1. An organic electroluminescence display device comprising a plurality of unit pixels disposed in a matrix on a substrate,
wherein each of the unit pixels has a thin film transistor including a channel region, the thin film transistor formed at a position other than a center of the unit pixel, the unit pixel including an irradiated area that has been irradiated with laser light while the thin film transistor is formed to crystallize at least said channel region,
wherein unit pixels in a first row and unit pixels in a second row adjacent to the first row are arranged symmetrically with respect to a first virtual plane orthogonal to a main surface of the substrate,
wherein each of the unit pixels further comprises a gate wiring made of a first material whose thermal resistance is lower than the thermal resistance of a gate electrode of the thin film transistor,
wherein each of the gate wiring includes a first portion extending in a row direction of the unit pixels and a second portion extending from the first portion towards the respective thin film transistors,
wherein the second portion of the gate wiring made of the first material is electrically connected to the gate electrode made of at least a second material different than the first material,
wherein each of said gate wiring is arranged at a position further away from the first virtual plane than the thin film transistor, and
wherein the irradiated area of the unit pixel includes an area encompassing the thin film transistor, but excludes an area encompassing the first portion of the gate wiring and at least a part of the second portion of the gate wiring.
2. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 1, wherein for each of the thin film transistor, the gate electrode is formed on an insulating substrate.
3. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 2, wherein for each of the unit pixel, the gate wiring is electrically connected to the gate electrode.
4. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 3, wherein for each of the thin film transistor, a gate insulating layer is formed on the gate electrode, and a Si layer is provided on the gate insulating layer, wherein a portion of the thin film transistors that are crystallized includes the Si layer.
5. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 4, wherein the gate electrode is composed of a material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of both the Si layer and the gate insulating layer.
6. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 5, wherein during the laser irradiation of the unit pixels, for each of the unit pixel, the gate electrode becomes thermally saturated to become in a pre-annealed state before the laser reaches the channel region of the respective thin film transistor.
7. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 4, wherein an amorphous Si layer is formed on the Si layer after the Si layer has been crystallized, an etching stop layer is formed on a portion of the amorphous Si layer, and an n+amorphous Si layer is formed on the etching stop layer and portions of the amorphous Si layer.
8. The organic electroluminescence display device according to claim 7, wherein first, second, and third metal layers are formed over the n+amorphous Si layer to form a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for assisting in a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including a distance and speed control device, comprising:
measuring a distance to a vehicle located in a passing lane;
calculating a passing speed as a function of a distance of a vehicle to be passed and the distance of the vehicle located in the passing lane, the vehicle located in the passing lane preceding the motor vehicle;
temporarily increasing by the passing speed if one of a traffic situation detected by sensors or an intervention by a driver, indicates a desire to pass;
in an event of the indication of the desire to pass, carrying out a passing-aid function parallel to a steady-state control, and superimposing an output signal corresponding to the passing speed with a manipulated variable supplied by the steady-state control.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
calculating a respective vehicle-specific passing speed for each preceding vehicle detected; and
determining a final passing speed by minimum selection from the vehicle-specific passing speeds.
3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
wherein the passing speed is a function taking into account relative speeds of vehicles located in the passing lane.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the intervention by the driver includes at least one of actuation of a turn signal and an active steering intervention.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the intervention by the driver includes a special switch.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sensors include a rear-space radar.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the passing-aid function is inactivated below a threshold speed of the motor vehicle.
8. A method for assisting in a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including a distance and speed control device, comprising:
measuring a distance to a vehicle located in a passing lane;
calculating a passing speed as a function of a distance of a vehicle to be passed and the distance of the vehicle located in the passing lane, the vehicle located in the passing lane preceding the motor vehicle;
temporarily increasing by the passing speed if one of a traffic situation detected by sensors or an intervention by a driver, indicates a desire to pass;
in an absence of the indication of the desire to pass, carrying out a steady-state control, specific to a pre-selected distance between the motor vehicle and a preceding vehicle, wherein the pre-selected distance is selected by the driver; and
in an event of the indication of the desire to pass, carrying out a passing-aid function parallel to the steady-state control, and superimposing an output signal corresponding to the passing speed with a manipulated variable supplied by the steady-state control.
9. The method according to claim 8,
wherein the manipulated variable of the steady-state control is a steady-state setpoint value for an increase or decrease of a traveling speed; and
wherein the passing speed is added to the steady-state setpoint value.
10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the passing-aid function is carried out for a limited time span after the event of the indication of the desire to pass.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein an output signal representation of the passing aid function is limited according to a time-dependent function whose function value decreases continually to zero after a predetermined time span.
12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the passing-aid function is only active at vehicle speeds above a predefined threshold speed.
13. The method according to claim 12, wherein an output signal representative of the passing speed is limited according to a speed-dependent function having the value zero below the predefined threshold speed, and increasing continually from the predefined threshold speed.
14. A method for assisting in a passing maneuver of a motor vehicle, the motor vehicle including a distance and speed control device, comprising:
measuring a distance to a vehicle located in a passing lane;
calculating a passing speed as a function of a distance of a vehicle to be passed and the distance of the vehicle located in the passing lane, the vehicle located in the passing lane preceding the motor vehicle;
temporarily increasing by the passing speed if one of a traffic situation detected by sensors or an intervention by a driver, indicates a desire to pass;
calculating a respective vehicle-specific passing speed for each preceding vehicle detected; and
determining a final passing speed by minimum selection from the vehicle-specific passing speeds,
wherein an upper limit of each respective vehicle-specific passing speed is a variable dependent on a distance of the corresponding preceding vehicle.
15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the variable is proportional to a square root of the distance of the corresponding preceding vehicle.
16. A method comprising:
measuring a distance to a vehicle located in a passing lane;
calculating a passing speed as a function of a distance of a vehicle to be passed and the distance of the vehicle located in the passing lane, the vehicle located in the passing lane preceding the motor vehicle;
temporarily increasing by the passing speed if one of a traffic situation detected by sensors or an intervention by a driver, indicates a desire to pass, wherein the passing speed is a function taking into account relative speeds of vehicles located in the passing lane;
for each respective one of the vehicles located in the passing lane, calculating a respective vehicle-specific passing speed as a function of the relative speed and a respective distance of the respective one of the vehicles; and
determining a final passing speed by minimum selection from the vehicle-specific passing speeds;
wherein an upper limit of the final passing speed is a variable which is a function of a distance of an immediately preceding vehicle in a traveling lane of the motor vehicle.
17. A system for assisting in a passing maneuver for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a distance sensor configured to detect distances of preceding vehicles including distances to vehicles in a passing lane;
a steady-state controller configured to supply a command in a form of a steady-state setpoint value to an arrangement for increasing or lowering the vehicle speed, and further configured to perform a steady-state control to one of regulate the vehicle speed to a set speed selected by a driver of the motor vehicle or regulate a distance of the motor vehicle to a preceding vehicle in a same lane as the motor vehicle;
a device configured to detect an event indicating a desire of the driver to pass;
a passing-aid module configured to carry out a passing-aid function parallel to the steady-state control to increase the steady-state setpoint value by a passing speed as a function of the distance of the motor vehicle to the immediately preceding vehicle in the same lane and a distance of at least an immediately preceding vehicle in the passing lane, when the event indicating the desire to pass is detected.