is configured to receive the dithered modulation value and modulate a power signal according to the dithered modulation value to drive the display backlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nobuyuki SUZUKI, John Patrick FOGARTY, Aaron Gilbert MOO, Kari Jussi ROPO
  • Intermittent connection type optical fiber ribbon having improved density, manufacturing method of the ribbon, optical fiber cable, and optical cable fiber code
    Patent number: 10598888
    Abstract: There is provided an intermittent connection type optical fiber ribbon in which at least a part of a plurality of optical fibers that are arranged to be in parallel come into contact with each other, and between a part or the entirety of the optical fibers, a connection portion at which the adjacent optical fibers are connected to each other with an adhesive resin, and a non-connection portion at which the adjacent optical fibers are not connected to each other with the adhesive resin, are intermittently provided in the longitudinal direction, in which an outer diameter dimension of the optical fiber is equal to or less than 0.22 mm, and an inter-center distance of the adjacent optical fibers is 0.20±0.02 mm, and in which at least a part of the outer periphery of the optical fiber has no adhesive resin attached thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Yoshiaki Nagao, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Methods and apparatus to implement aging compensation for emissive displays with subpixel rendering
    Patent number: 10593247
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to implement aging compensation for emissive displays with subpixel rendering are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a converter to convert red-green-blue (RGB) data to subpixel rendering (SPR) data. The RGB data is indicative of an image to be rendered on an emissive display screen. The apparatus includes a compensator to apply pixel correction values to the SPR data to generate corrected SPR data to compensate for pixel degradation. The apparatus further includes a usage accumulator to track pixel usage based on the corrected SPR data. The apparatus also includes a correction calculator to calculate the pixel correction values based on the pixel usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhiming J. Zhuang, Srikanth Kambhatla, Satyanarayana Avadhanam, Antonio Cheng, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Intermittent-connection-type optical fiber ribbon with thick and thin vertical lines and method for manufacturing
    Patent number: 10585255
    Abstract: An intermittent-connection-type optical fiber ribbon includes: a plurality of optical fiber core wires that are disposed in parallel; a connecting resin that is coated on surfaces of the plurality of optical fiber core wires; and slits that are provided intermittently in the connecting resin partially between the optical fiber core wires in a longitudinal direction, and a marking is on the connecting resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Keisuke Okada, Yoshiaki Nagao, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Yuuki Shimoda
  • DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200012033
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light source having an emission region, a wiring board having the light source mounted thereon, a light guide plate having a side surface into which light from the light source enters, and a front surface from which the light exits, a light shielding adhesive tape adhering to the wiring board, and an optical sheet which overlaps with the front surface of the light guide plate. The front surface of the light guide plate includes an effective region serving as a planar light source and a light entering region ranging from the side surface to the effective region. The wiring board and the light-shielding adhesive tape each have a part positioned in the light entering region, and the optical sheet is arranged from the effective region to the light entering region. An end portion of the optical sheet overlaps with the light-shielding tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Munenori MOTOOKA, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • METHOD FOR INTERFACE INITIALIZATION USING BUS TURNAROUND
    Publication number: 20190391949
    Abstract: An example method for initializing an interface includes driving a low voltage signal on data lanes and clock lanes. The method further includes performing a reset sequence and an initialization of a link configuration register. The method also includes driving a high voltage signal to the clock lanes and the data lanes. The method further includes driving a bus turn-around (BTA) sequence on the data lanes. The method also includes detecting that the BTA is acknowledged by a host controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Zhenyu Zhu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Anoop Mukker, Daniel Nemiroff, David W. Vogel
  • Optical fiber cable
    Patent number: 10514517
    Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber cable whereby macrobend loss can be suppressed even when ribbons are mounted at high density in grooves. An optical fiber cable provided with optical units in which ribbons each having a plurality of optical fiber cores arranged in parallel are collected, a slot rod having a plurality of grooves for accommodating optical units, a tension member on which tension is applied, and a cable jacket for covering the outside of the slot rod. Each of the optical units is accommodated in the corresponding groove in a stranded state, and the occupancy of the optical units calculated from the cross-sectional area of the optical units with respect to the cross-sectional area of the groove is 25% to 65%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Keisuke Okada, Yoshiaki Nagao, Kenta Tsuchiya, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Memory system
    Patent number: 10489227
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile first memory, a second memory, a battery, a first processor, and a second processor. The first processor is configured to execute fault diagnosis on the battery by discharging energy stored in the battery. The second processor is configured to write data cached in the second memory into the first memory and reduce an upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when executing the fault diagnosis than the upper limit of the amount of data to be cached when not executing the fault diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Toshiba Memory Corporation
    Inventors: Masami Aochi, Yoshihisa Kojima, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Intermittent-connection-type optical fiber ribbon and optical cable
    Patent number: 10488609
    Abstract: An intermittent-connection-type optical fiber ribbon in which a plurality of optical fiber core wires are disposed in parallel, and which includes: a connecting part where adjacent optical fiber core wires are connected; and a non-connecting part where adjacent optical fiber core wires are not connected, the connecting parts and the non-connecting parts are provided intermittently in a longitudinal direction, the non-connecting parts are not provided in the longitudinal direction between two the optical fiber core wires, the connecting part is recessed, and in a case where, in the longitudinal direction, a is length of the connecting part, b is length of a part where the non-connecting part between different optical fiber core wires overlap, c is length of the non-connecting part, and p is an interval of the connecting parts, c/a?1.5, b?50 mm, and (c/a)×p?200 mm are set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Sato, Kenta Tsuchiya, Keisuke Okada, Yoshiaki Nagao, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Backlight
    Patent number: 10459143
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light source having an emission region, a wiring board having the light source mounted thereon, a light guide plate having a side surface into which light from the light source enters, and a front surface from which the light exits, a light shielding adhesive tape adhering to the wiring board, and an optical sheet which overlaps with the front surface of the light guide plate. The front surface of the light guide plate includes an effective region serving as a planar light source and a light entering region ranging from the side surface to the effective region. The wiring board and the light-shielding adhesive tape each have a part positioned in the light entering region, and the optical sheet is arranged from the effective region to the light entering region. An end portion of the optical sheet overlaps with the light-shielding tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Munenori Motooka, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • Powering mobile device displays using different voltage ranges
    Patent number: 10446088
    Abstract: An example apparatus for powering a mobile device display includes a first voltage regulator electronically to be electronically coupled to a display backlight and to a power rail. The power rail is coupled to a power source to provide a first voltage within a first range of voltages. The first voltage regulator is to provide a second voltage within a second range of voltages to the display backlight. The apparatus also includes a second voltage regulator to be electronically coupled to display electronics of the mobile device display and the power rail. The second voltage regulator is to provide a third voltage within a third range of voltages to the display electronics. The first range of voltages, the second range of voltages, and the third range of voltages, are different voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Yiting Lee, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Gang Ji, Jackson Tsai, Jimmy Y. Hsiao
  • Optical fiber cable
    Patent number: 10416403
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable includes optical fiber ribbons of no less than 12, a slot rod including slot grooves in which the optical fiber ribbons are housed, a tension member, and a cable sheath. The optical fiber ribbons include, at a part of or through all of the optical fiber core wires, in a state where the optical fiber core wires are arranged in parallel, a connecting part where adjacent optical fiber core wires are connected and a non-connecting part where adjacent optical fiber core wires are not connected, which are provided intermittently in a longitudinal direction. A relationship between the number “x” of the optical fiber core wires housed in the optical fiber cable and flexural rigidity “y” (N·mm2) of the optical fiber cable satisfies following Expression 1. y?3e0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Okada, Fumiaki Sato, Yoshiaki Nagao, Nobuyuki Suzuki
  • BACKLIGHT
    Publication number: 20190219755
    Abstract: A backlight unit includes a light source having an emission region, a wiring board having the light source mounted thereon, a light guide plate having a side surface into which light from the light source enters, and a front surface from which the light exits, a light shielding adhesive tape adhering to the wiring board, and an optical sheet which overlaps with the front surface of the light guide plate. The front surface of the light guide plate includes an effective region serving as a planar light source and a light entering region ranging from the side surface to the effective region. The wiring board and the light-shielding adhesive tape each have a part positioned in the light entering region, and the optical sheet is arranged from the effective region to the light entering region. An end portion of the optical sheet overlaps with the light-shielding tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Munenori MOTOOKA, Nobuyuki SUZUKI
  • INTERMITTENT CONNECTION TYPE OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF INTERMITTENT CONNECTION TYPE OPTICAL FIBER RIBBON, OPTICAL FIBER CABLE, AND OPTICAL FIBER CODE
    Publication number: 20190204519
    Abstract: There is provided an intermittent connection type optical fiber ribbon in which at least a part of a plurality of optical fibers that are arranged to be in parallel come into contact with each other, and between a part or the entirety of the optical fibers, a connection portion at which the adjacent optical fibers are connected to each other with an adhesive resin, and a non-connection portion at which the adjacent optical fibers are not connected to each other with the adhesive resin, are intermittently provided in the longitudinal direction, in which an outer diameter dimension of the optical fiber is equal to or less than 0.22 mm, and an inter-center distance of the adjacent optical fibers is 0.20±0.02 mm, and in which at least a part of the outer periphery of the optical fiber has no adhesive resin attached thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiaki SATO, Yoshiaki NAGAO, Nobuyuki SUZUKI