Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Asano

Mitsuru Asano 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: 20240423059
    Abstract: Improved image quality for display elements with an inclined optical axis of emission light is disclosed. In one example, a display element includes pixel array portion with pixels each including subpixels that respectively include a light emitting portion and a color filter that transmits emission light of a predetermined wavelength among pieces of the emission light from the light emitting portion. The color filters are displaced with respect to centers of the light emitting portions. The displacement of the color filters varies among the subpixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Chugen Hamachi, Mitsuru Asano, Yosuke Motoyama, Keiichi Yagi
  • Publication number: 20240397790
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and an electronic device capable of suppressing entry of moisture from a boundary between a substrate and a color filter and suppressing light reflection of external light, and having an improved degree of freedom in a layout of a groove portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: KEIICHI YAGI, YOSUKE MOTOYAMA, CHUGEN HAMACHI, MITSURU ASANO
  • Patent number: 11004390
    Abstract: A display panel including pixels disposed on a substrate, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, and a capacitor. The capacitor of a first one of the pixels is partially overlapped, in a vertical direction, by respective pixel areas of two of the pixels. The anode of the capacitor of the first one of the pixels may be disposed closer to the substrate than a cathode of the capacitor, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance between the capacitor and an anode of the light emitting element of one of the two pixels overlapping the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Asano, Yukihito Iida
  • Patent number: 10998382
    Abstract: A self-light emitting display unit capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. Sizes of color pixel circuits corresponding to pixels for R, G, and B are respectively set unevenly within a pixel circuit according to a magnitude ratio of drive currents which allow color self-light emitting elements in the pixel to emit with a same light emission luminance. Thereby, the pattern densities of color pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the pixels for R, G, and B become even to each other, and the pattern defect rate as the whole pixel circuit is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10971573
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including a pixel circuit, a signal line, a scan line, a drive power supply line, a common power supply line, a power supply line drive circuit, a high-potential power supply line, and a low-potential power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10960426
    Abstract: A slit nozzle is moved by a nozzle lifting/lowering mechanism and a nozzle sliding mechanism relative to substrates held in a substantially horizontal attitude by spin chucks. A development liquid is discharged on each substrate from a discharge port of the slit nozzle such that development processing for the substrate is performed. After the development liquid is discharged, the slit nozzle is moved to a waiting position excluding positions over the substrates held by the spin chucks. In waiting pods provided at the waiting positions, cleaning processing for the slit nozzle is performed by a cleaning liquid with gas bubbles mixed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Inventors: Minoru Sugiyama, Mitsuru Asano, Fumiya Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20200202780
    Abstract: A display panel including pixels disposed on a substrate, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, and a capacitor. The capacitor of a first one of the pixels is partially overlapped, in a vertical direction, by respective pixel areas of two of the pixels. The anode of the capacitor of the first one of the pixels may be disposed closer to the substrate than a cathode of the capacitor, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance between the capacitor and an anode of the light emitting element of one of the two pixels overlapping the capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuru Asano, Yukihito Iida
  • Publication number: 20200194535
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including a pixel circuit, a signal line, a scan line, a drive power supply line, a common power supply line, a power supply line drive circuit, a high-potential power supply line, and a low-potential power supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10621917
    Abstract: A display device of the disclosure includes a plurality of pixels and a driver. The driver unit makes scanning of pixels that belong to a plurality of pixel lines out of the plurality of pixels, in units of pixel line groups each of which is constituted by a predetermined number of the pixel lines, in a scanning order indicated by scanning ordinal numbers associated with the respective pixel line groups, to perform a write drive that includes writing a pixel voltage to each pixel. The scanning ordinal numbers are set to allow a sum of the scanning ordinal numbers of any two adjacent pixel line groups to approximate to a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10607541
    Abstract: A display panel including pixels disposed on a substrate, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, and a capacitor. The capacitor of a first one of the pixels is partially overlapped, in a vertical direction, by respective pixel areas of two of the pixels. The anode of the capacitor of the first one of the pixels may be disposed closer to the substrate than a cathode of the capacitor, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance between the capacitor and an anode of the light emitting element of one of the two pixels overlapping the capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Asano, Yukihito Iida
  • Patent number: 10529791
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including a pixel circuit, a signal line, a scan line, a drive power supply line, a common power supply line, a power supply line drive circuit, a high-potential power supply line, and a low-potential power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10504980
    Abstract: Herein disclosed a display apparatus including: a pixel array having a matrix of pixel circuits each including respective electrooptical elements for determining a display brightness level and respective drive circuits for driving the electrooptical elements; wherein adjacent two of the pixel circuits are paired with each other, and each of the drive circuits of the adjacent two pixel circuits includes at least one transistor having a low-concentration source/drain region or an offset region of an offset gate structure, the electrooptical elements and the drive circuits of the adjacent two pixel circuits being laid out such that a line interconnecting a drain region and a source region of the at least one transistor extends parallel to a direction of pixel columns of the pixel circuits of the pixel array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuru Asano, Seiichiro Jinta, Masatsugu Tomida, Hiroshi Fujimura
  • Patent number: 10431645
    Abstract: A display device including a pixel array unit having a matrix of pixels each configured such that an anode electrode of an organic electroluminescent element is connected to a source electrode of a drive transistor, a gate electrode of the drive transistor is connected to a source or drain electrode of a writing transistor, and a storage capacitor is connected between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, scanning lines and power supply lines for individual pixel rows, and signal lines for individual pixel columns. A video signal reference potential is supplied to the signal lines for a period during which a scanning signal is supplied to the scanning lines during driving of pixels in a preceding row. During threshold correction for the drive transistor in a current pixel, the video signal reference potential and a potential of the cathode electrode of the organic electroluminescent element are equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukihito Iida, Mitsuru Asano, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20190189703
    Abstract: A self-light emitting display unit capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. Sizes of color pixel circuits corresponding to pixels for R, G, and B are respectively set unevenly within a pixel circuit according to a magnitude ratio of drive currents which allow color self-light emitting elements in the pixel to emit with a same light emission luminance. Thereby, the pattern densities of color pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the pixels for R, G, and B become even to each other, and the pattern defect rate as the whole pixel circuit is decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Publication number: 20190115416
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including a pixel circuit, a signal line, a scan line, a drive power supply line, a common power supply line, a power supply line drive circuit, a high-potential power supply line, and a low-potential power supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Publication number: 20190109183
    Abstract: A display device including a pixel array unit having a matrix of pixels each configured such that an anode electrode of an organic electroluminescent element is connected to a source electrode of a drive transistor, a gate electrode of the drive transistor is connected to a source or drain electrode of a writing transistor, and a storage capacitor is connected between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, scanning lines and power supply lines for individual pixel rows, and signal lines for individual pixel columns. A video signal reference potential is supplied to the signal lines for a period during which a scanning signal is supplied to the scanning lines during driving of pixels in a preceding row. During threshold correction for the drive transistor in a current pixel, the video signal reference potential and a potential of the cathode electrode of the organic electroluminescent element are equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihito Iida, Mitsuru Asano, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 10249687
    Abstract: A self-light emitting display unit capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. Sizes of color pixel circuits corresponding to pixels for R, G, and B are respectively set unevenly within a pixel circuit according to a magnitude ratio of drive currents which allow color self-light emitting elements in the pixel to emit with a same light emission luminance. Thereby, the pattern densities of color pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the pixels for R, G, and B become even to each other, and the pattern defect rate as the whole pixel circuit is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10236325
    Abstract: A self-light emitting display unit capable of improving manufacturing yield is provided. Sizes of color pixel circuits corresponding to pixels for R, G, and B are respectively set unevenly within a pixel circuit according to a magnitude ratio of drive currents which allow color self-light emitting elements in the pixel to emit with a same light emission luminance. Thereby, the pattern densities of color pixel circuits respectively corresponding to the pixels for R, G, and B become even to each other, and the pattern defect rate as the whole pixel circuit is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10170532
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electroluminescence display panel including a pixel circuit, a signal line, a scan line, a drive power supply line, a common power supply line, a power supply line drive circuit, a high-potential power supply line, and a low-potential power supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Tomida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Patent number: 10170042
    Abstract: A display device having at least a plurality of pixel circuits, connected to signal lines to which data signals in accordance with luminance information are supplied, arranged in a matrix, wherein pixel circuits of odd number columns and even number columns adjacent sandwiching an axis in a column direction parallel to an arrangement direction of the signal lines have a mirror type circuit arrangement symmetric about the axis of the column direction, and there are lines different from the signal lines between signal lines of adjacent pixel circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Mitsuru Asano