Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Hisao Ikeda

Junichiro Sakata

Shunpei Yamazaki

Satoshi Seo

Tomoya Aoyama

Yoshiharu Hirakata

Kohei Yokoyama

Takahiro Ibe

Yuji Iwaki

Takahiro Kawakami

Daisuke Kumaki

Daiki Nakamura

Hiroki Ohara

Yasuhiro Jinbo

Yuichi Yanagisawa

Shunichi Ito

Nozomu Sugisawa

Hiroyuki Miyake

Nobuharu Ohsawa

Shingo Eguchi

Junichi Koezuka

Yasuo Nakamura

Kaoru Kato

Akihiro Kaita

Koichiro Tanaka

Hiroki Adachi

Satoru Idojiri

Masakatsu Ohno

Takuya Kawata

Takeshi Nishi

Ryoji Nomura

Hiroko Abe

Mayumi Mizukami

Manabu Niboshi

Kouhei Toyotaka

Kensuke Yoshizumi

Hideaki Shishido

Akihiro Chida

Yuto Tsukamoto

Yosuke Tsukamoto

Takaaki Nagata

Masayuki Sakakura

Daisuke Kubota

Tetsuji Ishitani

Satoshi Inoue

Shinichi Kawato

Katsuhiro Kikuchi

Ryo Hatsumi

Yoshitaka Dozen

Noriko Miyagi

Fumito Isaka

Yoshiyuki Kurokawa

Kengo Akimoto

Sachiko Kawakami

Hideki Uochi

Koji Ono

Teppei Oguni

Masataka Nakada

Harue Nakashima

Kaoru Tsuchiya

Kiyofumi Ogino

Naoyuki Senda

Kazuhiko Fujita

Kayo Kumakura

Hajime Kimura

Masaaki Hiroki

Masahiro Takahashi

Junya Maruyama

Satoshi Murakami

Koji Kusunoki

Yoshiaki Oikawa

Hiromichi Godo

Tatsuya Arao

Tohru Sonoda

Toshiki Sasaki

Takashi Ochi

Takuya Tsurume

Yoshitaka Yamamoto

Seiichi Mitsui

Hirokazu Yamagata

Masaharu Nagai

Taisuke Kamada

Misako Nakazawa

Ritsuko Nagao

Kei Takahashi

Naoto Kusumoto

Masahiko Hayakawa

Hideko Inoue

Masami Jintyou

Satoko Shitagaki

Shuhei Nagatsuka

Tatsuya Onuki

Yuki Okamoto

Koichiro Kamata

Akio Endo

Takako Takasu

Tsutomu Murakawa

Ryu Komatsu

Takeru Sasaki

Natsuko Takase

A thin optical device having high light utilization efficiency and less chromatic aberration and a small electronic device including the optical device are provided. The thin optical device includes a first reflective polarizing plate, a lens, an optical rotator, a retardation plate, and a second reflective polarizing plate. The optical device can be a thin optical device by rotation of the polarization plane of linearly polarized light with the optical rotator and utilization of a property of selectively reflecting circularly polarized light of the second reflective polarizing plate. Furthermore, the optical device does not use a half mirror and thus has a property of high light utilization efficiency. When the second reflective polarizing plate has a layered structure, chromatic aberration of an optical system can be reduced.

Optical device and electronic device

A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a display region, a functional layer, a first insulating film, and a first conductive film; the display region includes a pixel; the pixel includes a display element and a pixel circuit; the display element includes a first electrode and a second electrode; the second electrode includes a first opening portion; the functional layer includes the pixel circuit, a second opening portion, and an auxiliary wiring; the pixel circuit is electrically connected to the display element in the second opening portion; the auxiliary wiring includes a region overlapping with the first opening portion; the first insulating film includes a third opening portion; the third opening portion includes a region overlapping with the first opening portion; and the first conductive film is electrically connected to the second electrode and the auxiliary wiring in the third opening portion.

Display panel, display device, input/output device, and data processing device

An electronic device capable of gaze tracking is provided. The electronic device includes a display apparatus, an image processing portion, and a control portion. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a light-receiving device. The light-emitting device has a function of emitting light to a user's eye as a display image. The light-receiving device has a function of capturing a retina of the user's eye as a captured image. The image processing portion has a function of detecting a macula included in the retina from the captured image and a function of calculating position data of the macula. The control portion has a function of obtaining a position of a user's gaze destination on the display image from the position data of the macula.

Electronic device and operation method of the electronic device

An electronic device capable of detecting a user's body movements is to be provided. The electronic device is display equipment worn in front of the user's eye and capable of detecting the blinking action. The electronic device includes a display apparatus and a light source in a housing, and the display apparatus includes a light-emitting device and a light-receiving device in a display portion. Light emitted by the light source is incident on the user's eye and the vicinity thereof through a mirror and reflected, and the reflected light is detected by the light-receiving device. The amount of light reflected by the eyelid and that by the eyeball are different from each other, which enables the blinking action to be detected. The detection of the blinking action enables the user's fatigue state to be estimated.

Electronic device with display apparatus having light-emitting device and light-receiving device over insulating layer

An electronic device that can easily increase the viewing angle and has a reduced screen-door effect is provided. In the electronic device, images displayed on a display panel with a low pixel density and a display panel with a high pixel density are synthesized to be seen. The electronic device includes a first display panel that has a relatively large screen size and a low pixel density, and a second display panel and a third display panel each of which has a relatively small screen size and a high pixel density. The electronic device is configured such that visual information enters the central field of view from the second display panel or the third display panel and visual information enters the peripheral field of view from the first display panel. Such a configuration can easily increase the viewing angle and reduce the screen-door effect.

Electronic device

A display device having an image capturing function is provided. The display device includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a light-emitting device. The second pixel includes a light-receiving device and a lens. The light-emitting device and the light-receiving device share an electrode. The lens and the light-receiving device include a region overlapping with each other. The width of the lens is greater than the width of a light-receiving portion of the light-receiving device. The cross-sectional shape of the lens in a thickness direction including an optical axis is a substantial trapezoid. The surface including a leg of the substantially trapezoidal shape has a convex shape. The surface including an upper base of the substantially trapezoidal shape and the light-receiving portion are provided to face each other. The first pixel and the second pixel are provided to be adjacent to each other.

Display device and electronic device

A semiconductor device having favorable display quality is provided. The semiconductor device is provided with a display portion, a line-of-sight sensor portion, a control portion, and an arithmetic portion. The line-of-sight sensor portion has a function of obtaining first information showing a direction of a user's line of sight. The arithmetic portion has a function of determining a first region including a gaze point of the user on the display portion with use of the first information and a function of increasing a definition of an image displayed on the first region. Light emitted from the display portion may be used to obtain the first information showing the direction of the line of sight.

Semiconductor device and electronic device

A high-resolution display device is provided. The display device includes a plurality of light-emitting units emitting light of different colors. The light-emitting unit has a microcavity structure and intensifies light with a specific wavelength. In the light-emitting units emitting light of different colors, reflective layers with different thicknesses are formed, an insulating layer is formed to cover the reflective layers, and then a top surface of the insulating layer is subjected to planarization treatment, whereby an insulating layer with different thicknesses is formed. After that, light-emitting elements emitting white light are formed over the planarized top surface of the insulating layer to overlap with the respective reflective layers, whereby the light-emitting units that intensify different colors due to different optical path lengths are separately formed.

Display device and fabrication method thereof

A novel display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a first layer including a plurality of pixel circuits, a second layer provided over the first layer, a plurality of optical lenses provided over the second layer, a display region, and a plurality of light-receiving regions. The display region includes a first pixel circuit provided in the first layer and a light-emitting device provided in the second layer. The light-receiving region includes a second pixel circuit provided in the first layer and a light-receiving device provided in the second layer. The plurality of light-receiving regions are provided around the display region. The optical lens is provided at a position overlapping with the light-receiving region.

Display apparatus and electronic device

Provided is a display device with extremely high resolution, a display device with higher display quality, a display device with improved viewing angle characteristics, or a flexible display device. Same-color subpixels are arranged in a zigzag pattern in a predetermined direction. In other words, when attention is paid to a subpixel, another two subpixels exhibiting the same color as the subpixel are preferably located upper right and lower right or upper left and lower left. Each pixel includes three subpixels arranged in an L shape. In addition, two pixels are combined so that pixel units including subpixel are arranged in matrix of 3×2.

Display device

A display device which exhibits light with high color purity is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. An embodiment is a display device which includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer, a common electrode, a first protective layer, and a semi-transmissive layer. The light-emitting layer includes a first region positioned over the first pixel electrode and a second region positioned over the second pixel electrode. The common electrode is positioned over the light-emitting layer. The first protective layer is positioned over the common electrode. The semi-transmissive layer is positioned over the first protective layer. Reflectivity with respect to visible light of the semi-transmissive layer is higher than reflectivity with respect to visible light of the common electrode. The semi-transmissive layer does not overlap with the first region and overlaps with the second region. For example, the semi-transmissive layer may include an opening in a position overlapping with the first region.

Display device, display module, and electronic device including semi-transmissive layer

An optical device with less influence of stray light is provided. The optical device is thin and includes a half mirror, a first lens, a retardation plate, a reflective polarizing plate, and a second lens. In the optical device, a geometric phase lens which has negative and positive refractive power is used as the first lens, whereby images can be focused after magnified optically. Thus, the optical device can have a wide viewing angle. In the case where stray light occurs due to birefringence of an optical material, negative refractive power of the first lens can prevent the stray light from being focused on the eye direction. Accordingly, image degradation recognized due to stray light can be prevented.

To provide a display device that is suitable for increasing in size, a display device in which display unevenness is suppressed, or a display device that can display an image along a curved surface. The display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel each including a pair of substrates. The first display panel and the second display panel each include a first region which can transmit visible light, a second region which can block visible light, and a third region which can perform display. The third region of the first display panel and the first region of the second display panel overlap each other. The third region of the first display panel and the second region of the second display panel do not overlap each other.

Display device having overlapping display panels

A novel display panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The display panel includes a display region and includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a filter. The first pixel emits light with a spectrum having a local maximum at a first wavelength, the second pixel emits light with a spectrum having a local maximum at a second wavelength, and the third pixel emits light with a spectrum having a local maximum at a third wavelength. The filter includes a region overlapping with the first pixel, a region overlapping with the second pixel, and a region overlapping with the third pixel, and the filter has a transmittance spectrum having local minimums at a fourth wavelength and a fifth wavelength. The second wavelength is longer than the first wavelength. The third wavelength is longer than the second wavelength. The fourth wavelength is between the first wavelength and the second wavelength. The fifth wavelength is between the second wavelength and the third wavelength.

Display panel, display device, input/output device, data processing device

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Hisao Ikeda