Patents by Inventor Kouhei Ebisuno
Kouhei Ebisuno 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: 9105231Abstract: A display device includes: a power supplying unit which outputs at least one of a high-side output potential and a low-side output potential; a display unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix and which receives power supply from the power supplying unit; a monitor wire arranged along a column direction of the pixels in the matrix, which has one end connected to at least one pixel inside the display unit, and is for transmitting the high-side potential to be applied to the pixel; and a voltage regulating unit connected to the other end of the monitor wire, which regulates at least one of the high-side output potential and the low-side output potential to be outputted by the power supplying unit, to set a potential difference between the high-side potential and the low-side potential to a predetermined potential difference.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Toshiyuki Kato, Yasuo Segawa, Shinya Ono, Yosuke Izawa, Takashi Osako
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Patent number: 9058772Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of luminescent pixels arranged in a display. A power supply is connected to the plurality of luminescent pixels and configured to apply a high potential and a low potential to the plurality of luminescent pixels. A voltage measurer is configured to measure, for at least one pixel from among the plurality of luminescent pixels arranged in the display, at least one potential of the high potential and the low potential applied to the at least one pixel. A voltage regulator is configured to regulate the power supply in accordance with the at least one potential measured by the voltage measurer by setting a potential difference between the high potential and the low potential applied to the at least one pixel to a predetermined potential difference.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Toshiyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20150155302Abstract: A display device includes a lower wiring layer, an interlayer insulating layer, and an upper wiring layer. The lower wiring layer includes first partial electrode portions, first cuttable portions, and first openings; the upper wiring layer includes second partial electrode portions, second cuttable portions, and second openings. The first partial electrode portions and the second partial electrode portions are disposed in overlapping positions in the stacking direction; all the first cuttable portions and the second openings are disposed in overlapping positions in the stacking direction; all the second cuttable portions and the first openings are disposed in overlapping positions in the stacking direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masafumi Matsui, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Publication number: 20150091444Abstract: A panel for a display device includes a display unit, an electrostatic protection wire, a wire being connected to the display pixels, an electrostatic protection circuit, and an electrostatic protection circuit control line. The display unit includes a plurality of display pixels. The electrostatic protection wire is connected to a test pad, the test pad being provided to receive a test signal. The electrostatic protection circuit connects the electrostatic protection wire and the wire connected to the display pixels. The electrostatic protection circuit includes a back-gate-type transistor that has a gate electrode, a drain electrode being short-circuited with the gate electrode, and a back-gate electrode. The electrostatic protection circuit control line includes a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the back-gate electrode of the back-gate-type transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventor: Kouhei EBISUNO
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Publication number: 20150070253Abstract: A display device has a plurality of arrayed display pixels. A drive transistor includes a first gate electrode and supplies the current corresponding to a level of a luminance signal to the luminescence element. A switching transistor includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a second gate electrode and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is faced with the second gate electrode and has, in a channel width direction perpendicular to a channel length direction of the switching transistor, a channel region with a first width and a remainder region with a second width larger than the first width. The source electrode or the drain electrode is connected to the first gate electrode. The source electrode and the drain electrode are provided on the semiconductor layer at an interval. The second gate electrode overlaps, in a plan view, the channel region entirely and the remainder region at least partially.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: SHINYA ONO, HITOSHI TSUGE, KOUHEI EBISUNO
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Publication number: 20150053953Abstract: A display device including pixels, in which each of the pixels includes: a positive power supply line and a negative power supply line; a drive transistor that drives a current in a current path according to a gate-source voltage; an organic EL element including an anode and a cathode that are disposed in the current path; an electrostatic storage capacitor that stores the gate-source voltage by having a first electrode connected to a gate of the drive transistor, and a second electrode connected to a source of the drive transistor; a switch transistor that switches a conduction state between the second electrode and a data line; and a switch transistor for applying a negative power supply line voltage to the first electrode. A potential difference between a first power supply line voltage VDDp and a second power line voltage VEEp decreases with proximity to the center of a display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Shinya Ono
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Patent number: 8952953Abstract: A display device includes: a variable-voltage source which supplies at least a potential on a high-potential side or on a low-potential side; an organic EL display unit including a plurality of pixels; a potential difference detecting circuit which detects potentials on pixels; and a signal processing circuit which regulates an output potential from the variable-voltage source such that a potential difference between the potential at the pixel and a reference potential reaches a predetermined potential difference, in which resistance of a power wire at each part between adjacent pixels along a first direction is higher than resistance of a power wire at each part between adjacent pixels along a second direction, and an average distance between adjacent potential detecting points along the first direction is shorter than an average distance between adjacent potential detecting points along the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Toshiyuki Kato
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Patent number: 8952952Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a variable-voltage source which outputs a high-side output potential and a low-side output potential; an organic electroluminescence (EL) display unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; a potential difference detecting circuit which detects a high-side potential of a first pixel and a low-side potential of a second pixel; and a signal processing circuit which regulates at least one of the high-side output potential and the low-side output potential outputted from the variable-voltage source such that a potential difference between the high-side potential of the first pixel and the low-side potential of the second pixel reaches a predetermined potential difference.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Toshiyuki Kato
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Patent number: 8941638Abstract: A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a variable-voltage source supplying power source voltage; an organic EL display unit including power lines on high-potential side and low-potential side that are connected to pixels; a potential difference detecting circuit detecting a potential on the high-potential side of a monitor pixel; a voltage drop amount calculating circuit calculating an amount of voltage drop generated in the power line on the low-potential side from video data and estimating a potential at, at least one point of the power line on the low-potential side; and a signal processing circuit regulating power source voltage to be supplied from the variable voltage source such that a potential difference between the potential on the high-potential side detected by the potential difference detecting circuit and the potential on the low-potential side estimated by the voltage drop amount calculating circuit reaches a predetermined potential difference.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Toshiyuki Kato
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Publication number: 20140313241Abstract: Pixel circuits of a display device each include: a drive transistor including one of a source and drain connected to a power source line; a capacitive element including a first terminal connected to a gate of the drive transistor; a switching element which switches conduction/non-conduction between a second terminal of the capacitive element and a data line; a switching element which switches conduction/non-conduction between the second terminal of the capacitive element and the source of the drive transistor; a switching element which switches conduction/non-conduction between the first terminal of the capacitive element and a reference voltage line; a light-emitting element including a first terminal connected to the other of the source and drain of the drive transistor and a second terminal connected to another power source line. The reference voltage line provides a forward bias voltage larger than a threshold voltage across the gate and source of the drive transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2011Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Ono, Arinobu Kanegae, Hitoshi Tsuge, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Publication number: 20140299867Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes a cathode electrode formed above a bank and formed opposite to a plurality of anode electrodes, and a charge functional layer commonly formed for each of the organic light-emitting layers across a plurality of aperture areas formed in the bank. A distance from the center of the display region to the end of the cathode electrode is shorter than a distance from the center of the display region to the end of the charge functional layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2011Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Ono, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Publication number: 20140291661Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes an anode electrode formed above a bank and formed opposite to a plurality of cathode electrodes, and a charge functional layer commonly formed for each of the organic light-emitting layers across a plurality of aperture areas formed in the bank. A distance from the center of the display region to the end of the anode electrode is shorter than a distance from the center of the display region to the end of the charge functional layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Shinya Ono, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Publication number: 20140284591Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes an anode electrode formed above a bank and formed opposite to a plurality of cathode electrodes, and a charge functional layer commonly formed for each of the organic light-emitting layers across a plurality of aperture areas formed in the bank. An end portion of the anode electrode and an end portion of the charge functional layer are provided above the bank located adjacent to a boundary between a display region and a peripheral region of a display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2012Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Shinya Ono, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Publication number: 20140264315Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes a cathode electrode formed above a bank and formed opposite to a plurality of anode electrodes, and a charge functional layer commonly formed for each of the organic light-emitting layers across a plurality of aperture areas formed in the bank. An end portion of the cathode electrode and an end portion of the charge functional layer are provided above the bank located adjacent to a boundary between a display region and a peripheral region of a display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2011Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Ono, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Patent number: 8830215Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes: an organic EL element; an electrostatic holding capacitor; a drive transistor having a gate connected to one electrode of an electrostatic holding capacitor and a source connected to an anode of the organic EL element; another electrostatic holding capacitor having an electrode connected to the other electrode of the one electrostatic holding capacitor; a negative power supply line which determines a potential of a cathode of the organic EL element; and a scanning line drive circuit which controls switching transistors. In a display period, the entire display area of a display unit is caused to start generating photons at once. In a non-display period, the entire display area of the display unit is caused to stop generating photons at once, and the drive transistor is reset.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinya Ono, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Patent number: 8823612Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence (EL) display device including: above a substrate, scanning lines; data lines; emissive pixels disposed near cross-points of the scanning lines and the data lines; and power supply lines for supplying currents to the emissive pixels, wherein the emissive pixels each have: a switching thin film transistor having a gate to which a scan signal is supplied via one of the scanning lines; a current control thin film transistor for controlling a current to be applied to the emissive pixel, in accordance with the voltage determined based on a data voltage supplied from one of the data lines via the switching thin film transistor; and an organic EL element to which a current is supplied from one of the power supply lines via the current control thin film transistor, the organic EL element including a lower electrode, an organic light-emissive layer, and an upper electrode.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinya Ono, Masafumi Matsui, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Patent number: 8823690Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes: an organic EL element; an electrostatic holding capacitor; a drive transistor having a gate connected to one electrode of an electrostatic holding capacitor and a source connected to an anode of the organic EL element; another electrostatic holding capacitor having an electrode connected to the other electrode of the one electrostatic holding capacitor; a negative power supply line which determines a potential of a cathode of the organic EL element; and a scanning line drive circuit which controls switching transistors. In a display period, the entire display area of a display unit is caused to start generating photons at once. In a non-display period, the entire display area of the display unit is caused to stop generating photons at once, and the drive transistor is reset.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2012Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Shinya Ono, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Patent number: 8803869Abstract: A display device includes: a reference voltage setting unit, an organic EL display unit; a monitor wire and sample-and-hold circuit which detect at least one of a high-side potential and a low-side potential applied to at least one pixel inside the organic EL display unit; and a variable-voltage source which regulates at least one of a high-side output potential and a low-side output potential outputted from the reference voltage setting unit. The monitor wire and the sample-and-hold circuit perform the detection of the at least one of the high-side potential and the low-side potential in at least part of an image display period, and the monitor wire and the sample-and-hold circuit do not perform the detection of the at least one of the high-side potential and the low-side potential in a black display period.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Kato, Kouhei Ebisuno
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Patent number: 8791883Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a display that includes pixels arranged in a matrix. Each pixel includes a driver, a capacitor between a gate and a source of the driver, a switch, and a luminescent element connected to the drain of the driver. Scan lines provide a scan signal for scanning the pixels. Data lines provide a signal voltage to the pixels. Power lines are electrically connected to the source and the drain of the driver. The driver includes a back gate electrode which is provided a predetermined bias voltage. A drive circuit provides the predetermined bias voltage to the back gate electrode so that the absolute value of a threshold voltage of the driver is greater than a gate-source voltage of the driver to place the driver in a non-conducting state.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: July 29, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kouhei Ebisuno, Shinya Ono
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Patent number: 8766969Abstract: A display device includes: a reference voltage setting unit, an organic EL display unit; a monitor wire and sample-and-hold circuit which detect at least one of a high-side potential and a low-side potential applied to at least one pixel inside the organic EL display unit; and a variable-voltage source which regulates at least one of a high-side output potential and a low-side output potential outputted from the reference voltage setting unit. The monitor wire and the sample-and-hold circuit perform the detection of the at least one of the high-side potential and the low-side potential in at least part of an image display period, and the monitor wire and the sample-and-hold circuit do not perform the detection of the at least one of the high-side potential and the low-side potential in a black display period.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Kato, Kouhei Ebisuno