Patents by Inventor Junichi Yamashita
Junichi Yamashita 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: 11183117Abstract: A light-emitting device comprising an emitting unit including at least two emitting elements, a driving unit configured to control the emitting unit, and a capacitor unit formed over the driving unit. A shield layer may be located between the two emitting elements. In one example, the capacitor unit is formed at a level higher than a level of the driving unit, and a shield layer that is located between the two emitting elements is formed at a level that is higher than the level of the driving unit and equal to or lower than the level of the capacitor unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 11183119Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20210358394Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixel circuits each including: a light-emitting element; a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller configured to control whether to supply current to the light-emitting element; and a constant current controller configured to supply the current to the light-emitting element, wherein the constant current controller, the PWM controller, and the light-emitting element are connected in series between a first power line and a second power line to supply the current to the light-emitting element; and a transistor configured to turn off the light-emitting element during a constant current setting period is provided between the first power line and the constant current controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi YAMASHITA, Daisuke KAWAE, Shinji YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 11170721Abstract: A pixel circuit performs a threshold voltage correcting function. A sampling transistor becomes conductive in response to a control signal supplied from a scan line and samples a video signal supplied from a signal line to a pixel capacitor during a horizontal scanning period. The pixel capacitor applies an input voltage to a gate of a drive transistor in response to the sampled video signal. The drive transistor supplies an output current in accordance with the input voltage to a light-emitting device. A threshold voltage correcting period is provided to be part of the horizontal scanning period, to detect the threshold voltage of the drive transistor, and to write the threshold voltage in the pixel capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 11151938Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array unit and a driving unit which drives the pixel array unit. The pixel array unit includes rows of first scanning lines and second scanning lines, columns of signals, pixels in a matrix state arranged at portions where the scanning lines and the signal lines cross each other and power supply lines and ground lines supplying power to respective pixels. The driving unit includes a first scanner performing line-sequential scanning to pixels by each row by supplying a first control signal to each first scanning line sequentially, a second scanner supplying a second control signal to each second scanning line sequentially so as to correspond to the line-sequential scanning and a signal selector supplying a video signal to rows of signal lines so as to correspond to the line-sequential scanning.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Takao Tanikame, Katsuhide Uchino
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Publication number: 20210295772Abstract: A display device including: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, each including an electro-optical element having a structure in which a display functional layer is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode; and an auxiliary interconnect contact in a pixel area in which the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix and electrically connecting the upper electrode to an auxiliary interconnect, wherein m (m is an integer equal to or larger than two) sub-pixels adjacent to each other along an arrangement direction of the sub-pixels are regarded as one group, and n (n is a natural number smaller than m) auxiliary interconnect contacts are formed for each group.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 11114029Abstract: An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials necessary for the operations of pixel circuit; a signal part which supplies a video signal to the signal lines; and a scanner part which supplies a control signal to the first to fourth scanning lines, and in turn scans the pixel circuit for every row, wherein the pixel circuits include a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, first to third switching transistors, a pixel capacitance, and a light emitting device, and a channel length of the drive transistor is made longer than a channel length of the switching transistors to suppress fluctuations in threshold voltage.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yutaka Mitomi, Tetsuo Minami, Takao Tanikame
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Publication number: 20210264848Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light emitting element group including a plurality of light emitting elements, a pixel circuit configured to supply a reference voltage to the plurality of light emitting elements to allow a light emitting element, which emits light, in the light emitting element group, to be changed according to a plurality of sub-fields forming one field.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichi YAMASHITA, Daisuke KAWAE, Takashige FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20210210003Abstract: A display module including a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels each comprising a plurality of sub pixels, the pixels being disposed on a plurality of row lines of the display panel and a driver. The driver being configured to apply a pulse width modulation (PWM) data voltage to the sub pixels in a sequential order of the row lines; and drive the display panel such that the sub pixels included in a plurality of consecutive row lines among the plurality of row lines emit light, in the sequential order of the row lines, for a time corresponding to the applied PWM data voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicants: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITYInventors: Jinho KIM, Yong-Sang Kim, Daisuke Kawae, Junichi Yamashita, Takashige Fujimori, Donggun Oh, Jongsu Oh, Tetsuya Shigeta
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Patent number: 11056052Abstract: A display device including: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, each including an electro-optical element having a structure in which a display functional layer is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode; and an auxiliary interconnect contact in a pixel area in which the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix and electrically connecting the upper electrode to an auxiliary interconnect, wherein m (m is an integer equal to or larger than two) sub-pixels adjacent to each other along an arrangement direction of the sub-pixels are regarded as one group, and n (n is a natural number smaller than m) auxiliary interconnect contacts are formed for each group.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
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Publication number: 20210158748Abstract: A display apparatus includes a light emitting element; and a pixel circuit configured to drive the light emitting element. The pixel circuit may include a first capacitor configured to output a first voltage corresponding to an image signal; a first transistor having a control terminal connected to the first capacitor and to which the first voltage is applied, a first terminal to which a second voltage corresponding to a slope signal that changes over time is applied, and a second terminal configured to output an output signal based on a comparison between the first voltage and the second voltage; and a driving circuit configured to drive the light emitting element based on the output signal of the second terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke KAWAE, Junichi YAMASHITA, Takashige FUJIMORI
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Publication number: 20210118364Abstract: A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes. The circuit includes a source of a TFT used as a drive transistor that is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, and a drain of the TFT is connected to a power source potential. A capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT used as a switching transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2020Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: 10984729Abstract: A gray-scale voltage generating circuit includes: a ladder resistor circuit including a plurality of resistors connected in series to one another, and configured to output a plurality of gray-scale voltages with different voltage values from ends of the respective resistors; and a constant current source configured to be connected in series to the ladder resistor circuit, in which the constant current source includes a current source transistor configured to be connected in series to the ladder resistor circuit, and a voltage setting section configured to select one voltage from the plurality of voltages and set the selected voltage as a voltage determining a current that is to flow through the current source transistor.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kei Kimura, Yusuke Onoyama, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 10986304Abstract: A display device includes: a panel in which plural pixels that emit lights according to a video signal are sectioned into plural areas; a light reception sensor that is arranged in each of the areas and outputs a light reception signal according to light emission luminance; and signal processing means. The area includes first and second pixel groups including at least one pixel and plural pixels other than the first pixel group, respectively. The signal processing means includes arithmetic means for outputting an arithmetic signal according to arithmetic operation of an offset value and a light reception value; converting means for outputting digital data according to the arithmetic signal; and correcting means for correcting the video signal according to the digital data and supplying the corrected video signal to the first pixel group.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2009Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: JOLED Inc.Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
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Publication number: 20210043141Abstract: A light-emitting device comprising an emitting unit including at least two emitting elements, a driving unit configured to control the emitting unit, and a capacitor unit formed over the driving unit. A shield layer may be located between the two emitting elements. In one example, the capacitor unit is formed at a level higher than a level of the driving unit, and a shield layer that is located between the two emitting elements is formed at a level that is higher than the level of the driving unit and equal to or lower than the level of the capacitor unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 10909919Abstract: Provided is a display device in which a pixel circuit is arranged, the pixel circuit including a P channel type driving transistor that drives a light emitting unit, a sampling transistor that samples a signal voltage, a light emission control transistor that controls light emission/non-light emission of the light emitting unit, a holding capacitor that is connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the driving transistor, and holds the signal voltage written by the sampling by the sampling transistor, and an auxiliary capacitor that is connected between the source electrode of the driving transistor and a node having fixed potential, the display device including: a current path that flows a current flowing in the driving transistor in a non-light emission period of the light emitting unit into a predetermined node.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Naobumi Toyomura, Yusuke Onoyama, Junichi Yamashita
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Patent number: 10885837Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element having a light-emitting unit and a driving circuit for driving the light-emitting unit. The driving circuit at least includes a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, the other region of the source/drain regions is connected to the light-emitting unit and connected to one end of the capacitive unit, and forms a second node, and the gate electrode is connected to the other region of the source/drain regions of the video signal write transistor and connected to the other end of the capacitive unit, and forms a first node.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yusuke Onoyama, Tetsuo Minami, Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
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Publication number: 20200402456Abstract: An image display device includes: a pixel array part formed of first to fourth scanning lines arranged in rows, signal lines arranged in columns, pixel circuits in a matrix connected to the scanning lines and signal lines, and a plurality of power source lines which supplies first to third potentials necessary for the operations of pixel circuit; a signal part which supplies a video signal to the signal lines; and a scanner part which supplies a control signal to the first to fourth scanning lines, and in turn scans the pixel circuit for every row, wherein the pixel circuits include a sampling transistor, a drive transistor, first to third switching transistors, a pixel capacitance, and a light emitting device, and a channel length of the drive transistor is made longer than a channel length of the switching transistors to suppress fluctuations in threshold voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yutaka Mitomi, Tetsuo Minami, Takao Tanikame
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Patent number: 10839747Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel array unit with pixel circuits disposed in matrix form, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, an electro-optic element, a storage-capacitor, and a sampling transistor, with the electro-optic element emitting light by generating a driving current based on information stored in the storage-capacitor at the driving transistor to be applied to the electro-optic element; and a control unit, of which the output stage includes a buffer transistor, to output a pulse signal for driving the pixel array unit from the buffer transistor; wherein the pixel array unit and the control unit are formed with long laser beam irradiation to be scanned in the vertical direction; and with the control unit, buffer transistors for outputting a pulse signal for sampling to an input video signal to each signal line are arrayed in a column in the longitudinal direction of the laser beam irradiation.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
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Publication number: 20200320931Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array unit formed by disposing pixel circuits having a P-channel type drive transistor that drives a light-emitting unit, a sampling transistor that applies a signal voltage, a light emission control transistor that controls emission/non-emission of the light-emitting unit, a storage capacitor that is connected between a gate electrode and a source electrode of the drive transistor and an auxiliary capacitor that is connected to the source electrode, and a drive unit that, during threshold correction, respectively applies a first voltage and a second voltage to the source electrode of the drive transistor and the gate electrode thereof, the difference between the first voltage and the second voltage being less than a threshold voltage of the drive transistor, and subsequently performs driving that applies a standard voltage used in threshold correction to the gate electrode when the source electrode is in a floating state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Yusuke Onoyama, Junichi Yamashita, Naobumi Toyomura