Patents by Inventor Susumu Kawashima
Susumu Kawashima 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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Publication number: 20240248355Abstract: A display apparatus having an excellent boosting function is provided. The display apparatus is provided with a pixel having a function of adding data (a boosting function). A capacitor for boosting voltage is provided in the pixel, and data is added by capacitive coupling to be supplied to a display device. The capacitor for boosting voltage and a capacitor for retaining data are placed on top of each other, whereby the capacitance value of the capacitor for boosting voltage can be increased. Thus, the pixel can have an excellent boosting function, without significantly losing the aperture ratio or definition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2024Publication date: July 25, 2024Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Naoto KUSUMOTO
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Patent number: 12040333Abstract: A highly functional semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are connected to each other, and the second electrode and the third electrode are connected to each other. A first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer are stacked over the first semiconductor layer. The first insulating layer is less likely to diffuse hydrogen than the second insulating layer. The second insulating layer contains oxide, the first semiconductor layer contains polycrystalline silicon, and the second semiconductor layer contains a metal oxide.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimoto, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Marina Hiyama, Motoharu Saito
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Publication number: 20240231526Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a first driver circuit, a second driver circuit, and a pixel set, the first driver circuit has a function of supplying a first selection signal and a second selection signal, a second driver circuit has a function of supplying an image signal and a control signal, and the control signal includes a first level and a second level. The pixel set includes a first pixel, and the first pixel includes a first element and a first pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit has functions of obtaining the image signal on the basis of the first selection signal, obtaining the control signal on the basis of the second selection signal, and holding a first state to a third state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Daisuke KUBOTA, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI
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Publication number: 20240196653Abstract: A novel display device is provided. The display device includes a first layer including a driver circuit, a second layer including a plurality of pixel circuits, and a third layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements; the second layer is provided over the first layer; the third layer is provided over the second layer; and a conductive layer is provided between the driver circuit and the plurality of pixel circuits. The driver circuit has a function of controlling operations of the plurality of pixel circuits. One of the plurality of pixel circuits is electrically connected to one of the plurality of light-emitting elements. The pixel circuit has a function of controlling emission luminance of the light-emitting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Yuki OKAMOTO, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Tatsuya ONUKI, Hidetomo KOBAYASHI, Munehiro KOZUMA, Takanori MATSUZAKI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Patent number: 12008975Abstract: A display device that achieves both high-accuracy sensing by a touch sensor unit and smooth input using the touch sensor unit is provided. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit performs touch sensing operation at a different timing from display image rewriting by the display unit, whereby the high-accuracy sensing can be achieved. The display unit has a function of rewriting a display image only in a region that needs to be rewritten. In the case where the entire display region is not necessarily rewritten, the time for the sensing operation by the touch sensor unit can be lengthened, whereby the smooth input can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Kouhei Toyotaka, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240185800Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of performing authentication in a short time and a driving method thereof are provided. A semiconductor device including a light-emitting apparatus and an imaging apparatus and a driving method thereof. The imaging apparatus includes pixels arranged in a matrix and a row driver including a shift register circuit. The driving method includes a first mode and a second mode. The first mode includes a step of detecting a position of a finger of a user. The second mode includes a step of reading out an image of a fingerprint of the user from pixels in the first row to a row of the position where the fingerprint of the user is detected in the first mode, row by row. The operation of the shift register circuit is stopped after the first mode and the second mode are completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Tomoaki ATSUMI
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Publication number: 20240188330Abstract: A novel semiconductor device is provided. A gate of a second transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of a first transistor and one of a source and a drain of a third transistor. Aback gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of a fourth transistor and one terminal of a first capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the other of the source and the drain of the third transistor, the other terminal of the first capacitor, and one terminal of a light-emitting element. A semiconductor layer in each of the first, third, and fourth transistors is partly in an opening formed in an insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Koji KUSUNOKI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Motoharu SAITO, Tomoaki ATSUMI
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Patent number: 12001634Abstract: A display apparatus capable of performing authentication in a short time is provided. The display apparatus includes a first display portion where first pixels are arranged in a matrix, a second display portion where second pixels are arranged in a matrix, first and second row driver circuits, and a control circuit. Each of the first and the second pixels includes a light-receiving element. The first and the second pixels each have a function of acquiring imaging data by using the light-receiving element. The first and the second row driver circuits each have a function of selecting the first and the second pixels which read out the imaging data. The control circuit has a function of sequentially driving the first and the second row driver circuits in a first mode, and has a function of driving one of the first and the second row driver circuits on the basis of the imaging data in the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimoto, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Ryo Yamauchi, Motoharu Saito, Koji Kusunoki, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11990502Abstract: To provide a display device capable of performing image processing. Each pixel is provided with a memory circuit in which desired correction data is retained. The correction data is generated by calculation in an external device and written to each pixel. The correction data is added to image data by capacitive coupling and supplied to a display element. Thus, the display element can display a corrected image. Through the correction, image upconversion can be performed, or image quality decreased because of variations in pixel transistor characteristics can be corrected.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Kouhei Toyotaka, Naoto Kusumoto, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11988926Abstract: A display apparatus having an excellent boosting function is provided. The display apparatus is provided with a pixel having a function of adding data (a boosting function). A capacitor for boosting voltage is provided in the pixel, and data is added by capacitive coupling to be supplied to a display device. The capacitor for boosting voltage and a capacitor for retaining data are placed on top of each other, whereby the capacitance value of the capacitor for boosting voltage can be increased. Thus, the pixel can have an excellent boosting function, without significantly losing the aperture ratio or definition.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
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Publication number: 20240162233Abstract: A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. A storage node is provided in each pixel and first data can be held in the storage node. Second data is added to the first data by capacitive coupling, which can be supplied to a display element. Thus, the display device can display a corrected image. A reference potential for the capacitive coupling operation is supplied from a power supply line or the like, and thus the first data and the second data can be supplied from a common signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Naoto KUSUMOTO
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Patent number: 11984064Abstract: A display apparatus having a wide range of threshold voltage compensation function is provided. In the display apparatus, a p-channel transistor is used as a driving transistor of the light-emitting device. Discharging is performed through a source-drain path while constant voltage is supplied to a gate so that Vth is extracted between the gate and the source. In addition, when a drain potential is set to the sum of forward voltage and a cathode potential of the light-emitting device or a potential sufficiently lower than the sum, it is possible to continue the discharging even when Vth is positive voltage. That is, compensation can be performed even in the case where Vth variation occurs from positive voltage to negative voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Satoshi Yoshimoto
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Publication number: 20240144879Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable semiconductor device. The present invention relates to a shift register circuit including a plurality of stages of sequential circuits. An output signal of a sequential circuit is input to a sequential circuit in the subsequent stage. Before a sequential circuit outputs a signal and after the sequential circuit outputs the signal, the potential of a gate of a transistor included in the sequential circuit is changed in accordance with a clock signal so as to avoid voltage stress application between the gate and a source of the transistor for a long time. The shift register circuit can be applied to a scan line driver circuit of a display apparatus, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Satoshi YOSHIMOTO, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Kazunori WATANABE, Tomoaki ATSUMI, Koji KUSUNOKI
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Patent number: 11960185Abstract: Display data of pixels is updated at different timings. A scan line is connected to a first pixel and a second pixel, a first wiring is connected to the first pixel, and a second wiring is connected to the second pixel. In a first period, a signal for selecting the first pixel and the second pixel is supplied to the scan line. Setting data for setting a state where the display data of the first pixel is updated is supplied to the first wiring, and setting data for setting a state where the display data of the second pixel is updated is supplied to the second wiring. In a second period, a signal for selecting the first pixel and the second pixel is supplied to the scan line. Setting data for setting a state where the display data of the first pixel is not updated is supplied to the first wiring, and the setting data for setting the state where the display data of the second pixel is updated is supplied to the second wiring.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kouhei Toyotaka, Satoshi Yoshimoto, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20240105138Abstract: A display apparatus with low-power consumption is provided. The display apparatus includes an inverter circuit and a pixel having a function of adding data, and the inverter circuit has a function of inverting data supplied from a source driver. The inverter circuit has a function of inverting data supplied from a source driver. The pixel has a function of adding data supplied from the source driver and the inverter circuit. Accordingly, the pixel can generate a voltage several times higher than the output voltage of the source driver and can supply the voltage to a display device. With such a structure, the output voltage of the source driver can be lowered, so that a display apparatus with low power consumption can be achieved.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE, Naoto KUSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20240105120Abstract: A display apparatus capable of image capturing with high sensitivity is provided. The display apparatus is configured to include first to third switches, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a light-emitting/receiving element. The first switch is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor. The second switch is positioned between one of a source and a drain of the first transistor and one electrode of the light-emitting/receiving element. The third switch is positioned between the one electrode of the light-emitting/receiving element and a gate of the second transistor. The other of the source and the drain of the first transistor is supplied with a first potential. The other electrode of the light-emitting/receiving element is supplied with a second potential. The light-emitting/receiving element has a function of emitting light of a first color and a function of receiving light of a second color.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE
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Patent number: 11940703Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. The display device includes a transistor, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a third insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer in a pixel. The first insulating layer is positioned over a channel formation region of the transistor. The first conductive layer is positioned over the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is positioned over the transistor, the first insulating layer, and the first conductive layer. The pixel electrode is positioned over the second insulating layer, the third insulating layer is positioned over the pixel electrode, the common electrode is positioned over the third insulating layer, and the liquid crystal layer is positioned over the common electrode. The common electrode includes a region overlapping with the first conductive layer with the pixel electrode positioned therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Masataka Nakada, Ami Sato
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Patent number: 11941197Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a first driver circuit, a second driver circuit, and a pixel set, the first driver circuit has a function of supplying a first selection signal and a second selection signal, a second driver circuit has a function of supplying an image signal and a control signal, and the control signal includes a first level and a second level. The pixel set includes a first pixel, and the first pixel includes a first element and a first pixel circuit. The first pixel circuit has functions of obtaining the image signal on the basis of the first selection signal, obtaining the control signal on the basis of the second selection signal, and holding a first state to a third state.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki
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Publication number: 20240099038Abstract: A display apparatus having a photoelectric conversion function with high sensitivity is provided. The light extraction efficiency of the display apparatus is increased. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting device, a light-emitting and light-receiving device, a first lens, and a second lens. The light-emitting device has a function of emitting light of a first color. The light-emitting and light-receiving device has a function of emitting light of a second color and a function of receiving light of the first color and converting it into an electric signal. The light emitted by the light-emitting device is emitted to the outside of the display apparatus through the first lens. Light enters the light-emitting and light-receiving device from the outside of the display apparatus through the second lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2020Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Taisuke KAMADA, Ryo HATSUMI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA
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Patent number: 11935897Abstract: A display device capable of performing proper display without image signal conversion is provided. In the case of high-resolution display, individual data is supplied to each pixel through a first signal line and a first transistor included in each pixel. In the case of low-resolution display, the same data is supplied to a plurality of pixels through a second signal line and a second transistor electrically connected to the plurality of pixels. When the number of image signals to be displayed is more than one and the image signals support different resolutions, display can be performed without up conversion or down conversion by switching an image signal supply path as described above.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto