Patents by Inventor Shuichi Tatemori

Shuichi Tatemori 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: 11231823
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20190155443
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: KENGO AOKI, SHUICHI TATEMORI, NOBUYUKI SHIGENO
  • Patent number: 10228796
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20180188886
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: KENGO AOKI, SHUICHI TATEMORI, NOBUYUKI SHIGENO
  • Patent number: 9933894
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20170285854
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kengo AOKI, Shuichi TATEMORI, Nobuyuki SHIGENO
  • Patent number: 9710102
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20160154523
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Patent number: 9256308
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Patent number: 8958033
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a rectangular display panel, a polarizing plate covering an entire surface of the display panel, and a frame supporting the display panel, wherein the polarizing plate includes a polarizing plate extended portion extended from at least one side surface of the polarizing plate outward beyond the display panel, and the frame includes a frame extended portion extended from the frame along an extending direction of the polarizing plate extended portion to support the polarizing plate extended portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kengou Aoki, Nobuhiro Honda, Kiyohito Fujita, Nobuyuki Shigeno, Shuichi Tatemori
  • Publication number: 20130321311
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus, including: a display unit including a display area, the display area being configured to display an image; and a touchscreen unit including a facing area and an outer area, the facing area facing the display area, the outer area being outside of the facing area. An area of the touchscreen unit is attached to the display unit, the area including the facing area and the outer area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Aoki, Shuichi Tatemori, Nobuyuki Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20130077017
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a rectangular display panel, a polarizing plate covering an entire surface of the display panel, and a frame supporting the display panel, wherein the polarizing plate includes a polarizing plate extended portion extended from at least one side surface of the polarizing plate outward beyond the display panel, and the frame includes a frame extended portion extended from the frame along an extending direction of the polarizing plate extended portion to support the polarizing plate extended portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengou Aoki, Nobuhiro Honda, Kiyohito Fujita, Nobuyuki Shigeno, Shuichi Tatemori
  • Patent number: 8115879
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a driving substrate on which transparent pixel electrodes are formed; a counter substrate on which a counter electrode is formed; and a liquid crystal material disposed between the driving and counter substrates. Liquid crystal material molecules are oriented orthogonally to the substrates. The driving substrate has pixel capacitors and pixel transistors formed thereon, with the pixel capacitors disposed under the pixel electrodes. The pixel transistors act to write signal voltages to the pixel electrodes and pixel capacitors. The pixel electrodes have slits formed over the pixel capacitors to orient the the liquid crystal material molecules orthogonally and in a split manner. Each of the pixel capacitors has an electrode for reflecting light and forms a reflective region. Liquid crystal material portions in the reflective regions have a thickness greater than half the thickness of liquid crystal material portions in other transmissive regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hidemasa Yamaguchi, Shuichi Tatemori, Masaaki Kabe, Yosuke Motoyama, Eiji Sakai
  • Patent number: 8094283
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display including a polarizing plate having a linear polarization axis slanted in relation to a scan line, a transparent pixel electrode, an active element which drives the transparent pixel electrode, and a wire for connecting the active element and the transparent pixel electrode. The wire has an end part so shaped as to be slanted in a direction parallel to or perpendicular to the linear polarization axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Ogura, Shuichi Tatemori
  • Patent number: 8023092
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including, a liquid crystal layer, a first substrate and a second substrate which face each other through the liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a plurality of columnar spacers holding a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the plurality of columnar spacers include a first columnar spacer and a second columnar spacer which are formed to be substantially equal in height, and a substrate surface of one of the first substrate and the second substrate is provided with a recess in at least one of a part where to dispose the first columnar spacer and a part where to dispose the second columnar spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Tatemori, Masaaki Kabe, Hidemasa Yamaguchi, Seiji Uejima
  • Patent number: 7973889
    Abstract: In a normally black mode liquid crystal display, the liquid crystal display and the method prevents the light leakage arising from existing the step for adjusting the thickness of the liquid crystal layer between the reflective electrode and the transparent electrode and that high contrast displaying can be possible. The interval adjustment layer is formed between the first substrate that the reflective electrode is formed in the reflective region and the transparent electrode is formed in the transmissive region, and the second substrate that is fixed at predetermined interval from the first substrate. This interval adjustment layer is adjuster of the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective region on the second substrate, and the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective region is preferable to be set approximately the thickness of the liquid crystal layer of the transmissive region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Noguchi, Masaaki Kabe, Hidemasa Yamaguchi, Kazuyuki Endo, Shuichi Tatemori, Eiji Sakai
  • Publication number: 20090284705
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display including a pair of substrates; a liquid crystal held between the substrates; and a polarizing plate disposed on the side of one of the substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Ogura, Shuichi Tatemori
  • Publication number: 20090219458
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal between a drive substrate and a counter substrate, and a plurality of main pixels disposed so as to compose a display area, wherein either a liquid crystal alignment controlling factor or a spacer for substrate distance setting is provided in each of at least two sub-pixels of a plurality of sub-pixels composing the main pixel; and light shielding members provided in the at least two sub-pixels so as to correspond to either the liquid crystal alignment controlling factors or the spacers, respectively, are different in area in planar view from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Endo, Hironao Tanaka, Eiji Sakai, Shingo Kataoka, Seiji Uejima, Ryo Yamaoka, Shuichi Tatemori, Takeo Koito
  • Publication number: 20090147208
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device including, a liquid crystal layer, a first substrate and a second substrate which face each other through the liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a plurality of columnar spacers holding a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the plurality of columnar spacers include a first columnar spacer and a second columnar spacer which are formed to be substantially equal in height, and a substrate surface of one of the first substrate and the second substrate is provided with a recess in at least one of a part where to dispose the first columnar spacer and a part where to dispose the second columnar spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi TATEMORI, Masaaki Kabe, Hidemasa Yamaguchi, Seiji Uejima
  • Patent number: 7532276
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal display device can obtain a high luminance and a high contrast to realize a superior color repeatability and improve an image quality in a color display. In a second substrate 80, a region facing a region where a light reflection portion is formed includes a first region where a color filter layer is formed at a predetermined layer thickness and a second region where the color filer layer is not formed, and, in a first substrate, a layer thickness difference adjustment layer for adjusting a difference of a layer thickness of the liquid crystal layer generated by a height of step between the first region and the second region due to the color filter layer is formed in the region where the light reflection portion is formed so as to face the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Sakai, Shuichi Tatemori, Masaaki Kabe, Hidemasa Yamaguchi