Patents by Inventor Tokuro Ozawa

Tokuro Ozawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20170352319
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a display unit, a driving unit, a reset unit, a data unit, and a storage unit. The display unit is electrically coupled to a first supply voltage source. The driving unit has one end electrically coupled to the display unit and has another end electrically coupled to a second supply voltage source. The driving unit charges the display unit. The reset unit is electrically coupled to the driving unit and the display unit, and provides a reset voltage to an operating node between the driving unit and the display unit. The data unit is electrically coupled to the driving unit and provides a data voltage to the driving unit. The storage unit stores a voltage difference between the operating node and a data node between the data unit and the driving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Tokuro OZAWA, Koji AOKI, Chia-Che HUNG, Chia-Wei KUO, Chia-Ting HSIEH, Bo-Shiang TZENG
  • Patent number: 9799291
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a first capacitor, a data input unit, a liquid crystal capacitor, a control unit and a driving unit. The first capacitor has a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal is configured for receiving a first reference voltage. The data input unit is configured for inputting a data signal to the second terminal of the first capacitor according to a first scanning signal. The liquid crystal capacitor has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal receives a first operating signal. The control unit is configured to control a voltage of the second terminal of the liquid crystal capacitor according to a second scanning signal. The driving unit is configured to control the voltage of the second terminal of the liquid crystal capacitor in response to the data input unit is disabled by the first scanning signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Che Hung, Tokuro Ozawa, Chia-Ting Hsieh, Bo-Shiang Tzeng, Chia-Wei Kuo, Chih-Lung Lin
  • Publication number: 20170154591
    Abstract: A pixel driving circuit includes a first capacitor, a data input unit, a liquid crystal capacitor, a control unit and a driving unit. The first capacitor has a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal is configured for receiving a first reference voltage. The data input unit is configured for inputting a data signal to the second terminal of the first capacitor according to a first scanning signal. The liquid crystal capacitor has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal receives a first operating signal. The control unit is configured to control a voltage of the second terminal of the liquid crystal capacitor according to a second scanning signal. The driving unit is configured to control the voltage of the second terminal of the liquid crystal capacitor in response to the data input unit is disabled by the first scanning signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Che HUNG, Tokuro Ozawa, Chia-Ting Hsieh, Bo-Shiang Tzeng, Chia-Wei Kuo, Chih-Lung Lin
  • Patent number: 9590172
    Abstract: A sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, a first detection electrode and a second detection electrode, and at least one conductive pattern. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed at opposite ends of the semiconductor layer. The first detection electrode and the second detection electrode are disposed at the other opposite ends of the semiconductor layer, wherein a virtual connection line is provided through the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode. The at least one conductive pattern is disposed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the conductive pattern does not overlap with the virtual connection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Che Kuo, Tokuro Ozawa, Koji Aoki, Chia-Wei Chang
  • Publication number: 20160018477
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor using a thin-film field effect transistor configured to control sensitivity appropriately includes a semiconductor film, a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a first hall electrode, and a second hall electrode, in which a drain current passes through a channel region of the semiconductor film between the drain electrode and the source electrode according to a drain voltage applied to the drain electrode and a gate voltage applied to the gate electrode. A hall voltage is generated between the first hall electrode and the second hall electrode according to the drain current and a magnetic field present in the channel region. The gate voltage applied to the gate electrode is substantially higher than a threshold voltage and outside a low voltage range that is substantially lower than the threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Tokuro OZAWA, Chih-Che KUO, Koji AOKI, Mutsumi KIMURA, Takaaki MATSUMOTO, Akito YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9152290
    Abstract: A touch-screen system including a stylus, a display panel and a touch module is disclosed herein. The stylus includes a magnetic component. The touch-sensing module is disposed within the display panel. The touch-sensing module includes a plurality of sensing units distributed at different locations as an array over the display panel. Each of the sensing units includes a Hall induction plate for sensing a magnetic field established by the magnetic component and forming an induction output voltage. The touch module detects a touch position of the stylus according to the induction output voltages from the sensing units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Wei Chang, Yu-Jung Liu, Chih-Che Kuo, Tokuro Ozawa, Koji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20150280109
    Abstract: A sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a second electrode, a first detection electrode and a second detection electrode, and at least one conductive pattern. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed at opposite ends of the semiconductor layer. The first detection electrode and the second detection electrode are disposed at the other opposite ends of the semiconductor layer, wherein a virtual connection line is provided through the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode. The at least one conductive pattern is disposed on the semiconductor layer, wherein the conductive pattern does not overlap with the virtual connection line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Chih-Che Kuo, Tokuro Ozawa, Koji Aoki, Chia-Wei Chang
  • Publication number: 20150015536
    Abstract: A touch-screen system including a stylus, a display panel and a touch module is disclosed herein. The stylus includes a magnetic component. The touch-sensing module is disposed within the display panel. The touch-sensing module includes a plurality of sensing units distributed at different locations as an array over the display panel. Each of the sensing units includes a Hall induction plate for sensing a magnetic field established by the magnetic component and forming an induction output voltage. The touch module detects a touch position of the stylus according to the induction output voltages from the sensing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Wei CHANG, Yu-Jung LIU, Chih-Che KUO, Tokuro OZAWA, Koji AOKI
  • Patent number: 8766946
    Abstract: A sensing circuit having a first substrate, a second substrate, a layer of dielectric material, a first electrode, a second electrode and an electrostatic capacitance detection unit is provided. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The dielectric material is held between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged between the dielectric material and the first substrate. The electrostatic capacitance detection unit is configured to produce a detection signal having an amplitude according to a value of capacitance formed between the first electrode and the second electrode through the dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Eiji Kanda, Yasushi Tsuchiya, Tokuro Ozawa, Toshiharu Matsushima
  • Patent number: 8698714
    Abstract: To reduce the time for writing a voltage onto a gate of a driving transistor. In an initialization period, a node B is fixed to an initial voltage VINI, transistors are turned on, and a current flows into an OLED element, such that a voltage according to the current is held at the node A. Thereafter, the transistors are sequentially turned off, such that a threshold voltage of a driving transistor is held at the node A. In a writing period, a transistor is turned on and a data signal X-j is supplied, such that a voltage of the node B varies by the amount according to the current flowing into the OLED element. The voltage of the node A varies from the threshold voltage by the amount which is obtained by dividing the voltage variation by a capacitance ratio. In a light-emitting period, the transistor is turned on, such that a current according to the voltage of the node A flows into the OLED element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuro Ozawa, Toshiyuki Kasai, Eiji Kanda, Ryoichi Nozawa
  • Patent number: 8659543
    Abstract: A driving method of an electro-optic device includes determining which condition is satisfied among a plurality of conditions including a first condition where a plurality of pixels include only a first pixels of which an optical state is changed from a second optical state to a first optical state and a third pixels of which the optical state is not changed, a second condition where the plurality of pixels include only a second pixels of which the optical state is changed from the first optical state to the second optical state and the third pixels, and a third condition where the plurality of pixels include both the first pixels and the second pixels, based on data stored in a memory storing the data indicating the optical state of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Katsunori Yamazaki, Tokuro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8643573
    Abstract: The invention provides an electro-optical apparatus that can prevent a shift in a threshold voltage of an amorphous silicon transistor while driving an organic EL device in a pixel circuit including the amorphous silicon transistor. A characteristic-adjustment circuit can be provided, which has a function of returning a shift in the threshold voltage of the amorphous silicon transistor included in the pixel circuit to the original state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kasai, Yoichi Imamura, Tokuro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8587513
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pixel circuit, and a driving circuit. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, an electro-optical element, a first capacitive element, a first switch, and a second switch. The driving circuit varies a potential at a control terminal during a first period, sets the potential at the control terminal to a compensation initial value during a second period, varies a driving potential from a first potential to a second potential such that the driving transistor is turned on during a third period, supplies a grayscale potential corresponding to a designated grayscale to the signal line and controls the second switch to be turned on during a fourth period, and varies a voltage between the control terminal and a first terminal with the passage of time during a fifth period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tokuro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8581835
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pixel circuit, and a driving circuit. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a first capacitive element, an electro-optical element, and a switch. The driving circuit controls the switch to be turned off, varies a potential such that the driving transistor is turned on, during a first period, sets a potential at a control terminal to a compensation initial value by controlling the switch to be turned on, during a second period, supplies a grayscale potential corresponding to a designated grayscale, varies a driving potential such that the driving transistor is turned on, during a third period, and varies a voltage between the control terminal and a first terminal with the passage of time, during a fourth period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tokuro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8564531
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes an electronic circuit including a driving transistor, an additional capacitive element and a first switch for controlling a connection between a circuit point and a control terminal and a driving circuit which controls the first switch to an off state and changes the potential of the control terminal such that the driving transistor transitions to an on state in a first period, controls the first switch to the on state so as to set the potential of the control terminal to an initial compensation value, in a second period, and controls the first switch to the on state and changes the driving potential from the first potential to the second potential such that the driving transistor transitions to the on state, in a third period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Tokuro Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20120242642
    Abstract: A driving method of an electro-optic device includes determining which condition is satisfied among a plurality of conditions including a first condition where a plurality of pixels include only a first pixels of which an optical state is changed from a second optical state to a first optical state and a third pixels of which the optical state is not changed, a second condition where the plurality of pixels include only a second pixels of which the optical state is changed from the first optical state to the second optical state and the third pixels, and a third condition where the plurality of pixels include both the first pixels and the second pixels, based on data stored in a memory storing the data indicating the optical state of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsunori YAMAZAKI, Tokuro OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20120206508
    Abstract: The invention provides an electro-optical apparatus that can prevent a shift in a threshold voltage of an amorphous silicon transistor while driving an organic EL device in a pixel circuit including the amorphous silicon transistor. A characteristic-adjustment circuit can be provided, which has a function of returning a shift in the threshold voltage of the amorphous silicon transistor included in the pixel circuit to the original state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KASAI, Yoichi IMAMURA, Tokuro OZAWA
  • Patent number: 8232936
    Abstract: To reduce time for writing a target voltage in the gate of a driving transistor. In a first period, a transistor 211 is switched on to allow a driving transistor 210 to function as a diode and transistors 212 and 213 are switched on to electrically connect the drain of the driving transistor 210 to a data line 112, to which an initial voltage is applied, such that the initial voltage is applied to the gate of the driving transistor 210. In a second period, a transistor 212 is switched off such that the gate of the driving transistor 210 is maintained to have an off voltage corresponding to the power source. In a third period, the transistor 211 is switched off such that the voltage of the data line 112 is converted into a grayscale voltage to maintain the gate of the driving transistor at the target voltage. In a fourth period, the driving transistor 210 flows the current corresponding to the maintained gate voltage to an OLED element 230.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tokuro Ozawa, Ryoichi Nozawa
  • Patent number: 8188943
    Abstract: The invention provides an electro-optical apparatus that can prevent a shift in a threshold voltage of an amorphous silicon transistor while driving an organic EL device in a pixel circuit including the amorphous silicon transistor. A characteristic-adjustment circuit can be provided, which has a function of returning a shift in the threshold voltage of the amorphous silicon transistor included in the pixel circuit to the original state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kasai, Yoichi Imamura, Tokuro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8144083
    Abstract: A method for driving a light-emitting device in which a plurality of pixel circuits are arranged in correspondence with the intersection of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality data lines, the pixel circuit having a light-emitting element and a driving transistor that controls the current amount of a driving current flowing the light-emitting device, comprises repeating the process within unit period including a first period and a second period following the first period, wherein the second period process includes selecting one scanning line of the plurality of scanning lines, and supplying and holding a data voltage corresponding to the luminance of the light-emitting element to a gate of the driving transistor via the data lines with respect to the plurality pixel circuits connected the selected scanning lines, and wherein the first period process includes selecting two or more scanning lines of the plurality of scanning lines, and correcting the unbalance of the driving current output from the dri
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kasori Takahashi, Eiji Kanda, Tokuro Ozawa