Patents by Inventor Taketoshi Nakano
Taketoshi Nakano 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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Publication number: 20220277702Abstract: An image display method includes generating luminance data, correcting the luminance data, generating gradation setting data, and controlling a backlight to operate based on the luminance setting data and a liquid crystal panel to operate based on the gradation setting data. The luminance data indicates a luminance value for each light-emitting region of the backlight and is generated based on a maximum gradation value among gradation values of image pixels of an input image that correspond to the light-emitting region. The luminance data is corrected such that, with respect to each light-emitting region, the luminance value is within a predetermined range below a maximum value among the luminance values of neighboring light-emitting regions, and luminance setting data is generated therefrom. The gradation setting data sets a gradation value of each pixel of the liquid crystal panel, and generated based on the input image and the luminance setting data.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Masahiko MONOMOSHI, Taketoshi NAKANO
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Publication number: 20210351264Abstract: A high-level power source line of a display device has a resistance value per unit length that is greater from a second end portion side toward a first end portion side in at least a portion of a section ranging from the first end portion connected to a first power source bus line to the second end portion in a side opposite to the first end portion. Accordingly, variation in luminance of each pixel is suppressed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: AKIRA NOMURA, TAKETOSHI NAKANO
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Patent number: 11152580Abstract: Provided is a flexible display device in which an average thickness of a layered body, a touch panel, and a polarizing plate in a bending region is thinner than an average thickness of the layered body, the touch panel, and the polarizing plate in a region other than the bending region.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Ryoh Araki, Taketoshi Nakano
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Publication number: 20210111357Abstract: Provided is a flexible display device in which an average thickness of a layered body, a touch panel, and a polarizing plate in a bending region is thinner than an average thickness of the layered body, the touch panel, and the polarizing plate in a region other than the bending region.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Tsuyoshi KAWAGUCHI, Ryoh ARAKI, Taketoshi NAKANO
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Patent number: 10914981Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes a first light emitting module and a plurality of second light emitting modules. The first light emitting module includes a first side along a first direction, and a second side along the first direction. The direction from the first side to the second side is along a second direction that intersects with the first direction. The plurality of second light emitting modules are lined up along the second direction. The direction from a first emission region which includes the plurality of second light emitting modules to the first light emitting module is along the first direction. The first emission region includes a third side along the first direction and a fourth side along the first direction. The direction from the third side to the first side is along the first direction. The direction from the fourth side to the second side is along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Yoshinaga, Kana Mori, Taketoshi Nakano, Hajime Washio
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Patent number: 10672337Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to achieve a stable display quality without an effect of variation in temperature in a display device including a display element driven by an electric current. The display device is provided with a thermistor as a temperature detector detecting an ambient temperature. A scanning signal amplitude controller changes the voltage level of a gate low voltage in accordance with temperature indicated by temperature data acquired by the thermistor. An in-panel driver controller gives, to a gate driver, a gate clock signal of which the voltage level on a high level side is set at the voltage level of a gate high voltage and the voltage level on a low level side is set at the voltage level of the gate low voltage. The gate driver outputs a scanning signal on the basis of the gate clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Tanaka, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato
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Patent number: 10621893Abstract: A display device with a first edge and a second edge, the first edge and the second edge extending in a same direction, the display device including a light-emitting layer, and an electronic circuit board, wherein the display device emits light toward a front side with the display device is bent as a first terminal portion disposed on a surface of an end portion on the first edge and a second terminal portion disposed on a back face of an end portion on the second edge facing one another, and the electronic circuit board includes a first surface mounted to the first terminal portion and a second surface opposite the first surface and mounted to the second terminal portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryoh Araki, Taketoshi Nakano, Tsuyoshi Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20200103703Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the light emitting device includes a first light emitting module and a plurality of second light emitting modules. The first light emitting module includes a first side along a first direction, and a second side along the first direction. The direction from the first side to the second side is along a second direction that intersects with the first direction. The plurality of second light emitting modules are lined up along the second direction. The direction from a first emission region which includes the plurality of second light emitting modules to the first light emitting module is along the first direction. The first emission region includes a third side along the first direction and a fourth side along the first direction. The direction from the third side to the first side is along the first direction. The direction from the fourth side to the second side is along the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi YOSHINAGA, Kana MORI, Taketoshi NAKANO, Hajime WASHIO
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Publication number: 20190362655Abstract: A display device with a first edge and a second edge, the first edge and the second edge extending in a same direction, the display device including a light-emitting layer, and an electronic circuit board, wherein the display device emits light toward a front side with the display device is bent as a first terminal portion disposed on a surface of an end portion on the first edge and a second terminal portion disposed on a back face of an end portion on the second edge facing one another, and the electronic circuit board includes a first surface mounted to the first terminal portion and a second surface opposite the first surface and mounted to the second terminal portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Ryoh ARAKI, Taketoshi NAKANO, Tsuyoshi KAWAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190363150Abstract: In an organic EL display device, each of high level power source lines has both end portions smaller from a first end portion side toward a second end portion side in at least a part of a section ranging from the first end portion on a side supplied with a high level power source voltage (ELVDD) from a power source circuit to the second end portion. Accordingly, variations in luminance of pixels are reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Akira NOMURA, Taketoshi NAKANO
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Publication number: 20190355304Abstract: An object of the disclosure is to achieve a stable display quality without an effect of variation in temperature in a display device including a display element driven by an electric current. The display device is provided with a thermistor as a temperature detector detecting an ambient temperature. A scanning signal amplitude controller changes the voltage level of a gate low voltage in accordance with temperature indicated by temperature data acquired by the thermistor. An in-panel driver controller gives, to a gate driver, a gate clock signal of which the voltage level on a high level side is set at the voltage level of a gate high voltage and the voltage level on a low level side is set at the voltage level of the gate low voltage. The gate driver outputs a scanning signal-G on the basis of the gate clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Shinya TANAKA, Taketoshi NAKANO, Asahi YAMATO
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Patent number: 10013939Abstract: A display device (1) in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: an LCD driving section (20) and an LCD controller (30) for causing an image based on an image signal to be displayed on an LCD (10); and a CPU (40) for supplying an image signal to the LCD controller (30), the LCD controller (30) being configured to supply, to the CPU (40), a control signal that instructs the CPU (40) to supply an image signal, and the CPU (40) being configured to supply an image signal in a case where the CPU (40) receives a control signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuki Takahashi, Akizumi Fujioka, Taketoshi Nakano, Toshihiro Yanagi, Kouji Kumada, Noriyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 9966024Abstract: The occurrence of flicker is effectively suppressed particularly in a liquid crystal display device that performs low-frequency driving. Provided are a gradation-to-voltage value conversion table for converting a gradation to a voltage value, a correction value map for storing a correction value, and a voltage value-to-gradation conversion table for converting a voltage value to a gradation. A gradation of an input image signal is converted to a first voltage value, using the gradation-to-voltage value conversion table. The correction value specified in accordance with a location of a pixel to be processed is added to or subtracted from the first voltage value so that a second voltage value is obtained. The second voltage value is converted to an output gradation, using the voltage value-to-gradation conversion table. A driving video signal is applied to a source bus line, based on the output gradation.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka
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Patent number: 9773462Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device capable of suppressing a decrease in display quality when pause drive is performed in an alternating-voltage drive mode, as well as a method for driving the same. In a first drive frame, overshoot drive is performed using correction values provided by an LUT to apply overshoot voltages whose absolute values are higher than absolute values of signal voltages to data signal lines. Subsequently, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed to write signal voltages of the same polarity as the overshoot drive voltages to the data signal lines. Thereafter, a pause period in which an image written by normal drive is displayed continues until the start of a drive period in the next pause drive period. As a result, a decrease in luminance immediately after the signal voltages are written during the second drive frame is suppressed significantly, so that the viewer barely recognizes flicker.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato
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Patent number: 9767742Abstract: There is provided an image display device, in which a pixel includes sub-pixels of four or more colors that include a color in addition to the three primary colors, and which can display a high-quality image in which false colors or artifacts are suppressed. The image display device includes a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels P are arranged in a matrix shape, and each of the pixels P includes m (m is an integer which is equal to or greater than 4) sub-pixels SP. When it is assumed that the colors of the m sub-pixels SP included in one pixel are C1, C2, . . . , and Cm, the m sub-pixels SP which are sequentially arrayed from an arbitrary position include all of the colors of C1, C2, . . . , and Cm in both the vertical direction and the horizontal direction in the pixel area.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinji Nakagawa, Hidekazu Miyata, Hiroyuki Furukawa, Kazuyoshi Yoshiyama, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Yanagi, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Ken Inada
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Patent number: 9761187Abstract: Grayscale values for previous and current frames are different, and therefore, an overshoot voltage, which has a higher absolute value than a signal voltage, are applied to a data signal line. Next, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed, so that a signal voltage of the same polarity as the overshoot voltage is written to the data signal line. Moreover, in a first drive frame of a third pause drive period, the grayscale values for the previous and current frames are equal, and also greater than or equal to a boundary value, and therefore, undershoot drive is performed. An undershoot voltage, which has a lower absolute value than a signal voltage, is applied to the data signal line. Next, in a second drive frame, normal drive is performed, so that a signal voltage of the same polarity as the undershoot voltage is written to the data signal line.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Akizumi Fujioka, Asahi Yamato
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Patent number: 9607561Abstract: An image determination part configured to determine whether or not an image based on an input image signal is an image analogous to a polarity reversal pattern in a reversal driving scheme employed by default and to output a determination result, and a reversal pattern decision part configured to decide a reversal driving scheme based on the determination result are provided as constituent elements anterior to a liquid crystal drive unit. With regard to each unit area where the determination by the image determination part is made, the reversal pattern decision part decides the reversal driving scheme in the unit area, as a reversal driving scheme different from the reversal driving scheme employed by default, when the determination result indicates that the image based on the input image signal is the image analogous to the polarity reversal pattern in the reversal driving scheme employed by default.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ken Inada, Taketoshi Nakano, Asahi Yamato, Akizumi Fujioka
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Patent number: 9601074Abstract: Included are: refresh a rate changing section (15) for changing a refresh rate of a display panel (2) by configuring settings for scan periods during each of which a plurality of gate signal lines (G) of the display panel (2) are sequentially scanned and for pause periods during each of which sequential scanning of the plurality of gate signal lines (G) is suspended; and a drive amount control section (20) for controlling, in accordance with a ratio of the scan periods to the pause periods, drive time during which each of the gate signal lines is driven in each of the scan periods.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akizumi Fujioka, Toshihiro Yanagi, Satoshi Ihida, Kazuki Takahashi, Taketoshi Nakano
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Patent number: 9564092Abstract: In a case where a display device (1) receives an instruction to change a refresh rate of a display panel (2), the display device (1) changes the refresh rate with a timing with which there is a balance between the length of time for which positive source signals are written and the length of time for which negative source signals are written.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akizumi Fujioka, Toshihiro Yanagi, Taketoshi Nakano
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Publication number: 20160322009Abstract: There is provided an image display device, in which a pixel includes sub-pixels of four or more colors that include a color in addition to the three primary colors, and which can display a high-quality image in which false colors or artifacts are suppressed. The image display device includes a pixel area in which a plurality of pixels P are arranged in a matrix shape, and each of the pixels P includes m (m is an integer which is equal to or greater than 4) sub-pixels SP. When it is assumed that the colors of the m sub-pixels SP included in one pixel are C1, C2, . . . , and Cm, the m sub-pixels SP which are sequentially arrayed from an arbitrary position include all of the colors of C1, C2, . . . , and Cm in both the vertical direction and the horizontal direction in the pixel area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Shinji NAKAGAWA, Hidekazu MIYATA, Hiroyuki FURUKAWA, Kazuyoshi YOSHIYAMA, Yasuhiro YOSHIDA, Toshihiro YANAGI, Taketoshi NAKANO, Asahi YAMATO, Ken INADA