Patents by Inventor Tae Nakahara

Tae Nakahara 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: 9454939
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to allow a user positioned in a first direction to visually recognize a first image and to allow a user positioned in a second direction different from the first direction to visually recognize a second image. The display apparatus includes a display unit that alternately displays the first and second images; an irradiation unit that provides irradiation light; a color filter that respectively includes first and second areas for the first and second images, through which the irradiation light is transmitted; and a distribution unit that distributes the irradiation light transmitted through the first area of the color filter to the first direction and through the second area of the color filter to the second direction. The color filter includes color components of three primary colors and a white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9311886
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel on which pixels each including sub-pixels for displaying a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color are arranged, and a signal processing unit that converts an input value of an input signal for an input HSV color space into an output signal for an extended HSV color space. The signal processing unit divides the extended HSV color space into a plurality of spaces, sets limit proportion values different from each other with respect to at least two spaces of the divided spaces respectively, calculates an extension coefficient ? with respect to the input signal by using the input signal and a limit proportion value set with respect to a space according to the input signal, and calculates the output signal based on at least the input signal and the extension coefficient ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Fumitaka Goto, Tae Nakahara, Masashi Mitsui, Amane Higashi, Hiroki Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Hirokazu Tatsuno, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Publication number: 20150379946
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to allow a user positioned in a first direction to visually recognize a first image and to allow a user positioned in a second direction different from the first direction to visually recognize a second image. The display apparatus includes a display unit that alternately displays the first and second images; an irradiation unit that provides irradiation light; a color filter that respectively includes first and second areas for the first and second images, through which the irradiation light is transmitted; and a distribution unit that distributes the irradiation light transmitted through the first area of the color filter to the first direction and through the second area of the color filter to the second direction. The color filter includes color components of three primary colors and a white color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9153183
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to allow a user positioned in a first direction to visually recognize a first image and to allow a user positioned in a second direction different from the first direction to visually recognize a second image. The display apparatus includes a display unit that alternately displays the first and second images; an irradiation unit that provides irradiation light; a color filter that respectively includes first and second areas for the first and second images, through which the irradiation light is transmitted; and a distribution unit that distributes the irradiation light transmitted through the first area of the color filter to the first direction and through the second area of the color filter to the second direction. The color filter includes color components of three primary colors and a white color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8953134
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided and includes a pair of substrates facing each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. One of the substrates having, thereon, an upper electrode having a plurality of slits formed therein, a lower electrode facing the upper electrode with an insulating film therebetween and disposed so as to be adjacent to the substrate, and an alignment film formed so as to cover surfaces of the upper electrode and the insulating film. Each of the slits includes a linear portion disposed so as to be parallel to a liquid crystal alignment direction when no voltage is applied and two extension portions extending from both ends of the linear portion so that a distance between the two extension portions increases in a direction perpendicular to the linear portion while keeping a symmetrical shape with respect to the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nomura, Kimitaka Kamijo, Tae Nakahara
  • Publication number: 20140125689
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel on which pixels each including sub-pixels for displaying a first color, a second color, a third color, and a fourth color are arranged, and a signal processing unit that converts an input value of an input signal for an input HSV color space into an output signal for an extended HSV color space. The signal processing unit divides the extended HSV color space into a plurality of spaces, sets limit proportion values different from each other with respect to at least two spaces of the divided spaces respectively, calculates an extension coefficient ? with respect to the input signal by using the input signal and a limit proportion value set with respect to a space according to the input signal, and calculates the output signal based on at least the input signal and the extension coefficient ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kojiro Ikeda, Fumitaka Goto, Tae Nakahara, Masashi Mitsui, Amane Higashi, Hiroki Uchiyama, Toshiyuki Nagatsuma, Hirokazu Tatsuno, Masaaki Kabe, Akira Sakaigawa
  • Publication number: 20140104147
    Abstract: A display apparatus is configured to allow a user positioned in a first direction to visually recognize a first image and to allow a user positioned in a second direction different from the first direction to visually recognize a second image. The display apparatus includes a display unit that alternately displays the first and second images; an irradiation unit that provides irradiation light; a color filter that respectively includes first and second areas for the first and second images, through which the irradiation light is transmitted; and a distribution unit that distributes the irradiation light transmitted through the first area of the color filter to the first direction and through the second area of the color filter to the second direction. The color filter includes color components of three primary colors and a white color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Chihiro Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20120188496
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is provided and includes a pair of substrates facing each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. One of the substrates having, thereon, an upper electrode having a plurality of slits formed therein, a lower electrode facing the upper electrode with an insulating film therebetween and disposed so as to be adjacent to the substrate, and an alignment film formed so as to cover surfaces of the upper electrode and the insulating film. Each of the slits includes a linear portion disposed so as to be parallel to a liquid crystal alignment direction when no voltage is applied and two extension portions extending from both ends of the linear portion so that a distance between the two extension portions increases in a direction perpendicular to the linear portion while keeping a symmetrical shape with respect to the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Nomura, Kimitaka Kamijo, Tae Nakahara
  • Patent number: 8064013
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 10 of the present invention includes an array substrate 11 with a display region in which a pixel electrode is formed in each of the regions enclosed by a plurality of signal lines and scan lines deployed as matrices, a opposed substrate 12 with a common electrode 31, a sealing agent 35 sealing a peripheral portion of the array substrate 11 and the opposed substrate 12, a liquid crystal layer sealed between both substrates, a border region 34 including a reflector 37 and a transparent electrode 38 is formed on an interlayer 23 at a periphery of the display region of the array substrate 11, and at least a part of an outer peripheral side is lacking from the common electrode 31 at a position corresponding to the border region 34. Thanks to such structure, the border region improves the appearance at the periphery of the display region, and the phenomenon of night vision alongside the scan line wiring does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Shinichiro Tanaka, Hideki Kaneko, Hironori Taniguchi, Masashi Ariga
  • Patent number: 7557878
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 10 of the invention has: an array substrate with a display region 14 in which a pixel electrode is formed in each of the regions enclosed by a plurality of signal lines and scan lines deployed as matrices; a opposed substrate with a common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer that is sealed between the array substrate and the opposed substrate by means of sealing agent 35 that seals together the peripheries of the two substrates. Features are: the periphery of the array substrate's display region 14 is covered by a border region 34 that has a reflector 37a and a continuous transparent electrode 38a, the outer periphery of the border region 34 is sealed by the sealing agent 35, and the border region 34's transparent electrode 38a is electrically coupled to the common electrode. Thanks to such structure, the border region improves the appearance at the periphery of the display region, and the phenomenon of night vision alongside the scan line wiring does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Taniguchi, Shinichiro Tanaka, Hideki Kaneko, Tae Nakahara, Masashi Ariga
  • Publication number: 20080123032
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 10 of the invention has: an array substrate with a display region 14 in which a pixel electrode is formed in each of the regions enclosed by a plurality of signal lines and scan lines deployed as matrices; a opposed substrate with a common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer that is sealed between the array substrate and the opposed substrate by means of sealing agent 35 that seals together the peripheries of the two substrates. Features are: the periphery of the array substrate's display region 14 is covered by a border region 34 that has a reflector 37a and a continuous transparent electrode 38a, the outer periphery of the border region 34 is sealed by the sealing agent 35, and the border region 34's transparent electrode 38a is electrically coupled to the common electrode. Thanks to such structure, the border region improves the appearance at the periphery of the display region, and the phenomenon of night vision alongside the scan line wiring does not occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Taniguchi, Shinichiro Tanaka, Hideki Kaneko, Tae Nakahara, Masashi Ariga
  • Publication number: 20070291203
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 10 of the present invention includes an array substrate 11 with a display region in which a pixel electrode is formed in each of the regions enclosed by a plurality of signal lines and scan lines deployed as matrices, a opposed substrate 12 with a common electrode 31, a sealing agent 35 sealing a peripheral portion of the array substrate 11 and the opposed substrate 12, a liquid crystal layer sealed between both substrates, a border region 34 including a reflector 37 and a transparent electrode 38 is formed on an interlayer 23 at a periphery of the display region of the array substrate 11, and at least a part of an outer peripheral side is lacking from the common electrode 31 at a position corresponding to the border region 34. Thanks to such structure, the border region improves the appearance at the periphery of the display region, and the phenomenon of night vision alongside the scan line wiring does not occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tae Nakahara, Shinichiro Tanaka, Hideki Kaneko, Hironori Taniguchi, Masashi Ariga
  • Publication number: 20060066790
    Abstract: A semitransmissive liquid crystal display panel 10 has a first substrate 11 having, formed in each of the areas demarcated by signal lines and scan lines laid in a grid-like shape thereon, a reflective portion and a transmissive portion formed by a pixel electrode 15 having a slit 17, a second substrate 19 having formed thereon a color filter 21, a common electrode 22, and ridges 23 and 41, alignment films 24 laid over the first and second substrates 11 and 19 and processed for vertical alignment, and a liquid crystal layer 25 laid between the first and second substrates 11 and 19 and showing a negative dielectric constant anisotropy. When no electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer 25, the liquid crystal molecules are vertically aligned, and, when an electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layer 25, the liquid crystal molecules are horizontally aligned and inclined in the directions restricted by the slit 17 and the ridges 23 and 41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Inventors: Shinichiro Tanaka, Tae Nakahara