Patents by Inventor Yasuki Kudo

Yasuki Kudo 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: 8913219
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A first potential is applied to a liquid crystal layer in the reflective region, and a second potential is applied to the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive region. The first and second potential have therebetween an opposite magnitude relationship in each of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8773623
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region. A first pixel electrode and a first common electrode are formed in the reflective region, and a second pixel electrode and a second common electrode are formed in the transmissive region. The first and second pixel electrodes receive a common pixel signal. The first common electrode receives a first common signal which is common among the reflective regions of a plurality of pixels, and the second common electrode receives a second common signal which is common among the transmissive regions of the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20130285890
    Abstract: An image processing unit (2 in FIG. 1) discards a high gray level side of input image data (RiGiBi) in accordance with a chroma coefficient (Csc), thereby to generate a signal of lowered chroma, and it expands the signal into output image data (RoGoBo) of full scale. Besides, the image processing unit (2) generates an image adjustment parameter (Th) and performs a control so as to reduce power of backlight (6), in interlocking with the fullscale expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicants: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD., HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
    Inventors: Norio MAMBA, Naoki TAKADA, Yasuki KUDO, Tsutomu FURUHASHI
  • Patent number: 8436967
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: NLT Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 8094285
    Abstract: It is to suppress the interference of the reflected light easily and securely even in a highly fine liquid crystal display device. The reflection plate comprises recessed or protruded parts and a reflection film formed over the recessed or protruded parts. A unit shape of the recessed or protruded parts is a polygon, an arbitrary point other than a centroid of the polygon that constitutes the recessed or protrude part is placed at a position that meets with an orderly-mannered lattice point as an origin, and each of the unit-shape polygons is arranged at a position that is rotated randomly with respect to the origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Kobayashi, Yasuki Kudo, Kenichirou Naka
  • Publication number: 20100248157
    Abstract: It is to suppress the interference of the reflected light easily and securely even in a highly fine liquid crystal display device. The reflection plate comprises recessed or protruded parts and a reflection film formed over the recessed or protruded parts. A unit shape of the recessed or protruded parts is a polygon, an arbitrary point other than a centroid of the polygon that constitutes the recessed or protrude part is placed at a position that meets with an orderly-mannered lattice point as an origin, and each of the unit-shape polygons is arranged at a position that is rotated randomly with respect to the origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akio KOBAYASHI, Yasuki KUDO, Kenichirou NAKA
  • Patent number: 7773173
    Abstract: It is to suppress the interference of the reflected light easily and securely even in a highly fine liquid crystal display device. The reflection plate comprises recessed or protruded parts and a reflection film formed over the recessed or protruded parts. A unit shape of the recessed or protruded parts is a polygon, an arbitrary point other than a centroid of the polygon that constitutes the recessed or protrude part is placed at a position that meets with an orderly-mannered lattice point as an origin, and each of the unit-shape polygons is arranged at a position that is rotated randomly with respect to the origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Kobayashi, Yasuki Kudo, Kenichirou Naka
  • Publication number: 20100171775
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 7705937
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi
  • Patent number: 7528911
    Abstract: By using a photosensitive organic film, an uneven layer for forming a reflective electrode of a reflective region of a transflective liquid crystal display device and a protrusion for multi-division alignment of liquid crystals are concurrently formed. The heights of the uneven layer and of the protrusion are adjusted by using accumulated amounts of light to which the photosensitive organic film is exposed. The uneven layer can be used as an adjusting layer for adjusting the thickness of a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: NEC LCD Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuki Kudo
  • Publication number: 20080170180
    Abstract: It is to suppress the interference of the reflected light easily and securely even in a highly fine liquid crystal display device. The reflection plate comprises recessed or protruded parts and a reflection film formed over the recessed or protruded parts. A unit shape of the recessed or protruded parts is a polygon, an arbitrary point other than a centroid of the polygon that constitutes the recessed or protrude part is placed at a position that meets with an orderly-mannered lattice point as an origin, and each of the unit-shape polygons is arranged at a position that is rotated randomly with respect to the origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akio Kobayashi, Yasuki Kudo, Kenichirou Naka
  • Publication number: 20070247574
    Abstract: By using a photosensitive organic film, an uneven layer for forming a reflective electrode of a reflective region of a transflective liquid crystal display device and a protrusion for multi-division alignment of liquid crystals are concurrently formed. The heights of the uneven layer and of the protrusion are adjusted by using accumulated amounts of light to which the photosensitive organic film is exposed. The uneven layer can be used as an adjusting layer for adjusting the thickness of a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: NEC LCD TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuki Kudo
  • Publication number: 20070002226
    Abstract: An IPS-mode transflective LCD device includes an array of pixels each including a reflective region and a transmissive region juxtaposed. The reflective region operates in a normally-white mode, and the transmissive region operates in a normally-black mode. A common data signal is supplied to the reflective region and transmissive region, whereas the common electrode signal in the transmissive region is an inverted signal of the common electrode signal in the reflective region, to thereby obtain similar gray-scale levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Michiaki Sakamoto, Jin Matsushima, Hiroshi Nagai, Kenichi Mori, Hidenori Ikeno, Yasuki Kudo, Ken Sumiyoshi