Patents by Inventor Kiyotaka KIMURA
Kiyotaka KIMURA 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: 11423844Abstract: A high-definition display device is provided. A small display device is provided. In the display device, a first layer and a second layer are stacked and provided. The first layer includes a gate driver circuit and a source driver circuit, and the second layer includes a display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit are provided to include a region overlapping with the display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit have an overlap region where they are not strictly separated from each other. Five or more gate driver circuits and five or more source driver circuits can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Hideaki Shishido, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Kosei Nei
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Publication number: 20220230573Abstract: A display device with a narrower frame can be provided. In the display device, a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer are provided to be stacked. The first layer includes a gate driver circuit and a data driver circuit, the second layer includes a demultiplexer circuit, and the third layer includes a display portion. In the display portion, pixels are arranged in a matrix, an input terminal of the demultiplexer circuit is electrically connected to the data driver circuit, and an output terminal of the demultiplexer circuit is electrically connected to some of the pixels. The gate driver circuit and the data driver circuit are provided to include a region overlapping some of the pixels. The gate driver circuit and the data driver circuit have a region where they are not strictly separated from each other and overlap each other. Five or more gate driver circuits and five or more data driver circuits can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Takashi NAKAGAWA, Takayuki IKEDA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Shuichi KATSUI, Kiyotaka KIMURA
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Publication number: 20220189398Abstract: A semiconductor device with low power consumption is provided. A semiconductor device that operates at high speed is provided. A semiconductor device with a small circuit area is provided. A novel semiconductor device is provided. In the semiconductor device, a signal line is electrically connected to a plurality of pixels between a first node and a second node; an amplifier circuit has a function of amplifying a supplied current and supplying the amplified current to the first node; an analog-to-digital converter circuit has a function of converting a potential of the first node into a first signal, and a function of converting a potential of the second node into a second signal; a sensing circuit has a function of comparing the first signal and the second signal and generating a third signal; and the current amplification factor of the amplifier circuit is determined in accordance with the third signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Kiyotaka KIMURA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Takayuki IKEDA
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Publication number: 20220137409Abstract: An object is to provide an electronic device capable of recognizing a user's facial feature accurately. A glasses-type electronic device includes a first optical component, a second optical component, a frame, an imaging device, a feature extraction unit, and an emotion estimation unit. The frame is in contact with a side surface of the first optical component and a side surface of the second optical component. The imaging device is in contact with the frame and has a function of detecting part of a user's face. The feature extraction unit has a function of extracting a feature of the user's face from the detected part of the user's face. The emotion estimation unit has a function of estimating information on the user from the extracted feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Takayuki IKEDA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Takashi NAKAGAWA, Kosei NEI, Kentaro HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220041101Abstract: A vehicle alarm device (200) having a novel structure is provided. The vehicle alarm device (200) includes a sound-source detection device (110), and the sound-source detection device (110) includes a plurality of microphones (116) and a delay circuit (117). As a transistor included in a signal retention circuit (22) inside the delay circuit (117), a transistor including an oxide semiconductor (OS transistor) is used. By the sound-source detection device (110), an extraneous sound is obtained and the sound-source position of the extraneous sound is identified. In the case where it is judged from the relative velocity or the like between the sound source whose position has been identified and the vehicle that the sound source and the vehicle are likely to collide, an acoustic signal for calling attention of the vehicle occupant is output.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Takayuki IKEDA, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Yuki TAMATSUKURI
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Publication number: 20210384239Abstract: An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and perform a product-sum operation of the analog data and a predetermined weight coefficient in the pixel to convert the data into binary data. When the binary data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Shintaro Harada, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Roh Yamamoto, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Yusuke Negoro
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Publication number: 20210295780Abstract: A high-definition display device is provided. A small display device is provided. In the display device, a first layer and a second layer are stacked and provided. The first layer includes a gate driver circuit and a source driver circuit, and the second layer includes a display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit are provided to include a region overlapping with the display portion. The gate driver circuit and the source driver circuit have an overlap region where they are not strictly separated from each other. Five or more gate driver circuits and five or more source driver circuits can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Takashi NAKAGAWA, Kosei NEI
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Publication number: 20210297775Abstract: A semiconductor device with a novel structure which can identify the sound source is provided. The semiconductor device includes a microphone array, delay circuits, and a signal processing circuit. The delay circuit includes a first selection circuit, which selects a microphone, signal retention circuits, which retain voltages depending on the sound signal, and a second selection circuit, which selects a signal retention circuit. Each signal retention circuit includes a transistor which includes a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor in its channel formation region. The first selection circuit writes the voltage of discreet sound signals to the signal retention circuit. The second selection circuit selects at different timings the voltages which are retained in the signal retention circuit and generates the output signal corresponding to the delayed sound signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Takeya HIROSE
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Patent number: 11101302Abstract: An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and perform a product-sum operation of the analog data and a predetermined weight coefficient in the pixel to convert the data into binary data. When the binary data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Kurokawa, Shintaro Harada, Hidetomo Kobayashi, Roh Yamamoto, Kiyotaka Kimura, Takashi Nakagawa, Yusuke Negoro
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Publication number: 20210134860Abstract: An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and perform a product-sum operation of the analog data and a predetermined weight coefficient in the pixel to convert the data into binary data. When the binary data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Yoshiyuki KUROKAWA, Shintaro HARADA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Roh YAMAMOTO, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Takashi NAKAGAWA, Yusuke NEGORO
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Patent number: 10878750Abstract: A method for reducing power consumption of a source driver included in a display device and suppressing heat generation is provided. In a display device in which each pixel is supplied with a data signal of image data through a source line, a source driver is included, each source line is electrically connected to the source driver, and the source driver has a function of driving the source lines. In the case where the amount of change of the data signal of the image data is small, in other words, in the case where power for charging and discharging the source line can be small, the source driver reduces the apparent size of the transistor at the output stage, and power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, the amount of heat generation can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyotaka Kimura, Hidetomo Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200176493Abstract: An imaging device capable of image processing is provided. The imaging device can retain analog data (image data) obtained by an image-capturing operation in a pixel and perform a product-sum operation of the analog data and a predetermined weight coefficient in the pixel to convert the data into binary data. When the binary data is taken in a neural network or the like, processing such as image recognition can be performed. Since enormous volumes of image data can be retained in pixels in the state of analog data, processing can be performed efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takayuki IKEDA, Yoshiyuki KUROKAWA, Shintaro HARADA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Roh YAMAMOTO, Kiyotaka KIMURA, Takashi NAKAGAWA, Yusuke NEGORO
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Publication number: 20200013332Abstract: A method for reducing power consumption of a source driver included in a display device and suppressing heat generation is provided. In a display device in which each pixel is supplied with a data signal of image data through a source line, a source driver is included, each source line is electrically connected to the source driver, and the source driver has a function of driving the source lines. In the case where the amount of change of the data signal of the image data is small, in other words, in the case where power for charging and discharging the source line can be small, the source driver reduces the apparent size of the transistor at the output stage, and power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, the amount of heat generation can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Kiyotaka KIMURA, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI