IP Library Granted Patent US 7,528,810
Granted Patent B2
US 7,528,810 · App. 11/135,473 · Granted May 5, 2009

Display with multiple emission layers

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Patent No.
US 7,528,810
App. No.
11/135,473
Granted
May 5, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display has light emitting elements, a first driver, a power source, and a second driver. Each light emitting element includes “n” emission layers formed one over another to form a color dot in each pixel. The first driver drives the emission layers to emit light or no light. The power source passes a current through the first driver to the light emitting element. The second driver individually weights the n emission layers and makes the emission layers emit light so that each dot may express a gradation level.

Claims (25)

1. A display having an array of pixels each consisting of a plurality of color dots, comprising:

a light emitting element including “n” (n is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) emission layers laid one over another to form one of the dots;

a first driver configured to drive the n emission layers of the light emitting element so that the n emission layers individually emit light or no light;

a power source configured to pass a current through the first driver to the light emitting element; and

a second driver configured to drive the n emission layers of the light emitting element so that the n emission layers emit light with their respective brightness weights to express a gradation level intended for the dot.

2. The display of claim 1 , wherein:

the second driver fixes one of a current passing period and current amount applied to then emission layers and prepares “m” (m is a natural number equal to or smaller than n) kinds of values for the other, to thereby define m brightness weights.

3. The display of claim 1 , wherein:

the second driver sets “m” (m is a natural number equal to or smaller than n) combinations of a current passing period and a current value applied to the n emission layers, to thereby define m brightness weights.

4. The display of claim 2 , wherein:

the second driver changes the brightness weights assigned to the n emission layers frame by frame or field by field, so that the m kinds of values for the current passing period or current amount are repeated every n frames or every n fields.

5. The display of claim 3 , wherein:

the second driver changes the brightness weights assigned to the n emission layers frame by frame or field by field, so that the m combinations of a current passing period and a current value are repeated every n frames or every n fields.

6. The display of claim 1 , wherein the second driver has:

a digital driver for digitally driving “m” (m is a natural number equal to or smaller than n) of the n emission layers; and

an analog driver for driving, in an analog mode, “n−m” of the emission layers so that the “n−m” emission layers may emit light of halftone levels.

7. The display of claim 6 , wherein:

the digital driver prepares m or lower kinds of values for brightness weight for the m emission layers; and

the analog driver sets brightness weights for the “n−m” emission layers so that the m emission layers and the “n−m” emission layers collectively emit light that expresses the gradation level intended for the dot.

8. A display having an array of pixels each consisting of a plurality of color dots, comprising:

a light emitting element having “n” (n is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) unit elements laid one over another to form one of the dots, each of the unit elements having an anode, a multiphoton emission part, and a cathode that are sequentially laid one over another, the multiphoton emission part having “m” (m is a natural number) organic emission layers and “m−1” charge generation layers that are alternately laid one over another;

a first driver configured to drive the multiphoton emission parts so that the multiphoton emission parts individually emit light or no light; and

a second driver configured to drive the n multiphoton emission parts of the light emitting element so that the n multiphoton emission parts emit light with their respective brightness weights to express a gradation level intended for the dot.

9. The display of claim 8 , wherein:

the charge generation layer held between adjacent two of the organic emission layers injects electrons into one of the two organic emission layers and holes into the other.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Apr 6, 2012
From: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LTD.
To: JVC KENWOOD CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028000/0170 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 24, 2005
From: OHSHIMA, YOSHINORI; MASUJI, SHIGEHIRO; HIROHATA, NAOTO
To: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
Reel/Frame 016600/0373 →