Patents by Inventor Ryo Yonebayashi

Ryo Yonebayashi 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: 20250102824
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel includes: a display region, and a picture-frame region provided around the display region; and a first substrate, a second substrate disposed across from the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of spacers disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Either the first substrate or the second substrate has a picture-frame wire disposed in the picture-frame region, and the first substrate has: a transparent conductive layer; and a metal wire extending from the picture-frame wire toward the display region, and electrically connected to the transparent conductive layer in regions overlapping with the plurality of spacers in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Patent number: 12236862
    Abstract: The present application discloses a current-driven display device employing an internal compensation method capable of achieving high-resolution of the display image while suppressing a reduction in the yield of manufacturing, the deterioration in display quality, an increase in the circuit amount. In a pixel circuit of an organic EL display device, a voltage of the gate terminal of a drive transistor is initialized before the voltage of a data signal line is written into a holding capacitor via the drive transistor in a diode-connected state. At this time, a current flows from the holding capacitor connected to the gate terminal of the drive transistor to an initialization voltage line via a threshold compensation transistor, a second light emission control transistor, and a display element initialization transistor, and the voltage of the gate terminal is initialized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Patent number: 12156417
    Abstract: A display device provided with a light-emitting element layer in which a plurality of light-emitting elements each including a first electrode, a function layer, and a second electrode are formed. An auxiliary electrode is provided on a lower side of an edge cover film covering an edge of the first electrode, a function layer includes a common function layer common to the plurality of light-emitting elements and individual function layers, each of which corresponding to each of the plurality of light-emitting elements, the common function layer includes an upper common function layer provided between the light-emitting layers included in the individual function layers, respectively, and the second electrode, and a film thickness of the auxiliary electrode is greater than a film thickness of the upper common function layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nishiyama, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Patent number: 12154506
    Abstract: A pixel circuit of a display device includes: a light-emitting element; a drive transistor; a write control transistor having one conductive terminal connected to a data line and a control terminal connected to a scanning line; a first capacitor provided between a control terminal of the drive transistor and a conductive terminal of the drive transistor on the light-emitting element side; a second capacitor provided between another conductive terminal of the write control transistor and the control terminal of the drive transistor; and a mode selection circuit provided in parallel to the second capacitor and configured to cause a short-circuit and an open-circuit between electrodes of the second capacitor in accordance with a voltage of a mode selection line. Accordingly, a display device capable of easily performing gradation control is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240355287
    Abstract: When a current-driven display device with an internal compensation method operates in a pause driving mode, a non-light emission period according to a light emission duty is provided in both a refresh frame period and a non-refresh frame period, and an on-bias applying period for applying on-bias to a drive transistor in a pixel circuit is provided in both the non-light emission periods. In the non-light emission period in the refresh frame period, an on-bias applying period is provided in a period from when data writing with threshold compensation is performed to when the light emission period starts. Thus, even when the light emission duty is low, the difference in the stress state of the drive transistor between the refresh frame period and the non-refresh frame period is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Kohhei TANAKA, Masahito SANO, Kaoru YAMAMOTO, Ryo YONEBAYASHI, Adnan HEGANOVIC
  • Patent number: 12039928
    Abstract: A display device is implemented that can reduce power consumption over a known example while preventing occurrence of black floating. The voltage value of a low-level power supply voltage ELVSS provided to a pixel circuit is set to a higher value in a pause driving period than in a normal driving period. Upon writing a data voltage, an anode initialization period for initializing an anode voltage of an organic EL element is provided. In this regard, an anode initialization period in the pause driving period is made longer than an anode initialization period in the normal driving period. To implement this, for example, a write frequency of a data voltage is made lower in the pause driving period than in the normal driving period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiichi Yamamoto, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240233633
    Abstract: The present application discloses a current-driven display device employing an internal compensation method capable of achieving high-resolution of the display image while suppressing a reduction in the yield of manufacturing, the deterioration in display quality, an increase in the circuit amount. In a pixel circuit of an organic EL display device, a voltage of the gate terminal of a drive transistor is initialized before the voltage of a data signal line is written into a holding capacitor via the drive transistor in a diode-connected state. At this time, a current flows from the holding capacitor connected to the gate terminal of the drive transistor to an initialization voltage line via a threshold compensation transistor, a second light emission control transistor, and a display element initialization transistor, and the voltage Vg of the gate terminal is initialized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventor: Ryo YONEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 12033575
    Abstract: In a pixel circuit of a display device in which display luminance is controlled by a holding voltage of the capacitor Cst, a gate terminal of a drive transistor M1 is connected to a source terminal of the drive transistor M1 via a capacitance selection transistor M3 and the holding capacitor Cst and is also connected to the source terminal via only an auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa. During a data writing period Tw, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned off, and data voltage is provided from a data signal line Dj to the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa via a writing control transistor M2. Thereafter, the writing control transistor M2 is turned off, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned on, so that charges are redistributed between the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa and the holding capacitor Cst, whereby a driving holding voltage is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240210777
    Abstract: Provided are a liquid crystal panel capable of sufficiently reducing noise without an increase in load on the system, and an active retarder for 3D image display and a display device each including the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal panel includes: pixels adjacent to one another; a pair of substrates; pixel electrodes corresponding to the respective pixels; common electrodes overlapping the respective pixel electrodes; a liquid crystal layer; and an input unit. The pixel electrodes, the common electrodes, and the liquid crystal layer are disposed between the pair of substrates. The common electrodes are adjacent to one another across an aperture in a plan view. The aperture overlaps a boundary between the pixel electrodes. The input unit is configured to input a same signal to the common electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Ryo YONEBAYASHI, KOHHEI TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240203344
    Abstract: A display device is implemented that can reduce power consumption over a known example while preventing occurrence of black floating. The voltage value of a low-level power supply voltage ELVSS provided to a pixel circuit is set to a higher value in a pause driving period than in a normal driving period. Upon writing a data voltage, an anode initialization period for initializing an anode voltage of an organic EL element is provided. In this regard, an anode initialization period in the pause driving period is made longer than an anode initialization period in the normal driving period. To implement this, for example, a write frequency of a data voltage is made lower in the pause driving period than in the normal driving period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Ryo YONEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11996044
    Abstract: A display device includes a display control circuit configured to control a data-side drive circuit and a scanning-side drive circuit such that a drive period and a pause period alternate between one another. The display control circuit, in the pause period, such that voltage of corresponding data signal line is applied to first conduction terminal of drive transistor as bias voltage when light emission control transistor is in an off state and current corresponding to holding voltage of holding capacitor flows through display element when light emission control transistor is in an on state, causes the data-side drive circuit to output the bias voltage and apply the bias voltage to data signal lines and causes the scanning-side drive circuit to stop driving first scanning signal lines and selectively drive second scanning signal lines and selectively make light emission control lines inactive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamamoto, Kohhei Tanaka, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240162214
    Abstract: A display device includes an active matrix substrate including a plurality of pixels and a driver unit. The driver unit includes a flexible substrate, a first wiring pattern disposed on the flexible substrate, a demultiplexer circuit or a multiplexer circuit supported by the flexible substrate and connected to the first wiring pattern, and a source driver IC supported by the flexible substrate and connected to the first wiring pattern. The driver unit is connected to a display panel, and a TFT of the plurality of pixels and a TFT of the demultiplexer circuit or the multiplexer circuit have semiconductors different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: KOHHEI TANAKA, KAORU YAMAMOTO, Keiichi YAMAMOTO, Ryo YONEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240087520
    Abstract: The present application discloses a display device capable of preventing a black display defect with a pixel circuit used therein in which P-type and N-type transistors are mixed. Provided is a pixel circuit including an organic EL element, a holding capacitor, a P-type drive transistor, a P-type writing control transistor, an N-type threshold compensation transistor, and the like, wherein during a data writing period, the voltage of a data signal line is written to the holding capacitor via the writing control transistor in ON state and the drive transistor brought into a diode-connected state by the threshold compensation transistor in ON state. A capacitance is provided between a first scanning signal line connected to a gate terminal of the writing control transistor and a gate terminal of the drive transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kuniaki OKADA, Ryo YONEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11900872
    Abstract: To make a frame size of a display device having an external compensation function smaller than those of the known display devices. Each of a plurality of unit circuits configuring a gate driver includes a first output control transistor including a second conduction terminal connected to a first output terminal-connected to another unit circuit and a control terminal connected to a first internal node, a second output control transistor including a second conduction terminal connected to a second output terminal configured to output an on level signal for at least a part of a monitoring period and a control terminal connected to a second internal node, and an output circuit control transistor including a first conduction terminal connected to the first internal node and a second conduction terminal connected to the second internal node. A potential to be applied to a control terminal of the output circuit control transistor is switched between a potential of a high level and a potential of a low level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Yamamoto, Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20240021161
    Abstract: A pixel circuit of a display device includes: a light-emitting element; a drive transistor; a write control transistor having one conductive terminal connected to a data line and a control terminal connected to a scanning line; a first capacitor provided between a control terminal of the drive transistor and a conductive terminal of the drive transistor on the light-emitting element side; a second capacitor provided between another conductive terminal of the write control transistor and the control terminal of the drive transistor; and a mode selection circuit provided in parallel to the second capacitor and configured to cause a short-circuit and an open-circuit between electrodes of the second capacitor in accordance with a voltage of a mode selection line. Accordingly, a display device capable of easily performing gradation control is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventor: Ryo YONEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11852939
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrically conductive portion and a second electrically conductive portion disposed between the first substrate and the second substrates. The first substrate includes a first line, a second line, a first connection electrode projecting from the first line toward the second line, and a second connection electrode projecting from the second line toward the first line. The second substrate includes a first electrode, a third connection electrode electrically connected to the first electrode and disposed to overlap the first connection electrode, a second electrode, and a fourth connection electrode electrically connected to the second electrode and disposed to overlap the second connection electrode. The first electrically conductive portion overlaps and contacts the first connection electrode and the third connection electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20230368730
    Abstract: A display device includes a display control circuit configured to control a data-side drive circuit and a scanning-side drive circuit such that a drive period and a pause period alternate between one another. The display control circuit, in the pause period, such that voltage of corresponding data signal line is applied to first conduction terminal of drive transistor as bias voltage when light emission control transistor is in an off state and current corresponding to holding voltage of holding capacitor flows through display element when light emission control transistor is in an on state, causes the data-side drive circuit to output the bias voltage and apply the bias voltage to data signal lines and causes the scanning-side drive circuit to stop driving first scanning signal lines and selectively drive second scanning signal lines and selectively make light emission control lines inactive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: KAORU YAMAMOTO, KOHHEI TANAKA, RYO YONEBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230236464
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first electrically conductive portion and a second electrically conductive portion disposed between the first substrate and the second substrates. The first substrate includes a first line, a second line, a first connection electrode projecting from the first line toward the second line, and a second connection electrode projecting from the second line toward the first line. The second substrate includes a first electrode, a third connection electrode electrically connected to the first electrode and disposed to overlap the first connection electrode, a second electrode, and a fourth connection electrode electrically connected to the second electrode and disposed to overlap the second connection electrode. The first electrically conductive portion overlaps and contacts the first connection electrode and the third connection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Ryo YONEBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11636808
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display region; and a frame region disposed around the display region. The frame region partly includes a terminal section, wherein the frame region includes a main-power-source-voltage stem wire and an auxiliary-power-source-voltage stem wire. The frame region includes a first frame region having the terminal section, and a second frame region located opposite the first frame region with reference to the display region. The main-power-source-voltage stem wire has a potential different from a potential of the auxiliary-power-source-voltage stem wire, and the main-power-source-voltage stem wire and the auxiliary-power-source-voltage stem wire are electrically connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Ryo Yonebayashi
  • Publication number: 20220358880
    Abstract: In a pixel circuit of a display device in which display luminance is controlled by a holding voltage of the capacitor Cst, a gate terminal of a drive transistor M1 is connected to a source terminal of the drive transistor M1 via a capacitance selection transistor M3 and the holding capacitor Cst and is also connected to the source terminal via only an auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa. During a data writing period Tw, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned off, and data voltage is provided from a data signal line Dj to the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa via a writing control transistor M2. Thereafter, the writing control transistor M2 is turned off, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned on, so that charges are redistributed between the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa and the holding capacitor Cst, whereby a driving holding voltage is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: RYO YONEBAYASHI