Patents by Inventor Takayuki Noto

Takayuki Noto 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: 10928944
    Abstract: A processing system comprises a first source amplifier and an analog front end. The first source amplifier comprises a first input electrically connectable to a first sensor electrode of a display panel and configured to generate a first drive signal based on a first grayscale voltage corresponding to a first pixel data and generate a first comparison output signal based on a first sensing signal from the first sensor electrode and a reference voltage. The analog front end is configured to generate a first digital detection data used for proximity sensing based on the first comparison output signal outputted from the first source amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Shinobu Nohtomi, Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 10921939
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises first mixer circuitry and processing circuitry. The first mixer circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of first mixer outputs through quadrature decomposition of a sensing signal. The first sensing signal corresponds to a capacitance of a first sensing electrode supplied with a drive signal. The quadrature decomposition is based on an in-phase local carrier which is in phase with the drive signal and an out-of-phase local carrier having a phase different from that of the in-phase local carrier. The plurality of first mixer outputs comprises an in-phase mixer output generated based on the in-phase local carrier and the sensing signal, and an out-of-phase mixer output generated based on the out-of-phase local carrier and the sensing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Tetsuo Tanemura
  • Publication number: 20210026490
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N?1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Xueyong YANG, Tetsuo TANEMURA, Nobukazu TANAKA, Takayuki NOTO
  • Patent number: 10852887
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing electromagnetic interference of a display device. The display device may have a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes. Further, the display device includes a processing system that is configured to drive a first gate electrode of a plurality of gate electrodes of the display device with a first gate select signal to select first subpixels for updating during a first period. The processing system further comprises driving a first common electrode proximate the first gate electrode with a reference signal during the first period. Further, the processing system is configured to drive a second common electrode with a first interference reduction signal during the first period to reduce the electromagnetic interference of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Tetsuo Tanemura, Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 10795503
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N?1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Xueyong Yang, Tetsuo Tanemura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto
  • Publication number: 20200201474
    Abstract: A system and method for reducing electromagnetic interference of a display device. The display device may have a plurality of gate electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes. Further, the display device includes a processing system that is configured to drive a first gate electrode of a plurality of gate electrodes of the display device with a first gate select signal to select first subpixels for updating during a first period. The processing system further comprises driving a first common electrode proximate the first gate electrode with a reference signal during the first period. Further, the processing system is configured to drive a second common electrode with a first interference reduction signal during the first period to reduce the electromagnetic interference of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Petr SHEPELEV, Tetsuo TANEMURA, Takayuki NOTO
  • Publication number: 20200167040
    Abstract: A sensing device comprises sensor electrodes arranged in an array of rows and columns, and vias. A first vias is arranged in a first direction, and corresponds to a first column of sensor electrodes adjacent to a first side edge of the sensing device. A second via is arranged in a second direction different than the first direction, and corresponds to a second column of the sensor electrodes adjacent to a second side edge of the sensing device. Each of the sensor electrodes is configured to be coupled to a routing trace through one of the vias. In a first row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, a two vias are different distances from the first side edge and in a second row of the plurality of sensor electrodes, two vias are different distances from the second side edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Petr SHEPELEV, Tetsuo TANEMURA, HaThanh NGUYEN, Takayuki NOTO, Hiroshi TAKEYAMA, Takeshi HASHIMOTO, Tsuyoshi KUROIWA, Arnulf GRAF
  • Patent number: 10642405
    Abstract: The drive control device includes a display control part and a touch control part. The display control part includes a control circuit operable to control first and second frame modes, and a clock pulse generator operable to produce a display line clock signal in synchronization with a display line switching cycle. The control circuit changes display and non-display drive terms in start timing on an individual display frame period basis in the first frame mode. In the second frame mode, each display frame period includes only one display drive term; the display drive term is not interrupted by a non-display drive term halfway. The second frame mode is arranged so that the cycle of the display line clock signal in synchronization with the display line switching cycle is made longer than that in the first frame mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kuroiwa, Takayuki Noto, Mitsunori Takanashi
  • Publication number: 20200050320
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N?1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Xueyong YANG, Tetsuo TANEMURA, Nobukazu TANAKA, Takayuki NOTO
  • Publication number: 20200042119
    Abstract: A semiconductor device comprises first mixer circuitry and processing circuitry. The first mixer circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of first mixer outputs through quadrature decomposition of a sensing signal. The first sensing signal corresponds to a capacitance of a first sensing electrode supplied with a drive signal. The quadrature decomposition is based on an in-phase local carrier which is in phase with the drive signal and an out-of-phase local carrier having a phase different from that of the in-phase local carrier. The plurality of first mixer outputs comprises an in-phase mixer output generated based on the in-phase local carrier and the sensing signal, and an out-of-phase mixer output generated based on the out-of-phase local carrier and the sensing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Nobukazu TANAKA, Takayuki NOTO, Tetsuo TANEMURA
  • Patent number: 10540043
    Abstract: An input device and associated processing system and method are disclosed. The input device comprises a lens layer, and a display device comprising a plurality of layers. The plurality of layers comprises a display activation layer. The input device further comprises a plurality of first sensor electrodes arranged with a first sensor pitch on a first layer of the plurality of layers, each first sensor electrode comprising at least one display electrode of a plurality of display electrodes. The input device further comprises a plurality of second sensor electrodes arranged with a second sensor pitch on a second layer between the display activation layer and the lens layer, the second sensor pitch greater than the first sensor pitch along at least one dimension of a sensing region of the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 10509595
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a first data terminal, a data output terminal, a control circuitry, first and second communication interfaces, and a bridge circuitry. The bridge circuitry is configured to operate a normal mode and a bridge mode. In the normal mode, the data output terminal is connected to the second communication interface circuitry, and in the bridge mode, the first data terminal is connected to the data output terminal in a bridge mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Masaaki Shiomura
  • Patent number: 10509508
    Abstract: Provided is a touch sensing circuit configured to sense an approach of a conductive object toward a sensor capacitor through measuring a sensor response signal generated by the sensor capacitor in response to a sensing wave signal applied to the sensor capacitor. The touch sensing circuit is connectable to a conversion circuit and a touch detection circuit. The conversion circuit calculates a response signal vector for a frequency component of the sensing wave signal by converting the response signal into a frequency domain representation. The touch sensing circuit includes a baseline vector manager circuit holding a baseline vector and a vector subtraction circuit, and calculates a delta vector which is the vector difference between the baseline vector and the response signal vector received from the conversion circuit. The touch detection circuit detects an approach of a conductive object towards the sensor capacitor on the basis of the calculated delta vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Tetsuo Tanemura
  • Patent number: 10503336
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an analog front end and processing circuitry. The analog front end is configured to obtain capacitance detection data depending on capacitances of a plurality of sense electrodes of a liquid crystal display panel. The processing circuitry is configured to generate touch sensing data associated with a current touch sensing frame, based on capacitance detection data associated with the current touch sensing frame and capacitance detection data associated with a former touch sensing frame selected in response to a state in which the liquid crystal display panel is placed in the current touch sensing frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Yoshitaka Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10466848
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include a method for detecting a presence of an input in a capacitive sensing device that includes a sensing region and a plurality of sensor electrodes. The method includes driving a first column of transmitter sensor electrodes at a first potential and driving a second column of transmitter sensor electrodes at a second potential different than the first potential. The method includes acquiring a measurement from each row of sensor electrodes, where a first sensing node includes the first column of transmitter sensor electrodes and a third column of receiver sensor electrodes, and a second sensing node includes the second column of transmitter sensor electrodes and a fourth column of receiver sensor electrodes. The method also includes determining, using the measurements from each row of sensor electrodes, a first set of transcapacitive measurements corresponding to the plurality of sensor electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Tetsuo Tanemura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto
  • Publication number: 20190278423
    Abstract: A display control and touch detection device is capable of controlling display and non-display terms in start timing depending on a result of touch detection, and includes a nonvolatile memory and a control logic which selectively uses data stored in the memory according to a display mode. The control logic changes the display and non-display terms in start timing in display frame periods, whereby the phenomenon of appearance of an undesired brightness difference at a fixed location in a display frame with no display, and the phenomenon of occurrence of flicker owing to the undesired brightness difference can be suppressed. Based on the result of touch detection, the control logic changes the way to use data which decide start timings of display and no display. The start timings of display and non-display terms in a display frame period can be changed depending on the result of touch detection readily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventor: Takayuki NOTO
  • Patent number: 10372248
    Abstract: The semiconductor device is intended for connection with an in-cell type display touch panel having a plurality of common electrodes, a reference voltage for display is applied to the common electrodes in a display drive period, and the common electrodes serve as sensor electrodes in a touch detection period. The semiconductor device includes a DC level shift circuit operable to shift the DC level of a toggle signal output by a toggle drive circuit to the reference voltage. The semiconductor device supplies the reference voltage to the common electrodes of the display touch panel in the display drive period, and performs a guarding action in which at least a part of the plurality of common electrodes is supplied with a toggle signal shifted in DC level in the touch detection period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kazuya Endo, Shinobu Nohtomi, Nobukazu Tanaka, Tomohiro Hirakawa, Hiroshi Takeyama, Takayuki Noto, Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 10352731
    Abstract: A touch sensing circuit operable to sense a conductor approaching a sensor capacitance by measuring a response signal obtained from the sensor capacitance according to an applied detection signal includes an A/D converter and a Fourier transform device. The A/D converter samples the response signal with a predetermined cycle, followed by conversion to a digital value and outputs as time-series response data. The Fourier transform device calculates, from the time-series response data, a result of transformation at a detection frequency representing the reciprocal of a cycle of the detection signal and outputs it. The touch sensing circuit converts the response signal to the frequency domain, calculates only components (harmonics or others as needed) of a frequency equal to that of the detection signal required for touch sensing, and supplies them for a touch coordinate calculation process in a subsequent stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto, Tetsuo Tanemura
  • Patent number: 10318052
    Abstract: A display control and touch detection device is capable of controlling display and non-display terms in start timing depending on a result of touch detection, and includes a nonvolatile memory and a control logic which selectively uses data stored in the memory according to a display mode. The control logic changes the display and non-display terms in start timing in display frame periods, whereby the phenomenon of appearance of an undesired brightness difference at a fixed location in a display frame with no display, and the phenomenon of occurrence of flicker owing to the undesired brightness difference can be suppressed. Based on the result of touch detection, the control logic changes the way to use data which decide start timings of display and no display. The start timings of display and non-display terms in a display frame period can be changed depending on the result of touch detection readily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Japan GK
    Inventor: Takayuki Noto
  • Patent number: 10318084
    Abstract: An input device may include a matrix electrode array that includes various transmitter electrodes and various receiver electrodes. The transmitter electrodes may be disposed in a first direction. The receiver electrodes may be disposed in a second direction that is substantially parallel with the first direction. The input device may further include a first set of routing traces coupled to the transmitter electrodes and disposed underneath the transmitter electrodes in the first direction. The input device may further include a second set of routing traces coupled to the receiver electrodes and disposed underneath the receiver electrodes in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Petr Shepelev, Tetsuo Tanemura, Nobukazu Tanaka, Takayuki Noto