TOUCH SCREEN AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20110273395A1
• Filed: 07/26/2010
• Published: 11/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: CHUNG, Il Kwon
• Application Number:
  US12/843,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20110273395A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a touch screen and a method for controlling the same. The touch screen includes: two sheets of transparent substrates; transparent electrodes each formed on one surface of the two sheets of transparent substrates and sensing the change in capacitance at the time of a user input; and a spacer bonding one surface of the two sheets of transparent substrates to each other, wherein the coordinates of the input are measured by detecting the change in capacitance sensed by the transparent electrodes and lowering sensitivity when the capacitance becomes larger. The embodiments provide the touch screen that can accurately measure the coordinates by controlling the sensitivity based on the change in capacitance, and the method for controlling the same.

Claims

1. A touch screen, comprising:

two sheets of transparent substrates;

transparent electrodes each formed on one surface of the two sheets of transparent substrates and sensing the change in capacitance at the time of a user input; and

a spacer bonding one surface of the two sheets of transparent substrates to each other,

wherein the coordinates of the input are measured by detecting the change in capacitance sensed by the transparent electrodes and lowering sensitivity when the capacitance becomes larger.

2. The touch screen as set forth in claim 1, further comprising electrodes each formed on one surface of the two sheets of transparent substrates and applying voltage to the transparent electrodes.

3. The touch screen as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a display formed on any one of the two sheets of transparent substrates and displaying an image.

4. The touch screen as set forth in claim 1, wherein the touch screen measures whether the input is generated by raising the sensitivity when the capacitance sensed by the transparent electrodes becomes smaller.

5. A method for controlling a capacitive touch screen, comprising:

(A) sensing the change in capacitance of the touch screen when there is a user input;

(B) measuring coordinates of the input by lowering sensitivity of the touch screen when the sensed capacitance becomes larger; and

(C) repeating steps (A) and (B) and measuring the coordinates of the input when the user input contacts the surface of the touch screen.

6. The method for controlling a capacitive touch screen as set forth in claim 5, wherein the capacitance becomes larger when the user input approaches the surface of the touch screen and icons displayed on the surface of the touch screen that the user input approaches expand when the capacitance becomes larger.

7. The method for controlling a capacitive touch screen as set forth in claim 5, wherein at step (B), when sensed capacitance becomes smaller, the sensitivity of the touch screen is raised to measure whether the input is generated.