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: 20150179100
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display panel has pixel circuits for an active matrix driving system. At least one of the pixel circuits has a thin-film transistor in which a portion of a pattern of a metal wiring material above a channel layer of the thin-film transistor is disposed to shield the channel region of the thin-film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20150170566
    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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20150154909
    Abstract: A display includes a pixel array part with pixels that each have at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal input to a control terminal, and a scanner including a plurality of buffers that are formed of transistors. The buffers correspond to a pixel arrangement and output a drive signal to the control terminals of the transistors of the pixels. The transistors of the pixels and the transistors of the buffers are formed through irradiation with laser light that is moved for scanning in a predetermined direction and has a predetermined wavelength. The transistors in the buffers are formed in such a way that the channel length direction of the transistors is set parallel to the scan direction of the laser light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9048111
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buried insulating film formed on the substrate, an SOI layer formed on the buried insulating film, an insulating film formed to extend from a top surface of the SOI layer to the buried insulating film and to divide the SOI layer into a first SOI layer and a second SOI layer isolated from the first SOI layer, an element formed in the first SOI layer, and an electrode having at one end thereof a pad located directly above the second SOI layer, the other end of the electrode being connected to the first SOI layer. A cavity region is formed between the buried insulating film and the substrate directly below the first SOI layer. The portion of the buried insulating film directly below the second SOI layer is at least partially in direct contact with the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Tomohide Terashima
  • Patent number: 9041628
    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: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yusuke Onoyama, Tetsuo Minami, Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20150138255
    Abstract: The invention provides a pixel circuit that can cancel the influence of the mobility of a drive transistor. A drive transistor supplies a light-emitting element with an output current dependent upon an input voltage. The light-emitting element emits light with a luminance dependent upon a video signal in response to the output current supplied from the drive transistor. The pixel circuit includes a correction unit that corrects the input voltage held by a capacitive part in order to cancel the dependence of the output current on the carrier mobility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20150129879
    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: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Masatsugu Tomida, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9028461
    Abstract: A pull-on wear article having a front portion that is adapted to be worn around the front side of a wearer, a crotch portion that is adapted to be worn along the wearer's crotch region, and a rear portion that is adapted to be worn around the wearer's rear side, which is formed into a pants form by bonding lateral side edges of the front portion and lateral side edges of the rear portion, wherein the front portion and the rear portion are each constituted by an outer cover in which an inner layer material and an outer layer material are laminated, the outer cover has plural single layer areas that are formed of the inner layer material or the outer layer material at intervals in the direction of length of the outer cover, and the laminate areas where the inner layer material and outer layer material are laminated have elasticity in the waist-surrounding direction of the outer cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Kao Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Kobayashi, Hayami Ishikawa, Junichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20150125046
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of a user, a registered user information holder that holds face identification data of a registered user, and a face authentication section that detects a face image of a registered user existing in the shot image by using face identification data held in the registered user information holder. The information processing device further includes an information processing section that executes information processing based on a detection result by the face authentication section, and a face identification data registration section that updates the face identification data based on a face image extracted from a shot image of a user at predetermined timings. The face identification data registration section determines whether or not to update the face identification data with a condition corresponding to a situation in which the timing is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Shoichi IKENOUE, Naoyuki ONOE, Junichi YAMASHITA, Satoshi OZAKI, Natsuko SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9024929
    Abstract: A transistor connected to a power source for driving a light-emitting element driving transistor and a transistor setting to a predetermined voltage a source voltage of the light-emitting element driving transistor are commonly controlled by a control signal that takes one of three levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9024847
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9024848
    Abstract: Any one of a write scanning line, a power source supply line, and a video signal line is structured as a subsidiary wiring disposed in the same layer as that having a lower electrode disposed therein. The subsidiary wiring is used in the power source supply line through which a power source drive pulse to be pulse-driven is transmitted, or other wirings (such as the write scanning line and the video signal line).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20150103061
    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 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150103060
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20150097878
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a pixel array section including a row of scanning lines, a column of signal lines, and pixels in a matrix, each of the pixels disposed at an intersection of both of the lines; and a drive section. The drive section performs line progressive scanning on the pixels. The pixel includes a light emitting device, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a video signal in the holding capacitor, the driving transistor changes the device to a luminous state, the switching transistor becomes ON in advance of the sampling of the video signal to change the light emitting device to a non-luminous state, and the sampling transistor takes in the OFF voltage from the signal line to the driving transistor, thereby preventing a penetration current from flowing from the power source toward the fixed potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20150097858
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing device that includes: an image generation section configured to generate a peripheral image in an outer periphery of a first frame image to generate a second frame image that includes the first frame image and the peripheral image; and a coordinate conversion section configured to perform coordinate conversion on the second frame image to generate a third frame image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Daisuke Miki, Junichi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 9001011
    Abstract: An electroluminescent display panel has pixel circuits for an active matrix driving system. At least one of the pixel circuits has a thin-film transistor in which a portion of a pattern of a metal wiring material above a channel layer of the thin-film transistor is disposed to shield the channel region of the thin-film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8994626
    Abstract: A display includes a pixel array part with pixels that each have at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal input to a control terminal, and a scanner including a plurality of buffers that are formed of transistors. The buffers correspond to a pixel arrangement and output a drive signal to the control terminals of the transistors of the pixels. The transistors of the pixels and the transistors of the buffers are formed through irradiation with laser light that is moved for scanning in a predetermined direction and has a predetermined wavelength. The transistors in the buffers are formed in such a way that the channel length direction of the transistors is set parallel to the scan direction of the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8988326
    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: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8987376
    Abstract: Disclosed is a polyimide composition for semiconductor devices, which has a rheological characteristics suited for screen printing and dispense coating, which has an improved wetting property with various coating bases, by which continuous printing of 500 times or more can be attained, with which blisters, cissing and pinholes are not generated after printing and drying or during drying or curing, which can coat a desired area. A method of forming a film in a semiconductor and semiconductors having the film formed by this method as an insulation film, protective film or the like are also disclosed. The composition for semiconductor devices contains a mixed solvent of a first organic solvent (A) and a second organic solvent (B); and a polyimide resin having at least one group selected from the group consisting of alkyl groups and perfluoroalkyl groups in recurring units, and having thixotropic property, the polyimide resin being dissolved in the mixed solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: PI R&D Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Goshima, Sigemasa Segawa, Maw Soe Win, Junichi Yamashita, Ken Takanashi