Patents by Inventor Tatsuhiro Inuzuka

Tatsuhiro Inuzuka 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: 6222518
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a bus; a display data generating circuit coupled to the bus for generating display data in a form of a plurality of bits for each of a plurality of pixels of a display panel; and a display apparatus coupled to the bus. The display data generating circuit includes a central processing unit and a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makiko Ikeda, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Hiroyuki Nitta, Isao Takita, Naruhiko Kasai, Satoru Tsunekawa, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 6118425
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display comprises a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of scanning electrodes and data electrodes, the data electrodes driving circuit has a latch at a front stage for fetching a display data of two lines for partial driving and a latch at a post stage for storing the display data of two lines. The display data from the latch at the post stage is compared with the scanning function supplied from the scanning driver, one of the voltages at three levels is selected in accordance with the result of the comparison, and the selected voltage is applied to the data electrodes. Further, the data electrode driving circuit has a latch for storing the result of the comparison for a period of one line and a correction voltage is applied to the data electrode in accordance with a value obtained by comparing an output of the latch and the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video and Information System, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kudo, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Toshimitsu Matsudo, Kazunari Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 6084561
    Abstract: A liquid crystal controller for controlling display of a liquid crystal display device of passive matrix type includes gray scale processing being performed on input data before being written in a frame memory for frame frequency conversion and gray scale processing being performed after the frequency conversion and reading of the data from the frame memory so that an amount of information of display data written in the frame memory can be reduced. Further, since the gray scale display pattern is switched by the same switching frequency as the converted frame frequency, pattern movement and flicker of the gray scale display portions can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video & Information
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kudo, Hiroyuki Mano, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Shinji Uchida, Tomohide Ohira, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 5861863
    Abstract: A scanning voltage driving device suitable for a liquid crystal panel with plural output terminals, the scanning voltage driving device producing a 2-level selection voltage to plural scanning electrode groups which drive the liquid crystal panel according to a value of an orthogonal function data, the 2-level selection voltage having a positive polarity and a negative polarity with respect to a center point being a non-selection voltage, includes orthogonal function producing means for producing the orthogonal function data from input synchronous display signal groups, scanning line selecting means for creating a scanning line selection signal from the synchronous display signal groups to indicate an output terminal for the selection voltage, and voltage selecting means for selectively outputting a voltage amount the 2 levels of the selection voltages and the non-selection voltage every output terminal according to the value of the scanning line selection signal and the value of the orthogonal function data,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kudo, Hiroyuki Mano, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Toshio Futami, Satoru Tsunekawa, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 5854879
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus including a liquid crystal panel of a plurality of dots, an X drive circuit for supplying display information of at least one line to the liquid crystal panel and a Y drive circuit for selecting one-dot data for each line of the liquid crystal panel, the X drive circuit and the Y drive circuit enabling energization of the liquid crystal panel. A plurality of memories are provided for receiving a plurality of bits of information data and for storing at least M dot display information data so as to enable display of a respective line of the liquid crystal panel, M being an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Hiroyuki Mano, Kazuhiro Fujisawa, Satoshi Konuma, Kiyoshige Kinugawa, Satoru Tsunekawa
  • Patent number: 5841416
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal display device of a simple matrix type is permitted to present a liquid-crystal display of good display quality free from nonuniformity in display brightness. A method of driving a liquid-crystal display device wherein voltages which correspond to potential differences between scanning voltages from a Y drive circuit and display voltages from an X drive circuit are applied to liquid-crystal cells at intersection points between scanning electrodes (Y electrodes) and data electrodes (X electrodes), thereby presenting a display conforming to display data comprises the steps of providing a correction time period for correcting the display voltage to be output from the X drive circuit at least once every scanning period of one line, and outputting a correction voltage at a voltage level which is intermediate between a voltage level in an ON-display state and a voltage level in an OFF-display state instead of the display voltage from the X drive circuit within the correction time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video & Information System, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mano, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Satoshi Konuma, Toshio Futami, Kohji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5818409
    Abstract: A data electrode driving circuit, a scanning electrode driving circuit, a liquid crystal display unit and a driving method thereof for attaining simultaneous scanning and driving of a plurality of rows in a passive matrix type liquid crystal display unit. A scanning electrode driving circuit includes a scanning function generating circuit for generating scanning functions for m rows. A scanning voltage is selected by the scanning function and a driving voltage is supplied to the scanning electrode. On the other hand, a data electrode driving circuit includes shift registers for m rows. The shift registers produce display data for m rows taken therein at the same time. The display data for m rows and the scanning function produced by the scanning electrode driving circuits are subjected to comparison operation. One level of m+1 level voltages is selected in accordance with the operation result and is supplied to the data electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Furuhashi, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Hiroyuki Mano, Shigeyuki Nishitani, Yasuyuki Kudo, Satoru Tsunekawa, Toshio Futami
  • Patent number: 5815136
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display has a liquid crystal panel having a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines arranged in a matrix form with pixels being formed at intersections of the data and scanning lines, a scanning circuit for successively applying a voltage to the scanning lines, and a liquid crystal driver for receiving display data from an external device to apply a voltage corresponding to the display data to the data lines. The scanning circuit includes a synchronizing signal generating circuit for generating a frame display synchronizing signal indicative of a frame period for display of image on the liquid crystal panel and a line display synchronizing signal indicative of a line period for image display on the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal driver includes a display memory accessed through a memory interface for reading and writing of data, the display memory storing therein display data corresponding to the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makiko Ikeda, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Hiroyuki Nitta, Isao Takita, Naruhiko Kasai, Satoru Tsunekawa, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka
  • Patent number: 5764212
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes N (N is a positive integer except zero) data electrodes, M (M is a positive integer except zero) scan electrodes, a liquid crystal display panel having pixels located at crosspoints between said data electrodes and said scan electrodes, and a data electrode driving circuit. The data electrode circuit has a memory unit from or into which the information information is read or written, a write control circuit for controlling a write of the display information into a memory area of the memory unit, a read control circuit for simultaneously reading the display information corresponding to N data electrodes from the memory area at a different period of the writing period, and an output circuit for converting the display information read from the memory unit into the corresponding voltage and feeding the display voltage to the data electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Nishitani, Hiroyuki Mano, Tsutomu Furuhashi, Yasuyuki Kudo, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Toshio Futami, Satoru Tsunekawa
  • Patent number: 5583530
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display system capable of making a display of 2.sup.i+j (i, j: positive integers) kinds of tones display includes a frame rate control device for selecting one out of frame rate control data of 2.sup.j kinds in accordance with j-bit display data included in (i+j)-bit display data, i and j being positive integers, a multi-level tone pulse generator for generating display pulses of 2.sup.i +1 kinds including at least activation for display, inactivation for display, and intermediate display corresponding to an intermediate level, and a selection drive device for selecting a display pulse of one kind out of display pulses of 2.sup.i +1 kinds in accordance with the frame rate control data supplied from the frame rate control device and i-bit display data and applying the selected display pulse to a liquid crystal panel, the i-bit being different from the j-bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mano, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Satoshi Konuma, Kazuhiro Fujisawa, Toshio Futami, Satoru Tsunekawa
  • Patent number: 5220314
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus in which color display information is converted into information about luminance of liquid crystal display used for driving a liquid crystal so as to provide a liquid crystal display. The apparatus comprises a decider unit for deciding whether the color display information takes a display form pursuant to the dither method, and a converter unit for converting the color display information into liquid crystal luminance display information in accordance with a frame base thin-out method corresponding to the color display information when the decision results indicate that the color display information takes a display form pursuant to the dither method and for converting the color display information in accordance with a dot base thin-out method when the decision results do not indicate the dither method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mano, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Satoshi Konuma, Kazuhiro Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 5206635
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display apparatus including a liquid crystal panel of a plurality of dots, an X drive circuit for supplying display information of at least one line to the liquid crystal panel and a Y drive circuit for selecting one-dot data for each line of the liquid crystal panel, the X drive circuit and the Y drive circuit enabling energization of the liquid crystal panel. A plurality of memories are provided for receiving a plurality of bits of information data and for storing at least M dot display information data so as to enable display of a respective line of the liquid crystal panel, M being an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Inuzuka, Hiroyuki Mano, Kazuhiro Fujisawa, Satoshi Konuma, Kiyoshige Kinugawa, Satoru Tsunekawa
  • Patent number: 5038139
    Abstract: In a half tone display driving circuit for a liquid crystal matrix panel, a pulse for half tone display is phase modulated so that pulse signals which are out of phase relative to each other are applied to adjacent columns of the liquid crystal matrix panel, or from the phase-modulated pulse a gray scale pulse (tone pulse) is prepared in which the frequency of occurrence of voltage edges is decreased. The dephased pulse signals or the gray scale pulse (tone pulse) is used to prevent a decrease in brightness of display when the liquid crystal matrix panel is driven for half tone display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Fujisawa, Hiroyuki Mano, Satoru Tsunekawa, Kiyoshige Kinugawa, Satoshi Konuma, Tatsuhiro Inuzuka