Patents by Inventor Tomoaki Kichimi

Tomoaki Kichimi 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: 8547316
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a panel substrate including a data line driver, a controller connected to the panel substrate, and a connection unit provided in the panel substrate. The controller selects M signal lines from N signal lines (M is a natural number satisfying M?N) in accordance with a frame rate of a video data, and transmits M-phase video data to the panel substrate via the selected M signal lines. The data line driver controls the switching circuits of the connection unit in accordance with the frame rate of the video data to connect the M signal lines via which the video data is transmitted, to the data lines, and sequentially selects the M data lines to supply each piece of the video data transmitted via the M signal lines to each pixel connected to the selected M data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Doi, Tomoro Yoshinaga, Naoki Ando, Seisan Hoshimoto, Kouji Tada, Tomoaki Kichimi, Koichi Katagawa
  • Publication number: 20090058763
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel, a panel substrate including a data line driver, a controller connected to the panel substrate, and a connection unit provided in the panel substrate. The controller selects M signal lines from N signal lines (M is a natural number satisfying M?N) in accordance with a frame rate of a video data, and transmits M-phase video data to the panel substrate via the selected M signal lines. The data line driver controls the switching circuits of the connection unit in accordance with the frame rate of the video data to connect the M signal lines via which the video data is transmitted, to the data lines, and sequentially selects the M data lines to supply each piece of the video data transmitted via the M signal lines to each pixel connected to the selected M data lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Doi, Tomoro Yoshinaga, Naoki Ando, Seisan Hoshimoto, Kouji Tada, Tomoaki Kichimi, Koichi Katagawa
  • Publication number: 20050248556
    Abstract: A display device having extremely short writing time to a pixel such as the liquid crystal display device of a dot sequential drive method using a single-crystal silicon transistor as a switching element is provided in which in the case where a display area is divided into two or more areas, the degradation of picture quality is prevented to perform a high definition display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Tomoro Yoshinaga, Shunichi Hashimoto, Osamu Akimoto, Tomoaki Kichimi
  • Patent number: 6204833
    Abstract: A display device comprising a display panel, a plasma driving circuit, a correcting circuit and a display driving circuit. The display panel has a laminated structure consisting of a display cell with signal electrodes arrayed in columns, a plasma cell with discharge channels arrayed in rows, and a dielectric sheet interposed therebetween. The plasma driving circuit sequentially drives the discharge channels to address the display cell line-sequentially via the dielectric sheet, and the correcting circuit processes picture signals through a corrective arithmetic operation. And the display driving circuit supplies the processed picture signals to the signal electrodes in synchronism with the line-sequential addressing, and then writes the picture signals in pixels prescribed at the intersections of the signal electrodes and the discharge channels. The correcting circuit executes such a process as to emphasize the difference between the picture signals supplied to mutually adjacent signal electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatake Hayashi, Tomoaki Kichimi
  • Patent number: 6075578
    Abstract: A plasma addressed display system with a flat panel structure comprising a display cell for displaying an image through modulation of incident light in accordance with an image signal, and a plasma cell joined to the display cell for scanning the same. The plasma cell has discharge channels arrayed in rows and generates discharges in succession to scan the display cell line sequentially. The display cell has signal electrodes arrayed in columns, and forms pixels at intersections with the discharge channels. The display cell applies an image signal in synchronism with the line sequential scanning and modulates the incident light per pixel. Pixels of two rows are defined in the discharge channel of one row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatake Hayashi, Jun Iwama, Tomoaki Kichimi
  • Patent number: 6060827
    Abstract: A plasma addressed electro-optical display with a high contrast, having a first substrate having a plurality of discharge electrodes formed thereon; a dielectric layer disposed apart from the first substrate by a predetermined distance; a plasma cell formed by sealing the peripheries of the first substrate and the dielectric layer with a sealing portion; and a second substrate disposed opposite to the dielectric layer and having data electrodes intersecting the discharge electrodes on the surface thereof, wherein the plasma cell and the second substrate are stacked in such a manner that an electro-optical material layer is interposed between the plasma cell and the second substrate so that the plasma addressed electro-optical display is formed, and a light source is disposed adjacent to the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kichimi, Koichi Yamamoto