Patents by Inventor Naoaki Komiya
Naoaki Komiya 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: 9412295Abstract: A pixel circuit including a light emitting element outputting a gray scale based on a current supplied thereto, a first transistor configured to control an amount of current supplied to the light emitting element based on a gray scale data voltage supplied to a gate electrode of the first transistor, a second transistor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and an initialization voltage, a third transistor connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and a first terminal of the first transistor; a fourth transistor connected between the first terminal of the first transistor and the light emitting element, and a fifth transistor connected between a second terminal of the first transistor and a data line. The data line is selectively supplied with the gray scale data voltage and a power supply voltage for light emitting of the light emitting element to the fifth transistor.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Okuno, Masayuki Kumeta, Eiji Kanda, Ryo Ishii, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9406249Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a driving transistor, a correction transistor, and a control circuit. The driving transistor adjusts a first current from a power supply based on a voltage stored in a first capacitor. The driving transistor supplies the adjusted first current to the light-emitting element. The correction transistor is electrically connected on a path of a second current flowing from the power supply to the first capacitor, and adjusts the second current based on a voltage stored in a second capacitor. The control circuit controls the second capacitor to store a gray scale voltage while the first current flows, and controls flow of the second current to update the voltage stored in the first capacitor while the first current is blocked.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kanda, Takeshi Okuno, Masayuki Kumeta, Daisuke Kawae, Ryo Ishii, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9384696Abstract: A display device includes a sensing driver, a memory, a first compensator, and a second compensator. The sensing driver measures a first voltage value applied to a light emitter in a pixels. The memory stores a second voltage value previously measured for the pixel. The first compensator calculates a temperature of the light emitter at a time of measuring the first voltage value, and compensates for the first voltage value based on the temperature. The second compensator compensates for input data for the pixel based on a voltage variation obtained from the temperature-compensated first voltage value and the second voltage value.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Okuno, Kazunori Morimoto, Naoaki Komiya
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Publication number: 20160148572Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus including at least one pixel including an OLED, a first transistor connected to a connection line, a second transistor connected to a power line, and to the first transistor, a third transistor connected to a data line, a fourth transistor connected to the third transistor, and to the first transistor, a fifth connected to the fourth transistor, a sixth transistor connected to the fifth transistor, and to the fifth transistor, a seventh transistor connected to the fifth transistor, and to the OLED, and first and second capacitors connected between electrodes of the fourth and fifth transistors, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Youngwook Yoo, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9269297Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a driving transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a switching circuit. The driving transistor is connected between a power supply and an electrode of a light-emitting element. The first capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the driving transistor. The second capacitor stores a gray scale voltage. The switching circuit selectively connects the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the gate of the driving transistor. A control circuit applies the gray scale voltage to the second capacitor while the first capacitor is connected to the gate of the driving transistor by the switching circuit, and writes a source voltage of the driving transistor at the first capacitor while the second capacitor is connected to the gate of the driving transistor by the switching circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kanda, Takeshi Okuno, Masayuki Kumeta, Daisuke Kawae, Ryo Ishii, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9236001Abstract: A driving method of an electro-optic device is capable of sufficiently providing a threshold voltage compensation time of a driving transistor and a data writing time. A driving method of an electro-optic device including a first power source, a second power source, data lines, scan lines, signal lines, and pixel circuits, includes: a first step in which a light emitting element is in a non-light-emitting state, and a second transistor is turned on by a change of a pulse applied to a signal line; and a second step in which the scan line is sequentially and exclusively selected after the second transistor is turned on, a third transistor including a gate connected to a selected scan line is turned on, and a corresponding data voltage is written to a first node from the data line through the third transistor.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Ishii, Hirofumi Katsuse, Takeshi Okuno, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9196225Abstract: A driving method of an electro-optic device includes initializing a gate voltage of a driving transistor; and performing a data write operation where a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is compensated by turning on a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between a drain and a gate of the driving transistor and a voltage is provided to a capacity element connected to the gate of the driving transistor to hold a voltage of the compensated data signal as a gate voltage. The first transistor is at a drain side of the driving transistor and the second transistor is between the first transistor and a gate side of the driving transistor. When the data write operation ends, the second transistor is first turned off and, subsequently, the first transistor is turned off. The second transistor is again turned on after the first transistor is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Kanda, Masayuki Kumeta, Ryo Ishii, Takeshi Okuno, Naoaki Komiya
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Patent number: 9135855Abstract: A display device includes a pixel circuit that supplies current to a light emitting diode (LED) and a driver circuit. The pixel circuit includes a constant current circuit including a first transistor and a capacitor connected to a gate terminal of the first transistor, and a switch circuit including a second transistor. The driver circuit controls the pixel circuit such that the LED emits light by connecting the anode of the LED diode and the first power line under a non-light emission state of the LED, connecting the gate terminal of the first transistor and the anode after the anode is disconnected from the first power line, setting the gate terminal of the first transistor to a voltage corresponding to an amount of a supply current from the first power line, and after setting the gate terminal, switching a state of the LED into a light emission state.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Kawae, Ryo Ishii, Naoaki Komiya
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Publication number: 20150243226Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit, a control unit, and a compensation unit. The compensation unit may compensate the display data when a sensing operation is performed on a target pixel circuit, the compensation unit compensating display data by setting a light emission amount of light emitting element of a target pixel circuit to be an amount obtained by subtracting a sensing light emission amount, which is a light emission amount of the light emitting element of the target pixel circuit during a sensing interval, from a display light emission amount, which is a light emission amount of the light emitting element of the target pixel circuit before the compensation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Masayuki KUMETA, Ryo ISHII, Eiji KANDA, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Patent number: 9053667Abstract: The electro-optic device includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of pixel areas arranged at crossings of the data lines and the scan lines, and light emitting elements, wherein first pixel areas are in alternating columns, each first pixel area including only one pixel circuit configured to cause the light emitting elements to emit light, wherein second pixel areas are in alternating columns between the first pixel areas, each second pixel area including two pixel circuits configured to cause the light emitting elements to emit light, and wherein a writing process is performed on the second pixel areas to cause light emitting elements on the pixel circuits on one side to emit light in a period for causing light emitting elements on the pixel circuits on the other side to emit light.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Katsuse, Takeshi Okuno, Ryo Ishii, Naoaki Komiya
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Publication number: 20150154910Abstract: A display device includes a sensing driver, a memory, a first compensator, and a second compensator. The sensing driver measures a first voltage value applied to a light emitter in a pixels. The memory stores a second voltage value previously measured for the pixel. The first compensator calculates a temperature of the light emitter at a time of measuring the first voltage value, and compensates for the first voltage value based on the temperature. The second compensator compensates for input data for the pixel based on a voltage variation obtained from the temperature-compensated first voltage value and the second voltage value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: June 4, 2015Inventors: Takeshi OKUNO, Kazunori MORIMOTO, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150154941Abstract: A driving method of an electro-optic device includes initializing a gate voltage of a driving transistor; and performing a data write operation where a threshold voltage of the driving transistor is compensated by turning on a first transistor and a second transistor connected in series between a drain and a gate of the driving transistor and a voltage is provided to a capacity element connected to the gate of the driving transistor to hold a voltage of the compensated data signal as a gate voltage. The first transistor is at a drain side of the driving transistor and the second transistor is between the first transistor and a gate side of the driving transistor. When the data write operation ends, the second transistor is first turned off and, subsequently, the first transistor is turned off. The second transistor is again turned on after the first transistor is turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji KANDA, Masayuki KUMETA, Ryo ISHII, Takeshi OKUNO, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150097871Abstract: A display device includes an acquiring circuit, a calculator, and a delay controller. The acquiring circuit acquires a gray scale voltage of a gray scale value of a pixel. The calculator calculates a first delay correction value based on a voltage currently retained on a data signal line to which the gray scale voltage is output and a gray scale voltage to be subsequently output to the data signal line. The delay controller determines a timing when the gray scale voltage is to be output to the data signal line based on the first delay correction value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2014Publication date: April 9, 2015Inventors: Masayuki KUMETA, Ryo ISHII, Takeshi OKUNO, Eiji KANDA, Daisuke KAWAE, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150061537Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a driving transistor, a correction transistor, and a control circuit. The driving transistor adjusts a first current from a power supply based on a voltage stored in a first capacitor. The driving transistor supplies the adjusted first current to the light-emitting element. The correction transistor is electrically connected on a path of a second current flowing from the power supply to the first capacitor, and adjusts the second current based on a voltage stored in a second capacitor. The control circuit controls the second capacitor to store a gray scale voltage while the first current flows, and controls flow of the second current to update the voltage stored in the first capacitor while the first current is blocked.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Eiji KANDA, Takeshi OKUNO, Masayuki KUMETA, Daisuke KAWAE, Ryo ISHII, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150062193Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a driving transistor, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a switching circuit. The driving transistor is connected between a power supply and an electrode of a light-emitting element. The first capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the driving transistor. The second capacitor stores a gray scale voltage. The switching circuit selectively connects the first capacitor and the second capacitor to the gate of the driving transistor. A control circuit applies the gray scale voltage to the second capacitor while the first capacitor is connected to the gate of the driving transistor by the switching circuit, and writes a source voltage of the driving transistor at the first capacitor while the second capacitor is connected to the gate of the driving transistor by the switching circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Eiji KANDA, Takeshi OKUNO, Masayuki KUMETA, Daisuke KAWAE, Ryo ISHII, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Patent number: 8970458Abstract: There is provided an organic light emitting display capable of minimizing noise. A method of driving the organic light emitting display includes setting pixels included in horizontal blocks into a non-emission state, the pixels charging voltages corresponding data signals, the pixels starting to emit light at different times in units of the horizontal blocks, and emitting light from the pixels according to the charging voltages.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoaki Komiya, Jang-Doo Lee
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Publication number: 20150054722Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a control circuit. The first transistor is electrically connected between a power supply and a light-emitting element, has a gate to receive a gray scale voltage, and supplies the light-emitting element with a driving current corresponding to the gray scale voltage. The second transistor has a gate electrically connected to an electrode of the light-emitting element and a source or drain electrically connected to a circuit including a voltmeter. The control circuit reads a measurement value of the voltmeter when the gate of the first transistor receives the gray scale voltage, and corrects a next gray scale voltage applied to the gate of the first transistor based on the measurement value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Eiji KANDA, Takeshi OKUNO, Masayuki KUMETA, Daisuke KAWAE, Ryo ISHII, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150049130Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a first power supply line and a second power supply line extending between two adjacent columns of pixel circuits. A first voltage and a second voltage are alternately applied to each of the first and second power supply lines. The first voltage may be a power voltage, and the second voltage may be an initialization voltage. The first and second power supply lines extend in a direction parallel to data lines and are perpendicular to gate lines connected to the pixel circuits. The first power supply line is connected to even-numbered rows of the pixel circuits, and the second power supply line is connected to odd-numbered rows of the pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a capacitive circuit connected between one of the gate lines and a driving transistor. The capacitive circuit stores a voltage to boost a gate voltage of the driving transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Eiji KANDA, Takeshi OKUNO, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150029238Abstract: A device includes pixel circuits arranged in columns and rows, n data lines (n being an integer of 2 or more) for each column, gate lines supplied with scan signals, and light-emitting control lines supplied with light-emitting control signals. The pixel circuits are divided into n groups of rows, each group of rows being exclusively connected to a corresponding data line. Each pixel circuit includes a write control transistor to control writing a data voltage in response to a scan signal, a driving transistor to control the amount of current to be supplied to a current light-emitting element, a light-emitting control transistor to control supply of a current to the light-emitting element in response to a light-emitting control signal, a capacitor to retain a voltage corresponding to a write data voltage, and a reset transistor to set the gate electrode of the driving transistor with the initial voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: Eiji KANDA, Takeshi OKUNO, Naoaki KOMIYA
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Publication number: 20150002558Abstract: A pixel includes five transistors and a capacitor. A first transistor controls current to be supplied to a light-emitting element. A second transistor is connected between a gate electrode of the first transistor and a first power supply. A third transistor is connected between the gate electrode of the first transistor and a second terminal of the first transistor. The capacitor is coupled between the third transistor and the second terminal of the first transistor. The fourth transistor is connected between the second terminal of the first transistor and a second power supply. The fifth transistor is connected between the second terminal of the third transistor and a signal line. The capacitor may be the only capacitor in the pixel, and the signal line may receive an initialization voltage and a gray scale data voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Masayuki KUMETA, Takeshi OKUNO, Eiji KANDA, Ryo ISHII, Naoaki KOMIYA