公开(公告)号：US20190258103A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-22

申请号：US16371288

申请日：2019-04-01

Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.

Inventor： Masanori SAKAMOTO ,  Shinobu Sumi ,  Wataru Ookubo

IPC: G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G06F3/0354

Abstract: A light control device including a light control sheet including light control units each reversibly change light transmittance and positioned according to a first arrangement that has a regularity, a detection sheet including detection units each detect external input and positioned according to a second arrangement that has a regularity same as the regularity of the first arrangement, a driving unit that outputs to each of the light control units a change signal for changing light transmittance, and a light control processing unit which associates each of the detection units with at least one of the light control units, and causes the driving unit to output the change signal to the light control unit associated with the detection unit that has detected the external input.

公开(公告)号：US11086160B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16371288

申请日：2019-04-01

Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.

Inventor： Masanori Sakamoto ,  Shinobu Sumi ,  Wataru Ookubo

IPC: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H01H36/00 ,  G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/133 ,  G02F1/1343 ,  G06F3/0354

Abstract: A light control device including a light control sheet including light control units each reversibly change light transmittance and positioned according to a first arrangement that has a regularity, a detection sheet including detection units each detect external input and positioned according to a second arrangement that has a regularity same as the regularity of the first arrangement, a driving unit that outputs to each of the light control units a change signal for changing light transmittance, and a light control processing unit which associates each of the detection units with at least one of the light control units, and causes the driving unit to output the change signal to the light control unit associated with the detection unit that has detected the external input.