Patents by Inventor Koji KUSUNOKI

Koji KUSUNOKI 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: 12272700
    Abstract: A highly reliable display apparatus is provided. In an EL display apparatus including a specific pixel having a function of adding data, a storage node is provided in the pixel, and first data can be held in the storage node. In the pixel, second data is added to the first data through capacitive coupling, whereby third data can be generated. A light-emitting device operates in accordance with the third data. In the pixel, a light-emitting device that requires a high voltage for light emission or a light-emitting device to which application of a high voltage is preferred is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Shingo Eguchi
  • Patent number: 12271537
    Abstract: A highly convenient display system is provided. A display system that enables a screen to be operated easily with a laser pointer is provided. A display system that enables a screen to be operated by a large number of people is provided. The display system includes a light-emitting apparatus and a display device. The light-emitting apparatus includes a means for emitting visible laser light and a means for emitting invisible light. The display device includes a display unit including a means for displaying an image and a means for obtaining positional information on a portion irradiated with the visible light, and a means for receiving the invisible light. The display system has a function of performing processing in accordance with the positional information when the invisible light is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Daisuke Kubota, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Patent number: 12271233
    Abstract: To increase the detection sensitivity of a touch panel, provide a thin touch panel, provide a foldable touch panel, or provide a lightweight touch panel. A display element and a capacitor forming a touch sensor are provided between a pair of substrates. Preferably, a pair of conductive layers forming the capacitor each have an opening. The opening and the display element are provided to overlap each other. A light-blocking layer is provided between a substrate on the display surface side and the pair of conductive layers forming the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Hiroyuki Miyake, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12260838
    Abstract: A display apparatus with low power consumption is provided. The display apparatus includes a circuit for boosting a signal voltage output from a gate driver. The signal voltage from the gate driver can be boosted and then supplied to a pixel, which is suitable for driving a display device with a high threshold voltage. Furthermore, by utilizing a boosting function, output of the gate driver can be reduced, and power consumption can also be reduced. By combination with a pixel having a boosting function of image data, a display apparatus with lower power consumption can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 12254071
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including a biometric recognition function and a touch sensor or near touch sensor function is provided. The semiconductor device includes a light-emitting device and an imaging device. The imaging device includes a gate driver circuit and m rows of pixels (m is an integer more than or equal to 2). The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of first register circuits and second register circuits whose number is less than that of the first register circuits. The first register circuits are connected with each other in series and the second register circuits are connected with each other in series. The gate driver circuit has a function of operating in the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, the first register circuits are in the on state and the second register circuits are in the off state, and in the second mode, the second register circuits are in the on state and the first register circuits are in the off state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimoto, Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12256597
    Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daiki Nakamura, Ryo Hatsumi, Rai Sato, Shingo Eguchi, Koji Kusunoki
  • Publication number: 20250077012
    Abstract: A display device featuring a touch detection and a fingerprint imaging functions is provided. A display device includes a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element. The light-emitting element includes a first pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a common electrode, and the light-receiving element includes a second pixel electrode, an active layer, and the common electrode. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are provided on the same plane. The common electrode overlaps with the first pixel electrode with the light-emitting layer therebetween, and overlaps with the second pixel electrode with the active layer therebetween. A first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an insulating layer are provided above the common electrode. The insulating layer is provided above the first conductive layer, and the second conductive layer is provided above the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Daisuke KUBOTA, Ryo HATSUMI, Taisuke KAMADA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 12243345
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of detecting a difference in the way of touch is provided. An electronic device capable of detecting a difference in the way of touch with a small number of components is provided. An electronic device capable of executing various types of processes with simple operation is provided. The electronic device includes a control portion and a display portion. The display portion has a function of displaying an image on a screen and includes a detection portion. The detection portion has a function of detecting a touch operation and a function of imaging, at least twice, a detection object touching the screen. The control portion has a function of calculating a difference between the area of the detection object in first imaging and the area of the detection object in second imaging to execute a different process depending on whether the difference is larger or smaller than a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Daisuke Kubota, Ryo Hatsumi
  • Publication number: 20250061833
    Abstract: A display device whose change in chromaticity is small and grayscale controllability is high is provided. The display device can turn on and turn off a light-emitting device by PAM and PWM control (a pulse width control involving changes in amplitude). The display device writes the same input signal (data potential) to a first node and a second node to turn on the light-emitting device in accordance with a potential of the first node and generate a pulse signal in accordance with a potential of the second node. The potential of the first node can be reset in accordance with the generated pulse signal. Therefore, the light-emitting device can emit light for a desired period with a desired emission intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Tomoaki ATSUMI, Naoto KUSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 12230172
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having favorable display quality is provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a display portion, a line-of-sight sensor portion, a control portion, and an arithmetic portion. The line-of-sight sensor portion has a function of obtaining first information showing a direction of a user's line of sight. The arithmetic portion has a function of determining a first region including a gaze point of the user on the display portion with use of the first information and a function of increasing a definition of an image displayed on the first region. Light emitted from the display portion may be used to obtain the first information showing the direction of the line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yosuke Tsukamoto, Koji Kusunoki, Hisao Ikeda, Akio Endo, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Hideki Uochi
  • Patent number: 12219857
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a photosensing function is provided. The display apparatus includes a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit includes a light-receiving device, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The second pixel circuit includes a light-emitting device. The light-receiving device includes a first pixel electrode, an active layer, and a common electrode. The light-emitting device includes a second pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, and the common electrode. The active layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and includes a first organic compound. The light-emitting layer is positioned over the second pixel electrode and includes a second organic compound different from the first organic compound. The common electrode includes a portion overlapping with the first pixel electrode with the active layer therebetween and a portion overlapping with the second pixel electrode with the light-emitting layer therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunori Watanabe, Koji Kusunoki, Susumu Kawashima, Taisuke Kamada, Ryo Hatsumi, Daisuke Kubota
  • Publication number: 20250031549
    Abstract: A display device having both a touch detection function and a function of capturing an image of a shape of a fingerprint or a vein is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a light-receiving element, a light-blocking layer, a first resin layer, and a second resin layer. The first light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are arranged over the first substrate, and the first resin layer is provided over the first light-emitting element and the light-receiving element. The light-blocking layer is provided over the first resin layer, and the second light-emitting element is provided over the light-blocking layer. The second resin layer is provided over the second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting element emits visible light upward, and the second light-emitting element emits invisible light upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Shingo EGUCHI, Daisuke KUBOTA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20250015088
    Abstract: A display apparatus with high luminance and a long lifetime is provided. The display apparatus includes a first layer and a second layer positioned above the first layer. The first layer includes a substrate and a plurality of driver circuit regions, and the second layer includes a plurality of display regions. The substrate is a glass substrate. Each of the plurality of driver circuit regions includes a driver circuit, and the driver circuit includes a transistor including silicon in a channel formation region. Each of the plurality of display regions includes a pixel, and the pixel includes a light-emitting diode and a transistor including a metal oxide in a channel formation region. Specifically, the light-emitting diode is preferably a micro light-emitting diode. The driver circuit included in one of the plurality of driver circuit regions has a function of driving the display pixel included in one of the plurality of display regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Tomoaki ATSUMI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Susumu KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 12190812
    Abstract: A display device that has high display quality is provided. A highly reliable display device is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of a first transistor. The other of the source and the drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of a second transistor. A gate electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of a third transistor. A semiconductor layer of the second transistor and a semiconductor layer of the third transistor each include indium, zinc and a third metal. The ratio of the number of indium atoms to the total number of the indium atoms, zinc atoms, and atoms of the third metal in the semiconductor layer of the second transistor is higher than or equal to 30 atomic % and lower than or equal to 100 atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kenichi Okazaki, Koji Kusunoki
  • Publication number: 20250004337
    Abstract: A display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. A step caused by a contact hole (50) for electrically connecting a wiring (33) and a pixel electrode (41) to each other is eliminated by being filled with an organic insulating layer (52), and a top surface of the pixel electrode is made flat to form an alignment film (45a) so that an alignment defect of a liquid crystal layer (40) is reduced. In addition, a light-transmitting material is used for the wiring (33) exposed to a bottom portion of the contact hole (50). Accordingly, an effective display region of a liquid crystal device can be increased. That is, the display device can have a high aperture ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Masahiro KATAYAMA, Rai SATO
  • Publication number: 20250008780
    Abstract: A display apparatus with high resolution is provided. The display apparatus includes a transistor, a light-emitting device, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The transistor includes a semiconductor layer and a second conductive layer electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The light-emitting device includes a pixel electrode. The first insulating layer is provided over the transistor and includes a first opening reaching the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer covers the first opening. The second insulating layer is provided over the first insulating layer and includes a second opening in a region overlapping with the first opening. The pixel electrode covers a top surface of the second insulating layer and the second opening. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through the first conductive layer. An end portion of the first insulating layer is positioned over the second conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Masataka NAKADA, Masahiro KATAYAMA, Rai SATO, Yasuharu HOSAKA, Toshimitsu OBONAI, Masayoshi DOBASHI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Tomonori NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20250008804
    Abstract: The resolution of a display apparatus having a light detection function is increased. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a light-emitting and light-receiving device. The light-emitting device includes a first pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, and a common electrode; the light-emitting and light-receiving device includes a second pixel electrode, a second light-emitting layer, an active layer, and the common electrode; the active layer includes an organic compound; the first light-emitting layer is positioned between the first pixel electrode and the common electrode; the second light-emitting layer and the active layer are each positioned between the second pixel electrode and the common electrode; the light-emitting device has a function of emitting light of a first color; and the light-emitting and light-receiving device has a function of emitting light of a second color and a function of receiving light of the first color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Daisuke KUBOTA, Taisuke KAMADA, Ryo HATSUMI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20240429352
    Abstract: A display device having high light-extraction efficiency is provided. A low-power display device is provided. In a red or green pixel included in the display device, a light-emitting element, an optically functional layer, and a wavelength-conversion layer are stacked in this order. The light-emitting element emits blue light, the optically functional layer transmits the blue light and reflects red and green light, and the wavelength-conversion layer converts the blue light into red or green light. The blue light emitted by the light-emitting element passes through the optically functional layer and enters the wavelength-conversion layer, and red or green light is emitted to the outside. The red or green light emitted from the wavelength-conversion layer to the optically functional layer side is reflected by the optically functional layer and emitted to the outside, which improves light-extraction efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya AOYAMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 12178093
    Abstract: The resolution of a display apparatus having a light detection function is increased. A display apparatus includes a plurality of transistors and a light-emitting and light-receiving device in a subpixel. The light-emitting and light-receiving device has a function of emitting light of a first color and a function of receiving light of a second color. One of a source and a drain of a first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring, and the other thereof is electrically connected to a gate of a second transistor. One electrode of the light-emitting and light-receiving device is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor, one of a source and a drain of a third transistor, and one of a source and a drain of a fifth transistor. One of a source and a drain of a fourth transistor is electrically connected to a second wiring, and the other thereof is electrically connected to the other of the source and the drain of the third transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Daisuke Kubota, Taisuke Kamada, Ryo Hatsumi
  • Publication number: 20240420616
    Abstract: A display apparatus or an electronic device with low power consumption is provided. An image processing system capable of reducing the amount of communication data is provided. The image processing system includes a display portion, an input portion, an arithmetic portion, and an image processing portion. The input portion has a function of obtaining positional information on pointing operation by a user. The arithmetic portion has a function of defining a first region and a second region in accordance with the positional information. The image processing portion has a function of executing image processing on a portion of a first image to generate a second image, the portion corresponding to the first region. The display portion has a function of displaying the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Daisuke KUBOTA, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI