Patents by Inventor Shinobu Notomi

Shinobu Notomi 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: 9704450
    Abstract: For each display line cycle, inputs to a pair of differential input terminals of a driving circuit are alternately switched in a cycle shorter than the display line cycle between a gradation voltage and a reference voltage. According to this, a chopping operation of switching polarities of offset appearing at the output of the driving circuit within one display line is performed for a plurality of times, and accordingly, a pixel of each display line maintains brightness information in which the chopping operation is already performed. As a result, although a frame cycle is lengthened, it is difficult to visually recognize a brightness difference caused by the offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Takani, Toshikazu Tachibana, Shinobu Notomi, Takesada Akiba
  • Patent number: 9195352
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor panel which can increase the detection sensitivity of a touch relatively readily. The touch sensor panel controller supplies drive electrodes of a touch sensor panel with a high-voltage AC drive signal with its low level set to a negative voltage and drives them. The time of change of a drive waveform supplied to the drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel is shifted relative to the time of change of a drive waveform supplied to a display scan electrode. The touch sensor panel controller uses a charge pump in synchronization with clock signals of more than one phase to produce a high drive voltage to activate drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel, and the clock signals of more than one phase are initialized each time the drive electrode is subjected to AC pulse driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS DISPLAY DEVICES GK
    Inventors: Akihito Akai, Tatsuya Ishii, Kazuya Endo, Shinobu Notomi, Akihiro Kodama
  • Publication number: 20140267206
    Abstract: For each display line cycle, inputs to a pair of differential input terminals of a driving circuit are alternately switched in a cycle shorter than the display line cycle between a gradation voltage and a reference voltage. According to this, a chopping operation of switching polarities of offset appearing at the output of the driving circuit within one display line is performed for a plurality of times, and accordingly, a pixel of each display line maintains brightness information in which the chopping operation is already performed. As a result, although a frame cycle is lengthened, it is difficult to visually recognize a brightness difference caused by the offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Renesas SP Drivers Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Takani, Toshikazu Tachibana, Shinobu Notomi, Takesada Akiba
  • Patent number: 8477124
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has an LCD driver formed over a silicon substrate. The LCD driver is arranged in a source output circuit region and includes two or more source output cells for generating data signals and two or more output pads for receiving the data signals and sending them to the outside. The two or more pads are arranged over the silicon substrate along a row direction, and the two or more source output cells are arranged in two rows and N columns along the row direction. A source output cell arranged at an Nth column of a first row is electrically coupled to a (2N?1)th output pad. Also, a source output cell CS1 arranged at the Nth column of a second row is electrically coupled to a (2N)th output pad. The arrangement allows for a reduced chip size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Taku Ishida, Kazuhisa Higuchi, Shinobu Notomi
  • Publication number: 20120287081
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensor panel which can increase the detection sensitivity of a touch relatively readily. The touch sensor panel controller supplies drive electrodes of a touch sensor panel with a high-voltage AC drive signal with its low level set to a negative voltage and drives them. The time of change of a drive waveform supplied to the drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel is shifted relative to the time of change of a drive waveform supplied to a display scan electrode. The touch sensor panel controller uses a charge pump in synchronization with clock signals of more than one phase to produce a high drive voltage to activate drive electrodes of the touch sensor panel, and the clock signals of more than one phase are initialized each time the drive electrode is subjected to AC pulse driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Akihito AKAI, Tatsuya ISHII, Kazuya ENDO, Shinobu NOTOMI, Akihiro KODAMA
  • Publication number: 20110148827
    Abstract: A semiconductor device has an LCD driver formed over a silicon substrate. The LCD driver is arranged in a source output circuit region and includes two or more source output cells for generating data signals and two or more output pads for receiving the data signals and sending them to the outside. The two or more pads are arranged over the silicon substrate along a row direction, and the two or more source output cells are arranged in two rows and N columns along the row direction. A source output cell arranged at an Nth column of a first row is electrically coupled to a (2N?1)th output pad. Also, a source output cell CS1 arranged at the Nth column of a second row is electrically coupled to a (2N)th output pad. The arrangement allows for a reduced chip size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Taku ISHIDA, Kazuhisa Higuchi, Shinobu Notomi