TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME

• US 20100097352A1
• Filed: 10/09/2009
• Published: 04/22/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Ku, Ja-Seung, AHN, Soon-Sung, Park, Yong-Sung, Park, Sung-Un
• Application Number:
  US12/576,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20100097352A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means

Abstract

A TSD (Touch Screen Display) includes a panel including a plurality of light emitting devices to form an image, and a plurality of photo sensors to capture an image of an object touching the panel; a touch position deriving unit to derive a touch position of the object based on output signals of the photo sensors; and a light emission control unit to derive a probability of a plurality of previous touch positions derived by the touch position deriving unit, predict a next touch position after the plurality of previous touch positions according to the probability, and control at least one of the light emitting devices in a light emission area including the next touch position to emit light.

Claims

1. A TSD (Touch Screen Display) comprising:

a panel comprising a plurality of light emitting devices to form an image, and a plurality of photo sensors to capture an image of an object touching the panel;

a touch position deriving unit to derive a touch position of the object based on output signals of the photo sensors; and

a light emission control unit to derive a probability of a plurality of previous touch positions derived by the touch position deriving unit, predict a next touch position after the plurality of previous touch positions according to the probability, and control at least one of the light emitting devices in a light emission area comprising the next touch position to emit light.

2. The TSD of claim 1, wherein the light emission control unit comprises:

a touch position probability deriving unit to derive the probability of the plurality of previous touch positions derived by the touch position deriving unit;

a light emission determining unit to predict the next touch position after the plurality of previous touch positions according to the probability, and determine the light emission area comprising the next touch position; and

a light emission control signal generating unit to generate a light emission control signal to control the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area to emit light.

3. The TSD of claim 2, wherein the touch position deriving unit derives a current touch position based on output signals of the photo sensors while the light is being emitted from the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area.

4. The TSD of claim 1, further comprising a touch sensing unit to sense a touch of the object on the panel.

5. The TSD of claim 4, wherein the light emission control unit comprises a first light emission control signal generating unit to generate a first light emission control signal to control at least some of the light emitting devices to emit light when the touch sensing unit senses the touch of the object on the panel.

6. The TSD of claim 5, wherein the touch position deriving unit derives the plurality of previous touch positions based on output signals of the photo sensors while the light is being emitted from the at least some of the light emitting devices under the control of the first light emission control signal.

7. The TSD of claim 6, wherein the light emission control unit further comprises:

a touch position probability deriving unit to derive the probability of the plurality of previous touch positions;

a light emission area determining unit to predict the next touch position after the plurality of previous touch positions according to the probability, and determine the light emission area comprising the next touch position; and

a second light emission control signal generating unit to generate a second light emission control signal to control the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area to emit light.

8. The TSD of claim 5, wherein the at least some of the light emitting devices that are controlled to emit light when the touch sensing unit senses the touch on the panel are random ones of the light emitting devices of the panel.

9. The TSD of claim 5, wherein the at least some of the light emitting devices that are controlled to emit light when the touch sensing unit senses the touch on the panel are all of the light emitting devices of the panel.

10. The TSD of claim 1, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a rectilinear correlation in which the plurality of previous touch positions continuously occur in a direction; and

the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position adjacent to a last one of the plurality of previous touch positions in the direction.

11. The TSD of claim 1, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a trace along which the plurality of previous touch positions continuously rotate in a direction, or rotate by a predetermined rotation angle; and

the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position that is adjacent to a last one of the plurality of previous touch positions in the direction, or that is separated from the last one of the plurality of previous touch positions by the predetermined rotation angle.

12. The TSD of claim 1, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a correlation in which a touch position for forming a vowel comes after a plurality of touch positions for forming consonants; and

when the plurality of previous touch positions are touch positions for forming consonants, the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position for forming a vowel.

13. A method of driving a TSD (Touch Screen Display) comprising a panel comprising a plurality of light emitting devices to form an image, and a plurality of photo sensors to capture an image of an object touching the panel, the method comprising:

deriving a probability of a plurality of previous touch positions of the object touching the panel based on output signals of the photo sensors;

determining a light emission area comprising a next touch position after the plurality of previous touch positions predicted according to the probability;

generating a light emission control signal to control at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area to emit light;

controlling the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area to emit light in response to the light emission control signal;

capturing an image of the object touching the panel based on output signals of the photo sensors while the light is being emitted from the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area; and

deriving a current touch position based on the image of the object captured while the light is being emitted from the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a rectilinear correlation in which the plurality of previous touch positions continuously occur in a direction; and

the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position adjacent to a last one of the plurality of previous touch positions in the direction.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a trace along which the plurality of previous touch positions continuously rotate in a direction, or rotate by a predetermined rotation angle; and

the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position that is adjacent to a last one of the plurality of previous touch positions in the direction, or that is separated from the last one of the plurality of previous touch positions by the predetermined rotation angle.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a correlation in which a touch position for forming a vowel comes after a plurality of touch positions for forming consonants; and

when the plurality of previous touch positions are touch positions for forming consonants, the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position for forming a vowel.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a trace along which the plurality of previous touch positions continuously rotate in a direction, or rotate by a predetermined rotation angle; and

the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position that is adjacent to a last one of the plurality of previous touch positions in the direction, or that is separated from the last one of the plurality of previous touch positions by the predetermined rotation angle.

17. A method of driving a TSD (Touch Screen Display) comprising a panel comprising a plurality of light emitting devices to form an image, and a plurality of photo sensors to capture an image of an object touching the panel, the TSD further comprising a touch sensing unit to sense a touch of the object on the panel, the method comprising:

sensing a touch of the object on the panel using the touch sensing unit;

generating a first light emission control signal when the touch sensing unit senses the touch of the object on the panel;

controlling at least some of the light emitting devices to emit light in response to the first light emission control signal;

deriving a plurality of previous touch positions based on output signals of the photo sensors while the at least some of the light emitting devices are emitting light under the control of the first light emission control signal;

deriving a probability of the plurality of previous touch positions;

determining a light emission area comprising a next touch position after the plurality of previous touch positions predicted according to the probability;

generating a second light emission control signal to control at least one of light emitting devices in the light emission area to emit light;

controlling the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area to emit light in response to the second light emission control signal; and

capturing an image of the object touching the panel based on output signals of the photo sensors while the light is being emitted from the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area; and

deriving a current touch position based on the image of the object captured while the light is being emitted from the at least one of the light emitting devices in the light emission area.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a rectilinear correlation in which the plurality of previous touch positions continuously occur in a direction; and

the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position adjacent to a last one of the plurality of previous touch positions in the direction.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein:

the probability corresponds to a correlation which a touch position for forming a vowel comes after a plurality of touch positions for forming consonants; and

when the plurality of previous touch positions are touch positions for forming consonants, the next touch position predicted according to the probability is a touch position for forming a vowel.