METHOD OF DRIVING TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY APPARATUS, MEDIUM FOR RECORDING METHOD, AND TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20110122096A1
• Filed: 10/27/2010
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Jeong, Joo-Hyeon, Ku, Ja-Seung, Kim, Tae-Jin, Park, Yong-Sung
• Application Number:
  US12/913,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20110122096A1
• 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 3/04182 Filtering of noise external to the device and not generated by digitiser components
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means

Abstract

A touch screen display apparatus includes a touch detector for detecting a touch by an object and for generating an input signal, a panel including photo sensor units for capturing an image of the object, and a plurality of light emitting units for realizing an image to be displayed, a signal converter for converting the input signal into an output signal having a plurality of enable periods and at least one disable period, an updating unit for updating a noise determination reference of a sensing signal provided from the photo sensor unit during the at least one disable period, and a noise remove for removing noise from the sensing signal is according to the updated noise determination reference during an enable period of the enable periods.

Claims

1. A method of driving a touch screen display apparatus comprising a touch detector for detecting a touch by an object and a panel comprising a photo sensor unit for capturing an image of the object and a light emitting unit for realizing an image to be displayed, the method comprising:

generating an input signal in response to the touch by the object with the touch detector;

converting the input signal into an output signal having a plurality of enable periods and at least one disable period;

updating, during the at least one disable period of the output signal, a noise determination reference of a sensing signal provided from the photo sensor unit; and

removing, during an enable period of the enable periods, noise from the sensing signal according to the updated noise determination reference.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising calculating a touch location of the object based on the sensing signal from which noise is removed.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the touch location of the object is calculated during the enable period of the output signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the enable period during which the removing occurs follows the disable period during which the updating occurs.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting a temperature of the panel,

wherein the updating comprises updating the noise determination reference so as to correspond to the detected temperature.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising comparing the detected temperature with a reference temperature,

wherein, when the detected temperature is higher than the reference temperature, the updating comprises updating the noise determination reference so as to reflect noise due to heat in the noise determination reference.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting an illumination level,

wherein the updating comprises updating the noise determination reference so as to correspond to the detected illumination level.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising comparing the detected illumination level with a reference illumination level,

wherein, when the detected illumination level is less than the reference illumination level, the updating comprises updating the noise determination reference so as to reflect noise due to a low illumination level in the noise determination reference.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the input signal is in a drag mode in which the input signal is consecutively enabled,

wherein the converting is performed when the input signal is in the drag mode.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the converting comprises converting the input signal into the output signal by combining the input signal and a reference signal having a plurality of enable periods and at least one disable period.

11. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of claim 1.

12. A touch screen display apparatus comprising:

a touch detector for detecting a touch by an object and for generating an input signal,

a panel comprising photo sensor units for capturing an image of the object and a plurality of light emitting units for realizing an image to be displayed;

a signal converter for converting the input signal into an output signal having a plurality of enable periods and at least one disable period;

an updating unit for updating a noise determination reference of a sensing signal provided from the photo sensor unit during the at least one disable period of the output signal; and

a noise remover for removing noise from the sensing signal according to the updated noise determination reference during an enable period of the enable periods of the output signal.

13. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a touch location calculator for calculating a touch location of the object based on the sensing signal from which noise is removed.

14. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 13, wherein the touch location calculator is configured to, during the enable period, calculate the touch location of the object.

15. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 12, wherein the noise remover is configured to remove the noise from the sensing signal during the enable period of the enable periods of the output signal following the at least one disable period of the output signal.

16. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a temperature detector for detecting a temperature of the panel,

wherein the updating unit is configured to update the noise determination reference so as to correspond to the detected temperature during the at least one disable period of the output signal.

17. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a first comparison unit for comparing the detected temperature with a reference temperature,

wherein the updating unit is configured to update the noise determination reference so as to reflect noise due to heat in the noise determination reference when the detected temperature is higher than the reference temperature.

18. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 12, further comprising an illumination level detector for detecting an illumination level,

wherein the updating unit is configured to update the noise determination reference so as to correspond to the detected illumination level during the at least one disable period of the output signal.

19. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 18, further comprising a second comparison unit for comparing the detected illumination level with a reference illumination level,

wherein the updating unit is configured to update the noise determination reference so as to reflect noise due to a low illumination level in the noise determination reference when the detected illumination level is less than the reference illumination level.

20. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a drag mode determination unit for determining whether the input signal is in a drag mode in which the input signal is consecutively enabled,

wherein the signal converter is configured to convert the input signal into the output signal when the input signal is in the drag mode.

21. The touch screen display apparatus of claim 12, wherein the signal converter is configured to convert the input signal into the output signal by combining the input signal and a reference signal having a plurality of enable periods and at least one disable period.