Patents by Inventor Gaku Izumi

Gaku Izumi 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: 10002568
    Abstract: A display unit of the disclosure includes a pixel array section and a drive section. In the pixel array section, unit pixels each including a light-emitting section are disposed. The drive section causes, during a non-display period other than a display period, a transistor to be corrected to be in an electrically conductive state, and performs, during the non-display period, light emission driving of the light-emitting section on a basis of a predetermined voltage. The transistor is provided in each of the unit pixels. The display period is a period during which display driving is performed on a basis of a display signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Mikihiro Yokozeki
  • Patent number: 9905171
    Abstract: Correction processing is provided for a display having pixel circuits respectively including a display element and a drive transistor that is configured to provide a drive current to the display element according to a luminance information value. A control transistor is disposed on a current path that provides the drive current to a unit pixel group that includes two or more of the pixel circuits, and a correction processing section is configured to obtain a correction factor that is a function of the luminance information values respectively corresponding to each of the pixel circuits in the unit pixel group, and to perform a correction of the luminance information value for at least one of the pixel circuits in the unit pixel group based on the correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Publication number: 20170270861
    Abstract: A display unit of the disclosure includes a pixel array section and a drive section. In the pixel array section, unit pixels each including a light-emitting section are disposed. The drive section causes, during a non-display period other than a display period, a transistor to be corrected to be in an electrically conductive state, and performs, during the non-display period, light emission driving of the light-emitting section on a basis of a predetermined voltage. The transistor is provided in each of the unit pixels. The display period is a period during which display driving is performed on a basis of a display signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Mikihiro Yokozeki
  • Patent number: 9368557
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element corresponding to a pixel for a color, and a white color filter corresponding to a white pixel. Transmittance of the white color filter is based on neutral density (ND) transmittance that is uniform throughout an entire wavelength band of visible light, and transmittance in a particular wavelength band in the entire wavelength band of the visible light is decreased to be lower than the ND transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Suzuki, Seonghee Noh, Masato Nakamura, Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi, Shinichi Teraguchi
  • Patent number: 9224334
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction. First luminance data may be extracted from an input image signal based on a map that specifies locations of pixels of the first subset, and second luminance data may be extracted from the input image signal based on a map that specifies locations of pixels of the second subset. The display device may drive the blue sub-pixels based on the first luminance data and drive the red sub-pixels based on the second luminance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Patent number: 9082733
    Abstract: A display unit comprising an organic layer between a light-emitting section portion of a first electrode layer and a light-emitting section portion of a second electrode layer. Light is emissible from within the organic layer. An aperture-defining insulating film is between a contact section of the first electrode layer and a gap section portion of the second electrode layer. The thickness of the gap section portion of the second electrode layer is greater than the thickness of the light-emitting section portion of the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Makoto Noda, Gaku Izumi, Kenichi Izumi, Manabu Kodate, Takahiro Seki, Michitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20150053963
    Abstract: A display unit comprising an organic layer between a light-emitting section portion of a first electrode layer and a light-emitting section portion of a second electrode layer. Light is emissible from within the organic layer. An aperture-defining insulating film is between a contact section of the first electrode layer and a gap section portion of the second electrode layer. The thickness of the gap section portion of the second electrode layer is greater than the thickness of the light-emitting section portion of the second electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Makoto Noda, Gaku Izumi, Kenichi Izumi, Manabu Kodate, Takahiro Seki, Michitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20150048345
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element corresponding to a pixel for a color, and a white color filter corresponding to a white pixel. Transmittance of the white color filter is based on neutral density (ND) transmittance that is uniform throughout an entire wavelength band of visible light, and transmittance in a particular wavelength band in the entire wavelength band of the visible light is decreased to be lower than the ND transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Suzuki, Seonghee Noh, Masato Nakamura, Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi, Shinichi Teraguchi
  • Patent number: 8952374
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi
  • Patent number: 8907331
    Abstract: A display unit comprising an organic layer between a light-emitting section portion of a first electrode layer and a light-emitting section portion of a second electrode layer. Light is emissible from within the organic layer. An aperture-defining insulating film is between a contact section of the first electrode layer and a gap section portion of the second electrode layer. The thickness of the gap section portion of the second electrode layer is greater than the thickness of the light-emitting section portion of the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Makoto Noda, Gaku Izumi, Kenichi Izumi, Manabu Kodate, Takahiro Seki, Michitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140285542
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction. First luminance data may be extracted from an input image signal based on a map that specifies locations of pixels of the first subset, and second luminance data may be extracted from the input image signal based on a map that specifies locations of pixels of the second subset. The display device may drive the blue sub-pixels based on the first luminance data and drive the red sub-pixels based on the second luminance data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Publication number: 20140284570
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi
  • Publication number: 20140253421
    Abstract: Correction processing is provided for a display having pixel circuits respectively including a display element and a drive transistor that is configured to provide a drive current to the display element according to a luminance information value. A control transistor is disposed on a current path that provides the drive current to a unit pixel group that includes two or more of the pixel circuits, and a correction processing section is configured to obtain a correction factor that is a function of the luminance information values respectively corresponding to each of the pixel circuits in the unit pixel group, and to perform a correction of the luminance information value for at least one of the pixel circuits in the unit pixel group based on the correction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Publication number: 20140035962
    Abstract: A signal processing circuit performs a correction on a first image signal to generate a noise-like pattern with regularity in an image, and thereby to generate a second image signal. Therefore, even if stripes or luminance unevenness is caused in a display image in the case where the first image signal is input into a display panel, a pattern making the stripes and the luminance unevenness less visible is allowed to be superimposed on the display image. Moreover, a pattern superimposed on the display image is the noise-like pattern with regularity which is obtainable without measuring light emission characteristics of the display panel. Therefore, it is not necessary to measure the light emission characteristics of the display panel to superimpose the above-described pattern on the display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Publication number: 20140034921
    Abstract: A display unit comprising an organic layer between a light-emitting section portion of a first electrode layer and a light-emitting section portion of a second electrode layer. Light is emissible from within the organic layer. An aperture-defining insulating film is between a contact section of the first electrode layer and a gap section portion of the second electrode layer. The thickness of the gap section portion of the second electrode layer is greater than the thickness of the light-emitting section portion of the second electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Makoto Noda, Gaku Izumi, Kenichi Izumi, Manabu Kodate, Takahiro Seki, Michitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8262427
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a defect correcting apparatus including a defect detecting device configured to detect a defect within a repetitive pattern in a multilayer substrate a defect correcting device configured to correct the defect in the multilayer substrate by a specified defect correcting method, and a control device configured to, when the defect detected by the defect detecting device is detected overlapping a region in which occurrence of an interlayer short-circuit defect is assumed, generate an object corresponding to the defect correcting method for the interlayer short-circuit defect, and controlling the defect correcting device for correcting the defect using the generated object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Oka, Gaku Izumi, Tomoaki Honda
  • Publication number: 20120071056
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a defect correcting apparatus including a defect detecting device configured to detect a defect within a repetitive pattern in a multilayer substrate a defect correcting device configured to correct the defect in the multilayer substrate by a specified defect correcting method, and a control device configured to, when the defect detected by the defect detecting device is detected overlapping a region in which occurrence of an interlayer short-circuit defect is assumed, generate an object corresponding to the defect correcting method for the interlayer short-circuit defect, and controlling the defect correcting device for correcting the defect using the generated object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Oka, Gaku Izumi, Tomoaki Honda
  • Patent number: 8004477
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel-array unit, a scanner unit and a signal unit. The pixel-array unit has pixels laid out to form a matrix and each provided at an intersection of first and second scanning lines each oriented in a row direction of the matrix and a signal line oriented in a column direction of the matrix. The signal unit provides a video signal to the signal line. The scanner unit sequentially scans the pixels of the matrix in row units by supplying first and second control signals to the first and second scanning lines respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Gaku Izumi, Kazuo Nakamura, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20070195073
    Abstract: A display panel which achieves a high display quality is implemented. A drive circuit which drives a display panel which has a display region wherein sub pixels as minimum display units are arranged in a matrix includes a group of digital/analog conversion circuits configured to convert signal line data corresponding to the sub pixels individually into analog values. The drive circuit further includes wiring line patterns configured to apply gradation reference voltages to the group of digital/analog conversion circuits for individually corresponding colors. The drive circuit further includes sample hold circuits configured to sample hold the gradation reference voltages corresponding to the individual colors within a period of time within a non-light emitting period of the display region and apply the gradation reference voltages to the corresponding wiring line patterns within a light emitting period of the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2005
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventor: Gaku Izumi
  • Publication number: 20070115225
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel-array unit, a scanner unit and a signal unit. The pixel-array unit has pixels laid out to form a matrix and each provided at an intersection of first and second scanning lines each oriented in a row direction of the matrix and a signal line oriented in a column direction of the matrix. The signal unit provides a video signal to the signal line. The scanner unit sequentially scans the pixels of the matrix in row units by supplying first and second control signals to the first and second scanning lines respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Gaku Izumi, Kazuo Nakamura, Tetsuro Yamamoto