Patents by Inventor Seiichiro Jinta

Seiichiro Jinta 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).

  • DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150115251
    Abstract: Provided is a display device, including: a first electrode; an organic layer that is provided on the first electrode and includes a light-emission layer; and a second electrode that includes a first conductive film and a second conductive film, the first conductive film and the second conductive film being laminated in order on the organic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Seonghee Noh
  • SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150097824
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of thin film transistors of a single channel formed on an insulating substrate, and a buffer circuit including an outputting stage; a first inputting stage; a second inputting stage; a seventh thin film transistor; and an eighth thin film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventor: Seiichiro Jinta
  • Shift register circuit, display panel, and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 9001020
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shift register circuit that is formed on an insulating substrate with thin film transistors having channels of the same conductivity type and includes shift stages, each of the shift stages including: a first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor; a 3(1)-th thin film transistor; a 3(2)-th thin film transistor; a 4(1)-th thin film transistor; a 4(2)-th thin film transistor; a fifth thin film transistor; and a sixth thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seiichiro Jinta
  • Display device that switches light emission states multiple times during one field period
    Patent number: 8988325
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit includes a shift register unit and a logic circuit unit. The start of a start pulse of an output signal STp+1 of a p+1?th shift register is situated between the start and end of a start pulse of the output signal STp of a p?th shift register, and one each of a first enable signal through a Q?th enable signal exist in sequence between the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp and the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp+1. The operations of a (p?, q)?th NAND circuit are restricted based on period identifying signals, such that the NAND circuit generates scanning signals based only on a portion of the output signal STp corresponding to the first start pulse, the signal obtained by inverting the output signal STp+1, and the q?th enable signal ENq.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Tanikame, Seiichiro Jinta
  • DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150053963
    Abstract: A display unit comprising an organic layer between a light-emitting section portion of a first electrode layer and a light-emitting section portion of a second electrode layer. Light is emissible from within the organic layer. An aperture-defining insulating film is between a contact section of the first electrode layer and a gap section portion of the second electrode layer. The thickness of the gap section portion of the second electrode layer is greater than the thickness of the light-emitting section portion of the second electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Makoto Noda, Gaku Izumi, Kenichi Izumi, Manabu Kodate, Takahiro Seki, Michitoshi Tsuchiya
  • DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150048345
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including a light-emitting element corresponding to a pixel for a color, and a white color filter corresponding to a white pixel. Transmittance of the white color filter is based on neutral density (ND) transmittance that is uniform throughout an entire wavelength band of visible light, and transmittance in a particular wavelength band in the entire wavelength band of the visible light is decreased to be lower than the ND transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mamoru Suzuki, Seonghee Noh, Masato Nakamura, Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi, Shinichi Teraguchi
  • Display and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8952374
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi
  • LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20150008403
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the substrate further includes a plurality of first members configured to diffuse light emitted from at least one of the light emitting devices, and a second member that is positioned between the first members, wherein the second member includes a light absorbing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KUDO, Jiro YAMADA, Seiichiro JINTA, Shigeyuki MATSUNAMI
  • Scanning drive circuit and display device including the same
    Patent number: 8913054
    Abstract: A display device includes display elements two-dimensionally disposed in a matrix; scanning lines, initialization control lines, and display control lines extending in a first direction; data lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction; and a scanning drive circuit. The scanning drive circuit generates signals based on an input pulse, at least some of the generated signals controlling the display state of the display elements via the display control lines. The duration of the display state of the display elements may be variably changed by changing the width of the input pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Tanikame, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Display unit and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8907331
    Abstract: A display unit comprising an organic layer between a light-emitting section portion of a first electrode layer and a light-emitting section portion of a second electrode layer. Light is emissible from within the organic layer. An aperture-defining insulating film is between a contact section of the first electrode layer and a gap section portion of the second electrode layer. The thickness of the gap section portion of the second electrode layer is greater than the thickness of the light-emitting section portion of the second electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Makoto Noda, Gaku Izumi, Kenichi Izumi, Manabu Kodate, Takahiro Seki, Michitoshi Tsuchiya
  • Semiconductor device, display panel and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8890780
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of thin film transistors of a single channel formed on an insulating substrate, and a buffer circuit including an outputting stage; a first inputting stage; a second inputting stage; a seventh thin film transistor; and an eighth thin film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Seiichiro Jinta
  • DISPLAY UNIT AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140306200
    Abstract: A display unit includes a pixel including a plurality of sub-pixels. The sub-pixels each include a plurality of light emission regions that are arranged away from one another. Each of the sub-pixels includes a single first electrode, a single second electrode provided in a lamination direction of the first electrode, and a light-emitting layer inserted between the first electrode and the second electrode in each of the light emission regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Jiro Yamada
  • DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140284570
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Gaku Izumi
  • DISPLAY DEVICE THAT SWITCHES LIGHT EMISSION STATES MULTIPLE TIMES DURING ONE FIELD PERIOD
    Publication number: 20140285409
    Abstract: A scan driving circuit includes a shift register unit and a logic circuit unit. The start of a start pulse of an output signal STp+1 of a p+1?th shift register is situated between the start and end of a start pulse of the output signal STp of a p?th shift register, and one each of a first enable signal through a Q?th enable signal exist in sequence between the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp and the start of the start pulse of the output signal STp+1. The operations of a (p?, q)?th NAND circuit are restricted based on period identifying signals, such that the NAND circuit generates scanning signals based only on a portion of the output signal STp corresponding to the first start pulse, the signal obtained by inverting the output signal STp+1, and the q?th enable signal ENq.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Tanikame, Seiichiro Jinta
  • DISPLAY AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140285542
    Abstract: A display device includes pixels, each including a set of sub-pixels. A first subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and blue sub-pixels, but not a red sub-pixel. A second subset of the pixels may each include white, green, and red sub-pixels, but not a blue sub-pixel. The pixels may alternate between the first subset and the second subset in at least one direction. First luminance data may be extracted from an input image signal based on a map that specifies locations of pixels of the first subset, and second luminance data may be extracted from the input image signal based on a map that specifies locations of pixels of the second subset. The display device may drive the blue sub-pixels based on the first luminance data and drive the red sub-pixels based on the second luminance data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • DISPLAY, DISPLAY DRIVE CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DRIVE METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140253421
    Abstract: Correction processing is provided for a display having pixel circuits respectively including a display element and a drive transistor that is configured to provide a drive current to the display element according to a luminance information value. A control transistor is disposed on a current path that provides the drive current to a unit pixel group that includes two or more of the pixel circuits, and a correction processing section is configured to obtain a correction factor that is a function of the luminance information values respectively corresponding to each of the pixel circuits in the unit pixel group, and to perform a correction of the luminance information value for at least one of the pixel circuits in the unit pixel group based on the correction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gaku Izumi, Seiichiro Jinta
  • DISPLAY, DISPLAY DRIVE METHOD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140247200
    Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of display function layers provided in a stacking direction, and each including a plurality of pixel circuits. A pixel circuit group configured by predetermined number of the pixel circuits configures a single display pixel, and the predetermined number of the pixel circuits spans the plurality of display function layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichiro JINTA, Tadahiko YOSHINAGA
  • DISPLAY APPARATUS AND DISPLAY-APPARATUS DRIVING METHOD
    Publication number: 20140240376
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a driving method and display apparatus, the display apparatus including light emitting units, scan lines, data lines, a driving circuit provided for each of the light emitting units to serve as a circuit having a signal writing transistor, a device driving transistor, a capacitor and a first switch circuit, and a light emitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Tanikame, Seiichiro Jinta
  • Display device and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8810558
    Abstract: A sampling transistor in embodiments of the present invention is kept at the on-state with a time width shorter than one horizontal cycle, during the period from the rising of a control pulse supplied from a scanner to the falling of the control pulse, and samples a video signal Vsig from a signal line SL to write the video signal Vsig to a hold capacitor. A sampling transistor T1 has a double gate structure in which a pair of transistor elements are connected in common. This suppresses change in the threshold voltage of the sampling transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita, Seiichiro Jinta, Hideki Sugimoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUIT, DISPLAY PANEL, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20140218276
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shift register circuit that is formed on an insulating substrate with thin film transistors having channels of the same conductivity type and includes shift stages, each of the shift stages including: a first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor; a 3(1)-th thin film transistor; a 3(2)-th thin film transistor; a 4(1)-th thin film transistor; a 4(2)-th thin film transistor; a fifth thin film transistor; and a sixth thin film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seiichiro Jinta