Patents by Inventor Yojiro Matsuda

Yojiro Matsuda 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).

  • Publication number: 20240155907
    Abstract: Display device includes light-emitting element array of light-emitting elements and color filter layer including first bandpass filters configured to transmit light in first band, second bandpass filters configured to transmit light in second band, and third bandpass filters configured to transmit light in third band The color filter layer has an arrangement including at least first column in which the first bandpass filters are arranged, second column in which the second bandpass filters and the third bandpass filters are alternately arranged, and third column in which the second bandpass filters and the third bandpass filters are alternately arranged in the order different from the second column, and at least one first bandpass filter is in contact with at least one second bandpass filter and at least one third bandpass filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: SHOMA HINATA, KOJI ISHIZUYA, TETSUO TAKAHASHI, YOJIRO MATSUDA, AKIRA OKITA
  • Publication number: 20240122044
    Abstract: Alight emitting device including a substrate, a lens with a refractive index n arranged on a main surface of the substrate, and a light emitting region arranged between the main surface and the lens is provided. A surface of the lens is convex and includes a vertex and an end portion. In a case where h represents a height between the vertex and the end portion, r represents a distance between the vertex and the end portion in orthogonal projection to the main surface, H represents a height between the end portion and the light emitting region, and 2a represents a width of the light emitting region, relationships of expressions below are satisfied h<r, ?<55°, and a>r?Htan?, where 2rh/(r2+h2)=sin?, sin?=nsin?, ?-?=?, and nsin?=sin?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: SHOMA HINATA, KEIICHIRO ISHIHARA, YOJIRO MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240065078
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-emitting apparatus including an insulating layer, a light-emitting element disposed on a main surface of the insulating layer, the light-emitting element containing a light-emitting material and having a resonator structure, and a lens disposed above the light-emitting element, a photoluminescence (PL) spectrum of the light-emitting material having a first peak with a wavelength ?PL in a visible light range, wherein the resonator structure satisfies Exp. (1), |?EL??PL|<|?on??PL|??(1) where ?on is a resonance peak wavelength of an interference spectrum that reinforces light emitted in a direction perpendicular to the main surface and ?EL is a peak wavelength of electroluminescence radiated via the light extracting structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO, KOJI ISHIZUYA, TAKAYUKI ITO, HIROAKI SANO, TETSUO TAKAHASHI, YOJIRO MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240057455
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure includes an organic light emitting element (100) including a reflection surface (S2), a first electrode (2), an organic layer (3) including a light emitting layer (31), a second electrode (4), and a light extraction structure (10). The light emitting layer (31) contains a first light emitting material. A wavelength included in a peak wavelength range of a PL spectrum of the first light emitting material is assumed as a first wavelength ?1. An optical distance (Lb) between the light emitting layer (31) and the reflection surface (S2) is a value with which rays of light with the first wavelength (?1), traveling in a first direction (D1) and a second direction (D2) that intersect with a normal direction of a principal surface (S1) of the substrate (1), both are intensified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: KOJI ISHIZUYA, NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO, YOJIRO MATSUDA, HIROAKI SANO, TAKAYUKI ITO, TETSUO TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20240032406
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus including a display element including a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed two-dimensionally on a plane and a plurality of microlenses provided for corresponding ones of the plurality of light-emitting elements, and an ocular optical system, containing at least one reflective surface therein, that guides light from a display surface of the display element to an exit pupil, wherein in a peripheral part of the display element, a center position of the light emission region of each light-emitting element and a center of the microlens corresponding to the light-emitting element are shifted from each other in a direction parallel to the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO, MASAKAZU TOHARA, HIROAKI SANO, YOJIRO MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11818936
    Abstract: A display device is provided that has pixels including a first pixel and a second pixel arranged to be adjacent to each other along a first direction. The pixels include a light emitting region and a color filter. Luminous efficacy of the first pixel is higher than that of the second pixel. In a plane view, a center position of each color filter is shifted in the first direction from a center position of a corresponding light emitting region, and a length parallel to the first direction of the color filter of the first pixel is longer than that of the second pixel. In the first direction, each first pixel is periodically arranged and a pitch of the color filter of each first pixel and a pitch of the light emitting region of each first pixel are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20230345789
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus having sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. One sub-pixel of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel is adjacent to the remaining two sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a lower electrode, a bank including an opening that exposes a center portion of the lower electrode, an organic compound layer arranged to cover the lower electrode and the bank and including a light emitting layer, and an upper electrode arranged on the organic compound layer. The bank of the first sub-pixel includes a first separation structure that at least partially surrounds the opening arranged on the lower electrode of the first sub-pixel. The bank of the third sub-pixel does not include a separation structure arranged to surround the opening of the third sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: HIROAKI SANO, YOJIRO MATSUDA, KOJI ISHIZUYA
  • Publication number: 20230320122
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting element including a first electrode, an organic compound layer, and a second electrode, wherein the organic compound layer includes a charge transport layer, and the charge transport layer includes a first charge transport layer, a second charge transport layer, and a third charge transport layer in this order, and the first charge transport layer, the second charge transport layer, and the third charge transport layer satisfy Formulas (1) and (2) below: ?1>?2>?3??(1) d1+d2<d3??(2) in Formula (1), ?1, ?2, and ?3 are charge mobilities of the first to third charge transport layers, and in Formula (2), d1, d2, and d3 are layer thicknesses of the first to third charge transport layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI ITO, KENTARO ITO, NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO, YOJIRO MATSUDA, HIROAKI SANO
  • Publication number: 20230292546
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The light-emitting element includes a transmittance-increasing layer with increasing transmittance in an optical path of light emitted from the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: TETSUO TAKAHASHI, TAKAYUKI ITO, YOJIRO MATSUDA, YOSHIHISA KAWAMURA, YUTO NOZAKI, SATOSHI YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11751417
    Abstract: A device comprising a first layer, a sealing layer and a resin layer stacked in that order and an organic layer arranged between the first layer and the sealing layer in a pixel region is provided. The first, sealing and resin layers have openings for exposing an electrode in a peripheral region. The sealing layer includes second and third layers each having a water permeability lower than the first layer, and a fourth layer arranged between the second layer and the third layer and having a defect density lower than the second layer. A step of the second layer arranged above the end of the opening of the first layer is covered with the fourth layer and a step of the third layer arranged above the end of the opening of the first layer is covered with the resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yojiro Matsuda, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama, Hiroaki Naruse
  • Publication number: 20230232657
    Abstract: A display device includes a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting layer and an optical member that refracts light from the light-emitting layer. In an orthographic projection of a first optical member included in a first pixel with respect to the light-emitting layer, a position of an apex of the first optical member and a position of a center of the first optical member are separated by a first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Yojiro Matsuda, Hidekazu Takahashi, Yoshihito Harada
  • Publication number: 20230217791
    Abstract: A light emitting apparatus including a substrate including a principal surface, a first light emitting element disposed on the principal surface, a second light emitting element disposed on the principal surface, a first lens and a second lens wherein a distance between a middle point of an emission area of the second light emitting element and an apex of the second lens is larger than a distance between a middle point of an emission area of the first light emitting element and an apex of the first lens, wherein the emission area of the second light emitting element is larger than the emission area of the first light emitting element, and wherein the lower electrode of the second light emitting element is larger than the lower electrode of the first light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO, HIROAKI SANO, YOJIRO MATSUDA, TETSUO TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230189555
    Abstract: A light emitting device in which a reflective film, a first electrode, an organic film including a light emitting layer, a second electrode, and an optical member are arranged in this order on a principal surface of a substrate and a bank configured to cover a peripheral portion of the first electrode is provided to define a light emitting region. The reflective film, the first electrode, the organic film, and the second electrode form a resonator structure configured to resonate, between the reflective film and the second electrode, light generated in the organic film. In the light emitting region, an upper surface of the reflective film is flatter than the first electrode. The resonator structure has a plurality of different optical path lengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: TAKAYUKI ITO, NORIFUMI KAJIMOTO, HIROAKI SANO, TASUKU KANEDA, YOJIRO MATSUDA, AKIRA OKITA
  • Publication number: 20230189557
    Abstract: Alight emitting device comprising lower electrodes arranged on a substrate, an organic layer including a light emitting layer arranged to cover the lower electrodes, an upper electrode arranged to cover the organic layer, a reflective layer arranged between the substrate and the lower electrodes, and an insulating layer arranged between the reflective layer and the lower electrodes, is provided. The reflective layer is arranged to overlap the lower electrodes. The lower electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode adjacent to each other. An upper electrode contact portion configured to electrically connect the reflective layer and the upper electrode is arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the upper electrode contact portion includes a via hole in which a conductive member configured to electrically connect the reflective layer and the upper electrode is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Akira Okita, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11665926
    Abstract: A display device includes a display region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged two-dimensionally. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting layer and an optical member that refracts light from the light-emitting layer. In an orthographic projection of a first optical member included in a first pixel with respect to the light-emitting layer, a position of an apex of the first optical member and a position of a center of the first optical member are separated by a first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yojiro Matsuda, Hidekazu Takahashi, Yoshihito Harada
  • Patent number: 11521536
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprising a pixel provided on a substrate, the pixel including a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel which are arranged to be adjacent to each other and are configured to generate light components of colors different from each other, and the first, second and third subpixels comprise an organic compound layer including a light emission layer, wherein letting I1, I2, and I3 be driving current amounts of the first, second and third subpixels when generating white light of a predetermined luminance, if I1>I2>I3 holds, a current leakage between the first and third subpixels is limited as compared to that between the second and third subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220320452
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus including: a first lower electrode; a second lower electrode; a functional layer covering the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode; and an upper electrode on the functional layer, the light-emitting apparatus further including a third lower electrode between the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode, wherein the third lower electrode has an inclined portion inclined with respect to an upper surface of the first lower electrode, and the third lower electrode, an insulating layer, the functional layer, and the upper electrode are arranged in this order in a direction perpendicular to the inclined portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Koji Ishizuya, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220255042
    Abstract: An organic device includes a reflective film arranged on a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes arranged above the reflective film, an organic function film configured to cover the plurality of lower electrodes, and an upper electrode arranged on the organic function film. A potential difference between the upper electrode and the reflective film is lower than a threshold voltage at which the organic function film operates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki Naruse, Koji Ishizuya, Yojiro Matsuda, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20220238845
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus including a substrate including a surface, first to fourth elements that emit first light or second light, and first to fourth lenses, in which the relationship between the size of the emission area and the relative position of the lenses differs between the first light and the second light so that color misregistration due to the viewing angle is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroaki Sano, Shoma Hinata, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220158134
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a surface of a substrate, the plurality of pixels including a first pixel including a first sub-pixel that includes a first light emitting element and emits light of a first color and a second sub-pixel that includes a second light emitting element and emits light of a second color, a first lens disposed on a first light emitting area of the first light emitting element, and a second lens disposed on a second light emitting area of the second light emitting element. A vector from a center of the first light emitting area in plan view from a direction perpendicular to the main surface to an apex of the first lens differs from a vector from a center of the second light emitting area to an apex of the second lens in plan view from the direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Shoma Hinata, Hiroaki Sano, Yojiro Matsuda