Patents by Inventor Ryoh Kikuchi

Ryoh Kikuchi 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: 12588154
    Abstract: A foldable display includes a housing unit including a hinge member, and a first housing and a second housing coupled via the hinge member, and a flexible display panel including a flexible display layer and a support substrate. The support substrate includes a third portion between a first portion and a second portion of the support substrate. The third portion of the support substrate includes, in a first state, a first region overlapping a at least one step portion and a second region overlapping a planar portion. A first ratio of volume of openings of an opening group in the first region to volume of the first region in the first region of the support substrate is lower than a second ratio of volume of openings of an opening group in the second region to volume of the second region in the second region of the support substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2026
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Mayuko Sakamoto, Takehiro Murao, Yasuyuki Togashi, Ikuo Ninomiya, Ryoh Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12349535
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a first layer; a second layer; a light-emitting element layer positioned between the first layer and the second layer and including a light-emitting element; a first adhesive layer positioned between the first layer and the light-emitting element layer, and having a thickness of 10 ?m or greater and less than 25 ?m and a shear modulus at 23 degrees Celsius of 4.0E+04 Pa or greater and less than 1.0E+05 Pa; and a second adhesive layer positioned between the light-emitting element layer and the second layer, and having a thickness of greater than 0 ?m and no greater than 15 ?m and a shear modulus at 23 degrees Celsius of 1.0E+05 Pa or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoh Kikuchi, Takehiro Murao, Kenichiroh Tsuchida, Yasuyuki Togashi
  • Publication number: 20250071915
    Abstract: A foldable display includes a housing unit including a hinge member, and a first housing and a second housing coupled via the hinge member, and a flexible display panel including a flexible display layer and a support substrate. The support substrate includes a third portion between a first portion and a second portion of the support substrate. The third portion of the support substrate includes, in a first state, a first region overlapping a at least one step portion and a second region overlapping a planar portion. A first ratio of volume of openings of an opening group in the first region to volume of the first region in the first region of the support substrate is lower than a second ratio of volume of openings of an opening group in the second region to volume of the second region in the second region of the support substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Mayuko SAKAMOTO, Takehiro MURAO, Yasuyuki TOGASHI, Ikuo NINOMIYA, Ryoh KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230018259
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a first layer; a second layer; a light-emitting element layer positioned between the first layer and the second layer and including a light-emitting element; a first adhesive layer positioned between the first layer and the light-emitting element layer, and having a thickness of 10 ?m or greater and less than 25 ?m and a shear modulus at 23 degrees Celsius of 4.0E+04 Pa or greater and less than 1.0E+05 Pa; and a second adhesive layer positioned between the light-emitting element layer and the second layer, and having a thickness of greater than 0 ?m and no greater than 15 ?m and a shear modulus at 23 degrees Celsius of 1.0E+05 Pa or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: RYOH KIKUCHI, TAKEHIRO MURAO, KENICHIROH TSUCHIDA, YASUYUKI TOGASHI
  • Patent number: 11061247
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device includes an optical stack arrangement including from the viewing side: a first electrode component; a first LC alignment layer; an LC layer; a second LC alignment layer; and a second electrode component. A voltage is applied to the LC device to create a potential difference between the first and second electrode components to switch an alignment of liquid crystals of selected portions of the LC layer from a first state when no voltage is applied to a second state when the voltage is applied. The first and second LC alignment layers are vertical alignment layers that induce a vertical alignment of the liquid crystals such that the first state when no voltage is applied is a vertical alignment state, and the liquid LC crystals switch to a planar alignment state as the second state when the voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Andrew Acreman, Nathan James Smith, Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10725319
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of high-quality three-dimensional displaying. During three-dimensional displaying for a viewing position ?, in a first term, an entirety of a first predetermined region of a second liquid crystal panel takes on a light-blocking state and a first adjacent region, which is adjacent to the first predetermined region in the first direction, takes on a light-transmitting state. In a second term, at least one of two side regions in the first predetermined region takes on the light-transmitting state, a remaining region of the first predetermined region takes on the light-blocking state, and at least part of the first adjacent region takes on the light-transmitting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi, Takayuki Yamada, Nathan James Smith, Andre Filipe Marques Da Silva, Martin Paul Buckthorpe
  • Publication number: 20200096796
    Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) device includes an optical stack arrangement including from the viewing side: a first electrode component; a first LC alignment layer; an LC layer; a second LC alignment layer; and a second electrode component. A voltage is applied to the LC device to create a potential difference between the first and second electrode components to switch an alignment of liquid crystals of selected portions of the LC layer from a first state when no voltage is applied to a second state when the voltage is applied. The first and second LC alignment layers are vertical alignment layers that induce a vertical alignment of the liquid crystals such that the first state when no voltage is applied is a vertical alignment state, and the liquid LC crystals switch to a planar alignment state as the second state when the voltage is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Acreman, Nathan James Smith, Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 10587866
    Abstract: A reconfigurable parallax barrier panel comprising an electro-optic material has a first region, a second region and a first compensation region. First electrodes are addressable to define, in the first region of the panel, a parallax barrier array selected from a plurality of predetermined parallax barrier arrays, and second electrodes are addressable define, in the second region of the panel, independently of the first parallax barrier array, a parallax barrier array selected from the plurality of predetermined parallax barrier arrays. Electrodes of the first compensation region are addressable to define, dependent on the first parallax barrier array and on the second parallax barrier array, at least one slit and/or at least one barrier between the first region and the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nathan James Smith, Hywel Hopkin, Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20190283607
    Abstract: The present invention enhances instant readability by causing a driver to visually recognize, without a feeling of stranger an image obtained by photographing an area around a vehicle. A display section (11, 12, 13) is provided ahead of a driver, and the display section displays an image, obtained by photographing an area around an automobile (1), so that the image is recognized to be located on a deeper side away from the driver, an amount, by which a visible object is recognized to be located on a deeper side than a display screen, corresponding to a distance which causes the driver to recognize the visible object reflected by a mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: TAKEHIRO MURAO, RYOH KIKUCHI, TAKAYUKI YAMADA, TAKEHIKO NAKAGAWA, YOSHIMITSU INAMORI, NAOKI SHIRAISHI
  • Patent number: 10390008
    Abstract: A reconfigurable parallax barrier panel, for use in a display system with a 3D mode, includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electro-optic material positioned between the first and second substrates. The first and second substrates each respectively has a plurality of first and second electrodes, the electrodes being independently addressable from one another and comprising a plurality of electrode portions extending along a first direction and laterally spaced from one another along a second direction different from the first direction. The electrode portions of the first electrodes are arranged in a cyclic arrangement having a first pitch, and the electrode portions of the second electrodes are arranged in a cyclic arrangement having a second pitch that is different to the first pitch. The first and second electrodes are driven to generate different reconfigurable parallax barrier arrays corresponding to different viewing distances in a 3D mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nathan James Smith, André Filipe Marques da Silva, Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi, Takayuki Yamada, Andrew Acreman
  • Publication number: 20190182476
    Abstract: First electrodes and second electrodes of a switching liquid crystal panel of a stereoscopic display device are provided on different layers with an insulating film interposed, gaps between the second electrodes are light-transmitting regions, the first electrodes are provided corresponding to gaps between the second electrodes in plan view, and, when an electrode width of the first electrodes, a gap width of the first electrodes, an electrode width of the second electrodes, and a gap width of the second electrodes in the X-axis direction are taken as WL1, GL1, WU1, and GU1 respectively, WU1=GL1<WL1=GU1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: RYOH KIKUCHI, TAKEHIRO MURAO, TAKAYUKI YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190166358
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a display device that does not hinder driving. An electronic mirror includes: an image display device capable of switching between 2D display and 3D display, the 3D display being carried out by a parallax barrier method; and a distance measuring device for measuring a distance from eyes of a user to a display screen of the image display device. The electronic mirror switches display from the 3D display to the 2D display in a case where the distance measured by the distance measuring device falls outside a predetermined range during the 3D display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Takehiko NAKAGAWA, Yoshimitsu INAMORI, Eri YANAGAWA, Takehiro MURAO, Ryoh KIKUCHI, Takayuki YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190166357
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a display device that does riot hinder driving. An electronic mirror in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a depth adjusting section for adjusting a depth of a visible object contained in an image, in a case where 2D display is switched to 3D display or in a case where 3D display is switched to 2D display; and an output image generating section for generating an image which reaches, in a predetermined time period, the depth having been adjusted by the depth adjusting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Takehiko Nakagawa, Yoshimitsu Inamori, Eri Yanagawa, Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi, Takayuki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190011717
    Abstract: Provided is a display device capable of high-quality three-dimensional displaying. During three-dimensional displaying for a viewing position ?, in a first term, an entirety of a first predetermined region of a second liquid crystal panel takes on a light-blocking state and a first adjacent region, which is adjacent to the first predetermined region in the first direction, takes on a light-transmitting state. In a second term, at least one of two side regions in the first predetermined region takes on the light-transmitting state, a remaining region of the first predetermined region takes on the light-blocking state, and at least part of the first adjacent region takes on the light-transmitting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: TAKEHIRO MURAO, RYOH KIKUCHI, TAKAYUKI YAMADA, Nathan James SMITH, Andre Filipe MARQUES DA SILVA, Martin Paul BUCKTHORPE
  • Publication number: 20180199030
    Abstract: A reconfigurable parallax barrier panel, for use in a display system with a 3D mode, includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electro-optic material positioned between the first and second substrates. The first and second substrates each respectively has a plurality of first and second electrodes, the electrodes being independently addressable from one another and comprising a plurality of electrode portions extending along a first direction and laterally spaced from one another along a second direction different from the first direction. The electrode portions of the first electrodes are arranged in a cyclic arrangement having a first pitch, and the electrode portions of the second electrodes are arranged in a cyclic arrangement having a second pitch that is different to the first pitch. The first and second electrodes are driven to generate different reconfigurable parallax barrier arrays corresponding to different viewing distances in a 3D mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan James SMITH, André Filipe Marques da Silva, Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi, Takayuki Yamada, Andrew Acreman
  • Publication number: 20180192038
    Abstract: A reconfigurable parallax barrier panel comprising an electro-optic material has a first region, a second region and a first compensation region. First electrodes are addressable to define, in the first region of the panel, a parallax barrier array selected from a plurality of predetermined parallax barrier arrays, and second electrodes are addressable define, in the second region of the panel, independently of the first parallax barrier array, a parallax barrier array selected from the plurality of predetermined parallax barrier arrays. Electrodes of the first compensation region are addressable to define, dependent on the first parallax barrier array and on the second parallax barrier array, at least one slit and/or at least one barrier between the first region and the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan James SMITH, Hywel HOPKIN, Takehiro MURAO, Ryoh KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 9906777
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device (1) of the present invention includes a display panel (10), a switch liquid crystal panel (20), a first polarizing plate (15) and a second polarizing plate (24), and a control unit for moving a parallax barrier in which transmitting regions and non-transmitting regions are formed in periodic fashion in a predetermined alignment direction, in such a manner that the parallax barrier is moved in the predetermined alignment direction in accordance with position information, and causing the switch liquid crystal panel (20) to display the parallax barrier. A first alignment film (216) and a second alignment film (226) of the switch liquid crystal panel (20) are rubbed so that molecule long axes of liquid crystal molecules in the vicinities of the center of a liquid crystal layer (23) in the thickness direction in a state where no voltage is applied are oriented in a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction as viewed in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryoh Kikuchi, Takehiro Murao, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9874770
    Abstract: A display device (1) includes a display panel (10), a switch liquid crystal panel (20), and a control unit (40). The switch liquid crystal panel (20) includes a transparent electrode (2) provided in an active area (AA) on at least one of a first substrate (21) and a second substrate (22), and a metal line (3) provided outside the active area (AA) on at least one of the first substrate (21) and the second substrate (22), along four sides of the active area (AA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoh Kikuchi, Takehiro Murao, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 9872013
    Abstract: Obtained is a configuration of a stereoscopic display device that allows a viewer to easily correct settings for stereoscopic display. A stereoscopic display device (1) includes: a display panel (10) for displaying an image; a switch liquid crystal panel (20) that is arranged so as to be stacked on the display panel (10); a position sensor for acquiring position information of a viewer; and a control unit for causing the switch liquid crystal panel (20) to display a parallax barrier in which transmitting regions and non-transmitting regions are formed in periodic fashion in a predetermined alignment direction. The control unit has, as operation modes, at least a tracking mode in which, according to the position information, the parallax barrier is moved in the alignment direction and is displayed on the switch liquid crystal panel (20), and a calibration mode for calibration of a reference position of the position information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takuto Yoshino, Takehiro Murao, Hiroshi Fukushima, Ryoh Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9784982
    Abstract: A configuration of a stereoscopic display device that is capable of maintaining crosstalk at a low level even when a viewer moves is provided. A stereoscopic display device (1) includes: a display panel (10) for displaying an image; a switch liquid crystal panel (20) that is arranged so as to be stacked on the display panel (10); a position sensor for acquiring position information of a viewer; and a control unit for moving a parallax barrier in which transmitting regions and non-transmitting regions are formed in periodic fashion in a predetermined alignment direction, in such a manner that the parallax barrier is moved in the predetermined alignment direction in accordance with the position information, and causing the switch liquid crystal panel (20) to display the parallax barrier. The switch liquid crystal panel (20) includes: a liquid crystal layer (23) in which refractive index anisotropy ?n of liquid crystal molecules is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takehiro Murao, Ryoh Kikuchi, Takuto Yoshino, Hiroshi Fukushima