Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080218454 | Display apparatus and method for driving the same - In a display apparatus, as shown in FIG. | 09-11-2008 |
20080224964 | Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and electronic equipment - In the present invention, there is provided a display apparatus including: a pixel array section including pixel circuits each having an electro-optical device, a write transistor configured to carry out a voltage storing process, a holding capacitor configured to hold the sampled video signal, and a driving transistor configured to drive the electro-optical device; first scan means for carrying out a selective scan operation in row units and driving each of the write transistors; second scan means for selectively supplying either a first or second electric potential synchronously with the selective scan operation for feeding a current to each of the driving transistors; and control means for sustaining a power-supply feed line in a floating state during a period ending at a time not earlier than the start of the voltage storing process after a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor has been held in the holding capacitor. | 09-18-2008 |
20080225027 | Pixel circuit, display device, and driving method thereof - Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array unit and a control unit. | 09-18-2008 |
20080231576 | Pixel circuit and display apparatus as well as fabrication method for display apparatus - Disclosed herein is a pixel circuit including: at least one transistor whose conduction state is controlled by a drive signal received by a control terminal; and a driving wiring line to which the drive signal is propagated, the control terminal of the transistor being connected to the driving wiring line. The driving wiring line is connected to a wiring line in a different layer so as to form a multilayer wiring line. | 09-25-2008 |
20080231625 | Display apparatus and drive method thereof and electronic device - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including a pixel array section and a drive section. The pixel array section has power supply lines, scan lines arranged in row, signal lines arranged in column, and pixels arranged in matrix at intersections of each of the scan lines and each of the signal lines. The drive transistor is connected at one of a pair of current terminals to the light emitting device and at the other of the pair of current terminals to the power supply line. The drive section supplies a control signal to each scan line and a video signal to each signal line to drive each pixel, executing a threshold voltage correcting operation, a write operation, and a light emitting operation. | 09-25-2008 |
20080238830 | Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus - A display device includes pixel array unit and a driver unit. A sampling transistor samples a signal potential to hold the signal potential in a holding capacitor. A driver transistor flows a drive current to a light emitting element in accordance with the signal potential held. A main scanner in the driver unit outputs the control signal having a shorter pulse width than the time period to the scan line to make the sampling transistor conductive during a time period while the signal line is at the signal potential, thereby adding the signal potential a correction for a mobility of the driver transistor when the signal potential is held in the holding capacitor. | 10-02-2008 |
20080238901 | Display apparatus, display-apparatus driving method and electronic equipment - In the present invention, there is provided a display apparatus including: a pixel array section including pixel circuits each having an electro-optical device, a write transistor configured to carry out a voltage storing process to sample a video signal and store the sampled video signal, a holding capacitor configured to hold the sampled video signal, and a driving transistor configured to drive the electro-optical device; and a driving circuit configured to carry out a selective scan operation on the pixel circuits in row units, and a threshold-voltage correction operation to correct variations of the threshold voltage of every driving transistor wherein, before the driving circuit carries out a threshold-voltage correction operation in a horizontal scan period, the driving circuit performs a preparatory operation prior to the horizontal scan period in order to fix each of electric potentials appearing on the gate and the source of the driving transistor at a predetermined level. | 10-02-2008 |
20080252626 | Self-luminous display panel driving method, self-luminous display panel and electronic apparatus - A self-luminous display panel driving method for driving a self-luminous display panel of the active matrix driving type, includes the step of executing threshold value correction operation for a driving transistor divisionally in a plurality of periods within at least one of which, after a point of time of an end of a preceding correction period till a point of time of a start of a succeeding correction period, a potential to be applied to the drain electrode of the driving transistor is controlled to an intermediate potential between a first potential for lighting driving of the driving transistor and a second potential for initialization applied within a preparation period of the first one of the correction periods. | 10-16-2008 |
20090046040 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array section; power supply lines; and auxiliary electrodes, wherein the pixels each have an auxiliary capacitance, and one of electrodes of the auxiliary capacitance is connected to the source electrode of the drive transistor, and an other electrode connected to the auxiliary electrode for each pixel. | 02-19-2009 |
20090115708 | ACTIVE MATRIX DISPLAY DEVICE - An active matrix display device includes a driving section provided on a substrate, an insulating film stacked on the substrate, and light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix on the insulating film, and each of the light-emitting elements includes an light-emitting layer between its upper and lower electrodes, the active matrix display device being driven by the driving section provided for each of the light-emitting elements, the active matrix display device also including a first wiring required to cause the light-emitting element to emit light, and a second wiring disposed in the underlying layer of the first wiring via the insulating film, the second wiring also required to cause the light-emitting element to emit light, wherein the first or second wiring is branched into a plurality of wirings at the intersection between the two wirings. | 05-07-2009 |
20090135113 | Electro luminescent display panel and electronic apparatus - An EL display panel having a pixel structure corresponding to an active-matrix drive system, the EL display panel including a current supply line configured to be connected to a plurality of pixel circuits in common, line width of an intersection part of the current supply line with a signal line being smaller than line width of the other part of the current supply line. | 05-28-2009 |
20090262102 | Display device, driving method of display device, and electronic device - Disclosed herein is a display device including a pixel array unit, a first scanning circuit, a second scanning circuit and a selecting circuit. | 10-22-2009 |
20090262258 | Display apparatus - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire connecting the driving transistor to a power-supply providing line, wherein the resistance of the draw wire is relatively large in the pixel circuit close to a source applying a power-supply voltage to the power-supply providing line. | 10-22-2009 |
20090295773 | Display device - A display device, including: a pixel array portion having pixel circuits disposed in a matrix, each of the pixel circuits including a drive transistor for generating a drive current, and an electro-optic element connected to an output terminal of the drive transistor, and power source supply lines as scanning lines through which pulse-like power source voltages are supplied to power source supply terminals of the drive transistors, respectively, wired therein; wherein power source contact portions through which the corresponding one of the power source supply terminals and the corresponding one of the power source supply lines are connected to each other are provided at predetermined distances from one another in a plurality of portions every drive transistor. | 12-03-2009 |
20100149075 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes a pixel array unit having a matrix of pixels each configured such that an anode electrode of an organic electroluminescent element is connected to a source electrode of a drive transistor, a gate electrode of the drive transistor is connected to a source or drain electrode of a writing transistor, and a storage capacitor is connected between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, scanning lines and power supply lines for individual pixel rows, and signal lines for individual pixel columns. A video signal reference potential is supplied to the signal lines for a period during which a scanning signal is supplied to the scanning lines during driving of pixels in a preceding row. During threshold correction for the drive transistor in a current pixel, the video signal reference potential and a potential of the cathode electrode of the organic electroluminescent element are equal. | 06-17-2010 |
20100149166 | DISPLAY, METHOD OF DRIVING DISPLAY, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display includes a pixel array section having pixels in a matrix, each pixel including an electro-optical device, a writing transistor writing a video signal, a storage capacitor retaining the video signal, and a driving transistor driving the electro-optical device based upon the video signal; scan lines for respective rows of the unit providing a scanning signal to the writing transistor; power supply lines for respective rows of the unit selectively providing a first potential and a second potential, lower than the first potential, to a drain electrode of the driving transistor; and signal lines for respective columns of the unit selectively providing the video signal and a video signal reference potential to the writing transistor; wherein a potential setting period is provided from when the pixels are turned off until the first potential is provided to the power supply line. | 06-17-2010 |
20100176400 | Display device and electronic apparatus - A display device includes: a pixel array unit having pixels including a circuit configuration, in which a first electrode of an electro-optical element and a source electrode of a driving transistor are connected together, a gate electrode of the driving transistor and a source electrode or a drain electrode of a writing transistor are connected together, a holding capacitor is connected between the gate electrode and the source electrode of the driving transistor, and an auxiliary capacitor is connected between the first electrode and a second electrode of the electro-optical element, disposed on a substrate in a matrix shape, wherein, from one pixel of adjacent pixels to an area of the other pixel, the auxiliary capacitor of the one pixel is set to be disposed, and an electrode of the auxiliary capacitor that is disposed on the electro-optical element side is conductive with the second electrode of the electro-optical element. | 07-15-2010 |
20100182224 | Display device and electronic apparatus - A display device includes: a pixel array unit having pixels including a circuit configuration, in which a first electrode of an electro-optical element and a source electrode of a driving transistor are connected together, a gate electrode of the driving transistor and a source electrode or a drain electrode of a writing transistor are connected together, a holding capacitor is connected between the gate electrode and the source electrode, and an auxiliary capacitor is connected between the first electrode and a second electrode, disposed in a matrix shape. A signal line used for transmitting a video signal is disposed between adjacent pixels, and from one pixel of adjacent pixels to an area of the other pixel, the auxiliary capacitor of the one pixel is set to be disposed. One electrode of the auxiliary capacitor disposed on the signal line side is conductive with the second electrode of the electro-optical element. | 07-22-2010 |
20100188384 | Display apparatus and method of driving same - A display apparatus including a pixel array and a driver configured to drive the pixel array, the pixel array having scanning lines as rows, signal lines as columns, a matrix of pixels disposed at respective intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and power supply lines disposed along respective rows of the pixels, the driver having a main scanner for successively supplying control signals to the scanning lines to perform line-sequential scanning on the rows of the pixels, a power supply scanner for supplying a power supply voltage, which selectively switches between a first potential and a second potential, to the power supply lines in synchronism with the line-sequential scanning, and a signal selector for supplying a signal potential, which serves as a video signal, and a reference potential to the signal lines as the columns in synchronism with the line-sequential scanning. | 07-29-2010 |
20100214276 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DRIVING METHOD OF DISPLAY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Prior to increasing the voltage level of an input signal to be sampled in a step-by-step manner and writing a signal voltage Vsig at a desired voltage level, a precharge is performed which writes a precharge voltage Vpre, lower than the signal voltage Vsig, so as to apply the same voltage Vpre to the gate of a drive transistor in advance. This not only provides a reduced gate-to-source voltage of the drive transistor at the time of writing of the signal voltage Vsig but also extends a mobility correction time required for a mobility correction operation. The extension of the mobility correction time required for the mobility correction operation ensures a relatively smaller variation in the correction time, thus suppressing the variation in brightness. The extension also permits a write pulse to be set to the optimal pulse width. | 08-26-2010 |
20110216054 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME - In a display apparatus, as shown in FIG. | 09-08-2011 |
20110227897 | Display device, driving method thereof, and electronic apparatus - A display device comprises a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels, and power supply lines and a power supply scanner for supplying a power supply voltage switching between first and second potentials to each of the power supply lines, wherein each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, a sampling transistor, a driver transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a signal potential to be held in the holding capacitor, the driver transistor receives a supply of a current from the power supply scanner through the power supply line at a first potential and flows a drive current to the light emitting element in accordance with the held signal potential, and the power supply scanner changes the power supply line from the first potential to the second potential before the sampling transistors samples the signal potential. | 09-22-2011 |
20110273491 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPAIRING SHORT CIRCUIT FAILURE - The present invention relates to an image display device and a method for repairing a short circuit failure. The present invention is applicable to, for example, an active matrix type image display device using an organic EL device, and a short circuit location between wiring patterns is able to be repaired. In a scanning line WSL or a signal line DTL, a bypass wiring pattern BP for bypassing a region where the signal line DTL and the scanning line WSL intersect with each other is provided. By using the bypass wiring pattern BP, a short circuit location between wiring patterns is repaired. | 11-10-2011 |
20120038620 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF DRIVING SAME, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array portion and a driver portion for driving the pixel array portion. The pixel array portion has rows of scanning lines, columns of signal lines, pixels arranged in rows and columns at intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines, and power lines disposed in a corresponding manner to the rows of the pixels. The driver portion includes a main scanner, a power-supply scanner, and a signal selector. Each of the pixels includes light-emitting devices, a sampling transistor, a driving transistor, a retaining capacitor. | 02-16-2012 |
20120062450 | Pixel circuit and display device - A pixel circuit includes: a switching transistor whose conduction is controlled by a drive signal supplied to the control terminal; a drive wiring adapted to propagate the drive signal; and a data wiring adapted to propagate a data signal. The drive wiring is formed on a first wiring layer and connected to the control terminal of the switching transistor. The data wiring is formed on a second wiring layer and connected to a first terminal of the switching transistor. A multi-layered wiring structure is used so that the second wiring layer is formed on a layer different from that on which the first wiring layer is formed. | 03-15-2012 |
20120092391 | SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING METHOD, SELF-LUMINOUS DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A self-luminous display panel driving method for driving a self-luminous display panel of the active matrix driving type, includes the step of executing threshold value correction operation for a driving transistor divisionally in a plurality of periods within at least one of which, after a point of time of an end of a preceding correction period till a point of time of a start of a succeeding correction period, a potential to be applied to the drain electrode of the driving transistor is controlled to an intermediate potential between a first potential for lighting driving of the driving transistor and a second potential for initialization applied within a preparation period of the first one of the correction periods. | 04-19-2012 |
20120176297 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIXEL CIRCUIT - The display device including a pixel circuit has a first line, a transistor, a light emitting element, and a second line. The transistor is located between the second line and an electrode of the light emitting element. Either the first line or the second line is wired in a region that overlaps a light emitting region of the light emitting element in a lamination direction of layers. The second line intersects the first line outside of the light emitting region and overlaps a non-light emitting region of the light emitting element. | 07-12-2012 |
20130002642 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH POWER SOURCE SUPPLY SCAN CIRCUITS AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a pixel array unit having pixels disposed in a matrix shape, each pixel including an electro-optical element, a write transistor for sampling and writing an input signal voltage, a holding capacitor for holding a signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a driver transistor for driving the electro-optical element in response to the signal voltage held in the holding capacitor. The display device further includes a scan circuit for selectively scanning each pixel in the pixel array unit at a row unit basis, and a plurality of power source supply scan circuits for selectively supplying a first potential and a second potential lower than the first potential to power supply line wired per each pixel row of the pixel array unit to supply current to the driver transistors, synchronously with scanning by the scan circuit. | 01-03-2013 |
20130027369 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuit includes: a switching transistor whose conduction is controlled by a drive signal supplied to the control terminal; a drive wiring adapted to propagate the drive signal; and a data wiring adapted to propagate a data signal. The drive wiring is formed on a first wiring layer and connected to the control terminal of the switching transistor. The data wiring is formed on a second wiring layer and connected to a first terminal of the switching transistor. A multi-layered wiring structure is used so that the second wiring layer is formed on a layer different from that on which the first wiring layer is formed. | 01-31-2013 |
20130057458 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIXEL CIRCUIT - The display device including a pixel circuit has a first line, a transistor, a light emitting element, and a second line. The transistor is located between the second line and an electrode of the light emitting element. Either the first line or the second line is wired in a region that overlaps a light emitting region of the light emitting element in a lamination direction of layers. The second line intersects the first line outside of the light emitting region and overlaps a non-light emitting region of the light emitting element. | 03-07-2013 |
20130076603 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire connecting the driving transistor to a power-supply providing line, wherein the resistance of the draw wire is relatively large in the pixel circuit close to a source applying a power-supply voltage to the power-supply providing line. | 03-28-2013 |
20130093801 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display panel including pixels disposed on a substrate, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, and a capacitor. The capacitor of a first one of the pixels is partially overlapped, in a vertical direction, by respective pixel areas of two of the pixels. The anode of the capacitor of the first one of the pixels may be disposed closer to the substrate than a cathode of the capacitor, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance between the capacitor and an anode of the light emitting element of one of the two pixels overlapping the capacitor. | 04-18-2013 |
20130113689 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes: a pixel array unit having pixels including a circuit configuration, in which a first electrode of an electro-optical element and a source electrode of a driving transistor are connected together, a gate electrode of the driving transistor and a source electrode or a drain electrode of a writing transistor are connected together, a holding capacitor is connected between the gate electrode and the source electrode, and an auxiliary capacitor is connected between the first electrode and a second electrode, disposed in a matrix shape. A signal line used for transmitting a video signal is disposed between adjacent pixels, and from one pixel of adjacent pixels to an area of the other pixel, the auxiliary capacitor of the one pixel is set to be disposed. One electrode of the auxiliary capacitor disposed on the signal line side is conductive with the second electrode of the electro-optical element. | 05-09-2013 |
20130135280 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device includes pixel array unit and a driver unit. A sampling transistor samples a signal potential to hold the signal potential in a holding capacitor. A driver transistor flows a drive current to a light emitting element in accordance with the signal potential held. A main scanner in the driver unit outputs the control signal having a shorter pulse width than the time period to the scan line to make the sampling transistor conductive during a time period while the signal line is at the signal potential, thereby adding the signal potential a correction for a mobility of the driver transistor when the signal potential is held in the holding capacitor. | 05-30-2013 |
20130320847 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device including a pixel array unit having a matrix of pixels each configured such that an anode electrode of an organic electroluminescent element is connected to a source electrode of a drive transistor, a gate electrode of the drive transistor is connected to a source or drain electrode of a writing transistor, and a storage capacitor is connected between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, scanning lines and power supply lines for individual pixel rows, and signal lines for individual pixel columns. A video signal reference potential is supplied to the signal lines for a period during which a scanning signal is supplied to the scanning lines during driving of pixels in a preceding row. During threshold correction for the drive transistor in a current pixel, the video signal reference potential and a potential of the cathode electrode of the organic electroluminescent element are equal. | 12-05-2013 |
20130328752 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device comprises a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels, and power supply lines and a power supply scanner for supplying a power supply voltage switching between first and second potentials to each of the power supply lines, wherein each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, a sampling transistor, a driver transistor, and a holding capacitor. The sampling transistor samples a signal potential to be held in the holding capacitor, the driver transistor receives a supply of a current from the power supply scanner through the power supply line at a first potential and flows a drive current to the light emitting element in accordance with the held signal potential, and the power supply scanner changes the power supply line from the first potential to the second potential before the sampling transistors samples the signal potential. | 12-12-2013 |
20140049456 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A display device including: a pixel array section; power supply lines; and auxiliary electrodes, wherein each pixel has an auxiliary capacitance, and one of electrodes of the auxiliary capacitance is connected to the source electrode of the drive transistor, and another electrode is connected to the auxiliary electrode for the pixel. | 02-20-2014 |
20140204004 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH POWER SOURCE SUPPLY SCAN CIRCUITS CONDUCTING NEGATIVE FEEDBACK AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes a pixel array unit having pixels disposed in a matrix shape, each pixel including an electro-optical element, a write transistor for sampling and writing an input signal voltage, a holding capacitor for holding a signal voltage written by the write transistor, and a driver transistor for driving the electro-optical element in response to the signal voltage held in the holding capacitor. The display device further includes a scan circuit for selectively scanning each pixel in the pixel array unit at a row unit basis, and a plurality of power source supply scan circuits for selectively supplying a first potential and a second potential lower than the first potential to power supply line wired per each pixel row of the pixel array unit to supply current to the driver transistors, synchronously with scanning by the scan circuit. | 07-24-2014 |
20140209917 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH THRESHOLD CORRECTION - A display device comprises a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit adjacent to the first pixel circuit along a first direction. The first pixel circuit includes a first transistor and a first electro-optic element, and the second pixel circuit includes a second transistor and a second electro-optic element. A power supply line extends along the first direction. A connection wiring is connected between the first transistor and the second transistor, and is connected to the power supply line via a contact portion having at least two contact holes. | 07-31-2014 |
20140210871 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuit includes: a switching transistor whose conduction is controlled by a drive signal supplied to the control terminal; a drive wiring adapted to propagate the drive signal; and a data wiring adapted to propagate a data signal. The drive wiring is formed on a first wiring layer and connected to the control terminal of the switching transistor. The data wiring is formed on a second wiring layer and connected to a first terminal of the switching transistor. A multi-layered wiring structure is used so that the second wiring layer is formed on a layer different from that on which the first wiring layer is formed. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218271 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is a display apparatus has a pixel array section including: pixel circuits which are each provided with a driving transistor and an electro-optical device and are laid out to form a matrix; and a draw wire provided in each of the pixel circuits to serve as a wire connecting the driving transistor to a power-supply providing line, wherein the resistance of the draw wire is relatively large in the pixel circuit close to a source applying a power-supply voltage to the power-supply providing line. | 08-07-2014 |
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20140332797 | ELECTRO LUMINESCENT DISPLAY PANEL AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An EL display panel having a pixel structure corresponding to an active-matrix drive system, the EL display panel including a current supply line configured to be connected to a plurality of pixel circuits in common, line width of an intersection part of the current supply line with a signal line being smaller than line width of the other part of the current supply line. | 11-13-2014 |
20140339531 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PIXEL CIRCUIT - The display device including a pixel circuit has a first line, a transistor, a light emitting element, and a second line. The transistor is located between the second line and an electrode of the light emitting element. Either the first line or the second line is wired in a region that overlaps a light emitting region of the light emitting element in a lamination direction of layers. The second line intersects the first line outside of the light emitting region and overlaps a non-light emitting region of the light emitting element. | 11-20-2014 |
20140339534 | DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display device including a pixel array unit having a matrix of pixels each configured such that an anode electrode of an organic electroluminescent element is connected to a source electrode of a drive transistor, a gate electrode of the drive transistor is connected to a source or drain electrode of a writing transistor, and a storage capacitor is connected between the gate and source electrodes of the drive transistor, scanning lines and power supply lines for individual pixel rows, and signal lines for individual pixel columns. A video signal reference potential is supplied to the signal lines for a period during which a scanning signal is supplied to the scanning lines during driving of pixels in a preceding row. During threshold correction for the drive transistor in a current pixel, the video signal reference potential and a potential of the cathode electrode of the organic electroluminescent element are equal. | 11-20-2014 |
20150070342 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display panel including pixels disposed on a substrate, where each of the pixels includes a light emitting element, and a capacitor. The capacitor of a first one of the pixels is partially overlapped, in a vertical direction, by respective pixel areas of two of the pixels. The anode of the capacitor of the first one of the pixels may be disposed closer to the substrate than a cathode of the capacitor, thereby reducing a parasitic capacitance between the capacitor and an anode of the light emitting element of one of the two pixels overlapping the capacitor. | 03-12-2015 |
20150084030 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuit includes: a switching transistor whose conduction is controlled by a drive signal supplied to the control terminal; a drive wiring adapted to propagate the drive signal; and a data wiring adapted to propagate a data signal. The drive wiring is formed on a first wiring layer and connected to the control terminal of the switching transistor. The data wiring is formed on a second wiring layer and connected to a first terminal of the switching transistor. A multi-layered wiring structure is used so that the second wiring layer is formed on a layer different from that on which the first wiring layer is formed. | 03-26-2015 |