Display device having touch screen therein

• US 10,061,432 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2016
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ahn, JungEun, Jung, BoYoung, Yoon, Kyuhan
• Primary Examiner(s): Merkoulova, Olga
• Application Number:
  US15/277,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20170153746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes

Abstract

A display device of the present disclosure includes: an active area having a first region and a second region; a plurality of sub-pixels in the active area; a plurality of touch electrodes arranged in a matrix form and corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixels, wherein at least one of the touch electrodes in the first region has a different size from another of the touch electrodes in the second region.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

an active area on an array substrate;

a plurality of sub-pixels in the active area;

a plurality of first and second touch electrodes on a same plane functioning as a common electrode, arranged in a matrix form and each of the first and second touch electrodes corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixels,

a plurality of sensing lines disposed at a different layer from a layer where the first and second touch electrodes are disposed, each of the plurality of sensing lines is electrically connected to the first touch electrode or the second touch electrode, and at least part of the each of the plurality of sensing lines overlaps the first touch electrode or the second touch electrode, and

a touch circuit supplying a touch driving signal to the first and second touch electrodes and receiving a touch sensing signal from the first and second touch electrodes where the touch driving signal is supplied,

wherein the first touch electrode has a different size from the second touch electrode.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the number of sub-pixels corresponding to the first touch electrode is larger than the number of sub-pixels corresponding to the second touch electrode.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix form, the number of sub-pixels in the column direction corresponding to the first touch electrode is k+n, the number of sub-pixels in the column direction corresponding to the second touch electrode is k, and n is a natural number of 1 or 2.

4. The display device of claim 2, wherein at least one of the plurality of the second touch electrodes is disposed between two first touch electrodes.

5. The display device of claim 2, wherein the first touch electrodes are disposed at the uppermost region and the lowermost region of the active area, and the second touch electrodes are disposed at the central region of the active area.

6. The display device of claim 2, wherein the number of sub-pixels corresponding to each of the first touch electrodes is the same, and the number of sub-pixels corresponding to each of the second touch electrodes is the same.

7. The display device of claim 1, wherein the number of sub-pixels corresponding to the first touch electrode is smaller than the number of sub-pixels corresponding to the second touch electrode.

8. The display device of claim 7, wherein the sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix form, the number of sub-pixels in the column direction corresponding to the second touch electrode is k+n, the number of sub-pixels in the column direction corresponding to the first touch electrode is k, and n is a natural number of 1 or 2.

9. The display device of claim 7, wherein at least one of the plurality of the second touch electrodes are disposed between two first touch electrodes.

10. The display device of claim 7, wherein the first touch electrodes are disposed at the uppermost region and the lowermost region of the active area, and the second touch electrodes are disposed at the central region of the active area.

11. The display device of claim 7, wherein the number of sub-pixels corresponding to each of the first touch electrodes is the same, and the number of sub-pixels corresponding to each of the second touch electrodes is the same.

12. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display device includes one of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), plasma display panels (PDPs), organic light emitting display devices (OLEDs).

13. A display device having a built-in touch screen, comprising:

a plurality of gate lines and data lines vertically crossing each other on an array substrate;

a plurality of sub-pixels where the gate lines and the data lines cross each other;

a plurality of touch electrodes arranged in row and column directions on a same plane, corresponding to the sub-pixels, and each touch electrode functioning as a common electrode,

a plurality of sensing lines disposed at a different layer from a layer where the touch electrodes are disposed, each of the plurality of sensing lines is electrically connected to each of the touch electrodes, and at least part of the each of the plurality of sensing lines overlaps the touch electrodes, and

a touch circuit supplying a touch driving signal to each of the plurality of touch electrodes and receiving a touch sensing signal from each of the plurality of touch electrodes where the touch driving signal is supplied,

wherein the touch electrodes include first and second touch electrodes, each first touch electrode has an area different from each second touch electrode, the first touch electrodes are arranged at least at the first and last locations in the column direction, so that the first and second touch electrodes are adjacent to each other.

14. The display device of claim 13, wherein the first and second touch electrodes are arranged to adjacent to each other both in the row and column directions except for that the first touch electrodes are arranged at the uppermost row.

15. The display device of claim 13, wherein the number of sub-pixels in the column direction corresponding to each first touch electrode is k+n, the number of sub-pixels in the column direction corresponding to the second touch electrode is k, and n is a natural number of 1 or 2.