Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Yuji Iwaki

Satoshi Seo

Shunpei Yamazaki

Hisao Ikeda

Junichiro Sakata

Takahiro Kawakami

Tomoya Aoyama

Hiroko Abe

Ryoji Nomura

Katsuki Yanagawa

Daisuke Kubota

Mikio Yukawa

Daisuke Kumaki

Yasuyuki Arai

Kunihiko Suzuki

Yasuko Watanabe

Kanta Abe

Tsunenori Suzuki

Hiromi Seo

Harue Nakashima

Naoaki Hashimoto

Yoshitaka Moriya

Kei Takahashi

Akiharu Miyanaga

Kouhei Toyotaka

Junpei Momo

Tatsuyoshi Takahashi

Ryo Hatsumi

Nozomu Sugisawa

Taisuke Kamada

Takaaki Nagata

Kumi Kojima

Jiro Imada

Ko Inada

Jun Koyama

Hiroyuki Miyake

Yoshiharu Hirakata

Nobuharu Ohsawa

Atsuo Isobe

Sachiko Kawakami

Koji Kusunoki

Kazunori Watanabe

Hiromichi Godo

Hideaki Shishido

Kensuke Yoshizumi

Seiichi Yoneda

Koichiro Kamata

Hiroshi Kadoma

Kohei Yokoyama

Motoki Nakashima

Hideaki Okamoto

Kaori Ogita

Yumiko Yoneda

Yasuyuki Takahashi

Natsuko Takase

Kentaro Hayashi

Naoaki Tsutsui

Yusuke Koumura

Tomoya Hirose

Masumi Nomura

Masataka Shiokawa

Mari Tateishi

A novel bendable and highly portable information processor is provided. In addition, a novel information processor capable of displaying information or the like on a seamless large screen is provided. A novel information processor in which one display region can be divided into two regions at a bend position is provided. A novel information processor in which different images or images for different purposes can be displayed in the respective regions is provided. The present inventors have conceived a program including a step of dividing the display region and displaying image data in the respective regions when a display unit of the information processor is bent.

Semiconductor device comprising bendable touch panel

A secondary battery with excellent cycle performance is provided. The secondary battery is an all-solid-state battery including a positive electrode current collector layer, a base film, a positive electrode active material layer, a buffer layer, and a solid electrolyte layer. The base film contains titanium nitride. The positive electrode active material layer contains lithium cobalt oxide. The buffer layer contains titanium oxide. The solid electrolyte layer contains a titanium compound. By using titanium oxide for the buffer layer, a side reaction between the positive electrode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer can be suppressed, and cycle performance can be improved.

Secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof

A novel light-emitting device is provided. A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device with a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting device with low driving voltage is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a hole-injection layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transport layer. The hole-injection layer is positioned between the anode and the light-emitting layer. The electron-transport layer is positioned between the light-emitting layer and the cathode. The hole-injection layer contains a first substance and a second substance. The first substance is an organic compound which has a hole-transport property and a HOMO level higher than or equal to −5.7 eV and lower than or equal to −5.4 eV. The second substance exhibits an electron-accepting property with respect to the first substance. The electron-transport layer contains a material whose resistance decreases with current flowing therethrough.

Light-emitting device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic device, and lighting device

Provided is a positive electrode for a secondary battery, which has a small change in a crystal structure due to charging and discharging and has excellent cycle performance. The positive electrode for a secondary battery includes n positive electrode active material layers (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2), n−1 separation layer(s), and a positive electrode current collector layer. The positive electrode active material layers and the separation layer(s) are alternately stacked. The positive electrode active material layer contains lithium, cobalt, and oxygen. The separation layer contains a titanium compound. Titanium oxide and titanium nitride are preferable as the titanium compound, and titanium oxide is particularly preferable.

Positive electrode for secondary battery, secondary battery, and electronic device

A display device having a photosensing function is provided. A display device having a biometric authentication function typified by fingerprint authentication is provided. A display device having a touch panel function and a biometric authentication function is provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a light guide plate, a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a light-receiving element. The first substrate and the light guide plate are provided to face each other. The first light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are provided between the first substrate and the light guide plate. The first light-emitting element has a function of emitting first light through the light guide plate. The second light-emitting element has a function of emitting second light to a side surface of the light guide plate. The light-receiving element has functions of receiving the first light and converting the first light into an electric signal and functions of receiving the second light and converting the second light into an electric signal. The first light includes visible light, and the second light includes infrared light.

Display device and system

Semiconductor device comprising bending member comprising hinge components

A novel light-emitting device is provided. A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device with along lifetime is provided. A light-emitting device with low driving voltage is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a hole-injection layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transport layer. The hole-injection layer is positioned between the anode and the light-emitting layer. The electron-transport layer is positioned between the light-emitting layer and the cathode. The hole-injection layer contains a first substance and a second substance. The first substance is an organic compound which has a hole-transport property and a HOMO level higher than or equal to &#x2212;5.7 eV and lower than or equal to &#x2212;5.4 eV. The second substance exhibits an electron-accepting property with respect to the first substance. The electron-transport layer contains a material whose resistance decreases with current flowing therethrough.

Information processor and program

An image processing method that generates high-resolution image data from low-resolution image data and an image receiving apparatus that is operated by the image processing method are provided. In the image processing method that generates high-resolution image data from low-resolution image data, the low-resolution image data is divided to generate a plurality of first image data, among the plurality of first image data, one of two adjacent image data is second image data, and the other is third image data. Surroundings of the second image data are supplemented with pixel data to generate fourth image data. The pixel data includes part of the third image data. A convolutional neural network using the fourth image data as an input is implemented, fifth image data is output from the convolutional neural network, and a plurality of the fifth image data is combined to generate high-resolution image data. The image receiving apparatus is operated by the image processing method.

Image processing method and image receiving apparatus

A method for operating an electronic device with lower power consumption is provided. The electronic device includes a display device and a touch sensor. In the case where the touch sensor senses no touch, the touch sensor is brought into a resting state or operated so as to perform a sensing operation at a reduced drive frequency. Also in the case where the touch sensor constantly senses touches and an image on the display device is not changed, the touch sensor is brought into the resting state or operated so as to perform the sensing operation at a reduced drive frequency.

Display device, electronic device, and operation method thereof

To provide a semiconductor device or display system. To provide a semiconductor device or display system that can display stereoscopic images. A signal generation unit has a function of, with the use of artificial intelligence, obtaining information on a scene of an image and information on a depth of the image and correcting image data on the basis of the information so that a stereoscopic effect is emphasized. An image signal obtained by the correction of the image data is supplied to a display unit, so that a stereoscopic image can be displayed on a display region.

Semiconductor device, display system which corrects image data, and electronic device

A system performs a layout design of a circuit for a small area satisfying a design rule within a short period of time. In a layout design system which includes a processing portion and in which a circuit diagram and layout design information are input to the processing portion, the processing portion has a function of generating layout data from the circuit diagram and the layout design information by performing a Q learning, the processing portion has a function of outputting the layout data, the processing portion includes a first neural network, and the first neural network estimates an action value function in the Q learning.

Layout design system and layout design method

A display device which can display a clear image and can display an image with low power consumption is provided. The display device includes an arithmetic circuit having a function of generating first to third display data, a first display portion, and a second display portion. The arithmetic circuit has a function of detecting a color region and a gray-scale region of the generated first display data and generating the second display data corresponding to an image to be displayed on the first display portion and the third display data corresponding to an image to be displayed on the second display portion, on the basis of the detection results.

Display device, driving method of the same, and electronic device

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Yuji Iwaki