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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Patent number: 11762250Abstract: A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. A display device includes a plurality of pixel blocks in a display region. The pixel blocks each include a first circuit and a plurality of second circuits. The first circuit has a function of adding a plurality of pieces of data supplied from a source driver. The second circuit includes a display element and has a function of performing display in accordance with the added data. One pixel has a configuration including one second circuit and an component of the first circuit that is shared. When the first circuit is shared by a plurality of pixels, the aperture ratio can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
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Patent number: 11741209Abstract: A semiconductor device including a biometric recognition function and a touch sensor or near touch sensor function is provided. The semiconductor device includes a light-emitting device and an imaging device. The imaging device includes a gate driver circuit and m rows of pixels (m is an integer more than or equal to 2). The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of first register circuits and second register circuits whose number is less than that of the first register circuits. The first register circuits are connected with each other in series and the second register circuits are connected with each other in series. The gate driver circuit has a function of operating in the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, the first register circuits are in the on state and the second register circuits are in the off state, and in the second mode, the second register circuits are in the on state and the first register circuits are in the off state.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yoshimoto, Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe
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Publication number: 20230269987Abstract: Display unevenness in a display panel is suppressed. A display panel with a high aperture ratio of a pixel is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a third pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, a third light-emitting layer, a first common layer, a second common layer, a common electrode, and an auxiliary wiring. The first common layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The first common layer has a portion overlapping with the first light-emitting layer and a portion overlapping with the second light-emitting layer. The second common layer is positioned over the third pixel electrode. The second common layer has a portion overlapping with the third light-emitting layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daiki Nakamura, Shingo EGUCHI, Tomoya AOYAMA, Nozomu SUGISAWA, Junya MARUYAMA, Kazuhiko FUJITA, Masataka SATO, Susumu KAWASHIMA
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Patent number: 11733574Abstract: 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: December 25, 2018Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima, Kei Takahashi, Koji Kusunoki, Masataka Nakada, Ami Sato
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Publication number: 20230255060Abstract: A display apparatus suitable for wide-grayscale display is provided. The display apparatus includes, in a pixel, two driving transistors and a light-emitting device that are connected in series. One of the transistors is a p-channel transistor and the other of the transistors is an n-channel transistor, and switching therebetween is performed for driving. Such a configuration can inhibit the change in a gate-source voltage in display with a high grayscale level. In addition, the use of a transistor containing a metal oxide in a channel formation region as the n-channel transistor enables an increase in display characteristics in display with a low grayscale level.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE, Satoshi YOSHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11715435Abstract: A display apparatus capable of improving image quality is provided. In the display apparatus, an adder circuit is provided inside and outside a display region, and the adder circuit has a function of adding a plurality of pieces of data supplied from a source driver. Some components of the adder circuit are separately arranged in a pixel region. Thus, limitation on the size of a component included in the adder circuit can be eased, and data addition can be performed efficiently. In addition, by providing the other components included in the adder circuit outside the display region, the number of wirings in the display region can be reduced and the aperture ratio of the pixel can be increased.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
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Patent number: 11715740Abstract: 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: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto
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Patent number: 11715438Abstract: 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: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Kouhei Toyotaka, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230238369Abstract: A display apparatus having a noncontact input function is provided. The display apparatus has a first function of detecting, with a light-receiving device, light irradiated from a light source outside a display portion and blocked by a pointing object to recognize the position pointed by the pointing object, and a second function of detecting, with the light-receiving device, light irradiated from a light source inside or outside the display portion and reflected by the pointing object to recognize the position pointed by the pointing object. The display apparatus can operate by switching the first function and the second function in accordance with the intensity of the light irradiated from the light source outside the display portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Koji KUSUNOKI, Daisuke KUBOTA, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Satoshi YOSHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20230232645Abstract: A display device with an imaging function is provided. A high-resolution imaging device or display device is provided. The display device includes first to third switches, first and second transistors, a capacitor, first and second wirings, and a light-emitting and light-receiving element. One electrode of the first switch is electrically connected to the first wiring, and the other electrode is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor and one electrode of the capacitor. One electrode of the second switch is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor, one electrode of the light-emitting and light-receiving element, and the other electrode of the capacitor, and the other electrode of the second switch is electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor and one electrode of the third switch. The other electrode of the third switch is electrically connected to the second wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kazunori WATANABE
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Patent number: 11694648Abstract: A display device capable of performing image processing is provided. A memory node is provided in each pixel included in the display device. An intended correction data is held in the memory node. The correction data is calculated by an external device and written into each pixel. The correction data is added to image data by capacitive coupling, and the resulting data is supplied to a display element. Thus, the display element can display a corrected image. The correction enables image upconversion, for example.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Kouhei Toyotaka, Naoto Kusumoto, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11694594Abstract: To provide a display device capable of displaying a plurality of images by superimposition using a plurality of memory circuits provided in a pixel. A plurality of memory circuits are provided in a pixel, and signals corresponding to images for superimposition are retained in each of the plurality of memory circuits. In the pixel, the signals corresponding to the images for superimposition are added to each of the plurality of memory circuits. The signals are added to the signals retained in the memory circuits by capacitive coupling. A display element can display an image corresponding to a signal in which a signal written to a pixel through a wiring is added to the signals retained in the plurality of memory circuits. Reduction in the amount of arithmetic processing for displaying images by superimposition can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11681192Abstract: A display device capable of performing image processing is provided. Each pixel is provided with a memory circuit, and desired correction data is held in the memory circuit. The correction data is calculated in an external device and written into each pixel. The correction data is added to image data owing to capacitive coupling, and the resulting data is supplied to a display element. Thus, a corrected image can be displayed with the display element. The correction enables image upconversion or can compensate for an image quality reduction due to characteristics variations of transistors included in pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima
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Patent number: 11676555Abstract: 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: June 9, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Kouhei Toyotaka, Kei Takahashi
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Publication number: 20230176433Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kouhei TOYOTAKA, Satoshi YOSHIMOTO, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Kei TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 11672152Abstract: Display unevenness in a display panel is suppressed. A display panel with a high aperture ratio of a pixel is provided. The display panel includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a third pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, a third light-emitting layer, a first common layer, a second common layer, a common electrode, and an auxiliary wiring. The first common layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. The first common layer has a portion overlapping with the first light-emitting layer and a portion overlapping with the second light-emitting layer. The second common layer is positioned over the third pixel electrode. The second common layer has a portion overlapping with the third light-emitting layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Inventors: Daiki Nakamura, Shingo Eguchi, Tomoya Aoyama, Nozomu Sugisawa, Junya Maruyama, Kazuhiko Fujita, Masataka Sato, Susumu Kawashima
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Publication number: 20230152926Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi YOSHIMOTO, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Ryo YAMAUCHI, Motoharu SAITO, Koji KUSUNOKI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
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Publication number: 20230154369Abstract: A flip-flop circuit is provided. A driver circuit is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes first to fifth input terminals and first to third output terminals, the first input terminal is supplied with a first trigger signal, the second input terminal is supplied with a second trigger signal, the third input terminal is supplied with a batch selection signal, the fourth input terminal is supplied with a first pulse width modulation signal, and the fifth input terminal is supplied with a second pulse width modulation signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Kouhei TOYOTAKA, Kazunori WATANABE, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Daisuke KUBOTA, Tetsuji ISHITANI, Akio YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20230125324Abstract: A semiconductor device with high reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a capacitor, and first to fourth wirings. The first transistor includes a first gate and a second gate, and one of a source and a drain of the first transistor is connected to the first wiring and the second gate, and the other of the source and the drain is connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor and one electrode of the capacitor. A gate of the second transistor is connected to the other electrode of the capacitor, and the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second wiring. The first wiring is supplied with a first potential, and the second wiring is supplied with a second potential and a third potential alternately. The third wiring is connected to the first gate and supplied with a first signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Manabu SATO, Susumu KAWASHIMA, Koji KUSUNOKI, Hidenori MORI, Hironori MATSUMOTO, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Masami JINTYOU, Masataka NAKADA
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Patent number: 11626082Abstract: A display device capable of improving image quality is provided. The display device includes a first circuit, a pixel, and a wiring. The first circuit has a function of supplying data to the wiring and a function of making the wiring floating to hold the data. The pixel has a function of taking in the data twice from the wiring and performing addition. The pixel can perform the first writing of the data in a period during which the data is supplied to the wiring, and can perform the second writing of the data in a period during which the data is held in the wiring. Therefore, by one time of data charging to a source line, a data potential larger than or equal to an output voltage of a source driver can be supplied to a display element.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Naoto Kusumoto