Patents by Inventor Shinichi Komura
Shinichi Komura 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).
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Patent number: 10551550Abstract: In one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide, a light source and prisms. The light guide has a side surface and first and second main surfaces. The light source emits light to the side surface in a first emission direction. The prisms are provided on the second main surface. The second main surface has first and second areas. The prisms include first prisms in the first area and second prisms in the second area. A first virtual line connecting apexes of the first prisms is inclined with respect to the first main surface. A distance between the second area and the first main surface is greater than a distance between the first area and the first main surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshihiko Fukuma, Shinichi Komura, Youichi Asakawa, Ken Onoda
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Patent number: 10551664Abstract: In a color display device, when using white (W) sub-pixels in addition to subpixels of red (R) and green (G) plus blue (B) without increasing a wiring line number, the per-color pixel number in a unit area decreases so that the image resolution is deteriorated. The area and number of subpixels are adjusted in accordance with the visual sensitivity or luminosity required. Practically, the area of red (R) and blue (B) subpixels which are relatively low in luminosity is set to be about two times greater than the area of green (G) and white (W) subpixels that are relatively high in luminosity while letting the number of green (G) and white (W) subpixels be twice the number of red (R) and blue (B) subpixels. A larger subpixel is configured from a plurality of unit subpixels. A smaller subpixel is formed of a one unit subpixel.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoichi Hirota, Shinichi Komura, Yoshifumi Sekiguchi, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Masaya Adachi
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Patent number: 10459303Abstract: A thin display device with a less bezel portion is provided. The display device includes: a first substrate with flexibility, the first substrate having a display section including a first pixel; a second substrate with flexibility; and a sealant which bonds the first substrate and the second substrate together. A curved part is provided inside the sealant in a planar view. When a surface of the first substrate opposing the second substrate is taken as a front surface and a surface opposite to the front surface is taken as a back surface, the back surface inside the curved part and the back surface outside the curved part are overlapped each other in a planar view. The display section is provided in the curved part.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shinichiro Oka, Shinichi Komura, Yosuke Hyodo, Lu Jin
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Patent number: 10437104Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first member, a second member, a first light source. The first member includes a first prism array including first prisms aligned in a first direction. The second member includes a second prism array including second prisms aligned in a second direction. The second member disposed more closely to a first A side than to the first member. The first light source disposed more closely to a second A side than to the second member to apply a parallel light beam to a second B side. The parallel light beam from the first light source is made incident on the second prism array and incident on the first prism array without passing through a light guide.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ken Onoda, Shinichi Komura, Youichi Asakawa, Toshihiko Fukuma
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Patent number: 10429664Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor laser element. A drive current which is composed of a direct current and an alternating current superposed thereon is applied to the semiconductor laser element. A waveform of the alternating current is a non-square wave. A frequency of the alternating current is from 50 Hz to 500 kHz.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Youichi Asakawa, Ken Onoda, Toshihiko Fukuma, Shinichi Komura
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Patent number: 10324335Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and an optical element layer provided between the substrates, a light directing unit facing the first substrate of the display panel, and including a first main surface disposed on a side facing the first substrate, and a second main surface disposed on a side reverse to the first main surface, and a light source unit disposed on the first substrate side with respect to the display panel, and emitting polarized light toward the first or second main surface. The polarized light is made incident on the first or second main surface, and directed perpendicularly to the optical element layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Youichi Asakawa, Toshihiko Fukuma, Ken Onoda, Shinichi Komura
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Patent number: 10288947Abstract: The present invention provides an autostereoscopic display device including: a display device; and a liquid crystal lens cell arranged on the display device, the liquid crystal lens cell including: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode arranged on the first substrate on the side of the liquid crystal layer; and a second electrode arranged on the second substrate on the side of the liquid crystal layer, in which the liquid crystal lens cell has a water-absorption layer arranged on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate on the side of the liquid crystal layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shinichiro Oka, Tatsuya Sugita, Shinichi Komura
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Patent number: 10209426Abstract: According to one embodiment, a backlight unit includes a light source, a first lens, a second lens, and a light guide unit. The light source emits light which is diffused as the light travels in a first-A direction, the light being diffused in a second direction intersecting the first-A direction, and a third direction intersecting the first-A direction and the second direction. The first lens and the second lens are arranged in an optical path of the light. The first and second lenses control the light such that the first lens controls a beam width of the light in the second direction, and the second lens controls a beam width of the light in the third direction, thereby converting the light into parallel light.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshihiko Fukuma, Shinichi Komura, Youichi Asakawa, Ken Onoda
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Publication number: 20180329224Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor laser element. A drive current which is composed of a direct current and an alternating current superposed thereon is applied to the semiconductor laser element. A waveform of the alternating current is a non-square wave. A frequency of the alternating current is from 50 Hz to 500 kHz.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Youichi ASAKAWA, Ken ONODA, Toshihiko FUKUMA, Shinichi KOMURA
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Publication number: 20180299726Abstract: In an embodiment, a display device comprises first and second panels, an illumination device, and first to third polarizing members. The first panel includes first and second substrates and a first liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The second panel includes third and fourth substrates and a second liquid crystal layer between the third and fourth substrates. The illumination device irradiates the first substrate with light. The first polarizing member is provided between the illumination device and the first substrate. The second polarizing member is provided between the first and second liquid crystal layers. The third polarizing member faces the fourth substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shinichiro OKA, Shinichi KOMURA
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Patent number: 10073207Abstract: In one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer, a polarizing element, a light source, and a bending member. The first substrate includes first and second surfaces and a side surface. The second substrate includes third and fourth surfaces. The polarizing element is provided on the fourth surface side of the second substrate. The light source irradiates the side surface with polarized parallel light. The bending member bends a path of the light entering the first substrate from the light source such that the light goes to the second substrate. No polarizing element is provided between the first substrate and the light source, and the bending member is provided on the second surface side of the first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Youichi Asakawa, Toshihiko Fukuma, Ken Onoda, Shinichi Komura
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Patent number: 9964688Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a light source unit, a light guide unit, a lens, and a light emitting layer. The light source unit emits light to the light guide unit. The lens concentrates the light emitted from the light source unit. The light guide unit guides the light concentrated by the lens toward the light emitting layer. The light guided by the light guide unit is transmitted to the light emission layer without any intervening prism layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shinichi Komura, Toshihiko Fukuma, Youichi Asakawa, Ken Onoda
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Publication number: 20180107029Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a first member, a second member, a first light source. The first member includes a first prism array including first prisms aligned in a first direction. The second member includes a second prism array including second prisms aligned in a second direction. The second member disposed more closely to a first A side than to the first member. The first light source disposed more closely to a second A side than to the second member to apply a parallel light beam to a second B side. The parallel light beam from the first light source is made incident on the second prism array and incident on the first prism array without passing through a light guide.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ken ONODA, Shinichi KOMURA, Youichi ASAKAWA, Toshihiko FUKUMA
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Publication number: 20180088380Abstract: A thin display device with a less bezel portion is provided. The display device includes: a first substrate with flexibility, the first substrate having a display section including a first pixel; a second substrate with flexibility; and a sealant which bonds the first substrate and the second substrate together. A curved part is provided inside the sealant in a planar view. When a surface of the first substrate opposing the second substrate is taken as a front surface and a surface opposite to the front surface is taken as a back surface, the back surface inside the curved part and the back surface outside the curved part are overlapped each other in a planar view. The display section is provided in the curved part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Shinichiro OKA, Shinichi KOMURA, Yosuke HYODO, Lu JIN
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Publication number: 20180074247Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide, a plurality of light sources, and a plurality of light diffusion structures. The light guide extends in a first direction and a second direction and having a thickness in a third direction. The plurality of light sources includes a first laser element and a second laser element. The plurality of light diffusion structures provides to correspond to the respective light sources, and located on an incidence surface of the light guide or between the incidence surface and the light sources. The light sources are arranged in the second direction. The first laser element and the second laser element are arranged in the first direction or the third direction, in each of the light sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Youichi ASAKAWA, Toshihiko FUKUMA, Ken ONODA, Shinichi KOMURA
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Publication number: 20180074252Abstract: In one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light guide, a light source and prisms. The light guide has a side surface and first and second main surfaces. The light source emits light to the side surface in a first emission direction. The prisms are provided on the second main surface. The second main surface has first and second areas. The prisms include first prisms in the first area and second prisms in the second area. A first virtual line connecting apexes of the first prisms is inclined with respect to the first main surface. A distance between the second area and the first main surface is greater than a distance between the first area and the first main surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshihiko FUKUMA, Shinichi Komura, Youichi Asakawa, Ken Onoda
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Patent number: 9910205Abstract: In one embodiment, a light-emitting device includes a light source unit which emits polarized light in a first direction, a bending portion which is irradiated with the polarized light in the first direction and bends the light in a second direction, and a lightguide member which is irradiated with the polarized light caused to bend in the bending portion. The lightguide member comprises an exit surface, bends the polarized light in a third direction, and emits the light through the exit surface. The light source unit includes a first source which emits first light, and a second source which emits second light. The bending portion includes a first incident portion which the first light enters, and a second incident portion which the second light enters.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ken Onoda, Shinichi Komura, Youichi Asakawa, Toshihiko Fukuma
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Publication number: 20170357041Abstract: In one embodiment, an illumination device comprises a light source, a light guide having an incidence surface, and a light refraction structure on the surface. The light guide has an irradiation direction, a thickness direction, and a width direction. The light guide has a first surface in the thickness direction and a second surface in the width direction. A first length in the width direction is greater than a second length in the thickness direction, in the structure. The light from the light source having passed through the structure is reflected on the first surface in the thickness direction and passes through the second surface in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ken ONODA, Shinichi KOMURA, Youichi ASAKAWA, Toshihiko FUKUMA
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Patent number: 9842555Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral electric-field type of liquid crystal display device includes a display panel and a controller, wherein a frame frequency falls within a range of 1 Hz to 10 Hz, an off-leak current of each of the TFTs has a value of 1×10?15 A or less, a resistivity of a liquid crystal and a resistivity of an alignment film both fall within one of a first range and a second range, the first range being 1×1013 to 5×1013 ?·cm, the second range being 5×1013 to 5×1014 ?·cm, and a relationship of “R1× C1?R2×C2” is satisfied, where R1 is a resistance and C1 is a capacity with respect to each pixel, R2 is a resistance and C2 is a capacity with respect to each pixel.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daiichi Suzuki, Yukio Tanaka, Kenji Nakao, Kazuhiro Nishiyama, Shinichi Komura, Shinichiro Oka, Mika Oiwa
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Publication number: 20170269278Abstract: According to one embodiment, a backlight unit includes a light source, a first lens, a second lens, and a light guide unit. The light source emits light which is diffused as the light travels in a first-A direction, the light being diffused in a second direction intersecting the first-A direction, and a third direction intersecting the first-A direction and the second direction. The first lens and the second lens are arranged in an optical path of the light. The first and second lenses control the light such that the first lens controls a beam width of the light in the second direction, and the second lens controls a beam width of the light in the third direction, thereby converting the light into parallel light.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2017Publication date: September 21, 2017Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshihiko FUKUMA, Shinichi Komura, Youichi Asakawa, Ken Onoda