Sony Corporation

Joled Inc.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Group Corporation

Tetsuro Yamamoto

Katsuhide Uchino

Junichi Yamashita

Naobumi Toyomura

Takayuki Taneda

Hiroshi Sagawa

Yukihito Iida

Tetsuo Minami

Yusuke Onoyama

Seiichiro Jinta

Keisuke Matsuo

Hideki Sugimoto

Kiwamu Miura

Kohji Hanawa

Tomoaki Handa

Takanori Shibasaki

Chiyoko Sato

Mitsuru Asano

Hiroshi Fujimura

Kazuo Nakamura

Yuki Seo

Masakazu Kato

Jiro Yamada

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Hitoshi Tsuge

Hiromasa Tsuboi

Mitsuru Tada

Yasunobu Hiromasu

Gaku Izumi

Shinya Igarashi

Masahiko Mizoguchi

Kenji Kokuda

Yuuki Seo

Teppei Tanaka

A display device includes a current-driven electro-optical element, a first supply, a second supply, a driving transistor, a correction transistor, an anode switching transistor, an initialization transistor, and a capacitive element. A current is supplied from the first supply. The second supply is lower in potential than the first supply. The driving transistor is configured to drive the electro-optical element in accordance with a written image signal. The correction transistor is coupled between a gate of the driving transistor and a second terminal of the driving transistor. The anode switching transistor is coupled between the second terminal of the driving transistor and an anode of the electro-optical element. The initialization transistor is coupled between the anode of the electro-optical element and the second supply. The capacitive element is coupled to the gate of the driving transistor. The correction, anode switching, and initialization transistors are n-channel transistors.

Display device having driving transistor to drive electro-optical element

A light emitting device including a pixel is provided. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor connected to the light emitting element, a control transistor arranged between the driving transistor and a supply line and a write transistor arranged between a control terminal of the driving transistor and a signal line. One frame period includes a correction period during which the write transistor is rendered conductive and a reference signal is written in the control terminal, a write period during which the write transistor is rendered conductive and a luminance signal is written in the control terminal, and a light emission period. The control transistor is rendered conductive during a conductive state of the write transistor in the correction period, and is rendered conductive after the correction period and before the write period.

Light emitting device, display device, photoelectric conversion device, electronic apparatus, and wearable device

A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes. The circuit includes a source of a TFT used as a drive transistor that is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, and a drain of the TFT is connected to a power source potential. A capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT used as a switching transistor.

Pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving pixel circuit

A light emitting device includes pixel circuits arranged to form rows and columns and each including a light emitting element, signal lines each extending in a column direction and configured to supply a pixel signal to the pixel circuits, row selection lines each extending in a row direction and configured to supply a row selection signal to the pixel circuits, and column selection lines each extending in the column direction and configured to supply a column selection signal to the pixel circuits. At least one of the pixel circuits includes a light emission control circuit configured to allow the light emitting element of a pixel circuit indicated by the row selection signal and the column selection signal to emit light in a brightness according to the pixel signal that is being supplied to the pixel circuit.

Light emitting device, control method thereof, photoelectric conversion device, electronic apparatus, illumination device, and moving body

A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain is connected to a power source potential, a capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.

Pixel circuit and display device

A light emitting device including a light emitting element, a driving transistor connected to the light emitting element and configured to supply a current corresponding to a signal, a light emission control transistor arranged between the driving transistor and a potential supply line and configured to control emission or non-emission of the light emitting element, a write transistor configured to supply the signal to the driving transistor, is provided. One frame period includes a write period during which the write transistor is rendered conductive and the signal is written, and a light emission period during which the light emission control transistor changes from a non-conductive state to a conductive state and the light emitting element emits light. After a start of the write period and before an end of the write period, the light emission control transistor is rendered conductive.

Light emitting device having a pixel, a driving transistor, a light emission control transistor, a write transistor, and a capacitive element

A pixel circuit driving method is a method for driving a pixel circuit that includes a drive transistor that supplies a current corresponding to a signal voltage supplied via a signal line, a write transistor connected between the signal line and a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and an organic EL element that emits light in accordance with the current. The pixel circuit driving method includes supplying a reference potential to the gate electrode of the drive transistor before a threshold correction preparation operation of making a gate-source voltage of the drive transistor higher than a threshold voltage of the drive transistor.

Pixel circuit driving method, pixel circuit, and display device

A pixel circuit configured to emit light based on an image signal includes: a light emitting element (organic EL element); a driver transistor configured to adjust current supplied to the light emitting element; and a write transistor connected between a signal line to which the image signal is applied and the driver transistor. The driver transistor includes: a gate electrode; a counter electrode disposed opposite the gate electrode; and a channel disposed between the gate electrode and the counter electrode. A potential applied to the counter electrode in a write period in which the write transistor conducts current in a state in which the image signal is applied to the signal line reduces a resistance value of the driver transistor to lower value than a potential applied to the counter electrode in an emission period of the light emitting element does.

A display apparatus includes a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern; and a driving circuit for driving the pixel unit. Each of the pixels includes a signal level holding capacitor; a first transistor that is turned on/off in response to a writing signal and via which one end of the signal level holding capacitor is connected to a signal line; a second transistor having one end of the signal level holding capacitor connected to a gate thereof and the other end of the signal level holding capacitor connected to a source thereof; a current-driven self-light-emitting element whose cathode is held at a cathode potential and whose anode is connected to the source of the second transistor; a third transistor that is turned on/off in response to a driving pulse signal; and a fourth transistor that is turned on/off in response to a control signal.

Display apparatus and electronic apparatus

A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.

Display apparatus including pixel circuit with transistors connected to different control lines

A pixel circuit includes: a driver transistor that supplies a current dependent on a voltage supplied via a signal line; a write transistor connected between the signal line and a gate electrode of the driver transistor; a first organic EL element connected to one electrode of the driver transistor, the one electrode being one of a drain electrode and a source electrode of the driver transistor; a switching transistor connected to the one electrode of the driver transistor; and a second organic EL element connected to the one electrode of the driver transistor via the switching transistor. The pixel circuit performs mobility correction that corrects a mobility of the driver transistor. The switching transistor turns ON after a write operation that writes the voltage supplied via the signal line and turns OFF before an operation that performs the mobility correction of the driver transistor begins.

A display unit includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the pixels includes one of an optical modulator and a self-luminescent element, and one of an electrochromic element, an electrophoretic element, and an electrowetting element. Each of the pixels further includes a pixel circuit that is configured to selectively drive the one of the optical modulator and the self-luminescent element, and selectively drive the one of the electrochromic element, the electrophoretic element, and the electrowetting element.

Display unit

Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically.

Display, method for driving display, and electronic apparatus including a holding capacitor formed of parallel connected capacitors

A display device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element having a light-emitting unit and a driving circuit for driving the light-emitting unit. The driving circuit at least includes a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, the other region of the source/drain regions is connected to the light-emitting unit and connected to one end of the capacitive unit, and forms a second node, and the gate electrode is connected to the other region of the source/drain regions of the video signal write transistor and connected to the other end of the capacitive unit, and forms a first node.

Driving circuit for a light-emitting unit of a display device and electronic apparatus

A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a write transistor, a first switching transistor, a first storage capacitor, a second and third switching transistors, and a second storage capacitor. The driving transistor controls a current flowing in a light-emitting device. The write transistor controls application of a signal voltage to a source end of the driving transistor. The first switching transistor controls a gate voltage of the driving transistor during correction operation that allows a gate-source voltage of the driving transistor to come close to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The second switching and third switching transistors are provided, in series, at an electrically conductive path between the source end of the driving transistor and a first voltage line.

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Tetsuro Yamamoto