IP Library Granted Patent US 6,940,222
Granted Patent B2
US 6,940,222 · App. 10/246,467 · Granted Sep 6, 2005

Self-emitting display apparatus having variable light emission area

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Patent No.
US 6,940,222
App. No.
10/246,467
Granted
Sep 6, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

A self-emitting display apparatus has a plurality of display pixels arranged in a matrix. Each display pixel includes a plurality of kinds of self-emitting devices that self-emit light components with different major wavelengths. A light-emission area of at least one of the plurality of kinds of self-emitting devices differs from each of light-emission areas of the other self-emitting devices.

Claims (8)

1. A self-emitting display apparatus including a plurality of display pixels arranged in a matrix, each display pixel including a plurality of kinds of self-emitting devices that self-emit light components with different major wavelengths wherein a light-emission area of one of the plurality of kinds of self-emitting devices, which has a shortest luminance half-value period relative to the equivalent current density is larger than a light-emission area of another of the plurality of kinds of self-emitting device, which has a longest luminance half-value period relative to the equivalent current density, so that their luminance half-value periods become substantially equal to each other in the current density vs. luminance half-value period characteristics.

2. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said self-emitting device having the light-emission area which is larger than the light-emission area of the another self-emitting devices is one of a first self-emitting device that self-emits red light, a second self-emitting device that self-emits blue light, and a third self-emitting device that self-emits green light.

3. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said display pixel includes a first self-emitting device that self-emits red light, a second self-emitting device that self-emits blue light, and a third self-emitting device that self-emits green light.

4. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of said self-emitting devices has an organic light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes.

5. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a light-emission area of one of the plurality of kinds of self-emitting devices, which self-emits a shortest major wavelength light, is larger than each of light-emission areas of the other self-emitting devices.

6. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emission areas are determined in inverse proportion to the current densities of each of the devices with which luminance half-value periods of the devices are substantially equal.

7. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein one self-emitting device having a maximum light-emission area is disposed at a corner of a substantially square display pixel, and the other self-emitting devices are disposed at other two diagonal corners.

8. The self-emitting display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein one self-emitting device having a maximum light-emission area is juxtaposed with the other self-emitting devices.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jun 8, 2012
From: TOSHIBA MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY CENTRAL INC.
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