Patents by Inventor Yoichi Momose
Yoichi Momose 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: 20230395026Abstract: A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The scan line drive circuit selects once a scan line group to be selected among the plurality of scan lines, in a subfield included in the plurality of subfields. The scan line group includes a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which an i-th bit is written in a subfield, and a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which a j-th bit is written in a subfield.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi MOMOSE, Mitsutoshi MIYASAKA
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Publication number: 20230375882Abstract: An electro-optical device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, a seal member extending in a first direction and disposed between the first and second substrates in a seal region defined around a pixel area, a first conductive layer disposed between the first substrate and the seal member and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, a second conductive layer disposed between the first substrate and the first conductive layer and extending in the second direction, a third layer disposed in the pixel area and formed of the first conductive layer, and a fourth layer disposed in the pixel area and formed of the second conductive layer. In plan view, the first conductive layer overlaps the second conductive layer in the seal region. In a cross-sectional view the first direction, the second conductive layer is larger in an outer shape than the first conductive layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Kinoe, Yoichi Momose
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Publication number: 20230368728Abstract: In an odd frame, a plurality of scanning lines are selected sequentially, and in one pixel circuit, when a scanning line corresponding to the one pixel circuit is selected, a first selector electrically couples one end of a first capacitance element to a data line, and a second selector electrically couples one end of a second capacitance element to the gate node of a transistor. In an even frame, the plurality of scanning lines are selected sequentially, and when the scanning line is selected, the first selector electrically couples one end of the second capacitance element to the data line, and the second selector electrically couples one end of the first capacitance element to the gate node.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MOMOSE
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Publication number: 20230296970Abstract: Included are a display panel configured to emit light from a plurality of light-emitting elements in a Z direction, a projection lens configured to project the light emitted from the display panel in the Z direction, a power supply unit configured to supply power to the display panel, and a housing having a tubular shape, the housing accommodating the power supply unit, the display panel, and the projection lens in this order along the Z direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MOMOSE
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Publication number: 20230300304Abstract: A projection device includes a display panel including a plurality of OLEDs that emit light in a predetermined direction, and an optical path shift element that shifts an optical path of light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements. The display panel turns on the plurality of OLEDs in a light emission sub-frame, turns off the plurality of OLEDs in a vertical scanning blanking period, and turns on the plurality of OLEDs in a light emission sub-frame, and the optical path shift element fixes the optical path in the light emission sub-frame and shifts the optical path in the vertical scanning blanking period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MOMOSE
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Patent number: 11762242Abstract: An electro-optical device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, a seal member extending in a first direction and disposed between the first and second substrates in a seal region defined around a pixel area, a first conductive layer disposed between the first substrate and the seal member and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, a second conductive layer disposed between the first substrate and the first conductive layer and extending in the second direction, a third layer disposed in the pixel area and formed of the first conductive layer, and a fourth layer disposed in the pixel area and formed of the second conductive layer. In plan view, the first conductive layer overlaps the second conductive layer in the seal region. In a cross-sectional view the first direction, the second conductive layer is larger in an outer shape than the first conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Kinoe, Yoichi Momose
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Patent number: 11749183Abstract: In an odd frame, a plurality of scanning lines are selected sequentially, and in one pixel circuit, when a scanning line corresponding to the one pixel circuit is selected, a first selector electrically couples one end of a first capacitance element to a data line, and a second selector electrically couples one end of a second capacitance element to the gate node of a transistor. In an even frame, the plurality of scanning lines are selected sequentially, and when the scanning line is selected, the first selector electrically couples one end of the second capacitance element to the data line, and the second selector electrically couples one end of the first capacitance element to the gate node.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi Momose
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Publication number: 20230252938Abstract: The electro-optical device includes a plurality of digital scanning lines, a plurality of analog scanning lines, a digital signal line, an analog signal line, and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light emitting element, a digital driving circuit, and an analog driving circuit. The digital driving circuit performs digital driving in which a drive current is supplied to the light emitting element in a period of a length corresponding to a grayscale value. The analog driving circuit performs analog current setting in which a current value of the drive current is set based on an analog data voltage. In a period in which the pixel circuit connected to an s-th digital scanning line and an s-th analog scanning line performs the analog current setting, the pixel circuit connected to a t-th digital scanning line and a t-th analog scanning line performs the digital driving.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi MOMOSE, Mitsutoshi MIYASAKA
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Publication number: 20230222977Abstract: In a pixel circuit including a first capacitance element and a second capacitance element, in a writing sub-frame, a voltage corresponding to a gray scale level is held in a first capacitance element, a plurality of OLEDs are off in a vertical scanning line flyback period after the writing sub-frame, and in a light-emitting sub-frame after the vertical scanning line flyback period, a current corresponding to the voltage held in the first capacitance element is supplied to the OLED, and the voltage corresponding to the gray scale level is held in the second capacitance element. In an optical path shifting element, an optical path is shifted in the vertical scanning line flyback period, and in the light-emitting sub-frame, the optical path is stabilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MOMOSE
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Patent number: 11699393Abstract: A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The scan line drive circuit selects once a scan line group to be selected among the plurality of scan lines, in a subfield included in the plurality of subfields. The scan line group includes a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which an i-th bit is written in a subfield, and a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which a j-th bit is written in a subfield.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Inventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
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Patent number: 11681187Abstract: An electro-optical device including a first substrate and a transistor is provided. The first substrate includes a first scanning line having a light shielding property and extending in a first direction between a substrate body and a pixel electrode. The transistor includes a semiconductor film extending in the first direction to overlap with the first scanning line in a layer between the first scanning line and the pixel electrode. In a layer between a gate electrode and a pixel electrode, a second scanning line having a light shielding property extends in the first direction to overlap with the first scanning line in plan view. The second scanning line extends through a position spaced apart from a third contact portion that electrically couples the pixel electrode and the semiconductor film, and is electrically coupled to the gate electrode and the first scanning line.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yohei Sugimoto, Yoichi Momose
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Patent number: 11657754Abstract: The electro-optical device includes a plurality of digital scanning lines, a plurality of analog scanning lines, a digital signal line, an analog signal line, and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light emitting element, a digital driving circuit, and an analog driving circuit. The digital driving circuit performs digital driving in which a drive current is supplied to the light emitting element in a period of a length corresponding to a grayscale value. The analog driving circuit performs analog current setting in which a current value of the drive current is set based on an analog data voltage. In a period in which the pixel circuit connected to an s-th digital scanning line and an s-th analog scanning line performs the analog current setting, the pixel circuit connected to a t-th digital scanning line and a t-th analog scanning line performs the digital driving.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
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Publication number: 20230119587Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of digital scanning lines, a digital signal line, and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light emitting element and a digital driving circuit. The digital driving circuit performs digital driving to turn the light emitting element ON-state or OFF-state based on a grayscale value. The digital driving circuit keeps the light emitting element ON-state by supplying a drive current to the light emitting element, in a period in which an enable signal is active, of a grayscale display period having a length corresponding to the grayscale value. The control line driving circuit sets a period in which the enable signal is active. A ratio, with respect to the grayscale display period, of an ON-state period in which the light emitting element is ON-state changes in accordance with the period in which the enable signal is active.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi MOMOSE, Mitsutoshi MIYASAKA
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Publication number: 20230097462Abstract: An electro-optical device includes digital scanning lines, a digital signal line, and pixel circuits. Each circuit is coupled to a digital scanning line included in the digital scanning lines, and the digital signal line. Each pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element and a digital driving circuit that performs digital driving in which, when the pixel circuit is selected by the digital scanning line, display data is written to selected pixel circuit from the digital signal line, and a drive current is supplied to the light-emitting element of selected pixel circuit in an on-period of a length corresponding to a gray scale value of the display data. A field being a period in which one image is formed includes an all-pixels-light-off period in which the pixel circuits turn off the light-emitting elements, and a digital driving period in which the digital driving circuit performs the digital driving after the all-pixels-light-off period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MOMOSE
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Publication number: 20230091789Abstract: In an odd frame, a plurality of scanning lines are selected sequentially, and in one pixel circuit, when a scanning line corresponding to the one pixel circuit is selected, a first selector electrically couples one end of a first capacitance element to a data line, and a second selector electrically couples one end of a second capacitance element to the gate node of a transistor. In an even frame, the plurality of scanning lines are selected sequentially, and when the scanning line is selected, the first selector electrically couples one end of the second capacitance element to the data line, and the second selector electrically couples one end of the first capacitance element to the gate node.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Yoichi MOMOSE
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Patent number: 11562695Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a plurality of digital scanning lines, a digital signal line, and a plurality of pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a light emitting element and a digital driving circuit. The digital driving circuit performs digital driving to turn the light emitting element ON-state or OFF-state based on a grayscale value. The digital driving circuit keeps the light emitting element ON-state by supplying a drive current to the light emitting element, in a period in which an enable signal is active, of a grayscale display period having a length corresponding to the grayscale value. The control line driving circuit sets a period in which the enable signal is active. A ratio, with respect to the grayscale display period, of an ON-state period in which the light emitting element is ON-state changes in accordance with the period in which the enable signal is active.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
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Publication number: 20220358882Abstract: A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The scan line drive circuit selects once a scan line group to be selected among the plurality of scan lines, in a subfield included in the plurality of subfields. The scan line group includes a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which an i-th bit is written in a subfield, and a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which a j-th bit is written in a subfield.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi MOMOSE, Mitsutoshi MIYASAKA
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Patent number: 11468827Abstract: A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element, and an enable line drive circuit that outputs an enable signal to a plurality of pixel circuits. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The enable line drive circuit outputs an enable signal that is active in a partial period of a first display period corresponding to a first bit, which is a lower bit of display data. When the enable signal is active in a partial period of the first display period, a pixel is ON-state or OFF-state.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka
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Publication number: 20220284540Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a pixel circuit 41G, a pixel circuit 41B, a high potential line 47G configured to supply a high potential VDDG to the pixel circuit 41G, a high potential line 47B configured to supply a high potential VDDB to the pixel circuit 41B, and a low potential line 46 configured to supply a first low potential VSS1 to the pixel circuit 41G and the pixel circuit 41B. The pixel circuit 41G includes a light-emitting element 20G configured to display G, the pixel circuit 41B includes a light-emitting element 20B configured to display B, and the high potential VDDG and the high potential VDDB are mutually independent.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsutoshi MIYASAKA, Yoichi MOMOSE, Kiyoshi SEKIJIMA
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Patent number: 11417275Abstract: A circuit device includes a scan line drive circuit that drives a plurality of scan lines of an electro-optical element. A field for constituting one image includes a plurality of subfields. The scan line drive circuit selects once a scan line group to be selected among the plurality of scan lines, in a subfield included in the plurality of subfields. The scan line group includes a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which an i-th bit is written in a subfield, and a scan line connected to a pixel circuit to which a j-th bit is written in a subfield.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoichi Momose, Mitsutoshi Miyasaka