Patents by Inventor Noriko Watanabe

Noriko Watanabe 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: 11936718
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method that enable output of information using a more optimal output modal. Provided is an information processing device including a processing unit configured to perform processes of: acquiring apparatus information regarding an output modal for each electronic apparatus; selecting an electronic apparatus having an output modal that outputs information from among a plurality of electronic apparatuses on the basis of the acquired apparatus information; and outputting the information from an output modal of the selected electronic apparatus. The present technology can be applied to, for example, electronic apparatuses such as information apparatuses, video apparatuses, audio apparatuses, or household electrical appliances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriko Totsuka, Hiroaki Ogawa, Yuki Takeda, Kan Kuroda, Yoshinori Maeda, Yuichiro Koyama, Akira Takahashi, Kazuya Tateishi, Chie Kamada, Emiru Tsunoo, Akira Fukui, Hideaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11928989
    Abstract: A rollable display device includes a flexible display panel, a storage unit provided at one end side of the flexible display panel, a support bar provided at the other end side of the flexible display panel, a plurality of glass substrates aligned side by side in a direction intersecting a winding direction of the flexible display panel, and a cover layer formed to cover the glass substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11751444
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion, a first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line, and a second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line. A plurality of first high power supply voltage lines branch from the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the first display region, a plurality of second high power supply voltage lines branch from the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the second display region, and the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line are electrically connected to each other via a first curved portion conductive layer formed in the curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriko Watanabe, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11751422
    Abstract: A display device includes a metal pattern formed, in a frame region between a variant edge portion of the display device forming a cutout portion, and a display region. The metal pattern is formed from a metal layer conforming to at least a portion of the shape of the cutout portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11538893
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion provided between the first display region and the second display region, a plurality of first control lines provided in the first display region and extending in a first direction in which the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side, and a plurality of second control lines provided in the second display region and extending in the first direction. The first control lines and the second control lines are electrically connected via curved portion wiring lines formed in the curved portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriko Watanabe, Takeshi Yaneda
  • Patent number: 11332289
    Abstract: A sealed container capable of knowing that the opening of the container body is exactly in close contact with a packing when a lid body is attached to the container body. The sealed container has a container body, a lid body attached to the opening of the container body, and a packing attached to the lid body, while the packing has a packing body provided in the lid body and a plurality of flexible ring-shaped protrusions provided thereupon which are mutually separated in the axial direction of the lid body The outer peripheral portion of the ring-shaped protrusion, which is the farthest from the top plate portion of the lid body in the axial direction, is in close contact with the inner peripheral surface of the container body, while the outer peripheral portions of other ring-shaped protrusions are radially separated from the inner peripheral surface of the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: KOTODO TAKAHASHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220089339
    Abstract: A sealed container capable of knowing that the opening of the container body is exactly in close contact with a packing when a lid body is attached to the container body. The sealed container has a container body, a lid body attached to the opening of the container body, and a packing attached to the lid body, while the packing has a packing body provided in the lid body and a plurality of flexible ring-shaped protrusions provided thereupon which are mutually separated in the axial direction of the lid body The outer peripheral portion of the ring-shaped protrusion, which is the farthest from the top plate portion of the lid body in the axial direction, is in close contact with the inner peripheral surface of the container body, while the outer peripheral portions of other ring-shaped protrusions are radially separated from the inner peripheral surface of the container body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: KOTODO TAKAHASHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriko WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220052292
    Abstract: A display device includes a display region, a frame region, and a curved portion. The display device includes a resin layer, a plurality of inorganic insulating films, and a metal layer. A metal pattern formed with the metal layer is formed between an edge portion of the curved portion and the display region in the frame region along a curved shape of the edge portion of the curved portion and along at least a portion of corresponding two sides of the display device. The metal pattern is electrically disconnected from a wiring line of the display region, and a width of the metal pattern decreases toward both end portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventor: NORIKO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210383731
    Abstract: A rollable display device includes a flexible display panel, a storage unit provided at one end side of the flexible display panel, a support bar provided at the other end side of the flexible display panel, a plurality of glass substrates aligned side by side in a direction intersecting a winding direction of the flexible display panel, and a cover layer formed to cover the glass substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventor: NORIKO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210057510
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion, a first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line, and a second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line. A plurality of first high power supply voltage lines branch from the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the first display region, a plurality of second high power supply voltage lines branch from the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and extend to the second display region, and the first high power supply voltage trunk wiring line and the second high power supply voltage trunk wiring line are electrically connected to each other via a first curved portion conductive layer formed in the curved portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: NORIKO WATANABE, TAKESHI YANEDA
  • Publication number: 20210028398
    Abstract: A display device includes a metal pattern formed, in a frame region between a variant edge portion of the display device forming a cutout portion, and a display region. The metal pattern is formed from a metal layer conforming to at least a portion of the shape of the cutout portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: NORIKO WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20210020732
    Abstract: A display device includes a first display region, a second display region, a curved portion provided between the first display region and the second display region, a plurality of first control lines provided in the first display region and extending in a first direction in which the first display region and the second display region are arranged side by side, and a plurality of second control lines provided in the second display region and extending in the first direction. The first control lines and the second control lines are electrically connected via curved portion wiring lines formed in the curved portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: NORIKO WATANABE, TAKESHI YANEDA
  • Patent number: 10698448
    Abstract: An elastic support substrate elastically deforms in at least a longitudinal direction that is a winding direction, and as for the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction that is a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the elastic support substrate is less likely to deform in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Noriko Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20200150724
    Abstract: An elastic support substrate elastically deforms in at least a longitudinal direction that is a winding direction, and as for the longitudinal direction and the lateral direction that is a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, the elastic support substrate is less likely to deform in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Noriko WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20190363290
    Abstract: A flexible display includes an adhesive layer provided on a sealing film including a first inorganic layer, an organic layer, and a second inorganic layer, and a cover layer provided on the adhesive layer. Adhesive layers and cover layers are provided avoiding, in a folding portion, at least a region adjacent to organic EL elements in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Noriko WATANABE
  • Patent number: 10193101
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a flexible substrate, a device portion supported on the flexible substrate, and a driver circuit portion; and a flexible tube having a water vapor transmission rate of less than 10?3 g/(m2·24 h) and an oxygen transmission rate of less than 10?2 ml/(m2·24 h·MPa), wherein: the flexible tube forms a first seal structure and a second seal structure at both ends thereof, and has a sealed space therein; a part of the flexible substrate and the device portion are inside the sealed space; and a rest of the flexible substrate, other than the part, is outside the sealed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nasu, Noriko Watanabe, Yasumori Fukushima, Shinsuke Saida
  • Publication number: 20180165996
    Abstract: The present invention prevents an advance of a crack in a covering layer, without exposing a support. In a region between an edge part of a moistureproof layer (12) and a display region (2), wavy recessed patterns (7a, 7b, and 7c) are continuously or discontinuously provided so to connect one end of the moistureproof layer (12) and another end of the moistureproof layer (12). Each of the wavy recessed patterns (7a, 7b, and 7c) is recessed and is configured to change a direction in which a crack having appeared in the edge part of the moistureproof layer (12) advances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Takashi OCHI, Yuki YASUDA, Shoji OKAZAKI, Hiroshi SUGIMOTO, Kenji MISONO, Masahiro HASEGAWA, Noriko WATANABE, Kazuhiko TSUDA
  • Patent number: 9910458
    Abstract: A display device 10 includes a flexible display panel having a display surface 11a and flexibility, display support portions 12 supporting the flexible display panel from a side opposite to the display surface 11a side, a hinge portion 13 supporting the two adjacent display support portions 12 to be rotatable, and an angle restricting portion 18 mounted on each of hinge parts 15, 16 and including at least a stopper projection 19 and a stopper hole 20 that are stopped by each other when an angle formed by the two adjacent display supporting portions 12 reaches a predetermined value, the two adjacent display supporting portions 12 being rotated according to bending of the flexible display panel 11 from the flat state and the angle being formed by the two adjacent display supporting portions 12 that are rotated, and the angle restricting portion 18 restricting the angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriko Watanabe, Akiko Itoh
  • Publication number: 20170192460
    Abstract: A display device 10 includes a flexible display panel having a display surface 11a and flexibility, display support portions 12 supporting the flexible display panel from a side opposite to the display surface 11a side, a hinge portion 13 supporting the two adjacent display support portions 12 to be rotatable, and an angle restricting portion 18 mounted on each of hinge parts 15, 16 and including at least a stopper projection 19 and a stopper hole 20 that are stopped by each other when an angle formed by the two adjacent display supporting portions 12 reaches a predetermined value, the two adjacent display supporting portions 12 being rotated according to bending of the flexible display panel 11 from the flat state and the angle being formed by the two adjacent display supporting portions 12 that are rotated, and the angle restricting portion 18 restricting the angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Noriko WATANABE, Akiko ITOH
  • Publication number: 20170110680
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a flexible substrate, a device portion supported on the flexible substrate, and a driver circuit portion; and a flexible tube having a water vapor transmission rate of less than 10?3 g/(m2·24 h) and an oxygen transmission rate of less than 10?2 ml/(m2·24 h·MPa), wherein: the flexible tube forms a first seal structure and a second seal structure at both ends thereof, and has a sealed space therein; a part of the flexible substrate and the device portion are inside the sealed space; and a rest of the flexible substrate, other than the part, is outside the sealed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NASU, Noriko WATANABE, Yasumori FUKUSHIMA, Shinsuke SAIDA