Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Harada
Tsutomu Harada 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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Patent number: 10803829Abstract: A display device includes: a first controller that outputs an output image signal having the same resolution as that of pixels to an image display panel; and a second controller that transmits an input image signal to the first controller, generates second luminance distribution data divided into regions at a second density lower than a first density equal to the resolution, and transmits the second luminance distribution data to the first controller. The second controller generates first luminance distribution data divided into regions at a third density lower than the second density, controls an illuminator based on the first luminance distribution data, and generates the second luminance distribution data by applying a polynomial interpolation to the first luminance distribution data. The first controller generates third luminance distribution data having the resolution, and generates the output image signal by adjusting the input image signal based on the third luminance distribution data.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Kazuhiko Sako
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Patent number: 10770008Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, a light guide plate, a light source configured to emit light from a lateral side of the light guide plate, a dimming panel, and a controller. The dimming panel comprises a plurality of dimming areas arranged in an emission direction of the light from the light source. The dimming areas are capable of individually changing transmittance of the light according to intensities of light required to display an image using the display panel. When adjacent two of the dimming areas differ in light transmittance from each other, the controller increases output gradation values of target pixels, the target pixels being located in a predetermined area extending from a boundary between the two dimming areas in one of the two dimming areas that has lower light transmittance.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Daichi Suzuki, Naoyuki Takasaki, Tsutomu Harada, Kojiro Ikeda
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Patent number: 10739903Abstract: The reliability of a display device with an input device is improved. A plurality of detection electrodes (input position detection electrodes) forming an electrostatic capacity between them and a common electrode of a display device to detect an input position are formed on a different substrate from substrates configuring the display device. Moreover, a polarizing plate and the substrate on which the plurality of detection electrodes are formed are adhesively fixed via, for example, an adhesive layer so that the plurality of detection electrodes are fixed so as to be separated apart from the display device. Thus, a distance between electrodes (the detection electrode and a driving electrode) for detecting an input position can be set separately from a thickness of the display device, and therefore, reduction in detection sensitivity (detection reliability) for the input position due to increase in the electrostatic capacity can be suppressed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi, Koji Ishizaki, Hideki Kaneko, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10723265Abstract: According to an aspect, an imaging display system includes an imaging device, a display device, and a processing device. The imaging device includes a rolling shutter image sensor that takes an image. The display device displays the image. The processing device performs image processing on the image. The imaging display system is mounted on a movable body that moves in a certain direction on a reference plane. The imaging device is arranged at an angle with respect to a moving direction of the movable body on the reference plane. An imaging scanning direction of the image on the image sensor is horizontal with respect to the reference plane. A display scanning direction of the image displayed on the display device coincides with the imaging scanning direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazunori Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Harada, Akira Sakaigawa, Fumitaka Gotoh
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Publication number: 20200152139Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first sub display area and a second sub display area, and an illumination device, wherein the illumination device includes a first light source opposed to the first sub display area, a second light source opposed to the second sub display area, and a partition positioned between the first and second light sources and the display panel, and the partition includes a first side surface surrounding the first light source, a second side surface surrounding the second light source, and a connector which connects the first side surface and the second side surface, and the connector is formed of curved surfaces, or two or more flat surfaces, or a combination of curved surfaces and flat surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Shigenori Aoki, Tatsuya Yata, Tsutomu Harada
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Publication number: 20200132995Abstract: According to one embodiment, when displaying an image on a display panel, projecting an image which is displayed on the display panel, inclining the image which is projected from the display panel at a predetermined angle of bend, and reflecting the image which is projected from the display panel via a prism and guiding the image to a projection surface, a display device corrects input picture image of the prism based on characteristics contrary to the chromatic aberration characteristics of the prism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu HARADA, Kazuhiko SAKO
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Patent number: 10591769Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel including a display area provided with pixels; an illuminator including an illumination area configured to emit light to the display panel such that the display area is illuminated from one surface side of the display panel; and a liquid crystal dimming panel overlapping the display panel, and including a dimming area configured to be adjusted in transmittance of the light emitted to another surface side of the display panel through the display area. The illumination area includes first segment regions configured such that luminance levels thereof are individually adjusted. The dimming area includes second segment regions configured such that the light transmittances thereof are individually adjusted. Each of the first segment regions overlaps more than one of the second segment regions. Each of the second segment regions overlaps more than one of the pixels.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Daichi Suzuki, Kazuhiko Sako, Naoyuki Takasaki, Kazunari Tomizawa
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Patent number: 10573252Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first sub display area and a second sub display area, and an illumination device, wherein the illumination device includes a first light source opposed to the first sub display area, a second light source opposed to the second sub display area, and a partition positioned between the first and second light sources and the display panel, and the partition includes a first side surface surrounding the first light source, a second side surface surrounding the second light source, and a connector which connects the first side surface and the second side surface, and the connector is formed of curved surfaces, or two or more flat surfaces, or a combination of curved surfaces and flat surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shigenori Aoki, Tatsuya Yata, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10565951Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display area provided to a substrate; a shift register including a plurality of registers coupled in series; and a control circuit that supplies clock pulses to the registers, and that supplies a start pulse to a first register of the shift register to acquire an output from a last register of the shift register, wherein the display area is provided in an area surrounded by the shift register, the control circuit, and wiring that couples the shift register to the control circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Isao Edatsune, Yutaka Ozawa, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10564416Abstract: According to one embodiment, when displaying an image on a display panel, projecting an image which is displayed on the display panel, inclining the image which is projected from the display panel at a predetermined angle of bend, and reflecting the image which is projected from the display panel via a prism and guiding the image to a projection surface, a display device corrects input picture image of the prism based on characteristics contrary to the chromatic aberration characteristics of the prism.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Kazuhiko Sako
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Patent number: 10536641Abstract: A display system includes an imaging apparatus installed on a mobile body; a display apparatus installed at a position different from that of the imaging apparatus on the mobile body and displaying a post-processing image; a first sensor detecting vibration at or near the imaging apparatus; a second sensor detecting vibration at or near the display apparatus; a first image processor clipping out a preprocessing image from an image captured by the imaging apparatus, based on the first sensor detection result; and a second image processor clipping out the post-processing image from the preprocessing image based on the second sensor detection result. The first image processor moves a clip-out region of the preprocessing image in a direction to counteract vibration at or near the imaging apparatus, and the second image processor causes a clip-out region of the post-processing image to follow vibration at or near the display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10502952Abstract: According to an aspect, a light source device includes: a light emitting device that emits a light beam capable of being modulated; and a scanning device that deflects the light beam in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction. The light beam has a light quantity varying region in which a light quantity decreases outward from a center of the light beam in at least one of the first direction or the second direction. The scanning device overlaps the light quantity varying regions of a plurality of the light beams with each other with respect to a scanning direction along directions in which the light quantities of the light beams decrease.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10475366Abstract: A display device includes: an image display panel having a display area; a light source device configured to illuminate the image display panel with light sources; and a controller configured to control a lighting amount of each light source. The display area includes segment areas each illuminated by one or more of the light sources. Each segment area includes subsegment areas. The controller is configured to: calculate luminance required for each subsegment area, based on an image signal for each subsegment area; temporarily set luminance values of the respective segment areas for determining the lighting amounts of the light sources based on maximum luminance among the required luminance values of the respective subsegment areas of each segment area; and reset, based on at least the maximum luminance, the luminance value of at least the segment area adjacent to the corresponding subsegment area having the required luminance of the maximum luminance.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10453376Abstract: An image display device includes a first pixel data calculator calculating first pixel data for a pixel of attention based on a first error value for a pixel adjacent thereto in the same error diffusion block; a second pixel data calculator calculating second pixel data for the pixel of attention based on a corrected error value for the adjacent pixel; a first error value calculator calculating the first error value based on the first pixel data; a second error value calculator calculating a second error value based on the second pixel data; and a corrected error value calculator calculating the corrected error value by correcting the second error value in a direction in which the second error value approaches the first error value in accordance with whether the pixel of attention is located within a predetermined range from a border among a plurality of error diffusion blocks.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tadafumi Ozaki, Kazuhiko Sako, Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki
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Patent number: 10437101Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel having a display area including a plurality of pixels; and an illuminator provided so as to overlap the display panel and configured to illuminate the display area. The illuminator has a plurality of segment blocks set in different positions in the display area. Each of the segment blocks is provided such that the luminance of the segment block is individually controlled. At least one of the segment blocks satisfies a predetermined condition. The predetermined condition is such that at least two light source rows each including a plurality of light sources arranged in a first direction are arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and that none of the light sources included in the two light source rows adjacent in the second direction are in the same straight line along the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10431146Abstract: A signal processor of a display device includes: a light emission value calculating unit that calculates a light emission value; a chunk determining unit that determines whether pixels within a predetermined luminance value range are continuously present and determines an area of the continuous pixels as a chunk; a maximum luminance value detecting unit that detects a maximum luminance value inside the chunk in one of the partial areas; a luminance gain value determining unit that determines a luminance gain value based on the maximum luminance value such that a corrected light emission value that is a value acquired by multiplying the light emission value by the luminance gain value is a value of an upper limit emission value or less; and a light emission control unit that causes the light source units to emit light based on the corrected light emission value.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Kazunari Tomizawa, Tsutomu Harada, Naoyuki Takasaki, Tae Kurokawa
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Publication number: 20190294294Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels arranged in a matrix, each of the image display panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein an AC voltage is sequentially applied to the plurality of drive electrodes of a first display panel, and the plurality of detection electrodes of a second display panel adjacent to the first display panel detect a signal output from the plurality of drive electrodes of the first display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Shinya IUCHI, Hayato KURASAWA, Masahiro TOGASHI, Tsutomu HARADA, Yuji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20190278404Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of drive electrodes, wherein: in a first mode, a first drive electrode block including a first number of the drive electrodes are supplied with a first drive signal; in a second mode, a second drive electrode block including a second number of the drive electrodes are supplied with a second drive signal; and the first number is different from the second number.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Kouji NOGUCHI, Tsutomu HARADA, Takeya TAKEUCHI, Yoshitoshi KIDA, Takayuki NAKANISHI
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Patent number: 10379682Abstract: The touch sensor device and the display device include: a panel unit having a touch detection area in which a plurality of drive electrodes extend in an X-direction, a plurality of detection electrodes extend in a Y-direction, and a plurality of detection units each composed of a pair of the drive electrode and the detection electrode are formed in a matrix pattern; the drive electrodes each having a width forming two detection units in the Y-direction; and regions each formed by the intersection between one drive electrode and first to fourth detection electrodes. In this region, detection regions having a first sensitivity in which first to fourth detection units are provided and non-detection regions having a second sensitivity are alternately disposed. For example, the detection electrodes have different shapes between the detection region and the non-detection region.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Makoto Hayashi, Tsutomu Harada
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Patent number: 10373572Abstract: A display device includes an image display panel, a light source unit, and a signal processing unit. The tentative expansion coefficient calculating unit calculates a tentative expansion coefficient. The tentative index value calculating unit calculates a tentative index value serving as an index of the irradiation amount of light based on the tentative expansion coefficient. The low-saturation pixel detecting unit detects low-saturation pixels in a certain region on an image display surface. The light irradiation amount calculating unit calculates a comparative light irradiation amount based on a detection by the low-saturation pixel detecting unit, a display quality maintenance reference value at which the display quality of colors displayed by the low-saturation pixels is maintained, and an index value calculated based on the tentative index value and calculates, based on the comparative light irradiation amount, a light irradiation amount serving as the irradiation amount of light.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuhiko Sako, Naoyuki Takasaki, Tsutomu Harada