IMAGE INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE

• US 20110156996A1
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Izumi, Tomoo
• Application Number:
  US13/060,120
• Publication Number:
  US 20110156996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/92
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 2201/58 Arrangements comprising a monitoring photodetector
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/14609 Pixel-elements with integrated switching, control, storage or amplification elements scanning details of imagers (circuitry of solid-state image sensors H04N25/00); circuitry of imagers H04N25/70

Abstract

An image input/output device is provided that can instantaneously write an image by applying an optical pattern and that can acquire information on the written image as image data. This image input/output device includes a TFT (10); a photoelectric conversion portion (20) including a photoelectric conversion layer (21), a photoelectric conversion pixel electrode (22) and a photoelectric conversion common electrode (23); a display portion (30) including a display layer (33), a display pixel electrode (31) and a display common electrode (32); and a charge sensing amplifier (71) that amplifies an output signal from the photoelectric conversion portion (20). The display pixel electrode (31) and the photoelectric conversion pixel electrode (22) are electrically connected to each other; the TFT 10 can switch between the display pixel electrode (31) and the photoelectric conversion pixel electrode (22) electrically connected to each other and the charge sensing amplifier (71); and a display common electrode (32) can switch between a constant potential state and a floated state.

Claims

1. An image input/output device comprising:

a switching element formed on a substrate;

a display portion that is formed on the substrate and that includes a display layer and a first pixel electrode and a first common electrode, the first pixel electrode and the first common electrode sandwiching the display layer;

a photoelectric conversion portion that is formed on the substrate and that includes a photoelectric conversion layer and a second pixel electrode and a second common electrode, the second pixel electrode and the second common electrode sandwiching the photoelectric conversion layer; and

an amplification portion that amplifies an output signal from the photoelectric conversion portion,

wherein the first pixel electrode of the display portion and the second pixel electrode of the photoelectric conversion portion are electrically connected to each other,

the switching element can switch, between an “

on”

state and an “

off”

state, a connection between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode electrically connected to each other and the amplification portion, and

the first common electrode can switch between a constant potential state and a floated state.

2. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein an image corresponding to an exposure pattern is displayed on the display portion by exposure.

3. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the first common electrode is brought into the constant potential state such that the display layer of the display portion is brought into a substantially transmissive state, and

exposure is performed with the display layer in the substantially transmissive state such that an image corresponding to an exposure pattern is displayed on the display portion.

4. The image input/output device of claim 2,

wherein the first common electrode and the switching element are brought into the floated state and the “

on”

state, respectively, after the exposure such that information on the image displayed on the display portion is acquired as image data.

5. The image input/output device of claim 4, further comprising:

a recording portion that records the acquired image data.

6. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein a predetermined potential is applied to the photoelectric conversion portion to reset the photoelectric conversion portion, and

a difference between a potential applied to the first common electrode and an applied potential for resetting the photoelectric conversion portion is less than a potential difference that is necessary to turn a display state of the display portion from an “

on”

state to an “

off”

state.

7. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein a predetermined potential is applied to the photoelectric conversion portion to reset the photoelectric conversion portion, and

a difference between a potential applied to the first common electrode and an applied potential for resetting the photoelectric conversion portion is equal to or more than a potential difference that is necessary to turn a display state of the display portion from an “

on”

state to an “

off”

state.

8. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein any one of a light absorbent layer, a light reflective layer, a semi-absorbent, semi-transmissive layer and a semi-reflective, semi-transmissive layer is included, and

when seen from an observation side, any one of the light absorbent layer, the light reflective layer, the semi-absorbent, semi-transmissive layer and the semi-reflective, semi-transmissive layer is formed on a side of a back surface of the display layer of the display portion.

9. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the display portion includes a display element having a memory characteristic.

10. The image input/output device of claim 9,

wherein the display element having a memory characteristic includes chiral nematic liquid crystal.

11. The image input/output device of claim 9,

wherein the display element having a memory characteristic is an electrochemical reaction display element.

12. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the photoelectric conversion layer and the display layer are sequentially formed on the substrate from a side of the substrate.

13. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the display layer and the photoelectric conversion layer are sequentially formed on the substrate from the side of the substrate.

14. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the image corresponding to the exposure pattern is displayed on the display portion by performing the exposure from a side of a back surface of the substrate.

15. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the image corresponding to the exposure pattern is displayed on the display portion by performing the exposure from a side of a front surface of the substrate.

16. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the switching element is formed with a thin film transistor element.

17. The image input/output device of claim 16,

wherein the second pixel electrode is arranged on a side of the substrate with respect to the photoelectric conversion layer and the second common electrode is arranged on a side opposite the substrate with respect to the photoelectric conversion layer such that the thin film transistor element and the photoelectric conversion portion are configured in a bias top structure.

18. The image input/output device of claim 16,

wherein the second pixel electrode is arranged on a side opposite the substrate with respect to the photoelectric conversion layer and the second common electrode is arranged on a side of the substrate with respect to the photoelectric conversion layer such that the thin film transistor element and the photoelectric conversion portion are configured in a bias bottom structure.

19. The image input/output device of claim 16,

wherein the photoelectric conversion portion is formed above the thin film transistor element such that the thin film transistor element and the photoelectric conversion portion are configured in a stack structure.

20. The image input/output device of claim 16,

wherein at least one of the thin film transistor element and the photoelectric conversion layer is formed of organic semiconductor.

21. The image input/output device of claim 1,

wherein the amplification portion is a charge sensing amplifier including an operational amplifier and a capacitor.