Patents by Inventor Sadahiko Yasukawa

Sadahiko Yasukawa 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: 8411027
    Abstract: A plurality of scanning signal lines GLn divided into groups, and each group is made up of three scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB, and a plurality of pixels are divided into pixel blocks, and each pixel block is made up of three pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) respectively connected to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB. These pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) are connected to a common data signal line SLm. To the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG, GLnB, scanning pulses are sequentially outputted to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB from shift registers SRnR, SRnG and SRnB, and video signals for R, G and B are outputted to the data signal line SLm from a driver IC by time division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakazu Satoh, Hajime Washio, Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20100103153
    Abstract: A plurality of scanning signal lines GLn divided into groups, and each group is made up of three scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB, and a plurality of pixels are divided into pixel blocks, and each pixel block is made up of three pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) respectively connected to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB. These pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) are connected to a common data signal line SLm. To the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG, GLnB, scanning pulses are sequentially outputted to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB from shift registers SRnR, SRnG and SRnB, and video signals for R, G and B are outputted to the data signal line SLm from a driver IC by time division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Masakazu Satoh, Hajime Washio, Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 7683887
    Abstract: A touch-panel-integrated liquid crystal display device (display system) includes a liquid crystal display device, and a touch panel input device, provided on a liquid crystal panel of the liquid crystal display device, which has upper and lower electrodes (conductive thin plates) for detecting a position via which information is inputted from the outside. The display system includes a liquid crystal display device driving section for driving the liquid crystal display device and a noise canceling signal generator (signal application section) for applying, to the touch panel input device, a noise canceling signal having an amplitude and a phase that are equal to an amplitude and a phase of a driving signal applied from the liquid crystal display device driving section to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 7649521
    Abstract: A plurality of scanning signal lines GLn divided into groups, and each group is made up of three scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB, and a plurality of pixels are divided into pixel blocks, and each pixel block is made up of three pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) respectively connected to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB. These pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) are connected to a common data signal line SLm. To the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG, GLnB, scanning pulses are sequentially outputted to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB from shift registers SRnR, SRnG and SRnB, and video signals for R, G and B are outputted to the data signal line SLm from a driver IC by time division.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakazu Satoh, Hajime Washio, Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 7545343
    Abstract: A display device is equipped with a panel having a common electrode layer to which a voltage changing at a fixed frequency is applied and a tabular member which is arranged at a fixed gap from said panel. A voltage which is changed in synchronization with the change of a voltage which is applied to the common electrode layer is applied, and an electrode layer which is arranged so as to be nearly parallel to the fore-mentioned tabular member and the fore-mentioned panel is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihisa Ogino, Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20090015562
    Abstract: A touch-panel-integrated liquid crystal display device (display system) includes a liquid crystal display device, and a touch panel input device, provided on a liquid crystal panel of the liquid crystal display device, which has upper and lower electrodes (conductive thin plates) for detecting a position via which information is inputted from the outside. The display system includes a liquid crystal display device driving section for driving the liquid crystal display device and a noise canceling signal generator (signal application section) for applying, to the touch panel input device, a noise canceling signal having an amplitude and a phase that are equal to an amplitude and a phase of a driving signal applied from the liquid crystal display device driving section to the liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20050200591
    Abstract: A plurality of scanning signal lines GLn divided into groups, and each group is made up of three scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB, and a plurality of pixels are divided into pixel blocks, and each pixel block is made up of three pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) respectively connected to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB. These pixels PR (n, m), PG (n, m) and PB (n, m) are connected to a common data signal line SLm. To the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG, GLnB, scanning pulses are sequentially outputted to the scanning signal lines GLnR, GLnG and GLnB from shift registers SRnR, SRnG and SRnB, and video signals for R, G and B are outputted to the data signal line SLm from a driver IC by time division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Inventors: Masakazu Satoh, Hajime Washio, Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20050184971
    Abstract: A display device is equipped with a panel having a common electrode layer to which a voltage changing at a fixed frequency is applied and a tabular member which is arranged at a fixed gap from said panel. A voltage which is changed in synchronization with the change of a voltage which is applied to the common electrode layer is applied, and an electrode layer which is arranged so as to be nearly parallel to the fore-mentioned tabular member and the fore-mentioned panel is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihisa Ogino, Sadahiko Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 6628348
    Abstract: A plasma address electrooptical device is provided, wherein the distance between a liquid crystal drive electrode 6a and an adjacent liquid crystal drive electrode 6b is set to be equal to or greater than the distance between the lower surface of said liquid crystal drive electrode 6a and the lower surface of a dielectric layer 3. Moreover, by providing additional electrodes between liquid crystal drive electrodes of the plasma address electrooptical device, the display leakage to adjacent pixels is reduced even further.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Sakai, Sadahiko Yasukawa, Kazuhiko Inoguchi
  • Patent number: 5805130
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device having a simple matrix liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of scanning electrodes disposed in parallel with each other and a plurality of data electrodes disposed in parallel with each other so as to cross the scanning electrodes, the scanning electrodes are divided into a predetermined number of sub-groups, and each sub-group is successively driven by utilizing an orthogonal function. For a selection, a signal having an electric potential of .+-.Vr, which is a selection pulse string according to the orthogonal function, is applied to the respective scanning electrodes as a scanning electrode driving signal. For a non-selection, a signal having an electric potential of 0 is applied to the respective scanning electrodes as the scanning electrode driving signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiko Yamamoto, Shinya Takahashi, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Sadahiko Yasukawa, Yasukuni Yamane, Yutaka Ishii