Patents by Inventor Yasunori Yoshida

Yasunori Yoshida 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).

  • Patent number: 9570017
    Abstract: To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9505925
    Abstract: A phenol resin molding material includes a modified olefin-based polymer particle (I) and a phenol resin (II). It is preferable that the modified olefin-based polymer particle (I) satisfy at least one of the requirements (A), (B), and (C) which are defined as follows: (A) Inclusion of at least one element selected from a group consisting of a group 15 element, a group 16 element, and a group 17 element of the periodic table. (B) When the whole of the above-described olefin-based polymer particle (I) is set as 100 wt %, the content of the above-described elements is greater than or equal to 0.05 wt % and less than or equal to 50 wt %. (C) MFR which is measured under the conditions of 190° C. and 2.16 kgf based on JIS K 7210 is greater than or equal to 0.001 g/10 minutes and less than 3 g/10 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Takaharu Abe, Masanobu Maeda, Takahiro Yamada, Yasunori Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160322014
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which operates stably with few malfunctions due to noise, with low power consumption, and little variation in characteristics; a display device including the semiconductor device; and an electronic device including the display device. An output terminal is connected to a power supply line, thereby reducing variation in electric potential of the output terminal. In addition, a gate electrode potential which turns ON a transistor is maintained due to the capacitance of the transistor. Further, change in characteristics of the transistor is reduced by a signal line for reverse bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160267853
    Abstract: To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9396676
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which operates stably with few malfunctions due to noise, with low power consumption, and little variation in characteristics; a display device including the semiconductor device; and an electronic device including the display device. An output terminal is connected to a power supply line, thereby reducing variation in electric potential of the output terminal. In addition, a gate electrode potential which turns ON a transistor is maintained due to the capacitance of the transistor. Further, change in characteristics of the transistor is reduced by a signal line for reverse bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9355602
    Abstract: To provide a hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and a driving method thereof. The length of a period for displaying a blanking image in one frame period is controlled in accordance with a control parameter showing the degree of motion blur, and the level of a signal supplied to a display element is changed in accordance with the length of the period for displaying the blanking image. Accordingly, the hold-type display device without a problem of motion blur and the driving method thereof can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160117966
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which operates stably with few malfunctions due to noise, with low power consumption, and little variation in characteristics; a display device including the semiconductor device; and an electronic device including the display device. An output terminal is connected to a power supply line, thereby reducing variation in electric potential of the output terminal. In addition, a gate electrode potential which turns ON a transistor is maintained due to the capacitance of the transistor. Further, change in characteristics of the transistor is reduced by a signal line for reverse bias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9293088
    Abstract: It is an object to improve image quality in displaying a still image and a moving image by suppressing flickers, a display malfunction, or the like of a display device. A method for controlling the light emission state of a backlight is made different between a still image portion and a moving image portion included in an image to be displayed. In specific, the amount of light emission in the still image portion is made as small as possible in a corresponding divided region of the backlight, and the amount of light emission in the moving image portion is controlled so as not to be changed as much as possible in a corresponding divided region of the backlight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160078822
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which problems such as an increase of power consumption and increase of a load of when light is emitted are reduced by using a method for realizing pseudo impulsive driving by inserting an dark image, and a driving method thereof. A display device which displays a gray scale by dividing one frame period into a plurality of subframe periods, where one frame period is divided into at least a first subframe period and a second subframe period; and when luminance in the first subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax1 and luminance in the second subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax2, (½) Lmax2<Lmax1<( 9/10) Lmax2 is satisfied in the one frame period, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Yasunori YOSHIDA, Hajime KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160012783
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a display device in which a problem of light leakage from a liquid crystal element in black display is reduced or overcome and the contrast is improved. It is another object to provide a pixel circuit having a function to control a lighting state of a backlight based on each pixel. These objects are achieved by turning off a light-emitting element in display of a black gray scale, and by providing a light-emitting element in each pixel and providing, in a pixel circuit, a function to individually control lighting and non-lighting of the light-emitting element depending on a gray scale to perform display. When a backlight is provided in each pixel, a light-emitting element that is a backlight is turned off when a black gray scale is displayed, whereby reduction in contrast due to light leakage from a liquid crystal element can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hajime KIMURA, Yasunori YOSHIDA, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Atsushi UMEZAKI, Makoto YANAGISAWA, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9235067
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device in which problems such as an increase of power consumption and increase of a load of when light is emitted are reduced by using a method for realizing pseudo impulsive driving by inserting an dark image, and a driving method thereof. A display device which displays a gray scale by dividing one frame period into a plurality of subframe periods, where one frame period is divided into at least a first subframe period and a second subframe period; and when luminance in the first subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax1 and luminance in the second subframe period to display the maximum gray scale is Lmax2, (½) Lmax2<Lmax1<( 9/10) Lmax2 is satisfied in the one frame period, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Hajime Kimura
  • Patent number: 9206278
    Abstract: The cyclic olefin copolymer of the present invention contains (A) a repeating unit derived from one or more kinds of olefins represented by the following General Formula (I), (B) a repeating unit derived from a cyclic non-conjugated diene represented by the following General Formula (III), and (C) a repeating unit derived from one or more kinds of cyclic olefins represented by the following General Formula (V), wherein when a total mole number of the repeating units is regarded as 100 mol %, the (B) repeating unit derived from a cyclic non-conjugated diene is contained in an amount of 19 mol % to 36 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Yasunori Yoshida, Takashi Unezaki
  • Publication number: 20150338709
    Abstract: In a display device including a backlight and a display panel, the area of the backlight is divided into a plurality of unit regions; the display panel includes pixels which are larger in number than the unit regions; a frame rate of image data input to the device is converted to perform display while part of the unit regions in which black is displayed is in a non-light emission state; and the driving frequency of the backlight is converted in accordance with the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20150339980
    Abstract: In a display element such as an organic EL element, deterioration progresses due to light emission, and emission luminance is lowered even if the same voltage is applied to the display element. Therefore, use over time causes variations in luminance of each pixel, thereby a so-called “image burn-in” phenomenon occurs. Given this factor, the invention provides a display device which can reduce the difference in deterioration of a display element in each pixel and suppress variations in light emission of a display element in a pixel. It is prevented that only a specific pixel has a long accumulated lighting time. For that purpose, a gray scale of a display pattern is changed to prevent the difference in deterioration of display element in pixels from increasing. Alternatively, a specific display pattern is prevented from being fixedly displayed in a specific region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Hajime KIMURA, Atsushi UMEZAKI, Yasunori YOSHIDA, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Takuya KIMISHIMA, Yasuyuki ARAI
  • Publication number: 20150340015
    Abstract: To provide an active matrix display device in which power consumption of a signal line driver circuit can be suppressed, so that power consumption of the entire memory can be suppressed. A plurality of memory circuits which can write data of a video signal input to a pixel in one line period and can hold the data are provided in a signal line driver circuit of a display device. Then, the data held in each memory circuit is input to a pixel of a corresponding line as a video signal. By providing two or more memory circuits in a driver circuit, pieces of data of video signals corresponding to two or more line periods can be concurrently held in the memory circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9189997
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a display device in which a problem of light leakage from a liquid crystal element in black display is reduced or overcome and the contrast is improved. It is another object to provide a pixel circuit having a function to control a lighting state of a backlight based on each pixel. These objects are achieved by turning off a light-emitting element in display of a black gray scale, and by providing a light-emitting element in each pixel and providing, in a pixel circuit, a function to individually control lighting and non-lighting of the light-emitting element depending on a gray scale to perform display. When a backlight is provided in each pixel, a light-emitting element that is a backlight is turned off when a black gray scale is displayed, whereby reduction in contrast due to light leakage from a liquid crystal element can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Yasunori Yoshida, Hideaki Shishido, Atsushi Umezaki, Makoto Yanagisawa, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9181359
    Abstract: A method of production of ethylene-based polymer particles includes the steps of: homopolymerizing ethylene or copolymerizing ethylene and a linear or branched ?-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms in the presence of an olefin polymerization catalyst including: (A) fine particles having an average particle diameter greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 300 nm obtained at least by the following two steps: (Step 1) causing contact between a metal halide and an alcohol in a hydrocarbon solvent; (Step 2) causing contact between a component obtained by (Step 1) and an organoaluminum compound and/or an organoaluminumoxy compound; and (B) a transition metal compound represented in General Formula (I) or (II), and (E) an intrinsic viscosity [?] of the ethylene-based polymer particles, measured in decalin at 135° C., is from 5 to 50 dL/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Fumiaki Nishino, Takeshi Karino, Takayuki Onogi, Susumu Murata, Naoto Matsukawa, Yasunori Yoshida, Yasushi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9177667
    Abstract: To provide a semiconductor device which operates stably with few malfunctions due to noise, with low power consumption, and little variation in characteristics; a display device including the semiconductor device; and an electronic device including the display device. An output terminal is connected to a power supply line, thereby reducing variation in electric potential of the output terminal. In addition, a gate electrode potential which turns ON a transistor is maintained due to the capacitance of the transistor. Further, change in characteristics of the transistor is reduced by a signal line for reverse bias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9171492
    Abstract: To provide an active matrix display device in which power consumption of a signal line driver circuit can be suppressed, so that power consumption of the entire memory can be suppressed. A plurality of memory circuits which can write data of a video signal input to a pixel in one line period and can hold the data are provided in a signal line driver circuit of a display device. Then, the data held in each memory circuit is input to a pixel of a corresponding line as a video signal. By providing two or more memory circuits in a driver circuit, pieces of data of video signals corresponding to two or more line periods can be concurrently held in the memory circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9147363
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a display device in which a problem of light leakage from a liquid crystal element in black display is reduced or overcome and the contrast is improved. It is another object to provide a pixel circuit having a function to control a lighting state of a backlight based on each pixel. These objects are achieved by turning off a light-emitting element in display of a black gray scale, and by providing a light-emitting element in each pixel and providing, in a pixel circuit, a function to individually control lighting and non-lighting of the light-emitting element depending on a gray scale to perform display. When a backlight is provided in each pixel, a light-emitting element that is a backlight is turned off when a black gray scale is displayed, whereby reduction in contrast due to light leakage from a liquid crystal element can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Yasunori Yoshida, Hideaki Shishido, Atsushi Umezaki, Makoto Yanagisawa, Shunpei Yamazaki