Patents by Inventor Hiromasa Tsuboi

Hiromasa Tsuboi 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: 11943970
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor having a drain region connected to the light emitting element, and a second transistor having a drain region connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A source region of the second transistor of the first pixel and a source region of the second transistor of the second pixel share one diffusion region, and a source region, a gate electrode, and the drain region of the first transistor of the first and second pixels are sequentially arranged in one of a positive direction and a negative direction in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11842682
    Abstract: The light emitting device comprises: a plurality of pixels, each having a light-emitting element, a driving transistor configured to drive the light-emitting element, a capacitor configured to hold a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a signal line, a first switch configured to connect the signal line and a control electrode of the driving transistor, and a second switch configured to connect a first main electrode of the driving transistor and a predetermined node; and a driving circuit configured to drive the signal line. In a preparation period in which the threshold voltage is held in the capacitor, the first switch is controlled to be on and the second switch is controlled to be off, and the driving circuit drives the signal line at a voltage level selected from a plurality of different voltage levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Komazawa, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11823643
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus comprising pixels that each includes a light-emitting element and a drive transistor for supplying a current according to a luminance signal to the light-emitting element and a signal supply circuit supplying the luminance signal to the drive transistor. The apparatus operates display modes including a first display mode and a second display mode in which a maximum luminance is higher than in the first display mode. The signal supply circuit, in a case where the display data has a maximum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes, and in a case where the display data has a minimum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tsuboi, Shinya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20230343292
    Abstract: A light emitting device in which a pixel is arranged is provided. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a first transistor configured to supply, to the light emitting element, a current corresponding to a luminance signal, and a second transistor configured to supply the luminance signal to a gate electrode of the first transistor. Diffusion regions respectively functioning as a source region and a drain region of the second transistor are of a first conductivity type, and a gate electrode of the second transistor is of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Akihito Komazawa, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230282672
    Abstract: In a photoelectric conversion device, a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit are arranged so as to be aligned in a first direction in a plan view with respect to a substrate, the sensitivity of a third photoelectric conversion unit is lower than the sensitivity of the first photoelectric conversion unit and lower than the sensitivity of the second photoelectric conversion unit, and the third photoelectric conversion unit is arranged along a part of the outer circumference of a region including the first photoelectric conversion unit and the second photoelectric conversion unit in the plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: HIROMASA TSUBOI, JUMPEI ASHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230071385
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor having a drain region connected to the light emitting element, and a second transistor having a drain region connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A source region of the second transistor of the first pixel and a source region of the second transistor of the second pixel share one diffusion region, and a source region, a gate electrode, and the drain region of the first transistor of the first and second pixels are sequentially arranged in one of a positive direction and a negative direction in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20230061540
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprising a substrate in which a plurality of pixels are arranged is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a light emitting element arranged above a first surface of the substrate, and a light receiving element arranged between the first surface and a second surface of the substrate on an opposite side of the first surface. The light emitting element comprises a first electrode, a second electrode arranged between the first surface and the first electrode, and a light emitting layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. In an orthogonal projection with respect to the first surface, the second electrode and the light receiving element at least partially overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Mizuki Nagasaki, Hiromasa Tsuboi, Shoji Kono
  • Publication number: 20230043411
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes pixel circuits arranged to form rows and columns and each including a light emitting element, signal lines each extending in a column direction and configured to supply a pixel signal to the pixel circuits, row selection lines each extending in a row direction and configured to supply a row selection signal to the pixel circuits, and column selection lines each extending in the column direction and configured to supply a column selection signal to the pixel circuits. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a light emission control circuit configured to allow the light emitting element of a pixel circuit indicated by the row selection signal and the column selection signal to emit light in a brightness according to the pixel signal that is being supplied to the pixel circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Shinya Igarashi, Hiromasa Tsuboi, Masahiko Mizoguchi, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11527595
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels with different light emitting colors, each of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting element configured to emit light with one of at least three different light emitting colors, a driving transistor configured to supply a current to the light-emitting element in accordance with a voltage supplied to a gate, a write transistor configured to supply a signal voltage from a signal line to the gate of the driving transistor, and a capacitance at a connection portion between the driving transistor and the write transistor, wherein the capacitance is different for each light emitting color, and is larger in a pixel of a light emitting color in which a peak current flowing through the light-emitting element is larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11527591
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor having a drain region connected to the light emitting element, and a second transistor having a drain region connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in a first direction. A source region of the second transistor of the first pixel and a source region of the second transistor of the second pixel share one diffusion region, and a source region, a gate electrode, and the drain region of the first transistor of the first and second pixels are sequentially arranged in one of a positive direction and a negative direction in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11495656
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate to form a plurality of columns parallel to a first direction and a plurality of rows parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, and a driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element, the substrate includes a transistor region in which a plurality of transistors that form the driving circuit are arranged, the plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in the first direction, and a virtual line parallel to the second direction, which passes through the transistor region of the first pixel, passes through the transistor region of the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahiro Akiyama, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20220230585
    Abstract: The light emitting device comprises: a plurality of pixels, each having a light-emitting element, a driving transistor configured to drive the light-emitting element, a capacitor configured to hold a threshold voltage of the driving transistor, a signal line, a first switch configured to connect the signal line and a control electrode of the driving transistor, and a second switch configured to connect a first main electrode of the driving transistor and a predetermined node; and a driving circuit configured to drive the signal line. In a preparation period in which the threshold voltage is held in the capacitor, the first switch is controlled to be on and the second switch is controlled to be off, and the driving circuit drives the signal line at a voltage level selected from a plurality of different voltage levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Akihito Komazawa, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11393430
    Abstract: A light emission apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels that each include a light emission element, and a signal supply unit that supplies to each of the plurality of pixels a signal voltage that accords with inputted image data. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a first transistor configured to control an amount of current that flows in the light emission element, and a second transistor disposed between a signal line on which the signal voltage is supplied and a gate electrode of the first transistor and, in an on state, write in the gate electrode the signal voltage. The signal supply unit adjusts the signal voltage in accordance with a frame rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mizuki Nagasaki, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20220223120
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus comprising pixels that each includes a light-emitting element and a drive transistor for supplying a current according to a luminance signal to the light-emitting element and a signal supply circuit supplying the luminance signal to the drive transistor is provided. The apparatus operates display modes including a first display mode and a second display mode in which a maximum luminance is higher than in the first display mode. The signal supply circuit, in a case where the display data has a maximum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes, and in a case where the display data has a minimum luminance value, supplies to the drive transistor, as the luminance signal, different voltages in the first and second display modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tsuboi, Shinya Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20220172679
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array on a substrate, the plurality of pixels each including a light emitting element, a first transistor, and a second transistor, a drain region of the first transistor being connected to an anode of the light emitting element, a drain region or a source region of the second transistor being connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. In a plan view perpendicular to the substrate, a length of a current path from the first region to a gate electrode of the second transistor is greater than a length of a current path from a third region to the gate electrode of the second transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro Akiyama, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20220173190
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a pixel that includes a current path including a light emitting element and a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor connected to a signal wire. One of source and drain regions of the second transistor is connected to one node of the light emitting element and a first power supply. One of source and drain regions of the third transistor is connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. An isolation portion is disposed between a first conductivity type first diffusion region that makes up one of the source and drain regions of the second transistor and a first conductivity type second diffusion region that makes up one of the source and drain regions of the third transistor. A depth of the first diffusion region is greater than a depth of the second diffusion region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 11282453
    Abstract: A display device including pixels is provided. Each pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor configured to supply current to the light emitting element, a second transistor configured to control emission of the light emitting element, a first capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a second capacitor including a third electrode and a fourth electrode. The first electrode is connected to a gate electrode of the first transistor. The second and third electrodes are connected to a main terminal of the first transistor. The fourth electrode is connected to a main terminal of the second transistor. The first capacitor is arranged between the substrate and the second capacitor. At least a portion of an outer edge of the first electrode is arranged more to an inside than that of the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiromasa Tsuboi, Takehiko Soda
  • Patent number: 11282877
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, an embedded electrode, and an insulation member arranged between the embedded electrode and the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region. A deepest portion of the embedded electrode is arranged at a position deeper than a p-n junction surface of the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region. A potential difference between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region is a potential difference at which avalanche multiplication does not occur, and a potential difference between the embedded electrode and the second semiconductor region is a potential difference at which avalanche multiplication occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20210384280
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate to form a plurality of columns parallel to a first direction and a plurality of rows parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, and a driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element, the substrate includes a transistor region in which a plurality of transistors that form the driving circuit are arranged, the plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other in the first direction, and a virtual line parallel to the second direction, which passes through the transistor region of the first pixel, passes through the transistor region of the second pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Takahiro Akiyama, Hiromasa Tsuboi
  • Publication number: 20210375233
    Abstract: A light emission apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels that each include a light emission element, and a signal supply unit that supplies to each of the plurality of pixels a signal voltage that accords with inputted image data. Each of the plurality of pixels comprises a first transistor configured to control an amount of current that flows in the light emission element, and a second transistor disposed between a signal line on which the signal voltage is supplied and a gate electrode of the first transistor and, in an on state, write in the gate electrode the signal voltage. The signal supply unit adjusts the signal voltage in accordance with a frame rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Mizuki Nagasaki, Hiromasa Tsuboi