Display device and driving method thereof

• US 20070159467A1
• Filed: 11/03/2006
• Published: 07/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Jong-Woung, Kim, Tae-Woo
• Application Number:
  US11/592,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20070159467A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers

Abstract

A display device which includes a touch screen panel including a plurality of x-axis sensors and a plurality of y-axis sensors and outputting sensor data sensed by the x-axis and y-axis sensors in a frame unit, and a controller for receiving the sensor data to output coordinates of a contact point of the touch screen panel, wherein the controller includes a plurality of frame memories for storing the sensor data in a frame unit, a first calculation part for adding the sensor data in the frame memories to output an added value of the sensor data, a plurality of buffer memories for storing the added value of the sensor data, and a detecting part for detecting the coordinates of the contact point using the values in the buffer memories.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a touch screen panel including a plurality of x-axis sensors and a plurality of y-axis sensors and outputting sensor data sensed by the x-axis and y-axis sensors in a frame unit; and

a controller for receiving the sensor data to output coordinates of a contact point of the touch screen panel, wherein the controller comprises

a plurality of frame memories for storing the sensor data in a frame unit;

a first calculation part for adding the sensor data in the frame memories to output an added value of the sensor data;

a plurality of buffer memories for storing the added value of the sensor data; and

a detecting part for detecting the coordinates of the contact point using the values in the buffer memories.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the sensor data is a voltage value of the contact point.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the frame memories comprise a first frame memory, a second frame memory and a third frame memory.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein the first calculation part adds values of the sensor data stored in the first to third frame memories.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the buffer memories comprise first to seventh buffer memories, each of the buffer memories storing an added value of the sensor data corresponding to an ith frame (i=1-7), a (i+1)th frame and a (i+2)th frame.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein the detecting part comprises:

a second calculation part for outputting an absolute value obtained by subtracting an added value of the sensor data in the first buffer memory from an added value of the sensor data in the second to seventh buffer memories;

a data output part for comparing the absolute value of the subtracted result from the second calculation part with a previous maximum value to store a maximum value of the absolute values of the subtracted result and the coordinates corresponding to the maximum value; and

a first compare part for comparing the stored maximum value in the data output part with a threshold value,

the first compare part outputting the coordinates corresponding to the maximum value stored in the data output part when the maximum value is more than the threshold value.

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein the data output part comprises:

a second compare part for comparing the absolute value of the subtracted result with the previous maximum value to output a select signal;

a multiplexer for outputting a relatively higher one of the absolute value of the subtracted result and the previous maximum value in response to the select signal; and

a register for storing an output of the multiplexer and the coordinates corresponding to the output of the multiplexer.

8. The display device of claim 6, wherein the threshold value is a reference value for determining whether the touch screen panel is touched.

9. A driving method in a display device comprising:

receiving sensor data from sensors of a touch screen panel in a frame unit;

storing the sensor data in a frame memory in the frame unit;

adding the sensor data in the frame memory to store an added value in a buffer memory; and

detecting coordinates of a contact point using the added value in the buffer memory.

10. The driving method of claim 9, wherein the sensor data is a voltage value of the contact point.

11. The driving method of claim 9, wherein the frame memory comprises a first frame memory, a second frame memory and a third frame memory.

12. The driving method of claim 11, wherein the buffer memory comprises first to seventh buffer memories, each of the buffer memories storing an added value of the sensor data corresponding to an ith frame (i=1-7), a (i+1)th frame and a (i+2)th frame.

13. The driving method of claim 12, wherein the detecting comprises:

outputting an absolute value obtained by subtracting an added value of the sensor data in the first buffer memory from an added value of the sensor data in the second to seventh buffer memories;

comparing the absolute value with a previous maximum value to store a maximum value and the coordinates corresponding to the maximum value; and

comparing the stored maximum value in the data output part with a threshold value, and outputting the coordinates corresponding to the maximum value when the maximum value is more than the threshold value.

14. The driving method of claim 13, wherein the storing of the maximum value and the coordinates corresponding to the maximum value comprises:

comparing the absolute value with the previous maximum value to output a select signal;

outputting a relatively higher one of the absolute value and the previous maximum value in response to the select signal as data; and

storing the data and coordinates corresponding to the data.

15. The driving method of claim 13, wherein the threshold value is a reference value for determining whether the touch screen panel is touched.