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).

  • Publication number: 20170243536
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Takao Tanikame, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20170229067
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9685112
    Abstract: A display unit (1) includes a light-emitting device (13) and a pixel circuit (12) in each pixel (11), and a drive section (20) configured to drive the pixel circuit (12). The pixel circuit (12) includes a drive transistor (Tr1) configured to drive the light-emitting device (13), and a write transistor (Tr2) configured to control application of a signal voltage corresponding to an image signal to a gate of the drive transistor (Tr1). The drive section (20) performs Vth correction that allows a gate-source voltage of the drive transistor (Tr1) to be brought close to a threshold voltage of the drive transistor (Tr1) on all pixel rows, and then performs writing of the signal voltage corresponding to the image signal to gates of the drive transistors (Tr1) in all pixel rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Omoto, Junichi Yamashita, Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 9663716
    Abstract: A compound represented by formula (1-1) or (1-2) is provided. For example, R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons or alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons; the ring A1, the ring A2, the ring A3, the ring A4, the ring A5 and the ring A6 are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; a, b, c, d, e and f are independently 0 or 1, and the sum of a, b, c, d, e and f is 2; and g, h, i, j, k and l are independently 0 or 1, and the sum of g, h, i, j, k and l is 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokifumi Masukawa, Kenji Hirata, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9666130
    Abstract: 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, wherein a source of a TFT 111 as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element 114, a drain is connected to a power source potential VCC, a capacitor C111 is connected between a gate and source of the TFT 111, and a source potential of the TFT 111 is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT 113 as a switching transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170148386
    Abstract: 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) a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, (B) a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and (C) a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, (A-1) one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, (A-2) 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 (A-3) 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: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Junichi YAMASHITA, Yusuke ONOYAMA, Tetsuo MINAMI, Naobumi TOYOMURA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO, Katsuhide UCHINO
  • Patent number: 9653021
    Abstract: Disclosed here in is a display apparatus, including, a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels arrayed in rows and columns and each including an electro-optical device, a pixel circuit provided commonly to each plural ones of the pixels in the same pixel row in the pixel array section and including a writing transistor for writing an image signal, a holding capacitor for holding the image signal written by the writing transistor and a driving transistor for driving the electro-optical devices of the plural pixels, and a plurality of scanning circuits configured to time-divisionally and selectively place the electro-optical devices included in the pixels into a forwardly biased state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9646532
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel array unit that is formed by disposing pixel circuits that include 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 light emission and non-light 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, a first end of which is connected to the source electrode of the drive transistor, and a drive unit that, during threshold correction, applies a standard voltage that is used in threshold correction to the gate electrode of the drive transistor in a state in which the source electrode of the drive transistor has been set to a floating state, and subsequently applies a pulse signal to a second end of the auxiliary capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Onoyama, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9640110
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9640111
    Abstract: 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) a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, (B) a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and (C) a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, (A-1) one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, (A-2) 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 (A-3) 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yusuke Onoyama, Tetsuo Minami, Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9633604
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a pixel array unit that is made by arranging a drive transistor to drive a light emitting unit, a sampling transistor to sample a signal voltage, and a pixel circuit having a storage capacitor to store the signal voltage which is written by sampling with the sampling transistor, and a drive unit that makes a gate node and a source node of the drive transistor be in a floating state up to performing writing of the signal voltage with the sampling transistor, after writing an initialization voltage in the gate node when the source node of the drive transistor is in a non-floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Kimura, Yusuke Onoyama, Naobumi Toyomura, Junichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20170110053
    Abstract: A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain 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 serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9617477
    Abstract: A compound represented by formula (1), a liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display device are described. In formula (1), for example, the ring A1 and the ring A4 are phenylene or cyclohexylene; Z1, Z2, Z3 and Z4 are a single bond or alkylene having 1 to 6 carbons; L1 is a single bond; s and t are 0; and P1, P2, P3 and P4 are a polymerizable group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignees: JNC CORPORATION, JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Goto, Maiko Matsukuma, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9620059
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Takao Tanikame, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20170098412
    Abstract: In a display apparatus including a switching transistor, a correction voltage for eliminating an effect of a variation in a characteristic of a driving transistor is stored in a storage capacitor. The switching transistor is disposed between one current terminal of the driving transistor and a light emitting element. The switching transistor turns off during the non-light emission period thereby to electrically disconnect the light emitting element from the one current terminal of the driving transistor thereby preventing a leakage current from flowing through the light emitting element during the period in which the correction unit operates, and thus preventing the correction voltage from having an error due to the leakage current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Masatsugu Tomida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9601055
    Abstract: 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) a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, (B) a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and (C) a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, (A-1) one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, (A-2) 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 (A-3) 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yusuke Onoyama, Tetsuo Minami, Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20170061887
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including a pixel array unit that is made by arranging a drive transistor to drive a light emitting unit, a sampling transistor to sample a signal voltage, and a pixel circuit having a storage capacitor to store the signal voltage which is written by sampling with the sampling transistor, and a drive unit that makes a gate node and a source node of the drive transistor be in a floating state up to performing writing of the signal voltage with the sampling transistor, after writing an initialization voltage in the gate node when the source node of the drive transistor is in a non-floating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kei Kimura, Yusuke Onoyama, Naobumi Toyomura, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9583040
    Abstract: A display device includes: a pixel array including pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each pixel circuit having a light emitting element, a drive transistor, and a storage capacitor storing a threshold voltage of the transistor and an inputted signal value; and a threshold correction operation means for performing a threshold correction operation plural times, which allows the storage capacitor to store the threshold voltage by applying a drive voltage to the transistor in a state where a gate potential of the transistor is fixed in a reference potential before giving the signal value to the storage capacitor. The threshold correction operation is started in a state where the gate potential is made a correction acceleration potential higher than the reference potential only at the threshold correction operation of the first half in the plural threshold correction operations, then, returns the gate potential to the reference potential to be fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9570007
    Abstract: A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain 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 serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: RE46287
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern; and a driving circuit for driving the pixel unit. Each of the pixels includes a signal level holding capacitor; a first transistor that is turned on/off in response to a writing signal and via which one end of the signal level holding capacitor is connected to a signal line; a second transistor having one end of the signal level holding capacitor connected to a gate thereof and the other end of the signal level holding capacitor connected to a source thereof; a current-driven self-light-emitting element whose cathode is held at a cathode potential and whose anode is connected to the source of the second transistor; a third transistor that is turned on/off in response to a driving pulse signal; and a fourth transistor that is turned on/off in response to a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita